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Dissident U.S. author Paul Street was interviewed by Brazilian journalist Leonardo Sequeira via e-mail between 10 AM and 12 PM on September 18, 2009. The interview took place before: the awarding of the Olympics to Rio/Brazil (not Chicago/US), the Orwellian granting of the Nobel Peace Prize to Obama, Obama's claim at the G20 Summit in Pittsburgh(where militarized police dispersed protesters with tear gas, pepper spray, batons, and an eardrum-piercing "crowd control" machine mounted in the turret of a tank) that Iran had been caught with a "secret nuclear weapons facility," the U.S.-led burial of the United Nations Human Rights Council's Goldstone Report (on Israel's war crimes in Gaza in late 2008 and early 2009), and the efforts U.S. negotiators to weaken rich nations' commitment to serious carbon emission reduction measures at global climate meetings (held in late September and early October)in Bangkok.
Q (Sequeira): Is Obama losing credibility in the U.S.?
A (Street): Yes, to some extent he is. His approval rating fell from 69 percent to 52 percent between January and late August of 2009. That is a very rapid decline by comparative historical standards. The "honeymoon" is over. According to surveys, most U.S. citizens surveyed now disapprove of Obama's economic policies and of his (very weak and corporate-friendly) efforts at "health reform." A growing number oppose his determination to escalate and expand the U.S. war in (maybe I should on) Afghanistan, which is something he quite clearly promised to do during the 2007-2008 campaign.
The fall in Obama's popularity over the summer of 2009 partly reflects a growing sense that he is unable and/or unwilling to undertake policies and actions necessary to stem increasing unemployment and to provide universal affordable and high quality health care to the citizens. Obama is an effective public speaker and a highly "charismatic" and intelligent, telegenic personality. But a silver tongue and good, youthful looks only go so far when the U.S. official unemployment rates heads toward 10 percent (an honestly calculated rate would be closer to 20 percent) and thousands are losing their health insurance and homes each day – all this as the "defense" (empire) budget (at least $1 trillion per year and responsible for nearly half the military spending on Earth)) has actually increased, while an increasing number of U.S. soldiers are dying (needlessly) in Afghanistan, and as the biggest banks get bigger and richer thanks to the actions of the Obama economic team, which is itself made up largely of Wall Street insiders.
One of Obama's problems is that his campaign and the media built an almost Messiah-like aura around him. The democratic and social expectations surrounding his election were inordinately high, particularly in the wake of the George W. Bush –Dick Cheney administration, possibly the most incompetent and grossly plutocratic White House in U.S. history. The higher the expectations for "change" from a president, the bigger the fall in popularity and credibility when that president is revealed to be another all-too immortal and limited politician who functions in service to existing dominant domestic and global hierarchies and doctrines.
Q. If so, is it entirely his fault?
A. No. The deep underlying problems with U.S. capitalism are beyond the control of any single politician or policy maker. Obama walked into power amidst the unfolding of an epic financial meltdown and a related historic "Great Recession" that was obviously not his creation. He inherited two ugly colonial wars (the first one of which, Afghanistan, he completely embraced from the start and promised to expand, of course) initiated by Bush and Cheney and a vast government deficit that was fed by the Bush administration's combination of massive military spending with giant tax cuts for the wealthy. He also inherited a deep popular skepticism of the federal government resulting from years of scandal and corruption under Bush and Bill Clinton. He deals with a Congress that is itself deeply beholden to corporate and related military interests (this applies to Democrats no less than to Republicans), with a corporate media that is opposed to any serious progressive policies, and with a fanatical right wing movement and media (far-right "talk radio" and FOX News television) that is significantly racist and make bizarre accusations, claiming, for example, that Obama is a "socialist. He is a corporatist.
Still, Obama has created some of his own problems. He and his business-oriented staff have been too ideologically conservative, cautious, and centrist to do the sorts of things required to produce a meaningful economic recovery and to put money in the hands of the poor and working classes. He has been unwilling to pass truly substantive new financial reforms (including the at least temporary nationalization of leading financial institutions) or to advance large public works projects or the labor law reform that are desperately needed to put money and purchasing power back in the hands of the nation's working class majority. His corporate-managed "health reform" is nowhere close to what is required to cut costs and provide affordable and quality coverage to everyone. It leaves the big insurance and drug companies – and behind them, the big financial institutions – in basic charge of the nation's health fare future. If Obama was serious about health reform he would advance single-payer government insurance on the model of Canada, kicking the private insurance mafia out of the health care business altogether. But he isn't serious about it
In the May 2009 edition of the centrist U.S magazine The Atlantic, Simon Johnson, the former chief economist of the International Monetary Fund, argued that Obama administration is in Wall Street's pocket to a degree that was preventing him attacking the recession to the degree required. In an article titled "The Quiet Coup," Johnson noted that the [Bush and Obama administrations have both] "taken extreme care not to upset the interests of the financial institutions or to question the basic outlines of the system that got us" into a Great Recession. "[The] elite business interests [who] played a central role in creating the crisis…with the implicit backing of the government" [are] "using their influence to prevent precisely [the] reforms that are needed" to end the recession. The Atlantic's editors concluded that "the finance industry has effectively captured our government—a state of affairs that more typically describes emerging markets, and is at the center of many emerging-market crises If the IMF's staff could speak freely about the U.S., it would tell us what it tells all countries in this situation: recovery will fail unless we break the financial oligarchy that is blocking essential reform. "
Obama is the latest embodiment of a recurrent problem with U.S. politics. Every four years millions of American voters are induced to put their political hats on, to hope a bit, and then to go back to sleep. To hope that a savior or at least a more effective manager can be installed in the White House to raise wages, roll back war and militarism, provide universal and adequate health care, rebuild infrastructure, fix the environmental crisis, reduce inequality, and generally make life more livable. The savior can be named Jack Kennedy (1960) or Bobby Kennedy (1968) or Teddy Kennedy (1979) or Gene McCarthy (1968) or George McGovern (1972) or Jimmy Carter (1976) or Bill Clinton (1992) or Adlai Stevenson or Barack Obama, It doesn't matter. Under the rules of American "corporate-managed democracy," officially "electable" candidates who want a serious shot at lasting power subordinate themselves to what the left U.S. writers Edward S. Herman and David Peterson call "the unelected dictatorship of money," which "vets the nominees of the Republican and Democratic parties, reducing the options available to U.S. citizens to two candidates, neither of whom can change the foreign or domestic priorities of the imperial regime."
Q. There were people who thought Obama could keep alive the dream of Martin Luther King of rebuilding a free and equal society. In one interview Larry King Live aired on November 5th of 2008, Martin Luther King III, the oldest son of Luther King, didn't hide his happiness by seeing the first Afro-American president on history. Was the dream real?
A. Most Americans know next to nothing about the real Dr. King, a self-declared democratic socialist who came near the end of his life to the conclusion that American social (class and race) inequality expressed "systemic rather than superficial flaws" suggesting "that radical reconstruction of society itself is the real issue to be faced." King agreed with the New Left that, in his words in 1967, "only by structural change can current evils be eliminated, because the roots are in the system rather in men or faulty operations."
This is not even remotely the perspective of Obama, who has regularly and repeatedly expressed his "love" for the supposedly noble and "efficient "American system" of purportedly "free market" capitalism."
