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Computer Technologies Acceptable Use Policy
These policies and procedures apply to Webster University students enrolled at extended campuses in the United States.
Updated: 9/27/06
Access and Use
Access to some University computer systems requires that each user have a unique identity, protected by a password. A computer identity represents the user in various system activities, to provide access to software and data, and to associate the user's own software and data with the identity. As such, this computer identity is a University instrument of identification, and its misuse constitutes forgery or misrepresentation and is subject to University disciplinary action.
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Civility and Liberty
The University seeks to protect the civil, personal, and property rights of those actually using its computing resources and seeks to protect the confidentiality of University records stored on its computer systems. Conduct which involves use of University computer resources to violate another's rights is subject to University disciplinary action.
As an academic institution, we are committed to supporting the academic freedom of all members of the University community; as a social institution, we are committed to respecting the dignity of all members of our community. The standards and principles of intellectual and academic freedom developed for university libraries apply to material received via computer news networks and by similar means. The standards of intellectual and academic freedom developed for faculty and student publication in traditional media apply to computer-mediated publication.
There will be situations in which what one person understands to be free expression another person takes to be harassment, personal assault, or an assault on prevailing standards of decency. The Report of the Committee on Freedom of Expression at Yale University (January 8, 1975), states:
Shock, hurt, and anger are not consequences to be weighed lightly. No member of a community with a decent respect for others should use, or encourage others to use, slurs and epithets intended to discredit another's race, ethnic group, religion, or sex. It may sometimes be necessary in a university for civility and mutual respect to be superseded by the need to guarantee free expression. The values superseded are nevertheless important, and every member of the university community should consider them in exercising the fundamental right to free expression.
We have considered the opposing argument that behavior which violates these social and ethical considerations should be made subject to formal sanctions, and the argument that such behavior entitles others to prevent speech they might regard as offensive. Our conviction that the central purpose of the university is to foster the free access of knowledge compels us to reject both of these arguments. They assert a right to prevent free expression. They rest upon the assumption that speech can be suppressed by anyone who deems it false or offensive . . . They make the majority, or any willful minority, the arbiters of truth for all. If expression may be prevented, censored, or punished, because of its content or because of the motives attributed to those who promote it, then it is no longer free. It will be subordinated to other values that we believe to be of lower priority in a university.
The conclusions that we draw, then, are these: even when some members of the university community fail to meet their social and ethical responsibilities, the paramount obligation of the university is to protect their right to free expression. . . If a university's overriding commitment to free expression is to be sustained, secondary social and ethical responsibilities must be left to the informal processes of persuasion, example, and argument.
Just as nothing in the present policy is to be understood as excusing users of University computing facilities from compliance with federal or state law, nothing in this policy should be understood as withdrawing the University's affirmation of statements in faculty and student policy handbooks in support of academic and intellectual freedom.
None of this, though, denies that harassment on the basis of sex is a violation of Section 703 of Title VII of The Civil Rights Act of 1964 and is also prohibited under Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972. Webster University's Sexual Offense Policy defines sexual harassment (following Section 703 and the EEOC's 1980 Sex Discrimination Guidelines):
Unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors, and other verbal or physical contact of a sexual nature constitutes sexual harassment when:
The mere fact of computer mediation by no means excuses contact that otherwise counts as sexual harassment under the reasonable person standard adopted by the University. Furthermore, users of public terminals or similar facilities at the University should be aware of the public nature of shared facilities and should take care not to display images or play sounds that could create a hostile environment for others. Similar considerations apply to electronic mail exchanges.
Electronic mail on Webster systems should be as private as the system administrators can make it. Users are prohibited from trying to read the electronic mail of others. System administrators are not to read mail or non-world-readable files unless truly required in the course of their duties. System administrators are to treat mail and non-world-readable files as private at all times. Whenever feasible, systems should be administered so that bounced mail is directed to the system administrators in the form of headers only to protect privacy while ensuring reliable e-mail service.
The University is not responsible for unofficial uses of computer resources. In particular, e-mail and personal Web pages often express private opinions that do not reflect University positions.
Webster University computing and information resources are made available to individuals to assist in the pursuit of educational and other academic goals. It is expected that users will cooperate with each other and respect the ownership of work and information even though it is in electronic—rather than more immediately tangible—form. Individuals and organizations will be held no less accountable for their actions in situations involving computers and information resources than they would be in dealing with other media. Rules prohibiting theft and vandalism apply to software and data as well as to physical equipment.
This policy establishes no new governance or disciplinary structures. Alleged violations of this policy are to be treated like other allegations of wrongdoing at the University. For example, allegations of misconduct by students should be adjudicated according to established procedures regarding student conduct.


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text: Posted: Friday, October 9, 2009 1:41 pm The Messenger 10.09.09In 1974, Pat (Hawkins) Montgomery left the University of Tennessee at Martin with a degree in nursing. This weekend, she returns to the campus as an award-winning author.Mrs. Montgomery will conduct a book-signing on the Quad near the University Bookstore on Saturday as part of UT Martin's homecoming festivities. The signing will begin at 10 a.m.For more information, visit her Web site at http://parentsrulewithpat.com/events.Mrs. Montgomery's book, "Now You Know What I Know: Parenting Wisdom of a Grandmother," won a Pinnacle Award this year as an Outstanding Inspirational Book. She said the book is a great read for her fellow alumni."The book is about the mistakes I made as a parent and the things I did well. It's meant to encourage parents and grandparents and to let them know they're not alone," she said.In addition to being an award-winning author, Mrs. Montgomery is also a popular radio show host in the Metro Atlanta area. Her talk show, "Parents Rule!," offers the same type of information and inspiration as her book. It features stimulating topics that cover all aspects of parenting, from conception issues to grandparenting.Mrs. Montgomery said she is thrilled to be coming back to UTM."I'm really excited to come back to the place where I gained so much knowledge to share a little of what I have learned with my fellow students and alumni," she said.She began her nursing career in Martin and her first child was born there at Volunteer General Hospital.She is currently a business owner, as well as the host of the weekly radio talk show. The married mother now has three children, two stepchildren and 12 grandchildren.


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Helen Nissenbaum
Helen Nissenbaum is a Professor of Media, Culture and Communication, and Computer Science, at New York University. Nissenbaum's research publications have appeared in journals of philosophy, politics, law, media studies, information studies, and computer science. She has written and edited four books, including Privacy in Context: Technology, Policy, and the Integrity of Social Life. The National Science Foundation, Air Force Office of Scientific Research, Ford Foundation, and U.S. Department of Homeland Security have supported her work on privacy, trust online, and security, as well as several studies of values embodied in computer system design, including search engines, digital games, and facial recognition technology. Nissenbaum holds a Ph.D. in philosophy from Stanford University and a B.A. (Hons) from the University of the Witwatersrand. Before joining the faculty at NYU, she served as Associate Director of the Center for Human Values at Princeton University.
