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Valtcho Jeliazkov (Zheljazkov), Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Plant Sciences
Phone: 307-673-2647
Fax: 307-673-4384
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2001: Ph.D. Dept. of Plant and Soil Sciences, University of Massachusetts
1988: Ph.D. in Agronomy, Higher Institute of Agriculture, Plovdiv, Bulgaria
1983: M.Sc. in Agronomy, Higher Institute of Agriculture, Plovdiv, Bulgaria
AECL 4190 Herbs, Spices & Medicinal Plants
PLNT 5190 Herbs, Spices & Medicinal Plants
AECL 4120 Organic Food Production
PLNT 5120 Organic Food Production
- Specialty crops, medicinal and aromatic plants, plant secondary metabolites
- Oilseeds, biofuel crops, and forages
- Reclamation, remediation, and native plants
- Various aspects of soil/plant relationships and nutrient management of horticultural and agronomic crops
- Development of environmentally benign cropping systems, improving economic and environmental sustainability of crop production
- Evaluation of 'waste materials' as soil amendments, benefits and potential environmental hazards
- Electron microscopy and X-ray microanalyses.
Society Membership
American Society of Horticultural Science
American Society of Agronomy
Crop Science Society of America
Canadian Society of Agronomy
American Council for Medicinally Active Plants
Refereed Journal Papers in the last 10 years
Moser, B.R., V.D. Zheljazkov, E.L. Bakota, R.L. Evangelista, A. Gawde, C.L. Cantrell, J.K. Winkler-Moser, A.N. Hristov, T. Astatkie, and E. Jeliazkova. 2014. Method for obtaining three products with different properties from fennel (Foeniculum vulgare) seed. Industrial Crops and Products. 60:335–342.
Zheljazkov, V.D., T. Astatkie, and V. Schlegel. 2014. Hydrodistillation Extraction Time Effect on Essential Oil Yield, Composition, and Bioactivity of Coriander Oil. Journal of Oleo Science. 60, 335-342.
Zheljazkov, V.D., T. Astatkie, S. Shiwakoti, S. Poudyal, T. Horgan, N. Kovatcheva, and A. Dobreva. 2014. Essential Oil Yield and Composition of Garden Sage as a Function of Different Steam Distillation Times. HortScience. 49:785-790.
Gawde, A., C.L. Cantrell, V.D. Zheljazkov, T. Astatkie, and V. Schlegel. 2014. Steam distillation extraction kinetics regression models to predict essential oil yield, composition, and bioactivity of chamomile oil. Industrial Crops and Products 58:61–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.indcrop.2014.04.001
Zheljazkov, V.D., T. Astatkie, and E.A. Jeliazkova. 2014. Drying and Shade Effects on Spearmint Oil Yields and Composition. HortScience. 49(3):306–310.
Zheljazkov, V.D., T. Astatkie, Barry O'Brocki, and E. Jeliazkova. 2013. Essential Oil Composition and Yield of Anise from Different Distillation Times. HortScience 48(11):1393-1396.
Zheljazkov, V.D., C.L. Cantrell, T. Astatkie, V. Schlegel, E. Jeliazkova and D. Lowe. 2013. Effect of Coal-Bed Methane Water on Spearmint and Peppermint. Journal of Environmental Quality. 42(6):1815-1821. doi:10.2134/jeq2013.05.0211.
Zheljazkov, V.D., T. Astatkie, T. Horgan, V. Schlegel, and X. Simonnet. 2013. Distillation Time Effect on Essential Oil Yield, Composition, and Antioxidant Capacity of Sweet Sagewort (Artemisia annua L.) Oil. HortScience 48(10):1288-1292.
Zheljazkov, V.D., T. Horgan, T. Astatkie, and V. Schlegel. 2013. Distillation Time Modifies Essential Oil Yield, Composition, and Antioxidant Capacity of Fennel (Foeniculum vulgare Mill). Journal of Oleo Science. 62(9):665-672. http://dx.doi.org/10.5650/jos.62.665
Zheljazkov, V.D., T. Astatkie, and E. Jeliazkova. 2013. Year-round Variations in Essential Oil Content and Composition of Male and Female Juniper. HortScience. 48(7):883–886. 2013.
Zheljazkov, V.D., B. Vick, W.M. Ebelhar, N. Buehring, and T. Astatkie. 2013. Effect of N on Yield and Chemical Profile of Winter Canola in Mississippi. Journal of Oleo Sciece. 62(7):453-458. http://dx.doi.org/10.5650/jos.62.453
Zheljazkov, V.D., C.L. Cantrell, T. Astatkie, and E. Jeliazkova. 2013. Mentha canadensis L., a subtropical plant, can withstand first few fall frosts when grown in northern climate. Industrial Crops and Products. 49:521-525. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.indcrop.2013.05.034
Zheljazkov, V.D., T. Astatkie, and E. Jeliazkova. 2013. Effect of foliar application of methyl jasmonate and extracts of juniper and sagebrush on essential oil yield and composition of 'Native' spearmint. HortScience. 48(4): 462-465.
Zheljazkov, V.D., C.L. Cantrell, T. Astatkie, and E. Jeliazkova. 2013. Distillation Time Effect on Lavender Essential Oil Yield and Composition. Journal of Oleo Science. 62(4):195-199.
Zheljazkov, V.D., C.L. Cantrell, M.A. Donega, and T. Astatkie. 2013. Bioprospecting for podophyllotoxin in the Big Horn Mountains, Wyoming. Industrial Crops and Products, 43:787-790.
Zheljazkov, V.D., C.L. Cantrell, M.A. Donega, T. Astatkie, and B. Heidel. 2012. Podophyllotoxin Concentration in Junipers in the Big Horn Mountains in Wyoming. HortScience 47(12):1696-1697.
Zheljazkov, V.D., T. Astatkie, E. Jeliazkova, A.O. Tatman, and V. Schlegel. 2012. Distillation time alters essential oil yield, composition and antioxidant activity of female Juniperus scopulorum trees. Journal of Essential Oil Research. 25(1):62-69.
Zheljazkov, V.D., C.L. Cantrell, T. Astatkie, and E. Jeliazkova. 2012. Fall frosts effects on the essential oil of "Native" spearmint in Wyoming. HortScience 47(11):1603-16060
Zheljazkov, V.D., B.A. Vick, B.S. Baldwin, N. Buehring, T. Astatkie, and B. Johnson. 2012. Effect of Plant Date, Nitrogen Rate, and Hybrid on Sunflower. Journal of Plant Nutrition, 35(14):2198-2210.
Zheljazkov, V.D., T. Astatkie, E.A. Jeliazkova, and V. Schlegel. 2012. Distillation time alters essential oil yield, composition, and antioxidant activity of male Juniperus scopulorum trees. Journal of Oleo Science. 61(10):537-546.
Munroe, M., V. Zheljazkov, T. Astatkie, and G. Stratton. 2012. Comparison of lead extraction and detection procedures for six Canadian soils. Communications in Soil Science and Plant Analysis. 43(17): 2303-2313
Cantrell, C.L., V.D. Zheljazkov, W.A. Osbrink, A. Castro, V. Maddox, L.E. Craker, T. Astatkie. 2013. Podophyllotoxin and essential oil profile of Juniperus and related species. Industrial Crops and Products. 43:668-676.
Tekippe, J.A., A.N. Hristov, K.S. Heyler, V.D. Zheljazkov, J.F.S. Ferreira, C.L. Cantrell, G.A. Varga. 2012. Effects of plants and essential oils on ruminal in vitro batch culture methane production and fermentation. Can. J. Anim. Sci. 92(3):395-408
Zheljazkov, V.D., T. Astatkie, and V. Schlegel. 2012. Distillation time changes oregano essential oil yields and composition but not the antioxidant or antimicrobial activities. HortScience 47(6):777-784
Zheljazkov, V.D., T. Astatkie, and V. Schlegel. 2012. Effects of distillation time on the Pinus ponderosa essential oil Yield, composition, and antioxidant activity. HortScience 47(6):785-789
Ferreira, J.F.S., V.D. Zheljazkov, and J.M. Gonzales. 2013. Artemisinin concentration and antioxidant capacity of Artemisia annua distillation byproduct. Industrial Crops and Products. 41:294-298
Cannon, J.B., C.L. Cantrella, T. Astatkie, and V.D. Zheljazkov. 2013. Modification of yield and composition of essential oils by distillation time. Industrial Crops and Products. 41:214- 220.
Zheljazkov, V.D., and T. Astatkie. 2012. Effect of distillation time on Mentha canadensis essential oil yield and composition. HortScience. 47(5):643-647.