It is historic that a black family now resides in the White House in what was once a land of black chattel slavery but Obama and King are very different historical characters. King was a democratic socialist who would be leading protests against the state capitalist policies of Obama and the congress were he alive today. Sadly, Martin Luther King III has been a rather selfish and bourgeois character, quite unlike his leftist father. I should add that the real radical reality of Dr. King is deleted from standard history texts and curriculum in the United States. So are the socialist beliefs of Albert Einstein and Hellen Keller for example.
Progressive activists should always remember that the most important thing about a particular politician or policymaker is not merely his or her color or ethnicity or gender or religion (or non-religion) or age but rather – as the left author and filmmaker John Pilger put it last spring – "the class he or she serves." As Pilger noted, the George W. Bush administration went to unusual lengths to include black Americans (e.g.Condi Rice and Colin Powell) in top policymaking positions but was still one of the most conservative and dangerous U.S. administrations of all time.
Anyone who said Obama was going be the 21st century version of Dr. King was revealing deep historical ignorance Comparing a politician like Obama to the likes of great social justice and movement leaders like Martin Luther King, Jr. or Malcom X or Frederick Douglass is like comparing an orange with apples.
Q. Is Obama a myth? If he is not a myth, what is he in reality?
A. Obama is a calculating politician, like Bill Clinton or for that matter like George Bush I and George Bush II though he's a lot smarter than the last two). The notion that Obama is some sort of progressive and antiwar/anti-empire "left" actor…now, that's a total myth. His campaign sold and exploited this myth to win liberal and "left" support in the Democratic primary campaign but the deeper reality is clear since the election. And it was quite clear to many of us well before the election that he was a centrist at best – someone who would be considered right-wing in many, perhaps most nations in the world. As a campaigner, Obama liked to say that "change comes from the bottom up, not from the top down." Since he reached the pinnacle of U.S. and global power, he doesn't say that much if at all anymore.
As the left-liberal U.S. political scientist Sheldon Wolin predicted in his book Democracy Incorporated: Managed Democracy and the Specter of Inverted Totalitarianism last year: "Should Democrats somehow be elected, corporate sponsors [will] make it politically impossible for the new officeholders to alter significantly the direction of society." In the United States' election-focused political culture, Wolin elaborated, "the parties set out to mobilize the citizen-as-voter, to define political obligation as fulfilled by the casting of a vote. Afterwards, post-election politics of lobbying, repaying donors, and promoting corporate interests – the real players – takes over The effect is to demobilize the citizenry, to teach them not to be involved or to ponder matters that are either settled or beyond their efficacy…The timidity of a Democratic Party mesmerized by centrist precepts points to the crucial fact that, for the poor, minorities, the working-class, anticorporatists, pro-environmentalists, and anti-imperialists, there is no opposition party working actively on their behalf."
That formulation has been born out pretty well, I'd have to say. I don't think the story would be any different if Hillary Clinton had won the Democratic nomination and the presidency. And by the way, if we had a Hillary Clinton White House today, the American right would be stridently and absurdly accusing her of being a "socialist" president as well.
Q. If you could list the topics we (the media) should cover in, what would be your top five list?
A. Non-U.S. media in connection with the Obama story? If so, then I would say:
1. Obama, the Democratic Party and the bipartisan nature of America's "corporate-managed democracy" and the narrow, big-business spectrum (possibly totalitarian at this stage) of U.S. political culture. Examine the outlines and consequences of Herman and Peterson's "unelected dictatorship of money."
2. Obama and the re-branding and re-legitimization American military empire (as well as corporate rule). Obama as an Orwellian character who can (as the left U.S. journalist and author Jeremy Scahill says) "think that war is peace" and who leads some voters to think they are embracing radical change when they are actually supporting a politicians who is extending war and empire.
3. How much have American race relations really changed, if at all, because of the election of America's first black president? Is there any sense in which Obama's election might actually be bad for much of the U.S. black population, which remains very disproportionately poor and incarcerated and highly segregated by race and class and now sees the racism behind its oppressed status made more invisible and officially "over" than ever before thanks in part to the rise of the "first black president?"
4. The impact of the Obama presidency on social movements in America: is he sparking or suppressing social protest and rank-and-file organizational activity inside the U.S.?
5. The impact of Obama on global perceptions of the U.S and on the behavior of other nations. Is the "Obama illusion" (the false belief that Obama is a left progressive agent of equality and peace in the Dr. King tradition) perhaps actually more widespread overseas than it is in the U.S. itself? How is it influencing the behavior of politicians and policymakers in other countries? In my experience its harder to talk reasonably about Obama with people outside the U.S.; the level of childish hopefulness is actually higher in other countries by my experience, interestingly enough.
Q. In the same interview with Larry King, rev. Pat Robertson, founder of the Christian Coalition, mentioned a comparison made by young people, especially the white evangelicals. Some polls show that Obama won 32 percent of this group whose age is between 18 and 29. In other words, they thought he was a kind of Messiah or Moses. Now, the media treat him like a sinner. What happened?
A. This question is not quite clear to me. I don't see the media treating Obama as a "sinner" quite yet! Dominant U.S. media has seemed more willing to report his difficulties and flaws as his popularity has declined, I suppose. Obama was remarkably popular among younger voters in 2007 and 2008. His support with young adults is naturally going to fade as the growing unemployment specter hangs over the heads of college and high school graduates and as Obama appears unable or unwilling to offer meaningful solutions.
Q. A study by the Project for Excellence in Journalism and the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy shows that some candidates like Obama had a more favorable coverage than others. How did he escape from media coverage?
A. I read that study. Candidate and early president Obama probably had the most favorable media coverage since Jack Kennedy in 1959-61. For a while, it seemed almost like a fawning love affair. Reporters and media managers like an eloquent, intelligent, handsome, youthful, energetic, and optimistic leader. Many were "star-struck" to a degree that seemed almost ridiculous. After the really terrible Bush-Cheney fiasco, they shared and fanned a great national hunger for something and someone "new" – for a U.S. public relations makeover starting at the level of the White House Obama enjoyed a spectacular "novelty dividend" that media helped create and sell. By comparison, John McCain and Hillary Clinton were the old and stale product lines that had to be pulled off the shelves along with Bush and Cheney. Now the over-exposed Obama (it's been Obama, Obama, Obama 24/7 on U.S. television and in the press for a long time now — it gets ridiculous) has lost some of his novelty and has been exposed as yet another kind of boring and conservative, big money, corporate-backed politician – another droning, pain-in-the-rear officeholder, glad-hander, speech-maker, etc.
Q. How do you evaluate the coverage on first lady Michele Obama? Was the media trying to make her a new Mrs. Jackie Kennedy?
A. Sure. The Jackie Kennedy analogy has been quite strong. From a feminist perspective its pretty offensive is my sense. Michelle Obama was an urbane, highly educated (also Harvard Law, for what that's worth) big city professional in her own right before the "Obama phenomenon" went nationwide and global in 2004. But during and since the 2008 election cycle, she's been trivialized and domesticated to no small degree – relegated to the "fashion" margins in very patriarchal ways.
Q. Some of the American newspapers like The New York Times, The Washington Post, and other media outlets made a commitment with their public by covering Obama's first 100 days. What was the result of that coverage? Was that coverage worthy?
A. The intensive coverage and analysis of a new president's "first 100 days" is a silly tradition in U.S. journalism. It's nothing new. One hundred days is a very short period, too brief to meaningfully evaluate the trajectory of a new administration. I found the "first 100 days" reporting in the leading press outlets fairly shallow. It praised Obama for being some sort of welcome "non-"and post-ideological" and non-partisan policymakers with nothing more than a "pragmatic" interest in getting things done." That "analysis" deleted Obama's primary service to the rich and powerful within and beyond Wall Street. It said little about his cold betrayal of his liberal and progressive voting base, which was already quite clear. It helped sustain his very high approval ratings.
