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This course offers a six-session journey around the question "Who Am I?" The intention is to invite people of any background to join into a genuine process of contemplative inquiry. How can we even ask this question, and explore it in a way that leads to some real experiential understanding? The container and orientation for this journey is the notion of basic goodness. In this case, it means that we adopt an attitude of gentleness and openness toward ourselves, as opposed to assuming that there is already a basic problem or something to be fixed. Meditation practice is used as a way to contact and express that kind of mind. There will be different contemplative and dialogue exercises. Buddhist teachings on how our sense of self arises moment by moment will be offered as reference point.
This course is part of the Basic Goodness Series, a new addition to the Shambhala curriculum. This series of three six-session courses have been designed under the supervision of Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche to offer an experiential approach to the core Shambhala teachings on basic goodness and enlightened society. They explore sequentially the basic goodness of self, of others and society, and of reality altogether. They are defined around these questions: Who Am I? How Can I Help? What Is Real?
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Protecting the rights of migrant workers in Jordan
ILO TV reports on the situation of migrant workers in Jordan, where the majority of them have low-skilled and low productivity jobs. Despite recent, significant strides made by the Jordanian government to clamp down on exploitation at the workplace, more needs to be done to enhance the rights of migrant workers - not just in Jordan but worldwide.
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---- — SALEM — It is the stuff of mysteries: Where, after all these years, is St. Joseph?
The 12-foot statue, which once stood more than 100 feet off the ground between the twin towers of an earlier St. Joseph Church, is believed to be buried under the parking lot of the present church on Lafayette Street.
But where exactly is it?
The Planning Office for Urban Affairs, the developer razing the church and building a four-story apartment building on the parking lot, pledged to look for the statue before commencing the $20.7 million development. If the statue was found and in the way, it was likely going to be reburied on-site or moved.
Well, the search has been done and the statue has not been found.
A consultant hired by the developer looked for the statue or its remains using both ground-penetrating radar and sonar, according to Lisa Alberghini, president of the Planning Office.
"They haven't found it," she told members of the South Salem Neighborhood Association at a meeting Tuesday night at the Enterprise Center at Salem State University.
The statue has become almost an urban legend in Salem. Was it really buried? Could it have survived all these years? What would they do with it if it was found?
The magnificent statue, reportedly made of concrete, was erected on the 1911 church built by the French-Canadian immigrants who founded St. Joseph Parish.
When the church burned in the Great Fire of 1914, the skeleton of the church building remained, with the twin towers and the statue still in place. The burned-out church stood on the 2-acre site for several decades.
According to newspaper files, the statue was taken down by a giant crane in December 1944, with a large crowd watching. Removal of the statue was "made necessary as a part of the razing of the church towers," the newspaper reported.
The current St. Joseph Church opened in 1950, according to a parish history.
The statue may have stayed in the church yard for several years between demolition of the old church and construction of the new one. Although no absolute proof seems to exist, some parish members insist it was buried on-site.
If it was buried, it was done to comply with church law, Alberghini explained, which requires sacred articles to be reused, burned, buried or destroyed.
"From the church's perspective, it's where it belongs," Alberghini said.
If the statue is under the parking lot, it has been there for more than 60 years.
"Chances are it has disintegrated by now," Norman LaPointe, a longtime parish member and deacon, told Alberghini at the neighborhood meeting.
There is always a chance, though, that the giant statue will be uncovered during construction of the new apartment building. The excavation of the foundation will begin as soon as the church is razed and the site cleared, which is expected to be completed by the end of the month.
"We said to the contractor, 'Keep your eye open,'" Alberghini said.
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With the Broncos likely to miss the playoffs for a fifth consecutive season, the prestige of the franchise seems to be fading — and so is owner Pat Bowlen, who is becoming less involved with the team's everyday operations. The way we hear it, Bowlen is no longer at the forefront of the team. In his 27th year as president and CEO in Denver, health issues have forced Bowlen to take a step back and hand the reins over to chief operating officer Joe Ellis. Bowlen's focus has shifted to the NFL labor agreement and away from the team. Ellis' background is in the business side, but we hear he might have his hand in on some football-related decisions, as well. One daily team observer described Ellis as "a power broker that not a lot of people know about." We hear it was the business side that put an end to talks of a contract extension with CB Champ Bailey and it was Ellis who made a major push to hire head coach Josh McDaniels. As a supporter of the coach, Ellis' level of power will be tested if the Broncos continue to struggle and the team is forced to make a decision on whether or not to retain McDaniels.


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Worried owner Elaine Boyle is hoping an arrest is made before the culprit gets the chance to strike again
Lottery grants of £90,000 are shared out
The £1.3million dock at Westway Business Park, in Renfrew, is shaping up
Anger as SNP call for more scrutiny on investment plans
Sitting Ducks is a stunning show of work by Paisley's John Byrne that surveys his career as a portraitist from the 1970s onward
LINDSEY McKillop, 51, from Renfrew, spent eight weeks at Paisley's Royal Alexandria Hosptial, after she became seriously ill due to undiagnosed Type 1 diabetes.
IT'S 100 years since Great Britain entered World War I - a conflict that was to claim millions of lives. Now you can check on your family's war history with our Commonwealth War Graves Commission grave search.
There are plenty of vacancies for the elderly
BARROWMAN yelled "Scotland" as he took the baton from fellow bearer Alison Young – before giving her a hug.
SCOTTISH Enterprise is providing a further £1.5 million to support the company's new Process Engineering Centre in Renfrew, western Scotland.
MSP Derek Mackay says residents are fed-up of never-ending works in Renfrew's Canal Street, which has been under repair for years
POLICE believe the fire in Renfrew on Thursday night - which sent clouds of thick black smoke over Glasgow - was started deliberately.
The seven-year-old Renfrew girl decided to donate her beautiful blonde hair to the Little Princess Trust – a charity that supplies real-hair wigs to children who lose their own hair due to cancer
Steven Thomson, from Renfrew, was bailed after being charged with threatening or abusive behaviour.
The implants have left a number of women with painful and debilitating medical complications.
LEANNE Kelly opened her heart about the day a speeding driver came racing along a road and robbed her of her precious daughter Melissa.
This will be the third year running that Totally Gorgeous has been shortlisted
Nikola Borland, 20, and her 45-year-old mum Hazel are cycling, walking and jogging on behalf of the Fibromyalgia Association UK.
Detectives said they did not believe the two attempted murders were linked but added both appeared to be targeted attacks.