Zheljazkov, V.D. and T. Astatkie. 2011. Effect of plant species and benomyl on lead concentration and removal from lead-enriched soil. HortScience. 46(12):1604-1607.
Zheljazkov, V.D. and T. Astatkie. 2012. Distillation waste water can modify peppermint (Mentha ×piperita L.) oil composition. Industrial Crops and Products. 36 (2012) 420- 426.
Zheljazkov, V.D., T. Horgan, T. Astatkie, D. Fratesi, and C.C. Mischke. 2011. Study on shrimp waste water and vermicompost as a nutrient source for bell peppers. HortScience. 46:1493-1496.
Zheljazkov, V.D., T. Astatkie, and A.N. Hristov. 2012. Lavender and hyssop productivity, oil content, and bioactivity as a function of harvest time and drying. Industrial Crops and Products. 36(1):222-228.
Zheljazkov, V.D., B. Vick, M.W. Ebelhar, N. Buehring, and T. Astatkie. 2012. Nitrogen applications modify seed and oil yields and fatty acid composition of winter mustard. Industrial Crops and Products. 36:28-32.
Tekippe, J.A., A.N. Hristov, K.S. Heyler, T.W. Cassidy, V.D. Zheljazkov, J.F.S. Ferreira, S.K. Karnati, and G.A. Varga. 2011. Rumen fermentation and production effects of Origanum vulgare L. in lactating dairy cows. Journal of Dairy Science. 94:5065–5079.
Dobreva, A., N. Kovatcheva, T. Astatkie, and V.D. Zheljazkov. 2011. Improvement of essential oil yield of oil-bearing rose (Rosa damascena Mill.) due to surfactant and maceration. Industrial Crops and Products. 34(3):1649-1651.
Kovatcheva, N., V.D. Zheljazkov, and T. Astatkie. 2011. Productivty, oil content, composition, and bioactivity of oil-bearing rose accessions. HortScience. 46(5):710-714.
Zheljazkov, V.D., C.L. Cantrell, T. Astatkie, and J.B. Cannon. 2011. Lemongrass productivity, oil content, and composition as a function of N, S, and harvest time. Agronomy Journal. 103:805-812.
Zheljazkov, V.D., and T. Astatkie. 2011. Effect of Residual Distillation Water of 15 Plants and Three Plant Hormones on Scotch Spearmint (Mentha × gracilis Sole). Industrial Crops and Products. 33(3):704-709
Zheljazkov, V.D., C.L. Cantrell, and T. Astatkie. 2011. Variation in Podophyllotoxin Concentration in Leaves and Rhizomes of American mayapple (Podophyllum peltatum L.). Industrial Crops and Products. 33(3): 633-637
Zheljazkov, V.D., and T. Astatkie. 2011. Effect of Distillation Waste Water and Plant Hormones on Spearmint Growth and Composition. J. Sci. Food Agric. Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture.91(6):1135-1141
Zheljazkov,V.D., Brady A. Vickb, Brian S. Baldwin, Normie Buehring, Christine Coker, Tess Astatkie, and Billy Johnson. 2011. Oil Productivity and Composition of Sunflower as a Function of Hybrid and Planting Date. Industrial Crops and Products. 33:537-543.
Zheljazkov, V.D., C.L. Cantrell, and T. Astatkie. 2010. Yield, content, and composition of peppermint and spearmints as a function of harvesting time and drying. Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry. 58:11400–11407.
Zheljazkov, V.D., C.L. Cantrell, and T. Astatkie. 2010. Yield and composition of Japanese cornmint fresh and dry material harvested successively. Agronomy Journal. 102(6):1652-1656.
Zheljazkov, V.D., T. Astatkie, T. Horgan, and S. Marie Rogers. 2010. Effect of plant hormones and distillation water on mints. HortScience. 45(9):1338-1340.
Zheljazkov, V.D., C.L. Cantrell, and T. Astatkie. 2010. Study on Japanese cornmint in Mississippi. Agronomy Journal. 102(2):696-702.
Zheljazkov, V.D., C.L. Cantrell, T. Astatkie, and M.W. Ebelhar. 2010. Productivity, Oil Content and Composition of Two Spearmint Species in Mississippi. Agronomy Journal. 102(1):129-133.
Zheljazkov, V.D., C.L. Cantrell, T. Astatkie, and M.W. Ebelhar. 2010. Peppermint Productivity and Oil Composition as a Function of Nitrogen, Growth Stage, and Harvest Time. Agronomy Journal. 102(1):124-128.
LeRiche, E.L., G. Wang-Pruski, and V.D. Zheljazkov. 2009. Distribution of elements in potatoes (Solanum tuberosum L.) and their relationship to after-cooking darkening. HortScience. 44(7):1866-1873.
Zheljazkov, V.D., V.K. Cerven, C.L. Cantrell, and M.W. Ebelhar. 2009. Effect of N, location, and harvesting stage on peppermint productivity, oil content, and oil composition. HortScience. 44:1267–1270.
Gawde, A.J., C.L. Cantrell, and V.D. Zheljazkov. 2009. Dual extraction of essential oil and podophyllotoxin from Juniperus virginiana. Industrial Crops and Products. 30:276-280.
Zheljazkov, V.D., B.A. Vick, B. Baldwin, N. Buehring, and T. Astatkie. 2009. Oil Content and Saturated Fatty Acids in Sunflower (Helianthus annuus L.) as a Function of Planting Date, N Rate and Hybrid. Agronomy Journal. 101(4): 1003-1011.
Gawde, A.J. V.D. Zheljazkov, V. Maddox, and C.L. Cantrell. 2009. Bioprospection of Eastern red cedar from nine physiographic regions in Mississippi. Industrial Crops and Products. 30:59-64.
Zheljazkov, V.D., G.W. Stratton, J. Pincock, S. Butler, E.A. Jeliazkova, N.K. Nedkov, and P.D. Gerard. 2009. Wool waste as organic source for container grown plants. Waste Management. 29:2160-2164.
Zheljazkov, V.D., B. Avula, A.M. Jones, V. Maddox, and D.E. Rowe. 2009. Lignan and nutrient concentrations in American Mayapple (Podophyllum peltatum L.) in the Eastern United States. HortScience. 44(2):349-353.
Zheljazkov, V.D., G.W. Stratton, and T. Sturz. 2008. Uncomposted wool and hair-wastes as soil amendments for high-value crops. Agronomy Journal. 100:1605–1614.
Zheljazkov, V.D., and P. McNeil. 2008. Comparison of five digestion procedures for recovery of nutrients and trace elements in plant tissue. Journal of Plant Nutrition. 31(11):1937-1946.
Zheljazkov, V.D., E. Jeliazkova, N. Kovatcheva, and A. Dzhurmanski. 2008. Metal uptake by medicinal plant species grown in soils contaminated by a smelter. Environmental and Experimental Botany. 64:207-216.
Zheljazkov, V.D., J.L. Silva, M. Patel, J. Stojanovic, Y. Lu, T. Kim, and T. Horgan. 2008. Human Hair as Nutrient Source for Horticultural Crops. HortTechnology. 18(4):592-596.
Wilson, J., V.D. Zheljazkov, B. Rathgeber, D. Burton, and C.D. Caldwell. 2008. Reduction of phosphorus availability in poultry and dairy manure using mineral amendments. Soil Science and Plant Nutrition. 54:600-605.
Zhejazkov, V.D., C.L. Cantrell, M.W. Ebelhar, D. Rowe, and C. Coker. 2008. Productivity, oil content, and oil composition of sweet basil as a function of nitrogen and sulfur fertilization. HortScience. 43(5):1415-1422.
Zheljazkov, V.D., C.L. Cantrell, W.B. Evans, M.W. Ebelhar, and C. Coker. 2008. Yield and composition of Ocimum basilicum L. and Ocimum sanctum L. grown at four locations. HortScience. 43(3):737-741.
Zheljazkov, V.D., K.M. Bowes, C.D. Caldwell, J.A. Pincock, J.C. Roberts, and L. Mapplebeck. 2008. Cultivar and sowing date effects on seed yield and oil composition of coriander in Atlantic Canada. Industrial Crops and Products. 28:88-94.
Urbaniak, S.D., C.D. Caldwell, V.D. Zheljazkov, R. Lada and L. Luan. 2008. The effect of seeding rate, seeding date and seeder type on the performance of Camelina sativa L. in the Maritime Provinces of Canada. Canadian Journal of Plant Science. 88:501-508.
