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Over the next seven days, you've got some of the very best in British comedy and drama to look forward to, plus some good old-fashioned guilty pleasure television! Read on for all the details...
Alan Partridge - Welcome to the Places of My Life: Monday (June 25) at 9pm on Sky Atlantic
A-ha! Sorry, but we had to - Steve Coogan's genius comic creation Partridge is back, following an extended absence, in the first of two specials for Sky Atlantic. Norfolk's most notorious broadcaster takes us on a "Partridge pilgrimage" or "Partrimage" - acting as a tour guide around his favourite destinations. The appeal of Partridge hasn't lessened with time and Welcome to the Places of My Life is filled with some classic one-liners ("If you get The Guardian, you get a free chocolate bar." "Yes... and you also get The Guardian.") - it's good to have you back, Alan!
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Veep: Monday (June 25) at 10pm on Sky Atlantic
It's an Armando Iannucci double bill on Monday night - stay tuned once Partridge has wrapped for the series premiere of the Thick of It creator's new US political satire. Veep stars Seinfeld legend Julia Louis-Dreyfus as Selina Meyer, the somewhat unwilling Vice-President - or 'Veep' - of the United States. Iannucci's razor-sharp scripts and a strong ensemble cast - including Arrested Development's Tony Hale - ensure that the laughs keep coming thick and fast. Plus, a second season has already been confirmed, so there's plenty more to come from Meyer and co. in the future!
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If you're gutted that Silk is over, worry not - the show's Tuesday 9pm slot is being filled for the next five weeks by stylish cop thriller Line of Duty. Acclaimed Brit actor Lennie James is centre stage as corrupt detective Tony Gates, head of an elite police unit that may be manipulating facts for their own ends. James is backed by a strong cast - including This Is England's Vicky McClure, Sweet Sixteen's Martin Compston, and, in a rare dramatic role, Neil Morrissey - in this solid drama from Bodies creator Jed Mercurio.
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The courthouse in Slidell, La., had a portrait of Jesus on the wall, with the words, "To know peace, obey these laws." This put a burr under the saddle of the American Civil Liberties Union, which filed suit to have the portrait removed.
The court responded by adding portraits of Napoleon, Confucius, Hammurabi, Moses, Charlemagne, Octavian, Louis IX, John Marshall and other historical figures—plus a framed copy of the Constitution. Here's a story from Christine Harvey of The Times-Picayune in New Orleans.
Mike Johnson, a lawyer from a Christian advocacy group representing the court, said the idea was "to erect an artistic display to emphasize the importance of following the law to maintain a peaceful society."
I think Johnson has the ACLU checkmated. It's hard to argue now, it seems to me, that the courthouse display is more religious than historical—particularly since many public buildings, including he U.S. Supreme Court , contain similar art works depicting "great lawgivers of history." (The Supreme Court friezes do not include Jesus—but they do include Moses, Solomon, and Muhammad. Yes, Muhammad.)
Yes, but there is also the issue of history and intent. Does this pass the smell test?
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Jews too can be great anti-Semites. History proves that. (Not the same as Larry David whistling Wagner.) Still, this article today in Haaretz, sent to me by Paul in Barcelona, is surprising and most certainly unsettling.
The Interior Ministry said Sunday that it would consider revoking the citizenship of eight teens suspected of running a neo-Nazi cell in Petah Tikva, if they are convicted.
The suspects, aged 17 to 19, confessed to assaulting dozens of people, mainly foreign workers around Tel Aviv's central bus station and Carmel market, causing many of them serious injury. The eight were arrested a month ago, and a gag order on the arrest was lifted Saturday.
According to police, the neo-Nazi cell comprised individuals who have distant ties to Judaism and nonetheless immigrated to Israel from the former Soviet Union under the Law of Return, which grants all Jews the right to immigrate.
Government officials from the prime minister on down sound really concerned in the article that Israelis will look suspiciously at all youths from the 1990s wave of former Soviet emigration.
Superintendent Revital Almog, who was in charge of the investigation, said that the police learned that a "neo-Nazi cell was being operated in Israel by people living in Israel but believing in Nazi ideology and in Hitler."
"We discovered that besides their meetings, at which they praised Nazi ideology, they used to go out to Tel Aviv in a group to perpetrate racist attacks," Almog continued.
Almog said that the teens would deliberately select victims who they deemed too weak to complain. Most of them were foreign workers who the teenagers would attack, telling them that because they were not white, they would be harmed.
One video shows some of the teens surrounding a young Russian heroin addict, who admits he is Jewish. Later they order him to get down on his knees and beg forgiveness from the Russian people for being Jewish and a junky. They beat him mercilessly, along with another man who comes to his aid.The group was also reportedly planning to celebrate Hitler's birthday at Yad Vashem.
Everyone knows there are problems with Israel's Law of Return, which ensures that anyone with at least one Jewish grandparent can immigrate and obtain citizenship. But will a story like this be enough to incite change?
September 9, 2007 | 12:01 pm
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Talk about worlds colliding.
The LA Times this morning took note of a transsexual United Methodist minister—the former Rev. Ann Gordon, now Drew Phoenix—mentioned here in May. But an interesting twist on the story is this:
(w)hen Phoenix, 48, was reappointed to another year of ministry this spring by his bishop, it sparked a protest in the United Methodist Church.
The denomination's highest authority, the Judicial Council, will take up the case next month, deciding whether the church should accept transgender pastors. The decision will determine Phoenix's future; it could also have political implications.Presiding over the Judicial Council is Dr. James W. Holsinger Jr., President Bush's nominee for surgeon general and a longtime lay leader of the United Methodist church. Democrats have objected to Holsinger in large part because of work he has done for his church over the years.