Still at one point in late March, the Washington Post published an excellent commentary by William Greider. Greider wrote the following:
"People everywhere [have] learned a blunt lesson about power, who has it and who doesn't. They [have] watched Washington run to rescue the very financial interests that caused the catastrophe. They [have] learned that government has plenty of money to spend when the right people want it. 'Where's my bailout,' became the rueful punch line at lunch counters and construction sides nationwide. Then to deepen the insult, people [have] watched as establishment forces re-launched their campaign for 'entitlement reform – a euphemism for whacking Social Security benefits, Medicare and Medicaid"
Greider's column was titled "Obama Told us to Speak – Is He Listening?" good question.
Q. Obama, one of the most popular presidents on earth, said in a lunch at the Group 20 summit in London held on 9th April of 2009 that the title belongs to Lula. However, it title doesn't apply to our president. At least it is what our media thinks about Lula. Does the same thing happen with Obama? What the American media think about Lula?
A. I think it's safe (and sad) to say that Brazilian politics is very much a non-topic in U.S. media. At the same time, insofar as Latin American politics get any relevant coverage in the U.S., Lula and other Latin American heads of state are totally eclipsed by the official U.S. "enemies" Hugo Chavez and (to a lesser extent) Cuba and by drug crime and gangs in Mexico. There was a brief flurry of coverage on Honduras, with the dominant U.S. media essentially supporting the right-wing coup against Zelaya, but that story has pretty much disappeared from the news. There's nothing being said about the repression underway in Honduras. It's very sad.
I don't know who is more popular but I do know that Lula rose to power from the working class and from the social movements. Obama is much more of a "top-down" and corporate creation. He has no background or experience in the working class and only the most marginal and brief connection to social movements. The Obama "movement" was a strictly elite-run and of course electoralist, candidate-centered operation, with activists getting narrowly defined "get-out-the-vote-and-elect-Barack" marching orders and directions from slick, professional and middle- and upper-class campaign and marketing experts. I am personally much more impressed by the genuine grassroots democracy demonstrated in the elections of Lula, Morales (Bolivia), and Correa (Ecuador) than I am by "Obama's Inc's" ascendancy.
Q. Did the media buy the slogan Yes we can?
A. Well, sort of, but only insofar as it meant that "we" could defeat one pro-big business and pro-military party (the Republicans) and candidate (McCain) with another such party (the Democrats) and candidate (Obama). It didn't buy (or sell) "Yes we can" in terms of building social movements and fighting for democracy in American workplaces and institutions more broadly on a daily basis beneath and beyond the quadrennial, corporate-crafted, mass-marketed, narrow-spectrum (all viable candidates being required in advance to embrace state capitalism) candidate-centered "electoral extravaganzas" (Noam Chomsky's term) that too often pass as the only real "politics" that matter in the U.S..
Q. So, can we?
A. Sure, provided that, among other things, we learn, as Chomsky counsels, to define politics more meaningfully, in terms of dedicated rank and file activism and organization beneath and beyond the corporate-managed dollar democracy's carefully staged show-elections, regardless of their outcomes. There's a lot more to be said on what's involved in terms of political strategy and how to re-structure U.S. politics so that public opinion might matter more than it does at present…but that's another interview.
Paul Street ([email protected])is the author of many articles, chapters, speeches, and books, including Empire and Inequality: America and the World Since 9/11 (Boulder, CO: Paradigm, 2008); Racial Oppression in the Global Metropolis (New York: Rowman & Littlefield, 2007), Empire and Inequality: America and the World Since 9/11 (Boulder, CO: Paradigm, 2004), Segregated Schools: Educational Apartheid in the Post-Civil Rights Era (New York: Routledge, 2005); and Barack Obama and the Future of American Politics. (Boulder, CO: Paradigm, 2008): www.paradigmpublishers.com/books/BookDetail.aspx?productID=186987


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Seattle Sounders FC's goals against average last week ended up at 2.5.
But they got there in the most extreme of ways, opening the week by allowing a franchise-high five goals May 11 at the New England Revolution and closing it Saturday night with a 1-0 win over the San Jose Earthquakes.
The latter marked the Sounders' first shutout in nine games, ending a streak dating to March.
"It comes at a really good time for us after that loss last week," goalkeeper Stefan Frei said of his third clean sheet of the season. "Every loss is three points, but (the one at New England) particularly hurt because of the way they completely ran over us. We wanted to come back and make a statement, and we really took some pride in the clean sheet, especially at home, and bounced back from that loss real quick."
Not surprisingly, coach Sigi Schmid said defense was a prime area of emphasis during training last week.
He also jiggered three-fourths of the back line that had started in New England. Leo Gonzalez and Jalil Anibaba started at left and right backs in place of Brad Evans and DeAndre Yedlin, who are away with the U.S. national team. Zach Scott moved into central defense, replacing Djimi Traore alongside holdover Chad Marshall.
"I think everyone is super-comfortable with whoever goes in there," Marshall said. "It's pretty seamless. I think everyone has a good understanding of how each other works and what each other's strengths are."
While the Sounders' most notable changes came on the back end, Schmid has stressed that defense is an 11-player responsibility. He pointed out failings at forward and midfield against the Revolution, and he noted the work paid off on all parts of the field against the Earthquakes.
"The outside guys — Marco (Pappa) — contributed a much better effort defensively, as did Lamar (Neagle), so that really helped us," Schmid said. "The nature of Anibaba and Leo are little more defensive-orientated than DeAndre and Brad. But overall, even with those guys, we would have done well because of the commitment of the team after what happened last week."
There also was a considerable difference in the production of the offenses the Sounders were working to control.
The starting 11 players for San Jose arrived — and left — with one goal and one assist among them. That was due in part to the absences of Chris Wondolowski and Clarence Goodson (international duty), Victor Bernardez and Shea Salinas (disciplinary suspension), and Alan Gordon and Steven Lenhart (injury).
The Quakes took eight shots Saturday, but they put only one on target, and Frei handled that.
Meanwhile, the Revolution showed that its eruption was no fluke, repeating its five-goal outburst in a 5-3 win Saturday at the Philadelphia Union. That means 10 of New England's 19 goals have been clustered in its past two matches.
"They've kind of started scoring," Frei said. "They're a good side."
The Sounders' reserves defeated Orange County Blues FC, 1-0, on Sunday at Starfire Sports Stadium in Tukwila. Cam Weaver scored the lone goal. … After a day off Monday, the Sounders will begin preparations Tuesday for their Cascadia Cup match Saturday at the Vancouver Whitecaps.Don Ruiz: 253-597-8808 email@example.com blog.thenewstribune.com/soccer @donruiztnt


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ATRA's "Hellholes": Bankrolled by Insurance, Tobacco, Big Pharma
Washington, DC—The American Tort Reform Association (ATRA) today peddled its debunked and recycled "Hellholes" annual report – an effort bankrolled by insurance, tobacco, and drug companies to attack the civil justice system and gain complete immunity for their negligent behavior.
"For years, the most deceitful and predatory corporations have used front groups like ATRA to prevent everyday Americans from receiving justice," said American Association for Justice Communications Director Ray De Lorenzi. "As our country emerges from this current financial crisis, people realize more than ever why a strong civil justice system is needed to hold wrongdoers accountable. ATRA's report is yet another indication that corporations will say or do anything to weaken Americans' basic legal protections."
