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Er•a•tos•the•nesˌɛr əˈtɒs θəˌniz(n.)
276?–195? b .c ., Greek mathematician and astronomer at Alexandria.
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Greek mathematician and astronomer who estimated the circumference of the earth and the distances to the Moon and sun (276-194 BC)
Eratosthenes of Cyrene was a Greek mathematician, geographer, poet, astronomer, and music theorist. He was the first person to use the word "geography" in Greek and he invented the discipline of geography as we understand it. He invented a system of latitude and longitude. He was the first person to calculate the circumference of the earth by using a measuring system using stades, or the length of stadiums during that time period. He was the first to calculate the tilt of the Earth's axis. He may also have accurately calculated the distance from the earth to the sun and invented the leap day. He also created the first map of the world incorporating parallels and meridians within his cartographic depictions based on the available geographical knowledge of the era. In addition, Eratosthenes was the founder of scientific chronology; he endeavoured to fix the dates of the chief literary and political events from the conquest of Troy. According to an entry in the Suda, his contemporaries nicknamed him beta, from the second letter of the Greek alphabet, because he supposedly proved himself to be the second best in the world in almost every field.
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surnamed the Philologist, a philosopher of Alexandria, born at Cyrene, 276 B.C.; becoming blind and tired of life, he starved himself to death at the age of 80; he ranks high among ancient astronomers; measured the obliquity of the ecliptic, and estimated the size of the earth (276-194 B.C.).
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As we celebrate the one year anniversary of the Supreme Court's decision that upheld the Affordable Care Act (ACA), better known to some as Obamacare, it is important for me to reiterate that this landmark law is a giant step forward for all Americans, including those of us in the U.S. Virgin Islands and all of the off-shore territories.
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My territorial colleagues and I, after many meetings and arguments put forth in Caucus meetings, and with the support of the Black, Hispanic, Asian and Progressive Caucuses convinced the Democratic leadership to craft a bill with strong territorial provisions which passed the House. In the Senate bill which became law, many provisions were changed and weakened, but overall, we still have received significant benefits that took a lot of work to achieve, and it was up to me as Chair of the Congressional Black Caucus Health Braintrust, a member of the Tri-Caucus and a member of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce which oversees health to lead the effort.
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• The Virgin Islands received a $1 million grant to explore expanding insurance coverage and setting up of an exchange.
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• Over 50% of our Medicare beneficiaries received preventive services without a co-pay and some begin taking advantage of the free (no co-pay) annual exam for the first time.
• In addition, because the ACA limited how much insurance companies could spend on overhead, over $1.6 million dollars was rebated to Virgin Islanders, at an average of close to $500 per person.
Ultimately, it is up to the Virgin Islands government to decide whether or not the Virgin Islands will have an exchange given the reduction in funds in the Senate version, which became law. The almost $25 million can go to expand Medicaid further, or as the Government House consultants have suggested, the territory can seek to use it to provide coverage for the uninsured who do not qualify for Medicaid. If indeed the level of funding or other legitimate reasons preclude us from setting up an exchange either alone or with one of the eligible 18 states or D.C., I would gladly support that position.
I hope this helps to clarify the many questions that Virgin Islanders have about how ACA will affect them. As the implementation phase continues, there are still issues that need to be resolved in both the states and territories. However, there is no question that we in the Virgin Islands are in a far better position than we were prior to it becoming law.
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U.S. Education Department Takes School Environment Listening Tour for Native American Students to Anchorage, Alaska
The White House Initiative on American Indian and Alaska Native Education (WHIAIANE), in partnership with the First Alaskans Institute and the First Alaskans Elders and Youth Conference, will conduct the second session of the WHIAIANE School Environment Listening Tour on Tuesday, Oct. 21, in Anchorage, Alaska.
Under Secretary Ted Mitchell to Address American Association of State Colleges and Universities' Annual Meeting
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Education Secretary Arne Duncan Will Honor School Leaders at the National Association of Elementary School Principals' Annual Gala
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2004 Security Report
The Student Right-to-Know and Campus Security Act (Public Law 101-542) requires that all institutions of higher education produce an annual security report. Birthingway has prepared the following information so that our community can make an informed choice about their personal security while at Birthingway.
Crime Statistics
Crimes reported to Birthingway or the Portland Police Bureau during the year 2003 are as follows:
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|Public Property
|Murder/Non-negligent manslaughter
|Forcible sex offenses
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|Motor Vehicle Theft
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No hate offenses were reported in 2003.
In addition, the Portland Police Bureau has provided information about crimes taking place in the surrounding neighborhood. Please see the map attached to the end of this report. (MAP)
Under the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994, the Oregon State Police maintain information regarding registered sex offenders. You may request a list of sex offenders registered in any Oregon zip code by calling the Sex Offender Registration Unit at (503) 378-3720.
Security On-Campus and How to Report an On-Campus Crime
Birthingway is required by law to inform our students and employees of any situation that represents a threat to their safety. In addition, we will not tolerate the endangerment of the safety of our community. We will fully cooperate with local police in the investigation of any incidents.
