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Highlighting the Use of Massage for Children Affected by FASD
By Tina Allen, LMT, CPMMT, CPMT, CIMT
Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) refers to the very broad spectrum of health issues infants' encounter from their mother's alcohol use during pregnancy.FASD includes several different health diagnosis; fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS), alcohol-related neurodevelopmental disorders (ARND), alcohol-related birth defects (ARBD), fetal alcohol effects (FAE), and partial fetal alcohol syndrome (PFAS). There is still much debate about a safe level of alcohol use, with many advocates saying any use during pregnancy puts a child at risk for negative physical or behavioral problems.
When a mother drinks alcohol during her pregnancy, it crosses the placental barrier and into the womb. A mother's body may be able to metabolize the alcohol, while the small or underdeveloped infant liver cannot. The alcohol may then stay inside of the infant's system longer. So, even the smallest amount of alcohol can have detrimental effects to a fetus.
The amount, sequence and timing of alcohol to the fetus all directly influence the type of health issues the child may experience once born. This causes a wide range of effects on the spectrum from severe (facial anomalies) to mild (judgment skills compromised.) Even more problematic is that many issues may not arise until the child begins to grow. The child may initially appear typical until there are subtle, and not so subtle, behavioral problems associated with the prenatal injury. Children who display facial anomalies, growth retardation and developmental abnormalities of the center nervous system are associated with the severe end of the spectrum. or simply fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS.)
Diagnosis of full fetal alcohol syndrome is based on three key features, a pre- and post-natal growth deficiency, facial abnormalities, as well as brain and central nervous system dysfunction. Professor Sterling Clarren's primate and mouse research on alcohol and pregnancy found that the lip and philtrum anomaly of (full) FAS happened during a very small development period; the 19th to 20th day after conception in the human – the period called gastrulation. However, it is well documented that children with facial features are only the tip of the iceberg. For every child diagnosed with full FAS, there will be another three to ten with alcohol-related neurodevelopmental disorders.
The brain injury that results from FASD can lead to developmental delays, an information processing deficit, the inability to reason in the way that others do and a distressing inability to fit in with the rules and behaviors required by society (deficits in self-control, hyperactivity and increased rates of ADHD) due to damage of the sensory processing system, nervous system and the brain. Heavy prenatal alcohol exposure can lead to structural abnormalities in the orbitofrontal cortex, anterior singulate, hippocampus, amygdala and corpus callosum.
The corpus callosum is the part of the brain that links the right hemisphere of the brain to the left hemisphere. The right-brain handles creativity, intuition and impulse and the left-brain handles the rules, logic, order and thoughts. When the two cannot link properly, because of prenatal exposure to alcohol or another brain injury, then the person cannot always predict the outcome of his actions even though he knows and can repeat the "rules."
Primary characteristics in children, adolescents and adults affected by FASD, include memory problems, difficulty storing and retrieving information, impulsivity, distractibility, disorganization, cognitive processing deficits (may think more slowly), slow auditory pace (may only understand every third word of normally paced conversation), developmental lags (may act younger than chronological age) and inability to predict outcomes, or understand consequences and inability to show remorse. However they often have strengths such as being highly verbal, artistic, musical, mechanical, athletic, friendly, outgoing, determined and persistent. In addition to cognitive and functioning difficulties, sleeping is also of great concern for children affected by FASD.
How Massage Can Help
Growth and developmental issues are key to the diagnosis of FAS, and in research studies of pediatric and infant massage therapy, it has been demonstrated to assist in both. For infants born prematurely, the use of massage has demonstrated a measurable increase in weight for the infants who received the therapeutic intervention. Additionally, when followed to an infant's one year birthday, researchers found that the massaged infants had a weight advantage, as well as, placing 12 to 15 points higher on the mental and motor tests of the Bayley Scales of Infant Development than the infants who hadn't been massaged. Even better, these results have been replicated by at least two other groups of researchers.
Another study was done with full-term, healthy 1 to 3-month-old infants who were given 15 minutes of either massage or rocking for 12 days over a 6-week period. What the group found was that the massage group gained more weight, displayed better face-to-face interactions, improved on emotionality, sociability and soothability, displayed less stress hormones and increased serotonin levels.
Sleep issues are a common complaint for many children with FASD, massage may not only help the child fall asleep quicker, but can often improve the quality of deep sleep. Having adequate amounts of sleep can assist in the child's mood, their behavior and may even decrease hyperactivity. Attention issues are also another key issue for children and adolescents with FASD and research demonstrates that massage increases mental focus and concentration.
While research is ongoing with both FASD and massage therapy, it is important to best understand the child who may benefit from massage therapy and what those indications may be. As a practitioner, it is important to provide the time to complete a detailed intake. A safe environment benefits all clients, but in the case of children affected by FASD you should also consider an environment which is not over stimulating to other senses. Take your time and proceed slowly when introducing touch therapy, as children may experience sensory processing difficulties and may be hypo or hyper sensitive to touch.
While it is a clear that massage is beneficial for many children, those affected by FASD may see some wonderful improvements following the intervention of pediatric massage therapy.
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Lifelock (NASDAQ:LOCK) Insider Clarissa Cerda sold 18,000 shares of the company's stock in a transaction that occurred on Wednesday, September 3rd. The stock was sold at an average price of $15.19, for a total transaction of $273,420.00. Following the completion of the transaction, the insider now directly owns 12,132 shares of the company's stock, valued at approximately $184,285. The transaction was disclosed in a filing with the SEC, which can be accessed through this link.
Separately, analysts at Goldman Sachs initiated coverage on shares of Lifelock in a research note on Wednesday, July 16th. They set a "neutral" rating on the stock. One investment analyst has rated the stock with a sell rating, one has given a hold rating and seven have given a buy rating to the company. The stock has a consensus rating of "Buy" and an average price target of $23.17.
