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FRHSD Adds 4 Days to Calendar Due to Sandy
As of now the state will not consider waiving the 180 school day requirement.
The Freehold Regional High School District Board of Education approved a revised version of the 2012-2013 calendar at a special meeting Monday night which includes four additional school days. The district needs to make up these four days, which were taken off due to Hurricane Sandy, in order to comply with New Jersey's 180-day school year requirement.
"The state at this point in time is not even discussing the potential waiver of the 180-day requirement," Superintendent Charles Sampson said. Sampson said the subject was broached on a conference call with New Jersey Commissioner of Education Christopher Cerf on Thursday, in which Cerf stated that it is "too premature to have those discussions".
The original school calendar had three "inclement weather" days built in, but the extensive damage caused by Hurricane Sandy forced the district to take ten days off. Luckily, these days overlapped with some already scheduled school closures: the Election Day Professional Development Program and two days for the NJEA Convention.
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• Monday, April 1, 2013 - Easter Monday
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- Wednesday, March 27, 2013
- Tuesday, March 26, 2013
- Monday, March 25, 2013
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Additionally, the school closures have affected the district marking periods. In order to help out the teachers and the students with the loss of days in the first marking period, the first marking period has been extended to Wednesday, Nov. 28. This also allows the district to make sure that each marking period has a similar approximation of days.
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- Wednesday, February 6
- Thursday, February 7
- Friday, February 8, 2013
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Despite getting some flack for closing the district for so long, Sampson was steadfast in his decision to keep the schools closed. Manalapan High School and Freehold Township High School were without power the longest and Colts Neck High School lost power a second time after the Nor'easter struck.
"We didn't feel it was safe last week," Sampson said. "We cover 200 square miles - there were a number of blacked out traffic lights and things of that nature. And we bus 90 percent of our kids and we also have 3,000 or so 17 and 18-year-olds that drive to school and for us it was not the safe call to open schools. So, we chose not to and I'm glad we chose not to."
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1:19 pm on Tuesday, November 13, 2012
I think adding four days is a great idea and the officials at FRHSD should be commended for replacing those days lost because of the storm. I'm sure once these officials get done patting themselves on the back, they'll probably approve $15,000 bonuses for themselves.
4:09 pm on Tuesday, November 13, 2012
Not only will they approve it, but the board will all ok it as well.
7:10 pm on Tuesday, November 13, 2012
I found this article on NJ.com. I find it disturbing because it sounds like a throw-back to the days of H. James Wasser. Oh, and adding 4 more days to the calendar?? I think the superintendent should get a merit raise later on in the school year. And yes, the Board will approve it. Don't they ever say no to Mr. Sampson?
Daniel M Savino
8:02 pm on Tuesday, November 13, 2012
About time they did something good. The teachers get enough holidays and free time on us. Go one step further and postpone the teachers convention that they do not attend any way. Make them earn their pay instead of the freeloading that they do.
I know to retired teachers that nevwer went to the convention just used it as extra vacation days
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Kaitlyn Anness
11:37 pm on Tuesday, November 13, 2012
Daniel, the Teacher's Convention, usually held in Atlantic City, was canceled. It was supposed to be held last week.
12:04 pm on Thursday, November 15, 2012
@Daniel: Teachers get free time and holidays on us? DO you have any idea how hard teachers work?? You do realize that their jobs are more then just in the classroom 9-3?? That they have to do lesson plans, and grade tests, and papers, etc? ANd that those tasks are done when they are not in the classroom? You do realize that with budget cuts, all the items in their classrooms are paid for by them out of their salaries? They earn their pay, they do not freeload, and if anything they are underpaid for teaching! And no I am not a teacher, and my parents were not teachers. My mom actually wanted me to be one, but I refused since the aren't paid enough for what they do! Get real!
10:02 pm on Tuesday, November 13, 2012
So you WANT your kids to have four days less of an education??? They didn't add days on to the END of the year, so what's the big deal? I constantly hear parents complain that their kids are out of school TOO much, so at least being in school these four days will give parents the freedom they want instead of having their kids underfoot! And believe it or not, most kids LIKE being in school, so you all really have nothing to complain about.
Steve M
3:48 am on Wednesday, November 14, 2012
Daniel, my mother is a teacher and her and her coworkers go to the convention annually. And maybe you should've listened to your teachers when you were growing up, seeing you can't even correctly use homophones. Don't go around calling people freeloaders when you obviously did not use the services they provide to your full capacity. I really hope that if you have children that you've taught them to respect their teachers more than you do, and if not shame on you. Don't forget that you wouldn't be able to do anything you do in your life without having teachers growing up.
7:00 am on Wednesday, November 14, 2012
Didn't anyone read the article??? They did not choose to add 4 days, it was mandated by the state. 180 days.
8:50 am on Wednesday, November 14, 2012
Yes and no. 180 days is mandated, but what days to use as substitutes seems to have been left up to the district. So decisions were made - now add that to Sampson's performance bonus for doing his job!
10:08 pm on Wednesday, November 14, 2012
Most of you sound as if you would complain no matter what they did! I dont think they had much choice in the matter. The state madates the 180 rule so all they really did was fill holes in a schedule. Not rocket science my friends!
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Perhaps nobody in Charlton County could have used a disaster declaration as much as Kimberly and Joe Chauncey, who lived upstream from everyone else at the very end of St. Marys River Bluff Road.
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Their bluff was hit so hard, however, that one of the survey markers washed out and slid five or six feet toward the river.
The Chaunceys are living with her mother in Florida.
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Spam |
Origin | |
Place of origin | United States |
Creator(s) | Hormel Foods Corporation |
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Course | Main course |
Serving temperature | Hot or Cold |
Main ingredient(s) | Pork |
Spam is a canned precooked meat product made by the Hormel Foods Corporation, first introduced in 1937. The labeled ingredients in the classic variety of Spam are chopped pork shoulder meat, with ham meat added, salt, water, modified potato starch as a binder, and sodium nitrite as a preservative. Spam's gelatinous glaze, or aspic, forms from the cooling of meat stock.[1]
The product has become part of many jokes and urban legends about mystery meat, which has made it part of pop culture and folklore.[2] Through a Monty Python sketch, in which Spam is portrayed as ubiquitous and inescapable, its name has come to be given to electronic spam, especially spam email.[3]
In 2007, the seven billionth can of Spam was sold.[4]
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Nutritional data [edit]
Spam is typically sold in cans with a net weight of 340 grams (12 ounces). A 100-gram (3.5-ounce) serving of original Spam provides 1,300kJ (310 Calories or kilocalories), 13 grams of protein (26% DV), 3 grams of carbohydrates (1% DV), 27 grams of total fat (41% DV), including 10 grams of saturated fat (49% DV). The cholesterol content of Spam is 70 milligrams (23% DV). A serving also contains 57% of the recommended daily intake of sodium (1369 milligrams). Spam provides the following vitamins and minerals: 0% vitamin A, 1% vitamin C, 1% calcium, 5% iron, 3% magnesium, 9% potassium, 12% zinc, and 5% copper.[5][6]
Varieties [edit]
There are several different flavors of Spam products, including:
- Spam Classic – original flavor[7]
- Spam Hot & Spicy – with Tabasco flavor[7]
- Spam Jalapeño
- Spam Less Sodium – "25% less sodium"[7]
- Spam Lite – "33% less calories, 25% less sodium, and 50% less fat" – made from pork shoulder meat, ham, and mechanically separated chicken[7]
- Spam Oven Roasted Turkey[7]
- Spam Hickory Smoke flavor[7]
- Spam Spread – "if you're a spreader, not a slicer ... just like Spam Classic, but in a spreadable form"[7]
- Spam with Bacon[7]
- Spam with Cheese[7]
- Spam Garlic (see photos below)
In addition to the variety of flavors, Spam is sold in tins smaller than the twelve-ounce standard size. Spam Singles are also available, which are single sandwich-sized slices of Spam Classic or Lite, sealed in retort pouches.