Zheljazkov, V.D., B.A. Vick, M.W. Ebelhar, N. Buehring, B. Baldwin, T. Astatkie, and J.F. Miller. 2008. Yield, oil content, and composition of sunflower (Helianthus annuus L.) grown at multiple locations in Mississippi. Agronomy Journal. 100:635-642.
Zheljazkov, V.D., L.E. Craker, B. Xing, N.E. Nielsen, and A. Wilcox. 2008. Aromatic plant production on metal contaminated soils. Science of the Total Environment. 395:51-62.
Zheljazkov, V.D., C.L. Cantrell, B. Tekwani, S. Khan. 2008. Content, composition, and bioactivity of the essential oil of three basil genotypes as a function of harvesting. Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry. 56(2):380-385.
Zheljazkov, V.D., A. Callahan, and C.L. Cantrell. 2008. Yield and oil composition of thirty-eight basil (Ocimum basilicum L.) accessions grown in Mississippi. Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry. 56(1):241-245.
Urbaniak, S.D., C.D. Caldwell1, V.D. Zheljazkov, R. Lada and L. Luan. 2008. The effect of cultivar and applied nitrogen on the performance of Camelina sativa L. in the Maritime Provinces of Canada. Canadian Journal of Plant Science. 2008. 88:111-119.
Parsons, K.J., V.D. Zheljazkov, J. MacLeod, and C.D. Caldwell. 2007. Soil and tissue P, K, Ca and S as affected by dairy manure application in a no-till corn, wheat and soybean rotation. Agronomy Journal. 99:1306-1316.
Zheljazkov, V.D., C.L. Cantrell, M.W. Ebelhar, C. Coker, and W.B. Evans. 2007. Quality assessment and yield of baikal skullcap (Scutellaria baicalensis) grown at multiple locations across Mississippi. HortScience. 42(5):1183-1187.
Zheljazkov, V.D., K. Patterson, K.J. Parsons, and G. Sampson. 2007. Tolerance of bare-root ornamental perennials to selected herbicides. Canadian Journal of Plant Science. 439–442.
LeRiche, E.L., G. Wang-Pruski, and V.D. Zheljazkov. 2006. Mineral concentration and distribution in tubers of fertilized and unfertilized potato cultivars Shepody and Russet Burbank as determined by VP-SEM/EDS. Canadian Journal of Plant Science. 86:1349-1353.
Zheljazkov, V.D., I. Zhalnov, and N. Nedkov. 2006. Herbicides for weed control in blessed thistle (Silybum marianum). Weed Technology. 20(4):1030-1034.
Zheljazkov, V.D., T. Astatkie, C.D. Caldwell, J. MacLeod, and M. Grimmett. 2006. Compost, manure, and gypsum application to timothy/red clover forage. Journal of Environmental Quality. 35:2410-2418.
Zheljazkov, V.D., L.E. Craker, and B. Xing. 2006. Effects of Cd, Pb, and Cu on growth and essential oil contents in dill, peppermint, and basil. Environmental and Experimental Botany. 58(1-3):9-16.
Zheljazkov, V.D. 2005. Assessment of wool-waste and hair-waste as soil amendment and nutrient source. Journal of Environmental Quality. 34:2310-2317.
Bowes, K. and V.Zheljazkov, 2004. Essential oil yields and quality of fennel grown in Nova Scotia. HortScience. 39(7):1640-1643.
Bowes, K. V. Zheljazkov, C. Cadwell, J. Pinckock, and J. Roberts. 2004. Influence of seeding date and harvest stage on yields and essential oil composition of three cultivars of dill (Anethum graveolens L.) Grown in Nova Scotia. Canadian Journal of Plant Science. 84:1155-1160.
Bowes, K. and V. Zheljazkov. 2004. Ocimum sanctum L. and Ocimum basilicum L. Grown in Nova Scotia, Canada show potential as essential oil crops. Journal of the American Society for Horticultural Science. 129(6):789-794.
Zheljazkov, V.D. and P.R. Warman. 2004. Phytoavailability and Fractionation of Cu, Mn, and Zn in soil following application of two composts to four crops. Environmental Pollution. 131(2):187-195.
Zheljazkov, V.D. and P.R. Warman. 2004. Application of high Cu compost to dill and peppermint. Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry. 52:2615-2622.
Zheljazkov, V.D. and P.R. Warman. 2004. Source Separated Municipal Solid Waste Compost Application to Swiss Chard and Basil. Journal of Environmental Quality. 33:542-552.
Zheljazkov, V.D. and P.R. Warman. 2003. Application of High Cu Compost to Swiss Chard and Basil. Science of the Total Environment. 302:13-26.


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Pictures: 50 greatest college football coaches ever
To honor the 100th anniversary of coach Paul "Bear" Bryant's birth, we put together our list of the 50 greatest college football coaches ever.
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No. 42 Mack Brown( Brendan Maloney, US-Presswire. )
The Buzz: Brown is on the hot seat at Texas now, but he's lasted a lot longer than others coaches might have him at Texas if not for his remarkable start leading the Longhorns. He has a 151-44 record at Texas and winning at least nine games per season during his first 12 seasons. Brown led Texas to the 2005 national title.

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CROET a model for DOE?
The Dept. of Energy recently announced a new effort to look at ways to reuse DOE assets around the country, forming a task force to evaluate different opportunities to work with communities, etc. It sounded an awful lot like what the Community Reuse Organization of East Tennessee (CROET) was created to do years ago in Oak Ridge.
At a workshop a couple of weeks ago, I asked CROET chief Lawrence Young if he was surprised at the announcement, and he said he was. But he indicated he wasn't worried about CROET being replaced, that it was more likely that the Oak Ridge effort would be used as a model for other DOE sites.
DOE's Oak Ridge Manager Gerald Boyd agreed with that view.
Boyd said the new asset utilization program at DOE is actually a new, broader effort for what was previously labeled the "energy parks" initiative.
"I think CROET is going to be a model. It certainly will not replace CROET. The Oak Ridge reindustrialization program is far ahead of most of the DOE sites," Boyd said. "I don't think it'll change anything."


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Jessica Alba has gone from super hero to super mom. The actress was in Bethesda this weekend to meet fans and sign copies of her book, "The Honest Life".
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The "Deathly Hallows" trailer attached to the LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1 - 4 has made its way to YouTube. There is very little new footage in the trailer, mostly just different shots of scenes we've already seen in previous trailers, but it does provide a more lingering look at the Godric's Hollow graveyard. Watch it in our Video Galleries or below.


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What can we learn that's new about early colonial Plymouth? State of the art archaeological techniques allow archaeologist to examine what's underground without actually digging. Staff from the Fiske Center for Archaeological Research at the University of Massachusetts, Boston, will discuss these techniques and how they can be applied to Burial Hill and downtown Plymouth.
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4. Clay Buchholz RHP BOS
5. Clayton Kershaw LHP LAD
6. Joba Chamberlain RHP NYY
7. Cameron Maybin OF FLA
8. Homer Bailey RHP CIN
9. David Price LHP TB
10. Andy LaRoche 3B LAD
11. Jacob McGee LHP TB
12. Johnny Cueto RHP CIN
13. Travis Snider OF TOR
14. Brandon Wood 3B/SS LAA
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17. (T) Andrew McCutchen OF PIT
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20. (T) Chase Headley 3B SD
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23. Rick Porcello RHP DET
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31. Desmond Jennings OF TB
32. Carlos Gonzalez OF OAK
33. Jason Heyward OF ATL
34. Fautino de los Santos RHP CWS
35. Jed Lowrie SS BOS
36. Angel Villalona 3B SF
37. Gio Gonzalez LHP CWS
38. Ian Kennedy RHP NYY
39. Carlos Triunfel SS SEA
40. Steven Pearce 1B/OF PIT
41. Jordan Schafer OF ATL
(Kosuke Fukudome OF CHC)
42. Adam Miller RHP CLE
43. Nick Adenhart RHP ANA
44. Wladimir Balentien OF SEA
45. Austin Jackson OF NYY
46. Eric Hurley RHP TEX
47. Jose Tabata OF NYY
Deolis Guerra, Anthony Swarzak, Tim Alderson
Bill Rowell (7/46), Taylor Teagarden (6/45), Elvis Andrus (4/41)
Max Scherzer
Deolis Guerra (8/47), Hank Conger (4/43), Michael Burgess (4/45), Brandon Jones (4/46), James McDonald (4/46), Josh Vitters (3/40), Radhames Liz (3/41), Jarrod Parker (3/44), Ross Detwiler (3/44), Anthony Swarzak (3/47), Neil Walker (2/37), Hiroki Kuroda (2/38), Beau Mills (2/39), Manny Parra (2/40), Tim Alderson (2/47), Justin Masterson (1/26), Carlos Carrasco (0/25)
Dexter Fowler, Jeremy Hellickson, Chris Tillman, Jordan Walden, Nick Weglarz, Trevor Cahill, Omar Poveda, Dan Cortes, Will Inman, JR Towles, Kasey Kiker, Nate Schierholtz, Wes Hodges, Brent Lillibridge, Chris Volstad, Chris Carter II
one note: for the guys who are in the tank (or "the locker room", in this case) - i try to cycle through them as best i can, but space is limited, so if somebody falls down below about 2% i tend to sort of leave them there until somebody speaks up and asks for them. so if there's a guy down in that range that you'd be voting for, don't be shy.