Holsinger, whom you might remember from here and here and here, has been attacked fro the left and right because of his position on homosexuality. He wrote a 1991 paper for the denomination describing homosexuality as unnatural, ruled last year in favor of a minister who wouldn't allow a gay man to join his church and supports ex-gay therapy.
The United Methodist playbook—known as the Book of Discipline—has "no specific policies regarding gender reassignment."
September 7, 2007 | 6:57 pm
Posted by Brad A. Greenberg
Yes, with the Colts blowing out the Saints last night, another pro football season is upon us. Hallelujah. (Though for me, the big gameday is college Saturday.) In honor, Christianity Today questions the righteousness of all our armchair quarterbacking in a lengthy story published online today, "Why We Love Football." A sampling from Steel Town U.S.A.:
I bit heavier reading than I expected. But I get what author Eric Miller, an associate professor of history at Geneva College, is trying to say: Don't be blinded by the pleasures and distractions of this world. After all, for a lot of people, sports become religion. For 2,500 words more regarding football and religion, here's a story I wrote two years ago about an American Muslim teenager playing football on the empty stomach required during the month of Ramadan. (Photo: Those are the Chargers Girls during a Halloween game.)When the Steelers made their remarkable, improbable Super Bowl run two years ago, the atmosphere across the region was electric, all day, all night, each week bringing a new level of primal voltage, powering countless parties, conversations, newscasts, even classrooms. At the college where I teach, students, faculty, and staff could speak of little else, to the sometimes flamboyant annoyance of the out-of-staters in our midst. Two guys, one from Ohio, the other from Cyprus, shaved their heads in protest, not of the Steelers so much as their fans. That included me, I suppose: I wore my Steelers necktie on Mondays and my "replica jersey" on FridaysâBlack-and-Gold Day citywide, all month, as Pittsburghers sported their truest colors in effusive display.
January was, you might say, unusually warm that year, the temperature rising as the mercury dropped. Musicians wrote and recorded dozens of Steelers songs, some of which were played on radio stations, made available through the internet, and danced to at clubs and bars. ("What is it about the Steelers' success that makes people say, 'Where's my kazoo?'" quipped Pittsburgh Post-Gazette columnist Gene Collier.) When at last Super Bowl Sunday arrived, I was amused and charmed most by the elderly woman who wore into our staid two-century-old Presbyterian church a plastic Steelers vest and Steelers earrings, hobbling into her pew with a glimmer in her eye. How did the pastor make it through the sermon? It's hard enough under ordinary circumstances to preach to restless pew-sitters, let alone when they're wearing face paint, as the children in one family did.
Few dimensions of our common life so totally capture the 21st century American zeitgeist as the National Football League. Perhaps none do. (skip)
Here's what I wonder: What kind of organization provides us with everything we want, from extraordinary spectacles to godlike athletes to dancing girls? And what kind of people accept such offerings?
These are dangerous questions, costly to ask. So we don't.
But ask we mustâif that troubling, first-century category "the world" and the older notion of "idolatry" are to have any contemporary meaning. What do these ancient words get at if not a people's steady refusal of the true pathway to life and their accompanying preference for counterfeits? (skip) At its best, sport may lead us more fully into an experience of health, an experience of community, play, joyâall good gifts of the Creator. But this happens only if it is enfolded within a grander, richer participation in life, in which another set of rites and symbols and songs takes us more deeply into gratitude and grace, sourced in the Creator and centered on the Cross.
September 7, 2007 | 1:02 pm
Posted by Brad A. Greenberg
Whenever I am in need of a post topic, I visit my friend the Bible Belt Blogger and he fills me up, today with a BBC story about how an Indian airline was chopping off goat heads to appease the gods. The BBB says:
This may be the first time that goats have died to prevent Boeing 757s from experiencing mechanical difficulties. However, I've read that chickens are sometimes fired, at high speeds—into the sides of jumbo jets to be sure they're structurally sound.
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September 7, 2007 | 9:24 am
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Sister Angela Escalera didn't molest Catholic youths, but the sins of the fathers—and the $660 million settlement the Archdiocese of Los Angeles made with more than 500 people who claimed they were sexually abused by Catholic priests—is forcing out Escalera and the other nuns of Sisters of Bethany house in Santa Barbara. From the LA Times:
SANTA BARBARA—For 43 years, Sister Angela Escalera has lived and often worked out of her order's small convent on this city's east side, helping the area's many poor and undocumented residents with translation, counseling and other needs.
Now retired and partly disabled at 69, the nun thought she would live out her days here, in the community where she is still an active volunteer and in the dwelling that was built for the order in 1952.
But she and the other two nuns at the Sisters of Bethany house recently received word that their convent, which is owned by the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles, will be sold to help pay the bill for the church's recent, multimillion-dollar priest sex abuse settlement.
The nuns have four months to move out, according to a letter from the archdiocese. The notice, which was dated June 28 but not received until the end of August, asked the women to vacate the property no later than Dec. 31—and noted that an earlier departure "would be acceptable as well." Signed by Msgr. Royale M. Vadakin, the archdiocese's vicar general, the letter offers the nuns no recourse but thanks them for their understanding and cooperation during a difficult time.
"We're just so hurt by this," Escalera, the order's local superior, said this week. "And what hurts the most is what the money will be used for, to help pay for the pedophile priests. We have to sacrifice our home for that?"
September 7, 2007 | 9:20 am
Posted by Brad A. Greenberg
In today's Jewish Journal, Daniel Hemel argues that Jews should oppose the forced resignation of scumbag Sen. Larry Craig because, much to Jewry's surprise, Craig has turned out to be a strong supporter of Israel.