ATRA has been funded by corporate giants such as Philip Morris, Dow Chemical, Exxon, General Electric, Aetna, Geico, State Farm, Pfizer, Johnson & Johnson and Nationwide – a "who's who" of corporations with the most to gain by shutting the courthouse doors on consumers. Legal Times has also reported that, "most of ATRA's funding comes from large corporate donors. Insurance firms … are each good for $50,000 or $75,000, one unnamed lobbyist familiar with the Association told the publication." ["Proponents of Reform," Legal Times, 4/17/95; ATRA website: http://www.atra.org/about/members.php]
Here's what the experts say about ATRA's report:
- ATRA's 2007 report was accurately described by the New York Times [Liptak, 12/24/2007] as having "no apparent methodology" and that "the question is whether the report's arguments make sense . . . the report often falls short." The 2008 and 2009 editions made no changes in this regard.
- "ATRA's hellhole campaign began in 2002, and it falls squarely within [the] tradition of scaring the public, but with a twist--this time the explicit goal is to appeal to the public as voters, to scare state politicians into making pro-defendant changes in the law in order to make the label go away, and to get rid of judges whose rulings made ATRA members unhappy. Judicial Hellholes are selected in whatever way suits ATRA's political goals. The choice is not based on research into the actual conditions in the courts." [Thornburg, West Virginia Law Review, Vol. 110 2008]
Flaws in Past "Judicial Hellhole" Reports:
- Wrong State. ATRA Forced to Admit Mistake in their 2005 "Hellhole" Report. Following the release of their 2005 "judicial hellhole" report, ATRA was forced to admit that they wrongly attacked the state of West Virginia for a major lawsuit that wasn't even filed in the state. According to the report, West Virginia's ranking as the third worst "hellhole" in America was based, in part, because of a lawsuit against the DuPont chemical company that was supposedly filed in the state. In fact, the lawsuit, which alleged that the company exposed consumers to toxic chemicals used to make their Teflon nonstick coatings, was not filed in West Virginia. When informed of the error by a reporter from the Charleston Gazette newspaper, ATRA posted a correction admitting the mistake on its website. However, the group refused to change West Virginia's ranking in the report. ["Tort reform group criticizes W.Va. for Fla. Lawsuit; Score unchanged despite admission error was made," Charleston Gazette (West Virginia), 12/15/05]
- Report and Facts Don't Match. According to the Associated Press, the County Identified By ATRA as a Top "Judicial Hellhole" Actually Saw a "Sharp Decline" in Asbestos and Class-Action Lawsuits. Beginning in 2002, ATRA singled-out Madison County, Illinois for being one of the worst of these "hellholes" in America. However, according to the Associated Press, Madison County actually experienced a sharp decline in both asbestos and class-action lawsuits. [ATRA website, http://www.atra.org/reports/hellholes/; "Lawsuits fall in Madison City," Associated Press, 12/28/04]
- The Cases Aren't There. One of ATRA's Top "Judicial Hellholes" Had Only Four Medical Malpractice Verdicts Favoring Plaintiffs Between 1996 and 2003. The Belleville News-Democrat reported that between 1996 and 2003, Madison County, Illinois – one of ATRA's top "judicial hellholes" – had only eleven medical malpractice and wrongful death cases that resulted in verdicts. Of these eleven verdicts, four favored plaintiffs. Moreover, only one of these pro-plaintiff verdicts exceeded $1 million. [Belleville News-Democrat, 7/18/04]
- It Doesn't Make Sense. West Virginia has climbed up ATRA's rankings despite enacting tort reform. In 2002, West Virginia was not even on ATRA's list, in 2003 the state was ranked fourth, in 2004 and 2005 the state had climbed to third and in 2006 the entire state was ranked first. During this time, West Virginia passed caps on medical malpractice damages, elimination of third party bad faith, and significantly changed workers' compensation and joint and several rules.


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[To commemorate the sixtieth anniversary of the atomic bombing of
These are brief essays that seek to capture the times, looking backward and forward.
These snapshots provide brief introductions to several signature issues of the epoch: the atomic bombing of
Mr. Tsuboi Sunao would appear to be an ordinary healthy elderly Japanese man except for the large patch of white skin that medical specialists call leucoderma on his forehead. He is a cheerful 79 year old, but over the past 60 years he has been critically ill four times, each time being told that he would not survive. He first fell ill immediately after the bombing of
Mr. Tsuboi does not expect to be alive when
In one corner of the
For many months now major Japanese anti-nuclear organizations and other grass-roots peace movement groups have been planning their own events scheduled for August 2005 to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the bombing of
A Hiroshima A-Bomb victim, Ms. Kurihara Sadako, once wrote the following passage in one of her poems:
It was night in the basement of a broken building
Victims of the atomic bomb
Crowded into the candleless darkness
Filling the room to overflowing
The smell of fresh blood, the stench of death
The stuffiness of human sweat, the writhing moans
When, out of the darkness, came a wondrous voice
"Oh! The baby's coming!" it said
And so, a new life was born
In the darkness of that living hell
We shall give forth new life!
We shall bring forth new life!
Even to our death
What is urgently required for
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New player videos... plus my 2 cents...
This video site has probably already been posted, but I wanted to throw my take on the new guys.
Yahoo Player Videos
Greenway - Monster... looks awesome.
Blue - Hard hitter! Hope he makes the team... could be starting safety in a few years.
Jackson - Definately a project. Seems to have the arm. Could be good if developed right. We'll see...
Mathis - Reminds me of Westbrook, catches the ball well out of the backfield. Hope he makes the squad.
Henderson - Could be good. Yahoo guy compares him to Mewelde. Kinda hope they keep him around too.
Griffin - Should be a solid nickel corner, seems to be a ball hawk. If he plays anything like the highlights, we won't miss BWill.
Edwards - Could be a nice replacement for Johnstone, this kid can get to the QB. Quick too. Might have taken him a bit early, but remember, Randle went undrafted....
Baskett - Looks solid. Hope he makes team. Could be future replacement for MRob.
Gordon - Could be the steal after the draft. This kid looks great. WR... CB... I really like him. Fast as heck.
Cook - Don't care... not a good pick. Bitter about this one...
Overall, I'm a fan of the draft. Seems as if we solidified our roster pretty well, as well as brought in some possible future studs.
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Welcome to the IBM Cloud and Smarter Infrastructure's (C&SI) Tivoli Storage Manager technical support information update. This communication is designed to help you derive maximum value from your software by providing the most up-to-date technical information, answers to frequently asked questions, and links to other key information.
Tivoli Storage Manager on-line self-help resources:
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Security Bulletin: Tivoli Storage Manager Server Certificate Chaining Vulnerability (CVE-2013-6747)
Security Bulletin: TSM Server CPU Utilization (CVE-2014-0963)
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ANS1030E During Tivoli Storage Manager Incremental Backup
TSM Client APARs fixed in 7.1.0 and 7.1.0.x (1648007)
Tivoli Storage Manager ODBC configuration with OpenOffice on Windows 7
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Tivoli Storage Manager upgrade fails because of missing DB2 files
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Handling messages ANR1330E and ANR1331E
Can NDMP backups be configured for tape drive encryption
Relocating of the adsm.sys directory for system state backups
IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Suite for Unified Recovery - Front End V7.1
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ATLANTA (August 20, 2009) – Habitat for Humanity will receive a $3,263,565 donation from the People of Qatar to help build houses in partnership with families whose homes were damaged or destroyed by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.
