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ESPN Pundit Questioned Quarterback's Blackness
ESPN commentator Rob Parker was suspended Friday after igniting a firestorm when he questioned whether Washington Redskins quarterback Robert Griffin III was a "real" black man.
Parker said Thursday on ESPN's "First Take," "Is he a brother, or is he a cornball brother?" Both men are African American.
"He's not real. OK, he's black, he kind of does the thing, but he's not really down with the cause," Parker said. "He's not one of us. He's kind of black, but he's not really, like, the guy you want to hang out with because he's off to something else.
"We all know he has a white fiancée. There was all this talk about how he's a Republican … Tiger Woods was like, 'I've got black skin but don't call me black.' "
ESPN spokesman Mike Soltys said in a statement, "Following yesterday's comments, Rob Parker has been suspended until further notice. We are conducting a full review."
Griffin's father, Robert Griffin II, told USA Today that "he was baffled by the comments but wouldn't fire back Thursday night, even though Parker's remarks ignited the blogosphere and sparked angry social media responses," Jim Corbett reported for USA Today.
"A few minutes later after his father spoke, Griffin III tweeted to supporters: 'I'm thankful for a lot of things in life and one of those things is your support. Thank you.' "
Parker's comments have landed him in hot water before. In January 2009, Parker resigned as a sports columnist for the Detroit News after the criticism that followed asking losing Detroit Lions coach Rod Marinelli at a postgame news conference whether he wished his daughter had married "a better defensive coordinator."
Parker said then he "asked the people for a buyout and they granted me one" after the climate at the paper had deteriorated for him.
Less than two months before that, Parker apologized for implicating Michigan State University backup quarterback Kirk Cousins in an off-campus assault in a comment on WDIV-TV's "Clubhouse Confidential." Cousins now backs up Griffin for the
In 1991, Parker was brought up on charges by the Newspaper Guild for crossing picket lines during a bitter strike at the New York Daily News. The charges were later dropped, and Parker moved on to the Cincinnati Enquirer.
Writing of Griffin in October in a 3,600-word profile in the Washington Post, Dave Sheinin said, ". . . He was raised in a military household, by two now-retired Army sergeants who taught him to see the world without much regard to race, and those lessons continue to inform his worldview as a young adult.
" 'My parents raised me to not ever look at race or color,' Griffin said recently, 'so it doesn't have a big part in my self-identity. [But] I think it has played a big part in how other people view me, just going back to when I was a kid, to even now, doing the things that I've been able to do. As an African American, I think other people view that in a different way than I do.'. . . "
In the Washington Post, Dan Steinberg recounted Thursday's "First Take" exchange:
". . . Panelist Rob Parker was asked, 'What does this say about RGIII?"
" 'This is an interesting topic,' Parker said. 'For me, personally, just me, this throws up a red flag, what I keep hearing. And I don't know who's asking the questions, but we've heard a couple of times now of a black guy kind of distancing himself away from black people.
" 'I understand the whole story of I just want to be the best,' Parker continued. 'Nobody's out on the field saying to themselves, I want to be the best black quarterback. You're just playing football, right? You want to be the best, you want to throw the most touchdowns and have the most yards and win the most games. Nobody is [thinking] that.
" 'But time and time we keep hearing this, so it just makes me wonder deeper about him,' Parker went on. 'And I've talked to some people down in Washington D.C., friends of mine, who are around and at some of the press conferences, people I've known for a long time. But my question, which is just a straight honest question. Is he a brother, or is he a cornball brother?'
"What does that mean, Parker was asked.
" 'Well, [that] he's black, he kind of does his thing, but he's not really down with the cause, he's not one of us,' Parker explained. 'He's kind of black, but he's not really the guy you'd really want to hang out with, because he's off to do something else.'
"Why is that your question, Parker was asked.
" 'Well, because I want to find out about him,' Parker said. 'I don't know, because I keep hearing these things. We all know he has a white fiancée. There was all this talk about he's a Republican, which, there's no information [about that] at all. I'm just trying to dig deeper as to why he has an issue. Because we did find out with Tiger Woods, Tiger Woods was like I've got black skin but don't call me black. So people got to wondering about Tiger Woods early on.'
"Then Skip Bayless asked Parker about RGIII's braids.
" 'Now that's different,' Parker said. 'To me, that's very urban and makes you feel like…wearing braids, you're a brother. You're a brother if you've got braids on.'
"Then Stephen A. Smith was asked for his take. He exhaled deeply.
" 'Well first of all let me say this: I'm uncomfortable with where we just went,' Smith said. 'RGIII, the ethnicity, the color of his fiancée is none of our business. It's irrelevant. He can live his life any way he chooses. The braids that he has in his hair, that's his business, that's his life. I don't judge someone's blackness based on those kind of things. I just don't do that. I'm not that kind of guy.
" 'What I would say to you is that the comments he made are fairly predictable,' Smith went on. 'I think it's something that he may feel, but it's also a concerted effort to appease the masses to some degree, which I'm finding relatively irritating, because I don't believe that the black athlete has any responsibility whatsoever to have to do such things. . . . ' "
"Late Thursday, Parker remained confident there would be no disciplinary action taken," Todd Johnson reported for the Grio. "When a Twitter user sarcastically wished Parker 'good luck' in his 'next line of work,' Parker shot back:
"Typical silly response. Watch me on First Take tomorrow and Sat.#pleze"
Michael Cottman, Black America Web: Black Women: Is RG3 Down With Me? (Dec. 10)
Eric Deggans blog, Tampa Bay (Fla.) Times: Hey ESPN: Don't fire Rob Parker for his "cornball brother" comments; learn to talk about race better
Jose de Jesus Ortiz, Houston Chronicle: Controversial ESPN comments about RGIII stir unfortunate race debate
School Shooting Moves Ethics Questions Up Front
"'There's a lot of trying to shield the children from the eyes of the media,' ABC News reported in the aftermath of the horrific Sandy Hook school shooting, describing the scene," Joanne Ostrow reported Friday for the Denver Post.
"There was a lot of shoving of microphones in the faces of the children, too.
"Shielding and shoving, the media plays its part in what has now become a too-well-rehearsed ritual.
"Television did its usual best and worst Friday morning to relay information of the latest national horror. For hours, a confusing array of raw information, much of it unconfirmed, was pushed through social media and TV outlets. More questions than answers kept the spectacle a blur. Were there multiple shooters? How many fatalities? How many of them children? Did the killer or killers have a connection to the school?
"On CNN, Soledad O'Brien said, 'we want to remind viewers this is raw reporting from various networks, we cannot independently confirm.'
"In special reports pre-empting regular programming, news anchors used the media's familiar backhanded trick of lamenting media intrusiveness while furthering media intrusiveness in the pursuit of information.
"Beyond the sickening events, beyond the much needed discussion of gun control, the Connecticut tragedy moved questions of journalistic ethics to the fore.
"Questions like: Does it serve any journalistic purpose to put children on live television in the immediate aftermath of a mass shooting? Is it ethically [permissible] to put shocked parents on live TV, to give the nation a taste of the horror? . . . "
Autistic Self Advocacy Network: ASAN Statement on Media Reports Regarding Newtown, CT Shooting
Marian Wright Edelman, Children's Defense Fund: "Dear God! When Will It Stop?"