Faculty Fellows
Barton Beebe joined NYU School of Law in the Fall 2009 from Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law. Barton Beebe received the Class of 2007 Award for Best Professor. Prior to joining Cardozo's faculty, he clerked for Judge Denise Cote of the United States District Court of the Southern District of New York. Professor Beebe received his J.D. from Yale Law School, where he was an editor of the Yale Law Journal and an articles editor of the Yale Journal of Law & the Humanities, his Ph.D. in English Literature from Princeton University, where he was a Whiting Fellow in the Humanities, and his B.A. from the University of Chicago (Phi Beta Kappa). In 2007, Professor Beebe served as a Special Master, with Professor Daniel J. Capra, in Louis Vuitton Malletier v. Dooney & Bourke, Inc., No. 04 Civ. 2990 (SAS) (S.D.N.Y.). Professor Beebe's teaching and scholarship focuses on intellectual property law.
Florencia Marotta-Wurgler '01 teaches Contracts, Commercial Law, and Topics in E-Commerce. Her expertise is on online contracting in general and software licensing in particular. Her published research has addressed online standard form contracting with delayed disclosure; contracting in the presence of seller market power; and, online dispute resolution clauses including arbitration. Her current research documents the extremely low readership rate of standard form contracts by consumers and discusses implications for regulation of standard terms. Professor Marotta-Wurgler earned a B.A. in Economics, magna cum laude, from the University of Pennsylvania, and a J.D., cum laude, from the NYU School of Law, where she was a Robert McKay Scholar and winner of the Daniel G. Collins Prize for Excellence in Contract Law. Before joining the faculty she was an associate at Davis Polk & Wardwell, a Corporate Fellow at the Center for Corporate, Securities, and Financial Law at Fordham University School of Law, and a Leonard Wagner Fellow in Law and Business at the Pollack Center for Law and Business at NYU Law and Stern School of Business.
Erin Murphy joined the NYU faculty in 2010 from UC Berkeley School of Law. Her research explores issues related to technology, state power, and the criminal justice system, with a particular emphasis on street crime. Murphy has written extensively in the area of forensic DNA typing, most recently in Relative Doubt: Familial Searches of DNA Evidence (Michigan Law Review, forthcoming), and has co-authored work at the intersection of law and science with Dr. Montgomery Slatkin and Dr. Yun Song. Murphy's article Paradigms of Restraint (Duke Law Journal) won the AALS Criminal Justice Section 2008 award for best paper by a junior scholar, and her work has been cited by the U.S. Supreme Court. Murphy teaches courses related to criminal law, criminal procedure and evidence. She is a graduate of the Harvard Law School, where she served as notes editor of the Harvard Law Review, and a former clerk to the Honorable Merrick B. Garland of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. Murphy practiced for five years as an attorney with the Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia, where she represented clients in felony and misdemeanor cases in jury and bench trials, argued before the D.C. Court of Appeals, and led a widely watched constitutional challenge to the District of Columbia's firearms law.
Samuel J. Rascoff joined the NYU School of Law faculty in June 2008. He came to the Law School from the New York City Police Department, where, as Director of Intelligence Analysis, he created and led a team responsible for assessing the terrorist threat to the city. A graduate of Harvard (summa cum laude), Oxford (First Class Honors), and Yale Law School, he previously served as a law clerk to U.S. Supreme Court Justice David H. Souter and to Judge Pierre N. Leval of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. He was also a special assistant with the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq. As an associate at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, his practice focused on the settlement of complex litigation. Rascoff teaches and writes in the areas of national security law, counterterrorism, and regulatory law and policy. His recent publications include Domesticating Intelligence (So. Cal. L. Rev.) and The Law of Homegrown (Counter) Terrorism (Tex. L. Rev.). Named a Carnegie Scholar in 2009, Rascoff's current research focuses on understanding "Official Islam."
Ira Rubinstein
In residence Fall 2008, Fall 2009, Spring 2011, Spring 2012, Spring 2013
Ira Rubinstein is a Senior Fellow at the Information Law Institute. His research interests include Internet privacy, electronic surveillance law, online identity, and Internet security. Rubinstein lectures and publishes widely on issues of privacy and security and has testified before Congress on these topics on several occasions. In September 2009, he organized a conference at the law school on Federal Privacy Legislation, and he participated in the December 2009 Federal Trade Commission Roundtable: Exploring Privacy. In July 2010, he testified at a hearing on a new privacy bill, H.R. 5777, the Best Practices Act, before the House Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade, and Consumer Protection. In 2011, he was awarded a research grant to explore regulatory issues related to "privacy by design." He discussed his paper Regulating Privacy by Design at a 2011 Boalt Hall Law School symposium on Technology: Transforming the Regulatory Endeavor, and his paper will be published in the Symposium Issue of the Berkeley Technology Law Journal (forthcoming 2012). Most recently, he co-authored, with Professor Dennis Hirsch, a paper entitled Better Safe than Sorry: Designing Effective Safe Harbor Programs for Consumer Privacy Legislation. Other recent publications include Privacy and Regulatory Innovation: Moving Beyond Voluntary Codes, 6 I/S: A Journal of Law and Policy for the Information Society 356 (2011), which was selected by the Future of Privacy Forum in their best "Privacy Papers for Policy Makers" competition, and Data Mining and Internet Profiling: Emerging Regulatory and Technological Approaches, co-authored with Ron Lee and Paul Schwartz, 75 U. Chi. L. Rev. 261 (2008). Prior to joining the ILI, Rubinstein spent 17 years in Microsoft's Legal and Corporate Affairs department, most recently as Associate General Counsel in charge of the Regulatory Affairs and Public Policy group. Before coming to Microsoft, he was in private practice in Seattle, specializing in immigration law. He graduated from Yale Law School in 1985. From 1998-2001, Rubinstein served on the President's Export Council, Subcommittee on Encryption. He has also served on the Editorial Board of the IEEE Security and Privacy Magazine. In 2010, he joined the Board of Directors of the Center for Democracy and Technology. He was a Board member of the Seattle Public Library Foundation from 2006-2011 and previously served on the Board of Governors of the American Immigration Lawyers Association and as a Trustee of the American Immigration Lawyers Foundation.
Katherine Strandburg joined NYU School of Law in the Fall 2009 from DePaul University College of Law. A distinguished intellectual property scholar, Kathy's research interests are in patent law, science and technology policy, law and network science, social norm theory, and information privacy law. Trained as a physicist, Kathy's scholarship is informed by her experience as a research scientist and her interdisciplinary perspective. Before embarking on a legal career, Kathy received her Ph.D. from Cornell University in 1984 and was a postdoctoral researcher at Carnegie Mellon from 1984 to 1987. She also conducted research with the Condensed Matter Theory Group at Argonne National Laboratory from 1987 to 1992, and was a visiting faculty member of the physics department at Northwestern University from 1990 to 1992. Kathy earned her law degree from the University of Chicago Law School with high honors in 1995 and clerked for the Honorable Richard D. Cudahy of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit.