The 26-year-old Linwood woman has been chosen as intu Braehead's most stylish shopper and now goes forward to the finals of the national Style Hero contest
Damage at the town-centre landmark – which housed cops for more than a century – is estimated to run into tens of thousands of pounds
JOHN RODDEN said he had been too upset to complete a 999 call after discovering the toddler's corpse in the litter-strewn flat in Paisley four years ago.
Elizabeth Rodden was the first person called to speak as the Fatal Accident Inquiry opened yesterday into the death of Paisley toddler Declan
THE toddler's mummified remains were found in a rubbish-strewn cot in his mother Kimberley Hainey's flat in Paisley in March 2010.
Charities will be supported by Hollywood-themed event
Following refit, 30,000 sq ft unit in Inchinnan Business Park will serve as delivery base for large scale projects
THE 19-year-old Rangers fan died last week after taking a mixture of the party drug mephedrone, also known as Meow Meow, and ketamine during a party at her Renfrew home.
CANCER-free for two years, Lydia Jack credits the surgeons who performed her double mastectomy for saving her life but insists her charity work with Cancer Support Scotland saved her sanity.
Alex Henderson, 42, has been left heartbroken by the sudden death of his 19-year-old daughter Helen.
The popular woman died at a house party in Renfrew after taking what is thought to be a lethal cocktail of mephedrone and ketamine.
Tragic Helen Henderson, 19, died after taking a dangerous cocktail of mephedrone and ketamine during a party in Renfrew.


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(July 22, 2008)
The first stop on the International Skating Union (ISU) Junior Grand Prix circuit will be in Courchevel, France with the competition running from Aug. 27–31. Canada will have a strong team consisting of eight athletes that will compete in men's, ladies and ice dance disciplines.
Paul Poirier, 16, of Unionville, Ont., will make his men's singles debut on the ISU Junior Grand Prix circuit. Paul, who trains out of the Scarboro FSC with coaches Jana-Kim Batka, Mark Batka and Juris Razgulajevs, is the 2008 Canadian Junior Men's silver medalist. Paul will also appear on the Senior Grand Prix circuit in ice dance with partner Vanessa Crone.
Jackson Wood, 16, of Oromocto, N.B., will also be making his ISU Junior Grand Prix debut. In 2008, Wood was the Canadian Novice Men's Champion. He trains out of the Oromocto SC with coach Karen Alexander.
Diane Szmiett will be representing Canada in the ladies discipline. Diane, 17, of Watford, Ont., will be a veteran on the team having first competed on the circuit in 2006. In 2007, she placed ninth at the Junior Grand Prix in Tallinn, Estonia. Coaches Alison Purkiss and Scott Rachuk train Szmiett at Watford FSC.
Rylie McCulloch-Casarsa, 14, of Burlington, Ont., will also be representing Canada in the ladies category. This will be her first time on the ISU Junior Grand Prix circuit. Rylie is coached by Brian Orser at the Toronto Cricket Skating and Curling Club.
Kharis Ralph, 16, and Asher Hill, 17, both from Toronto, Ont., are the 2008 Canadian Junior Champions in ice dance. This will be their second year on the ISU Junior Grand Prix circuit. In 2007, they attended Junior Grand Prix events in Lake Placid, USA and Sheffield, Great Britain, placing fourth and seventh respectively. Carol Lane, Jon Lane, Juris Razgulajevs and Donna Iijima coach the team out of the Scarboro FSC.
Maja Vermeulen, 18, of Acton, Ont., and Andrew Doleman, 18, of Dundas, Ont., will be returning to the ISU Junior Grand Prix circuit for the second year in a row. In 2007, they placed ninth at the ISU Junior Grand Prix in Chemnitz, Germany. The duo placed seventh in junior at the 2008 BMO Canadian Figure Skating Championships. Maja and Andrew train out of the Kitchener-Waterloo SC with coaches Rebecca Babb, Gennady Kaskov and Paul Macintosh.
Petra Burka of Toronto, Ont., will be the team manager at the event. Susan Blatz of Troy, Ont., and Jeff Lukasik will be the Canadian officials at the competition.


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Eagles dominate in school's first win
Fort Myers – The FGCU baseball team took the field for the first time in school history tonight at Hammond Stadium, and defeated Savannah College of Art & Design 12-0.
With a crowd of close to 800 fans on hand, the eagle's didn't disappoint anyone as Jason Short pitched a gem, going 7 innings, striking out 8, and only giving up 2 hits.
Short, only a freshman, earns his first career shut out, and first career win in FGCU history.
The eagle's got on the board in the second inning as Chris Brown scored the school's first ever run on a fielder's choice hit by Frank Hernandez. Hernandez earns the school's first ever RBI.
Freshman center fielder Travis Cunningham led the way offensively tonight as the speedster blasted a grand slam to give the eagles a 5-0 lead in the second. This set the tone all night as the eagle's would get good offensive production from five other players.
Junior left fielder David Cox had an impressive start as he went 2-4, scored 2 runs, and had 2 RBI's as well. Cox crushed a Harold Jones fastball in the second that barely missed leaving the ballpark in left-center field as he ended up with at triple. Cox also doubled on the night.
Junior third basemen Chad Kennedy played an impressive defensive game at the hot corner, as the Charlotte High product made nice plays early on.
Freshman out fielder Frank Hernandez Jr. turned in a solid performance as he went 1-2 with a pair of RBI's.
Even more impressive was the eagle bullpen tonight as Tony Korson pitched one inning in relief giving up no hits or runs, and striking out a pair.
Chris Cahill finished the game as he threw an inning, and struck out a pair of his own.
Savannah was led by Catcher Jarrod Norrell who went 1-3, and Chris Tirro who went 1-3 on the night as well.
SCAD starting pitcher Harold Jones went 5 innings, giving up 4 earned runs.
The Eagles improve to 1-0, and will play the rematch with SCAD tomorrow at Terry Park. The first pitch will be at 12:30, which is a change from the original 1:00 start.
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We've only got one planet, and it makes our lives possible. We can no longer take it for granted.
The Farm Bill's "Government Handouts": Who Really Benefits?
by Shannon Hayesposted May 14, 2013
- There's nothing like talk of "government handouts" to get people upset. But when it comes to farm bill, the real culprits might not be who you think they are.
Would Smokey the Bear Get Arrested to Stop Fracking?
by Peter Rughposted May 09, 2013
- When artist Lopi LaRoe used Smokey the Bear imagery to encourage anti-fracking activism, the Forest Service threatened her with a lawsuit.
Vermont Time Bankers Build a More Personal Economy
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- Video: Whatever service you might need, you're likely to be able to get it at Onion River Time Bank, where you pay by doing what you love.