While I don't believe that those who love Israel must love politicians who share the sentiment, no matter how vile their other public policies or private actions, Hemel draws an interesting comparison between the perceived double standard in the GOP—Craig solicits sex in a men's bathroom and has to resign; Sen. David Vitter of Louisiana's number appears on a madam's phone list but an apology suffices—and the atmosphere for anti-Semitism.
As the late Yale historian John Boswell showed, where there is homophobia, anti-Semitism very often lurks around the corner.
"The same laws which oppressed Jews oppressed gay people; the same groups bent on eliminating Jews tried to wipe out homosexuality," Boswell wrote.
While his study was based on medieval Europe, his words ring true in modern America. Jews may disagree about the status of homosexuals within our own religious communities, but when there is an upsurge of homophobia in society at large, all Jews should take note.
Craig, even though he insists he is not gay, appears to be a victim of homophobia.
Is Craig a victim of homophobia? And, if so, should that be enough to swing the pendulum back in the direction of getting to keep his job?
September 6, 2007 | 1:04 pm
Posted by Brad A. Greenberg
Is it mere coincidence the same week two American academic elites' book criticizing the power of "The Israel Lobby" hit bookshelves that "Christianity Today, the "magazine of evangelical conviction" that I write for often, published an editorial explaining why Christians should love not only Israel but Jews, too?
The list continues here. For more: Check out David Remnick's commentary on Walt and Mearsheimer's book, which StandWithUs likens to the Protocols of the Elders of Zion.The key complaint offered against dispensationalists is that they talk as though God had separate plans for saving Israel and the church. And contemporary Reformed Christians are accused of having a "replacement theology" in which the church takes the place of Israel, inheriting all of God's promises with no remainder for the Jewish people. The one view tends to find no fault with Israeli government decisions as long as they do not compromise dispensational theology. The other view tends to consider the continued existence of the Jewish people a historical anomaly with little theological significance.
But we cannot read the New Testament without seeing that the Jews continue to have a place in God's economy. Gentile Christians do not replace the Jews, but are joint heirs and wild branches grafted onto the Jewish olive tree. God's ultimate purpose in saving Gentile Christians is to save the Jews (Rom. 11).
The evangelical mainstream needs to do some rigorous theological work on its relationship to Judaism, to the Jewish people, and to the state of Israel. The concerns we must address include:
September 6, 2007 | 10:24 am
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Avraham Burg, "the apostate" former speaker of Knesset who this summer said the Israeli dream is dead, gets gutted by Hillel Halkin in a Commentary piece titled "A Wicked Son." Only an abstract is online free, but here two poignant portions of the article on L'affaire Burg:
It is as if Al Gore, after losing to George W. Bush in the year 2000, had denounced the Declaration of Independence, called the United States a cultural and spiritual wasteland, compared it with pre-Hitler Germany, prepared asylum for himself in a European country, and recommended to all Americans that they follow his example.
Avraham Burg is against military might. In another passage [of his book "Defeating Hitler"] about the Holocaust, this one touching on the Warsaw Ghetto revolt and its being made a symbol of Jewish resistance, he writes:
Had I lived in one of the ghettos, I'm not sure I would have chosen to take up arms [against the Nazis]. I think I would have asked myself until the moment of my death weather armed revolt was not foreign to the spirit of Judaism. ... In the end I would have turned to the spiritual repertoire of Mahatma Gandhi and sought to stir Europe with a wave of non-violent protest.
One rubs one's eyes with disbelief. A wave of non-violent portest in the Europe of World War II, as if Auschwitz was Amritsar—or Selma, Alabama!
September 6, 2007 | 1:01 am
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The story of tiny Patrick Henry College, a school in Virginia that has a high percentage of students that were home-schooled by conservative Christian parents and has become a feeder for government internships, has gotten a lot of mileage.
I mentioned it in a story two years ago about Christian parents choosing to home-school their children. But, of course, I was not the first to the story. Hanna Rosin was. And now Rosin has a book about PHC titled "God's Harvard: A Christian College on a Mission to Save America," reviewed this week by Newsweek.
The book originated with an article Rosin wrote two years ago for The New Yorker. Here's the lede:
In the last days before the 2004 Presidential election, Patrick Henry College, in Purcellville, Virginia, excused all its students from classes, because so many of them were working on campaigns or wanted to go to the swing states to get out the vote for George W. Bush. Elisa Muench, a junior, was interning in the White Houseâs Office of Strategic Initiatives, which is overseen by Karl Rove. On Election Day, she stood on the South Lawn with the rest of the White House staff to greet the President and Mrs. Bush as they returned from casting their votes in Texas. Muench cheered along with everyone else, but she was worried. Her office was âkeeping up contact with Karl,â and she knew that the early exit polls were worse than expected. Through the night, she watched the results, as Bushâs electoral-vote total began to rise. The next morning, after Kerry conceded, she stood in the crowd at the Bush campaignâs victory party, in clothes sheâd been wearing all night, and âcried and screamed and laughed, it was so overwhelming.â
I found Muench in the Patrick Henry cafeteria at lunchtime one day a few months later. She is twenty-one years old and has clear, bright hazel eyes and sandy-brown hair that she straightens and then curls with an iron. Patrick Henry is a Christian college, though it is not affiliated with any denomination, and it gives students guidelines on âglorifying God with their appearance.â During class hours, the college enforces a âbusiness casualâ dress code designed to prepare the students for office lifeâespecially for offices in Washington, D.C., fifty miles to the east, where almost all the students have internships, with Republican politicians or in conservative think tanks. When I met Muench, she was wearing a cardigan and a navy skirt. The boys in the cafeteria all had neatly trimmed hair, and wore suits or khakis and button-down shirts; girls wore slacks or skirts just below the knee, and sweaters or blouses. Most said grace before eating, though they did it silently and discreetly, with a quick bow of the head.