As a small school, Birthingway does not employ security staff. However, we are careful to maintain the safety of our campus. The entire parking area is lit at night and we encourage all students to keep their car doors locked and to leave the building together if possible. College staff check all doors and rooms before closing for the night. If there is no staff in the front office, if you are the first to arrive at the school in the morning, or if for any other reason you feel concerned for your safety, we encourage you to keep the doors locked.
Birthingway encourages any student who is the victim of or witness to a crime to immediately report to the Portland Police.
To report a crime or request emergency assistance, call 9-1-1
To make a non-emergency police report, call 503-823-3333
In addition, we ask that students report crimes to Birthingway's front office (or to any College officer), preferably in writing. Please include the date, time (if known), and nature of the crime, along with any pertinent details. Your report may be submitted anonymously.
Any conviction for violent crime (including homicide, assault, and sex offenses) will cause immediate termination from Birthingway. Termination for other crimes will be handled on a case-by-case basis, depending on the specifics of the crime. Please see Birthingway's Community Code of Conduct.
Sexual Offenses
Birthingway will not tolerate any form of sexual abuse or assault by any member of the Birthingway community � be they faculty, staff, or students. Conviction for any sexual crime, including sexual harassment, will result in immediate termination from Birthingway.
Sexual offenses should be reported to the front office or to any College officer. Any crime may be reported anonymously. We encourage victims to contact local police as soon as possible and school personnel will assist in contacting them if requested. Victims and witnesses should keep in mind the importance of preserving evidence for proof of a criminal offense.
Birthingway staff is not qualified to provide professional counseling for victims. However, we will do our utmost in offering non-professional support, including changes to a student's academic situation if necessary. In addition, the following community resources are available:
Portland Women's Crisis Line: 503-232-9751
Women's Crisis Line/Rape Hotline: 503-235-5333
Birthingway will take disciplinary action in the event of a sexual offence by a student or staff/faculty member. Both the accuser and the accused are entitled to the opportunity to have others present during disciplinary proceedings. Both will be informed of the final determination by Birthingway.
Illegal Drug Use and Alcohol Possession
Illegal drug use and alcohol possession are violations of Birthingway policy. The College holds a strict policy against students attending class, clinicals, births, or any other practice settings in any condition other than clearheaded, able to concentrate and make good decisions. Individuals who do not take seriously their responsibilities to the women and babies they work with and who attempt to work in an intoxicated state -- whether from alcohol, marijuana, street drugs, or even too much caffeine -- will be expelled from the program.
Community Resources available for individuals who are alcohol and/or drug affected include:
Alcoholic Anonymous ..........................503-223-8569
Adult Children of Alcoholics.................503-292-1333
Cocaine Anonymous..............................503-256-1666
Narcotics Anonymous............................503-284-1787
Alcoholics Victorious.............................503-245-9629
Women in Recovery..............................503-248-6364
Crisis Line..............................................503-215-7082
In compliance with Public Law 101-226, The Drug-Free Schools and Communities Act Amendment of 1989, Birthingway College of Midwifery is legally required and morally committed to the prevention of illicit drug use and the abuse of alcohol by students. BCM, in compliance with federal law, hereby educates and informs its students of the health risks associated with the use of various illicit drugs and the abuse of alcohol, to refer them to counseling and treatment resources and to inform them of legal penalties for noncompliance.
Drug and alcohol abuse is dangerous to your health. The use of illicit drugs and the abuse of alcohol can create a variety of health risks as well as impair one's ability to succeed at college and in a chosen career. Possible health risks may include:
ALCOHOL is the most commonly abused drug and can cause loss of concentration, poor judgment and coordination, impaired memory, drowsiness and mood swings, liver damage, high blood pressure and heart attack, cancer and heart disease.
PCP, LSD, HEROIN, MESCALINE and MORPHINE have a wide variety of negative health effects that may include hallucinations, mental confusion and/or permanent loss of mental function, addiction, convulsions, coma and death.
MARIJAUANA can cause impaired memory/judgment, increased heart rate, slowed reaction time, poor coordination and lung disease.
PRESCRIPTION DRUGS if abused, can lead to malnutrition, sluggishness or hyperactivity, impaired reflexes and judgment, addiction and brain damage, coma and death.
COCAINE/CRACK is a powerful stimulant and may cause increased heart rate and high blood pressure, short attention span/poor judgment, irritability, aggression, mood swings, malnutrition, liver damage, seizures, coma, stroke, heart attack and death.
The following behaviors are violations of the standards of student conduct:
The illegal use, possession or distribution of drugs on college property or appearance on campus or at any college-sponsored event while under the influence of illegal drugs.
Student use of alcoholic beverages in any form shall be prohibited in BCM buildings and on BCM property except when approved by the BCM Board.
Anyone under the influence of alcohol or controlled substances will be removed, dismissed or suspended from the college premises, functions, classes, activities or responsibilities.
Federal and state law sets severe penalties. The following chart describes the penalties for possession according to the Federal Drug Schedules.