International usage [edit]
As of 2003, Spam was sold in 41 countries on six continents and trademarked in over 100 countries.[8]
United States and territories [edit]
In the United States in the aftermath of World War II, a troupe of former servicewomen was assembled by Hormel Foods to promote Spam from coast to coast. The group was known as the Hormel Girls and associated the food with being patriotic. In 1948, two years after its formation, the troupe had grown to 60 women with 16 forming an orchestra. The show went on to become a radio program where the main selling point was Spam. The Hormel Girls were disbanded in 1953.[9] Spam is still quite popular in the United States, but is sometimes associated with economic hardship because of its relatively low cost.[10]
On average, each person on Guam consumes 16 tins of Spam each year and consumption is similar in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI), Hawaii, and Saipan, the CNMI's principal island. These areas have the only McDonald's restaurants that feature Spam on the menu. Spam was introduced into the aforementioned areas, in addition to other islands in the Pacific such as Okinawa and the Philippine Islands, during the U.S. military occupation after World War II. Since fresh meat was difficult to get to the soldiers on the front, World War II saw the largest use of Spam when it was served for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. (Some soldiers referred to Spam as "ham that didn't pass its physical" and "meatloaf without basic training".)[11] Soldiers commonly referred to Spam as "Special Army Meat" due to its introduction during the war. Surpluses of Spam from the soldiers' supplies made their way into native diets. Consequently, Spam is a unique part of the history and effects of U.S. influence in the Pacific.[12]
The residents of the state of Hawaii consume the most Spam per capita in the United States. Hawaiian Burger King restaurants began serving Spam in 2007 to compete with the local McDonald's chains.[13][14] In Hawaii, Spam is so popular it is sometimes referred to as "The Hawaiian Steak".[15] One popular Spam dish in Hawaii is Spam musubi, where cooked Spam is combined with rice and nori seaweed and classified as onigiri.[16]
The perception of Spam in Hawaii is very different from that on the mainland. Despite the large number of mainlanders who consume Spam, and the various recipes that have been made from it, Spam, along with most canned food, is often stigmatized on the mainland as "poor people's food". In Hawaii, similar canned meat products such as Treet are considered cheaper versions of canned meat than Spam. This is a result of Spam having the initial market share and its name sounding more convincing to consumers.[17]
In these locales, varieties of Spam unavailable in other markets are sold. These include Honey Spam, Spam with Bacon, and Hot and Spicy Spam.[12]
In the CNMI, lawyers from Hormel have threatened legal action against the local press for running articles decrying the ill-effects of high Spam consumption on the health of the local population.[18][19]
Spam that is sold in North America, South America, and Australia is produced in Austin, Minnesota (also known as "Spam Town USA") and in Fremont, Nebraska. Austin, Minnesota has a restaurant with a menu devoted exclusively to Spam, called "Johnny's SPAMarama Menu".[20]
In 1963, Spam was introduced to various private and public schools in South Florida as cheap food and even for art sculptures. Due to the success of the introduction, Hormel Foods also introduced school "color-themed" spam. The first being a blue and green variety which is still traditionally used in some private schools of South Florida. [21]
In 1992, SPAM Lite was introduced, and in 2001, SPAM Oven Roasted TURKEY was introduced.
United Kingdom [edit]
In the United Kingdom, Spam is often sliced, battered and deep-fried into 'Spam fritters'. It was common in the 1940s, during World War II, as a consequence of rationing and the Lend-Lease Act, when Hormel began to increase production for British and Russian markets.[22]
After World War II, Newforge Foods, part of the Fitch Lovell group, was awarded the license to produce the product in the UK (doing so at its Gateacre factory, Liverpool),[23] where it stayed until production switched to the Danish Crown Group (owners of the Tulip Food Company)[24] in 1998, forcing the closure of the Liverpool factory and the loss of 140 jobs.[25] By the early 1970s the name Spam was often misused to describe any tinned meat product containing pork, such as pork luncheon meat.
The image of Spam as a low cost meat product gave rise to the Scottish colloquial term "Spam valley" to describe certain affluent housing areas where residents appear to be wealthy but in reality may be living at poverty levels.[26]
Asia [edit]
In China, Spam is an increasingly popular food item, and often used in sandwiches. Hormel has had a joint-venture in Shanghai for 16 years which has been highly successful in promoting Spam.[27] In 2005, its Chinese division was one of the most profitable parts of the company.[28] This development is due, in part, to the increasing per capita income in Shanghai, coupled with the expansion of their food diet toward more meat.
In Okinawa, Japan, the product is added into onigiri alongside eggs, used as a staple ingredient in the traditional Okinawan dish chanpurū, and a Spam burger is sold by local fast food chain Jef.[29]
In Hong Kong, Spam is commonly served with instant noodles and fried eggs, and is a popular item in cha chaan teng. Spam is less popular than Ma Ling Meats, its main competitor in the Hong Kong processed meat market, although recent controversies surrounding high salt content in Ma Ling products may allow Spam to gain market share.[30]
In the Philippines, Spam may be eaten with fried rice and eggs or as a sandwich with pandesal. It is often eaten for breakfast. During the rescue efforts after Typhoon Ondoy (Ketsana) in 2009, Hormel Foods donated over 30,000 pounds of Spam to the Philippine National Red Cross.[31]
In South Korea, Spam (Hangul: 스팸; RR: seupaem) is popular in households as an accompaniment to rice. A local television advertisement claims that it is the tastiest when consumed with white rice and gim (laver seaweed used for some types of handrolls). Spam products currently being sold in Korea are made with more high-quality ingredients than other countries as Korean manufacturer took advantage of the name which gained its popularity during and after Korean War as a smuggled or leaked ration and improved it over time as the country became richer. Because of this, Spam in Korea tastes different from the ones sold in other countries, and is a relatively expensive product compared to its competitors in Korea. Spam is also an original ingredient in budae jjigae ("army base stew"), a spicy stew with different types of preserved meat.[32]
Spam and similar meat preserves can be bought in gift sets that may contain nothing but the meat preserve[33] or include other products such as food oil or tuna. When invited to another person's home, guests may present their hosts with such a set, or with other food gifts such as fresh fruit, beverages or tteok.