Muench told me that she loved working for Roveâanswering the phone and having a senator on the line, meeting Andrew Card, the chief of staff (âHeâs a nice guyâ), and Vice-President Dick Cheney (âHeâs really funnyâ). She took a bus from Patrick Henry at six every morning to arrive at the White House by seven-thirty. Her work with Rove, she told me, affirmed her belief that he was a political genius.
In her sophomore year, Muench had become the firstâand, so far, the onlyâwoman at Patrick Henry to run for a student-government executive office, when she entered the race for vice-president. Campaigns are unusually intense at Patrick Henry; candidates hire pollsters and form slates. One of Muenchâs friends, Matthew du Mée, was on an opposing slate, and the race caused a strain. (Both lost.) Muenchâs internship with Rove has given her a reputation, much envied on campus, as someone worth knowing. The day we spoke, a sophomore leaned across the table and asked, âHow much do you make, starting salary, working on the Hill?â
âIâm not sure,â Muench said.
âI heard one of the graduates working for Joe Pitts is making, like, thirty-two thousand dollars. Thatâs not that much.â (Pitts is a Republican congressman.)
âWell, itâs not too bad if youâre a single person,â Muench told him.
âDo you have any intentions of running for office?â the sophomore asked.
âYes,â she said.
At that moment, Muenchâs cell phone rang. It was Cheneyâs office, calling to thank her for volunteering for the Vice-Presidentâs Christmas party, and to ask if she would allow her name to be put on a list for future openings.
Muench, like eighty-five per cent of the students at Patrick Henry, was homeschooled, in her case in rural Idaho. Homeschoolers are not the most obvious raw material for a college whose main mission, since its founding, five years ago, has been to train a new generation of Christian politicians. Politics, after all, is the most social of professions, and many students arrive at Patrick Henry having never shared a classroom with anyone other than their siblings. In conservative circles, however, homeschoolers are considered something of an élite, rough around the edges but pureâin their focus, capacity for work, and ideological clarityâa view that helps explain why the Republican establishment has placed its support behind Patrick Henry, and why so many conservative politicians are hiring its graduates.
It's a long story—not by New Yorker standards, but still long—but it's worth reading the rest. And if you do, let me know what you think are the benefits and dangers of a small school like PHC being such a feeder of young politicos.
September 5, 2007 | 7:10 pm
Posted by Brad A. Greenberg
In honor of disgraced GOP Congressman and admitted sexual deviant Larry Craig, Maxim, the ever authoritative lad mag, offers its 10 favorite political sex scandals. Here's the list without the summaries. They should be familiar, mostly:
1. Larry Craig
2. Clarence Thomas
3. Gary Condit
4. Mark Foley
5. Catherine the Great
6. Bill Clinton
7. Jim McGreevey
8. The D.C. Madam
9. Gary Hart
10. Strom Thurmond
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This has nothing to do with religion, but "The Simpsons" is one of my favorite shows on TV. And one of my favorite parts of the show has always been the variety of the introduction. Bart's written many different things on Ms. Krabappel's chalk board and the family has squeezed onto their couch in many different ways. But this intro, linked here and embedded below, is new to me.
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Opening the door on your way in you think about all the Dutch champions that had walked through here. Suddenly this train of thought gets interrupted by the loud clanging of the cowbell hanging above the door. Then complete silence. Sometimes the silence can continue for several minutes before Mr. van der Kaaij walks out of his workplace into the shop. Meanwhile you stand there surrounded by pictures of legendary cyclists and bikes that belonged to Peter Post and Leontien van Moorsel.
Wim (or Willem) van der Kaaij is now 75 years old and up until about two months back was doing what he loves most, building steel frames. He is one of those guys that doesn't like to talk to visitors because it keeps him from working. But when you are there, he can rattle on-and-on about all sorts of random tales. Often he would tell stories about how things had changed over time: 'Carbon bikes are like plastic rocking horses'; 'the banking system became too complex'; 'youngsters work strange magic on their computers'… He wasn't complaining but he clearly remained old school, this seemed to make it difficult for him to run his business.
Brothers Joop and Willem Bustraan founded RIH-Sport in 1921. The brand was named after an ink-black horse from the books of Karl May, a horse that was 'faster than the wind'. They started out from a small shop in the Amsterdam working-class Jordaan neighborhood, growing out to be a household name in the Netherlands.
One day Wim van der Kaaij came into their shop as a young boy to get some handlebar tape. It was the Monday after Gerrit Schulte became pursuit world champion beating the invincible Fausto Coppi on the old Amsterdam Olympic Stadium track. Wim met the freshly crowned champion Schulte in the shop. That afternoon in late August 1948 changed the course of his life.
He fell in love with the ambiance of the place and never left. In the early seventies he ended up taking over the business. Throughout the course of the years their frames won a mighty 63 Olympic medals and world championship titles combined making the RIH-Sport brand arguably the most successful Dutch frame-maker of all time.
Sadly on June the 1st the doors of this amazing shop on Westerstraat 150 closed, the end of an era. Legendary brands like Presto, Zieleman, Aandewiel, Peka and Bergh-Sport already stopped building frames within the city's borders an age ago. Mr. van der Kaaij was the last remaining of Amsterdam's true craftsmen. Even though there are plans to re-launch the business in a different part of town (without a shop) to pass down his experience to future generations, it will never be the same again.
'De mooiste fietsen komen uit de Jordaan'.
(the most beautiful bikes come from the Jordaan)
Pictures taken at the RIH tribute ride on the 20th of May.
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Ad Vermaas
7th June 2012 11:29pm
Mooi verhaal / nice story!
Enno Roosink
8th June 2012 03:19pm
nice sad story - such is " life " - Westerstraat ( home of RIH ) will never be the same - anyone interested some time ago a very very nice video has been made which can be seen on Youtube 2 episodes : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oc4mw_s162w
enjoy !!!