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Lifelock (NASDAQ:LOCK) last posted its quarterly earnings results on Wednesday, July 30th. The company reported $0.03 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, missing the consensus estimate of $0.04 by $0.01. The company had revenue of $115.70 million for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $113.92 million. During the same quarter in the previous year, the company posted $0.04 earnings per share. The company's revenue for the quarter was up 29.3% on a year-over-year basis. Analysts expect that Lifelock will post $0.46 EPS for the current fiscal year.
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Manheim is to close its Middlesbrough auction centre following a review of its physical auction infrastructure.
The company said it was closing the site to meet the "expected challenging market conditions of 2012 and beyond".
Manheim Auctions Middlesbrough specialises in main dealer part exchange and trade vehicles however, the company said it accounts for just 1% of its annual auction activity.
It has 20 employees who will all now enter into a period of consultation.
Although Manheim's review of its physical auction presence will result in the closure of Middlesbrough it has also resulted in a number of changes that have provided additional capacity across the network.
In November it was announced that in response to growing demand from vendors for an additional dedicated centre for manufacturer closed auctions in the Midlands region a new operation would be located in Coventry with the sales programme due to begin in the spring on behalf of Skoda UK.
Chris Cush, Manheim Remarketing operations director, said: "Reduced volumes are expected in the wholesale market this year following significant falls in new car registrations in 2008 and 2009 and the continuing challenge in retail sales will put pressure on part exchange volumes.
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Several programs that were on the chopping block in the Reading school district could be getting new life.
Members of the Reading School Board had another budget meeting Monday night to work on filling up a $42 million gap.
Board members decided to try and keep art, music and full day kindergarten programs intact.
A preliminary proposal by the district earlier this month included the elimination of those programs and the layoffs of more than 170 teachers.
The board must pass a final budget at its next meeting on Wednesday.
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Alex Green 2014-09-26T09:28:26Z A new approach to recycling at UCL http://www.ucl.ac.uk/greenucl/greenucl-news-publication/new-approach-waste-recycling-ucl As part of UCL's ongoing work to improve recycling rates, a new approach to waste and recycling is being introduced across the university. This includes a new way to segregate waste, the introduction of hundreds of news bins and a unified waste signage scheme. Alex Green 2014-09-19T10:02:06Z New bike racks installed around UCL http://www.ucl.ac.uk/greenucl/greenucl-news-publication/new-cycling-racks As part of UCL's ongoing work to improve cycling facilities for staff and students, the UCL Sustainability Team have completed the installation of new parking spaces for 181 bikes around the Bloomsbury campus. Alex Green 2014-08-19T08:31:21Z UCL engineers work with contractors to boost biodiversity http://www.ucl.ac.uk/greenucl/greenucl-news-publication/torrington-place-biodiversity The replacement of air handling equipment on a roof at 1-19 Torrington Place has been used to trial an innovative approach to working with UCL's contractors to boost biodiversity. Alex Green 2014-08-12T13:02:36Z Green UCL Annual Report published http://www.ucl.ac.uk/greenucl/greenucl-news-publication/green-ucl-annual-report-published Green UCL's Annual Report for 2012-13 is now ready. This report showcases examples of best practice and sets out our progress in creating a more sustainable UCL. Alex Green 2014-08-05T14:54:31Z Students: give your feedback and get a £10 Waterstones voucher http://www.ucl.ac.uk/greenucl/greenucl-news-publication/give-your-feedback-consultation In the autumn term, we'll be running a big project about the future of UCL's carbon emissions. Alex Green 2014-07-21T13:46:42Z UCL action for Sustainability Celebrated at the Green Impact Awards http://www.ucl.ac.uk/greenucl/greenucl-news-publication/green-impact-awards-2014 UCL's President & Provost, Professor Graham Hart, Dean of the Faculty of Population Health Sciences and the Sustainability team paid tribute to the remarkable efforts of the UCL community in tackling our environmental impacts this week at the Green Impact Award Ceremony. Alex Green 2014-06-11T14:03:29Z Get Cycling Event: Wednesday 14th May, South Quad http://www.ucl.ac.uk/greenucl/greenucl-news-publication/free-get-cycling-event Come to the South Quad for: Alex Green 2014-05-12T11:41:54Z Big Easter Switch Off: the results! http://www.ucl.ac.uk/greenucl/greenucl-news-publication/big-easter-switch-off-the-results Congratulations to everyone who joined in with the Big Easter Switch Off. Alex Green 2014-05-01T10:55:04Z UCL achieves Ska Gold rating for Whittington Hospital refurbishment http://www.ucl.ac.uk/greenucl/greenucl-news-publication/ska_gold_whittington_hospital UCL has successfully achieved its first Ska Gold certificate for its refurbishment project in the Whittington Hospital. This rating represents environmental best practice in terms of reducing waste, using more sustainable materials, installing highly efficient lighting, and water saving toilets. Alex Green 2014-03-27T12:31:52Z WARPit Competition Now On http://www.ucl.ac.uk/greenucl/greenucl-news-publication/warpit_competition Between Tuesday 18th, until Friday 28th February, the member of staff that lists the most items* on UCL's WARPit site will win some brilliant Fairtrade prizes (as well as the knowledge that you're making a real reduction to our environmental impact!) Alex Green 2014-02-18T10:38:04Z Green Volunteering Fair - Wednesday 12th February http://www.ucl.ac.uk/greenucl/greenucl-news-publication/green_volunteering_fair Come along to UCLU and Green UCL's Green Volunteering Fair, 6-8pm on Wednesday 12th February 2014 to find out about a huge variety of ways to make a positive environmental impact. Alex Green 2014-02-07T10:46:31Z