Schedule I Class B Felony
Heroin, LSD, marijuana, mescaline, peyote, psilocybin
Maximum fine-$100,000 and sentencing
Schedule II Class C Felony
Methadone, morphine, cocaine, amphetamine, PCP
Maximum fine-$100,000 and sentencing
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Non-amphetamine stimulants, some depressants
Maximum fine-$2,500 and sentencing
Schedule IV Class C Misdemeanor
Valium-type tranquilizers, some less potent depressants
Maximum fine-$500 and sentencing
All sentences are subject to sentencing guidelines. Presumptive sentence for personal use quantities on any controlled substance is 18 months probation including 10 jail days or 90 days in work release. Maximum sentence for personal use quantities of any controlled substance is 12 months in jail.
Delivery of less than five grams or possession of less than one ounce of marijuana is a violation. HB2479 established mandatory evaluation, education and treatment services for those under 18.
Oregon law allows vehicles used to transport illegal drugs to be seized and forfeited.
Alcohol is an illegal drug for those under 21 years of age. For drivers under 21, ANY detectable amount of alcohol may be grounds for license suspension from 90 days to one year.
About This Report
Birthingway's security report is prepared on an annual basis by the Birthingway administration by October 1st of each year. Statistics included are from both on-campus reporting and through the Portland Police Bureau. Data is submitted to the US Department of Education and is available to the general public at http://ope.ed.gov/security.
Birthingway's Annual Security Report is available free of charge to any interested party. Please contact the college office at 503-760-3131.


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Steve Ledson accepts a proclamation from Sonoma Mayor Ken Brown and the City Council recognizing the 10th anniversary of the Ledson Hotel. Ledson was praised for his extraordinary attention to detail in the construction of the hotel, which "was meticulously designed to fit neatly into the fabric of Sonoma Plaza."
Brown also thanked Ledson for the hotel's contribution to the city's economy and "a continued tradition of industry excellence" that adds to Sonoma's reputation.
"I'm very proud to own a building on the Plaza," Ledson said at the Monday's City Council meeting. "My family has been in this county for more than 150 years. I been walking these streets since I was a little boy."
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Who's Afraid of the Palestinians?
Arafat and the movement he embodied dreaded normalcy. To settle into the humdrum of everyday life would, they felt, threaten their existential struggle. If Israel could get Palestinians to manage their own affairs, provide security, and ensure their people's welfare, why would it or anyone else bother to address deeper Palestinian demands? For the national movement's founders, unsettledness—the constant experience of an open, bleeding wound—was paramount for reaching a resolution.
Although, like Arafat, Fayyad values steadfastness, he has a very different notion in mind. For Arafat, it meant staying put. In dealing with Israel, his pace was unhurried, his patience seemingly infinite. For Fayyad, it means incessant activity—planting a tree, building a road, inaugurating a building. What matters to him is what he can directly and concretely affect. Nor does he have much interest in grand diplomacy, at least not right now. That he will gladly leave to Abbas—ostensibly because it is not within the PA's purview, although the loud if often unspoken implication is that it is all a huge waste of time.
Can Fayyad's approach work? Many Israelis think so and many Palestinians think not, which has them both equally worried. Israeli praise for Fayyad often barely conceals apprehension. Israelis don't so much mind what he is doing; in many ways, it is reminiscent of Netanyahu's much-vaunted "economic peace." But they mind where it might lead. Having accomplished what he could under conditions of occupation, and having secured unstinting Western support, he will, many Israelis imagine, then turn to his foreign backers for help in achieving Israel's withdrawal on less than favorable terms.
Some Palestinians suspect the strategy could lead to a state of their own but they are not so sure that would be a good thing. Like the idea of declaring a state or having it recognized, building one on the parts of the West Bank the Palestinians already control carries risks. By normalizing the situation on the West Bank, it could enable the perpetuation of the status quo at low cost and with diminished international attention.
Fayyad hopes that the world will not stop halfway, and that Palestinian accomplishments will provide the momentum for a forceful international effort to resolve all remaining issues. But history is not in the habit of rewarding good behavior; it is a struggle, not a beauty contest. If Palestinians have a state or its equivalent and are celebrated worldwide, if West Bankers can enjoy the fruits of greater self- governance and economic prosperity, then any international drive for tackling the core issues might well fizzle. The priority, at that point, would be to consolidate what has been achieved rather than jeopardize it by reopening more thorny subjects. A profound emotional conflict between two national movements could be transformed into a tedious, manageable interstate border dispute. The greater danger to the Palestinian cause, according to this view, is not the absence of a state. It is the premature creation of one.
Palestinians face the threat of being stripped of the ability to promote their cause and of the attributes of an independent national movement. They are warned by the US against embarrassing Israel in public forums. The stability of Palestinian rule in the West Bank rests in part on Israeli security forces. Palestinians seem to have subcontracted decision-making to Arab nations. They have become dependent on Western donors' financial largesse and accountable to their judgment. Captive to foreign benefactors, more responsive to external stimulus than domestic pressure, the Palestine Liberation Organization—the Palestinians' governing political body—risks making choices at odds with popular Palestinian aspirations. An eventual decision to sign a peace agreement could suffer if Palestinians suspect that such a deal has been reached under external duress rather than through the exercise of free choice.