Breasts: A Natural and Unnatural History
by Nadia Colburnposted Apr 22, 2013
- When author Florence Williams learned her breast milk contained chemicals like flame retardants, she started investigating what exactly is in a breast and how that body part connects us to our children, our past, and our surroundings.
Houston's Most Polluted Neighborhood Draws the Line at Alberta Tar Sands
by Kristin Moeposted Apr 22, 2013
- If the Keystone XL pipeline is approved, 90 percent of the tar sands crude that flows through it will be processed near an embattled Houston neighborhood called Manchester. Residents are joining up to demand a healthier future.
"World's Greenest Office Building" Makes Net-Zero Look Easy
by Samantha Thomasposted Apr 22, 2013
- It's a commercial office space equipped with composting toilets, rainwater showers, and a stairway designed to be so beautiful that no one ever takes the elevator.
Newly Released Tim DeChristopher Finds a Movement Transformed by His Courage
by Melanie Jae Martinposted Apr 22, 2013
- Tim DeChristopher, who was just released from federal custody, is best known as the man who disrupted an auction of pristine public lands. But there's more to his story than his role as "Bidder 70."
Big City Farmers Take to the Rooftops
by YES! online staffposted Apr 18, 2013
- Space is expensive in Brooklyn, so Gotham Greens built their urban farm on a rooftop.
A World without Landfills? It's Closer than You Think
by Jen Sorianoposted Apr 17, 2013
- Two recipients of this year's Goldman Environmental Prize are working to abolish the practice of sending trash to landfills and incinerators. And the idea is catching on.
Curriculum & Resources: The Food Project
posted Apr 15, 2013
- Resources from The Food Project, based in the Boston area, focus on sustainable agriculture and youth leadership. TFP graciously shares many of its manuals, activities, and curriculum for free (downloadable).
Building a Solar Economy: 4 Lessons from Hawaii
by Erin L. McCoyposted Apr 11, 2013
- Hawaii generates more of its power from the sun than any other state. Here's what the rest of us can learn from the obstacles that came up along the way and and what's being done to overcome them.
Look out Monsanto: The Global Food Movement Is Rising
by Daniel Mossposted Apr 10, 2013
- The book Harvesting Justice isn't just a look at the world's most exciting food justice groups—it's also a knockout organizing tool.
Occupy Sandy Funds Growth of Worker-Owned Co-Ops
by Peter Rughposted Apr 05, 2013
- Could the seaside neighborhoods struck by Hurricane Sandy be the next big incubator for worker-owned companies?
Why the Most Powerful Thing in the World Is a Seed
by Abby Quillenposted Apr 04, 2013
- "The Seed Underground" is a love letter to the quiet revolutionaries who are saving our food heritage.
Empowered by the Past: Red State Co-ops Go Green
by Brooke Jarvisposted Apr 03, 2013
- A century ago, cooperatives electrified the poorest counties in the nation. Today, can they lead the way to a smarter, cleaner grid?
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Today's speculation examines the mutually exclusive "sports Georgia Tech does really well at" and "sports you hear anything about, ever".
The Boston College softball team was selected to finish eighth (last) in this year's ACC Preseason Coaches' Poll. North Carolina is the preseason favorite in 2013.
2012 ACC Softball Championship Bracket Set For May 10-12, 2012. North Carolina earns this year's top seed.
The Georgia Tech Athletics program was in full swing this past weekend. Full coverage of Georgia Tech baseball, basketball and non-revenue sports found here.
Softball The Georgia Tech softball team's season ended all too quickly yesterday afternoon as they ran in to a feisty Oregon Ducks squad. The Jackets seemed to have plateaued at the wrong point in...
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Tech beats FSU for second straight ACC title.
Softball beats Iowa 9-8 in crazy 8 inning game!
Woe is GT...blah blah blah. I understand that GT bball is struggling...maybe struggling is an understatement.Personally, I am still following the bball games and particularly this coming weekend's...
Georgia Tech bats found a rhythm against the Mercer Bears pulling out 5 homers and 18 hits against 8 different Mercer pitchers. GT's pitching staff got in on the ass kicking striking out 10...
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Fuchs' dystrophy (fooks DIS-truh-fee) is an uncommon, slowly progressive disorder that affects the cornea — the transparent front surface of your eye. Fuchs' dystrophy is a type of corneal dystrophy, a group of conditions that may cause a hazy deposit to build up over the cornea.
Normally, the cells that line the back surface (endothelium) of the cornea prevent excess fluid from accumulating. This helps the cornea maintain its transparency. But with Fuchs' dystrophy, those endothelial cells slowly deteriorate, lose function and die. As a result, fluid builds up in the cornea. This may cause swelling, cloudy vision, pain and loss of corneal transparency.
Although the cause of Fuchs' dystrophy is unknown, it may be inherited. Treatments, including surgery, are available for Fuchs' dystrophy.
Doctors may see early signs of Fuchs' dystrophy in people who are in their 30s and 40s. But most people don't experience symptoms or problems until they're in their 50s and 60s. Signs and symptoms usually affect both eyes and may include:
When to see a doctor
If you experience some of these symptoms, and especially if they get worse over time, see your eye doctor (ophthalmologist or optometrist). If symptoms develop suddenly, call an ophthalmologist for an urgent appointment. Other eye conditions that cause the same symptoms as Fuchs' dystrophy also require prompt treatment.
In some people with Fuchs' dystrophy, the cause is unknown. However, for many people it's inherited as an autosomal dominant familial condition, meaning that about half of an affected person's children also will have the disease. The extent to which relatives experience signs and symptoms may vary. For instance, a parent with a mild case and few symptoms could have a child with a severe case and numerous vision problems.
Some people are more likely to develop Fuchs' dystrophy. They include:
If you suspect that you have Fuchs' dystrophy, make an appointment to see an eye doctor (ophthalmologist or optometrist). In some cases, you may be referred to an ophthalmologist who specializes in corneal disease.
Because appointments can be brief and there's often a lot of ground to cover, it's a good idea to be well prepared. Here's some information to help you get ready, and what to expect from your doctor.
What you can do
Your time with your doctor may be limited, so preparing questions can help you make the most of your time together. List your questions from most important to least important in case time runs out. For Fuchs' dystrophy, some basic questions to ask your doctor include:
In addition to the questions that you've prepared to ask your doctor, don't hesitate to ask questions during your appointment whenever you don't understand something.