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CATEGORIES Comedy, Fandom, Home Entertainment, Trailers and Clips, Friday Night Double Feature, Features, Trailers and Clips, CinematicalWhile it wasn't so fun to get "Smoke on the Water" playing on repeat in my brain after our EIC Erik Davis sent me the idea for this double feature, it's been great to reminisce about two films from the early '90s that dealt with fish out of water themes -- My Cousin Vinny and Doc Hollywood. One is an Oscar winner, and the other is a fluffy comedy, but both perfectly embody that moment in time -- the beginning of a new decade and the next step for some of the biggest names of the 1980's. On the one hand, you have Ralph Macchio, and on the other, the unbeatable Michael J. Fox. One might be up for murder while the other gets to save lives, but in both cases, they're guys who prefer the city, but get ensnared in small town life.
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On the one hand, you've got the story. Two "youts" -- Billy Gambini (Ralph Macchio) and Stan Rothenstein (Mitchell Whitfield) are traveling through Alabama when they forget to pay for a can of tuna. They leave the store and soon find themselves in jail and awaiting trial when the store clerk is shot and killed. One can never underestimate the power of familial connections, and Billy's cousin Vinny (Joe Pesci) comes to save the day -- a fish in a very unfamiliar pond. He looks to be just a spastic Brooklynite with a saucy girlfriend (Marisa Tomei). However, first impressions aren't all they're cracked up to be, and it turns out that Vinny is just what the two guys need to break free.
On the other hand, you have the cast. It's just plain great. You've got Pesci, who rocks as Vinny, Tomei, who won an Oscar for her performance, and Macchio, who shows that there's more to him than his time as a karate kid. But that's just the first layer. There's greats like Austin Pendleton and Bruce McGill, but best of all -- Fred Gwynne, in his last performance, plays Judge Chamberlain Haller. Really, what else do you need?
Mona Lisa Vito in her god-awful, super-tight, floral body suit talks about what she's nervous about.
Vinny plans to go hunting, and Mona Lisa mourns the future slain dear.
The Judge feels mocked.
Owls aren't safe when Vinny is around.
Doc Hollywood
And then there's Michael J. Fox's Doc Hollywood. Fox plays Dr. Ben Stone, a hotshot new doctor who hasn't made friends working in the emergency room, and jumps at the chance to become a plastic surgeon in Beverly Hills. However, he ends up crashing in a rural community in South Carolina and must perform 32 hours of community service in the local hospital. He fights against his big-city urges and just how drawn he is to the people of this small town -- especially Julie Warner's Lou.
When it comes down to it, he has to choose which shoes to follow -- those of Barnard Hughes, who plays Dr. Aurelius Hogue in the small town, or George Hamilton, who fixes faces in California as Doctor Halberstrom. Is it really any choice? Hamilton is great and all, but only one guy can fight vampires as a Grandpa (Lost Boys). Sadly, Hughes passed away in 2006, but his work lives on.
Stone rides around with a weepy cab driver.
"The One and Only" opening credits.
Woody Wittman rants about Cars ripping off Doc Hollywood.
Fox pimps Pepsi.
Fox pops on Rachael Ray last year.


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Getting into a four-year college in San Diego County is a little bit easier Monday thanks to a wider window for applying.
On Sunday, San Diego State University began accepting applications for the spring enrollment for the first time since 2008. The switch comes in the wake of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's proposed 2010-11 state budget that calls to restore $305 million in funding to the California State University systems, which governs SDSU and Cal State San Marcos.
The number of applicants for spring 2011 admission will be accepted will depend on what happens with the state budget in Sacramento.
Enrollment at SDSU has been reduced by 10.8 percent over the past two years because of reduced state funding, according to published reports.
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Tottenham Hotspur Have Officially Moved To Their New Training Center
This is great news for the club that we're finally at the new site. The one development that I do not like from this is that we're supposed to refer to the new site as "Hotspur Way". I do not like this. Please suggest other (read: better) names for the new training facility in the comments.


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State government's coffers grew by $36.1 million more than predicted over the past month, according to the May 12 revenue collections report by Washington's Economic and Revenue Forecast Council. The growth in revenue came despite weaker than expected growth in jobs and home-construction activity.
The boost in revenues from April 11 to May 10 was 2.9 percent above the Feb. 19 forecast. Top state forecaster Steve Lerch's monthly report said that brings the total revenue increase above the forecast to $61.8 million so far. Of that, $37.9 million of that due to one-time payments that had not been incorporated into his quarterly forecast.
The good news has no real effect on state budgets, which were adopted last year for 2013-15 and then were adjusted upward in the supplemental budget adopted in March - adding about $60 million for K-12 schools and making many other relatively small changes. But the extra cash does pad the state's reserves, in case lawmakers need extra money next January to cover wildfires or some other emergent expense.
The new revenue report has a few details about the continued slow recovery of jobs after the Great Recession. It says 12,800 jobs were added in Washington since the February revenue forecast. That was 2,100 jobs less than the forecast predicted but the report noted growth in several sectors including service, construction and manufacturing during the year's first three months. There also was a gain of 1,100 public-sector jobs over the past three months in state and local governments.
On housing, the report said a shortfall in single-family residential construction was "made up for by stronger than expected multifamily activity.'' It said Seattle housing prices continue to climb and have for each of the past 24 months. Although Seattle home prices in February were 12.8 percent on average above prices in February 2013, they remain 14.1 percent below the peak in 2007.
In a bit of a twist, Lerch also reported on per capita income and the purchasing power of Washington residents. He said the state's per capita income of $46,000 in 2012 was about 5.3 percent above the national average, based on federal Bureau of Economic Analysis data, but the cost of living was 3.2 percent higher (mainly due to housing costs). The upshot is that purchasing power in the Evergreen State was about 2.1 percent higher than in the country as a whole.
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Former Pirates passed over by Hall
Blyleven finishes fourth in voting; others well short of induction
PITTSBURGH -- Pitcher Bert Blyleven finished fourth in this year's Hall of Fame vote, but neither he, nor any other former Pirates were elected to the 2009 Hall of Fame class.
All-time stolen base leader Rickey Henderson and former Red Sox outfielder Jim Rice were the only two players who received the 75 percent of votes needed for enshrinement in Cooperstown.
After earning 61.9 percent of the vote last year, Blyleven received 338 of the 539 votes cast by the Baseball Writers' Association of America. That equates to 62.7 percent for Blyleven, who was on the ballot for the 12th time.
Blyleven spent three of his 22 Major League seasons with Pittsburgh and won at least 12 games as a starter in each of those seasons. He made at least 32 starts in each of those years. Blyleven's ERA during his time with the Pirates was 3.47.
Three other ex-Pirates -- Dave Parker, Jay Bell and Dan Plesac -- were on the ballot, though none came close to induction. Of the three, Parker will be the only one to return to the ballot in 2010. Parker received 81 votes (15 percent) after getting 15.1 percent of the vote one year ago. His highest vote total came in 1998, when the right fielder was listed on 24.5 percent of the ballots.
Bell received two votes, and Plesac received none. Both were on the ballot for the first time.
Jenifer Langosch is a reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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— Animal Tales is 2 p.m. Dec. 6. Each month, join the Hendricks County Parks Department for a storytime/craft session featuring animals found here in Indiana. Programs are for children ages 4 to 10 and registration is required. Registration will begin Nov. 29 for the Dec. 6 program. The Dec. 6 program will be Hear Canada Goose at Cattail Lane by Janet Halfmann, and make a goose craft
— The Pokémon League will be from 2 to 4:30 p.m. Nov. 16 and Dec. 7 and 21. Join the Pokémon Trading Card Game League that meets at 2 p.m. on the first and third Saturdays of each month. The Pokémon League provides a nearby place for Pokémon enthusiasts to get together with other fans of both the Pokémon Trading Card Game and the Pokémon video games, and have some fun. Those who attend can use their own cards and Pokémon DS games, to play, trade, and there are even opportunities to earn cool prizes. Players who don't know all the rules of the game can learn game basics and, in no time, perfect a strategy. Joining a league is the best way to hone skills to compete in Pokémon tournaments from Battle Roads all the way up to the World Championships. For more information, contact Circle City Gaming at Facebook.com/CircleCityGaming. Registration is not required.