The surfeit of Spam in both North and South Korea during the Korean War led to the establishment of the Spam kimbap (rice and vegetable filled seaweed roll). Because of a scarcity of fish and other traditional kimbap products such as kimchi or fermented cabbage, Spam was added to a rice roll with kimchi and cucumber and wrapped in seaweed. Spam was also used by US soldiers in Korea as a means of trading for items, services or information around their bases. Spam is also remarkably popular to a majority of the population, and outranks Coca-Cola and KFC in status as a foodstuff.[34]
In Israel, a kosher variant of Spam, known as Loof (Hebrew: לוף, distortion of meatloaf), was produced by Richard Levi, and mostly used as part of field rations by the Israel Defense Forces. A Glatt kosher version was also produced. It was phased out of field rations during the early 2000s and was finally removed from rations when production ceased in 2009.[35]
Spam celebrations [edit]
Spam is celebrated in Austin, Minnesota, home to the Spam Museum. The museum tells the history of the Hormel company, the origin of Spam and its place in world culture. Austin is also the location of final judging in the national Spam recipe competition. Competing recipes are collected from winning submissions at the top forty state fairs in the nation.[36]
Hawaii holds an annual Spam Jam in Waikiki during the last week of April.[37] The small town of Shady Cove, Oregon is home to the annual Spam Parade and Festival, with the city allocating US$1,500 for it.[38]
Spamarama was a yearly festival held around April Fool's Day in Austin, Texas. The theme of Spamarama was gentle parody of Spam, rather than straightforward celebration: the event at the heart of the festival was a Spam cook-off that originated as a challenge to produce the most appetizing recipe for the meat. The festival included light sporting activities and musical acts, in addition to the cook-off.[39]
See also [edit]
- Advanced meat recovery methods
- Breakfast food
- Meat by-product
- Pickled foods
- Potted meat food product
- Spam (Monty Python)
- Spam (song)
- Spamarama
- Tushonka
- Treet
References [edit]
- ^ Campbell, Belinda; Clapton, Barbara; Tipton, Catherine (2002). Food Technology. Heinemann. p. 20.
- ^ Jones, Lisa (October 2006). Men's Health. Rodale Inc. p. 132.
- ^ "RFC 2635 - DON\x27T SPEW A Set of Guidelines for Mass Unsolicited Mailings and Postings (spam*):". Retrieved 2010-09-29.
- ^ "SPAM Brand History". spam.com. Retrieved October 22, 2009.
- ^ "Spam Nutrition Data".
- ^ "Nutritional Facts and Analysis for Spam".
- ^ a b c d e f g h i "SPAM© Products"
- ^ Hormel Foods (2010). "Spam – Postwar Popularity". Hormel Foods Corporation.
- ^ Danelle D. Keck, Jill M. Sullivan (2007). "The Hormel Girls, American Music, Vol. 25, No. 3 (Fall, 2007), pp. 282–311". University of Illinois Press. Retrieved September 23, 2010.
- ^ Martin, Andrew (November 15, 2008). "Spam Turns Serious and Hormel Turns Out More". The New York Times. Retrieved May 23, 2010.
- ^ American Eats, History Channel Programme
- ^ a b Song, Jaymes (June 11, 2007). "Burger giants wage Spam war". Toronto: The Star.
- ^ "Burger King to Serve Spam in Hawaii".
- ^ Huppert, Boyd (May 17, 2007). "Land of 10,000 Stories — Spam in Paradise". KARE11 News.
- ^ "The Spam That Isn't Via E-Mail". The New York Times. April 7, 2003. Retrieved December 28, 2007.
- ^ "Spam — Hawaiian Spam Musubi".
- ^ Lovegren, Sylvia (2005). Fashionable food: seven decades of food fads. United States: University of Chicago Press. p. 190. ISBN 978-0-226-49407-4. Retrieved December 13, 2010.
- ^ "Organic smoke (and mirrors)". Saipan Tribune. July 21, 2006. Retrieved June 21, 2009.
- ^ "A junkie waiting to happen". Saipan Tribune. July 14, 2006. Retrieved June 21, 2009.
- ^ "Spam Turns Serious and Hormel Turns Out More",, NYTimes, Nov 14, 2008, http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/15/business/15spam.html?_r=1
- ^ http://www.thehormelfoundation.com/history.asp
- ^ Atkins, Annette (2008). Creating Minnesota: A History From the Inside Out. Minnesota: Minnesota Historical Society. p. 194. ISBN 978-0-87351-633-4. Retrieved December 13, 2010.
- ^ The story of Fitch Lovell Ambrose Keevil Phillimore Press 1972 ISBN 978-0-85033-074-8
- ^ "Tulip Food Company". english.tulip.dk. Retrieved June 21, 2009.
- ^ Oborne, Peter. "Spam firm faces closure after serving its last slice". The Daily Telegraph (London). Retrieved June 21, 2009.[dead link]
- ^ Hardill, Irene; Graham, David; Kofman, Eleonore (2001). Human geography of the UK: an introduction. London: Routledge. pp. 96–97. ISBN 978-0-415-21426-1. Retrieved December 13, 2010.
- ^ Minter, Adam (September 10, 2010). "Pawlenty in Shanghai: What's at stake for Minnesota?". Minnpost.com. Retrieved June 14, 2011.
- ^ "USA: Hormel Foods earnings rise for Q4, year". Justfood.com. November 24, 2005. Retrieved June 14, 2011.
- ^ Sieg, Linda (March 12, 2008). "Okinawa cuisine: tofu, Spam and root beer". Reuters. Retrieved September 24, 2010.
- ^ "Lunch meat menace sparks heart warning". Beatrice Siu (The Hong Kong Standard). April 16, 2010. Retrieved September 24, 2010.
- ^ "Hormel Foods Announces Donation to Philippines". Webwire.com editorial staff. October 8, 2009. Retrieved September 24, 2010.
- ^ Walraven, Boudewijn; Breuker, Remco E. (2007). Korea in the middle: Korean studies and area studies : essays in honour of Boudewijn Walraven. Leiden: CNWS Publications. pp. 255–257. ISBN 978-90-5789-153-3. Retrieved December 13, 2010.
- ^ Image of a ? Spam gift set
- ^ Lewis, George H. (2004). "From Minnesota Fat to Seoul Food: Spam in America and the Pacific Rim". The Journal of Popular Culture, volume 34, issue 2., [1]
- ^ "הצדעה ללוף, שייצורו הופסק באחרונה בישראל" [Salute for Loof, production of which was recently ceased in Israel]. mouse.co.il. Retrieved September 19, 2010.
- ^ Garber, Anne; Keyes, John (September 15, 2010). "Wham, bam, thank you Spam". The Vancouver Courier. Retrieved September 25, 2010.
- ^ Hormel Foods (2010). "Spam Jam Waikiki 2010". Hormel Foods Corporation. Retrieved December 13, 2010.