Half a century after its birth, the modern Palestinian national movement is being drained of politics. Its main source of energy has become primarily financial, which is why access to funds and management of their flow is so vital. Arafat was as adamant about controlling finances as he was about controlling weapons and most other things, but money for him was a means of promoting his particular political vision. He sought assistance from many in order to be beholden to none. Today, Palestinians must be sensitive to the political requirements of their respective donors lest the financial stream dry up. Appearances aside, the fortunes and fate of Fatah, Fayyad's endeavors in the West Bank, and Hamas's in Gaza chiefly ride on who has the money and what or whom it can buy. With few exceptions, the concern is not with politics. It is with whether the next check will arrive on time. Politics has become subservient to finance.
Palestinians who seem to have scant confidence in themselves have put their hopes in the US instead—an investment that reflects excessive faith in Washington and insufficient knowledge of history. There is no precedent for a successful start-to-finish American effort to bring about peace in the Middle East. All such endeavors that came to something initially were rooted in local dynamics that the US could influence but did not produce. Nor are there notable examples of the US forcing an Israeli government to take sustained action that it believes to be fundamentally at odds with its core interests.
US mediation has also inevitably blurred the two sides' vision, distorted the nature of their bilateral dealings, and—intentionally or not—enabled the status quo to be perpetuated. However vehemently they may deny it, Palestinians secretly latch on to the belief that the US will someday save them; Israelis cling to the notion that the US will forever protect them. Too often, both display greater interest in gaining America's support than in persuading each other.
Barack Obama rekindled Palestinian faith in America and, for a while, sustained it. But disappointment was unavoidable. Netanyahu cannot afford to jeopardize strategically critical ties with Washington and must try to avert prolonged crises. Still, during the past two years, he has learned that he could handle friction with the administration, withstand its pressure, and come out none the weaker. Out of disagreements that Washington hoped would rally Israelis against their prime minister, Netanyahu emerged largely unscathed. Most Israelis don't like fighting with an American president but, it turns out, many dislike being told what they can and cannot do even more.
The Obama administration learned its lessons too. Grudgingly, it concluded that it was wiser to work with Netanyahu than against him, that there is only limited strategic utility in—and, on the American domestic scene, limited political patience for—repetitive skirmishes with Israel. In a war of attrition with the US, Netanyahu could well prove the more resilient.
In making up with the prime minister, the administration partly addressed its problem and partly compounded it. Netanyahu has become the arbiter of Obama's pro-Israeli credentials as much as Obama can be the judge of Netanyahu's pro-peace qualifications. The President's credibility now partly rests on validation from the very man he someday might want to pressure. The US administration has issued pronouncements—for example, that Israel alone could determine its security requirements—that will render any eventual US peace proposal harder to defend and Israeli objections easier to justify. It also has become more difficult for the President, whose relationship with Netanyahu went from excessively cold to excessively warm, to switch his stance once again without appearing excessively confused or excessively disingenuous.
Palestinians have tended to bemoan periods of strong US–Israeli relations and take satisfaction at the first signs of froideur. But tension between the two countries does not automatically translate into Palestinian gains; more often, it leads to reinvigorated US attempts to repair frayed Israeli ties. Palestinian depression when the relationship between Israel and the US is smooth and jubilation when it is rocky is not a political strategy. It is a pointless exercise.
Without resolving its conflict with the Palestinians, Israel has for the moment taken care of its Palestinian problem. Israel's anxiety may be growing, but what it worries about no more derives from the Palestinians than what it wants can be provided by them. Its concern arises from being unwanted, from the abiding sense that the Jewish presence in the Middle East is regarded as fleeting. Israelis perceive this in the world's outraged reaction to the Gaza war of 2008–2009 or to the raid on the Gaza-bound flotilla last May; in tensions with Turkey, with whom it had friendly relations until recently; in growing calls to boycott or divest from Israel; in their leaders' reluctance to travel to Europe for fear of criminal prosecution; in what they have come to call delegitimization. If, in the eyes of many Arabs, Israel acts as if it were above the law, in the eyes of its own Jewish citizens it is treated as if it were perpetually on probation.
The conflict Israelis have come to care about is not with the Palestinians; it is with the rest of the world. The deal that interests Israel is one that would result in a dramatic change in its condition that only non-Palestinian actors can produce. From the US, it seeks wide-ranging security guarantees and assistance; from the Arab world, the granting of collective normalization; from Jordan, a more active role in the West Bank and acknowledgment that it will become Israel's de facto first line of defense; from Syria, a strategic shift away from Iran, Hamas, and Hezbollah; from the international community, recognition of Israel's permanent borders and its right to self-defense. Whether it ever can fully obtain these is open to question; whether it can attain them in the absence of a final agreement with the Palestinians is not, which in part is why Israel is drawn to the negotiating table even as it questions it. Israel might have dealt with its Palestinian problem but has yet to deal with the problems the Palestinian problem has spawned.