Marc Tumson
19th June 2012 12:50pm
Such a shame. I was suppose to interview Wim for an article about Dutch Bike culture about 2 years ago, but it never happened. We talked to the folks at Amsterdamize.com and WorkCycles who were great.
I was in RIH only last month…such a wonderful place.
A true icon of the city is lost!
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Most of the school's students are from Georgia; more than a quarter are minorities, and women make up more than two-thirds of the student body. GHSU offers advanced certificates as well as degrees ranging from baccalaureate to doctoral. The college operates additional clinical campuses in Albany and Savannah, as well as satellite nursing campuses in Athens and Columbus. In 2010 the school joined with the University of Georgia (UGA) to form a partnership, which resulted two years later in the opening of a new medical school campus in Athens. Early History The
Since the academy's program was limited to one year, the board of trustees investigated the possibility of transferring this credit to other nearby schools. It became clear that transfers would be difficult,
In 1833 the institute's name was changed to the Medical College of Georgia (MCG), and the state legislature granted funds to acquire adequate facilities. (The college's first building was designed by prominent Georgia architect Charles B. Cluskey.) In addition, the Academy of Richmond County donated property, faculty members contributed money for a library and museum, and the city of Augusta promised to pay the college in return for medical services for the indigent. Besides this funding, MCG was a proprietary institution, dependent on tuition and fees. Faculty
During the antebellum years, the college struggled regularly with weak finances and increasing competition (both for students and faculty) from new medical schools in Georgia, several of which opened in the 1850s. (Among these was the Atlanta Medical College, the forerunner of Emory University School of Medicine.) Yellow fever outbreaks in 1839 and 1854 delayed the beginning of those academic years, but the college continued to grow in spite of such challenges and in the 1850s awarded about fifty medical degrees annually. The library and museum were of high caliber for the era, and students received ample clinical exposure. Members of the college's faculty were also responsible for the publication of the Southern Medical and Surgical Journal, a distinguished scholarly publication of its time. MCG
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The closing years of the century were a time of difficult growth for the institution. The field of medicine was expanding more rapidly than the college, and although courses in bacteriology, histology, and pathology were added, the school was unable to make large-scale changes, such as adding separate departments for dentistry and pharmacy. The city hospital was expanded, and in 1895 a new hospital for African Americans, Lamar Hospital, was built, providing additional opportunities for clinical study. Most
Criticism of the initial ratings within the medical community caused the AMA to request that the Carnegie Foundation perform a new survey of medical schools, headed by Abraham Flexner. Flexner's 1910 report was anything but complimentary of the college. He criticized its buildings as dirty, inadequately equipped, and lacking clinical facilities; declared the library to be antiquated; and described the
As the Great Depression decreased state revenues, the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia voted in 1933 to eliminate eight schools, including the Medical Department, from the university system. The school immediately campaigned to prove its importance to the state and its willingness to make any necessary changes, and within a month it had been restored to the Regents' list for another year under the name of the University of Georgia School of Medicine, with the understanding that the college would solve some of its most troubling problems. But the school's troubles were far from over. In 1934 the Council on Medical Education and Hospitals revoked its "A" rating, and the AAMC dropped the college from membership. The school responded by establishing fellowships, adding new buildings and an addition to University Hospital, and persuading the Board of Regents to increase the college's appropriations. The college was then able to persuade the council to return the hospital's "A" rating and to rejoin the AAMC. Increasing financial support from the Board of Regents and the governor allowed the school to stabilize and eventually to increase class sizes. One victim of the crisis was the innovative School of Public Health, which ceased offering degrees in 1932 after existing for only ten years. The campus was kept busy during World War II (1941-45) as both the army and navy established training programs at the school, but the most important changes came during the following decade. Renewed Institutional Independence In
In 1956, the same year Talmadge Hospital was completed, the School of Nursing was moved from Athens to Augusta. The nursing school was founded at UGA in 1943 but continued to flourish following its transfer to MCG, and in 1974 a satellite campus in Athens was opened. A master's in nursing program was approved in 1966, and the first doctorates in nursing were awarded in 1990. Nursing was not the only area of expansion for MCG. The college had offered master's degrees since 1951, and in 1965 it added the School of Dentistry. In 1968 a new School of Allied Health was established from existing programs, including medical illustration, medical technology, radiology, and health information. The addition of these departments transformed MCG from a simple school of medicine into a true health sciences university. MCG
Continued Growth In 2000 MCGHealth, Inc., a nonprofit organization, took over management of the college's hospital and clinic facilities. The move was intended to give the hospitals greater financial flexibility, but the Board of Regents maintained ownership of the property, and MCG faculty and students continued to practice and train in the facilities. In 2010 a new administrative entity called MCG Health System, Inc., headed by incoming MCG president Ricardo Azziz, was created to oversee both MCGHealth and the Physicians Practice Group, which manages billing and insurance issues. MCG continued to grow in the new millennium. The School of Dentistry broke ground for a new building in September 2009, and that same year MCG introduced "MCG Mobile," a set of innovative and customizable iPhone applications for the health sciences. The applications include medical calculators, a medical glossary, and a cholesterol management algorithm. In 2010 MCG's Georgia School of Nursing received a federal grant of nearly $1 million to train additional nurses in acute and critical care. The school's name changed to Georgia Health Sciences University in February 2011. As part of an initiative to help meet Georgia's need for physicians, GHSU and UGA formed a partnership to establish a new campus in Athens. This collaboration came to be known as the Georgia Health Sciences/University of Georgia Medical Partnership, and in January 2012 the UGA Health Sciences Campus opened on the grounds of the former Navy Supply Corps School. GHSU is active in medical research and works to encourage cooperation between basic and clinical scientists. The school has discovery institutes in five areas: brain and behavior, cardiovascular, diabetes and obesity, immunologic, and vision science. Each institute brings together physicians and scientists to jointly study a medical topic. The five subject areas were chosen to reflect GHSU's overall research emphases and to address common health needs of Georgia residents. Suggested Reading Phinizy Spalding, The History of the Medical College of Georgia (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1987). Esther K. Giezendanner, University of Georgia Updated 2/16/2012 |
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No Injuries After Gas Line Explosion And Fire Near Goldsmith
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Updated: December 6, 2012
Two gas lines exploded outside of the D.C.P. Midstream plant near Goldsmith around 6 PM Thursday.