James Fallows, the Atlantic: American Exceptionalism: The Shootings Will Go On
Jeffrey Goldberg, the Atlantic: The Case for More Guns (And More Gun Control)
Scott Hensley, NPR: How To Talk To Your Kids About The Conn. Shootings
Blair Hickman, Suevon Lee and Cora Currier, ProPublica: The Best Reporting on Guns in America
Rick Horowitz, YouTube: Just the Latest Mass Shooting (video)
Ezra Klein, Washington Post: Twelve facts about guns and mass shootings in the United States
Roland S. Martin, Creators Syndicate: Now Is the Time to Talk Guns, Mental Illness
Jack Mirkinson, Huffington Post: Connecticut Shooting Media Coverage Follows Tragically Familiar Script
Darryl E. Owens, Orlando Sentinel: Teen's death over loud music one more reason to change gun laws (Dec. 7)
Pew Research Center for the People & the Press: As Fiscal Cliff Nears, Democrats Have Public Opinion on Their Side
Leonard Pitts Jr., Miami Herald: Gun control? Maybe these kids are onto something (Dec. 4)
Kevin Powell, Daily Kos: The Connecticut Shooting: How Many More?
Nate Silver, New York Times: In Public 'Conversation' on Guns, a Rhetorical Shift
Al Tompkins, Poynter Institute: What journalists should know about school shootings and guns
Jeff Winbush blog: A Real American Horror Story
In '80s, Obama Says, He'd Be Called Moderate Republican
Tavis Smiley's radio partner Cornel West, the Princeton University professor, made headlines last month when West called President Obama a "Rockefeller Republican in blackface."
On Thursday, the president agreed with the first part of that phrase. In an interview with Alina Mayo Azze of Univision's Noticias Univision 23, Obama said, ". . . The truth of the matter is that my policies are so mainstream that if I had set the same policies that I had back in the 1980s, I would be considered a moderate Republican. I mean, what I believe in is a tax system that is fair."
Azze asked Obama, " . . . why reach out to the local media? I'm from a local TV station in Miami, why reach out to us?"
Obama answered, "One thing that I found is so important during the course of the campaign is that the conversation here in Washington isn't the same as the conversation out in the country. The people are worried about paying their bills, about paying their mortgage, about the quality of their schools, about getting their kids to college, big potholes in roads, flooding, making sure that we have safe streets. And so when I — whenever I talk to local stations where what I find is the ability to reach more Americans, and in resolving issues like the fiscal cliff here, it's so important that members of Congress hear from people back home.
"So I'm hoping that if one thing comes out of this — this interview, I'm hoping that people will watch me and say, 'You know what? I want to reach out to my member of Congress and say, "Compromise. Let's go ahead and get this thing solved. Let's think about the country first and not politics first." ' "
Michael Gerson, Washington Post: The overlooked plight of black males
Askia Muhammad, Washington Informer: President Obama's Legacy: On Top of His Game?
Clarence Page, Chicago Tribune: Who's afraid of the fiscal cliff?
Leonard Pitts Jr., Miami Herald: Good pol should never say never (Dec. 9)
Eugene Robinson, Washington Post: Ready to jump from the 'fiscal cliff'
Tonyaa Weathersbee, Black America Web: The Obama Attacks Continue
Given African Past, Rice "Absolutely" Made Right Call
Howard W. French, New York Times bureau chief for West and central Africa in the 1990s and author of "A Continent for the Taking: The Tragedy and Hope of Africa," wrote Dec. 3 about Susan Rice, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations then viewed as President Obama's choice to become the next secretary of state.
". . . In any discussion of Susan Rice's career, there is no escaping Africa," French, who now teaches at Columbia Graduate School of Journalism, wrote in the Atlantic. "It is the place where she cut her teeth and built her essential record as a diplomat and national security official. Although there has been nary a hint of this in the fuss about Benghazi, I would go further still and say that one would be hard pressed to find anyone in American government who has played a larger and more sustained role in shaping Washington's diplomacy toward that continent over the last two decades."
U.S policy toward Africa ". . . remains mired in an approach whose foundation dates to the Cold War, when we cherry-picked strongmen among Africa's leaders, autocrats we could 'work with,' according to the old diplomatic cliché.
"These were men like Zaire's late dictator, Mobutu Sese Seko, whose anti-democratic politics, systematic human rights violations, and high tolerance for corruption we were willing to overlook so long as they stayed on our side in the great strategic struggles of the day. We counted on them to hold down the fort in their respective countries and regions, and in so doing, as the thinking went, to protect U.S. interests."
Does that mean that Rice's announcement Thursday to withdraw her name from consideration for secretary of state was a good thing?
"Absolutely," French told Journal-isms by email. "Her legacy in Africa has been a very negative one."
Anson Asaka, Jack & Jill Politics: Why Didn't Obama Stand By Susan Rice?
Dylan Byers, Politico: Fox News slams Andrea Mitchell
Bonnie Newman Davis, the Grio: Susan Rice's withdrawal reminds us of Guinier, Elders and more
Keli Goff, the Root: Susan Rice: This Decade's Lani Guinier
Janaye Ingram, Loop21: Susan Rice and How Washington Works
Melody Johnson, Media Matters for America: Fox Uses Falsehood-Based Poll Questions To Back Up Its Phony Benghazi Scandal
John Prendergast, Daily Beast: Susan Rice's Middle Finger, and the World's Deadliest Wars
Susan Rice, Washington Post: Why I made the right call
J. Christian Watts, Jack & Jill Politics: A Hell of a Day
Second Fired Shreveport Reporter "Trying to "Lie Low"
A second reporter at KTBS-TV in Shreveport, La., was fired for defending himself online, but unlike his former colleague Rhonda Lee, the meteorologist with the short Afro who has been the center of a media whirlwind, Chris Redford would rather not talk about it.
"I'm really just trying to lie low and keep things private right now," Redford, a crime reporter at the station, messaged Journal-isms on Friday.
However, Lylah M. Alphonse, senior editor of Yahoo! Shine, reported Friday, "one source with ties to the station tells Yahoo! Shine that Redford was fired without warning for responding to a personal attack on his own Facebook page.
" 'He is an openly homosexual man that denounced gay slurs left on same KTBS site,' the source, who requested anonymity out of fear of retaliation, wrote in an email to Yahoo! Shine. 'The only difference is he did not write on the KTBS Facebook page, he responded on his own PERSONAL FB page and was given NO prior warning.'
"Redford . . . was defending a straight coworker who was being harassed online, the source wrote. KTBS [general] manager George Sirven told Yahoo! Shine in an email that he had no comment.
"In November, Shreveport, Louisiana police arrested a local man accused of stalking Redford. 'KTBS gave emotional and financial support to white females that faced problems with stalking, but directed Chris Redford to ignore the public humiliation this man put him through,' the source told Yahoo! Shine."
Asked about an earlier report that he was dismissed "for using Facebook to respond to a reported gay stalker," Redford messaged Journal-isms, "I did not 'respond to a gay stalker.' "
Meanwhile, Jennifer Vanasco, writing Friday in Columbia Journalism Review, wrote that Lee should not have been fired.
". . . News organizations are not ordinary businesses. They have a duty to the public to inform and educate. What Rhonda Lee did in responding to those Facebook posts was correct misinformation on a Web page administered by the station as well as educate viewers about African American culture. Lee was using social media as a journalist; she did exactly what she should have," Vanasco wrote.
"But she shouldn't have needed to do anything, because the station should have responded first, either by taking the comments down (most organizations have a policy of deleting racist, sexist, homophobic, and otherwise inappropriate comments) or by replying in a way that supported its African American staff members and viewers."
More than 13,000 people have signed a petition to reinstate Lee.
China Daily Establishes African Edition
"China Daily, China's biggest English-language newspaper, has launched an African edition — the latest of several Chinese media initiatives in Africa," the BBC reported last week.
"The state-run weekly, which also comes in digital form, aims to explain 'the relationship between China and the African continent,' its editor says.
"China's CCTV and Xinhua news agency already have operations in the region.