— The Teen Advisory Group will meet from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. Dec. 3. Anyone is grades 5 through 12 is welcome. There is no registration required. The group will be discussing Celebrity Auction letters and a YAR grant at the Nov. 5 meeting and at the Dec. 3 meeting, members will be setting up the Christmas tree and decorating the children's area for the holidays. Snacks are provided.
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Dean Goodwin: a life in prison
8:40am Tuesday 27th November 2012 in News
Dean Goodwin has spent most of his life in and out of prison.
As a teenager he was sentenced to 30 months at Portland Young Offender Institution for a string of offences which included an indecent assault on a young boy.
The then 19-year-old was released 15 months early in March 2000 and considered suitable for supervision and bailed to an address in Bournemouth.
Goodwin failed to return to his lodgings just over a month later and the evening of his disappearance, just weeks after his release, he exposed himself to a woman in Boscombe Gardens.
He then attacked a lone 63-year-old woman in broad daylight in Wallisdown and five days later subjected a 13-year-old schoolgirl to an attack in Parkstone.
He was arrested at his grandmother's home in Ringwood a week later, where officers discovered him hiding in a wardrobe.
Goodwin was 20 years old when he was jailed for 10 years in July 2000 with Judge Samuel Wiggs telling him "only an extended period in custody would ensure the public were protected".
He also said the normal sentence for the offences – three years – would not be enough to protect the public from harm.
In 2009 Goodwin was again on the run after failing to announce himself at a hostel in the West Country.
He was eventually arrested on the Isle of Wight after buying a train ticket in Bristol.
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5:59pm Thursday 3rd July 2014 in National News © Press Association 2014
The House of Commons Library has stepped back from a major row with Downing Street after heavily criticising David Cameron's use of NHS statistics.
Analysis released by the respected research unit dismissed the Prime Minister's claim that the "average waiting time" in NHS hospitals had fallen from 77 minutes under Labour to just 30 minutes.
It argued the data "did not support" the assertion, made during PMQs yesterday, describing it as a "simplistic reading" of statistics.
Labour seized on the assessment to accuse Mr Cameron of "cynical spin", while a furious Number 10 insisted the premier had been "100% accurate".
The research was taken down by the Commons Library this evening, and replaced with a statement reading: "The blog post 'Have A&E waiting times fallen?' has been removed by the House of Commons Library as it does not meet our expected standards of impartiality.
"A revised post will be uploaded as soon as possible."
The analysis had argued that Mr Cameron's claim related to a measure which "is not the most natural indicator of the 'average waiting time' in A&E".
Rather than looking at average waits for treatment - which has been "static save for seasonal variation" since the change in government - or total time spent in A&E - which has been "steadily rising" - Mr Cameron's figure related to the average time after arrival in casualty before patients are first assessed.
And rather than highlighting the "median" average, which "has remained more or less unchanged at around 10 minutes" since 2008, Mr Cameron pointed to the "mean" average, which showed a dramatic fall from more than 70 minutes to around 30 after April 2011, which was the date when time to initial assessment in A&E was designated as a "care quality indicator" and became subject to mandatory reporting.
The House of Commons Library said that evidence suggested that "the mean value here is not a good indicator of time to initial assessment in A&E, so we should rely on the median value to tell us what the typical time to initial assessment in A&E is... which does not show the trend that the PM refers to."
The assessment added: "It's plausible that the fall in the mean in April 2011 reflects an improvement in data collection, quality and reporting, rather than any genuine change in waiting times."
The analysis concluded: "The data does not show that the average time in A&E has fallen since 2008. Rather, the typical total time in A&E has risen (for admitted patients, at least), and the typical time to treatment has remained static.
"It is welcome that the rich data on the amount of time patients spend in A&E is becoming part of the wider political debate on the NHS. But in order for it to be useful and informative, it must be discussed in a way which fully respects the data."
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Media-free zones – avoiding toxic "news"
April 25, 2013
I wrote this in the 1990s (for a magazine). I'm resurrecting it here for two reasons – 1) a recent Guardian article (News is bad for you) makes similar points, and, 2) I've had my fill of "news" lately, and plan to practise what I preach here…
"Information anxiety" is caused by the "ever widening gap between what we understand and what we think we should understand", according to Saul Wurman, who coined the term. But what makes us think we should understand any of it?
There are two common notions about "being informed": i) it's irresponsible not to be, and ii) it's unsafe not to be. In other words, social consensus (which defines "irresponsible") and basic survival anxieties (which define "unsafe") lead to information anxiety – so perhaps it shouldn't be underestimated as a social influence.
Most people probably feel Oprahfied to some extent – ie pressured to have opinions on everything the media defines as important. And they fear falling behind. (According to a report in the Guardian,1 nearly half the population have this fear).
This is partly due to "good marketing" – the advertisers' and content-providers' constant drip, drip of things you "should" know about is intended to induce anxiety, so you spend money to relieve it. (A major UK company's marketing chief once admitted to me that his profession was concerned entirely with stimulating consumer fear and greed).2
As a selling strategy, "fear of being left out" has no limits when applied to media (entertainment/information-based) products. There's a limit to how many cars you need, but there's no limit to what you "should" know about.
The info-anxiety theory recommends that we find more effective ways to process information, so we can absorb more without being overwhelmed. A better approach, however, might be to simply filter out the 99.9% of information that serves no purpose for you.
How much "information" consists of people making noises to avoid listening to themselves think? Media presenters tend not to be quietly reflective. The over-representation of "loud" personalities on TV no doubt contributes to the increasingly accepted notion that "quiet introspection" is a mental illness – peaceful isolation from extroversion and media noise seems like a difficult commodity to find.
Fortunately, you don't need a cave to escape to – you can take a holiday from info-noise without going anywhere, simply by changing a few parameters of your mental processes. This technique has existed in various forms for centuries – used by "eccentrics" who wanted to revive their faculty of thinking, as opposed to having people's thoughts (ie reflection rather than verbal loops).
Side effects included improved imagination and weirder dreams. You might enjoy trying it:
→ For a set period (eg 1 or 2 weeks), completely avoid TV, newspapers, magazines, radio, browsing in newsagents, topical chatter, etc [2013 update: add online news & social media to the list]. This is done by refusing such stimuli any admittance to your mind.
Mass-media "information" largely consists of non-useful, vaguely entertaining distraction. Of the non-trivial, non-amusement content (eg some of "the news"), most concerns things you're powerless to influence. (Conversely, the issues you might influence seem notably absent).
Why clutter your brain with things you can do nothing about? How can it be irresponsible or unsafe to ignore it, if (at best) it's of no positive use to you, and (at worse) it damages your health?
2013 addition: The recent Guardian piece I mentioned makes pretty much the same points (plus several others). I recommend a good look at it. Here are a few quotes:
"Thinking requires concentration. Concentration requires uninterrupted time. News pieces are specifically engineered to interrupt you. They are like viruses that steal attention for their own purposes. News makes us shallow thinkers. But it's worse than that. News severely affects memory."
"Most news consumers – even if they used to be avid book readers – have lost the ability to absorb lengthy articles or books. After four, five pages they get tired, their concentration vanishes, they become restless. It's not because they got older or their schedules became more onerous. It's because the physical structure of their brains has changed."
('News is bad for you', Guardian, 12/4/13)
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April 8, 2013 – JK Rowling should perhaps be given a Nobel Prize for getting a generation of kids to read books. As if that wasn't enough, she's generated endless amounts of tax revenue. How was this phenomenon nurtured? By a little time and space on the dole.
You'd be surprised how many successful people developed their craft on the dole. In a way, most successful corporations also require a long period on the dole. Do you think Boeing and Microsoft would have achieved commercial success without decades of state-funded research and development in aerospace and computing?
Any true wealth-generating activity requires periods of "social nurturing" which aren't profitable. They're not self-funding in the short term; they are dependent. (We realise this for children – we call it "education". The money spent on it is regarded as social investment).
"Investment" (in human beings) was also one of the ideas – along with "safety net" – behind "social security". The welfare state was created in the forties, in a post-war economy which was nowhere near as wealthy as now (imagine: computer technology didn't exist).