What to expect from your doctor
Your doctor is likely to ask you a number of questions. Being ready to answer them may reserve time to go over points you want to spend more time on. Your doctor may ask:
You may go through testing so that your doctor can determine whether you have Fuchs' dystrophy. Testing may include:
Your doctor may suggest the following methods and procedures to improve your comfort or stop your signs and symptoms of Fuchs' dystrophy from worsening.
Receive a corneal transplant. This surgical procedure, also known as keratoplasty, replaces damaged cornea tissue with healthy tissue from a donor. There are many types of corneal procedures. Some procedures replace only a few thin layers of the cornea, while others replace the entire cornea. For Fuchs' dystrophy, an increasingly common procedure replaces only the deep layers of the cornea, including the endothelium. This is sometimes referred to as endothelial keratoplasty or posterior lamellar endothelial keratoplasty.
Corneal transplants are common and effective. However, you may have to wait a long time for donor tissue to become available. And some people develop problems following transplants, such as rejection of the new corneal tissue. Rejection may cause increased sensitivity, redness, pain and worsening vision. Many times, rejection can be managed with topical eye medications. After corneal transplant, your eyes may feel uncomfortable. You'll need to use eyedrops for several months to help your eyes heal. The majority of people who have a successful transplant for Fuchs' dystrophy continue to be free of symptoms for years after the transplant.
In addition to following your doctor's instructions for care, these techniques may help make your eyes feel better.


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Bring back the guillotine? A death-penalty opponent touts its merits
Posted Nov 5, 2013 7:15 AM CDT
By Debra Cassens Weiss
As states grapple with shortages of legal injection drugs, a death-penalty opponent is suggesting a solution: Bring back the guillotine.
The guillotine is quick and possibly less painful than lethal injection, according to the Slate essay. Doctors need not administer it, avoiding violations of the Hippocratic Oath. And the dead inmate's body could more easily be harvested for organs.
The doctor who created the three-drug cocktail used in lethal injections, Jay Chapman, told CNN in 2007 that perhaps the protocol should be re-examined, given concerns about whether it promotes a slow and painful death, the essay notes. He suggested another alternative. "The simplest thing I know of is the guillotine," Chapman said. "And I'm not at all opposed to bringing it back. The person's head is cut off and that's the end of it."
The Slate essay sees another benefit to the guillotine. "Capital punishment is always a barbaric practice," the article says. "If we're going to continue to allow it in the United States, maybe it makes sense to be confronted by how gruesome it really is."
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It took Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds all of two songs to whip the audience into a mighty frenzy at the Warfield Theater on Monday night [during the first of a pair of sold-out shows at the venue]. Not totally surprising, but all the more impressive when considering that Cave and company pulled it off by playing new material, a pair of tracks from their latest album, Push the Sky Away.
Starting with the uneasy rumble of "We Real Cool," Cave began the night by plunging right out to the front of the crowd to render the line-up-at-3pm fans in the first row slackjawed and bedazzled with the song's slow drama, before steadily building "Jubilee Street" to a rowdy climax. It was a moment worthy of the encore, even as they were only ten minutes into a two-hour performance.
It's hard to imagine many other bands accomplishing this some 30 years into their career with anything other than their greatest hits. But of course, Cave and the Bad Seeds aren't your average…well...anything, and they showcased their singularity in fantastic form at the Warfield with this first of two sold out shows.
Playing close to 20 songs across a dozen albums, Cave had a lot to offer during Monday night's performance. There were beautifully quiet moments, such as "Into My Arms" and "God is in the House," as well as exquisite obscurities (if obscurities even exist with Cave's fans) like "Sad Waters." Still better yet was the poignancy and poise of "The Weeping Song," with Cave calling up opener Mark Lanegan to join on vocals.
Yet for as good as these offerings were, Cave is at his best when he's at his meanest. Stalking in and out of the shadows on the Warfield stage with the menacing authority of a fire and brimstone preacher, he delivered furious renderings of songs like "Tupelo," "Red Right Hand," and "The Mercy Seat." And while these may be typical tracks for Cave's setlists, the small room combined with the crowd's investment seemed to give them added weight, an intimacy and intensity that went well beyond Cave's showing at the Bill Graham Auditorium earlier last year. This was most notable on "Stagger Lee", the slowly unfolding massacre off of Murder Ballads, that built with greater and greater malevolence as Cave bullied the song forward, eliciting shrieks and hollers from the audience.
The Warfield retained a dense capacity even as the show reached the two-hour mark and the band moved through a stellar encore that included "Deanna" and "Jack the Ripper," before concluding with the "The Lyre of Orpheus." As the house lights came up the speakers let loose a Tom Waits track amid the din of the departing crowd. It was a good (and perhaps, the only) comparison to be made. Cave, like Waits, is so unique in his artistry that it not only defies every well-tread aspect of the known music universe, but seems to only be getting better with age. And, as Cave's fans would have attested walking out of the Warfield, that all makes perfect sense.
Amazing show. Was not a fan nor familiar with his work, but I was favorably impressed, especially with "Stagger Lee."
his stuff is so so.
He is an absolutely mesmerizing, prolific artist. One of the best show's I've ever seen, and I've seen thousands.
I first experienced Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds in 1984-85 in a ballroom of a hotel in downtown Los Angeles and came full circle by attending his show on Friday night, July 11, 2014, at the Shrine Auditorium back in LA.
The integrity, genuineness, and boundless energy that he brought to his last night's performance enlivened and satisfied my jaded soul in a manner akin to a spiritual cleansing. There no question that Nick Cave's well documented religious-like commitment to his inner artist and struggle to maintain a healthy relationship with his self-proclaimed "Muse" has well served the quality of his growth and those lucky few, like myself, who experience his prolific works.
Last night, Nick Cave brought new life to several of his iconic older and new songs with artful lyrical, harmonic-melodic, and rhythmic embellishments that I believe reflected his ongoing healthy relationship with his Muse. No matter what genre of music you prefer, Nick Cave and his Bad Seeds are not to be missed...lest you prohibit yourself from experiencing musical ecstasy. JJ-Cool
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Article from New Politics Symposium: The Relevance of Marxism on the 150th Anniversary of The Communist Manifesto, Winter, 1998
Perhaps the most remarkable thing about the 150th anniversary of The Communist Manifesto is that, well, who cares? The answer is: nearly no one. More, nearly no one would care about Marx's birthday or Lenin's, or about the birthday of the Russian, Chinese, or even Cuban revolutions (in the industrialized west, anyhow), or about any other related event one might propose to celebrate—say Das Kapital's birthday, for example, whenever that might be.