" . . . 'The relationship between China and the African continent is one of the most significant relationships in the world today,' said the paper's publisher and editor-in-chief, Zhu Ling.
". . . China has also implemented other innovative media projects, like giant news screens in Ethiopia's capital, Addis Ababa, and thousands of scholarships for African journalists, reports BBC Africa analyst Mary Harper."
Last month, the Associated Press reported that the U.S. military's Africa command had established two newswebsites in Africa as part of a propaganda effort aimed at countering extremists in two of Africa's most dangerous regions — Somalia and the Maghreb. The sites' American origins are not immediately evident to viewers.
Magazine Publishes Mug Shots Even for Petty Crimes
". . . Last week, I stopped at a gas station on the South Side and a quirky magazine caught my eye," Mary Mitchell wrote Monday in the Chicago Sun-Times. "Nab Shot is a compilation of mug shots and bills itself as 'Chicago's Premier Crime Stopping Publication.'
"For $1, you can look at people arrested in a two-week period for offenses ranging from retail theft and prostitution to DUI and first-degree murder.
"The publisher, identified only as Jeff, said, 'What I am doing is exposing criminals and people that have been arrested. Bottom line, I am just putting everybody's business out there.'
"That idea is actually a throwback to the 'Evening Whirl,' a weekly publication Ben Thomas started in St. Louis in 1938. Thomas developed a strong following by dishing up sordid details of crime, scandal and gossip going on in the black community. . . . "
Right-to-Work Laws Originated With Segregationists
"This week, Republican lawmakers in Michigan — birthplace of the United Auto Workers and, more broadly, the U.S. labor movement — shocked the nation by becoming the 24th state to pass 'right-to-work' legislation, which allows non-union employees to benefit from union contracts," Chris Kromm wrote Thursday for the Institute for Southern Studies.
"While Michigan's momentous decision has received widespread media attention, little has been said about the origins of 'right-to-work' laws, which find their roots in extreme pro-segregationist and anti-communist elements in the 1940s South.
" . . . Civil rights leaders like Martin Luther King, Jr., who saw an alliance with labor as crucial to advancing civil rights as well as economic justice for all workers, spoke out against right-to-work laws; this 1961 statement by King was widely circulated this week during Michigan's labor battles:
" 'In our glorious fight for civil rights, we must guard against being fooled by false slogans, such as 'right to work.' It is a law to rob us of our civil rights and job rights. Its purpose is to destroy labor unions and the freedom of collective bargaining by which unions have improved wages and working conditions of everyone…Wherever these laws have been passed, wages are lower, job opportunities are fewer and there are no civil rights."
Emil Guillermo blog, Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund: Right-to-work for Christmas: The Labor Scrooge lives in Michigan and maybe in our communities
To look through the fall 2012 newsletter [PDF] of the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard University is to see a faculty and staff that seems to lack people of color. "We have had many among the fellows" in the past, though there is "no one on the staff at this time," Alex S. Jones, the former New York Times reporter who is director of the center, told Journal-isms by telephone on Friday. Jones said there are only four fellows and noted that the center does not have quotas. Turnover among the staff is slow. Still, he said that the organization is "mindful of gender and race" and that "you can expect to find people of color when we can and to make the diversity broadly defined. If you will look over our history, you will see that we have had people of color represented and we will again."
"NBC News correspondent Mara Schiavocampo has been named the anchor of the early-morning NBC program 'Early Today,' which airs at 4 AM ET and MSNBC's early news show 'First Look,' which airs at 5 AM ET," Alex Weprin reported Friday for TVNewser. "She will continue in her role as a correspondent, contributing to all of the NBC News platforms and programs."
"Blacks are barely represented on the air and in management at Twin Cities television and radio stations," Charles Hallman reported Wednesday for the Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder. "The MSR recently examined four local station websites — WCCO (Channel 4), KSTP (Channel 5), KMSP (Channel 9), and KARE (Channel 11) and found: WCCO: one Black female anchor, one Black anchor/reporter, one Black reporter. KSTP: No Blacks. KMSP: One Black reporter. KARE: No Blacks."
"If a notable woman dies and a major national newspaper doesn't report it, did it actually happen?" Dana Liebelson asked Wednesday in Mother Jones. "Big papers' lists of significant deaths in 2012 overwhelmingly feature men. The Washington Post put 18 women and 48 men on its list. On the other side of the country, the Los Angeles Times listed 36 women and 114 men. And lest you think this is some kind of freak 2012 phenomenon, the New York Times has consistently listed many more men than women over the last five years."
"Django Unchained: The TV One Special," a one-hour "profound and revealing look at the making of Quentin Tarantino's blockbuster film Django Unchained " airs Saturday at 7 p.m. ET and Sunday at 2 p.m. ET, TV One announced. Cathy Hughes, founder and chairperson of the cable network, "asks filmmaker Quentin Tarantino about why he wrote and directed this controversial and never before told story about one of the most shameful and difficult times in American history." The movie features Jamie Foxx as a slave who kills white men to free his wife from the clutches of a sadistic plantation owner.
Philadelphia Daily News columnist Jenice Armstrong Friday announced the 10 winners of the paper's third annual, Oprah-style My Favorite Things holiday-gift giveaway. "Thank you to everyone who nominated deserving neighbors, friends and co-workers. We had a couple of hundred entries, and narrowing the list down to just 10 names was a challenge," Armstrong wrote.
"On the New Orleans radio show 'Out to Lunch' Monday, Nola.com business manager David Francis said The Times-Picayune's print circulation has gone up since it cut print frequency," Andrew Beaujon reported Friday for the Poynter Institute. " 'I will tell you that we've been pleasantly pleased with what we've seen since Oct. 1, when we launched the three-day-a-week newspaper,' he told host Peter Ricchiuti."
T.J. Holmes left CNN, where he was a weekend anchor, for BET, which developed a daily late-night show for him that has since been scaled back to once a week. "Don't Sleep" was partly inspired by Comedy Central's "the Daily Show" with Jon Stewart. Now the Daily News in New York, citing "industry sources," reports that Jeff Zucker, CNN's new chief, "is looking to liven up the ailing channel's late-night slate with a news-driven satire program, like 'The Daily Show' . . . "
In Charlotte, N.C., "Radio personality Ramona Holloway has been named the new co-host of 'Charlotte Today,' the lifestyle and entertainment show that airs on WCNC-TV," April Bethea reported Thursday for the Charlotte Observer.
"Mexico's regional newspapers are publishing more stories about murders linked to the drug trade, but they remain reluctant to write what they know about the organizations responsible for the killings," Stephen Engelberg reported Thursday for ProPublica. "A new study by our colleagues at Fundación MEPI, an investigative journalism center in Mexico City, reviewed daily coverage in 14 of 31 Mexican states. It found a significant increase in the number of stories on organized crime groups. But the study says that only two newspapers, El Norte in Monterrey and El Informador in Guadalajara 'provided context to the violence, identified the victims and did follow-ups. . . . ' "
"An Equality Matters analysis found that cable news networks' coverage of the reemergence of Uganda's proposed 'Kill the Gays' bill — legislation which would make homosexuality punishable by death — has been scant over the past several weeks and paled in comparison to their coverage of the Korean pop song 'Gangnam Style,' " according to EqualityMatters.org, "a new media and communications initiative in support of gay equality." The bill was officially moved to the bottom of the Parliament's schedule on Thursday.
"Reporters Without Borders is saddened to learn that the journalist Al-Hosseiny Abu Deif died yesterday in central Cairo's El Qasr Al Aini Hospital of the serious head injury he received while covering clashes outside the presidential palace in Cairo in the early hours of 6 December," the press freedom group reported on Thursday. "Hospitalized in a critical condition after a rubber bullet was fired at his head at close range, Deif never recovered consciousness."