But, for decades, the rightwing press, "free market" think-tanks, politicians and pundits (not just of the right) have wanted you to think differently about social security. They want you to think of "welfare" as an unnecessary nuisance which costs more than everything else combined.
To that end, a simple set of claims, accompanied by a certain type of framing, is relentlessly pushed into our brains by newspaper front pages and TV and internet screens. It has two main components:
- Vastly exaggerate the real cost of "welfare" and falsely portray it as "spiralling out of control" (how this is done is explained here and here). Misleadingly include things like pensions in the total cost when you're talking about unemployment. (This partly explains why people believe unemployment accounts for 41% of the "welfare" bill, when it accounts for only 3% of the total).
- Appeal to the worst aspects of social psychology by repeatedly associating a stereotype (the "benefits scrounger/cheat") with the concept of "welfare". One doesn't have to be a prison psychologist to understand how anger and frustration are channeled towards those perceived as lower in the pecking order: "the scum". (According to a recent poll, people believe the welfare fraud rate is 27%, whereas the government estimates it as 0.7%).
It's a potently malign cocktail. When imbibed repeatedly, there's little defense against its effects. Even those who depend on benefits come to view benefits recipients in a harshly negative light (see Fern Brady's article for examples). Those politicians who aren't naturally aligned with rightwing ideology go on the defensive – they talk about "being tough" and "full employment". It just reinforces the anti-welfare framing.
The strangely puritanical – and deeply irrational – obsession with "jobs", "hard-working families", etc, at a time in history when greater leisure for all is more than a utopian promise (due to the maturation of labour-saving technology, etc) seems an integral part of the conservative framing – which is perhaps why many on the "left" find it difficult to provide counter-narratives.
But that would require another article. For now I'll leave you with a short video explaining Basic Income – a fast-spreading idea which is highly relevant to the above. (Guardian columnist George Monbiot recently championed Basic Income as a "big idea" to unite the left).
Curious repeating headlines in the Daily Express
Jan 24, 2013 – You've probably noticed the Daily Express headlines which feature the weather or some health-related story. It seems that most Express headlines fall into one of these categories:
1. Weather/floods
2. Health/illness
3. The EU/Euro
4. Pensions
5. "Migrants", benefits, "skivers"
Exceptions seem uncommon. Okay, you get the occasional "royals" story, and there was a time when house-price rises/falls could have been added to the list. See for yourself, using the compilations of front pages, below (which I've colour-coded to match the above categories).
Occasionally, two of the topics are combined in one headline (see example, above left – "ALL MIGRANTS TO GET A BRITISH PENSION").
The first collection of front pages shows every Daily Express from 18 January 2013 (top left) back to 29 October 2012 (bottom right), with all exceptions shown (uncoloured):
The latest circulation figures show the Express selling many more copies than the Times, Guardian and Independent (roughly the same number as the Telegraph, and fewer than the Sun and Daily Mail).
The next compilation of Express front pages covers the period from early August 2012 (top left) back to May 2012 (bottom right) – it's not a complete list, and excludes some exceptions as well as other examples which conform to the above topics:
Anxiety-inducing frames
This is an updated (& much rewritten) version of an article published by the Guardian in 1999,
which I originally wrote for the Idler magazine. (Graphics here are mine)…
In every job interview I've had, I've struggled to give the (false) impression that I was applying out of free choice & enthusiasm (rather than financial dilemma & survival anxiety). Telling the truth rarely helps in these matters, and most interviewers wouldn't want to hear it.
Financial anxiety turns most of us into useful idiots. In the everyday world of tedious wage slavery, useful idiots can be identified by their claim to like their jobs (I don't mean the lucky few who really love their jobs). When so many people seem to "enjoy" being economic slaves, or at least pretend to, one suspects something beyond deluded sentimentality – something sinister and pathological.
We're living in an anxiety culture and we're driven by fear. For 1 in 7 people, it's of clinical severity (15% of people in England suffer from an anxiety-related mental disorder). A Mental Health Foundation report (2009) found that 77% of people say they are more frightened than they used to be, and 66% have fear/anxiety about the "current financial situation".1
The MHF report criticises politicians, public bodies, businesses and the media for what it calls "institutionally-driven fear", fuelled by scaremongering use of "most calamitous scenarios" on issues such as crime, terrorism, the economy, etc. (Incidentally, I was amused to see that the MHF report cited my 1999 Guardian article* as a source for: "60% of employees suffer from feelings of insecurity and anxiety, with 43 % having difficulty sleeping because of work worries" – a finding I'd quoted from a 1995 ITV documentary, World in Action).
Yuppies-in-adverts redux
The picture that emerges seems at odds with the grinning, self-assured yuppie reality beamed into our living rooms during commercial breaks. It's a cliché, but advertisers still present a world where "normal" people smile perpetually while driving their expensive new cars. The result is that we feel abnormal and humiliated driving old cars or taking buses. No one is immune from these social-comparison anxieties, not even the marketers themselves (surveys show advertising executives to be "plagued by self-doubt and insecurity"2).
There are strong vested interests in keeping public anxiety at a high level. Anxious people make good consumers – they tend to eat/drink compulsively, need more distractions (newspapers, TV, etc) and more buttressing of their fragile self-image through "lifestyle" products. The financial services industry (insurance, savings, etc) makes billions from our financial insecurities. The unsubtle targeting of our fears is evident in adverts for everything from vehicle recovery services and private health care to chewing gum and mouthwash.
Employers benefit if workers fear losing their jobs – fearful people are less likely to complain, and tend to be more suggestible and compliant. Politicians cite "public fears" as justification for freedom-eroding legislation; insecure populations show a tendency to favour the authoritarian rhetoric of "strong leaders". In a word, governments and corporations gladly reap the harvests of high public anxiety.
The Daily Scare
According to the Mental Health Foundation report, 60% of those who think that "people are becoming more anxious or frightened" blame it partly on "the impact of the media". Anxiety can be induced in a population by constantly focusing on the threat of things like crime and terrorism in an exaggerated way. (I wrote the article before the financial collapse; it's possible that with an emphasis on economic perils, crime isn't currently hyped so much).
In a MORI poll conducted in the early 1990s, half of those questioned believed that tabloid newspapers have a vested interest in making people more afraid of crime. In 1995, the makers of Frontline, a Channel 4 documentary on crime, requested interviews with the editors of the Daily Mail, Mirror, Sun, Daily and Sunday Express, Today, People and Star, to ask how they justified their sensationalised crime coverage. They all refused to be interviewed.3
Unfortunately, many people believe the crime hype (belief seems to correlate with acceptance of the conservative "moral breakdown" framing). A third of elderly women fear going outside their homes, but only one in 4,000 will be assaulted.4 Statistically, the elderly and young children are the groups least at risk from attack – but because newspapers repeatedly cover crimes victimising the vulnerable, they seem more common than they are.
One effect of our over-stimulated fears is widespread paranoia. Consider this news item from the Independent newspaper: "Teachers have been warned not to put sun cream on young pupils because they could be accused of child abuse". These warnings were then criticised by cancer charities. Skin-cancer risk versus child-abuse accusation risk. Welcome to Anxiety Society.
Most fear/worry results from what we've been thinking rather than external events. We're immersed in anxiety-inducing belief systems which we regard as perfectly normal. Exposure to these fearful worldviews starts in early childhood, before we've developed intellectual defences, and it continues in school, where we learn to be obedient, economically-frightened grown-ups.
"Fear triggers the strict father model; it tends
to make the model active in one's brain"5
– George Lakoff
One of the most insidious anxiety-inducers is a sort of secular equivalent of "original sin" – the belief that, in essence, you're "lacking" or "not good enough" and must redeem yourself with hard work and suffering. This "no pain, no gain" worldview manifests as the idea that you're infinitely undeserving – that reward, ie happiness, will always be contingent upon the endurance of unpleasant activity (eg work).
It makes life seem a burden rather than an adventure, it's exploited to the maximum by big business, and it makes you feel guilty.
This deep-seated mindset can be subverted with psychological gimmicks. For example, try believing that you deserve to be paid for doing nothing. Dismiss the notion that you have to "earn" anything. You earned your life by being born – now you deserve to relax. Quit your job and go on holiday, or call in sick as often as possible. Remove all forms of guilt from your mind. Go to extremes of laziness and indulge yourself deluxe-style every day. (When re-reading this paragraph, it seemed almost "blasphemous" in the current austere climate. I originally intended it as partly serious, partly ironic).
'False responsibility' framing
Another insidious anxiety-inducer to watch out for is the belief that you should be responsible. This puts people under tremendous strain. You don't choose your genetic makeup or the conditions in which you grow up, yet all the unfortunate things that happen are supposed to be your fault.