The reason is certainly the crumbling of the Soviet Empire, but this just raises a new question. Given that the Soviet Empire was a dungeon, why did its fall – a good thing as in the phrase "one down, one to go" — shove Marxism down history's memory hole? Is the correlation between dictatorship, ecological decay, social homogenization, and many other vile features of Soviet history, on the one side, and the body of thought labeled Marxism and Marxism Leninism on the other side, an unfair rap? Should the court of intellectual evaluation find Marxism and Marxism Leninism innocent of responsibility for the Soviet debacle? Or, if there are damning connections, is there nonetheless a baby to preserve while discarding the bath water in these ideologies? More extreme, as post modernists argue, could the problem be the very fact that Marxism and Marxism Leninism are ideologies? Should we dispense with all attempts to explain history beyond singular descriptions? Should we entirely forego trying to envision the future—deciding not only that the Soviet model was a horror, but that any visionary model is doomed to a similar fate by the very nature of looking forward beyond our range?
To answer these questions, one has to carefully evaluate Marxism as a theory of history and particularly economics, and Leninism as a view of how to overcome capitalism putting in its place socialism, communism, the dictatorship of the proletariat, etc. Over the years Robin Hahnel and I have spent considerable time doing this. Here I can only summarize the conclusions we have argued in depth and detail elsewhere:
1. Marxist dialectics at its best is an overly obscure methodological reminder to think holistically and historically; at its worst it's a philosophically absurd drain on creativity and range of perception.
2. Historical Materialism's main claims are denied by history. Its lesser claims are not entirely wrong, but when "real existing people" utilize the concepts of historical materialism they inexorably arrive at an economistic and mechanical view of society, systematically under-valuing and mis-understanding social relations of gender, political, cultural, and ecological origin and import.
3. Marxist class theory has disguised the importance of the coordinator (professional-managerial or technocratic) class and its antagonisms with the working class and with capital, and has in this way long obstructed class analysis of the Soviet, Eastern European, and
4. The Labor Theory of Value misunderstands the determination of wages, prices, and profits in capitalist economies and turns activists' thought away from a needed social-relations view of capitalist exchange. The dynamics of the workplace and market are largely functions of bargaining power and social control, categories essentially ignored by the labor theory of value.
5. Marxist crisis theory, in all its variants, distorts understanding of capitalist economies and anti-capitalist prospects by seeing intrinsic collapse where no such prospect exists and orienting activists away from the importance of their own organizing as the basis for change, that is far more promising.
6. Regarding visions of desirable societies, Marxism is particularly obstructive. First there is Marxism's general taboo against "utopian" speculation. Second, Marxism presumes that if economic relations are desirable other social relations will fall into place. Third, Marxism is permanently confused about what constitutes an equitable distribution of income — "from each according to ability to each according to need" is not a viable economic guide (it is utopian and curtails needed information transfer) and "from each according to work and to each according to contribution to the social product" is not a morally worthy maxim (it rewards productivity, including genetic endowment, beyond effort and sacrifice). And fourth, Marxism approves hierarchical relations of production and command planning as means of allocation.
7. Marxism's injunctions regarding economic goals taken cumulatively amount to advocating what we call a coordinator mode of production that elevates administrators, intellectual workers, planners, etc., to ruling class status. This Marxist economic goal uses the label socialist to appeal to workers, but does not structurally implement socialist ideals (much as the political goal of bourgeois movements uses the label democratic to rally support from diverse sectors, but does not structurally implement democratic ideals).
8. Finally, Leninism is a natural outgrowth of Marxism employed by people in capitalist societies, and Marxism Leninism, far from being the "theory and strategy for the working class," is, instead, by its focus, concepts, values, and goals, the "theory and strategy for the coordinator (professional-managerial, technocratic…) class."
So we can see why with the demise of the Soviet model, allegiance to Marxism and Marxism Leninism might also wane, since these ideologies were indeed aimed in their principles, concepts, thought, and vision (though not the deepest aspirations of many of their advocates), at this model. So, what's the problem? Out with the model, out with the theory and strategy seeking it. Makes sense, doesn't it?
Well, yes, but only to a point. When theories fail in explaining reality or guiding practice, they do need to be corrected or jettisoned. And, in the case of Marxism and Marxism Leninism, the faults are basic to the underlying concepts so that correcting them is not just tinkering with the system. That is, after dispensing with dialectical materialism, historical materialism, the labor theory of value, the limited understanding of class, Leninist strategy, and the (Soviet- or market-based) Marxist model, we would say that whatever you do next you won't have enough left of what was there before to retain the old name. So, yes, it is time–actually way past time–to get on with something new.
But, when theories fail in explaining reality or guiding practice, it does not follow that every claim they make, every concept they offer, and every analysis they undertake must be jettisoned. Quite the contrary, more likely much will resurface as still valid (though perhaps recast somewhat) in any new and better intellectual framework.
And this is the frustrating problem for those of us who, over the years, have in a principled manner combated the economism and other inadequacies of Marxism. Now that people are finally eager to move on — oh no, there goes that baby down the bath drain! Because for all the inadequacies of Marxism, the theory got two things very right: First, private ownership of the means of production is inevitably alienating and exploitative. And second, allocation via markets must be abolished if we are to achieve a desirable economy.
Yet many who call themselves radical political economists have somehow forgotten these two important lessons. And since any radical political economy that no longer understands these fundamental flaws of capitalism is doomed to oblivion, this is a very serious problem. Unless it is corrected, "radical political economy" will cease to be radical and join non-radical institutionalism as another minor intellectual opponent of the neoclassical mainstream.
Capitalist profits (based on private ownership of the means of production) are not morally justifiable. At a point in time "the economy" is capable of producing a surplus of goods and services beyond those necessary to reproduce all inputs used, that is, "the economy" is potentially productive. It is potentially productive because of the cumulative effects of innovations dating back to prehistory, but the important point is that this potential productivity is, for the present generation, a public good. It belongs no more to one person or group than another. It is our common economic inheritance. Under capitalist rules, to convert this potential productivity into an actual social surplus, capitalists must permit workers access to the means of production and workers must toil under capitalist management. Capitalists then accrue part of the social surplus from those who exert and sacrifice to produce it by exploiting the leverage capitalist ownership of the means of production grants them. Bargaining power conveyed to them by their property rights allows capitalists to take the social surplus as profit. In contrast, morality-based claims on the economy's productive potential arise only from personal sacrifice toward increasing or manifesting society's productivity potential, or, in other words, only from work, something not part of capitalists' job description.