". . . HuffPost Media Group is partnering with Japan's Asahi Shimbun Company to make the Japanese-language version of the HuffPost happen. As for when the site will launch, well, that's still being worked out. However, HuffPost officials are still excited about it," Chris O'Shea reported Thursday for FishbowlNY.
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about the indiana german heritage society
Mission: The mission of the Indiana German Heritage Society is to understand, promote, and celebrate the contributions of German-speaking immigrants and their descendants to the multi-cultural heritage of the state and the nation.
We are guided by a commitment to learn and an obligation to share our knowledge with accuracy, integrity, and respect for all heritages.
Vision: The vision of the Indiana German Heritage Society is to be the catalyst for the preservation and celebration of the state's German-American heritage, and to support groups and communities in activities that coincide with our mission.
Our statewide society is headquartered in Indianapolis, IN. The offices and meeting rooms are in the historic Das Deutsche Haus-Athenaeum at 401 East Michigan St., Indianapolis, IN. We are lead by a volunteer board of directors.
Our non-profit organization:
Our Work:
Collaborated with Indiana Humanities Council to create Germany IN US website:
It promotes documentation of Indiana's German heritage:
About the Society:
April 2019 — April 2020
Executive Board
President: James Kienle
Vice President: Brian Griesemer, PE
Eli Lilly and Company, Inc.
Secretary: Ron Flick
Pyramid Architects
Treasurer: M. Al Hirt
Land O'Lakes
Legal Counsel: Keith Osburn
Osburn & Osburn
Past President: Heinz Roesch
Retired: Deutsche Bank

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December 2010
2010 Toshihide Numata Book Award
Friday, December 3, 2010. During a ceremony at Alumni House, the Center for Buddhist Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, and Bukkyō Dendō Kyōkai (Numata Foundation) presented the 2010 Toshihide Numata Book Award to Harvard University Professor James Robson for his 2009 book Power of Place: The Religious Landscape of the Southern Sacred Peak (Nanyue) in Medieval China.
This event included introductory remarks on behalf of Mr. Toshihide Numata by Rev. Brian Nagata (Bukkyō Dendō Kyōkai), a keynote address by James Robson, and a symposium on "Ritual Place," chaired by Robert Sharf, with presentations by Phyllis Granoff and Koichi Shinohara of Yale University, and Alexander von Rospatt and Jacob Dalton of UC Berkeley.
The Toshihide Numata Book Award in Buddhism (or "Toshi" Award) is awarded on an annual basis to an outstanding book in the area of Buddhist studies. Professor Robson's work was selected by members of an outside committee who lauded Robson for his mastery of a wide range of historical materials, and for his broad contribution to the fields of religious studies and Chinese studies as well as Buddhist studies.


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Stories of "whistleblowers" exposing government corruption have been popular for as long as there have been governments.
However, to what extent are "whistleblowing" movies within the scope of whistleblowing laws?
Moreover, how do these rules apply when the government's form of retaliation is to kill the whistleblower?
Whistle While You Work
Whistleblowing is defined under the Black's Law iPad App as "An employee who reports employer wrongdoing to a governmental or law-enforcement agency. Federal and state laws protect whistleblowers from employer retaliation."
Here are examples of whistleblower statutes for government employees:
(1) (a) An employer may not take adverse action against an employee because the employee, or a person authorized to act on behalf of the employee, communicates in good faith the existence of any waste of public funds, property or manpower, or a violation or suspected violation of a law, rule or regulation adopted under the law of this state, a political subdivision of this state or the United States. Such communication shall be made at a time and in a manner which gives the employer reasonable opportunity to correct the waste or violation.
Idaho Code § 6-2104 (2012)
An employer shall not discharge, threaten, or otherwise discriminate against an employee regarding the employee's compensation, terms, conditions, location, or privileges of employment:
(1) Because the employee, or a person acting on behalf of the employee, reports or is about to report to a public body, verbally or in writing, a violation which the employee knows or reasonably believes has occurred or is about to occur, unless the employee knows or has reason to know that the report is false; or
(2) Because an employee participates or is requested by a public body to participate in an investigation, hearing, or inquiry held by that public body, or a court action, in connection with a violation as defined in this chapter; or
(3) Because an employee refuses to commit or assist in the commission of a violation, as defined in this chapter;
(4) Because the employee reports verbally or in writing to the employer or to the employee's supervisor a violation, which the employee knows or reasonably believes has occurred or is about to occur, unless the employee knows or has reason to know that the report is false. Provided, however that if the report is verbally made, the employee must establish by clear and convincing evidence that such report was made.
19 Del. C. § 1703 (2012)
Here are the basics of whistleblowing: Employers cannot punish an employee who is lawfully reporting to the government or law enforcement of the employer's wrongdoing. This usually involves unlawful or wasteful government action, but there are private sector examples (think Karen Silkwood).
Let's review three movies where the heroes "reported" violations of the law:
LA Confidential: On the Q-T And Always Hush Hush
Murder, drugs, vice, blackmail, and police cover-ups in post-World War 2 Los Angeles dominate the classic LA Confidential.
The multiple crimes are as complex as the LA freeway system. However, the goal of the dirty cops was simple: take over Mickey Cohen's drug racket.
LA Confidential raises several twists with being a whistleblower. One was the DA was being blackmailed, thus destroying his ability to press any charges and making him a de facto co-conspirator by his silence. Second was the corrupt cops were killed in a gunfight while attempting to murder the remaining heroes. The story of how bad their actions were would have destroyed the reputation of the department for decades, so everyone participates in a cover-up.
The good guys win, but not by following the law. The authorities opt for the noble lie opposed to destroying the legitimacy of law enforcement with the truth. While this legally is abhorrent, the Machiavellian reasoning makes sense for the greater good [of the elected officials].
With that said, no Mayor, District Attorney, Police Chief or other elected or appointed government official should think cover-ups are a good idea. It always ends badly.
Blue Thunder: One civilian dead for every ten terrorists. That's an acceptable ratio.
….Unless you are one of the civilians.
Blue Thunder was the story of the military developing an armed police helicopter prior to the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles to combat terrorism. No one wanted a Munich repeat.
The political back story was the for the helicopter to be used to put down "civil disobedience" such as riots and eliminate political enemies. Moreover, there are unexplored 4th Amendment issues of the police having a silent helicopter that could record infrared video and audio of an unsuspecting public. Additionally, in the days long before the Internet and Google, the police had access to computer network of home security systems to know if homeowners were home.
The hero Frank Murphy, played by Roy Scheider, uncovered the secret purpose of Blue Thunder on a test flight, plus a conspiracy by Feds to kill him. Murphy's whistleblowing actions included stealing the helicopter and having his girlfriend deliver an infrared video and audio recording to a news channel with Feds engaged in conspiracy planning. Along the way, the following property damage takes place:
2 Police Helicopters Crashed
1 Police Car Shot in Two
1 Police Motorcycle Crashes
1 BBQ Restaurant Hit by Heat Seeking Missile
One Downtown LA Building Hit by a Missile
1 F-16 (Which had to crash in downtown LA)
1 Military Helicopter
1 Freight Train Runs over Blue Thunder
Blue Thunder itself is Destroyed
Blue Thunder is problematic, because the amount of property damage and threats to life push whistleblowing, the necessity defense and self-defense to new limits (it is worth noting Murphy does not appear to get a police officer or member of the public killed). However, normal whistleblowing reporting was unavailable, due to political assassination of a city council woman, the murder of Murphy's partner, and the active plot to kill Murphy, extreme measures appeared to be the only option. Time was also of the essence before the recording would be destroyed, resulting in the loss of evidence.