Diane Zimmerman
Diane Leenheer Zimmerman is the Samuel Tilden Professor of Law Emerita at NYU School of Law. An award-winning reporter for Newsweek and the New York Daily News, Diane Zimmerman left journalism to pursue a career in the law. In 1977, after graduating from Columbia Law School and clerking for Judge Jack B. Weinstein in the Eastern District of New York, she joined the faculty at New York University School of Law. Issues of civil liberties—particularly women's rights, and freedom of speech and conscience—propelled Zimmerman from journalism into law, and she has taught, lectured, and written extensively on all of these subjects. Her other major area of academic specialization is intellectual property. Outside activities include chairing the First Amendment Rights Committee of the American Bar Association for five years. She has also chaired the Civil Rights Committee of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, and served on its Copyright, Professional Ethics, Communications and Media Law Committees. In the field of intellectual property, Zimmerman serves on the executive committee of the Copyright Society's board of trustees. She is a member of the editorial board of the Society's Journal as well as that of the Communication Law and Policy Journal. Professor Zimmerman has been an expert witness for the Judiciary Committee of the United States Senate, and a member of the National Coalition Against Censorship's Working Group on Women, Censorship and Pornography. The Second Circuit appointed Zimmerman Reporter for the Gender Committee of the Second Circuit Task Force on Gender, Racial and Ethnic Fairness.
Senior Fellow
Kate Crawford is a Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research and a Visiting Professor at the MIT Media Lab in the Centre for Civic Media. Over the last ten years she has researched the social, political and cultural contexts of networked media technologies. She studies a wide range of data practices, including the ethics of big data, crisis informatics, networked journalism, and the everyday patterns of mobile and social media use. She has conducted both small and large-scale ethnographic studies in Australia, India and the US. Previously, Crawford was the Deputy Director of the Journalism and Media Research Centre at the University of New South Wales, and a founding member of the Media and Communications Department at the University of Sydney. Kate is on the editorial boards of the Fibreculture Journal: Digital Media, Networks, and Transdisciplinary Critique, and Media International Australia.
Research Fellows
Martin French
Martin French is a postdoctoral research fellow in the Department of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University. He studies the social dimensions of technology with an empirical focus on communications and information technology in the public-health and medical-care sectors. At a pragmatic, everyday level, his research program involves forging partnerships that span government, academic, and community-based organizations, and using these partnerships to mobilize innovative best-practices through the creation of evidence-informed policy. From 2010-2012, Martin held a SSHRC postdoctoral fellowship with the Department of Sociology at Queen's University, Canada, and in 2011 he was appointed visiting fellow in the Department of Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Sydney, Australia. His dissertation, entitled Picturing Public Health Surveillance, examines transformations in Ontario's public health information ecology following the 2003 epidemic of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS).
Sophie Hood
Sophie Hood is a research fellow in the Department of Media, Culture, and Communication and in the Information Law Institute at New York University. Her work concentrates on the intersection of new media technologies and adjudication. Specifically, she studies the impact of judicial videoconferencing, cameras in the courtroom, and online court records on adjudicative process and democratic society. Hood has previously studied the effect of new technologies on the media industry at Harvard Business School. She graduated from Williams College with a B.A. in Comparative Literature and received her J.D. from Yale Law School. Most recently, Hood served as a law clerk to the Honorable Sidney R. Thomas of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
Nathan Newman
Nathan Newman is Microsoft Research Fellow of the Information Law Institute at New York University. He has been writing about public policy and the Internet for over fifteen years. From 1997-1999, Newman was Program Director at NetAction, where he was an early advocate for anti-trust scrutiny of Microsoft. Most recently, as Policy Director and then Executive Director of Progressive States Network from 2005-2010, he oversaw a state policy program to promote broadband. In the last year, he has worked with community groups in writing reports on the danger of state telecom deregulation. His current research at the Information Law Institute focuses on antitrust, Google and the ways behavioral profiling online can reinforces monopoly and expand general economic inequality in the economy. He received a Ph.D. in Sociology from UC-Berkeley and a J.D. from Yale Law School. His Ph.D. on Internet public policy and local economic development was turned into a book, Net Loss: Internet Prophets, Private Profits and the Costs to Community (2020).
Heather Patterson
Heather Patterson is a postdoctoral research fellow in the Department of Media, Culture, and Communication and in the Information Law Institute at New York University. Patterson researches changing social norms regarding personal information sharing and expectations of privacy, with an eye toward developing policy solutions that facilitate context-appropriate information flow. She received a J.D. from the UC Berkeley School of Law (Boalt Hall) in 2012 and a Ph.D. in cognitive psychology from the University of Washington in 2006. At Berkeley Law, Patterson worked within the Samuelson Law, Technology & Public Policy Clinic to develop a framework for evaluating the privacy implications of biometric technologies such as face recognition, iris scanning, and gait recognition, and to develop privacy standards for emerging Smart Grid technologies before the California Public Utilities Commission. Prior to law school, Patterson used behavioral and neuroimaging techniques to assess the cognitive and neural basis of language perception, face recognition, and biological motion detection. She also holds an M.A. in linguistics from the University of Texas at Austin and a B.S. in neurobiology and physiology from Purdue University.
Sasha Romanosky
Sasha Romanosky is a Microsoft Research Fellow in the Information Law Institute at New York University. He researches legal and economic issues regarding data security and consumer privacy. Specifically, he examines the impact of data breaches on firm and consumer behaviors, and the extent to which alternative policy interventions (ex ante regulation, information disclosure, and ex post liability) can play in reducing the externalities from data breaches. Sasha earned a PhD from the Heinz College of Information Systems and Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University and a BS in electrical engineering from the University of Calgary. He was a security professional for over 10 years, predominantly within the financial and e-commerce industries at companies such as Morgan Stanley and eBay. Sasha holds a CISSP certification and is the co-author of the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS), an open framework for scoring computer vulnerabilities. He is a member of CyLab and the Usable Security and Privacy laboratory (CUPS) at Carnegie Mellon University.
Malte Ziewitz
Malte Ziewitz is a postdoctoral research fellow in the Department of Media, Culture, and Communication and in the Information Law Institute at New York University. He researches the politics and practicalities of governance in, of and through digitally networked environments. Broadly based in Science and Technology Studies (STS), ethnography and public policy, he is currently finishing his doctoral dissertation at the University of Oxford, a praxiography of reviewing, rating and ranking in healthcare and search engine optimization (SEO). As Principal Investigator, he headed the ESRC-funded "How's My Feedback?" project, a collaborative design experiment to rethink and evaluate online review and rating websites. Previously, he was a McCloy Fellow at Harvard University, a Non-resident Fellow at the Research Center for Information Law at the University of St. Gallen, and a Junior Researcher at the Hans Bredow Institute for Media Research. Ziewitz holds a M.P.A. from Harvard University and a First State Exam in Law from the University of Hamburg.
Student Fellows
Solon Barocas is a doctoral student in the Department of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University. He was previously a Program Associate at the Russell Sage Foundation, where he helped administer major research initiatives on intercultural contact, social inequality, and the social and political consequences of the war on terror. Earlier, he served as Deputy Editor of Millennium - Journal of International Studies, housed at the London School of Economics, where he also obtained his MSc in International Relations. His master's thesis, De/re/coding Security in 'Societies of Control:' Data-mining as Political Practice, was recently published in a special issue of the St Antony's International Review on "The Internet: Power and Governance in a Digitised World," which he also presented at a related conference co-hosted by the Oxford Internet Institute. Barocas graduated from Brown University with a BA in Art-Semiotics and International Relations. At the University's Watson Institute for International Studies, he worked for over two years on the Information, Technology, War, and Peace Project.