In most cases, the de facto function of "individual responsibility" is social conformity. Society holds you accountable if you don't comply with its definition of your responsibilities. The attraction of "responsibility" is that it allows people total conformity without removing the facade of heroic individuality – it's the kind of concept that advertisers dream about.
This "responsibility" tends to see everything as a problem needing a solution – usually involving endless work. Pushed too far, it undermines progress towards desirable conditions such as increased leisure. Intelligent attempts to drastically cut average working hours, for example, are resisted on the basis that it's irresponsible. (Similar, perhaps, to the Puritanism that H.L. Mencken described as "The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy").
Sometimes it might make more sense to pay people to stay at home – as Buckminster Fuller noted when attempting to quantify the amount of fossil fuel we burn whilst travelling to pointless jobs. But politicians – the experts on responsibility – see joblessness as the ultimate irresponsible lifestyle. It never occurs to them that their idea of responsibility might not be universal.
Thus, a real and massive problem – how to distribute wealth humanely in a wealthy technological (ie automated) society – becomes as unsolvable as the mythical "moral breakdown" when it's framed in terms of jobs & joblessness (with all the social anxieties that this framing triggers).
"Fear triggers the strict father model". In Lakoff's terminology, the "strict father model" refers to the deep cognitive frames which form the moral worldview of rightwing "conservatives". In effect he is saying that people tend to think in more conservative (and less progressive) terms to the extent that they are being frightened.
*My original Guardian article was published on 8 October, 1999, in the Guardian's 'Editor' pull-out supplement. The text is available online here.
1. The Mental Health Foundation's April 2009 report, titled In the Face of Fear, which "reveals a UK society that is increasingly fearful and anxious".
2. Quoted from The Times, 22 November 1996.
3. Frontline, Channel 4, 4 October 1995.
4. Sunday Times, 6 August 1995.
5. Lakoff, Don't think of an elephant, page 42.
Stupid economic metaphors
Sept 23, 2011 – Today's Daily Mail headline uses David Cameron's 'economics-as-shotgun' metaphor. 'i' goes with "Global slump" – as if everyone on the planet simultaneously collapsed onto the sofa.
On last night's Question Time (BBC1), Vince Cable talked about the economy with the phrases "on a tightrope" (twice), and "very dangerous world" (twice). By "world" he meant the abstraction known as the "global economy".
An audience member on Question Time queried the premise that economic "growth" was necessary. Harriet Harman responded by saying the deficit can't be cut "if the economy is flatlining". She didn't expand on this. So, we have the "growth" metaphor answered with a medical metaphor (for clinical death). Is it surprising that people are confused about economics?
Of course, we need abstractions and metaphors in order to discuss conceptually-complex issues. But what's evident from last night's Question Time, and this morning's newspaper coverage, is that very little but a series of vague, conflicting economic metaphors (representing "conventional wisdom") gets spoken. Meanwhile, what are we to make of the claim of expert economist, Professor Paul Ormerod, that: "as the twentieth century draws to a close the dominant tendency in economic policy is still governed by a system of analysis inspired by the engineers and scientists of the Victorian era". (Ormerod, The Death of Economics).
Ormerod explains how a Victorian metaphorical worldview underlies the model of competitive equilibrium which provides much of the rationale for implementing "free-market solutions" to all economic "problems" (an ideological approach which has been dominant in the UK and US since the early 1980s).
One gets the sense that it's the map, rather than the territory, which is fucked (or "flatlining" or on a tightrope, or staring down a gun-barrel, etc) in the case of economics. And that, in itself, can lead to unfortunate (or even tragic) consequences for the territory.
Meanwhile, the world still has pretty much all the stuff it had last month. And there hasn't been any sudden global population explosion in the past few weeks. And valid questions on real resources, environmental issues, etc, tend to be framed separately from the "economic crisis" – in "public" (ie media/political) debate at least – compartmentalisation and specialisation.
Alternative headlines:
"Scrounging families"
Sept 2, 2011 – The BBC reports this story under the headline, 'NUMBER OF WORKLESS HOUSEHOLDS FALLS'. The Express goes with "SCROUNGING FAMILIES', "anger" and "fury" – and again quotes the rightwing pressure group, the TaxPayers' Alliance (a regular source of framing for the UK press).
Here's the first paragraph on the Express's front page (2/9/11):
"ANGER at the scale of Britain's benefits culture erupted last night after official figures showed there are nearly four million households where no one works."
So, "anger erupted" at these official figures (from the Office for National Statistics, ONS). Whose anger erupted? Here's what the ONS figures actually show (courtesy of an ONS graph):
Note the fall in "workless households" since 1996, followed by an increase coinciding exactly with the recent recession (shaded bar).
Perhaps "anger erupted" over something else. The fourth paragraph on the Express front page says: "The figures yesterday triggered renewed fury at the £180billion annual welfare benefits bill being picked up by taxpayers."
This is the standard, misleading device of citing the total welfare bill in a story about the unemployed. It's misleading because only a small fraction of this amount goes on unemployment benefits (£6.6bn directly in 2010; two-thirds of the total welfare figure goes on people over working age, and there are various benefits for those who have jobs, and contribution-based benefits that need to be taken into account, etc).
The welfare-as-crime frame
The Express front page talks of "the culture of benefits dependency that was allowed to spiral out of control under the previous Labour government." The spiralling "out of control" of an immoral "culture" evokes the crime frame. Politicians and media often use a "criminal offender" type of lexicon to talk about welfare recipients. This tendency seems to go back a few decades at least, although I suspect media analysis would show it to be increasing in recent years (in the same way that use of terms such as "benefit cheats" has increased). Thus, government advisers were quoted by the Times (17/9/99) as saying that "penalties for the persistent unemployed will be harsher". Terms such as "hardcore" are applied to "persistent" unemployed. Benefits are being framed as a moral issue – this is how "anger" and "fury" are induced, via moral outrage. The implication is that punishment is the cure (and that, therefore, people shouldn't complain about getting their benefits cut).
(Updates: a later Daily Express headline used a different type of welfare-crime association: "1.2M CRIMINALS GET BENEFITS". Also, Tony Blair used the odd phrase "hard core of socially excluded families").
"Spiralling out of control"?
Back to reality (or at least to statistical representations of it). We should be looking at welfare spending as a proportion of GDP, not in "absolute" terms:
This chart is taken from the excellent UK Public Spending website. There doesn't seem to be any reason for "fury" here. Perhaps the Daily Express editors need to take an anger management course? And perhaps they should stop acting as a propaganda outlet for the rightwing TaxPayers' Alliance group…
Alternative headlines:
• 'TAXPAYERS ALLIANCE PRESS RELEASE No.94'
History of "moral decline"
Aug 21, 2011 – This Observer headline is another example of reinforcing a frame while negating it. What we see here is "moral decline" – that is how we conceptualise the issue, regardless of the following word, "not".
Most media coverage of the "rioting" excludes the perception that it has always occurred in Britain. The country has a long history of insurrection. Even in quaint coastal villages, whole communities criminally conspired against the authorities (eg the customs men) – in Ye Olde days, when murder and violence were more common .1
In 1898, newspapers in England warned of the menace of "hooligans" and of a "dramatic increase in disorderly behaviour". The Times reported "organised terrorism in the streets".2
In every decade of the 20th century there were similar media panics.
Alternative headlines:
1. See: Ted Robert Gurr, Historical Trends in Violent Crimes, 1981; Manuel Eisner, Long-Term Historical Trends in Violent Crime, 2003.
2. Quoted from Laurie Taylor's article, Looking with a historical eye, published in the 1995 Channel Four booklet, Battered Britain.


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Hungarian sex slave gang jailed for a total of 23 years
Updated 6:36pm Wednesday 8th January 2014 in News
Five members of an organised crime gang who brought women from Hungary to work as prostitutes at brothels across Sussex, including the Falmer campus, have been jailed.
Hungarian nationals Mate Puskas, Zoltan Mohacsi, Istvan Toth and Peter Toth, and Puskas's former girlfriend Victoria Brown, from Bognor, brought at least 44 women into the country over almost two years, setting them up in hotels and flats, including at the University of Sussex campus, and uploading their profiles on to a website which advertised sexual services for sale, the court was told.
The defendants, including the Toth brothers, from Eastbourne, who are on the run and were sentenced in their absence, were found guilty yesterday of conspiring to traffic women into the UK for sexual exploitation following a seven-week trial at Hove Crown Court.
Talking to the remaining three defendants, Judge Richard Hayward told them they had committed offending behaviour which "society finds repugnant".