While no one gets killed on screen during Murphy's flight besides the villain, this whistleblowing would be an insurance nightmare and have an extreme amount of litigation.
Serenity: They Won't See This Coming
Malcolm Reynolds and the crew of Serenity were whistleblowers, provided the Alliance had allowed a private right of action to report on government corruption.
In the film Serenity, the Parliament experimented on the population of the planet Miranda in an attempt to weed out aggression. It did not work, resulting in 30 million dead and the creation of the Reavers, insane cannibalistic madman lacking any social structure.
The crew's attempt of broadcasting a report from Miranda that exposed the government wrongdoing is whistleblowing in the purest sense. However, spaceships, gunfights and cannibal rapists on the other hand are generally not involved whistleblowing stories.
Whistleblower Ballads
Whistleblower movies far exceed the act of simply reporting unlawful activity. With few exceptions, whistleblowing does not have attempted murder of the whistleblower. However, it has someone brave enough to report the violation, which then results in lawyers conducting document review to find out what happened. This is less exciting than spaceships, helicopters and shootouts.
A story slightly closer to the truth on whistleblowing would be Michael Clayton. Granted, this story does involve corporate counsel organizing the murder of trial counsel (which is not the proper response to an attorney violating the duty of loyalty, attorney-client privilege and work product doctrine). However, it does end with the attorney hero getting an incriminating statement from corporate counsel for the police to start arresting corporate counsel and other executives.


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OAKLAND, Calif. — Former Cy Young Award winner Bartolo Colon of the Oakland Athletics was suspended for 50 games Wednesday after testing positive for testosterone.
Major League Baseball made the announcement one week after All-Star Game MVP Melky Cabrera of the San Francisco Giants was suspended 50 games for a positive test for the same substance.
"I apologize to the fans, to my teammates and to the Oakland A's," Colon said in a statement released by the players' association. "I accept responsibility for my actions and I will serve my suspension as required by the joint drug program."
Colon will miss the final 40 games of the regular season and the first 10 games of the postseason if Oakland advances that far. Any remainder of the suspension would be served in a future season, if Colon signs another major league contract.
"It's a shock," Oakland reliever Grant Balfour said. "He's a guy that we're definitely relying on right now. I guess you could say it's bad timing any time, but especially now."
Oakland, which hasn't made the playoffs since 2006, began Wednesday a half-game out in the AL wild-card race.


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Software limit switches. More...
Go to the source code of this file.
|The maximum number of limit switches.
|ls_get_state (int id)
|Returns the state of the switch with the given id.
|ls_init_switch (unsigned int new_limit, INT_VOID_F funct)
|Initializes a limit switch with the given limit and signal function.
|ls_update (void)
|Updates the state for every limit switch.
|ls_count = 0
|The number of limit switches currently being used.
|ls_switches [LS_NUM_SWITCHES]
|The array of limit switches.
Software limit switches.
A limit switch will wait for a given limit of consecutive high signals before turning high, and the same for turning low again. If a low signal interrupts a stream of high signals (or vice versa), the counter is reset.
Example pin setup for Limit Switch (used by ankle controllers):
// ******************************************************************************* // Limit Switch Setup // ******************************************************************************* PINSEL0 &= ~(3<<0); //set P0.0 to GPIO PINSEL0 &= ~(3<<2); //set P0.1 to GPIO FIO0DIR &= ~(1<<0); //set P0.0 to input FIO0DIR &= ~(1<<1); //set P0.1 to input
Definition in file limit_switch.c.
|#define LS_NUM_SWITCHES (10)
The maximum number of limit switches.
Definition at line 28 of file limit_switch.c.
Referenced by ls_init_switch().
|LS_STATE ls_get_state
Returns the state of the switch with the given id.
The id of the switch was set by the ls_init_switch function. The id is also the index of the switch within the array of switches, so it begins at 0 for the first switch, and increments with each switch that is initialized.
|The id of the switch.
Definition at line 97 of file limit_switch.c.
References error_occurred(), ls_switches, and LIMIT_SWITCH::state.
00098 { 00099 if (id < ls_count && id >= 0){ 00100 LIMIT_SWITCH* ls = &(ls_switches[id]); 00101 return ls->state; 00102 } else { 00103 error_occurred(ERROR_LS_INVALID_ID); 00104 return LS_OFF; 00105 } 00106 }
|int ls_init_switch
|unsigned int
Initializes a limit switch with the given limit and signal function.
Call this function from software_setup for each limit switch.
|The limit of consecutive signals needed before output changes.
|A signal functino which returns 0 for low and non-zero for high.
Definition at line 40 of file limit_switch.c.
References LIMIT_SWITCH::count, error_occurred(), LIMIT_SWITCH::function, LIMIT_SWITCH::limit, ls_count, LS_NUM_SWITCHES, ls_switches, LIMIT_SWITCH::prev, and LIMIT_SWITCH::state.
00041 { 00042 if (ls_count < LS_NUM_SWITCHES){ 00043 int id = ls_count; 00044 LIMIT_SWITCH* ls = &(ls_switches[ls_count++]); 00045 ls->limit = new_limit; 00046 ls->function = funct; 00047 ls->count = 0; 00048 ls->prev = LS_OFF; 00049 ls->state = LS_OFF; 00050 return id; 00051 } else { 00052 error_occurred(ERROR_LS_NUM_SWITCH); 00053 return -1; 00054 } 00055 }
|int ls_count = 0
The number of limit switches currently being used.
Definition at line 31 of file limit_switch.c.
Referenced by ls_init_switch(), and ls_update().
|LIMIT_SWITCH ls_switches[LS_NUM_SWITCHES]
The array of limit switches.
Definition at line 30 of file limit_switch.c.
Referenced by ls_get_state(), ls_init_switch(), and ls_update().


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§ Lord Hogg of Cumbernauld
My Lords, I beg to move that the Bill be now read a second time.
It has come to the attention of the Scottish Office that there is a deficiency in the law regulating independent sector residential and day care establishments in Scotland. The result is that certain establishments providing care and support for certain vulnerable groups are not in fact subject to regulatory controls in accordance with policy intentions. The proposed Bill seeks to restore the policy intention.
Residential and day care homes are provided by local authorities and by the independent sector. These are either in the private sector or provided by voluntary organisations. The policy intention since the Social Work (Scotland) Act 1968 was enacted has been that the relevant homes in the independent sector which deal directly with the public should be regulated through registration with the appropriate local authority.
However, an insertion into the 1968 Act by the Registered Establishments (Scotland) Act 1987 had the perverse effect of limiting the policy intention only to relevant independent sector homes which provide their services to clients of a local authority. In other words, those homes which deal directly with the public and do not provide services to local authorities are not in law required to register.
It is difficult to estimate with precision how many establishments may be affected, but we believe the figure is in the region of 140 establishments covering residential care homes and children's homes and, it is thought, a small number of independent schools.
The primary concern is that the law as it now stands is such that a number of homes for vulnerable people do not have the statutory protection of registration. This flies in the face of this Government's, and for that matter the previous Government's, stated intention of providing as much protection for these vulnerable people as possible.
It is therefore considered essential to plug this gap without delay. The most appropriate vehicle for achieving this in the circumstances is by a Private Member's Bill. That is the procedure which I am using this morning.
Moved, That the Bill be now read a second time.—(Lord Hogg of Cumbernauld.)
§ 11.7 a.m.
§ The Earl of Mar and Kellie
My Lords, the Bill can be given a welcome. It brings registration with and inspection by the local authority, it is to be hoped, to all 590 establishments in Scotland where people are accommodated and cared for. It also extends the scheme of voluntary registration to establishments which offer no or minimal personal care or support.