Green Impact February League Table http://www.ucl.ac.uk/greenucl/greenucl-news-publication/green_impact_february_league_table The latest results of the Green Impact are in! As always, big congratulations to all teams involved - we have a record number of teams taking part and nearly 600 actions taken as a result of the programme so far. Alex Green 2014-02-06T11:35:24Z Give your feedback and get a £10 Waterstones voucher http://www.ucl.ac.uk/greenucl/greenucl-news-publication/we_need_your_feedback This year we launched NETpositive, a new online platform to help connect students with opportunities to make a positive social, environmental and economic impact during their time at UCL. The tool can be found at www.ucl.net-positive.org . Alex Green 2014-01-13T11:39:11Z Green Impact end of term league table http://www.ucl.ac.uk/greenucl/greenucl-news-publication/green_impact_winter_league The results of Green Impact (so far) are in! Big congratulations to everyone involved, there have been a high number of actions taken already. And don't be put off if your team hasn't taken many actions yet – it's in the New Year that the competition really starts to hot up! Alex Green 2013-12-13T12:53:31Z Mayor's Low Carbon Prize http://www.ucl.ac.uk/greenucl/greenucl-news-publication/mayors_low_carbon_prize Win £20k of funding for your great low carbon idea! Alex Green 2013-12-11T09:59:35Z UCL achieves gold standard in environmental audit http://www.ucl.ac.uk/greenucl/greenucl-news-publication/ecocampus_gold UCL has been awarded Gold EcoCampus certification following an audit of its Environmental Sustainability Management System. Currently used in nearly half of Russell Group universities, EcoCampus is a leading tool to assess environmental management in Higher Education. Alex Green 2013-11-28T15:46:57Z UCLoo Festival (Nov 19th - Dec 3rd) http://www.ucl.ac.uk/greenucl/greenucl-news-publication/ucloo_festival UCLoo Festival is an exciting series of hands-on activities and events based on research relating to the challenge of redesigning the toilet for the 21st century. The festival's convenors are Sarah Bell (UCL Urban Laboratory Co-Director), Barbara Penner (Bartlett School of Architecture) and Tse-Hui Teh (Bartlett School of Planning). It opens on UN World Toilet Day on the 19th November and runs until the 3rd December. Alex Green 2013-11-19T12:48:09Z UCL wins Green Gown Award for Technical Innovation http://www.ucl.ac.uk/greenucl/greenucl-news-publication/ucl_green_gown_award_sustainability As a reflection of UCL's growing influence on embedding sustainability in the HE sector, UCL has won its first Green Gown Award. The Green Gown Awards are a celebration of sustainability best practice and recognise pioneering initiatives being championed across the tertiary education sector. Alex Green 2013-11-14T15:56:39Z Green Impact 2013-14 is now live! http://www.ucl.ac.uk/greenucl/greenucl-news-publication/green_impact_2013_14 This is an exciting time for Green Impact at UCL. After lots of work, discussion and feedback from previous participants, this year's workbook is now live. Last year, an incredible 25 departmental teams took part in the programme, from engineering to languages, to the careers service and libraries. This year, we're working to make this number even higher. Alex Green 2013-10-23T15:35:15Z Cycling Ambassador Bike days in July http://www.ucl.ac.uk/greenucl/greenucl-news-publication/cyclingambassadorbikedays UCL is hosting two more cycling ambassador bike days in July. The drop in sessions will run on Elsa Taddesse 2013-06-25T11:56:19Z Earn rewards for cycling with pleasecycle http://www.ucl.ac.uk/greenucl/greenucl-news-publication/earn-rewards-cycling GET REWARDED FOR CYCLING! Win prizes and earn bikemiles for every mile you cycle in Camden. Elsa Taddesse 2013-06-13T13:10:44Z Public Lecture http://www.ucl.ac.uk/greenucl/greenucl-news-publication/public-lecture 'Getting clean energy investment flowing: the impact of energy policy and the availability of finance on businesses' ability to respond' Elsa Taddesse 2013-05-30T14:20:24Z HEFCE NUS Fund http://www.ucl.ac.uk/greenucl/greenucl-news-publication/hefce-nus-fund The NUS are looking to fund large-scale two-year student-led sustainability projects at student unions across England. Elsa Taddesse 2013-05-23T15:44:02Z


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50 years ago today, Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution. The 16,000 American forces left in the Indochina region after Kennedy's death would eventually increase to over 500,000 under Johnson. So while we're also celebrating World War 1's centennial, make sure not to forget Vietnam - a war that's just as misunderstood as it id forgotten.
Forty years after Watergate, presidential suspicion of reporters and attempts to keep the press at arm's length remain high.
On this, the 40th anniversary of Richard Nixon doing his last unthinkable and resigning as president, everyone should take a moment to read this great article by Jon Marshall in The Atlantic. It's not so much about Nixon's abdication, but how he put the first foot forward in closing off the White House from the press, combatting them and cordoning them off like an army of lepers.
I've written before briefly about Nixon, and in hindsight it's really not that surprising that Nixon blazed out in scandal. Despite his humble Quaker roots, Nixon was a poker wunderkind. The man funded part of his first congressional campaign with gambling winnings that he racked up during WW2. Most everyone is aware of the sleazy connotations that gambling can bring, it's surprising that Nixon wasn't also selling loose cigarettes and leasing cars out of gas station parking lots while he was at it.
Now, I know not every regular to the game of chance deals in the illicit, but considering that as vice presidential candidate Nixon had to explain why he had been receiving funds from secret donors, I don't feel guilty in insinuating the lower character. But to his credit, in combatting the allegations, Nixon pulled off one of the greatest slight-of-hands in history. In a televised address that went was basically "Sure I took some money, but now I have this little cute dog, and gosh, who doesn't like cute little dogs? I'll tell you who. Commies, that's who. Well, goodnight." - Nixon made a whole country forget any smidge of controversy.