A total of 44 homes will be built by 14 Habitat affiliates located along the Gulf Coast in Mississippi, Louisiana, and Alabama.
In 2006, Habitat for Humanity International received a $22 million grant from the People of Qatar to help in the long-term recovery of the Gulf Coast region. The grant was used to help build nearly 300 houses, including154 homes in Louisiana, 107 homes in Mississippi and 33 in Alabama.
"We are extremely grateful to the People of Qatar for this second generous gift to help with the recovery of the Gulf Coast region," said Jonathan Reckford, CEO of Habitat for Humanity International. "Tremendous efforts have been made over the last four years to help people rebuild their lives after the devastation of hurricanes Katrina and Rita, but, many low income families are still in need of housing. This gift will enable us to continue to build houses and hope in a region that needs to know the world still cares."
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Oregon State Beavers head coach Mike Riley announced Thursday that quarterback Sean Mannion will be available for Saturday's game at home against the Utah Utes just eight days after undergoing surgery to repair a torn left meniscus. The Oregonian's Lindsay Schnell writes Mannion says he's good to go.
"I feel great," Mannion said. "I feel like I could have gone a little earlier (than Wednesday), but it felt wiser to leave it in the doctors' hands. But right now I feel awesome, I feel 100 percent."
If Riley decides to hold Mannion out for another week, the Beavers will turn to backup Cody Vaz, who was named Pac-12 Offensive Player of the Week last week after going 20-of-32 for 332 yards and three touchdowns at BYU. This comes two weeks after Mannion himself was named Pac-12 Player of the Week.
Mannion told reporters that there's no quarterback controversy between he and Voz and that two are completely supportive of one another. Kickoff for the Beavers and Utes is set for Saturday at 7:30 p.m. PT from Reser Stadium in Corvalis, Ore.


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…still a fantastic album in its own right. A classic, with genre-defining songs. The incredibly bizarre production only helps matter. Be sure to pick it up if you are a death metal fan and are new to the world of these bands, or if you've never heard this before.
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2003 digitally remastered reissue of 1991 album for the U.S. grind-core originators, packaged in a digipak, includes 3 bonus tracks 'Retribution For The Dead', 'Ridden With Disease' (demo) & 'Service For A Vacant Coffin' (live). Peaceville.
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Quite possibly the greatest gore album ever. Mindblowing. Hole in the head is totally awesome.
Ok, if you're not into sludgy Death Metal, then don't get this, stick to your Death/Grind crap, anyways, this CD is killer, theres a few "immature" lyrics on a few songs, kind of pointless lyrics on those, but the rest of the lyrics aren't bad, Killer riffs, vocals, drumming, this is Chris Reiferts band, formally of Death (Scream Bloody Gore) only, and he is good, also check out Severed Survival.
i'm not sure why the one poster gave this cd such a bad review. i suppose if the only dm you listen to is stuff like suffocation, hate eternal, origin, cryptopsy, and other super techie metal onslaughts this might not be up your alley.but if you ask me, this is one of if not the most widely varied sounding 'death metal' albums i've ever heard. the styles range from sludgey rock, to faster bits and several areas in between, with each song having it's own identity. if you don't mind more recognizably song-oriented dm, i would strongly suggest picking this up. i think fans of darkthrone and eyehategod could like this band a lot.and oh yeah, it is insanely catchy too.
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If it seems as if the current VW Jetta Sportwagen looks more like a Golf than a Jetta, your eyes aren't deceiving you. That's because Volkswagen has redesigned the latest Jetta, while only recently revamping the Sportwagen. That means the Sportwagen remains more closely related to the previous-generation Golf/Jetta. Considering that the latest Jetta has become more mainstream and less sophisticated, we'd say the Sportwagen is the better all-around Jetta.
Current Volkswagen Jetta Sportwagen
The current Volkswagen Jetta Sportwagen is available in S, SE and TDI trim levels. The S and SE models are powered by a 170-horsepower 2.5-liter inline five-cylinder. A five-speed manual is standard with this engine, while a six-speed automatic is optional.
The Jetta TDI features a 2.0-liter turbodiesel engine that utilizes VW's clean diesel technology, making this car compliant with all 50 states' emissions requirements. The diesel produces 140 hp and a healthy 236 pound-feet of torque, and yields up to 41 mpg on the highway. A six-speed manual or VW's DSG dual-clutch automated manual are offered for the TDI.
The Volkswagen Jetta Sportwagen sets itself apart from domestic and Japanese economy sedans by offering a distinctly European interior and feel to the driving experience. In many ways, it's a smart alternative to heavier and less efficient compact crossovers. Not only does the Jetta provide better handling, but its cargo space is generally on par or better. Small wagons are now few and far between, but the excellent Jetta Sportwagen doesn't really leave you longing for different choices.
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The current Jetta Sportwagen was introduced for 2009 and is related to the previous-generation Jetta sedan. This relationship was greater in the first year when the chassis tuning, interior and front-end styling were identical between sedan and Sportwagen. This first year also included an SEL trim, which featured a variety of luxury items like a fully powered driver seat with lumbar adjustment and memory functions, dual-zone climate control and upgraded speakers. It also had the 200-hp 2.0-liter turbocharged four-cylinder from the GTI.
For 2010, the Volkswagen Jetta Sportwagen received many of the same changes carried out that year to VW's Golf/Rabbit. The body shape, interior volume and powertrains were essentially left alone, but VW improved the interior, retuned the suspension and made minor exterior styling changes. As no changes of note have occurred since, this Sportwagen and those that followed are essentially identical to today's version.
The fourth-generation Volkswagen Jetta was available in a wagon body style from 2001-'05, though it wasn't known by the Sportwagen moniker. It was an entertaining car to drive, and like the current model, had top-notch materials quality and ample safety features. Scant rear-seat legroom was its major shortcoming. Although reliability has been spotty, a fourth-gen Volkswagen Jetta is still a good buy on the used market if its service history checks out clean.
As the base 2.0-liter engine offered weak acceleration and mediocre fuel economy, we recommend getting a fourth-generation Jetta with the excellent turbocharged 1.8T four-cylinder introduced to the wagon for 2002 that produced 180 hp. The diesel-powered Jetta TDI was also offered in all but the first model year and provided mileage in the 40s. The 1.9-liter turbodiesel four-cylinder initially produced 90 hp and 155 lb-ft of torque and was upgraded to 100 hp and 177 lb-ft for 2004.
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At the annual meeting of the Maryville College National Alumni Association held Oct. 17 in the Alumni Gymnasium, members of the 25th, 40th and 50th reunion classes proudly presented checks reflective of their reunion fundraising efforts. Combined, the reunion class giving resulted in nearly $300,000 of total impact while specifically raising roughly $180,000 to assist with various current projects on campus.
The Class of 1984, represented by alumna Margaret Andrews Huntzinger, raised $9,165 that will be used toward the ground floor entrance in Anderson Hall, which is slated for renovation in the near future. With the addition of two new members to the Society of 1819, the College's planned giving society, the Class of 1984's gift has a total impact of $34,165. Members of the 1984 Steering and Communications Committee included Huntzinger, Leslee Hay Kirkconnell, Dave Raulerson, Karen Spence and Laurie Winiarski.