I wish to make several observations about the operation of the Bill. First, it tampers with the most significant piece of legislation from my student days—the Social Work (Scotland) Act 1968.
Secondly, a close examination of the Bill and its legislative background identifies that this is the fourth time that Section 61 has been altered and improved. Tracing the amendments proposed by the Bill takes us through the Social Work Act, the Registered Establishments (Scotland) Act 1987, The Children (Scotland) Act 1995, and now this Bill. There is beginning to be a clear need for consolidation of these Acts.
Thirdly, the Bill proceeded through another place in lamentable order. There was no consideration or scrutiny whatsoever as it went through all stages at 2.30 p.m. on Friday, 24th April. Hansard reports that the only person to speak was Mr. Deputy Speaker, who complained that the Bill was only published on the previous day. Considering the imminent return of the Scottish parliament, this is a fine example of how that unicameral parliament must not act when dealing with legislation.
Fourthly, the Bill establishes regulation-making powers for the Secretary of State in respect of the extension of registration and inspection. However, these new duties fall to the 32 local authorities to implement. There is a risk that we shall see 32 different schemes of registration and inspection. For some of the smaller local authorities—this is my chance to mention Clackmannanshire—there will be very little scope for building up experience, due to lack of numbers. I wonder whether any consideration was given to altering the positioning of the registration and inspection function from local authorities to central government, as is the case with education.
Fifthly, there will be a fear that the process will be prescriptive, with caricature marxist social workers running around altering the character of all establishments into their narrow image. Of course, my colleagues were never like that! I hope that the registration and inspection process will be conducted in a manner whereby the registration and inspection officer will satisfy him or herself that there is a comprehensive system of personal care and support in place and will record a description of exactly what it is. That would allow the process to be one of insistence on minimum standards and allowing for notices-to-remedy to be issued.
Sixthly, as noble Lords who followed the Committee stages of the Children (Scotland) Act will recall, and of Sections 34 and 35 in particular, considerable emphasis was put on the place of the chief social work officer or the Secretary of State to receive and investigate complaints about the conduct of private schools. This role of the local authority and the Scottish Office to act as a receiver of complaints in the last resort will be extended to all the new categories brought within the scheme by the Bill.
591 Seventhly, this Bill was heralded by the idea that it would bring old folks' homes for the wealthy into the registration scheme. That is rightly achieved by it. Wealth gives no more control over one's environment than reduced means, if one is incapacitated. Families will be afforded some assistance if their dottled relatives are being mistreated or exploited.
Eighthly, I want to bring some attention to what my noble friend Lady Linklater of Butterstone would have said had she been able to attend this debate. This is about an omission in the Bill. The Children (Scotland) Act brought about the registration and inspection of children's homes and residential schools. It provided for their registration within the terms of Sections 34 or 35. The former dealt with those categorised as children's homes, the latter as residential schools. My noble friend's complaint is that the school she founded, Butterstone, for educationally fragile mainstream pupils is wrongly categorised as conforming to Section 34, as a children's home, and hence being inspected by social work inspectors twice a year, but by education inspectors only once in 10 years. It is a pity that the Bill does not provide a correction to this anomaly, which would allow such a school to be inspected under Section 35 every four years, and hence as a school. Considering that the school takes its pupils through to Highers, it is clearly dealing with mainstream but vulnerable-to-bullying children. Perhaps some thought can be given to this issue.
Finally, the Bill has a spin-off for all establishments which offer accommodation. They have to declare whether or not they offer personal care or support. The decision not to register could be seen as a business liability. This would be a declaration that no personal care or support is offered. Not only will this affect organisations like the Scottish Youth Hostel Association, outdoor centres which offer training and advice, housing associations and criminal justice organisations which run supported accommodation projects, but I imagine that few hotels, guesthouses or B&Bs would want to declare that they offered no personal care. I suspect that the boundary between registration and non-registration will be quite fluid.
My Lords, despite these observations, I continue to welcome the Bill.
§ 11.15 a.m.
§ The Lord Advocate (Lord Hardie)
My Lords, I, too, am delighted to be able to support this small but important Bill. The Government are grateful to my noble friend Lord Hogg for taking charge of the Bill and for his opening remarks.
The Bill aims to deal with what has been described as a flaw in the law relating to the registration of certain establishments under the Social Work (Scotland) Act 1968. I call it a flaw as what is set out in the 1968 Act, following amendment in 1987, is at variance with intended policy and accepted practice. This Bill seeks to bring the law into line with policies subscribed to by this Government and previous governments. My noble friend has already explained the background in more detail.
592 I want to underline the importance of the registration and inspection procedures undertaken by local authorities. These are designed to ensure that establishments which are in the business of providing personal care are in fact providing good standards of care for their residents, most of whom are vulnerable people of some kind. We have a responsibility to ensure that our youngest and oldest are being properly cared for. Registration is a public indication that a particular establishment and its managers are fit for the purpose of properly looking after the people entrusted to their care.
Our concern today is that the law as it stands is such that approximately 140 residential care homes do not have the statutory protection of registration. This, as I have said, flies in the face of the stated intentions of this Government and the previous government of providing as much protection for these vulnerable people as is reasonably possible. It is essential therefore to take steps without delay.
Scottish Office officials are in discussion with the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities and the Association of Directors of Social Work about the arrangements which need to be made with the establishments affected. Authorities will need to scrutinise their records and will wish to make early contact with the establishments concerned. Thereafter, it will be necessary to make arrangements for them to be formally registered once the Bill reaches the statute book. We hope that these new registrations will be executed with the minimum of bureaucracy and inconvenience for all concerned.
Before concluding, perhaps I may deal with one or two points made by the noble Earl, Lord Mar and Kellie. I note and welcome his support for the proposal. First, as regards the debate in the other place, it is my understanding that the measure had all party support and that leaders of all parties gave approval.
As regards a review and consolidation of the legislation, if the noble Earl wishes to have a discussion with me or to write to me making a formal request for consolidation, I shall consider it as I do any other request. I should have thought that this would have been an ideal topic for the Scottish parliament to undertake early in its life.
We have in hand proposals to revise the 1968 Act as regards the provisions relating to registration and inspection. Guidance is in hand as part of our approach to improving the system and ensuring that there is no fragmentation and that authorities of all sizes apply the same criteria.
I welcome the support and co-operation given already to this Bill by all parties in the other place. Not to support the Bill would be to risk the well being of those who most need our protection. The affected care-home owners would be disadvantaged by no longer being able to rely on the public confidence in their establishments which registration brings.
As my noble friend Lord Hogg made clear, this Bill should command your Lordships' full support in ensuring a safe passage through the House. That ought 593 not to mean stifling debate; anything which prevents the Bill's progress would, I suggest, be of benefit to no one. I earnestly commend the Bill to the House.
§ 11.19 a.m.
§ Lord Hogg of Cumbernauld
My Lords, I do not intend to make another speech which, I am sure, will come as a great relief to everyone. However, I cannot promise that the same brevity will apply to the Scotland Bill which is shortly to be before the House. I am sure that the noble Earl, Lord Mar and Kellie, whom I count among my friends in this House, will return to the matters that he raised and will take up the kind suggestion made by my noble and learned friend the Lord Advocate that he write to him about consultation. I trust that the House will give the Bill a Second Reading.
On Question, Bill read a second time, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House.


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Careers in Education
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The UNC-Chapel Hill School of Education offers a variety of paths to prepare you for working in schools. Learn more about our program offerings.
We can help you launch your teaching career. Following are some resources you may use as you begin to make choices about your career path.