The Ector County Sheriff's Office isn't releasing a lot of information on the incident at this time, but a viewer told Big 2 that the ground shook in the area at the time of the explosion.
A large fire also broke out in the area of the explosion.
West Odessa Volunteer Firefighters say that the blaze torched a welding shop and some utility poles in the area.
The owner of the ruptured lines -- West Texas Gas -- shut off 4 miles of the line and let the fire burn out.
The fire was ultimately extinguished around 7:30 PM Wednesday -- after it had burned for about an hour and a half.
The power also had to be shut off to nearby homes and businesses.
D.C.P. Midstream evacuated all employees from the plant safely after the explosion happened.
As of 7:30 PM Wednesday, there are no reports of any injuries from the explosion.
TX 158 will remain closed in the area of the explosion overnight, due to debris on the road.


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Limited Partnership - GPO2May 2013 - Version 2.4 as modified by the Companies Act 2006 PDF version of this page (58KB) Is this guidance for you? This guide will be relevant to you if:
ContentsIntroduction This guide answers many frequently asked questions and provides information on completing the most commonly used filings relating to this area. The guide is not drafted with unusual or complex transactions in mind. Specialist professional advice may be needed in those circumstances. IntroductionThis guide explains what you need to do to register a limited partnership. If you are considering forming a limited partnership, you should refer to the legislation governing limited partnerships or seek specialist legal advice. You will find the relevant law in the Limited Partnerships Act 1907. Chapter 1 - Limited partnership registration1. What is a limited partnership? A limited partnership consists of:
2. What restrictions are there on the limited partners? Limited partners may not:
If they do, they become liable for all the debts and obligations of the firm up to the amount drawn out, received back or incurred, as the case may be, while taking part in the management of the company. 3. Who can be a partner? Generally speaking, an individual or a legal body such as a company may be a partner in a limited partnership, either as a general or as a limited partner. A person cannot be both a general and a limited partner at the same time. 4. Must limited partnerships register? Yes. Until your partnership is registered, all partners will be equally responsible for any debts and obligations incurred. 5. How do I register my limited partnership? A limited partnership must be registered under the Limited Partnerships Act 1907. To register, you must deliver an application for registration (Form LP5), signed by all the partners, to the Registrar. The limited partnership will come into existence on registration of an acceptable LP5. Partnerships whose principal place of business is situated or proposed to be situated in England and Wales should send their forms to the Cardiff office; those whose principal place of business is situated or proposed to be situated in Scotland to the Edinburgh office; and those whose principal place of business is situated or proposed to be situated in Northern Ireland to the Belfast office. The information supplied on the form must include the following:
If all these particulars are in order, the Registrar will issue a certificate of registration, subject to the acceptability of the name. 6. How much does it cost? The general registration fee is £20. The fee for a same day registration is £100. Cheques should be made payable to 'Companies House'. 7. Can an oversea limited partnership register? Not usually. The Limited Partnership Act requires partnerships to register in that part of the United Kingdom where their principal place of business is situated or is proposed to be situated. An oversea partnership usually has its principal place of business overseas, and would not be registered for that reason. 8. What if some of my partnership details change? If any alteration is made to any of the details previously registered, the Registrar must be notified of the change on Form LP6 within seven days. 9. Does a limited partnership need to send accounts to Companies House? Not usually. There is no requirement for a limited partnership to send accounts to Companies House unless the The Partnerships (Accounts) Regulations 2008 apply. In these circumstances, if the General Partner is a limited company, a copy of the partnership accounts must be appended to, and filed with, the limited company accounts. 10. Can a limited partnership be dissolved? Yes. In the event of the dissolution of a limited partnership, the general partners must wind up its affairs unless the court orders otherwise. Subject to any agreement between the partners, a limited partner is not entitled to dissolve the partnership by notice, and the other partners are not entitled to dissolve the partnership merely by reason of any limited partner suffering his share to be charged for his separate debt. The death or bankruptcy of a limited partner is not a ground for dissolution. The fact that a limited partner is a 'person of unsound mind' is not a ground for dissolution of the partnership by a court, unless the person's share in the partnership cannot be otherwise ascertained and realised. 11Can a limited partnership name be removed from the Registrar's index of names? Although a limited partnership can be dissolved as explained above, the 1907 Act does not make it a requirement to notify Companies House. If you do send Companies House notification of dissolution on a form LP6 it will be accepted in good faith but the limited partnership name will remain on the live index of names. 12. Who must deliver these particulars? The general partners are responsible for the delivery of Forms LP5 and LP6 whether or not the preparation of the documents was delegated to accountants or to anyone else. The Limited Partnerships Act 1907 provides for the imposition of penalties for various defaults in carrying out the requirements of the Act and for failing to send to the Registrar the required forms. Notice of any arrangement or transaction under which a general partner will become a limited partner in the firm must be advertised in the London, Edinburgh or Belfast Gazette, as the case may be. Notice must also be advertised in the Gazette of any arrangement or transaction under which a limited partner's share in the firm will be assigned to somebody else. Until this is done these arrangements or transactions have no effect. Chapter 2 - Further information1. Where can documents be inspected? All registration documents relating to English and Welsh partnerships may be inspected at: Companies House or they may also be made available by giving two days' notice at: The London Search Room Scottish partnership documents may be inspected at: Companies HouseFourth Floor Edinburgh Quay 2 139 Fountainbridge Edinburgh EH3 9FF or LP - 4 Edinburgh 2 (Legal Post) or DX ED235 Edinburgh 1 Northern Ireland partnership documents may be inspected at: The Registrar of CompaniesCompanies House Second Floor The Linenhall 32-38 Linenhall Street Belfast Northern Ireland BT2 8BG or DX 481 N.R. Belfast 1 Tel 0303 123 4500 Further enquiries may be addressed to the Registrar of Limited Partnerships at the above addresses. 