Luke Stark
Luke Stark is a third-year doctoral student in the Department of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University. A native of Toronto, Canada, Luke holds an Honours BA in History and English and an MA in History, both from the University of Toronto; he has been generously funded by the Canadian Millennium Scholarship Foundation, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, and the Government of Ontario. Luke's research focuses on the history and philosophy of digital media technology and its role in regulating the everyday affective and emotional lives of individual users and broader publics; he is concurrently working on projects related to the changing dynamics of privacy and security in digital network environments, and is a member of the ILI's Privacy Research Group and a Principal with PRGLabs. Luke is also a Research Assistant for the National Science Foundation's Values in Design in the Future Internet Architecture project, headed by Helen Nissenbaum. Luke's academic pursuits have been complimented by work in Issues Management and Strategic Communications Planning for the Ontario Ministries of Health and Long-Term Care and Natural Resources; other highlights from an eclectic resume include forest ranger, sleep-away camp counsellor, and ranch hand.
Privacy Research Group Affiliates
Catherine Dwyer
Cathy Dwyer is Associate Professor of Information Technology at Pace University. Her research interests include online advertising, online privacy management, and social media. You can find out more about her here.
Travis Hall
Travis Hall is a Ph.D. candidate in Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University. His research interests include biometrics, critical theory, bureaucracy, moral norms and the media, Science and Technology Studies, truth production, and bodies.
Jeramie D. Scott
Jeramie Scott is a third-year law student at NYU.
Past Fellows and Affiliates
Gaia Bernstein: 2002-2003
Finn Brunton: 2010-2011
Amanda Conley: 2009-2010
Niva Elkin-Koren: 2004-2005
Roger Ford: 2011-2012
Joseph Lorenzo Hall: 2011-2012
Jaime Madell: 2010-2011
Alice E. Marwick: 2009-2010
Laura Moy: 2010-2011
Gregory Pomerantz: 2001-2002
Andrew Selbst: 2011-2012
Elizabeth Stark: 2008-2009
Alan Toner: 2001-2002
Philip Weiser: Fall 2008
Dr. Tal Zarsky: 2010-2011
Michael Zimmer: 2004-2007
Jonathan Zittrain: Spring 2008
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Bordetella Bronchisepta Infection in Guinea Pigs Respiratory infections are quite common in guinea pigs, and often they are a result of a bacterial infection. One such bacteria is Bordetella bronchisepta, which mainly affects the respiratory tract. It is most commonly transmitted from one guinea pig to another when droplets are sprayed into the air by sneezing or coughing. There is also a genital form of B. bronchisepta, by which the infection is transmitted by sexual contact. In some cases, guinea pigs may just be carriers of B. bronchisepta infection without actually exhibiting any symptoms of the infection, but there are also cases of outbreaks among groups of guinea pigs, during which all of the infected animals will get sick and die before treatment can be applied. Symptoms and Types Although some guinea pigs infected with B. bronchisepta may not display any signs of illness, this is not always the case. Signs to look out for include:
Causes Infection can be transmitted from one guinea pig to another through aerosol transmission (airborne) or by sexual contact Diagnosis Your veterinarian will perform a thorough physical exam on your guinea pig, taking into account the background history of symptoms and possible incidents that might have led to this condition, such as recent breeding, recent illnesses, or the introduction of new guinea pigs into the group. To confirm the diagnosis, however, your veterinarian will probably need to examine blood samples from the animal. Share this page0 COMMENTS
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Smoke-Free Statewide Press Heightens as Effective Date Looms
Deadline looms for state smoking ban
The Jan. 1 deadline for a statewide ban will confront them with a cold reality
By Megan Twohey
Tribune staff reporter
December 4, 2007
Melissa Castillo wore an urgent expression as she sat in Gamekeepers Tavern pulling drags off her Marlboro Light.
For months, she was able to ignore the impending statewide ban on smoking in all indoor workplaces. Now, less than 30 days before the new law was to take effect, there was no avoiding it. "I'm quitting," said Castillo, during a stop Sunday at the Lincoln Park bar. "There's no way I'm going to smoke outside. Not when it's a bazillion degrees below freezing."
The smoking landscape in Illinois will change dramatically on Jan. 1, when all bars, restaurants and sports stadiums must become entirely smoke free.
Some Chicago-area smokers are gearing up for battle, buying gloves and hats so they can at least try to stay warm while they smoke outdoors. Nothing, they say, will get in the way of their lighting up. But others are seizing the chance to kick the habit.
The Respiratory Health Association of Metropolitan Chicago and other organizations that help with smoking cessation have received an increasing number of calls from people planning to try to quit. Officials say the imminent ban is a factor.
"There are always people who decide to quit on New Year's, and the ban provides much more of an impetus," said Joel Africk, the association's president. "It's the golden opportunity."
There is not yet proof that such bans have a direct effect on adult smoking rates, but the rates have dropped significantly in places where the bans were combined with high cigarette taxes and anti-tobacco advertising, said Michael Siegel, a professor at Boston University, who has done extensive research on the subject.
In New York City, for example, the smoking rate has declined 20 percent since a comprehensive campaign began in 2002, according to the city's health department.
California, which passed a ban in two stages, in 1995 and 1998, saw its smoking rate drop from 17.5 percent in 1998 to 13.3 percent in 2006, according to the state's health department.
The combined cigarette tax for Chicago, Cook County and Illinois -- $3.66 a pack -- is the highest in the nation, Africk said. The American Cancer Society and some local health departments are targeting more anti-tobacco advertising at the 20 percent of Illinois residents who smoke.
"We're working very hard to get the anti-smoking message out there," said Roger Quick of the Illinois chapter of the American Cancer Society, who lobbied for the law, arguing that it would save lives and reduce health problems.
Smoking and secondhand-smoke inhalation have been linked to cancer, heart disease and asthma attacks, among other ailments.
An estimated 2,900 Illinois residents die each year of exposure to secondhand tobacco smoke, according to supporters of the law.
When the law takes effect, Illinois will become the 22nd state to prohibit smoking in nearly all indoor workplaces. Notable exceptions are tobacco stores, hookah lounges that don't serve alcohol, certain private and semi-private rooms in nursing homes, long-term-care facilities and in hotels.
The new law supersedes Chicago's smoking ban, which gave bars and restaurants until July 1, to comply.
Smokers must make the transition during the coldest month of the year. That has provided a greater sense of urgency to some of those who plan to quit.
Chris Lee, a bartender at Gamekeepers and self-proclaimed social smoker, said the only time he lights up is in a bar. Stepping into the frigid weather to feed his habit has no appeal.
"This gives me a chance to quit," Lee said.
Athens Beasley, who was relaxing at Mother Hubbard's in River North, said she never smokes during the day or at home. But every time she steps in a bar, she gets the urge.
Like Lee, she had come to think January "would be a good time" to try to snuff out the habit. But not everyone is feeling inspired.
"If you gotta smoke in negative 10 degrees, you gotta do what you gotta do," said Charles Ramirez, who was perched at the bar at Jimbo's on the South Side, a Miller Lite in one hand, a Marlboro menthol in the other.
The cigarette machine recently had been removed from Jimbo's in preparation for the smoking ban, but that hadn't stopped him.
Corey Keilin, a patron of Gamekeepers, said he had given much thought to the major reform looming on the horizon. His plan:
"I'm going to buy more warm gloves and hats," he said as he took a drag off a Camel Light.