Whether one calls the result the "fundamental Marxist theorem" or the "fundamental Sraffian theorem" is secondary. What is primary is that profits come from exploiting workers and that capitalists accrue them by power, not effort and sacrifice. So those who countenance a "positive" role for a private sector in a sought after new economy or who praise the virtues of "mixed economies" could benefit quite a bit from "rereading" Marx. Of course, they can get this insight elsewhere as well, which is fine. What isn't fine, however, is jettisoning the insight that private ownership of the means of production is an abominable economic structure on the idiotic grounds that the insight is part of Marxism and we must now, finally, do better than Marxism does.
But the tendency to go "soft" on private ownership is relatively minor in scope and impact compared to the contemporary economists' stampede to embrace markets, wherein an astonishing proportion of radical political economists have opted to join the international, conservative, free market jubilee. For example, in the debate over what constitutes a desirable economy — illogically unleashed by the crises of Soviet style economies — there are basically four schools of thought advocating, respectively: 1) public enterprise market models, 2) mixed economy market models, 3) centrally planned models and 4) democratic or participatory planning models. Marx would no doubt be surprised that the majority sentiment among modern day Marxists lies with the first two schools. Sentiment is so strongly supportive of market visions, in fact, that among Marxists there is a more active debate between different versions of market models than between markets and planning.
Needless to say, as proponents of participatory planning, we can only wish that some of our colleagues who used to suggest that we needed to apply ourselves more vigorously to the study of Marx, would take their own advice. In the (earlier) words of Frank Roosevelt, a recent convert to market socialism himself, "Marx, the greatest socialist thinker we have had so far, was adamantly opposed to allowing any role for markets in socialism: `Within the cooperative society based on common ownership of the means of production, the producers do not exchange their products,' he said in his Critique of the Gotha Program (1875). And Engels concurred: `The seizure of the means of production by society puts an end to commodity production… which is replaced by conscious organization on a planed basis.' Anti-During (1878)." In our opinion, whether he was the "greatest socialist thinker" or not, Marx took what
While only some of our opposition to markets derives from Marx, he provided more than a good start. Again, we are use Frank Roosevelt's formulation of five reasons Marx opposed markets.
1. Markets inexorably lead to social inequality and class divisions — hence to domination, exploitation, alienation.
2. Because decisions regarding output rates are taken by individuals or firms without any social coordination a market economy will tend to be unstable… thus failing to utilize its human and material resources consistently over time, i.e. waste.
3. Markets gradually turn everything into a commodity and thus corrupt and undermine social morality and community.
4. When commodity production (i.e. the market) is the dominant way of organizing economic activity in a given society, human relationships will necessarily be characterized by alienation. Production for use is the necessary foundation for fully human relationships.
5. Reliance upon the market mechanism for coordinating economic activities prevents a society — and the individuals in it — from achieving freedom in the fullest sense of the word.
While Frank Roosevelt would like to convince himself otherwise, every one of these objections to markets is as sound, if not more sound today than when Marx formulated them over a hundred years ago. To these liabilities, in addition, we would add a number of others, including, briefly, environmental inadequacies, private effect exceptionality, and both the absence of reasonable structures for expression of preferences and the inexorable bending of preferences in an individualist manner. We would also note that regarding point (1), the class division that markets create is not that between capitalists and workers (engendered by private ownership of the means of production) but that between what we call coordinators and workers, a feature of central planning as well.But, in any event, regarding the body of work written by Marx and all subsequent Marxists, our conclusion is no different from anyone else's! If we concentrate on the right passages Marx and chosen representatives of the Marxist heritage will have a positive (though limited) role to play in the future of radical political economy. If we focus on the wrong passages, however, Marxology will be counterproductive.But what about the last set of questions we noted at the outset of this article? That is, what about the critique of Marxism that says its faults derive from the fact that it is ideology or vision per se? This view is, to put it bluntly and briefly, a well meaning insight run amuck. Why is the view "well meaning"? Well, when most post modernists and others (for example, those who suffered the boot of Bolshevism in the Eastern Bloc) argue against developing a framework to understand history or to put forth a vision that we might aspire to attain, they are rebelling against the hubris and authoritarianism of sectarianism. And opposing sectarianism is good, to be sure. What's "amuck" about the view? It goes from rejecting excessive confidence in our analyses and projections, and, particularly, arrogance in stomping out alternatives, to rejecting the very idea of having analyses or projections at all. Again, to overuse the metaphor – there goes the baby with the bath water. Surely the solution to bad analysis and bad vision is better analysis and better vision – not none of either. And surely the solution to arrogant assertion of analysis or vision is openness to diverse perspectives and a good process for comparing and learning from options, not curtailing all options apriori.
To reject thinking about history with an eye to discerning patterns that help us understand our place and our options, and to reject envisioning better institutions that give us norms for valuation now and aims to aspire to by our practice, is to literally de-brain ourselves. An amazing proposal! Yes, if one could show that the acts of thinking, of looking for patterns, of envisioning, etc., whether all together or each separately by their very nature caused those engaging in them to inexorably become Stalinist thugs, the post modernists would have a case. But this is utter nonsense, which is why no post modernist or other proponent of the "no theory, no vision" stance has ever even bothered to try to make such a case. The Marxism problem is not solved by jettisoning everything that Marx and/or Marxists have ever thought or said. Nor is it solved by jettisoning the agenda of trying to understand history or to envision a better future and aspire to create it in light of our thoughts about it and our values and experiences as we proceed. No, the Marxism problem is solved by doing better, and if there is anything that respects the best of the Communist Manifesto, or Marx's own birthday, or the publishing of Das Kapital, or any other event you care to name in this pantheon, getting on with doing it better is that thing.
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Quaker Oats Company logo designed by Saul Bass in 1969. This logo is still used corporately.
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The Quaker Oats Company is an American food conglomerate based in Chicago. It has been owned by PepsiCo since 2001.[1]
- 1 History
- 2 Informed consent controversy, research on children
- 3 Logo and Quakers
- 4 US brands
- 5 UK brands
- 6 References
- 7 External links
Quaker Oats was founded in 1901 by the merger of four oat mills:
- The Quaker Mill Company of Ravenna, Ohio, which held the trademark on the Quaker name and was founded by Henry Parsons Crowell, who bought the bankrupt Quaker Oat Mill Company, also in Ravenna.[2] He held the key positions of general manager, president and chairman of the company from 1888 until late 1943. He was called the cereal tycoon.[3] He donated more than 70% of his wealth to the Crowell Trust.[4][5][6][7][8]
- A cereal mill in Cedar Rapids, Iowa owned by John Stuart, his son Robert Stuart, and their partner George Douglas;
- The German Mills American Oatmeal Company, owned by "The Oatmeal King", Ferdinand Schumacher of Akron, Ohio;
- The Rob Lewis & Co. American Oats and Barley Oatmeal Corporation. Formally known as "Good For Breakfast" instant oatmeal mix.