By now, everyone has read the warnings - Ebola is staging an unfortunate comeback, and it's bigger, badder, and more terrifying than ever before. According to CNN, the current Ebola epidemic has infected a terrifyingly large 1,323 and killed roughly 729 (as of writing this), with no sign of cooling any time soon. The situation has become so dire in Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea that aid groups such as the Peace Corps have began their withdrawal and Liberia has sealed it's borders in attempts to isolate the contamination.
But for us, the death and heart-ache is an ocean away. While 3 nations combat the ravaging of their population, we can safely sleep after a day of wrestling over which pastry will usurp the cupcakes dominance. Except that unbeknownst too many, we have our own terror of maladies creeping through our streets.
See, while Africa is being torn apart by a relatively new disease, we are suffering from an acute case of nostalgia. Just as many in the West have developed a flare for the retro, so have our diseases. 90's kids had Nicktoons, and 1890's kids had whooping cough. Now, thanks to the free-spirit of the anti-vaccers, diseases that could be caught playing dirty loot strings are on the rebound.
Polio, mumps, scarlet fever, the aforementioned whooping cough, all illnesses that are clawing back from the grave. Let's take measles, a disease that was declared more-or-less conquered in 2000. Thinkprogress writes that, after being relegated to the history books, 2013 saw the largest cases of measles in the past 17 years. They state that according to the CDC, the outbreaks all cultivated in communities that object to vaccinations, where because of religious stigmatization or a debunked theory that links vaccines to autism, people can contract and act as hosts to diseases from foreign carriers. Now, because of such fears, you could need to call a Pestmeester rather than a doctor when you feel ill.
So should we neatly start folding our unmentionables and packing what we can carry into a briefcase, because Pestilence is pulling up in his Uber cab (horses are so 18th century) to take us on a wild ride? I'm not a doctor, so I have no idea. Surely, these are strange times we are living in, but it's nothing new for humanity to be haunted by bizarre diseases. One tale unfolds in mid-19th century Washington, DC. After attending the inauguration of James Buchanan at the National Hotel, lodgers of the establishment began succumbing to strange symptoms such as intense diarrhea and vomiting. Politico notes that an estimated 400 were infected, including the president-elect, and roughly 30 died, 3 of which were Congressmen.
Taking on a name that sounded like a bad marketing campaign, the mystery illness was dubbed National Hotel Disease, and left many scratching their heads. Keep in mind that this was over a century before you could catch the same symptoms from touching a tv remote after a hotel hosted the AVN awards. Some suggested it was an attempt on Buchanan's life gone awry. It turns out in this case the culprit was not a fear of vaccines or heavy handed assassins, but rather sneaky sewage, when later observers would rule the culprit as an acute case of dysentery.
In the wee hours of September 1, 1983, Korean Air Lines Flight 007 was intercepted and shot down by a Soviet Sukhoi Su-15. The civilian airline was hit with 2 missiles after entering Soviet airspace on it's route from Alaska to South Korea, finding a fatal resting place in the Sea of Japan.
A world away, over skies painted by car dealerships and Bon-Ton store lights, there is a flicker that then flairs across an illuminated sky. It's the Ronnie signal! Dashing forward from his Californian Ranch - codenamed "The Hippie Basher" - Ronald Reagan darts through the night post haste towards Washington, DC. Minutes after sensing a disturbance in the capitalismic force as soon as KAL 007 hit it's watery grave, President Reagan summoned Vice President Bush, Secretary of Defense Captain Planet, and the rest of the Teenage Mutant Cabinet Officials to discuss a new clandestine operation. The task - simple - Ronald Reagan would lead a select group of G.I Joes on a shirtless mission into the USSR and exact revenge on Andropov and his minions …
Unfortunately, this gold standard of fan fiction is not actually how Reagan handled the downing of KAL 007. And I'm not the first to point out the claims that Republicans made about Reagan's swiftness in riding the vengeance eagle against Russia are complete bunk, but how else are they going to attack Obama's approach to handling the MH17 downing? Compare him to Ford, the man who ate a corn husk? I don't think so, my friend.
As I've already stated, I'm not the first to point out the hypocrisy here, so I won't beat a dead horse in making a case that Reagan had to be goaded into acting and finally addressed the downing after 4 days. And frankly, I consider arguing about Reagan's legacy to be a futile task. Despite the books and documentaries and family member's to argue to the contrary, Reagan's corpse is constantly fished out of the catacombs and thrown in front of any current discourse. It's the most predictable ouija board, with the guiding hand of Reagan's spirit always spelling out "I'm awesome, bro." But if Republicans really want to hold up an administration that would review the AIDs epidemic as a knee slapping laugh out loud riot, then so be it. I suppose everyone has their quirks.
I actually want to play devil's advocate to the devil's advocate. Republican's want to claim that Reagan took life by the balls when the Soviet Union blew KAL 007 out of the sky, that's fine, because I'll argue that he didn't go far enough.
First we need to lay out a few key differences between KAL 007 and MH17. To begin, MH17 was leaving Amsterdam en route to Kuala Lumpur and was shot down over a war zone. On the flip side, KAL 007 was an outbound flight from U.S. territory - on it's way from Alaska to Seoul, and was downed not over a battle field but for unintentionally encroaching into Soviet airspace. This brings us to our second difference. Due to the flight routes, the MH17 crash killed one American, and while that is a tragedy, the destruction of KAL 007 lost a whopping 61 American citizens. Which brings us to the biggest discrepancy between the two, which is that the KAL 007 destruction resulted in the death of sitting U.S. Representative Larry McDonald, who was a passenger on the flight.