Alan Cropper represented the Class of 1969 at the Oct. 17 meeting. His class raised $74,520 that will be combined with gifts from the classes of 1968 and 1970 to provide funds for the reception area in Anderson Hall as well as establish an endowed scholarship in honor of the three classes. With the addition of two new Society of 1819 members, the Class of 1969's gift has a total value to the College of $94,520. Members of the 1969 Steering and Communications Committee included Bill Rankin, Joe Dawson, Alida McArthur Graves, Craig Rigell, Ann Little Rigell, Jim Moore, Susan Carr Stevenson, Steve Dorner, Cathy Hallman Walker, George Brown and Charles Davies.
Jack Emery, an alumnus from the Class of 1959, presented to Maryville College President Dr. Gerald W. Gibson the check from his classmates. In celebration of 50 years since graduation, Emery's class raised $98,085 that will be used for the establishment of a new Class of 1959 endowed scholarship and funding a seminar room in the renovated Anderson Hall. With the addition of eight new Society of 1819 members, the Class of 1959's gift has a total impact of $168,085. Steering and Communications Committee members included Ted Frauman, Joe Tropansky, Bob Moses, Bill Aring, Betty Boone Best, Bill Lynch, Mary Newton Lynch, Colleen Crawford McCall, Barbara Coates Rooker, Libby Welsh and Gray Clarke Wiley.
"Special thanks to all of the reunion classes for their hard work to date," said Holly Jackson-Sullivan, vice president for advancement and community relations. "We are so grateful for each and every gift. We know that alumni have a choice about what they support, and we are honored that they choose to give to their alma mater so generously and faithfully."
Gifts and pledges can still be added to these totals until the end of the fiscal year – May 31, 2010 and will be counted toward final class fundraising numbers, she added.
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Maryville College is ideally situated in Maryville, Tenn., between the Great Smoky Mountains National Park and Knoxville, the state's third largest city. Founded in 1819, it is the 12th oldest institution of higher learning in the South and maintains an affiliation with the Presbyterian Church (USA). Known for its academic rigor and its focus on the liberal arts, Maryville is where students come to stretch their minds, stretch themselves and learn how to make a difference in the world. Total enrollment for the fall 2014 semester was 1,168.


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Respectfully asking for a new 'format' of House Hunters...
We've watched 4-ever, and I am officially burned out on the following comments: Wow, husband/wife closet jokes, can't live w/out double sink jokes, popcorn ceilings, 'looks like my grandma's house', etc....
The shows are so scripted I actually deleted all the DVR'd HHs and am about to stop recording the HHIs as well.
May we please have fresh, original comments???
You need to put those words in the website where you can write comments about those shows, here, unfortunately, they don't give a hoot what you say, they don't come here and read anything. They simply think that uless their ratings don't fall they are doing fine.
Let me add a few more...
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Etc. etc. etc.......
I always have to laugh when the husband says he loves the "window treatments". Seriously???? Like a straight guy is really going to come up with that one!
I can live with most of the cringe worthy comments, but I really draw the line when on HHI they show people's dirty dishes, full closets and unmade beds. This happens a lot on HHI rentals.
Exactly who are they trying to fool?
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If they change the format, it'll only be to create a competition of some sort.
I just wish that they would get rid of the awful guitar twang whenever the buyers see a *gasp* laminate countertop or whatever disapoints them.
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I love making cakes for people I know and care about. It makes it more fun, knowing the bride/groom, or birthday boy/girl that is going to get it while I'm up all night working on it. So when one of my dearest friends. Jesseca from One Sweet Appetite, asked me to make another cake for her I was THRILLED!
a Peter Pan party with scenes from the movie cut out of black fondant to look like shadows! I'm in LOVE with how it turned out.
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ATC Vision: Every child in Alexandria can read and succeed!
Read2Succed -- the Alexandria Tutoring Consortium's program as part of Alexandria's
Spring2ACTion on April 9, 2014
You can make the difference between a child becoming a dropout or a graduate!
Donate now to support the Alexandria Tutoring Consortium in reaching our campaign goal of $12,000 and 200 donors to help Alexandria's children to read by the end of 3rd grade.
Donate now and it will be added on April 9th.
It's easy, just donate on this page or donate through the Board of Directors and Volunteers special fundraising team by going to:
A story about one ATC volunteer's tutoring experience:
"I was assigned to tutor a kindergarten student at Maury last year. At the first meeting I was astonished to find that he might know a sing-song "ABCs" but he did not have one bit of letter recognition. I had difficulty grasping that he did not know the alphabet. Well, we dug in. Through twice and sometimes three meetings each week through the end of the school year, he not only got his letters, he recognized words, began to sound things out, and by the end of the year he was reading at the same (and maybe slightly ahead) level as his classmates. That experience was extremely critical for him and gratifying for me."
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A Phoenix couple is in jail on suspicion of stealing credit card information obtained at a medical billing firm where one of them works, the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office said.
Deputies said it's possible as many as 46,000 patients could be vulnerable to fraudulent charges, many of them from Scottsdale Dermatology Clinic.
Winfred Aurelious Dick Jr. and Brittany Davidson were arrested and booked into the Fourth Avenue Jail on multiple counts of aggravated identity theft, computer tampering, fraudulent use of a credit card and fraud schemes.
"In a bizarre twist, we have a law enforcement official and a court involved in this investigation," said MCSO Sheriff Joe Arpaio.
The investigation began in late September when Sheriff's Capt. Dave Letourneau noticed an erroneous charge on his credit card that was used to pay for someone else's traffic fine in Glendale City Court.
Sheriff's detectives determined that Davidson was stealing credit card information at her place of employment, Allsource Medical Management, a Glendale medical billing firm that services Scottsdale Dermatology Clinic and other medical practices.
During a jailhouse interview on Tuesday, Davidson said she used stolen credit card numbers to "make ends meet."
"Working 40 hours a week was not enough to feed my boyfriend's kids and myself," she said about her $11-an-hour job.
Sheriff's detectives served a search warrant on Dick's home, where both suspects reside. They said they found evidence linking Dick and Davidson to the captain's theft. Detectives also found methamphetamine in Dick's vehicle wrapped up in court paperwork.
Dick is an employee at the Amazon shipping department.
After the pair was arrested, Davidson admitted to stealing and using addresses and credit card numbers from patients of Scottsdale Dermatology and their associated offices elsewhere in the Valley, MCSO said.
Authorities determined that the pair had been accessing credit card information from untold numbers of patients from the dermatology clinics and were routinely using the cards for all kinds of purchases, from pizza to tires and rims for their automobiles.
'When my check and my boyfriend's check ran out, that's when we would basically go to that measure," said Davidson.
She said she charged a total of about $2,000 to $3,000 between 12 or 13 different credit cards during a three-month period.
At least four victims have been identified, but Arpaio said he fears there may be many more victims.
Dick is being held on a $5,000 bond, while Davidson is being held on a $3,500 bond.
CBS 5 News spoke with the owner of Allsource Medical Management on the phone.
He said the company is a victim, along with patients and providers.
Davidson said she doesn't have a criminal history and her employer trusted her, of which she took advantage.
"I feel so bad for the people I've taken from because not only did I ruin their lives and take money that didn't belong to me, I ruined my own life in that process," said an emotional Davidson.
Sheriff's detectives and the dermatology clinic are asking all patients to carefully review their bank and credit card statements from Jan. 1 until now.
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Hampton 2 Light Wall Sconce
Hampton 2 Light Wall Sconce features etruscan smooth oyster crystals with Gold silk shimmer shade and Antique Brass finish. Also available in English Bronze with Gold shimmer shade and Polished Chrome with Silver shimmer shade. Two 60 watt 120 volt B10 base candelabra incandescent lamp not included. 14 inches wide x 13.5 inches high x 6 inches deep. UL listed.