The company expanded into numerous areas, including other breakfast cereals and other food and drink products, and even into unrelated fields such as toys.
In 1968, a plant was built in Danville, Illinois. This plant currently makes Aunt Jemima pancake mixes, Oat Squares, Life Cereals Quaker Oh's, Bumpers, Quisp, King Vitamin Natural Granola Cereals, and Chewy granola bars. As well as Puffed Rice for use as an ingredient for other products in other plants.
In 1969, Quaker acquired Fisher-Price, a toy company and spun it off in 1991.
In the 1970s, the company financed the making of the film Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory, obtaining in return a license to use a number of the product names mentioned in the movie for candy bars.
In 1982 Quaker Oats formed US Games, a company that created games for the Atari 2600. After one year they went out of business.
In 1983, Quaker bought Stokely-Van Camp, Inc., makers of Van Camp's and Gatorade.[9]
Quaker bought Snapple for $1.7 billion in 1994 and sold it to Triarc in 1997 for $300 million.[10] Triarc sold it to Cadbury Schweppes for $1.45 billion in September 2000.[11] It was spun off in May 2008 to its current owners, Dr Pepper Snapple Group.
In 1996, Quaker spun off its frozen food business, selling it to Aurora Foods (which was bought by Pinnacle Foods in 2004).
In August 2001, Quaker was bought out by Pepsico because Pepsi wanted to add Gatorade to its arsenal of beverages and thus break into the isotonic sports beverage market. The merger created the fourth-largest consumer goods company in the world. Though the main prize for PepsiCo was Gatorade noncarbonated sports drink, Quaker's cereal and snack food division serves as seemingly healthier complement to the existing Frito-Lay division of salty snacks.
Since the late 1980s, actor Wilford Brimley has appeared in television commercials extolling the virtues of oat consumption, typically to a young child, as to introduce the concept of oatmeal consumption as a long tradition.
Canadian operations[edit]
The major Canadian production facility for Quaker Oats is located in Peterborough, Ontario. The factory was first established as the American Cereal Company[12] in 1902 on the shores of the Otonabee River during that city's period of industrialization. On December 11, 1916, the factory all but completely burned to the ground. When the smoke had settled, 23 people had died and Quaker was left with $2,000,000 in damages. Quaker went on to rebuild the facility incorporating the few areas of the structure that were not destroyed by fire. When PepsiCo purchased Quaker Oats in 2001, many brands were consolidated from facilities around Canada to the Peterborough location—which assumed the new QTG moniker (Quaker Tropicana Gatorade). Local production includes Quaker Oatmeal, Quaker Chewy bars, Cap'n Crunch cereal, Aunt Jemima instant pancake mixes and pancake syrups, Quaker Oat Bran and Corn Bran cereals, Gatorade sportdrinks and the Propel fitness water sub-brand, Tropicana juices, and various Frito-Lay snack products. Products are easily identified by the manufactured by address on the packaging. The Peterborough facility exports to the majority of Canada and limited portions of the United States. The Quaker plant sells cereal production byproducts to companies that use them to create fire logs, pellets and janks.
Land giveaways in cereal boxes[edit]
Starting in 1902, the company's oatmeal boxes came with a coupon redeemable for the legal deed to a tiny lot in Milford, Connecticut. The lots, sometimes as small as 10 feet by 10 feet, were carved out of a 15-acre, never-built subdivision called "Liberty Park". A small number of children (or their parents), often residents living near Milford, redeemed their coupons for the free deeds and started paying the extremely small property taxes on the "oatmeal lots". The developer of the prospective subdivision hoped the landowners would hire him to build homes on the lots, although several tracts would need to be combined before building could start. The legal deeds created a large amount of paperwork for town tax collectors, who frequently couldn't find the property owners and received almost no tax revenue from them. In the mid-1970s, the town put an end to the oatmeal lots with a "general foreclosure" condemning nearly all of the property, which is now part of a BiC Corporation plant.[13]
In 1955, Quaker Oats again gave away land as part of a promotion, this one tied to the Sergeant Preston of the Yukon television show in the United States. The company offered in its Puffed Wheat and Puffed Rice cereal boxes genuine deeds to land in the Klondike.[13]
Informed consent controversy, research on children[edit]
In the 1950s, researchers from Quaker Oats Company, MIT and Harvard University carried out experiments at the Walter E. Fernald State School to determine how the minerals from cereals were metabolized. Parents of mentally challenged children were asked for permission to let their children be members of a Science Club and participate in research. Being a member of the Science Club gave the children special privileges. The parents were told that the children would be fed with a diet high in nutrients. However, they were not told (and the consent form contained no information indicating) that the food their children were fed contained radioactive calcium and iron.[14] The information obtained from the experiments was to be used as part of an advertising campaign.[15] The company was later sued because of the experiments. The lawsuit was settled on December 31, 1997.[16]
Trans Fat Content and Litigation[edit]
In 2010, two California consumers filed a class action lawsuit against the Quaker Oats Company.[17] Plaintiffs allege that Quaker marketed its products as healthy even though they contained unhealthy trans fat. Specifically, Quaker's Chewy Granola Bars, Instant Oatmeal, and Oatmeal to Go Bars contained trans fat,[18] yet their packaging featured claims like "heart healthy," "wholesome," and "smart choices made easy."[17]
Plaintiffs' complaint cites current scientific evidence that trans fat causes coronary heart disease[19] and is associated with a higher risk of diabetes[20] and some forms of cancer.[18][21]
Quaker has denied any wrongdoing. As of October 2012, the case is still in litigation in the Northern District of California.[17]