Career Exploration
- UNC-Chapel Hill's University Career Services
- Work 4 NC Schools – Full of information about working in N.C. Schools, both teaching and non-teaching positions.
- Licensure information from the Department of Public Instruction
- Salary & Benefits information from the N.C. Department of Public Instruction
- Bureau of Labor Statistics: Teaching- Job Outlook, Training and Overview
- State and Federal Scholarship and Loan Information
- US News and World Report: The 50 Best Careers of 2011 – among the top careers projected to see more job openings and higher salaries for the coming years are a few positions in education.
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Job search information
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The companies are integrating HIPAAT's Privacy eSuite software - based on Service Oriented Architecture - with IBM's SOA Foundation for joint projects. The IBM SOA Foundation supports IBM's global healthcare strategy, which is based on the adoption of an asset-based, interoperable SOA approach and the use of open standards and standards-based EHRs to ensure secure and private exchanges of records between authorized healthcare services and benefits organizations.
"IBM is playing an important role in the infrastructure that is needed in order to facilitate the sharing of health information," said Tom Romeo, vice president of federal global business services at IBM. "What HIPAAT brings to the table is privacy - a layer of protection for the patient - which is mandatory in healthcare."
Barry Runyon, vice president of research at Gartner, said using IBM's SOA framework would leverage the company's presence in HIEs and other stand-alone care delivery systems.
"They aren't trying to re-invent the wheel, but are rather integrating, which makes it a lot easier," the analysts said.
IBM and HIPAAT's solution is a privacy-based approach to securely controlling PHI access across diverse healthcare applications and settings. When installed in HIE environments as the "consent engine," Privacy eSuite empowers patients and designated providers to create and record privacy directives.
The software then evaluates a provider's authorization to access a patient's PHI based on such directives. A patient can restrict a particular clinician from accessing PHI, even if that clinician, based on a medical role, would typically be granted such access. All access requests are recorded and an audit trail is created.
"The Privacy eSuite is a Web-based SOA service that evaluates the relationship between the patient, the clinician and the PHI. The system checks these relationships, it provides a validation service," said Kel Callahan, head of business development for HIPAAT.
Combined IBM and HIPAAT technologies allow patients to specify who is granted access to their personal health information, what information can be accessed and when. They enable caregivers to implement and enforce patient consent directives, providing "break the glass" access to PHI and EHR data in emergency-care situations, where appropriate.
The break-the-glass functionality occurs at the point-of-care. Callahan says it is up to the implementor whether the "break the glass" scenario should be enacted.
"There is a broad difference in opinion" on how far to turn over the control," he said.
Runyon said consent management is going to be a "hot area" - and not just because of ethical issues like patient privacy vs. patient treatment. There are technical issues as well, he said.
"This is a hard area to get your hands around. It's a tough one and it hasn't been automated up until now. But it's time," he added. "I think it's a good thing, and I don't believe it will hinder patient treatment."
Vendors offering similar solutions include Cambridge, Mass. -based Wellogic, InterSystems and Alpine, Utah-based You Take Control, Inc.
Runyon said HIEs have worked to bring consent management back to the forefront. Other drivers he identified include the crackdown on HIPAA enforcements and the increase in and publicity of identity theft cases.
IBM officials said they are working with partners and clients in the healthcare industry to make information delivery and related business processes more patient-centric.
One initiative benefiting from the IBM-HIPAAT collaboration is the Nationwide Health Information Network trial implementation, now under development by the North Carolina Healthcare Information and Communications Alliance, Inc., or NCHICA. This initiative gives patients and providers transparent access to Privacy eSuite's privacy controls across the broad spectrum of applications enabled by the SOA Foundation.
"We are excited about the IBM-HIPAAT technology and its potential, but we have a lot of interoperability roads to cross," said Holt Anderson, executive director of NCHICA.
There will be a demonstration of the technology in Washington D.C. this September. Holt says they hope to move toward production by 2009-2010.
Holt said policy issues will present the biggest challenge in moving this effort forward "We are excited to try this out and see it in action and for the public to see it in action," he said. "We need the public to weigh in on this."
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|National Provider Identifier
This identifier is a requirement of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and must be used by health care providers including clinical social workers, health plans, health care clearinghouses, and other covered entities that conduct electronic transactions. Clinical social workers must use only their NPIs to identify themselves in standard transactions such as claims, eligibility inquiries and responses, claim status inquiries and responses, referrals, and remittance advices.
The NPI will replace current provider identifiers used by clinical social workers and eliminate the need for them to use different identification numbers to identify themselves when conducting standard transactions with multiple health plans. More information about the NPI can be found in the NASW's Practice Update, "The National Provider Identifier and the Clinical Social Worker" at https://www.socialworkers.org/ldf/legal_issue/2007/200705.asp
Clinical social workers should be aware of the following:
Clinical social workers may apply for the NPI in the following ways:


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Thursday, March 24, 2016
CD Review: World War IX "If One Of These Bottles Should Happen To Fall"
[$5 // https://worldwarix.bandcamp.com/album/if-one-of-these-bottles-should-happen-to-fall]
The first time I really had my eyes opened to punk rock music was when I watched the documentary "American Hardcore". It's kind of strange how I grew up listening to what I believe to be the best time for labels like Epitaph, Victory Record and Revelation Records and yet it seemingly took me so long to hear about certain artists in that film. Though I could have done without the constant yammering of Henry Rollins.
I never know how to think of fast punk rock songs. In my mind, they always sound more like when CIV covered Minor Threat or Suicide Machines but in reality World War IX has a sound that reminds me of Guttermouth (especially their Nitro Records albums) and given the fact that I've been listening to Guttermouth for such a long time and haven't found another punk band I like as much as them it just goes to show you how great not only Guttermouth is but also World War IX. This is like hearing "Friendly People" for the first time all over again.
While I realize how incredibly naive it sounds to type this, when I began to see certain labels change their direction (away from punk and hardcore music) and a lot of the bands in those genres that I liked either stopped making music or changed their sound as well, I felt like in some ways, yeah, punk did kind of die for me. But then I realized that just because Epitaph- for example- stopped promoting punk bands it didn't mean that punk was dead.
I felt good about the state of punk rock a few years ago and I think punk rock bands and I can once again be friends simply because of the d.i.y. ethic behind it all and whether you're punk or hardcore (or any musician for that matter) cassettes are inexpensive and I love cassettes. I mean, obviously if anyone wanted to release a World War IX cassette it'd be most excellent but, yeah, what are these songs about? I'm pretty sure most of them are about drinking. But don't push them away-- embrace them.
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USSM Year-end Best-of: December 2006
I hope you've enjoyed these year-end posts. I know the off-season tends to drag, and it means sometimes we're talking about music and doing USSM Endorsements or whatever, so I thought this might be cool. After all, we wrote 785 articles this year, not including this one, and there were 75,286 comments. It's easy to forget the highlights, and I wanted to give some recognition of how many totally amazing articles Dave wrote. He was on fire, folks.
The Vidro Debacle: Initial reaction to the report. I tilt at windmills and pledge continuing Doyle support in "I will not hang up my High Epopt hat" It's Official
12-15: Dave summarizes the M's management in "After the storm":
We endorse Chris Antonetti as the next GM. We offer Antonetti for GM stickers and buttons for angry fans.
Other than that, what happened?
12-1: The M's almost sign John Thomson, which we liked as a move.
This is how you assemble the back-end of a rotation. Sign John Thomson and Justin Lehr to give competition to the young pitchers, and use the money saved by not paying for experience to spend on position players.