- ^ Pitto, Christy (December 7, 2010). "Shady Cove issues- riparian, event insurance and liability". Upper Rogue Independent. Retrieved December 13, 2010.
- ^ "Spamarama website". Retrieved August 11, 2006.
External links [edit]
Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Spam |
- The official Spam web site
- Spam – The Official UK website
- The Book of Spam
- More Spam Recipes
- Saving 'Spam:' Hormel's Fight to Protect Its Famous Product's Name According to ABC News, Hormel is involved in a multi-million dollar trademark dispute with Spam Arrest, a company that blocks obnoxious emails.
- Spam Again: Spam in WWII
- Connolly, Kevin (December 26, 2010). "How the US cemented its worldwide influence with Spam". BBC News online.


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Joseph Rotblat
Joseph Rotblat KCMG CBE FRS | |
ID badge photo from Los Alamos National Laboratory, 1944 |
Born | Józef Rotblat 4 November 1908 Warsaw, Poland |
Died | 31 August 2005 London, United Kingdom |
(aged 96)
Residence |
Nationality | Polish |
Fields | Physics |
Institutions |
Alma mater |
Known for |
Notable awards |
Spouse | Tola Rotblat |
Sir Joseph Rotblat[1][2] KCMG CBE FRS (4 November 1908 – 31 August 2005), born Józef Rotblat, was a Polish-born British-naturalised physicist.
His work on nuclear fallout was a major contribution to the agreement of the Partial Test Ban Treaty. A signatory of the Russell–Einstein Manifesto, he was secretary general of the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs from its founding until 1973. In conjunction with the Pugwash Conferences, he received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1995 for their efforts towards nuclear disarmament.[3]
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Early life and education [edit]
Józef Rotblat was born to a Jewish family in Warsaw, Poland, on November 4, 1908, as one of seven children (two of whom did not survive childbirth.) His father Zygmunt built up and ran a nationwide horse-drawn carriage business, owned land and bred horses. Józef's early years were spent in what was a prosperous household but circumstances changed at the outbreak of World War I. Borders were closed and horses requisitioned, leading to the failure of the business and poverty of their family. Despite having a religious background, he later on became an agnostic.[4]
After the end of World War I, he worked as a domestic electrician in Warsaw and had a growing ambition to become a physicist. Without formal education he won a place in the physics department of the Free University of Poland, gaining an MA in 1932 and Doctor of Physics, University of Warsaw in 1938. He held the position of Research Fellow in the Radiation Laboratory of the Scientific Society of Warsaw and became assistant Director of the Atomic Physics Institute of the Free University of Poland in 1937. During this period, he married a literature student, Tola Gryn, whom he had met in 1930.
Before the outbreak of World War II, he had conducted experiments which showed that in the fission process, neutrons were emitted. In early 1939 he envisaged that a large number of fissions could occur and if this happened within a sufficiently short time, then considerable amounts of energy could be released. He went on to calculate that this process could occur in less than a microsecond, and as a consequence would result in an explosion.
Also in 1939, he was invited to study in Paris (through Polish connections with Marie Curie) and under James Chadwick at Liverpool University, winner of the Nobel Prize for the discovery of the neutron. Chadwick was building a particle accelerator called a 'cyclotron' to study fundamental nuclear reactions, and Rotblat wanted to build a similar machine in Warsaw, so he decided to join Chadwick in Liverpool. He travelled to England alone because he could not afford to support his wife there.
Before long, Chadwick gave Rotblat a fellowship (the Oliver Lodge Fellowship), doubling his income, and in that summer of 1939 the young Pole returned home, intending to bring Tola back with him. When the time came to leave Warsaw in late August, however, she was ill and remained behind, expecting to follow within days, but the outbreak of war brought calamity. Tola was trapped, and all of Joseph's desperate efforts in the ensuing months to bring her out through Belgium, Denmark or Italy came to nothing, as each country in turn was closed off by the war. She later perished in the Holocaust in Majdanek concentration camp and Rotblat never saw her again. This affected him deeply for the rest of his life and he never remarried.[5]
Manhattan Project [edit]
While still in Poland, Rotblat had realised that his work could be used to produce a bomb. He first thought that he should "put the whole thing out of my mind",[6] but with the rise of Nazi Germany he continued because he thought the only way to prevent Nazi Germany from using a nuclear bomb was if Britain had one to act as a deterrent. After the start of the war, he started working explicitly with Chadwick on bomb work.[6]
Early in 1944 Rotblat went with James Chadwick's group to work on the Manhattan Project to build the first atomic bombs. The usual condition for people to work on the Manhattan Project was that they had to become U.S. citizens or British subjects. Rotblat declined and the condition was waived.[7] He continued to have strong reservations about the use of science to develop such a devastating weapon and was shocked in March 1944, at a private dinner at the Chadwick's, to hear Leslie Groves say "Of course, the real purpose in making the bomb was to subdue the Soviets".[6] By the end of 1944 it was also apparent that Germany had abandoned the development of its own bomb and Rotblat asked to leave the project. Chadwick was then shown a security dossier in which Rotblat was accused of being a Soviet spy and that, having learnt to fly at Los Alamos, he was suspected of wanting to join the Royal Air Force so that he could fly to Poland and defect to the Soviet Union.[8][9][10] In addition, he was accused of visiting someone in Santa Fe and leaving them a blank cheque to finance the formation of a communist cell.[6]
In fact, Rotblat was able to show that much of the information within the dossier had been fabricated.[6] In addition, FBI records show that in 1950, Rotblat's friend in Santa Fe was tracked down in California, and she flatly denied the story: in fact, the cheque had never been cashed and had been left to pay for items not available in the U.K. during the war. In reminiscences from 1985 Rotblat tells how a box containing "all my documents" went missing on a train ride from Washington D.C. to New York as he was leaving the country,[11] but the presence of large numbers of Rotblat's personal papers from Los Alamos now archived at the Churchill Archives Centre "is totally at odds with Rotblat's account of events".[12] Rotblat was not permitted to re-enter the United States until 1964.[6] He was the only physicist to leave the Manhattan Project on the grounds of conscience,[13] though others later refused to work on atomic bombs after the defeat of Japan.
Nuclear fall-out [edit]
Rotblat returned to Britain to becoume senior lecturer and acting director of research of nuclear physics at the University of Liverpool. He decided not to return to communist Poland and naturalised as a British subject[14] and was joined by his mother, sister, and one of his brothers.[15] He felt betrayed by the use of atomic weapons against Japan, and campaigned for a three-year moratorium of all atomic research.[6] Rotblat was determined that his research should have only peaceful ends, and so became interested in the medical and biological uses of radiation. In 1949, he became Professor of Physics at St Bartholomew's Hospital ("Barts"), London,[16] shortly before receiving his PhD from Liverpool in 1950. He also worked on several official bodies connected with nuclear physics, and arranged the Atom Train, a major travelling exhibition for schools on civil nuclear energy.