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Crystorama Lighting was founded in Brooklyn, New York, in 1958 by Abraham Kleinberg. The company was initially established as a primary importer of crystal chandeliers from Bohemia-Northern Czechoslovakia and offered the finest selection of classical crystal designs. Abraham Kleinberg's passion as an artist and designer was inspired from various cultures around the world. Through his travels he has incorporated into the product line the full hand cut crystal, the craftsmanship of decorative ironwork, and the meticulous manner by which ornate castings are hand chased to bring out their intricate detailing. Crystorama's rich heritage has continued over the last 50 years by working with design communities in Europe, India, Asia, and North America. The classically designed chandeliers continue to use the authentic molds and patterns to maintain the traditions of our forefathers. In a world of mass production, Crystorama Lighting continues to offer classical chandeliers that require years of experience and specialized craftsmanship.


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Montreal Saxophonist Remi Bolduc With Simon Rentner
July 2, 2013. Posted by Tim Wilkins.Add new comment | Filed under: FIJM, FIJM 2013, Jazz Alive, Simon Rentner
Alto saxophonist Remi Bolduc talks with WBGO's Simon Rentner about his performances at the 2013 Festival International du Jazz de Montreal, and 2011 recording in homage to Charlie Parker. Enjoy!
Escape to The Cape Town Jazz Fest with Simon Rentner
April 26, 2013. Posted by Simon Rentner.Add new comment | Filed under: Simon Rentner
I just returned from the 14th annual The Cape Town International Jazz Festival -- the largest music festival of its kind on the continent. Find out why the organizers call it "Africa's grandest gathering" on our weekly news show, The WBGO Journal.
Later this month, WBGO will feature a variety of my special reports from South Africa, including this piece on NPRMusic's A Blog Supreme,where I showcased five jazz artists at this year's festival, including South African pianist Ebrahim Kalil Shihab.
Coming up on the next edition of The WBGO Journal, I tell the story of the Maboneng Precinct, which means "place of light" in Sotho. This rapidly developing neighborhood is being built by one optimist developer and a team of young entrepreneurs and artists in the heart of Johannesburg. Learn about these "Freedom Children" on May 3rd at 7:30p.m.
Finally, the May 21 and 28 editions of WBGO's The Checkout, a weekly new music magazine, will feature two hours of special programming dedicated to South Africa's swing scene and the Cape Town Jazz Festival. Mark your calendars!
Montreal Jazz Festival 2012: Why Montreal?
July 7, 2012. Posted by Simon Rentner.Add new comment | Filed under: FIJM 2012, Interviews, Jazz Alive, Simon Rentner
WBGO'S Simon Rentner concludes his broadcast coverage of the Festival International de Jazz de Montreal by asking a simple question: Why Montreal? Festival Co-Founder and Artistic Director André Ménard and Vice President of Programming Laurent Saulnier have their answers. Plus, Canadian musicians Peter Appleyard and Claude St-Jean chime in.


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Director of Public Safety: The Director of Public Safety, who also serves as the Chief of Police, reports directly to the Vice President of Student Development and Services. The Public Safety Department is a dual-service agency consisting of sworn North Carolina Law Enforcement Officers, non-sworn Security Officers, and Administrative Specialists.
University Police Officers: The Police Lieutenant leads the Police Services Section and reports directly to the Director of Public Safety/Chief of Police. The Police Lieutenant supervises one (1) Police Sergeant, four (4) Campus Police Officers, and three (3) Reserve Campus Police Officers. University Police Officers are on duty at all times to serve the campus community. University Police Officers assigned to patrol duties wear distinctive grey and black uniforms.
Security Officers: The Security Lieutenant leads the Security Services Section and reports directly to the Director of Public Safety/Chief of Police. Security Offices do not have arrest powers, but do receive extensive training to perform many essential tasks that serve to keep the University a safer and more secure place. Security Officers are on duty at all times to serve the campus community. All Security Officers wear distinctive blue uniforms.
Safety and Support: The Safety and Support Lieutenant leads the Safety and Support Services Section and reports directly to the Director of Public Safety/Chief of Police. In addition, this Lieutenant oversees a number of essential programs including fire and life safety program compliance and training, crime prevention, driver safety training, pedestrian safety, emergency preparedness, access control, and administration of the vehicle registration and campus ID card programs.
Crime Prevention Officer: The Crime Prevention Officer is supervised by the Safety and Support Services Lieutenant. Our Crime Prevention Officer has completed extensive specialized training in crime prevention programs, services, and methods through state agencies and other accredited sources. Although crime prevention services are provided to the entire community, our Officer's primarily focuses on the on-campus residential communities.
Officer Manager: The Office Manager is supervised by the Safety and Support Services Lieutenant and is responsible for all business office functions including receptionist duties, clerical support, university ID cards, campus vehicle registration, telecommunication services, cash-handling, inter-office distribution, data and file management, and scheduling.


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Which city is richest? It depends on how the numbers are run
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Why do we need this type of publicity -- easier targets?
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@Alamo Resident - our city is not mentioned here, why do you care? People of Danville, SR and Pleasanton are okay with this article since they are much nicer, inclusive and smart (i.e. they know affluent cities is public knowledge and no one heard it for the first time from the nerdwallet listing)
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on May 22, 2013 at 9:11 am
Sorry to burst your bubble but Alamo is not a city, nor a town. It is an unincorporated "area" aka; CDP (census designated place).
For such "smart" and affluent people, how did you possibly think Alamo qualified? You did however demonstrate a wonderful sense of humor.
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The Chicago Bears will need to turn to Caleb Hanie as their starting quarterback for the remainder of the season now that Jay Cutler is out with a broken thumb and Kyle Orton was plucked off waivers by the Kansas City Chiefs. While the team opened as 1-1/2 point favorites over the Oakland Raiders, the line has since moved in favor of the Raiders to four points, according to Odds Shark.
Jay Cutler's injury also significantly moved the over/under from 46 points to 41 points. Hanie has never started an NFL game and he could be in for a rude awakening when that happens. The Bears' potential playoffs now seem to depend on what kind of offense Hanie will be able to put up. Should he fail, things would be more dire since the alternative is recently signed Josh McCown or rookie Nathan Enderle.
And while it appears Darren McFadden might not play for another week, Michael Bush has proven to be more than adequate, rushing for 266 yards and two touchdowns in his last two games.
Odds Shark has more NFL Week 12 odds and lines. For more on this game, check out Bears blog Windy City Gridiron and Raiders blog Silver and Black Pride. Be sure to visit SB Nation NFL for more on Week 12's action.


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The Frankfurt Altarpiece of the Exaltation of the True Cross
Oil on copper
Inv. No. 2024, 2131, 2142, 2118, 2140, 2119, 2054
49 x 35 cm (Central panel)
ca. 23 x 15 cm (Side panels)
ca. 15 x 16 cm (Predella panels)
Between 1950 and 1981 the Städel succeeded in reassembling this masterwork by Elsheimer, a house altarpiece which was documented by the sources but believed lost. Its frame was reconstructed according to sketches made in 1612. The central panel shows the Exaltation of the Cross (celebrated on 14 September). Joined by hosts of angels, a throng of saints and prophets gather in worship around the cross erected in the central axis. Above them, in the brightest zone, we see the Coronation of the Virgin. In clockwise order, the six surrounding scenes recount the Discovery of the True Cross as well as its later return: Empress Helena, the mother of Constantine the Great, embarks, interrogates an old man in the Holy Land, has excavations carried out on Golgotha in search of the crosses and identifies Christ's cross with a miracle of reawakening. The Byzantine emperor Heraclius recovers the cross after it is stolen by heathens, but he cannot pass into Jerusalem on horseback. Only on foot – and barefoot – can he enter the city with his wonderworking load. Captivatingly composed with veritable fireworks of colour and dramatic lighting, these panels are highlights of Elsheimer's late phase.