But Aaron Lipman, a friend sitting to Keilin's right, leaned over and said, "You could also quit, Corey."
Keilin shook his head. He wasn't ready.
Like many non-smokers, Lipman hates inhaling smoke in bars and restaurants. He was eager for Jan. 1 to arrive.
"I'm not counting down," he said, "but I'm looking forward to seeing Corey standing out in the cold."
State Journal-Register
Our Opinion: Health wins out over smoking
Sunday, December 02, 2007
IT'S PROBABLY not often enough that Springfield is this far ahead of the curve, but indeed that is the position we find ourselves when it comes to smoking bans. In fact, our humble city is the poster child for smoking bans as the state of Illinois prepares to roll out the statewide ban on Jan. 1.
We suspect this could be one of the smokiest New Year's Eves ever in bars where smoking is still allowed. But in Springfield it will just be another blissful night of clean air. A year ago September, a smoking ban went into effect for Springfield and unincorporated areas of Sangamon County.
During the months of debate over the ban, few topics elicited as much comment. Our Opinion pages were filled with letters arguing for and against the ban. Angry bar owners showed up at city hall to fight the ban. Health advocates showed up too, pointing out the hazards of secondhand smoke and the fact that many other cities, counties and even states had instituted smoking bans without disastrous financial results.
IN THE END, health won out both in Springfield and, as of New Year's Day, in Illinois. Many people have probably put the ban out of their minds up to this point. Some do not even know the new law is about to take place. But they soon will.
The brouhaha over the smoking ban has definitely died down in Springfield. And even though the new statewide smoking ban is less than a month away, the noisy debates and complaining of the past are nowhere to be found. Chances are things will get a bit noisier over the next month.
A media blitz will occur over the next few weeks to remind people that come Jan. 1 they will no longer be able to light up in just about any public place, including restaurants and bars. As this campaign picks up, so will all the old arguments and complaints we've already heard.
One of the most persistent arguments is that a smoking ban in public places is bad for business - especially for bars and restaurants. Predictions of businesses failing due to the Springfield ban were certainly common prior to its passage.
The American Cancer Society and other groups lobbying for the smoking bans have long pointed to studies showing that smoking bans are not the death of business. "More than 20 independent studies show smoke-free laws have a neutral or positive impact on the hospitality industry," says an American Cancer Society fact sheet.
And now the Cancer Society has Springfield to point to as well. A year after the local ban went into effect, SJ-R reporter Chris Wetterich compiled a report demonstrating that Springfield's tax revenue from bars and restaurants has grown vigorously. In the two quarters after the ban was enacted, city tax revenue from restaurants grew twice as fast as before the ban.
FACTS, HOWEVER, can't always counter emotions - and the smoking ban is a very emotional issue. Yet if Springfield is any indication, the emotional arguing will fade fairly quickly as people adapt to the new law.
While we will never convince some smokers, the law certainly will prove worthwhile. There is a reason Illinois is joined by 22 other states in banning smoking in public places. Secondhand smoke kills people - in many cases people who wisely chose not to smoke themselves. The Cancer Society says for every eight smokers who die from tobacco use, one nonsmoker dies from exposure to secondhand smoke. That works out to 2,900 deaths annually in Illinois and 65,000 nationwide.
That, above all else, is why on Jan. 1 you will no longer be able to pollute the indoor air with tobacco smoke.
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A smoking ban takes effect across the state of Illinois on January 1st. Now, thirty second PSA's are roaming the Metro's airwaves. They show bar owners collecting ashtrays and people using them as tip jars, hockey pucks, and Christmas decorations. Over the air, the commercials roll as a reminder that cleaner air is headed to every public place in Illinois.
"What we have found in other states with the implementation of smoke free laws is it takes a lot of education," says oncologist and American Cancer Society Metro East President Dr. James Piephoff. "Becasue a lot of the general public just isn't aware of it."
But bar owners certainly are aware.
"It's like d-day for a lot of us."
Ray Morales is one of many Illinois tavern owners expecting that the New Year will be far from prosperous.
"A lot of people are really sweating," says the Vice President of the Madison County Tavern Owners Association. "They are really worried about what is going to happen to their business."
The 30 second spots and billboards are not only to remind people that Illinois will be smoke free in public places but also to educate all on the health threat second hand smoke can pose. The law is to protect employees from second hand smoke. That argument is especially maddening for Marilyn Maul because she says every one of her employees at Porky's in Wood River is a smoker.
"In my case they can't go out and serve on the patio because of the smoke," argues Maul, "but they can go out there and join them five minutes after the fact with their cigarette."
While some cigarette machines can stay, matches and ashtrays must go. But Morales with the Tavern Owners Association says keep them in storage. Bar owners across the metro east hope ashtrays won't collect much dust because the fight isn't over.
"It's definitely not over." says Morales. "Its something that we will continue to fight and hopefully government will see that local areas are affected by it local revenues are down."
The only thing Dr. Piephoff hopes and expects to see go down: the number of patients he has treat.
"I'd love to be out of a job and not have to treat people for cancer."
Quad Cities Online
Businesses prepare for Illinois smoking ban to take effect
By Jonathan Turner, firstname.lastname@example.com
At 12:01 a.m. on Jan. 1, the height of New Year's Eve revelry, Illinois' new public smoking ban will take effect.
The Land of Lincoln will join 25 other states that already prohibit indoor smoking in every workplace, including bars and restaurants. Iowa does not have such a public smoking ban.
Jan. 1 is a "historic milestone in the cancer fight in Illinois," said Dr. Clement Rose, president of the American Cancer Society (ACS), Illinois Division. "By reducing exposure to secondhand smoke, we will reduce cancer diagnoses and deaths. The American Cancer Society is proud to have led the charge for a smoke-free Illinois."
The ACS, and other public-health groups, will host a series of public information sessions throughout the state on what businesses and individuals must do to comply with the smoking ban.
A statewide advertising campaign has started to build public awareness. It consists of lighthearted ads on television, radio and billboards through January, reminding viewers that the law is coming while suggesting creative new uses for all the soon-to-be unnecessary ashtrays.
As for the New Year's enforcement, Rock Island police chief John Wright favors a "grace period," to allow businesses time to deal with the law. He said Moline is planning a grace period of a month before enforcing the ban.
"We will start enforcement by complaint only," Chief Wright said. "It's the responsibility of business owners to police themselves."
Individuals and businesses found in violation of the law will face fines of $100 to $2,500.
According to the law, smoking will be allowed in:
-- Private homes, except when used as a child care, adult day care, health-care facility or any other home-based business open to the public.
-- Retail tobacco stores that derive more than 80 percent of their gross revenue from tobacco-related products and accessories.
-- Private and semi-private rooms in nursing homes and long-term care facilities occupied by smokers, who have asked to be in a room where smoking is permitted.
-- Hotel rooms rented to guests and designated as smoking rooms, provided that the smoking rooms are contiguous and smoke from the rooms must not infiltrate non-smoking areas. Not more than 25 percent of rooms in a hotel may be designated as smoking.
Bars and restaurants upset with the potential loss of smoking customers can take solace in the fact that outdoor patios can offer an on-site alternative for smokers.
According to Illinois Department of Public Health draft rules, which aren't expected to be approved until Dec. 11, these smoking-permitted areas must:
-- Be at least 15 feet from building entrances, exits, windows and ventilation intakes.