It won't be easy to transform this innate Israeli unease into an impetus to compromise when the cost of that compromise, in many Israeli eyes, is viewed as high. The last, untidy two years have only made matters worse. Coming into office, Netanyahu contemplated some reasons to move forward: he feared US and international pressure, didn't know how long Palestinian quiet would last without political progress, and believed he might sway Abbas with new ideas. Perhaps, too, history beckoned: the prime minister could be the first to bring normalcy and security to a nation that has lacked both.
That picture has changed. Netanyahu disregarded demands from the US and others without paying a serious price. The West Bank is as stable, the Palestinians as divided, and the Arabs as feckless as ever. From his few meetings, Netanyahu also came to understand that Abbas's long-held views on a final status deal were not mere negotiating stances but definitive positions from which he will not budge. The lure of history is being countered by the pull of politics: the more time elapses, the greater Netanyahu's fear of alienating his right-wing coalition partners and the more distant the idea of achieving a groundbreaking peace. Nothing concentrates the mind of a canny politician like electoral arithmetic.


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Traditionally, super-heroes follow certain guidelines. They're tall, masculine, look like they breezily bench-press a few times their body weight, and, in apparent admiration of medieval knights, wear tights. These days, however, a whole new breed is attracting the cartoon-watching generation. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, a quartet of short, green, two-toed terrapins armed with martial-arts weapons, laconic wisecracks, and the catchiest name in merchandising history, are stomping all over the caped crusaders. With the opening this week of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, a movie featuring human-inhabited Jim Henson puppet versions of these heroes-in-a-half-shell, fans are being deluged with a commercial campaign that makes last year's Batman blitz look like a backwoods tag sale.
The Turtles hit as comic-book heroes in 1984 and became TV stars in the fall of 1988. Two years ago their toy line took off like a perp in the face of twirling nun-chucks, and the green gaijin have been at the center of a merchandising maelstrom ever since. They are slapped on everything from boxer shorts and backpacks to blow-up blimps, baseball cards, and sleeping bags, and their weekday syndicated, animated TV show is so highly rated that CBS is adding a Saturday morning version this fall. The movie is just another product; there are some 600 Turtle products.
It's hard to believe that back in late '83 the Turtles were still humble lead in the pencils of a couple of unknown illustrators in Dover, Mass. It had been a night of bad TV, and Kevin Eastman, a fast-food chef and grocery bagger, and his friend Peter Laird, a free-lance illustrator, were giddy. Eastman doodled a sketch of a turtle with a mask. Laird did a few versions of his own. Then Eastman quadruplicated the prototype, giving each a martial-arts weapon. They christened their creations ''Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.'' It had a ring.
The Turtles' tale: At a tender age, four pet-shop turtles slopped out of their owner's fishbowl, fell into a manhole, and landed in a blob of ''retromutogen'' ooze. They were found by a sewer rat named Splinter, who named them after his favorite artists in H.W. Janson's History of Art: Donatello, Michaelangelo (sic), Raphael, and Leonardo. As a result of the ooze, Splinter and the Turtles grew to more than twice their normal size. They stood upright. They began to speak. They developed a passion for pizza. Splinter, former pet of a ninjitsu expert, took the Turtles on as his pupils. With time and patience, the Turtles became (drumroll) ninja warriors.
The team drew all of this into a comic book an adult comic book in which the Turtles split six-packs, for example. The likes of Marvel and DC Comics failed to appreciate its genius, so Eastman and Laird published the dark, black-and-white strips themselves using $1,200 from a tax return and a loan from Eastman's uncle Quentin, to whom the first issue is dedicated. The Turtles caught on. The strips inspired a book of collected works and a Dungeons and Dragons-style role-playing game, and reeled in a loyal audience of 10-to-20-year-olds drawn to the offbeat story.
Then, thanks to licensing agent Mark Freedman, the Turtles became cash cows. It was in 1986 that Freedman first heard the words ''Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.'' ''The name was exciting and weird and silly and brilliant all at the same time,'' says Freedman, president of Surge Licensing. ''People thought I was crazy, but I believed in the characters.'' Freedman paid a visit to Eastman and Laird. ''He was in a three-piece power suit,'' Laird remembers. ''Kevin and I were in cutoff jeans and sneakers.'' But they crossed cultures to talk Turtles. ''Their concept had fun, humor, and a lot of action-adventure,'' Freedman says. ''They were warped, but they were brilliant.'' There was only one thing left to do. In ''a very famous handshake deal'' written out, nonetheless, on a napkin over an ice cream cone and coffee-Freedman vowed to ''set out to market Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles as a property.'' And flying in the face of the toy industry credo that green doesn't sell, lo, he did sell it.
One of Freedman's first stops was master toy licensee Playmates Toys. In June 1988, Playmates put out the first line of plastic Turtle toys. By year's end it had sold $25 million worth. Since then, the Turtle business has divided and multiplied beyond biblical measure. Playmates' tally now nears $150 million, and Surge Licensing oversees an empire of some 250 licensees in the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Hong Kong, Malaysia, and ''some places I can't even pronounce,'' Freedman says.