2. Where do I get forms and guidance? This is one of a series of Companies House guidance which provide a simple guide to the Companies Act. All statutory forms and guides are available, free of charge from Companies House. The quickest way to get them is through this website or by telephoning 0303 1234 500. Forms can also be obtained from company law stationers, accountants, solicitors and company formation agents - addresses in business phone books. 3. How do I send information to the Registrar? You may deliver documents to the Registrar by hand (personally or by courier) including outside office hours, bank holidays and weekends. You may also send documents by post or by the Document Exchange Service (DX). If you send documents you should address them to:
If you are sending documents by post, courier or Document Exchange Service (DX) and would like a receipt, Companies House will provide an acknowledgement if you enclose a copy of your covering letter with a pre-paid addressed return envelope. We will barcode your copy letter with the date of receipt and return it to you in the envelope provided. Please note: an acknowledgement of receipt does not mean that a document has been accepted for registration at Companies House. Please note: Companies House does not accept any statutory documents by fax, PDF (except for electronically filed certified copies of charge instruments) or by email. |


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a slightly educated cousin to the hillbilly found in small towns off the beaten path of modern society or outside a 75 mile radius of a major retail mall. examples are limitless because of the United States failure to recognize and correct the problems with education and poverty.
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From the southern region of the Midwest (see Southern Ohio, Northern Kentucky, Western Pennsylvania and the better part of West Virginia). Hilljacks have a penchant for sleeveless t-shirts, Blackfoot and Molly Hatchet and low-end regional beer. Family gatherings come in the form of cookouts and all of them culminate in drunken brawls and multiple arrests. Young hilljack chicks are usually very attractive but undergo a metamorphosis sometime after they have their third kid before the age of twenty. The creeper driving by you in the old van with the twisted roof rack and the smell of weed and urine billowing from the passenger side window that is halfway down, crooked and off it's track. The van also sports a confederate flag plate holder and an uncovered snow tire on the back.
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A poor, lower-class, white trash person who believes he/she is better or of a higher class than a hillbilly. Tends to make fun of hillbillies or hicks believing that he /she is not one.
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A person from the rural, hilled areas of Kentucky, Indiana, Tennessee, Ohio, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, and Virginia.
Descended from the origional settlers of the area, the hilljack has managed to avoid inbreeding and a lack of education; however, the hilljack tends to share certain social problems with their redneck cousins, such as excessive drinking, anger management, and Republican loyalism. while the redneck and hillbilly are proud conservatives, only the hilljack will take the time to vote.
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An extremely idiotic hillbilly, often the product of 3rd generation inbreeding, that exhibits poor sociological and mental functions. Found mostly in regions of dirt roads, hilljacks typically pay no heed to laws against domestic violence or laws against meth production and use. Billy-Ray Ted, Jr. takes after his uncle/dad, they both are extremely violent hilljacks when you give them a Bud.
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What on Earth is a HillJack?? Hillbilly + Jack of all Trades = HillJack The term HillJack refers to people who live in remote, rural, and somewhat mountainous regions of the United States (closely related to the people known as "Hillbillies" or "Rednecks"). A HillJack is competent at performing many skilled task (mostly manual labor), but is not the master of any one. The HillJack is described as an extremely proud American (somewhat backward and socially unsophisticated) who is willing to stand up for what He/She believes; never willing to compromise their integrity or values. HillJacks are a self reliant group who have been known to spend countless hours in pursuit of nature's most prized creations: CATFISH, WHITE TAIL, and yes even a deer once in a while! That hilljack ain't good for nothing but manual labor and catfishing!
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A rare species of hillbilly found in the small town of Sedro-Woolley, WA. These people can be found wearing chainsaw oil covered Overals, with a Stihl chainsaw dirty hat and romeos. The tend to never change out of their work clothes pior to social outings, for example; (Grocery Store, Resturant, and bar.) Often talk about how to set chokers and slay you a salmon on the Skagit. They typically identified by driving older lifted 1980's Toyota 4x4's with extra large CB attenta and a Rebel Confederate flag. Cletus the hilljack perfers to take home his sister after a good drunken night at the bar drinking Schmidts beer.


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Last year, for the first time, more patent applications were filed in China than in the United States. This surge reflects China's increasing intellectual property maturity and growing pains, according to U.S. Intellectual property lawyers and experts.
In a December 11 announcement, the World Intellectual Property Organization reported that China's patent office took in 526,412 applications, compared to 503,582 in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and 342,610 in Japan's patent office.
Worldwide patent filings exceeded the 2 million mark, with 2.14 million filed last year. That's a 7.8 percent boost over the 1.99 million applications filed in 2010.
"Sustained growth in IP filings indicates that companies continue to innovate despite weak economic conditions. This is good news, as it lays the foundation for the world economy to generate growth and prosperity in the future," said WIPO director general Francis Gurry at a press conference in Geneva.