-- Be contiguous with the workplace or public place and controlled by the proprietor.
-- Have at least one side that consists of open space, permeable material, or a combination thereof.
-- Have no overhead covering if it consists of four non-permeable walls, or a covering consisting of permeable material and/or open space.
The outdoor patio option is one reason David O'Keefe is building a partially open, heated gazebo next to his sports pub, O'Keefe's, at 1331 5th Ave., Moline.
There is an existing deck next to the 1,000-square-foot bar, but it would not meet the "15-foot-rule" for outdoor smokers, he said recently.
"They're punishing all the bars because restaurants never made real non-smoking sections," Mr. O'Keefe said of the new law. "People don't want to smell smoke when they eat."
The statewide ban should have followed the lead of Chicago's similar ban (which was to take effect July 1, 2008), he said. That granted an exception to businesses that had 65 percent or more of total sales in alcohol.
Several areas in Illinois, including Springfield and DuPage counties, also have had smoking bans.
While many Illinois Q-C bars are worried about losing business to the Iowa side, Mr. O'Keefe doesn't think he will lose regular customers.
"What we've seen in other communities, other states is, other folks came out (to smoke-free businesses) that maybe didn't come out in the past because they didn't enjoy a smokey environment," said Rick Baker, head of the Illinois Quad City Chamber of Commerce.
"I think we can look for opportunities that Illinois is smoke-free, to capitalize on those opportunities," he said.
"More and more restaurants already have adopted the smoke-free environment," Mr. Baker said. "There's always times when you have to get used to change. Some businesses are concerned how it will impact them."
"We've got mixed emotions about it," said Ron Wicks, president of Rock Island Boatworks, which operates Casino Rock Island. Casinos in the state lobbied to be exempt from the ban.
"A bigger part of the public just doesn't want to be in a smoking environment," Mr. Wicks said. The number of smokers at Casino Rock Island has been "going down dramatically," and is now about 20 percent of patrons, he said.
Because the casino is building a new $150 million complex, Mr. Wicks and his team are planning a patio for smokers at the new site, which is scheduled to open in early 2009 at the intersection of I-280 and Illinois 92.
"It's a change in behavior people will have to go through," said Alan Carmen, a Rock Island city employee working with city and business leaders on the transition.
Studies have found that at first most bars and restaurants saw a drop in business with a ban, but "they found in the longer term, it comes back and comes back strong," Mr. Carmen said.
For more information
On Jan. 1, the state of Illinois will have a toll-free number, (866) 973-4646, and Web site, www.smoke-free.illinois.gov, for more information or to make a complaint about smoking violations.
The Web site will include downloadable signs for businesses. The law requires signs posted at every entrance, not only with the international "No Smoking" symbol, but with the state phone number and Web site address. All ashtrays must be removed by Jan. 1.
The American Cancer Society campaign will include educational sessions for business owners, dissemination of educational materials, and partnerships with local health departments and law enforcement officials.
The ACS and Rock Island County Health Department will make a presentation on Smoke-Free Illinois at the Illinois Quad City Chamber of Commerce breakfast meeting at 7:30 a.m. Wednesday, Dec. 19.
For more information on the state law, visit the ACS Web site at www.smokefreeillinois.net.
WEEK-TV, Peoria
http://www.week.com/news/local/11987381.html...Meanwhile, Smokefree Preparations Continue.
Story Published: Nov 30, 2007 at 9:55 PM CST
By WEEK Producer
Illinois is just one month away from the statewide smoking ban.
The Peoria City/County Health Administrator says the Illinois Department of Health has yet to finalize the guidelines for the ban...including whether doorways to beer gardens are considered "entrances" where smoking is not allowed within 15 feet.
In the meantime, there will be a local focus on education.
The Peoria Health Department and the American Cancer Society are joining forces to raise awareness about the Smoke Free Illinois Act.
The plan is to talk to area leaders and business owners about their responsibilities as well as enforcement and penalties.
"We're trying to get everybody used to the fact that when this does happen January first, people will be more informed when the go into restaurants and public places," Peoria City-County Health Administrator Andrea Parker.
The American Cancer Association will present its Smoke Free Illinois education campaign before the Peoria City Council in about two weeks.


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This is fun. With a big, springy gospel / soul / rock beat, a chorus full of come-ons and a verse full of itself, Pharoahe Monche marks his shift from the rock club friendly, intimidating grr-man-hop of 'Got You' and 'Simon Says' to indie night friendly, inviting girly-man pop.
And fun's all well and good, but where 'Simon Says' was a bit better at what it did than Cypress Hill, this is a little bit less good than Outkast. It grates a little in the first verse whilst claiming a "ridiculous flow" that bears so much of a resemblance to Jay-Z's guest rap on 'Crazy In Love', but it's all fun and fucked and twisty and shouting for you to dance.
As far as anything more 'significant' goes, it's tempting to see the Martin Luther King quotes in some of the lyrics, in the context of a black man dressing up as Elvis (literally in the video, sonically in his goofy vibrato on the chorus), as an interesting look at racial identity. But given that most of the lines are more simply about how good he is at rapping, such depth-searching leaves more a feeling of an opportunity wasted than any thoughts stirring.
But really, who gives a fuck? If you consider yourself to have an arse, and it doesn't shake at least once during a listen to this, you should totally check that it is an arse, and not, like, a bit of your shoulder that's just slipped down there. Seriously, watch out for that.
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Push, Let's Go and Desire were also great singles (probably better than body baby) - but damn he's dragged out the album release.
that part of the first verse
is supposed to sound like jay-z (he even says "takeover"). thats the idea. nothing else in the entire song sounds anything like jay-z.
paragraph about racial identity gave me a laugh though, thanks. was that the idea


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Scott Rains has kayaked in Alaska's Glacier Bay, trekked through South Africa and India, and visited Guatemala and New Zealand. He also happens to be a quadriplegic, a fact the 56-year-old campus minister from San Jose, California, hasn't allowed to interfere with an ambitious travel schedule.
Rains has noticed something interesting lately. Other folks his age—the 76 million Americans born between 1946 and 1964 and referred to as the baby boom generation—have begun to see things his way.
America's cities are beginning to grapple with a fact of life: People are getting old fast, and they're doing it in communities designed for the sprightly.
To envision how this silver tsunami will challenge a youth-oriented society, just consider that seniors soon will outnumber schoolchildren in hip, fast-paced New York City.
It will take some creative steps to make New York and other cities age-friendly enough to help the coming crush of older adults stay active and independent in their own homes.
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We Must Get Justice For Ramarley Graham
In February of 2000, four N.Y.C. police officers were acquitted of all charges in the death of Amadou Diallo, an immigrant from Guinea who was shot 41 times after police thought his wallet was somehow a gun. In January of 2004, 19-year-old Timothy Stansbury was shot and killed by an NYPD officer patrolling the rooftop near his building who said he
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Class of 2013: Courage, Choice and Compassion
"Raise your eyes now, and look from the place where you are…for all the land that you see I will give to you." Genesis 13: 14-15
University commencement season is a time of high hopes and great celebration. I was again reminded of that when I delivered the commencement address at Huston-Tillotson (HT) University in Austin, Texas. This coming weekend, I will also speak during graduation ceremonies at Tuskegee University and Alcorn State.