The weekday Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles TV show, aimed at an audience of 4-to-10-year-olds, spurred a parallel color series of Turtle comics (put out by Archie Comics) for the same young fans no six-packs here. Eastman and Laird's black-and-white comics are still published by Mirage Studios, which they co-own with Jim and Cheryl Prindle. But the Mirage books generally are drawn by free-lance artists so the originators can turn their attention to new comic projects and the Sisyphean task of approving new strains of Turtlephernalia.
''We get about 30 calls a day for new licenses, and we turn down about 99 percent of them,'' Freedman says. ''Turtles is a phenomenon in the marketplace. People are after us to license everything from folding musical pens to underwear that turns into shoes.'' But, Freedman maintains, ''I'm going to control the production and try to keep it lean.''
''Lean'' is a relative concept ever more relative as the movie approaches. Adding to the substantial promotional value in the Turtles products already out there, a smorgasbord of snack foods will advertise the movie on their packages. ''K mart went crazy,'' says Sandra Ruch, president of marketing at New Line Cinema, the movie's distributor. The store is hosting a Turtles sweepstakes, and 72 million ads folded into newspapers will litter as many households to promote the movie and Turtle products. ''Everybody wants Turtle,'' says Ruch. And just about anyone can get it.
Merciless marketing aside, Larry Carlat, editor of Toy and Hobby World, figures that the martial-arts mutants are popular because ''they're against type. Most action figures are heavy-duty good versus evil, geared toward little boys who want to play violent fantasy-adventure games. Teenage Mutants are the first to say, 'This isn't so serious, let's give it a humorous twist.' ''
Not everybody is laughing. Critics accuse the Turtles' toy and cartoon makers of being racially insensitive. Two villains, Rocksteady (a punk mutant commando rhinoceros) and Bebop (a punk mutant warthog) who were described by The New York Times TV critic John J. O'Connor as ''dim and cloddish African-looking beasts,'' are named after Jamaican and black American music styles. Laird calls the accusation ''nonsense.'' Hard Copy, a tabloid TV newsmagazine, suggested that a Random House Turtle puzzle now recalled was anti-Semitic, citing a swastika in its design. ''It's a city scene and an artist, hired by Random House, drew all this graffiti on a wall,'' says Laird. ''The swastika is about 3/8-inch big.''
Still, ''Turtles are one of the hottest properties around,'' Carlat says, ''so I imagine they'll do well on anything they're plastered on for the next few months.'' The toy line beat out perennial best-seller G.I. Joe 2-to-1 last December and, according to a survey by Playthings, an international toy trade publication, the Ninja Turtle gestalt the whole product range was No. 3 on the 1989 toy charts. (Nintendo and Barbie products were Nos. 1 and 2, respectively.)
Of course, the thought is that the movie will burnish the golden Turtle egg to a blinding brilliance. It's geared to appeal to the cartoon set as well as to older comic-book fans. ''We decided it would be nice to have certain elements of the animation,'' Laird says. (The Turtles wear their color-coded headbands, for example, designed so children can easily identify them.) ''But it steers clear of a lot of the weird, goofy sh-- they did in the cartoon.''
The army-green and brown Henson creatures are much more like something out of Labyrinth, say, than Muppet Babies. And the movie, rated PG, has more violence than the TV show. It also dares to dabble with romance a potential yuk for the cartoon cartel. Still, a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle event is an event that few ticket-purchasing parents of young fans will be allowed to ignore.
While most merchandisers are reliant upon a movie's success for their product sales, in this case, because the movie is the product, the biggest thing riding on the box-office grosses is the sequel which is already in the planning stages. Even if the current flick is a flop, Freedman and company can simply flog the TV shows to support the assembly lines. ''Done correctly, and kept in the popular eye, the Turtles could establish a Disney sort of presence,'' Laird says. ''Our agent keeps telling us this isn't going to last forever, but who's to say? The odds were against us even getting the toy line in the stores. When we started, the action-figure market was dying.'' Now it's going strong in the sewer.


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Campaign Talk: Why Elections Are Good for Us
No Way to Pick a President
Pretty young girls in pleated miniskirts were jumping up and down at the back of the gymnasium during Vice President George Bush's raucous campaign appearance at Christ the King High School in Queens, New York, on October 20, 1988. The girls were cheerleaders and on this bizarre occasion their eyes shone and they squealed with excitement and shouted themselves hoarse at every mention of death.
Senator Alfonse D'Amato, a New York Republican, had introduced the vice president as "George Bush, who supports the death penalty." The students roared their approval and waved little American flags. Then Bush himself intoned, "When a police officer is murdered, the killer should pay with his life." Upon hearing this, the cheerleaders leaped into the air and waved their pompoms. All of this was pure demagoguery. As president, Bush would play no part in the prosecution and punishment of local crimes. As president, in fact, he did not preside, either, over the execution of a single federal convict. The aim of this display was simply to point out that his opponent, Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis, opposed capital punishment.