At St Bartholomew's, Rotblat worked on the effects of radiation on living organisms, especially on aging and fertility. This led him to an interest in nuclear fallout, especially strontium-90 and the safe limits of ionising radiation.[9] In 1955, he demonstrated that the contamination caused by the fall-out after the Castle Bravo test at Bikini Atoll nuclear test by the United States would have been far greater than that stated officially. Until then the official line had been that the growth in the strength of atomic bombs was not accompanied by an equivalent growth in radiation released. Japanese scientists who had collected data from a fishing vessel, the Lucky Dragon, which had inadvertently been exposed to fall-out, disagreed with this. Rotblat was able to deduce that the bomb had three stages and showed that the fission phase at the end of the explosion increased the amount of radioactivity by a thousand-fold. Rotblat's paper was taken up by the media and contributed to the public debate that resulted in the ending of atmospheric tests by the Partial Test Ban Treaty.
Peace work [edit]
Rotblat believed that scientists should always be concerned with the ethical consequences of their work.[17] He became one of the most prominent critics of the nuclear arms race, was the youngest signatory of the Russell-Einstein Manifesto in 1955, and chaired the press conference that launched it. After the positive coverage of the manifesto, Cyrus Eaton offered to fund the influential Pugwash Conferences. With Bertrand Russell and others he organised the first one of these in 1957 and continued to work within their framework until his death. Despite the Iron Curtain and the Cold War, he advocated establishing links between scientists from the West and East. For this reason the Pugwash conferences were viewed with suspicion. Initially, the British government viewed the conferences as little more than "Communist front gatherings".[18] However, he persuaded J. D. Cockcroft, a member of Britain's Atomic Energy Authority, to suggest who might be invited to the 1958 conference. He successfully resisted a subsequent attempt to take over the conferences,[18] causing a Foreign Office official to write that "the difficulty is to get Prof. Rotblat to pay any attention to what we think... He is no doubt jealous of his independence and scientific integrity" and that securing "a new organizer for the British delegation seems to be the first need, but I do not know if there is any hope of this". By the early 1960s the Ministry of Defence thought the Pugwash Conferences were "now a very respectable organization" and the Foreign Office stated that it had "official blessing" and that any breakthrough may well originate at such gatherings.[18] In parallel with the Pugwash Conferences, Rotblat also joined with Einstein, Oppenheimer, Russell and other concerned scientists to found the World Academy of Art and Science which was proposed by them in the mid-1950s and formally constituted in 1960. After the breakthrough of the Partial Test Ban Treaty, Rotblat was made a CBE in 1965.
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Rotblat retired from St Bartholemew's in 1976. He believed that scientists have an individual moral responsibility and, just as the Hippocratic Oath provides a code of conduct for physicians, he thought that scientists should have their own code of moral conduct, a Hippocratic Oath for Scientists. During his tenure as president of the Pugwash conferences, Rotblat nominated Israeli nuclear technician Mordechai Vanunu for the Nobel Peace Prize every year from 1988 to 2004. Vanunu had disclosed the extent of Israel's nuclear weapons programme and consequently spent 18 years in prison, including more than 11 years in solitary confinement.
Rotblat campaigned ceaselessly against nuclear weapons. In an interview shortly before the 2004 U.S. presidential election, he expressed his belief that the Russell-Einstein Manifesto still had "great relevance today, after 50 years, particularly in connection with the election of a president in the United States", and above all, with respect to the potential pre-emptive use of nuclear weapons.[19][20] Central to his view of the world were the words of the Russell-Einstein Manifesto with which he concluded his acceptance lecture for the Nobel prize in 1995:[21] "Above all, remember your humanity".
Rotblat won the Albert Einstein Peace Prize in 1992 and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1995. He was knighted a KCMG in 1998. He served as editor-in-chief of the journal Physics in Medicine and Biology and was a founding editorial board member of the Journal of Environmental Peace.[22]
Rotblat was the president of several institutions and professional associations and also a co-founder and member of the governing board of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, as well as a member of the Advisory Committee on Medical Research of the World Health Organization.
Sentiment towards Poland [edit]
Rotblat was a Polish Jew born and educated in Warsaw, then living in Britain. Until the last days of his life he could speak Polish perfectly well and emphasized his ties to Poland, saying that he is a 'Pole with a British passport'.[2]
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References [edit]
- ^ Hinde, R. A.; Finney, J. L. (2007). "Joseph (Jozef) Rotblat. 4 November 1908 -- 31 August 2005: Elected FRS 1995". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 53: 309. doi:10.1098/rsbm.2007.0023.
- ^ a b http://kalendarium.polska.pl/wydarzenia/article.htm?id=395480
- ^ Landau, S. (1996) Profile: Joseph Rotblat – From Fission Research to a Prize for Peace, Scientific American 274(1), 38-39.
- ^ A Quest for Global Peace: Rotblat and Ikeda on War, Ethics and the Nuclear Threat. I.B.Tauris. 2006. p. 94. ISBN 9781845112783. "Rotblat: "I have to admit, however, that there are really many things that I do not know. I am not a particularly religious person, and this is the reason for my agnosticism. To be an agnostic simply means that I do not know and will keep seeking the answer for eternity. This is my response to questions about religion.""
- ^ Underwood, Dr Martin (2011). "Liverpool University (1939-43)". Retrieved June 14, 2012.
- ^ a b c d e f g Irwin Abrams
- ^ [1] Obituary, The Daily Telegraph], 2 September 2005
- ^ Alan Salmon, Insight, p.15, University of Liverpool (2006)
- ^ a b Obituary, The Times, 2 September 2005.
- ^ Milne, S.; Hinde, R. (2005). "Obituary: Joseph Rotblat 1908–2005". Nature 437 (7059): 634–634. doi:10.1038/437634a. PMID 16193034.
- ^ Rotblat, Joseph (8 1985). "Leaving the Bomb Project". Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists 41: 16–19.
- ^ Underwood, Martin (2011). "Joseph Rotblat's Archive: Some Anomalies and Difficulties". AIP History Newletter 43: 5–7.
- ^ Obituary, The Guardian, 2 September 2005.
- ^ [2] Nobel Prize Curriculum Vitae
- ^ [3] Peace pledge biography
- ^ "Queen Mary, University of London Notable Alumni and Staff". Retrieved 2007-09-23.
- ^ Rotblat, J. (1999). "A Hippocratic Oath for scientists". Science 286 (5444): 1475–1475. doi:10.1126/science.286.5444.1475. PMID 10610545.
- ^ a b c The Political Rehabilitation of Józef Rotblat, Lawrence S. Wittner, George Mason's University History News Network (2005).
- ^ Interview with TheCommunity.com (2004)
- ^ [4] New Year message 2005
- ^ Nobel Prize lecture
- ^ Journal of Environmental Peace, Library of University of Toronto, Canada (International Innovation Projects).
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- Annotated Bibliography for Józef Rotblat from the Alsos Digital Library for Nuclear Issues.
- The Strangest Dream, a National Film Board of Canada film that tells Rotblat's life story.