An elected official killed by a foreign nation - that's unprecedented. The only instance remotely similar was when Representative Leo Ryan was shot to death in Guyana in 1978, but he was murdered by Jim Jones' cult followers, and you can't really retaliate against lunatics aside from carpet bombing households that buy large amounts of tinfoil.
So what should Reagan have done? Am I spreading my wing and flying like a war hawk to the scene? Well, no, but surely you could argue that killing a sitting U.S. official might constitute an act of war. Lord knows the United States has had enemies dine on lead buffets for lesser causes. What then, aside from war? Reagan did eventually get around to condemning the Soviet Union and demanding an apology, but whether he spent a press conference calling the USSR monsters or spent the entire speech roundhouse kicking a photo of Yuri Andropov and burping into a microphone, schoolmarming trigger happy nations doesn't deter them. Many in '83 America were upset by Reagan's lack of action such as reinstating grain embargo's and ending arms control talks (and of course the white noise that always chatters in the background screaming for bomb dropping). They, whether right or wrong, demanded more from Reagan just as they are from Obama - despite the peachy memories that are being tossed around today.
Chief Snyder has made his decree - the name stays. Responding to Harry Reid and his rabble-rousing band of congressional troublemakers, Dan Snyder - medicine man of the DC Metro sports complex - is battling again for the Redskins' name. Feeling a strong sense of deja vu, Snyder is hitching his bandwagon to the idea that the Redskins name is beneficial and beloved by Native Americans. Sort of like the Kix cereal of sports - white guy tested, native approved. Except of course that it's not, and Snyder is getting all of the profits while Native Americans are getting a big helping of "respect," which is usually P.R. speak for "nothing."
The funny thing about the Snyder talking about surveys in support of his team name is that his stats seem to come from pure junk. The American University Washington College of Law has an interesting takedown of the 10 year old Annenberg survey that Snyder is clinging to like it's an 1880's gold-mining deed to a native's property. Some of the issues cited in the breakdown of the sloppy survey include it's small scope (only 768 people were polled), the question asked was a confusing double negative, the poll was delivered using landlines, and what I find most damning, it relied on the participants to self-identify as Native American with no follow up.
A sad fact of being Native American is that for centuries your people and culture have been on the chopping block, and once you're near wiped out, everyone claims to be one with you. There's a good chance that anyone who has ever ridden in a van with Steppenwolf blaring form the stereo will call themselves Native American. Doubly so if that individual has a wolf tattooed on them. Grandfather in a picture smoking American Spirits? That could make Gran'pappy O'Doyle a Cherokee Chieftain. I witnessed a firsthand case of indian-claiming when my tattoo artists daughter stormed into the shop and inquired about "how much indian" they were so she could apply for some scholarships. But those are now the breaks of history - Native Americans have had others speaking for their best interests since the encroachment on their lives began. In the past it was for their "assimilation" into society, and now it's telling them that they actually like the name Redskin and should be happy with it.
This is neither here nor there, though, because I have a solution to what currently ails Snyder. While it was a nice gesture for Snyder to buy Native Americans heavy jackets at the tail end of winter and a backhoe to till their dry dirt over 100 years after the Dawes Act pushed them onto the sub-par lint-trap land plots, there lays something more substantive. Something that can touch what seems to be the true matter here - marketing. It's a plan that would allow the Redskins to keep their logo and color while only sacrificing the name, and it's a solution that can be found in Utah.
The Ute Indians inhabited the Western desert, roaming the "land of the sun" for centuries before European explorers would transform the continent into an apple-pie eatin', football-loving America. And when other franchises were swooping up Native American identities like it was a $5 DVD bin at Best Buy, the Utes were able to work a deal that was beneficial for all parties involved. The Ute tribe and the University of Utah have between them a signed "memorandum of understanding" which allows the school to use the Ute name with certain perks for the tribe. On the University's end, they have pledged to fund scholarship programs for Native Americans, educate people about the Ute tribes past, and promote fan behavior that doesn't degrade American Indians - i.e. no dressing up in head dress and drunkenly shouting "how" for 2 hours.
So would something like this be feasible for the Redskins? While they certainly aren't a school, I would think that the team has ample revenue to create some real, effective outreach programs (they are the NFL's most profitable team). Snyder's just going to need to take chastity belt off the piggy bank. And c'mon, the D.C. area isn't lacking in a rich American Indian history that could be promoted by such a name change agreement. Perhaps the Powhatan - the native people who lived among the first English settlers at Jamestown. Certainly that's a history that could benefit from a deal similar the Ute-Utah memorandum and have some money put into educating fans on their history beyond the "Pocahontas" movies. Why not partner with the local tribes to establish a scholarship open to all Native Americans while setting up a larger educational program based on the Powhatan tribes or go to their even broader Algonquian umbrella. And since we've established that a football team is not a school, the scholarship could be awarded once a year and the educational aspect could be through print collateral and summertime events. It is even conceivable to think that Snyder could remain a stingy cheapskate and not have to pay for new branding/advertising since his team would retain the Native American theme. All that would need changed would be the typography for the new name, and old merchandise could be recycled through a buyback/trade in program - similar to what the New England Patriots did after Aaron Hernandez turned in his cleats to become deaths right hand. The Washington Powhatan, it could grow on me.
Admittedly this plan is a longshot, skimming the edge of the galaxy of likelihood. Too many parties would have to come together and meet in some sort of an agreement, something that no one seems able to do when it comes to the Redskins. But, it is a plan, and that's one thing we can agree that Dan Snyder will need. As much as he fights it, this issue has penetrated the sphere of influence, and changes are bound to happen. When you have a band made up of 50 U.S. Senators, the Oneida Indian Nation and the National Congress of American Indians circling you, it will be almost certain that you'll have one hell of a fight before you to retain the status quo.