Perhaps best known as the university where Jackie Robinson served as athletic director and basketball coach before he set out to break the color barrier in baseball, Huston-Tillotson is the oldest Historically Black College and University (HBCU) west of the Mississippi. For 137 years, it has opened doors of educational opportunity that might have otherwise been closed to many African American students. The enthusiasm and optimism I saw in the faces of this year's HT graduates – and that I expect to see at Tuskegee and Alcorn – reaffirmed my belief that the future is indeed in good hands.
My message to the graduates was simply to make sure that in addition to emerging from college academically prepared, they should also embrace their obligation to pave the way for the next generation and leave this world better than they found it. I am all too aware that this is easier said than done. So, I also shared three key observations, or better yet life lessons, to help them navigate this next phase of their journey. I call them the three C's – courage, choice and compassion.
The class of 2013 is graduating at a pivotal moment in American history. Fifty years ago, from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. shared his passionate dream that America live up to its promise of liberty and justice for all. That same year, four little Black girls were killed by a terrorist bomb planted by the Ku Klux Klan at Birmingham's 16th Street Baptist Church, and civil rights hero Medgar Evers was assassinated in the driveway of his home in Jackson, Miss. Now 50 years later, we have witnessed the second inauguration of the nation's first Black president. As I told the HT graduates, we've come a long way baby, but we still have a long way to go.
While many of the legal impediments to equal opportunity have been eliminated over the past half-century, new challenges including voter suppression, criminal justice abuses, economic inequality and opposition to common sense gun safety legislation, have risen to take their place. All of these problems will require this generation of graduates to muster the kind of courage shown by people like Jackie Robinson, Texas Congresswoman Barbara Jordan, and National Urban Leaguer Heman Sweatt, who fought the battle to integrate the University of Texas in 1950. They each found the courage and made the choice to devote themselves to a cause greater than themselves. They each demonstrated the kind of compassion required to act beyond individual interests and clear obstacle-laden paths so that those who followed could have better opportunities. The baton is now passing to a new generation, and I have no doubt they will rise to the challenge.
The National Urban League has always engaged young people in our empowerment movement. For more than 40 years, our Black Executive Exchange Program (BEEP) has been cultivating new leaders and inspiring achievement by enabling African American students to interface and network with African American business professionals to prepare for careers in corporate America. In addition, the National Urban League Young Professionals (NULYP) engages young professionals ages 21-40 in voluntarism and philanthropy to empower their communities and change lives.
Many of today's HBCU graduates have been touched by those and similar efforts. We expect that they will use the blueprint of courage, choice and compassion summoned and shown by so many before them. We expect that they will pass it on and choose to serve.
Marc H. Morial, former mayor of New Orleans, is president and CEO of the National Urban League.
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In the overly dramatic story entitled "An Onset of Woes Raises Questions on Obama Vision," the New York Times reports that President Barack Obama has privately expressed his desire of "going Bulworth," a reference to the political comedy movie of the same name starring Warren Beatty. If you don't remember the movie, just know that it was one of m
...- Created on 17 May 2013
Al is Sharp, Ben's Not Jealous
Dudley Randall's poem, "It seems to me, said Booker T, I disagree, said W.E.B." points out an issue that has plagued Black folks for generations. During Booker T's time, some Blacks said he was working "for the man" as he tried to build an economic foundation for his people via education, industrial training, self-help, and business principles. W.E.B. DuBois said Washington's program came along "at the correct psychological moment," but he ended up being Booker T's antagonist because Black people began to choose sides. Rather than take the best of both of those giants, we succumbed to the "divide and conquer" syndrome.
In 1915, Marcus Garvey decided to come to this country to meet with Booker T., who died before Garvey's arrival. But, the naysayers and detractors soon started dividing the people again, pitting DuBois against Garvey instead of taking the best of what both offered and working toward our collective uplift.
Since then, we have seen similar scenarios played out, such as Malcolm and Martin, Stokely and Martin, Al and Jesse, Tupac/Biggie/Knight/Dogg and all that madness, Eddie Long and Al Sharpton, Smiley/West and Dyson/Harris-Perry, and the list goes on. It's not that we should agree on everything; that would create a bunch of robots. We should, however, have enough sense and knowledge of the past and the present to deal with our personal disagreements in private while moving collectively and publicly toward one goal. Could our penchant for one-ups-man-ship be attributed to another syndrome called, the "HNIC," as described in Norman Kelley's excellent book of the same name?
All the silliness, rancor, redundancy, and, yes, jealousy among our people are both unnecessary and divisive. I recall when George Bush attended the 2003 Urban League convention but dissed the NAACP's meeting. Marc Morial and Kweisi Mfume were at the helms of those two organizations, and the feathers started to fly about what George Bush did. More importantly, our folks began to take sides because Bush decided he would deal with Morial rather than the fiery Mfume.
As long as we, both individually and organizationally, are fighting one another and choosing sides, as if we are on different teams, our economic empowerment will always be an illusory, quixotic, and romanticized state of mind rather than a substantive realization.
In my hometown of Cincinnati, Ohio, our NAACP branch will be 100 years old in 2015. Under its current leadership over the past seven years, we have advanced from a fledgling 400 or so membership base and a tenuous financial position, to a 2,400 membership base and a long-term and stable financial position. We have also built strong, mutually beneficial, broad-based relationships – unprecedented in the history of this branch.
Around the first part of this year, 98 years after the founding of Cincinnati branch of the NAACP, a local chapter of the National Action Network (NAN) was established. Some say it was simply an effort to "compete" and make irrelevant the NAACP and its president, who overwhelmingly defeated his opposition candidate last November. Idiocy has prevailed since then, mainly because of a few malcontents and sore losers who "don't like" the NAACP president and are desperately trying to bring him down. At the same time, the images of our two organizations are being dragged through the mud on, of all places, a "Black" radio station. How stupid is that?
The new president of the NAN chapter has not had the common courtesy to contact the leader of the NAACP branch to explore ways to cooperate and move forward on common agenda items. Rather, he has operated under the guise of "neutrality," knowing all along that the main intentions of many of his founding members are divisiveness, rancor, adversity, and ultimate destruction of the NAACP branch – unless they can take it over. Their feeble attempts and bully tactics will not work. Still, it is sad to see a few jealous, envious, and spoiled Black folks attempt to stymy and negate the tremendous progress made in this town over the past seven years via the NAACP.
My use of Al Sharpton and Ben Jealous in the title of this article is just a generic representation of how some of our people have and continue to make Randall's W.E.B./Booker T. poem relevant today. Al and Ben may disagree on some issues, but they are not trying to tear each other down.
Our penchant for choosing sides and trying to destroy the opposite side is detrimental to our progress. Whether we like it or not, we are all on the same team; and like on any sports team, the best players are starters and the less accomplished ones are benchwarmers. Yes, some on the bench may secretly hope for the demise of a starter so they can get into the game, but at least they are not sitting there outwardly booing their own team in order to get their chance to play.
Jim Clingman, founder of the Greater Cincinnati African American Chamber of Commerce, is the nation's most prolific writer on economic empowerment for Black people. He is an adjunct professor at the University of Cincinnati and can be reached through his Web site, blackonomics.com.