Bush's teenage death-penalty rally at Christ the King ranked as perhaps the dreariest moment in the famously dreary election year 1988. It was the year of Republican consultant Lee Atwater's attack strategies and Roger Ailes's negative campaign commercials—"the most negative presidential campaign of the television era, at least up to that time," says Jules Witcover, a longtime Washington reporter and columnist who writes with passion against the degeneration of our political system.
Yet this year, against all expectation and against the normal reverse Couéism of politics—every day in every way it gets worse and worse—after the primaries the presidential campaign is being waged on a reasonably high plane. Its tone is, overall, a refreshing defiance of what has seemed to be inexorable debasement of the political process.
Both apparent nominees, Governor George W. Bush of Texas and Vice President Al Gore, come from the mainstream of their respective parties and both tend toward the center. Bush poses as the "compassionate conservative" and Gore as the "pragmatic liberal." Both descend from political nobility, Bush the son of a former president and Gore the son of a former senator. This is a contest between two elite candidates that might be taking place in some other guise even if we had never had the Magna Carta, the Declaration of Independence, and the Constitution. But both were elevated, legitimately, by the American political system.
One nagging flaw, perhaps even more dangerous than destructive negative campaigning, is that the system is closed, and in this case confined to two candidates who are really cut from much the same cloth. Ralph Nader and Pat Buchanan are banging at the doors, and the political establishment, consisting of both politicians and the media, seems determined not to let them in on the grounds that they have no public support. This is a circular argument; one of the reasons they have so little support is that they are generally ignored by the press and will most likely be barred from the presidential debates, which require a base support of 15 percent of the electorate. In their absence, the issues they raise—maldistribution of wealth, the plight of many working families in a global economy, immigration reform—are likely to go unmentioned in a national election.
Bush and Gore have conducted a generally civil and more or less relevant debate. Both are offering proposals to enrich retirement accounts, improve the educational system, and reduce taxes for working people. They have made speeches about transportation and energy policy, and they are debating, through aides, whether or not to build a full-scale missile defense system, as Bush seeks, or a limited one, as President Clinton and Gore have proposed. (Neither has adequately recognized the many experts who claim that any such system is not likely to be workable, especially in detecting decoys.)
Even the death-penalty debate has recently been conducted on a higher level than before, in part because the candidates agree on execution. The controversy over executions in Texas is at least relevant to Bush's record as governor and has afforded a national look at whether Texas protects the rights of defendants or, as the evidence suggests, allows them in some cases to be doomed without adequate defense. Bush seems to be teetering on the edge of danger by proclaiming his state to have a perfect record in executing only the guilty. But Gore also favors the death penalty and cannot challenge him head-on.
If anything it is the talk show press that has cheapened the discussion by concentrating on such side issues as whether or not Bush, victim of what seems to be a chronic wiseguy smirk, has looked suitably solemn as he lets executions proceed. Here, for example, are two of our ablest commentators, syndicated columnist Mark Shields and Wall Street Journal columnist Paul Gigot, on the PBS NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, the day after Texas executed Gary Graham, who was convicted of murder on the testimony of a single eyewitness. Shields, speaking of Bush: "I thought this was the finest moment of his campaign as he explained his position. He did it outside of a press conference, in a suit and tie, with appropriately serious words and manner." Gigot agreed that "as long as he had a sober demeanor" when presiding over executions, Bush would not suffer any political penalty. Lesson for Bush: On execution day, do not smirk. Avoid girls with pompoms.
Gore's campaign has been unusually unlucky, with high-level feuding among advisers, the resignation of the campaign chief, Tony Coelho, and the leak of a Justice Department official's recommendation that a special counsel be named to investigate whether Gore has been truthful about his knowledge of a fund-raising event at a Buddhist temple in 1996. His effort to portray Bush's tax and Social Security proposals as "risky schemes" was somewhat undermined when new budget projections predicted an extra $1 trillion in revenues over the next ten years. But the sniping between the two campaigns, though at times whiny, has not as yet become dirty.
In a conventional sense, this campaign season provides evidence for Professor Roderick P. Hart, who in Campaign Talk espouses the contrarian view that our presidential campaigns are as good as can be expected and, as a national conversation among politicians, press, and the public, provide more illumination than is generally understood. Witcover, a journalist who started covering elections when reporters rode campaign trains and handed their typewritten copy sheet by sheet to Western Union operators, believes the system is broken and must be changed.
Witcover's book, written in 1999, does not take up the possibilities of the candidacy of either Buchanan or Nader. I don't believe either of them has a chance of winning the presidency. Buchanan's attempt to run as the Reform Party candidate seems terminally disorganized. Nader, as the Green Party candidate, is running on a ticket with Winona LaDuke, an Ojibway Indian activist from a Minnesota reservation. (A little-known detail: Mario Cuomo, once much discussed as a presidential candidate, played professional baseball under the name Glendy LaDuke.) Nader has risen to 7 percent in some polls and is not likely to rise much higher. Even the labor union support he courts so effectively accounts for less than 10 percent of the private workforce, not enough on which to base a traditional workingman's campaign. But both Nader and Buchanan discuss issues like corporate welfare and the true impact of global trade on American working families, a vital subject for millions of people that is being ignored by the mainstream campaign in the shared, Republican-Democrat assumption that foreign trade is inherently good for all.