"One of the great things about books is sometimes there are some fantastic pictures." And unto us an artist is born. While not quite Rembrandt, but with all of the spirit, George W. Bush's art show is drawing to a close. On June 3, "The Art of Leadership" will vacate the walls of the George W. Bush Presidential Library and make way for W.'s next big undertaking. Perhaps a melted crayon tribute to Miss Beaszley. I'm personally hoping for a replica of Tony Blair's teeth done completely in macaroni.
I should say that this will not be used as a platform to practice my "George Bush, more like Dumb Bush." routine. Even on the internet, that topic has reached peak-oil and can only suitably be followed by talking about how weird the weather's been.
In fact, I quite like some of Bush's paintings. Not so much his portrait show, which has a sort of Shady Oaks Retirement Home activity hour feel. The same could be said for all portraiture though - painting people in the stead of your family who doesn't visit anymore while waiting for a nurse to bring your juice. But beyond this, if you dig deeper into Bush's body of work, you can find some very interesting pieces for an amateur artist. His bathroom scenes evoke a sense of isolationism, painted in a pleasing loose style which I am sure was unintentional due to his lack of skill, but a nice mistake none-the-less. Kind of like a bad Edward Hopper.
As the way life is, the internet was alive with keyboard babble about how nieces and nephews, cats and dogs could paint better than what George Bush was doing. But of course, art isn't judged on the basis of how real something looks. If it was, then there have been centuries of paintbrush wielding con-artists pulling fast ones on hapless patrons. What is interesting though, is that he stuck to the path laid before him by his political renaissance- men forefathers - portraits and landscapes. Always portraits and landscapes.
Bland and vanilla. Might as well have been painted in oatmeal on a saltine cracker. But it is very much in line with the left brain type that you would find in politics. Buttoned down and logical. Who has time to dribble paint onto a canvas in phallic shapes when there's a world to run? Here's a winter cottage.
The 2 most well known politician-turned-painters came out of the battlefields of the World Wars. It's as if the only way to spend a life at rest after staving off the hun was through art, and both kept to the portrait/landscape blueprint. Winston Churchill took up painting in his 40's, focusing primarily on scenery as if to give himself a new location to have a drink in every night. The other, Dwight Eisenhower, captured what most conservatives would in their art - farms and grandchildren, whose names might as well have been Apple Pie and War Bonds Eisenhower. And then of course there was their foil and most renowned artist to emerge from the early 20th century - Adolf Hitler - who also painted primarily landscapes and portraits. Though, in a completely expected twist, Hitler would add the tattered remains of World War 1 into some of his pieces as if to give out early hints that he had the ability to be one dark bastard.
Luckily for Bush, he is benefiting from the name recognition that other artist-politicians have garnered with their work, being able to sell artwork and get the gallery attention without having to cut off any appendages or die penniless in coal heated attic beforehand. Eisenhower recognized this injustice when he told Richard Cohen that "They would have burned this [expletive] a long time ago if I weren't the president of the United States" at the 34th President's gallery show. In 2007, an Al Hirschfeild-like doodle by soon to be President Obama sold for over $2,000. Similarly, former president Jimmy Carter has original paintings, such as his piece "I Think it's a Bird," bring in big Benjamins for the Carter Center. Sure, an impressive feat, but it's certainly no Billy Beer.
When art sells solely on name alone, though, there can also be complications. As is no secret, many politicians are monsters, but in some cases the artwork of tyrants can sell for big bucks on novelty alone, completely casting any concern for their misdeeds by the wayside. You're almost obliged to look back at Hitler again, whose art in any other world would be buried 75 pages in to a deviantArt search, sold for nearly $15,000 in 2009 with a price driven up solely because of his historical atrocities. Of the same era, Spanish dictator Francisco Franco's (actually quite good) paintings can be seen in the book "The kindness of Franco" - a title that Spaniards may find something to pick at. Despots showing their creative side isn't a 20th century fad, either. While not a painter, Ivan the Terrible caught himself a musical fever and proved himself somewhat of a composer. In a way that's beautiful to Russian ears and terrifying to everyone else, he wrote himself some little ditty's for his new serfdom to toil away into the night.
As you can see, Bush is joining an illustrious group of greenhorn virtuosos. Leading figureheads from Ulysses S. Grant to Queen Victoria have pushed paint around canvas to take them away from the high-stakes pressures of ruling a world. It will be interesting if Bush can take his amateur workings and run with them - I could possibly see one or two mid-western housewives pining to have an original W. hanging next to the Precious Moments figurine display. After all, George W. Basquiat could have a nice ring to it.
Even in his retirement, Ron Paul is still managing to elevate my blood-pressure. The wily mage of shallow-end facts was at it again earlier this week with a USA Today OpEd, offering his version of a concise take on Crimea. I've been sitting on the piece since I've read it and I still have the same feeling that it's run-of-the-mill editorial litter, so I thought a fun exercise would be to address the various points that irked me the most throughout his piece.
Right off the bat we have an incredible reach when Paul equates Crimea's referendum to other European nations toying with the idea of independence. It's a long haul to reason that nation's such as Scotland's and Venice's by the book procedures when you put that up against Crimea saying "que sera, sera" at gun point and getting the Stoli logo tattooed across its heart overnight.
For instance in Venice, a case where the province may have economically outgrown it's parent country, nationalist parties have been emerging for years - such as Liga Veneta in the 1970's and Venetian Independence in 2012 - who have been participating in elections and referendums without units of masked gunmen in sight. There has been petitions to the EU, committees formed, and even recently a referendum was held just to see if Venetians were still open to the idea of being independent. Similarly, Scottish independence has been along time coming. The Scottish National Party was formed in 1934, didn't win a parliamentary seat until 1945, and didn't win their second until 1967. The SNP kept that Scottish stiff upper lip, though, and slugged it out until they won the majority of the Scottish Parliament in 2011. Yet still, only 32% of Scots say they'll vote yes in the upcoming independence referendum. See, this is what the self-determination that Paul refers to throughout his piece looks like, not what is holed up in Ukrainian military bases under threat of unmarked foreign soldiers.