John Thomson can help the Mariners, and for the price, it's a good buy. Kudos to Bill Bavasi for finding one of the better deals in a crazy free agent market.
Later it turns out they agreed to terms if the team's pursuit of other options failed, after which they… well, they managed to get other guys. I can't help but think Thomson would make a better option than at least one, but anyway.
12-2: I look at where the M's stood, and what they needed to do heading into the meetings. Dave made Winter Meetings predictions. If only it had gone like this.
12-11: Miguel Batista signs.
12-12: Future Hall of Fame denials, in the vein of McGwire's troubles.
11-22: Sean Burroughs provides me the chance to get overly-detailed about a minor signing. Hee hee hee.
12-26: Free agent market and the boom and bust cycle
12-27: Why trading for Randy Johnson would help the rotation
12-28: Dave reviews the 2006 Free Agent Signings (pre-Zito)
18 Responses to "USSM Year-end Best-of: December 2006"
A Bag Of Beans! Wooo! on
December 31st, 2006 11:58 pm
After all, we wrote 785 articles this year, not including this one, and there were 75,286 comments.
How many of those by Corco?
msb on
January 1st, 2007 12:12 am
Dave is often on fire. He is highly flammable.
PositivePaul on
January 1st, 2007 12:26 am
Happy New Year, USSM mateys!
Yeah, that 10-year-old bottle of blue Chimay tastes pretty good right now. Man, that stuff ages very nicely in the fridge. It gets pretty strong, though. Phwewh.
How many of those by Corco?
My guess? At least 10% — 7,500-ish.
msb on
January 1st, 2007 12:38 am
If you'll indulge me as we head into the new year, I often think of New Years Day 1973 around this time … and especially this year, what with David Maraniss' good biography of Clemente available:
There was something about Clemente that surpassed statistics, then and always. Some baseball mavens love the sport precisely because of its numbers. They can take the mathematics of a box score and of a year's worth of statistics and calculate the case for players they consider underrated or overrated and declare who has the most real value to a team. To some skilled practitioners of this science, Clemente comes out very good, but not the greatest; he walks too seldom, has too few home runs, steals too few bases. Their perspective is legitimate, but to people who appreciate Clemente this is like chemists trying to appreciate Van Gogh by analyzing the ingredients of his paint. Clemente was art, not science. Every time he strolled slowly to the batter's box, or trotted out to right field, he seized the scene like a great actor. It was hard to take one's eyes off him, because he could do anything on a baseball field and carried himself with such nobility. "The rest of us were just players," Steve Blass would say. "Clemente was a prince."
happy new year, and may there be a Prince (if not a King) in our baseball future.
rlharr on
January 1st, 2007 2:35 am
Derek – I'm wondering, in one of the 'best of' posts along the way (I think in November) you said that you had a low opinion of Bowden. Do you still? I did too, but I'm beginning to think he may have turned a corner.
This summer – bags Kearns and Lopez from the Reds for nothing.
November – signs many of the best minor league free agents.
December – ouch! Bags Snelling (and a prospect) for an aging second baseman he's been trying to trade since mid-summer.
So, what do you say now? He's filled three starting positions with high-ceiling, definitely above average players and got lots of good bullpen filler without giving anything up.
rlharr on
January 1st, 2007 2:36 am
Oh, and Happy New Year all!
Johnny Slick on
January 1st, 2007 6:35 am
Just to point out… Bowden has always been good at fleecing stupid GMs in trades. It's just that he's prone to make boneheaded moves himself, and in the end when you're running a team you don't want a GM who's constantly in the state of mind of "how do I put one over on this guy" and "how do I make it look like I'm doing something so when I get fired here somebody else will hire me", you want a guy who's actually going to work make your team better.
The minor league free agent thing is encouraging if you want to be a Bowden fan. Kearns and Snelling isn't.
Replacement level poster on
January 1st, 2007 6:55 am
Thanks for all the work you guys put into this. For Mariner's fans this site is definitely a daily read.
stoyboy on
January 1st, 2007 8:00 am
Happy New Year! I am not sure how good the new year for the Mariner's will be, but being recently back from the "Big Sandbox" I appreciate the never ending intelligent opinions about my favorite sports team. I thought of them when time permitted and now I have the opportunity(USS Mariner) to discuss them. Thank you for this opportunity.
DMZ on
January 1st, 2007 8:08 am
On Bowden: I once wrote that of all GMs at the time, I was the most disappointed of Bowden's leadership in Cincy because I thought he would do so much better. His time at the head of the Reds was erratic: he was great at some of the waiver wire flyer/finding random floatsam, but he also seemed to make too many moves, like he couldn't stop himself.
He didn't have a good reputation for dealing with players, and particularly for… I can't remember who it was, but there was a pitcher who gave the Reds a hometown discount in return for a promise that they wouldn't trade him, and Bowden traded the then-undervalued pitcher. He pissed off a lot of other GMs in dealings (like Gillick here) to the point where the Reds essentially couldn't easily make deals with a fair chunk of other teams, and as a GM, it's really hard to do that and still be able to be effective at your job.
His time there didn't go well: he never seemed to build good teams, and his teams didn't seem like they were planned – like he was making moves that were going to help in year one, and year two… but more like he'd see someone get waived and go "oooh! shiny!" without fully considering how he was going to build a team, or a farm system.
I always thought that Bowden would have been an interesting assistant GM, or front office special advisor, or something similar: give him a job where he can come up with 90 ideas a day, and have someone with a long-term vision and a more conservative nature filter them. You'd be able to get his really good talent evaluation ideas – go pick up unwanted player x on a minor league contract – while being able to say no to 'give poor player x a 4y, $36m deal for no reason'.
Bowden's a weird GM. I certainly don't think he's as bad as I did a few years ago, and I haven't heard that he's had problems with other organizations since joining Washington. But he still might be the most erratic GM working, where any particular move is 25% likely to be horrible, 25% likely to be quite nice, and 25% likely to be inexplicable (and 25% "meh").
Does that answer your question?
terry on
January 1st, 2007 9:25 am
December – ouch! Bags Snelling (and a prospect) for an aging second baseman he's been trying to trade since mid-summer.
Clearly he isn't the worst GM…….he's Satan
terry on
January 1st, 2007 9:31 am
and I haven't heard that he's had problems with other organizations since joining Washington.
The Reds keep claiming they will file a grievance against him for misrepresenting the shoulder of G Majewski in the infamous *trade*….
My take on Bowden is that he has few friends in the business and people deal with him only out of fairly extreme need… unless of course you're new and stupid…
- terry on January 1st, 2007 9:44 am
terry on
January 1st, 2007 9:48 am
oops.. here's the link
DMZ on
January 1st, 2007 9:56 am
The Griffey trade was a great example of why other GMs don't like Bowden – he acted like the fantasy owner who won't make any deal unless it's ridiculously lopsided in his favor and then immediately sends emails to everyone talking about how he totally ripped off the other guy.
terry on
January 1st, 2007 10:14 am
Any GM that wears leather pants probably will like shiny new things too…
rlharr on
January 1st, 2007 2:12 pm
Derek – now you mention it, I also thought some of his trades were terrible over the last year. But he has had a good half year. The Soriano deal turned out amazingly well for him, and yet he was smart enough not to chase Soriano as a free agant. Maybe budget forced his hand? I guess I'm just comparing to what we've got this winter.
QuoVadis on
January 1st, 2007 6:28 pm
#4 Thanks for the reminder about a true baseball Prince. That is one sports bio that I will put on my reading list. I lived in Mass. at the time so only saw Clemente in allstar and post-season tv but it was obvious that he was special. He had a swagger that was natural because he was baseball royalty: a real Prince. Not cocky swagger like a Rose or a Reggie.
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