- Interview about the Manhattan Project for the WGBH-TV series War and Peace in the Nuclear Age.
- Series 1 video interviews (recorded in 2002) with Sir Józef Rotblat by the Vega Science Trust.
- Series 2 video interview (recorded in 2005) with Sir Józef Rotblat by the Vega Science Trust.
- Nobel Committee information on Józef Rotblat
- Op-Ed: The 50-Year Shadow by Józef Rotblat, New York Times, May 17, 2005.
- Józef Rotblat – Nobel Lecture
- Man of Peace Dies: Scientist Who Turned Back on A-bomb Project The Guardian September 2, 2005.
- The papers of Józef Rotblat are currently being processed by the NCUACS, Bath, England [5][dead link]
- Interview with Józef Rotblat recorded in 2005 a few months before he died.
- Józef Rotblat: A site dedicated to his life, work, and archive, assembled by Dr Martin Underwood.
- Listen to a life story oral history interview with Sir Joseph Rotblat, recorded for National Life Stories at the British Library.
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Runners, walkers and cyclists of all levels of experience will be gathering this morning on the Ararat River Greenway behind B.H. Tharrington Primary School for the second annual Turkey Day Fun Run.
There is no set distance for the fun run, those participating just walk or run as much or as little as they are willing. A 5K course will be marked off for those who want to participate.
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On April 16, a long-time childhood dream became reality for Thomas Wright as he signed a letter of intent to play college football with Campbellsville University. Thomas, a senior at Owen County High School, has played football since fourth grade and played offensive lineman and some defensive back for the Rebel football team the last four years. He was named co-captain by his team last season. Thomas will be a freshman at Campbellsville this fall. He and his family are very excited to begin this new adventure.
The Maurice Bowling Middle School baseball team finished second in the Anderson County Middle School Showcase. The Owen County squad defeated Bondurant Middle School, Anderson County, Danville and East Jessamine to win their pool. They lost to Somerset Meese in the championship game. Pictured are (front row, from left to right) Josh Spaulding, David Gray, Grant Cobb, Kirby Young, Jason Gray, and Aaron Bihl, Back row (left to right): Mike Fitzgerald (coach), Austin Fitzgerald, Nolan Tackett, Cameron McAnally, Patrick Osborne, Trace Ogden, Grant McMillen, and Brian Young (coach).
The week for the Owen County High School baseball team got off to a great start. It ended even better. The Rebels began with wins on April 8 and 9. Owen County defeated Western Hills High School 4-1 on April 8 in Owenton. The win was the second of the season over the Wolverines. Owen County came away with a 3-2 win over Western Hills on March 15. The Rebels then headed to Shelbyville on April 9 where the Rockets were riding a 13-game winning streak.
The Owen County High School softball team doesn't want to see Gallatin County High School anytime soon. The two teams squared off twice last week and the Lady Wildcats won both times. The first meeting came April 9 when the Lady Rebels traveled to Warsaw to take on their district rivals. It was the first meeting between the schools since Gallatin County defeated Owen County 3-2 in Warsaw in the championship game of the 31st District Tournament a year ago.
The Owen County High School track teams took to the track twice last week and ran away with two-second place finishes. The teams were in action April 8 at the third-annual GOPW Gold Medal Meet at Pendleton County. The meet included teams from Walton-Verona, Pendleton County and Grant County high schools. Both the boys and the girls finished second behind the Bearcats from Walton-Verona.
The Owen County High School softball team is hoping to get back to a place they were a year ago. If they do get there, they will be looking for a better result. Owen County will be taking part in the Eighth Region All 'A' Classic this week when they take on Gallatin County Friday evening. They will get ready for the tournament by, ironically, taking on Gallatin County. The two teams were scheduled to play on Tuesday night in Warsaw.
While others spent spring break relaxing, the Owen County High School baseball team spent the week on the diamond. The Rebels played four games in four days at the Valley Invitational in Louisville. Owen County opened up the week April 1 against Bardstown. The Tigers picked up a pair of runs in the bottom of the fourth inning to take a 6-3 lead. They would tack on two more runs in the bottom of the sixth to extend the lead to 8-4 and eventually win the game by the same score. On April 2, the Rebels would take on the Bearcats from Beth Haven.
Morgan Walker, front row, second from left, signs a letter of intent to play soccer next fall at Berea College. Walker helped lead the Lady Rebels to their first ever 31st District championship in 2012. Also pictured are, back row, from left to right, are Walker's long-time coach Mike Haines; soccer coach Derrick Cleamons; Owen County High School Athletic Director TJ Wesselman; and Owen County High a Principal Duane Kline. Front row: Morgan Walker's mother Brandy Neal; Morgan Walker; her father, Tom Walker; and Berea College Soccer Coach Cary Tsamas.
HotShots - 0 vs. Team Ward - 0 The HotShots played Team Ward to a draw on Saturday with every player making improvements from the first game. Players Blaine Spencer, Eli Myers, Luke Myers and Gabi Stewart were aggressive while improving their passing skills during the game. Alexa Clifford defended well by clearing the ball down the field many times as fullback. Price Griffin stopped the ball after an attack on the goal maintaining the zero score at the second quarter.
The Owen County Judo Team took third place at the 2013 O. J. Helvey Kentucky State Judo Championship in Bowling Green on March 23. In special recognition for representation of the state of Kentucky at the national level over the course of 2012, the following awards were presented: Erroyl Cheatham Presidential Award, Robert Beverly; Fighting Spirit Award (Junior), James Thompson. Both young men were unavailable because they were competing in Miami, Fla. at the 2013 Youth Scholastics.
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Bonstra Haresign's New Construction, The Macedonian Building on Shirlington Road, brings a deeper sense of Community and a new shade of green to Nauck in Arlington.
Situated in the thick of things, the new construction just in front of the Macedonia Baptist Church on Shirlington Road will bring a deeper sense of connectedness and community to the Village of Nauck. Architect Matthew Corell of Bonstra Haresign answered a strong call for a building that could enable low income families to live in homes that are "environmentally and community responsible".
Part of Bonstra Haresign's mantra is that they are "rooted in community values and collaboration [Bonstra Haresign is] a full service architecture firm committed to design excellence and client service." They saw this community in need, and set out to achieve a building that is not only EarthCraft Certified, but also a community incubator program. Corell mentions that this 35 unit building of one and two bedroom homes isn't just a pretty new face on the Nauck Village Center map, "The Macedonian and it's big sister The Shelton (across the street) are the first two buildings to be developed according to the Nauck Village Action Plan and act as a gateway from the low-residential single family homes to the north and the soon-to-be density to the south and on down to the more developed Shirlington area." Corell and his team utilized the difficulties of the Nauck Village Action Plan (the planning and zoning for the community) to their advantage- creating a sleek, yet modest profile with some rather interesting, thoughtful touches. Note that this building is going through the rigorous EarthCraft Virginia testing to verify that the property is being built to health living standards.