Speaking of these unmarked soldiers, that fits well into Paul's next documentation of wrong when he tries to compare Crimea to the U.S. occupation of Iraq. First off we need to get real for a moment, there is no comparison between the two. When Iraq was invaded in 2003, there was no question as to who comprised the coalition of the willing. When the U.S., United Kingdom and Australia began fighting towards Baghdad, they didn't try to keep things a mystery by dressing their soldiers in Kangol hats and Ecco street wear (it was the early 2000's). Putin's attempt to claim that the armed troops with no insignia filling the streets of Crimea as spontaneous mystery fighters doesn't bode well for Paul's idea of "self-determination."
More to the point, even if you were against the Iraq occupation there is no denying that Sadam Hussein was a monster. Sure, Russian speakers in Crimea were being hassled by the hard right Neo-Nazi Svoboda party with legislation such as trying to ban all Russian media in Ukraine, but that can't possibly touch the system of torture chambers and secret police the Iraqi dictator presided over that made fair elections impossible throughout his reign. So yes, despite Paul's snark, it was a victory that U.S. occupied Iraq was able to have an election without the outcome being a 99% victory for a killer, as opposed to a country "secretly" infiltrated by Russia voting to join Russia.
And, of course, it wouldn't be a Ron Paul rambling without mention of those rascally markets. Accordingly he postulates that the U.S. or EU "can't afford" to levy strong sanctions against Russia because naturally uninterrupted free markets are the only way to peace. No, it would be much better for the markets to just turn the other cheek and let the worlds second largest oil supplier keep using that fact to extort it's neighbors. Wait … come again? The fact is that what Russia is doing isn't all that great for the economy, with oil prices on the rise. And if there's anything the market loves more than uncertainty it's consumer panic. Many countries throughout Europe are fearing for the future now that Russia has taken up border expansion as a hobby. Nations such as Moldova, Romania, Czechoslovakia, and Poland are expressing alarm of an unpredictable Russia. Even Sweden is mulling over the idea of NATO membership due to fear of the Russian military. What country is going to want to freely trade with a nation that they think has missiles aimed at them?
If Ron Paul's takedown of the U.S. approach to Crimea seems too short and sweet, that's because it's leaving out a lot. It's not just as simple as letting them eat their cake and moving on. In today's globalized world, actions aren't containable and it's time that people like Paul awaken to that fact.
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Yes, it is odd to compare a Russian to Hitler, a tyrant who dedicated part of his inhumanly evil itinerary to wiping out Slavic culture and destroying Slavic art.
I don't want to completely come off as a smarmy contrarian. I do partially get the comparison being made to Hitler in the terms of both figures seeking to ensure the freedom of their ethnic compatriots living abroad. As Paul Hockenos discussed in his Foreign Policy article yesterday, actions by Ukraine's hard right such as taking away the Russian language's special status may have sounded some alarms for Putin. But, as I said yesterday, I don't think one coincidence in policy automatically equals Herr Wolf status.
What particularly irks me about the Hitler comparisons is just how uncreative and lazy they are. Russia has a long and rich history of despots to tether Putin's monicker to. Why not Ivan the Terrible? Ivan did have military action with Crimea, plus he took great strides to centralize his government and helped set up a class divide by aiding in creating a Russian serfdom. "Putin the Terrible" - it rolls off the tongue.
Here's a sweet little glimpse into my inner workings - I have an immeasurable guilty pleasure for false analogies when it comes to politics. It's the act of taking a pig of a fact and slapping enough make up on it to hopefully fool everyone at the prom into thinking that it's your girlfriend, and the bravado needed to pull that off has me enamored. I'm talking about the type of article that takes something as menial as stumbling in a speech and screams "This is his 'Bush pukes after bad sushi' moment!" So you can imagine my excitement at the cornucopia of trash that the new Putin story arc has blessed us with.
The most obvious would be the Putin to Hitler dot-connecting, and it's so trendy that even possible presidential contenders are joining the party. Hitler invading the Sudetenland is like Putin invading Crimea? Well duh, Hitler sent in troops to protect the native Germans from persecution and Putin occupied Crimea to keep it's Russian descendants safe - They're almost somewhat identical kind of! How about Hitler and Austria? Hitler demanded that Chancellor Schusnigg turn the whole operation over to the Austrian Nazis under the threat of invasion, and Ukrainian President Yanukovych speaks Russian just like Putin and "asked" for troops to be sent in, so the connection is there if you squint hard enough and maybe tilt your head a little in a dimly lit room. Maybe we go even further back, what's the market value on a slathered Napoleon analogy? Crimea could be Putin's Waterloo … yeah, I'm going to just let that one keep sailing over my head.
I'll be damned if I miss out on the fun, too, so tell the conductor to lead the rhetoric train down my street because I'm throwing my hat into the ring. I raise you this - Putin is not Napoleon, is not Hitler, but is Otto von Bismarck and Crimea is his Schleswig. Wait guys, come back! It makes perfect sense. In 1863 Denmark annexed the German speaking Schleswig region and Bismarck took issue, leaving him with no other choice than to let the Prussian army do what it did best - Destroy until Prussia and the German Confederation was a Schleswig richer. You see what I'm seeing? Russia seems to not have been able to get over Ukraine claiming the Russian speaking Crimea after the collapse of the Soviet Union, with Russian troops having now been marched in. Mr. Publisher, my hand is primed and ready to sign that book deal now.