The numbers reflect a boost in innovation by Chinese nationals, said Stuart Meyer, an intellectual property partner at Fenwick & West in Mountain View, Calif. It's not just U.S. inventors wanting to get protection in China because it's commercially important, he said. "That's a real sea change."
Ultimately, such filing shifts could affect U.S. patent policy, which offers great protections for intellectual property producers, he said.
The balance is shifting a little bit because more U.S. companies are dealing with licensing intellectual property owned by foreign patentees, said Meyer. "We're the ones that don't need such rigorous protection because we're on the other side of the coin. It changes the way we're going to be thinking about this in the coming decades."
The numbers are a milestone in the way innovation is distributed around the world, said Q. Todd Dickinson, executive director of the American Intellectual Property Law Association. "Clearly china is in growth mode in terms of research and development and patent filings track that closely."
He also said China's intellectual property system is maturing. "Clearly they're using IP to protect indigenous innovation."
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Craftsman Gas Brush Cutter BushWacker™ 27cc* 2-Cycle Straight Shaft
Item# 07171586000 | Model# 71586Clearance. Intermediate markdowns may have been taken.
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Specifications & Dimensions
Product Overview: | |
Attachment Compatible: | Yes |
Edger Capable: | Yes |
Accepts Blade Accessory: | Yes |
Edge Guide: | No |
Shaft Style: | Straight |
Trimmer Type: | Brush cutters |
Adjustable Trimming Head: | Adjustable head |
Guide Wheel: | No |
Cutting Swath (in.): | 8 |
Assembly Required: | Assembly Required |
Spark Plug Part Number: | Champion RDJ7J |
Adjustable Shaft: | No |
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Color/Finish: | Black, Powder coated steel frame |
Power: | |
Motor CC: | 27 |
Fuel Type: | Gas/oil mix |
Starting System: | Incredi-Pull/Flip-Prime-Pull |
Engine Cycles: | 2-cycle |
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General Warranty: | 2-Year Consumer/10-Year Shaft |
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Item Weight (lbs.): | 14 |
Shaft Length (in.): | 57 |
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Take Down Over Growth with the Craftsman Gas Brush Cutter 27cc.
Built tough and designed to last, the Craftsman Gas Bushwacker 27cc 2-Cycle breaks-up bushes, shrubs and weeds at their bases, helping you eliminate places that harbor pests like mosquitoes, wasps and wild animals. A combination of lightweight and high velocity rotation allow you to take on the toughest weeds and plants so whether you're reclaiming the land, or looking to cut a perfect pathway through dense bush, the Bushwacker™ will get you there.
The eight inch steel blade rips a wide path, helping you get more cut in less passes, while optional Speed Start™ and Incredi-Pull systems combine to bring you a smooth start every time, so even if you don't feel like pulling a cord, you can still get to work like a pro. And with the included deluxe shoulder strap, cutting through dense foliage for hours on end is no problem.
But don't limit the Craftsman Gas Brush Cutter 27cc to just taking down overgrowth. With the versatile straight shaft, this brush cutter allows you to switch out the head, using it as a cultivator, edger, hedge trimmer, curved-shaft weed whacker, hedge trimmer or straight shaft Hassle Free™ weed whacker. Get equipped to get every chore done right.
- Built to last by Craftsman, the Craftsman Gas Bushwacker 27cc 2 Cycle will take down overgrowth and complete all your outdoor chores spring, summer and fall, add it to your shed or garage and get the job done
- 27cc* full crank 2-cycle engine offers reduced vibration (requires mixing gas and oil 40:1)
- Speed Start™ technology capable with push-button starting with no pulling required
- Incredi-Pull™ starting system reduces the starting effort with a slow, smooth pull
- Straight shaft provides extended reach and is more comfortable for taller users
- 8-in-1 yard tool attachment system capable (Edger, Cultivator, Blower, Brush-cutter, Hedge Trimmer, Pole Saw, Curve Shaft with Bump Head, Straight Shaft with Hassle Free Head)
- 8 in. steel blade cuts right through heavy weeds and brush
- Easy 3-step starting - simply flip, prime and pull
- Deluxe shoulder strap provides added comfort for easier use
- Over-molded handle with barrier bar for a comfortable grip with added protection
- 2-year full warranty
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First of all, this is NOT a brush cutter. It even states in the manual, it will only cut brush up to 1/2 inch in diameter, which it barely accomplishes with the provided blade. The blade (you can hardly justify it as a blade) would be better off termed a smasher. It is 3 lobed and sharp as a marble. It will bash down a 1/2" sapling only with a great deal of shock and vibration. After about 2-3 hours of bashing through brush, the female connection *that connects the attatchments) in the power head shattered. No doubt from all the hard impacts from the "smasher" blade. I returned it with no problems and received a new replacement. This time I purchased 2 - 7.25" thin kerf carbide tipped circular saw blades from HD for $7. I used my dremel tool to take off some material from the blades to fit the 1" arbor on this machine, as the circular saw blades, after knocking out the insert are only 7/8". OH MY! This thing now cuts through 3-4" trees like butter! You may have to take a pass on each side, but WOW. The difference between this and the provided "smasher" blade is night and day. With the provided blade the machine was constantly stalling because of the heavy blade. To cut anything even close to 1/2" in diameter I would have to BASH, stall, restart, BASH, stall, restart. Even just getting the blade up to speed would often stall the motor. A real pain to deal with. With the circular saw blades, it almost never stalls, unless you jamb the blade, which happens mostly because the tree is leaning into the cut, and it is several magnitudes smoother. My hands would literally be vibrating after cutting with the provided blade, and now none of that. All in all the thing works fairly well after the blade modification, but I don't beleive it is a quality tool. I have put about 8 hours on the new machine and it is still going strong, but I have absolutely no doubt that if I were using the old blade it would be broken just like the last one.
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