From bottom to top, The Macedonian is something special for the Nauck Community. This 5 story building looks like a four story building from some angles, this is part of the zoning that provided Corell the opportunity to create something a little bit different with this building. In the first level of the building, you will find offices and "incubator" rooms for community members who are seeking to begin their own small businesses; this incubator area gives them a head start with office space to commence working on excelling. The one and two bedroom floorplans are available to families who meet specific income requirements to that they can live in a building which has been constructed to high energy efficiency and green building standards. The slight step in the building where it becomes a 4-5 story building, is an open air roof-top green space: an intricate system of sedum and other succulents called a living roof. Corell recalls this living roof would "add a center piece for the tenants and a private outdoor space that they could enjoy year round. The green roof, by LiveRoof, also has huge environmental impacts: diverting water from the local sewer system, reducing the heat gain of the building and providing an additional layer of insulation… The upper roof is also energy efficient and is called a "cool roof" due to its high albedo rating. It has minimal mechanical condensers and fans. " The living roof is just one way that his team brought a beautiful and effective way to bring energy efficiency and performance to the project.
The standards that the Bozuto Construction company took in creating the Bonstra Haresign design has been that of advanced framing techniques, high performance energy efficient insulation strategy and healthy indoor air systems through proper air sealing techniques and the utilization of a fresh air intake system for the whole property. The HVAC system is a topic that the whole design and construction team struggled with; Corell wanted a product that would allow for the fresh air intake system but would not be the typical "farm" of HVAC units on the rooftop. One of their engineers suggested the Mitsubishi unit, that they ultimately opted for after much discussion with the HVAC subcontractors who were not familiar with this type of ducted fresh air intake system. The Mitsubishi unit that they purchased is a product that is often utilized in commercial buildings, but is quite widely used in Japanese construction of all sorts. One of the many bonuses of this system is that it will "provided ducted fresh air to each unit." On the energy efficiency front, this system "will send it's cooling refrigerant to the condensers in the garage which will then convert this and send it to the west side. So instead of converting 100 degree air to 70, the Mitsubishi takes the 74 degree refrigerant and converts it to 70;" thereby reducing the conditioning needs since air will be constantly tempered. Something that, again, sets this building apart is the light colored roof designed to reflect light and keep the building cooler in the summer and warmer in the winter, as Corell referenced before regarding the "high albedo".
Not only is The Macedonian project an energy-efficient, low income, multi-family project in Arlington, but it is also a community development project. It's prime location with close proximity to 395 access, a number of ART buses and even the main S. Glebe thoroughfare, The Macedonian is a great place to kick this historic community back into high gear for its inhabitants. The incorporation of a project such as this within walking distance to the historic Drew Model School, walking distance to the Nauck Town Center and even a gentle stroll to the Village of Shirlington shops, and restaurants- is bringing new life and new opportunity to this section of the Nauck Community.


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Brilliant idea...
"One interesting inclusion is a button that switches you into RAW shooting for one frame if you are in JPEG Only or to RAW+Jpeg if you are in RAW already. It's a brilliant idea..."
Sure, and it's old too.
My 4 year old Pentax K10D has a dedicated "RAW button" -- you can actually choose whether you want it to last for one shot only or if you want it to stay on the setting you choose. To confirm, from their manual (RAW+ means RAW -- either PEF or DNG, btw -- plus JPEG):
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I don't know if they invented it either at Pentax, but sure it's old stuff in tech terms.
What will they be imitating next, Sv, TAv and in camera stabilization? :-)
If you have time to set up the shot (as in proper amature/college movies), it's perfect, a few minutes for a fixed scene, it is however a bit rubbish for dynamic unscripted scenes, IF it's in focus the quality is amazing on L glass.
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10-22mm EF-S is equivalent to 16-35mm EF, so at the low end it is fishy, but you're right, definitely worth the £300 it cost me (new, not I didn't get it in the UK, is it worth £600....?).


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Originally published in May 2012 After more than 23 years serving in the United States military, Lieutenant Colonel Chris Amaker, '89, is taking the next step in his life... and he's doing it on his own terms. "My wife and I have reached a place in our careers where we have done almost every job we ever wanted," Lt. Col. Amaker says. "It was time for us to move out and allow some of the younger guys to move up." Originally from Plainfield, New Jersey, you can picture Lt. Col. Amaker chuckle and blush when he talks about the reasons he chose to come to the University of South Carolina for his education after graduating from high school. "I wish I had some altruistic or 'light in the sky' moment for choosing USC," Lt. Col. Amaker says. "That year, USC was listed as the #3 'party school' in Sports Illustrated. I wanted to go to a big school and I wanted warm weather. Carolina fit all the bills for me." New Surroundings Lt. Col. Amaker was the first in his immediate family to go off to college, and he admits he did not have a clue initially as to what his major would be. Since he could not consult with anyone in his family about that type of choice, he went with what felt right. "My first semester, I took a psychology class, and I really liked the professor and the subject," Lt. Col. Amaker says. "I spoke to the professor after class one day and asked him what psychology was all about, and he convinced me." Initially enrolling in the Air Force ROTC program, he later switched over to Army ROTC. While that took up much of his time outside of class, he did find time to serve as a page at the South Carolina State House. Making the adjustment from living in the Northeast to the South wasn't too difficult, and there was one part of his Carolina experience that stood above the rest. "It would have to be the friends I made while at Carolina," Lt. Col. Amaker says. "The guys and girls I met were so genuine. The whole idea of 'the South being more of a caring people' is true. The weather is an obvious difference, but I also found the people of the South to be friendlier. I learned to smile more and offer my hand to say 'hello' faster." Seeing the World While Serving After earning his degree in 1989, he went straight into the military. His experience in the United States Army took him all over the world. "My first duty assignment was Korea," Lt. Col. Amaker says. "It was the first time I had been out of the United States. After Korea, I have been to Fort Jackson, SC; Fort Sam Houston, TX; Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Washington, D.C.; Fort Bragg, NC; Fort Stewart, GA; Heidelberg, Germany; and 15 months in Iraq." Lt. Col. Amaker met his wife, Bobbi, at Fort Sam Houston, Texas, back in 1993. "I am fortunate that my wife is also an active-duty Army officer, so we could typically move together with just a little prior planning," says Lt. Col. Amaker, who currently serves as a health-information manager and has had numerous jobs with the Army. "Health-information manager directors are the lynchpin between the clinical staff and administrative staff of hospitals," Lt. Col. Amaker says. "I was the HIMs director for the Army Medical Department. I managed health records, hard-copy and electronic. I set coding policy for the Army, and I performed data quality management for the Army medical department and performed data queries. If you wanted to know how many right broken arms there were in the Army, I could look at the data and tell you." "I have worked at small clinics and large medical centers," Lt. Col. Amaker continues. "I have worked as a staff officer for generals. I have sat on jury duty in Guantanamo Bay. I have commanded a clinic in the war. The Army has afforded me many opportunities." Lt. Col. Amaker says the most difficult assignment was his 15 month tour in Iraq. "I really got behind the mission we were performing, but the separation from family and my 'norm' took its toll," Lt. Col. Amaker says. "I was in one of the last units that did 15-month tours because they are so draining mentally. In Iraq, the best part was the bonding of the soldiers with each other. The worst was the deaths or injuries that I experienced. Death is a part of war, but you don't get used to it. Next to that tour, my most difficult was Fort Bragg. It was tough professionally, but also very rewarding. I worked some really long hours, and when I left that assignment, I was exhausted." In spite of some hardships, Lt. Col. Amaker explains how the ability to adapt is one of the keys to moving around to such a variety of places. "In Korea, the best part was experiencing the culture through the eyes of some locals," Lt. Col. Amaker says. "I toured the markets and ate their typical foods. The worst part was the maddening cold. It is the coldest I have ever been in my life. In fact, whenever I refer to being cold, I use Korea in my comparison: 'It's cold as Korea out there.' Though Lt. Col. Amaker describes Korea as "pretty modernized," Iraq was different, as it was a war zone. "I did have to tour a hospital 'outside the wire' while I was there," Lt. Col. Amaker says. "But that is the only interaction I really had with locals outside of those working at the camps. I was safer than others and not as safe as some. I worked in hospitals in two different locations. At one location, I felt very safe. At the other, I had to be more cautious." Following more than 23 years in the military, Lt. Col. Amaker decided it was time for the next phase of his life, so he retired from the Army and now lives with his wife in San Antonio, TX. He is ready for what civilian life has to offer and is currently weighing his opportunities for his next job. After traveling the globe in fatigues, Lt. Col. Amaker is thankful and still tries to make it back to campus each year to meet up with former classmates and fraternity brothers of Kappa Alpha Psi. "My Carolina is where I grew into a man," Lt. Col. Amaker says. "I found myself in college. I learned to prioritize what's important and how to dream of success. I learned the meaning of duty, honor, and country."