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RALEIGH COUNTY, W.Va. (WVVA)--- The Coalfields expressway, that would connect McDowell County to Beckley, has now halted due to insufficient funds.
The expressway would be a four lane, modern highway that would take you to McDowell County in half the time. The project is at hault until funds can be found to pay for construction. The cost is estimated to be about 20 million dollars a mile.
According to an online petition, they say the project will help access to coal companies and not the general public. The supporters of the expressway say that it will beneficial to travelers and help bring jobs into the area.
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CATEGORIES Drama, Casting, Scripts, CinematicalNow that The Twilight Saga has reinvigorated his career, Peter Facinelli, also known as Dr. Carlisle Cullen, is stretching his cinematic reach and writing his own gigs. Variety reports that the actor has penned a new film called Loosies, which will put him alongside the likes of Michael Madsen and Vincent Gallo. Michael Corrente (Outside Providence) will direct when production kicks off next month.
Facinelli will star as "a successful pickpocket living the outlaw lifestyle until confronted with an old one-night stand who tells him that she's pregnant with his child." If the IMDb cast list is right, it looks like the one-night stand could be played by his real-life wife Jennie Garth. As for Madsen and Gallo, there's no word on what sort of characters they'll play, but considering the subject matter, I think it's fair to say that they're a part of the pickpocket's "outlaw lifestyle."
Since this is Facinelli's first screenplay, there's no telling how this will play out, but I'm digging the idea of an actor writing himself a role to help fight against typecasting, which is what this should do if the flick makes its way into the public consciousness. Really, for most people he'll remain the tow-headed vamp with the weird accent if he doesn't, and unless Stephenie Meyer starts writing the Carlisle Chronicles, that gig won't get him too far.


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The personal computing pioneer shares stories and his life philosophies
Wednesday, January 22, 2014
On January 15, the Lesley University Boston Speakers Series presented one of the instigators of that revolution—Apple Computer co-founder Steve Wozniak—an icon of the innovation that set a trajectory to transform the way humans work, communicate and live.
The ripple effects of Wozniak's inventions resonated during his lecture, held in Boston Symphony Hall. With rapid-fire recollections and stories, Wozniak conveyed his early love of gadgetry and electronics as a boy. That fascination evolved into an inexorable passion to create new technologies and build devices, starting with the Apple I and Apple II computers and eventually leading to a wealth of later inventions and refinements, such as the universal television remote control.
"I didn't set out to be a genius of electronic design. I just kept doing it and became very good at it," said Wozniak, who founded Apple with Steve Jobs in the 1970s. He credited "repetition, repetition, repetition" with their ultimate success.
Wozniak recalled that he was always in pursuit of using the fastest and fewest parts, and he was forced to be creative because he had very little money before Apple became a huge success.
"I got really good at thinking up unusual ways to use things … and using one part to do another job: double duty," he reflected. "I loved it, loved designing computers."
Wozniak said he wasn't a typical child and didn't fit in socially with the mainstream, but he was lucky enough to find friends who shared his interests, and he excelled in math and science. He described himself as "very shy" and awkward, and joked that he was grateful his last name started with a "W" so that he was always seated at the back of the class.
He discovered an acuity and deep love of math early on. "In math and science you always have an exact answer. What is truth?" he posed. "Math."
Before starting Apple, he got a job as an engineer for Hewlett Packard. There he worked on engineering the early handheld scientific calculator, which would cost $2,000 in today's dollars, he said. He worked on his own projects in all his spare time, and humorously painted himself as a straight-edge nerd amid the experimental California counterculture of the 1970s. This "nerdy" technical focus proved to be a productive juxtaposition of opposites with Steve Jobs, the savvy, driven entrepreneur of the pair who could sell anything.
"I had no chance for a girlfriend or wife. I watched 'Star Trek' and ate TV dinners, and I would design something just for fun," Wozniak recalled. "When I met Steve Jobs it was the days of the counterculture. He would walk around with bare feet eating seeds. I liked hanging out with" hippies, he said, but he was different.
And he credited Jobs's marketing prowess with their ultimate success.
"With me designing it, would it have gotten to the world without Steve Jobs? No!" he said. "I place good marketing above good engineering."
His talk revealed a mind that moves at warp speed, and some of the content was highly technical. But he also emanated optimism and revealed a playful side. He spoke of his love of jokes and pranks, and expressed his life philosophy as revolving around friends, fun and food – "the three F's" – and around never having regrets.
"Community, and people talking to each other, and sharing ideas – that's what makes people happy," he mused.He loves animals and talked about his work with his local humane society, as well as how he spoils his two aging dogs with thin strips of filet mignon.
Wozniak has long since shed the shy exterior of his youth and has become adept as a world-traveling raconteur. He even appeared on the popular television programs "Dancing with the Stars" and "The Big Bang Theory," which he referred to during his lecture.
"'Dancing,' boy did I regret that for a while," he said of the physically rigorous reality dance program. He confessed that before he was approached by "The Big Bang Theory," he had never seen the show, a popular sitcom that chronicles the lives of a group of geeky scientist friends living in California.
But now, Wozniak says he is a devoted fan of "The Big Bang Theory" and keeps all the episodes on his iPhone and takes notes on them.
A wide-ranging audience Q&A, moderated by Phil Redo, managing director of WGBH-FM, Lesley's media partner for the Boston Speakers Series, followed Wozniak's talk. Questions ran the gamut from his relationship with Jobs to whether technology will ultimately end humanity, to which Wozniak quipped, "They didn't tell me you were going to be in the audience, Isaac Asimov."
Wozniak said computers will never replace humans' ability to think logically and solve all types of problems. However, he added, "When you need an answer now, who do you go to? It starts with 'g-o,' and it's not for 'God,'" he said referring to Google.
He said that he and the late Jobs were "friends to the end."
"He was a great friend. We were so compatible. We loved the same things," said Wozniak.
Earlier in the day, before his talk at Symphony Hall, Wozniak visited Lesley's Brattle Campus and met with students, faculty and staff in the Washburn Hall auditorium for a brief lecture followed by a Q&A session where he was introduced by Assistant Professor Bob McGrath and student Nick Tuccinardi. Second to engineering, Wozniak said he was always drawn to the teaching profession and would have loved to teach as a career.
His lecture at Symphony Hall was sponsored by Plymouth Rock Assurance.
See photos from Steve Wozniak's visit to the Lesley campus.
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Lesley MFA in Creative Writing graduate Molly Middleton Meyer uses poetry as therapy with Alzheimer's patientsHuffington PostAugust 17, 2014
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Gov. Deval Patrick named former Lesley University President Margaret McKenna as the new chairperson of the state Board of EducationSouth Boston TodayAugust 15, 2014
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Lesley College of Art and Design alumnus Jacob Bannon continues to operate from a place of creativity and dedication to what he and the bands on his label loveAlarm MagazineAugust 15, 2014
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