Well there will be no book deal, at least not for now (wink) because all of this speculation is rubbish. This game of guessing Putins spirit despot has been interesting page filler, but ultimately worthless. Putin is not Napoleon, he doesn't have the accomplishments or the romantic fashion sense. Putin certainly isn't Hitler, he doesn't have the popularity or military force to be. And begrudgingly I must rescind my suggestion that Putin is Bismarck, because that was absolutely ridiculous. Putin is actually just a regular ol', historically on point ruler of Russia.
Peter the Great never died, he just now heads Putins foreign relations department. Russia seems unwilling to let go of the old European idea of immediate border expansion that was relevant in a time when the Mughal Empire was a world player and Johannes Guttenberg was a young man with a dream. Even as other European nations set out across the seas to turn Asia, the Americas, and Africa into a global flea market, the Russians stayed right at home, slugging it out with the likes of the Turks and Swedes. A look at any other European nations global empire would look like scattered puzzle pieces, yet Russia's is a big mass of cold, connected sorrow.
And as nation wars fell out of vogue in Europe during the latter half of the 20th century, there Russia was, picking on it's neighbors to extend it's influence radius. Afghanistan, Georgia, Abkhazia, Chechnya, South Ossetia, all regions that touched the Russian border. While powers such as the United States and Great Britain were getting bogged down world's away, Russian troops were never more than a hop, skip and a jump from the motherland.
One of the unfortunate consequences that comes from a period of tyrannical rule is that it erases all historical reference up until that point. Any action taken by anybody with negative intentions will undoubtedly appear somewhere with a little black mustache photoshopped onto their faces. Putin's encroachment and disregard in Crimea may be tempting for the doomsayers, but it is better for the understanding of any conflict to learn the unique history that has boiled over, instead of automatically jumping from zero to Hitler.
Bob McDonnell Virginia, Republican
Crime: A thirst for looking fabulous.
Thanks in part to a disgruntled chef with Bond-like espionage talents and the need to look fly, Bob McDonnell was indicted in January 2014 on 14 counts of fraud. After being accused of stealing from the governor's mansion, executive chef Todd Schneider began leaking information to authorities that revealed a sordid relationship between CEO of Star Scientific Jonnie Williams and the McDonnell clan. In exchange for lobbying on the part of his dubious medical products, Williams gave the McDonnell's the standard political gifts that totaled upwards of $165,000. Perhaps spurred on by the fact that they were at the bottom of the economic barrel for a ruling class, the McDonnell's used much of the gifts to pay off credit card debt and other common-folk priorities.
Chris Christie New Jersey, Republican
Crime: Trying his hardest to be a New Jersey stereotype.
What hasn't Chris Christie been accused of at this point? He's the rotund Shao Khan in the Garden States Mortal Kombat tournament. Closing down bridge lanes in a show of top tier ball-busting? Check. Extorting a mayor to tow a party line in exchange for hurricane relief funds? Check. Using said hurricane relief funds to film a campaign commercial? Check. The only thing missing in this Tri-State opera is a horse head under a sheet, but to make up for that there has been plenty of backstabbing to satiate a New Jersey party boss fantasy.
Bob Taft Ohio, Republican
Crime: Being the cheapest date in Ohio.
In 2005, then-governor Bob Taft was charged on four criminal misdemeanor counts for failing to report upwards $5,800 in undisclosed gifts. The list of lackluster presents that read more like last-minute Secret Santa scramble includes rounds of golf (obviously) with Republican fundraisers, tickets for the NHL's most prestigious Columbus Blue Jackets (thanks?), and a photograph with accompanying medal from the Defense Supply Center (oh… you shouldn't have). Even more embarrassing than Taft's apparent taste is the fact that in 1999 he issued an executive order requiring ethics training for everyone in his cabinet. Now that's practicing what you preach.
Eliot Spitzer New York, Democrat
Crime: Making every night ladies night.
In 2008 Eliot Spitzer's trousers dropped and his career followed shortly after. After North Fork Bank threw up red flags due to Spitzer's odd monetary transactions, the governor came under the ever watchful eye of the U.S. Government. While acting as a lawful Peeping Tom, the federal agents discovered an accumulated bill of up to $80,000 of taxpayer funds spent on putting ladies of the night "through school." Facing potential impeachment, Spitzer would resign his office on March 17, assumedly due to exhaustion on account of his nightly calisthenics.
Mark Sanford South Carolina, Republican
Crime: Taking a "walk" on the wild side.
In June of 2009, then-governor Mark Sanford let his staff know that he was taking a vacation to go hiking on the Appalachian Trail, then he promptly boarded a plane to Argentina to simmer in the Sofrito of his Latin American mistress. The plan was fool-proof, except that Sanford decided not to answer phone calls while he was off on his own "Eat, Pray, Love" adventure, leaving everyone in South Carolina to assume that their governor was lost in the woods. The mystery was solved when a reporter intercepted the southern Carmen San Diego arriving from Argentina at the Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport and not strolling in from the Appalachians with a walking stick and full-grown beard.
Rod Blagojevich Illinois, Democrat
Crime: Being too frugal.
In 2008, Rod Blagojevich was charged with one count of conspiracy and one count of soliciting bribes for, among other things, trying to sell off the vacated Senate seat of President-Elect Barack Obama. You see, maintaining gaudy hair like Blagojevich's didn't come cheap, and Rod knew it when he uttered the infamous quote "I'm not just giving it up for nothing." Instead of getting campaign funds or a prestigious new job in exchange for the vacant seat like he anticipated, Blagojevich received the less enviable prize of impeachment and 14 years in prison. But lest Rod fear that it was all for nothing, he can take solace in the fact that he will go down in history as the seventh Illinois Governor to face criminal charges.


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