- Created on 16 May 2013
Benghazi is Another Clinton Mess
The congressional hearings on May 8 may become the beginning of the end for Hillary Rodham Clinton. Three credible eye witnesses of our Benghazi consulate assault last September 11, finally got to give their accounting of it. They had been kept from the FBI, all committees of Congress, media and anyone else in the world. It was through the Whistle- Blower Program that they came to tell the real story.
As expected, when the assault began, one of them called Secretary of State Clinton and alerted her to the attack. She promised to get back to him. Then one of them called the White House asking for immediate help. The whistleblowers organized a small group of marines and security personnel at the Tripoli Embassy to fly to Benghazi and fight the identified terrorists and rescue our people at the consulate.
As they approached the waiting C-130 airplane, they were told to "stand down" (you can't go). One thing is clear: Secretary Clinton and all at the White House immediately knew that terrorists had struck our Benghazi consulate. The president of Libya soon announced to the Tripoli Embassy that Ambassador Stevens was dead. That, too, was immediately reported to the State Department. American personnel were under attack and the White House and State Department were giving them up for slaughter.
To begin their cover up, they began to blame the action on a protest about some You Tube Video. The protest was in Cairo, Egypt but never came to Libya. Our White House including President Obama and the State Department including Hillary Clinton knowingly lied to America. As a result of betraying our personnel at the consulate, four State Department officials including Ambassador Stevens were murdered. An untold number of personnel were wounded. We still don't know the names of all the wounded because they are keeping us from that portion of the truth.
At the ceremony to receive the dead bodies at Andrews Air Force Base, both President Obama and Secretary Clinton were still telling the Big Lie. Secretary Clinton even looked one of the grieving parents in the eye and said "We are going to prosecute the producer of the film." Did she think the truth would never be told? They didn't send the FBI to investigate for 18 days, causing much disturbance of the crime scene. They didn't want to know any more about this attack. The wounded were put into hiding. They even misnamed them as they entered into hospitals for treatment.
This reminds us of the past Clinton years in the White House. The White Water scandal lingered on as Hillary became a master of stalling and giving out disinformation. The Travelgate scandal, which happened as they were entering the White House, shocked us all. They just arrived and they started rigging procurement opportunities. As she was leaving the White House Hillary stole the official china, which was so tacky. This is Hillary alone. Her teacher, President Bill Clinton, taught her well. He was the master of disinformation.
Remember the Paula Jones Scandal? How about the affair with Jennifer Flowers that caused Hillary to claim it was a "Bimbo Eruption"? There were other claims of President Clinton's adulterous past which he denied each time. He would meet his demise when 19-year-old Monica Lewinsky, a White House intern, would start doing freaky things with Bill inside the Oval Office. When it was exposed, Clinton pointed fingers at the press and again denied everything. He still would be denying it if the investigators had not found his DNA (semen) on one of her dresses.
For the above, President Clinton was impeached by the House of Representatives (later pardoned by the Senate) and his law license was suspended. President Clinton became only the second president to be impeached (Andrew Johnson was first). In a fashion similar to Hillary's denial of terrorist activity, President Clinton made a terrible decision. The rogue nation of Sudan alerted the White House that they had Osama bin Laden under surveillance and could turn him over to them. They refused to accept him. Later, bin Laden would bomb our two embassies in Kenya and Tanzania – hundreds were murdered. It could have been prevented.
So this Benghazi scandal has evolved from the partnership of the Clintons and President Obama. It brings a better understanding of the trickery within the Affordable Care Act, a/k/a Obamacare. Each week we find another hidden tax in it. There is $50 billion here, $100 billion there, and it starts adding up to a big financial "train wreck." We should have never passed a bill that no one actually read. The sponsors should not have been trusted.


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The politics of English Protestantism
One of the things that becomes evident as we read through Church history is that the spread of Protestantism varies from country to country. The course of reform in Germany was different from the experience of Switzerland, and of course, things in England were quite different.
The political issues surrounding the beginning of reform in England are seen in the person of Henry VIII (1509-1547). Henry was no particular lover of reform. He was not a Lutheran. But neither was he a fan of being under the thumb of the pope. Henry's motives for allowing any kind of church reform had more to do with giving more control to the monarchy and less control to the pope. In short, Henry wanted to control the church, and not for any spiritual reasons.
Henry's older brother, Arthur, was married to Catherine of Aragon, a Spainard and a Catholic. When Arthur died, Henry married Catherine with the hopes of producing an heir. After 17 years of marriage, Henry's union with Catherine had not produced the heir he desired, so he wanted to divorce her. This proved to be problematic because Church law did not allow divorce. Henry had already gained a special dispensation from the pope to marry Catherine in the first place because she had been married to Henry's brother. To get a dispensation for a divorce was unlikely. To muddy the waters further, Catherine was the aunt of Charles V, the Holy Roman Emperor. To alienate him, and Spain along with him, could have been devastating for England.
For six years, Henry attempted to wade through the mire that constituted canon law, trying to find a way to divorce Catherine. Eventually, with the young Anne Boleyn waiting in the wings, he took a drastic step: he broke ties with Rome. This did not mean that Henry was voting against Catholicism as such; he just wanted what he wanted. As Dr. Calhoun says:
He named himself the only supreme head on earth of the Church of England. Thus he did not have to worry about the pope anymore. Whatever Henry said would be fine. So Henry VIII gave Henry VIII permission to divorce.
This did not mean that Henry was beginning what we know today as the Anglican Church. That would come later. All it meant was that Henry found a way to get what he wanted. There was still strong Roman Catholic sentiment in England. Thomas More, diligent Catholic that he was, for example, refused to give allegiance to the Act of Supremacy which installed Henry as the religious leader of the Church of England. He lost his head for that stand.
Edward was the son of Henry and Jane Seymour. He had actually came to the throne when he was only 10 years old, so he didn't really rule as such, but his protectors were of a Protestant and Reformed bent, as opposed to Lutheran, and the trend of reform took that direction. However, when Mary came to the throne, things changed once again. Mary was a staunch Catholic, married to Phillip of Spain. She was called "Bloody" because of the persecution against Protestants that took place under her rule. Mary had the Lady Jane Grey, a Protestant contender for the throne, executed prior to her taking power.
That the course of reform occurred with such pendulum-like action between Catholic and Protestant positions, undoubtedly affected the nature of its ultimate form. Had Henry been given a divorce from Catherine when he wanted it, things could very well have turned out differently. Had Edward lived longer, again things could have turned out differently. And most definitely had Mary not ruled when she did, things would have been different. Political alliances often depended on religious alliances at this point, and even a very short reign could give a ruler plenty of time to either squash reform or feed it. It was a dangerous time, as well. One had to be careful on which side he stood when a monarch took the throne or when a monarch died or perhaps was executed. Even when Elizabeth I came to power after Mary died, there were many Catholic sympathizers who would have liked to see her dead and a Catholic Stuart put on the throne. Of course, that is what eventually happened, but not until Elizabeth ruled successfully for 45 years, and by then, England was not only growing in political and military power, the tide had turned in the Protestant direction, thanks to Elizabeth's efforts in that direction.


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Sharm El-Sheikh 2012 (FSX + FS2004)
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