Puskas, from Croydon, was jailed for six years, Brown for three years, and Mohacsi, from Ilford, east London, was jailed for four years for conspiracy to traffic women into the UK.
Istvan and Peter Toth were jailed for five years and four years respectively for the same offence, but both had nine months added to their sentences after being convicted of Contempt of Court for breaking bail.
Judge Hayward said the women, some of them barely adults, were brought into the country and put up in hotels and flats in East Sussex, Kent, Gatwick, Manchester, Leeds, Cardiff and Glasgow.
Adverts were placed on an adult website offering sexual services including unsafe sex and extreme sexual acts and the charges were fixed, he continued.
One woman who was sent back to Hungary because she was under age, was forced to work in Austria and Germany as a prostitute to pay back her air fare to the UK, he said.
Customers who were using the women thought they were texting them directly, when in reality they were texting the defendants who fixed times and charges, and decided where and how long the women would work for, he told the court.
Puskas, 26, was told that even though he was younger than his co-conspirators he had "business acumen" and was undoubtedly at the heart of the operation.
The judge said: "You were at the centre of the conspiracy and very much in control.
"This conspiracy was an extension of your career which you had already chosen."
Brown, 25, was described by Judge Hayward as a "loyal lieutenant" to Puskas, who was drawn skilfully into the operation by her boyfriend over a period time.
She wept as he told her she had run an unattractive defence of duress, seeking to blame her actions on Puskas, the father of her 21-month-old son.
He said: "It is very sad to see you in the dock. You are intelligent, you come from a respectable family, you had a good job, and you threw it all away for Mate Puskas."
Nicholas Hamblin, representing Brown, told the court she had performed "secretarial activities" and "was acting to a certain extent under pressure".
Mr Hamblin added that she had made no personal gain from the trafficking and that loans of £21,000 taken out on behalf of Puskas had left her bankrupt.
The court was told that Mohacsi, 36, was one of the middle conspirators whose common-law wife and sister-in-law both worked as prostitutes in Hungary and the UK.
Hugh Mullan, mitigating on his behalf, said: "He preyed upon an economically deprived area of Hungary.
"It (prostitution) was rife in that area and he did not create the rifeness of that situation.
"His wife was an active prostitute and carried on after he was taken into custody. She is heavily pregnant and due to give birth to their first son in February."
The court also heard from barristers representing 35-year-old Istvan Toth and his brother Peter.
Aleksander Lloyd, representing 28-year-old Peter Toth, said he was not considered to be one of the leading actors in the case and that he had been referred to as the "gentleman pimp" by the prosecution because he acted with kindness and courtesy to some of the girls involved.
During the trial, jurors heard that many of the women had come to the UK to escape financial difficulties at home.
Their flights were paid for by the defendants and the debts were used as a hold over the women who were forced to work for up to 12 hours a day.
Prosecutor David Walbank told the court that the women were seeing up to 10 to 15 men a day and charging £100 an hour.
He said many of the women were victims of financial extortion only being left with 10% of their daily earnings while the defendants took the rest.
Threats and force were used as forms of coercion and one woman was told that posters would be put up in her home town telling people about what she was doing if she did not comply, Mr Walbank said.
Portia Ragnauth, Acting Chief Crown Prosecutor CPS South East, said that no one could imagine how desperate the victims were in this case.
She said: "I would like to take this opportunity to pay tribute to the bravery of the victims who gave evidence in this case, one who gave evidence from behind a screen in the UK and two others who gave evidence via a live video-feed from Hungary.
"We know how incredibly difficult it was for them, especially as we know that the reach of this criminal group extends back to Hungary.
"It has not been easy for them, but we hope that today's verdict brings them justice and allows them to now move on with their lives.
"The CPS was assisted greatly by the police and judicial authorities in Hungary to bring this prosecution. Without this cross-border cooperation achieving justice for these women would have been considerably more difficult."
A University of Sussex spokeswoman said the case did not relate to activities by staff or students but that a flat on its campus was one of many locations across the region used for prostitution purposes.
She said the safety of the thousands of students living on campus was of paramount importance to the university.
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1:21pm Wed 8 Jan 14
All 9 of me says...
1:23pm Wed 8 Jan 14
tooned_in says...
Its no wonder these individuals do not fear the law.
1:37pm Wed 8 Jan 14
tykemison says...
tooned_in wrote:Absolutely this tooned in.Pathetic sentencing, no deterrent at all, wonder if sentences would have been suitable if(God forbid), it had been one of the judge's poor Daughter's.I have said before, sadly, these eastern European gang's have no morals and laugh at our lenient justice system and wallow in their illegal fortunes.Solution? Open the flood gates to more eastern European filth, I despair for my country.
marvellous the uk justice systems fails us all again....so make obsene amounts, destroy the lives of young women who will never recover and your back on the streets in 3 yrs? what message does this send out?
Its no wonder these individuals do not fear the law.
1:48pm Wed 8 Jan 14
sussexram40 says...
wheres the deterent?????
2:09pm Wed 8 Jan 14
downbythesea says...
I agree with others, what is the deterrent when you serve half a sentence, and likely have lots of money stashed away in Hungary?
Saw them on tv yesterday, looked like they thought it was all a big joke to them.
2:53pm Wed 8 Jan 14
Maxwell's Ghost says...
2:54pm Wed 8 Jan 14
zanadu says...
2:57pm Wed 8 Jan 14
clarkebrighton says...
before, Who said CRIME DOES NOT PAY !!!!
3:02pm Wed 8 Jan 14
Maxwell's Ghost says...
3:47pm Wed 8 Jan 14
thelieshurts says...
They should be getting at least 15 to 20 years for what they have done.
That woman should get the same, they're in it together.
I think this sought of thing will happen again, sorry to say.
The way they went into court I thought they were going on holiday.
3:53pm Wed 8 Jan 14
Brighton1000 says...
4:22pm Wed 8 Jan 14
tug509 says...
When a sentence in a holiday camp is so meagre ,where is the detterent ,44 women have had their lives destroyed ,for a total of 22 years ,thats 6 months per woman divided by 5 = approximately 37 days - time for good behaviour = 18.5 days . So each woman is abducted from their home ,repeatedly raped (5 times a day ,according to the tv report ) for money ,and the sentence ,each of the SCUM will recieve is 18 days playing dvd`s and watching tv per VICTIM . And to top it off ,the senile judge actually gave them bail ,before sentencing ,i said to my wife ,they would not turn up ,guess what ,two didn`t .
God Bless the ladies involved ,no human has the right ,to treat you like an animal .
Note to judge ,you are a BLOODY disgrace .
7:00pm Wed 8 Jan 14
sussexram40 says...
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With golden shovels in hand, developers and local elected officials broke ground Wednesday on the Pier Park North shopping center project in Panama City Beach.
"Years ago, we used to say we were a strip of sand with some motels on it," said Mayor Gayle Oberst. "We have really become a community... we have become a city."
Pier Park North is being developed by The St. Joe Company and shopping center management companies CASTO and Strategic Retail Advisors. "We're very lucky that in this economy that we've had in the last few years that the demographics, the numbers and everything make a center like this economically viable," said Park Brady, CEO of The St. Joe Company.
The shopping center will cover 360,000 square feet spread over the 42 acre site off Panama City Beach Parkway, across the highway from Pier Park Lifestyle Center. More than 40 stores are planned and include major retailers Dick's Sporting Goods, Kirkland's, Pier 1 Imports, Michael's, Petco, Bed Bath & Beyond, Rooms To Go, Shoe Carnival, Mattress Firm, Lee Nails & Spa and Men's Wearhouse.
"The format that we have designed here and are going to implement here over the next twelve months represents the modern day retail shopping experience," said Brett Hutchens of CASTO.
The joint venture partners kept a close eye on the original Pier Park development and liked what they saw. "The success of that project certainly underlies the fact that there's a good retail base here," said Hutchens.
Pier Park North is expected to employ 350 construction workers and, when completed, provide 1,200 retail jobs – nearly 800 of them full-time.
Both the City of Panama City Beach and Bay County will reap the benefits of the project. "It will be wonderful because we live on a one percent sales tax so this retail will mean a lot to our budget," said Mayor Oberst.
"Things like this really make a difference when we start showing some large growth," added County Commissioner Mike Thomas. "The beach has turned into a city now instead of just a tourist area."
Governor Rick Scott didn't attend the groundbreaking but issued a statement thanking those involved in getting the project off the drawing board. "The Pier Park North project is more proof that Florida's economy is headed in the right direction," said Scott.
The shopping center is scheduled to open in Spring 2014.
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