Logo and Quakers[edit]
The monochromatic 1969 Quaker Oats Company Logo was created by Saul Bass, a graphic designer known for his motion picture title sequences and corporate logos. The current logo (on which the Saul Bass logo was apparently modeled) was painted by Haddon Sundblom sometime between 1939 and 1941 using fellow Coca Cola artist Harold W. McCauley as the model. Today, the company states that "The 'Quaker man' is not an actual person. His image is that of a man dressed in the Quaker garb, chosen because the Quaker faith projected the values of honesty, integrity, purity and strength." [22] However, early Quaker Oats advertising, dating back to 1909, did, indeed, identify the man as William Penn, "standard bearer of the Quakers and of Quaker Oats."[23] The man is now sometimes referred to as "Larry" by insiders at Quaker Oats.[24]
The company has no formal ties with the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers). When the company was being built up, Quaker businessmen were known for their honesty (truth is often considered a Quaker testimony). The Straight Dope writes "According to the good folks at Quaker Oats, the Quaker Man was America's first registered trademark for a breakfast cereal, his registration taking place on September 4th, 1877." [25]
US brands[edit]
As of 2005[update], these are the product brands marketed under the Quaker Oats name in the US:
Breakfast cereals[edit]
- Cap'n Crunch
- Life cereal
- Quisp
- Mother's Natural Foods
- Quaker 100% Natural Granola
- Kretschmer Wheat Germ
- Muffets ("The round shredded wheat")
- Quaker Oatmeal Squares
- Quaker Toasted Oatmeal
- Quaker Oh's
- Quaker Corn Bran
- Quaker Oat Bran
- Quaker Puffed Rice
- Quaker Puffed Wheat
- Quaker Oatmeal with Dinosaur Eggs
- Graham Bumpers
- Coco Bumpers
- King Vitaman
Other breakfast foods[edit]
- Quaker Oatmeal
- Quaker Oatmeal To Go (re-branded from Breakfast Squares in 2006)
- Quaker Grits
- Aunt Jemima Syrups and Mixes (Aunt Jemima frozen breakfast foods is owned by Pinnacle Foods, who use the Aunt Jemima trademark under license from Quaker Oats Company)
- Quaker Breakfast Cookies
- Quaker Instant Oatmeal
- Quaker Crispy Minis (Rice Chips and Rice Cakes) (known as Snack-a-Jacks in the UK)
- Quakes Rice Snacks
- Quaker Soy Crisps
- Quaker Snack Bars
- Chewy Granola Bars
- Quaker Mini Delights
- Yogurt bars
- cookie
- Greek Yogurt
Blueberry Crisp
- Quaker Tortilla Mix
- Rice-A-Roni
- Pasta Roni
- Near East
- Fat
- Milk Chillers
- Tropicana fruit Juices
- Sunbolt (defunct)
- Moneng Refreshing Drinks
- Moneng Oat Power (Isotonic Drink)
UK brands[edit]
As of 2008[update], these are the product brands marketed under the Quaker Oats name in the UK:[26]
Hot cereals[edit]
- Quaker Oats
- Oatso Simple (various flavours)
- Scott's Porage Oats
- Scott's So Easy
(the Scott's brand, previously a rival, is now also owned by Quaker)
- Pawridge
Ready to eat cereal[edit]
- Harvest Crunch
Cereal bars[edit]
- Oat Bars (Original with golden syrup or Mixed berry flavors)
- Snackajacks bags
- Snackajacks Jumbos
- ^ Matthew Herper and Betsy Schiffman (2 August 2001). "Pepsi Bought Quaker. Now What?". Forbes. Retrieved 21 January 2011.
- ^ Adams, Janky. "The Strait Dope Mailbag - Is the guy on the Quaker Oats Box John Penn?". Retrieved 2007-08-15.
- ^ Washington, Booker T. "Cereal Tycoon: The Biography of Henry Parsons Crowell: Joe Musser: Books". Amazon.com. Retrieved 2012-01-18.
- ^ Generous Giving: Store[dead link]
- ^ "The Crowell Trust". The Crowell Trust. Retrieved 2012-01-18.
- ^ Quaker Oatmeal -Our History[dead link]
- ^ The Legacy of Henry Parsons Crowell, Founder of Quaker Oats - Christian Business Daily
- ^ "Cereal Tycoon: The Biography of Henry Parsons Crowell: Joe Musser". Amazon.com.
"Streaming Video (Stories & Testimonies: Givers) Any Man: The Story of Henry Parsons Crowell".
- ^ "The Quaker Oats Company - Company History". Fundinguniverse.com. Retrieved 2012-01-18.
- ^ "Quaker Oats Sells Snapple At A $1". Morevalue.com. 1997-03-28. Retrieved 2012-01-18.
- ^ Brian Graney (2000-09-18). "Triarc Sells Snapple to Cadbury Schweppes [Breakfast With the Fool] September 18, 2000". Fool.com. Retrieved 2012-01-18.
- ^ "American Cereal Company". Ohio Historical Society.
- ^ a b Juliano, Frank, "Oatmeal lots gave officials indigestion", pp 1, A12, October 3, 2010, Connecticut Post
- ^ "Chapter 7: The Studies at Fernald School". ACHRE Report. "It is clear that the doses involved were low and that it is extremely unlikely that any of the children who were used as subjects were harmed as a consequence."
- ^ http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1914&dat=19980101&id=m9ggAAAAIBAJ&sjid=KWsFAAAAIBAJ&pg=1461,30454. Missing or empty
- ^ Hussain, Zareena (January 7, 1998). "MIT to pay $1.85 million in Fernald radiation settlement". The Tech 11 (65). Retrieved 2009-06-09.
- ^ a b c "Quaker Oats Class Action Lawsuit"
- ^ a b "First Amended Complaint for Violations of the UCL, FAL, and CLRA", August 19, 2011
- ^ Dariush Mozaffarian et al, "Trans Fatty Acids and Cardiovascular Disease", New England Journal of Medicine, 2006.
- ^ Frank B. Hu et al, "Diet, Lifestyle, and the Risk of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus in Women", New England Journal of Medicine, September 2001.
- ^ Veronique Chajes et al, "Association between serum trans-monounsaturated fatty acids and breast cancer risk in the E3N-EPIC Study", Am J Epidemiology, 2008 June.
- ^ "Quaker Oats Company Web Site - Quaker FAQ". Retrieved 2009-01-22.
- ^ http://phillyflashbacks.wordpress.com/2013/03/18/if-it-walks-like-william-penn-talks-like-william-penn-and-looks-like-william-penn/
- ^ Nassauer, Sarah (2012-03-29). "'Larry,' Quaker of Oatmeal Fame, Gets a Makeover". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 2012-04-01.
- ^ Adams, Cecil. "The Strait Dope Mailbag - Is the guy on the Quaker Oats Box John Penn?". Retrieved 2007-08-15.
- ^ Quaker: UK Trade Site. Quaker. Archived from the original on 15 November 2006. Retrieved 29 June 2009.
- D'Antonio, Michael. The State Boys Rebellion. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2004.
External links[edit]
- Quaker Oats
- Quaker Oats Company from the Summit Memory Project
- Story about the radioactivity experiments


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