Nader, in addition, resurrects issues like universal national health insurance and a "living wage"—a higher minimum wage that would be partly subsidized by the government—that have entirely dropped from political discussion. Is it because the people fear that health coverage for themselves and their children will be too regulated—it is being privately regulated in any case—or because in this money-driven system, their voices are not heard? Nader also raises new issues, like the cost of getting to work. He points out that people earning $6.60 an hour in the new "edge city" and exurban growth areas have to buy cars to commute to their low-paying jobs, and worries at the burden this places on them. A corporate executive can deduct the cost of a limousine to take him to the Super Bowl—the ultimate welfare Cadillac—but a city-dwelling nurse's aide cannot deduct the cost of getting to a suburban hospital.
For his part, Buchanan combines a populist, occasionally xenophobic economics with fervor against abortion, an issue that Bush apparently would like to sweep under the rug even though millions of people voted for him on the assumption that he is a standard right-to-life candidate.
Nader complains, with familiar hyperbole, that in fact we have only one party, that the Republicans and Democrats have become "look-alike parties" raising money from the same contributors, pursuing the same upscale voters, and generally following the same policies. It's easy to dismiss Nader as a spoiler who will only sabotage Gore's appeal to normally Democratic voters, especially those in labor unions. But to Nader, there's nothing to spoil. "You can't spoil a system that's spoiled to the core," he says in his standard speech. "[The two major parties] have corrupted themselves in concentric circles. It's not just legalized bribery, it's legalized extortion. These political shakedowns give a whole new dimension to the corruption."
Hart, a professor of communication and government at the University of Texas, breaks with the current fashion of deploring the supposed degradation of our national politics. "Throughout the year," he writes, "the campaign will be criticized for being beneath the American people. Its snide news coverage will be denounced, as will the candidates' evasions and pomposities. Its advertisements will be surely savaged, even if they are comparatively benign. Ultimately, a great cry will be raised: 'Can't we do better than this?"' Hart's book suggests we cannot do better and need not do better. "The election of 2000 will have its infirmities but it will traverse a course blazed by its forebears and in so doing it will advance the democracy."
The evidence for this Panglossian conclusion comes from a computer program called DICTION that Hart used to analyze the language used by candidates and their surrogates in post-World War II elections. Speech texts, debate transcripts, and other campaign statements were run through the computer and the words were counted and sorted into their various emotive categories—Realistic, Optimistic, Commonality, etc. The results were then studied for insights into how well the candidates communicated what they were trying to convey. Hart maintains that they exert no conscious control over the range of words they use and that their vocabulary can even convey an opposite message from the one intended.


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I guess you could call this the third in a series of misreads by yours truly on the deeds and misdeeds of elected Republicans large and small. If my readings don't improve, I may have to turn in my crystal ball for a newer model or start researching Democrat's and Liberal's take on their GOP lookalikes. So, here we go, déjà vu all over again.
It is true that three of the five Ellis County Commissioners Court members, including the county judge, voted to raise your county property taxes by more than 5 percent. You'll see it in next year's tax statement, a year forecast to be another downer like this one, maybe worse, for both government revenue and for families and small businesses.
Therefore, rather than county government biting the bullet and adjusting their budget, the judge and two cohorts decided to maintain their spending habits with a tax increase thus requiring taxpayers to reduce their budgets instead.
We should all know the vast majority of delegates to the Texas State Republican Convention, who meet every two years, would agree, even put it in writing, officials who were elected on their ticket are to cut budgets in lieu of raising taxes.
Incidentally, as you know, all five members of the current commissioners court ran and were elected on the Republican Ticket.
Should not public censure follow actions by elected officials who violate such a solid, simple, and fundamental principle as to raise taxes, when its citizens and small businesses are struggling financially? To be elected with the "R" beside your name on the ballot, but follow up by performing as do tax-and-spend Democrats and liberals should qualify such "representation" to some form of public sanction, wouldn't you think?
So, shortly after commissioners decided to begin the process of raising the tax rate, a motion was offered up in the Ellis County Republican Executive Committee to censure those members who had voted the increase. The motion was modified to delay voting on the censure until the court held its two mandated public hearings, where citizens would have the opportunity to voice their objections and, hopefully, change the court's direction.
Fair enough, but it did not work out that way. Therefore, back to the original motion went the executive committee in their next monthly meeting, simply returning to the original motion to censure or to wimp out and not censure.
Unfortunately, some members of the executive committee are either hung up on elected official worship in some form, have personal associations with officials making censure near impossible, centered on personality rather than principle, or who knows what.
It was noticed how most members of the feminine gender stuck together in opposition to getting to the censure itself. Was this some kind of feminist unction to protect the female county judge? Who can understand some of them?
Bottom line, a motion was passed to hold off yet another month, until the Dec. 6 monthly meeting of the Ellis County Republican Executive Committee, when hard copies can be held in hot little hands prior to their voting to wimp out.
Go figure. May God bless and HELP.


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