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The new action/thriller from the award-winning team at Infinity Ward delivers the most intense and cinematic action experience ever. Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare arms gamers with an arsenal of advanced and powerful modern day firepower and transports them to the most treacherous hotspots around the globe to take on a rogue enemy group threatening the world.
As both a U.S. Marine and British S.A.S soldier fighting through an unfolding story full of twists and turns, players use sophisticated technology, superior firepower and coordinated land and air strikes on a battlefield where speed, accuracy and communication are essential to victory.
This epic title also delivers an added depth of multiplayer action providing online fans an all-new community of persistence, addictive and customizable play.
About Leetmod with 35 comments by nostalgicamigo on May 13th, 2013
There are more slots for your classes (now 9!), the default classes were improved and there is support for selecting with the keyboard on all menus.
At the end of game, many statistics are presented with the best players on that category too. Finally now you can see who was the most camper!
Now you can view in-game the other players profiles and their rank and compare them to yours.
Improved configuration interface and many new menus to set the game the way you and your friends want to play it. All these menus are available in-game too! Also bots are supported in almost every map.
Now you can control maps, rotation, rules, and players on your server in-game! Very useful for server admins and also in LAN Parties because you can quickly switch anything!
There is a lot more! Check everything at the official website: www.Leetmod.pt.am
This is the latest build of RoZo that is public. Enjoy :)
Polish language, many more configuration opportunities, improvements, fixes, and reviewed jump blocks in this release.
The 1.3 update for Cuh of Duty. This fixes some bugs and adds some features. *YOU NEED CUH OF DUTY 1.2 TO PLAY THIS PROPERLY, DOWNLOAD THAT FIRST*
This is the initial release of Cuh of Duty version 1.2 This version is outdated, but it is still needed to play the updated version.
Initial release of Leetmod (mod files only). Leetmod brings many new features and fixes upon COD4 patch 1.7. Everything that was wrong, unbalanced or...
Many new dvars are added for a more unique server configuration, millions of bugs are fixed, and some new things are in this release!
Anyone know a WW2 mod for CoD4 ?
Like German soldiers for opfor soldiers etc etc...
Can somebody port this game on here to work with Linux? That would really throw Linux over the top.
can i spesk chinses?my English is too bad
Yeah united offensive was the best infact i played that until modern warfare came out but even while that was out i played it, now its kind of dead though when my dad had a internet cafe we all used to play that battlefield 1942, battlefield1942, warcraft 3 and unreal tournament 2003.
Cod 4 & cod WaW are the best of the series, because they are both better than mw2 & 3, and because cod 4 has mod support.
Wrong, call of duty 1 with United Offensive expansion was the best, but I guess you have never even heard of it
cod 2 best for me , is my first callofduty game . I remember fun and hard play **
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I liked this game when it first came out, but it eventually spawned 99.9% of the morons who made MW2 their own personal middleschool religion. And strangley I found MW2 To play a lot smoother than this, MW2 drew it's weapon damage and such off World at War, sometimes in COD4 I Couldnt even tell when I hit someone. Also stop fucking hating on Russians. I was happy to see DC Burning in MW2, But oh no Captain America and Nigel the Chav save the day in the end. Call of Duty 4 spawned a generation that's…
Jul 27 2011, 10:32am by Kastrenzo
Lowest Rated (3 agree) 3/10
The single-player is generic action movie crap, relying on explosions to keep the audience entertained. I found the gameplay very uninteresting and completely lacking in innovation, and the plot is barely existent; it's just some barely intelligible, hardly explained gibberish. The multiplayer is very unbalanced. It's got a heavy layer of RPG mechanics and item unlocks that tries to distract you from the fact that the actual gameplay isn't fun to play; "maybe it'll be fun once I unlock the next…
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Lakeland Bank reminds its customers to use caution when responding to any e-mail requesting that personal information be updated, especially when a link to a site is included in the message.
Lakeland Bank will never request personal information via e-mail, and we remind our customers to use some common techniques to identify 'phishing' attempts, including (a) the message is from an unknown name and/or e-mail address, (b) a link is provided that directs the user to an inconsistent website address, (c) the e-mail or website requests information that is contradictory to the service provided (such as entering credit card or other personal information), and (d) the appearance of the e-mail or site is inconsistent with the authentic website format.
For more information, please refer to the Lakeland Bank Privacy Policy, or contact us at firstname.lastname@example.com.
The fraudulent e-mail describes "a small client utility"—referred to as "ProBank"—that recipients are asked to install on home and business computers. The e-mail claims:
"...this utility only starts whenever an online session is opened with a Financial Institution insured by the FDIC, thus it will never interfere with any programs installed on your computer. Please help us combat fraud by installing, ProBank on any computer that is used to open an Online Banking session."
The e-mail requests that recipients click on a hyperlink that appears to be related to the FDIC, which directs recipients to an unknown executable file to be downloaded. While the FDIC is working with the United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) to determine the exact effects of the executable file, recipients should consider the intent of the software as a malicious attempt to collect personal or confidential information, some of which may be used to gain unauthorized access to on-line banking services or to conduct identity theft.
Financial institutions and consumers should NOT access the link or download the executable file provided within the body of the e-mail.
For more information on ID Theft Prevention: