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July 27 (Bloomberg) -- Sugar gained for the second straight day as output in Brazil, the world's biggest exporter and producer, may fall because of adverse weather. Coffee declined, while cocoa advanced.
Sugar output in Brazil's Center South, the country's main producing region, may decline 7.5 percent from a year earlier because of dry weather and a frost earlier this month, Michael McDougall, a senior vice president at New York-based commodity broker Newedge, said today in a telephone interview. Futures in New York are heading for a third straight monthly advance.
"The sugar content has been lower than expectations and that is a cause of concern," Ricardo Scaff, a trader at Rabobank International in New York, said in a telephone interview. "Many analysts are revising their estimate downwards for the Center South crop."
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Borlands Kylix 3, which will be unveiled Tuesday, delivers new functionality to the Scotts Valley, Calif., companys Linux tool, including expanded support for Web services and compliance with Web services standards, Borland officials said.
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Ok, so I've been on the plan for a luxurious 5 nights/6 days and I don't know if I should expect to have lost anything but I haven't. So I guess my questions is, how long did it take you to lose weight once you started atkins? I've been a good girl coming in at 12-15 net carbs per day. I did this awhile back but I totally forgot what worked and what didn't. Help!!!:stars:
were you low carbing before? sometimes when people have been on low calorie diets, or just really watching what they eat, they are inadvertently low carbing... this means when you go to Atkins, you don't have that initial weight loss high carb eaters get.
if you have been eating a lot of carbs before this, that is a puzzler. you really "should" have lost at least a couple pounds, even though our bodies are all different, obviously.
can you give some details about age, height and weight, and some idea what you were eating before?
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Don't give up. Sometimes it takes awhile. I'm one of those that never gets that big whoosh of weight loss, but I do come on down if I stick with it. When I was doing strict Atkins, if I ate too few calories, my weight loss stalled. 5-6 days isn't really very long, many people get their bigger losses in the 2nd week. Hang in there!
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It was Richard Franck who actually wrote, "Art imitates Nature" in his Northern Memoirs, printed in 1694; whoever revised it to "art imitates life," though, nailed a concept that crystallized 1999 on the Dallas-Fort Worth visual art scene. Take tragedy and misfortune, for example; in life, some people wallow in their troubles, never recover, and die sad and embittered. In art, there's the initial wallowing, then a Baywatch-worthy rescue...at least, usually. Take the Dallas Visual Art Center, which found itself virtually homeless in December 1998, when its renovated warehouse at 2917 Swiss Avenue had to be vacated, save for the office staff. The Meadows Foundation quite literally saved the day: Just barely a year later, DVAC's back on track in very stylish, state-of-the-art-gallery digs at Swiss and Texas. Another bounce back from disaster came in the form of the Talley Dunn/Gerald Peters/Ted Pillsbury saga, which Blink has covered like body hair; it's painful to try to rehash the goings-on, even in an end-of-the-year recap. Just know that out of a desperate scenario that could have lost Dallas a very significant gallery, we got two new galleries: Dunn Brown Contemporary and Pillsbury and Peters Fine Art.
One tragedy in the art world remains unresolved as we practice writing "2000": the death of Fort Worth's Contemporary Art Center. After a lengthy struggle, the CAC succumbed to an apparently terminal illness, summarized by insiders as an unrelenting power struggle between the suits and the sandals. Artists, some say, killed the CAC by refusing to work with the business leaders. And the business folk, others say, killed the CAC by investing in a too-pricey downtown space, too many hokey special events, and assorted gimmicky attempts to raise money. Sad, too, was the inability of Texas Christian University to save the Contemporary by taking over its operation. TCU's Ronald Watson gave it the old college try, but the cost of operating the CAC in Sundance Square proved unworkable.
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Climate disruption causes more frequent disasters that destroy stuff. CAT builds construction and heavy machinery that are competitive globally, and many can run on cheaper natural gas. Share values are down because of economic stagnation, and what appears to be a very dump acquisition in China (perhaps a fraud victim), but CAT will weather these temporary setbacks by continuing to supply the kind of equipment nations need to eventually rebuild deteriorating infrastructure..


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Push from Ableton is a USB controller for use with the company's Live software. When hooked up to a computer running the software, Push becomes in effect a recording workstation, beat creation tool and virtual instrument. With control of melody and harmony, beats, sounds, and song structure, the controller puts the fundamental elements of music making at your fingertips.
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Amphibian Monitoring Program
Background Info
During the first warm, rainy nights of spring, over half a dozen different species of frogs and salamanders make a mass migration from their wintering sites in upland habitats to vernal pools and other suitable breeding grounds. Due to habitat fragmentation by roads, a vast number of frogs and salamanders are inadvertently killed each year trying to cross through the traffic. Road mortality is painfully high, destroying entire populations or limiting their success rate. Add to this increased development and higher road usage, and the scales are tipped squarely against these animals. The objectives of this program are to educate the public about this little-known mass migration, and to recruit volunteers to assist our four-legged friends in their dangerous journey.
Program History
In spring 2005 NBNC piloted an amphibian rescue program. Over 60 central Vermonters came to an informational training at the nature center to learn how to help amphibians safely cross roads. Over 30 volunteers sent in reports from locations throughout the region. In spring 2006, we brought our mission to other communities, hosting training sessions in Northfield, Stowe, Jericho, and Waterbury. In 2007 we held trainings in Waitsfield, Calais, Roxbury and Marshfield where we identified new crossing sites and recruited new volunteers. More new communities hosted trainings in 2008-2012, with over 400 people attending trainings.
Program Future
We hope spring 2013 to be our most productive year of amphibian monitoring yet! Please see our schedule of upcoming training sessions on the column directly right of this text and find a training session near you.
Training Session Agenda
6/18/14 - Our 2014 season year-end report is now posted at the NBNC blog.
3/1/14 - Our 2014 training sessions have been announced and are now posted here (see the column on the right).
4/11/13 - Lots of amphibians have been active this week, with reports (collated by Jim Andrews) coming from Bridport, Salisbury, Shelburne Pond, Cambridge, Fairfax, Richmond, Huntington, Monkton, Calais, and Duxbury. There have also been some recent blog entries about amphibians... check out these articles for deeper insights as well as stunning images:Amphibian Monitoring & Education
Salamanders and the Midnight Rain
3/12/13 - Some minor amphibian movement occured in the warmest pockets of the Champlain Valley last night marking the first active amphibians in Vermont this year! See a photo of a Wood Frog taken in Essex at the NBNC Blog.
2/18/13 - Most of our news has moved to the NBNC Blog. To see old news posts, visit the old news page. New training dates were added for this spring (see the upper-right corner of this page).
Upcoming Events
2014 Migration Forecast
Saturday, 4/26
Rains in the forecast, but cool temperatures. If the ground is wet and temps above 35, there should be some amphibian movement in central Vermont.
Learn more about how you can help amphibians.
Please return all data sheets, maps, and photos to:
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The North American Amphibian Monitoring Program (NAAMP) is looking for volunteers in Vermont to take part in a calling frog survey this spring and summer. Routes are available around the state and no experience is necessary. For more information, visit http://www.pwrc.usgs.gov/naamp/ or call Larry Clarfeld at (802) 229-6206.
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Treatment Programs:
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Depression Treatment Centers in Arizona (AZ)
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Zen Institute
Treatment Facility
"Does anxiety and depression take away peace and joy in your life? Have alcohol and drugs ruined your life? Are you spinning your wheels and getting nowhere? Welcome to Zen Institute... a place where you can be light and free... a place where you can regain control of your life... a place where you will experience love, peace and joy no matter what is happening around you! For more than a decade, our founder Wen Chi Chien has helped thousands of people regain control of their lives, from despair to hope, suicidal to enthusiastic about life, self-doubt to total self-confidence!
(520) 222-9361
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Depression Treatment at Oasis
Treatment Facility
"Oasis Behavioral Health is an acute psychiatric hospital and residential treatment center that meets the inpatient needs of children, adolescents, and adults who are struggling with mental health issues such as depression. Our programs are designed to provide each client with stability during times of crisis so that they are able to move forward with the recovery process. Our compassionate staff members strive to offer hope to clients who are often suffering from depression. Hope is the recognition that the future can be different and is the fuel for recovery. Oasis works with clients to define their purpose outside of addiction and mental illness and develop discharge plans that emphasize client strengths, goals, and desired purpose. At Oasis we approach each client with optimism about their future and recovery, addressing each roadblock independently and using setbacks as growth opportunities. We are dedicated to providing the highest level of treatment for all patients that walk through our doors. It is our vision to offer support and understanding that empowers individuals be encouraging hope, healing, and recovery. We are able to achieve our vision by remaining true to our 4 core values: Compassion, Support, Empowerment, and Recovery.
(844) 206-9004
Verified by Psychology Today
Substance Abuse Treatment at Oasis
Treatment Facility
"Providing comprehensive behavioral health and substance abuse services for children, teens, and adults, Oasis Behavioral Health has locations in Chandler and Casa Grande, Arizona. With separate inpatient treatment programs for adolescents and adults, Oasis Behavioral Health is able to provide acute, intensive, age-appropriate care for individuals who are struggling with mental illness and/or chemical dependency concerns. Our caring and compassionate multidisciplinary team of clinicians maintains a steadfast goal of providing hope, purpose, and optimism for each and every individual who entrusts us with his or her care. By implementing individualized treatment plans designed meet the unique needs of each patient, the services provided by the staff at Oasis goes above and beyond the perceptions of traditional mental health and substance abuse care. At Oasis Behavioral Health, we are able to achieve our vision of providing superior treatment by remaining true to our core values of Compassion, Support, Empowerment, and Recovery.
(844) 213-0707
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Depression Recovery Centers
Treatment Facility
"Most people will experience sadness at times. When something bad occurs, such as the loss of a loved one or job loss, it is appropriate to feel sad or "blue". These feelings, however, usually pass over the course of days or weeks. There are a number of strategies you can use to help during that time, such as diet, exercise and activity. For people who suffer with clinical or major depression, or bipolar disorder, such coping skills are insufficient. They cannot chase away their bad feelings with exercise or church attendance. For such individuals, medical treatment is needed. If your depression has effected you physically, if you are having trouble sleeping, or sleeping too much, if your appetite changes, you may need help overcoming the depression. Depressive episodes can last for weeks and months. If depression prevents you from living the life you wish for, seek help.
(480) 685-5623
Scottsdale, Arizona 85260
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Oasis Behavioral Health
Treatment Facility
"With locations in Chandler and Casa Grande, Arizona, operating since 1987, Oasis Behavioral Health has been providing mental health and substance abuse treatment for children, adolescents, and adults requiring inpatient and acute levels of care. Focusing on the unique needs of its patients, Oasis Behavioral Health incorporates treatment planning modalities based on multidisciplinary approaches. This approach to treatment has produced countless recovery success stories and improved the lives of patients who have completed programs at Oasis. A recipient of the Gold Seal of Approval from The Joint Commission, Oasis Behavioral Health also makes it a priority to raise awareness and provide education to the community with its Suicide Prevention Program. With the goal of preventing needless death, Oasis works with students, teachers, coaches, and parents to assist in recognizing at-risk youth who may be in need of help. Oasis's Jason Foundation Inc. Community Resource Center, located in Chandler, Arizona, is designed to provide necessary tools and resources so as to end the silent epidemic of youth suicide.
(844) 770-4844
Verified by Psychology Today
Sonora Behavioral Health
Treatment Facility
"Since its establishment in 1994, Sonora Behavioral Health has been dedicated to providing superior care that is catered to meet the individualized needs of children, adolescents, and adults who are struggling with behavioral health conditions and chemical dependency issues. By offering varying of levels of care and a myriad of therapeutic programming options that are tailored to meet each patient's unique set of needs, the caring and compassionate staff at Sonora Behavioral Health is devoted to ensuring that each patient who comes to us for care is provided with the most comprehensive treatment available. Our mission at Sonora is to provide a level of care that we, ourselves, would want for our own family members; we strive to treat people in the exact way that we wish to be treated. By keeping this mission at the forefront of the treatment we provide, all patients who are entrusted into our care can rest assured that they will receive the most holistic, most caring, and most thorough treatment possible, regardless of what their needs or concerns may be.
(844) 201-1474
Verified by Psychology Today
Valley Clinical Services
Treatment Facility
"There is hope. You may be feeling hurt, frustrated, lost or maybe even overwhelmed. We are here. Together, we can begin your journey towards emotional wellness.
(602) 388-1308
Verified by Psychology Today
Sovereign Health Depression Treatment Program
Treatment Facility
"Call Admissions Today for a Free Confidential Assessment and Free Insurance Verification. We are a leading treatment provider for Adults and Adolescents. We offer treatment programs for Addictions, Dual Diagnosis, and Mental Health. Get the help you deserve and need.
(949) 393-4200
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Seven Hills Hospital
Treatment Facility
"Located in Henderson, Nevada, Seven Hills Hospital is a 94-bed hospital devoted to treating adolescents (ages 11-17), adults, and geriatrics experiencing mental health and substance abuse issues. Set in a comfortable environment and staffed by caring and highly-trained psychiatrists and mental health professionals, Seven Hills Hospital approaches the treatment of mental health conditions and addiction with the utmost of compassion and respect for patients' needs. By providing high-quality care and offering exceptional treatment options, the programs offered at Seven Hills Hospital are focused on arming patients with the tools and skills necessary to be successful in recovery. Accredited by the Joint Commission, Seven Hills Hospital offers psychiatric care, detox, and rehab services using the latest research-based advancements in the treatment of addition. Additionally, medication management and a variety of therapeutic interventions are utilized and catered to the individual needs of patients so as to ensure treatment success. Through individual, group, and family sessions, a patient's primary support system is able to receive education on mental illness, addiction, conflict resolution, effective communication skills, and parenting techniques that can serve a patient (and his or her family) well beyond discharge.
(844) 204-7604
Verified by Psychology Today
Depression Treatment at Seven Hills
Treatment Facility
"With an environment that encompasses hope, compassion, and care, Seven Hills Hospital is a 94-bed hospital that provides mental health and substance abuse services to adolescents ages 11 to 17, adults and seniors. With a focus on individualized treatment planning that is bar none, Seven Hills considers the unique needs of every patient receiving care. Furthermore, Seven Hills' programs utilize proven, evidence-based therapeutic techniques and modalities that ensure successful healing and lasting recovery. The dynamic and qualified staff at Seven Hills works with patients and their families to ensure ongoing support and encouragement as individuals work towards improving their lives. Additionally, Seven Hills employs experienced medical professionals and offers a secure environment so that the safety of each patient is guaranteed. By offering detox, rehab, psychiatric, inpatient, and outpatient services, Seven Hills Hospital is able to provide care that treats not just the immediate needs of a person, but the whole person. Through the implementation of individual, family, and group therapies, patients are able to learn about their conditions, gain new skills, and leave Seven Hills Hospital ready to resume life free from the constraints of mental illnesses, such as depression, and chemical dependency problems.
(844) 206-9006
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Falcon Ridge Ranch Academy
Treatment Facility
"Falcon Ridge Ranch is a state-licensed, residential treatment center serving young women ages 12 to 17. Established in 2003, our mission is to provide the structure, security, acceptance, and teaching that must be present to ensure quality treatment. In our unique ranch settings, young women find the courage necessary to make positive changes in their lives and build a future full of hope and promise. Falcon Ridge Ranch utilizes a variety of cognitive learning strategies incorporated through a systematic group therapy approach known as Positive Peer Culture. Falcon Ridge is ideal for young women who are experiencing behavioral and emotional difficulties requiring a level of care beyond traditional outpatient therapy. State licences therapist provide each student with therapeutic individual, group, family, and equine therapy. Substance abuse and co-dependence counseling are utilized through campus and community 12 step programs. Recreational opportunities include hiking, swimming, art, music, dance, and community service.
(866) 484-8064
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A New Beginning, LLC
Treatment Facility
"Hope. Experience. FULL Recovery! Welcome to A New Beginning, LLC, Arizona's premier outpatient treatment center, specializing in the comprehensive care of eating disorders (anorexia, bulimia, binge eating disorder, morbid obesity and healthy weight management), depression, anxiety, abuse / trauma and relationship issues. Highly respected and reputed to be one of the top outpatient treatment centers in Arizona, A New Beginning is a unique treatment facility which successfully combines the expertise of a highly trained, experienced psychological team with the warmth and compassion of genuinely caring, committed professionals. If you are seeking quality, respected, specialized treatment of eating disorders, depression, anxiety, abuse / trauma or relationship issues, you are in the right place. Welcome to our treatment family...we are glad that you are here!
(480) 666-9079
Scottsdale, Arizona 85258
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Sovereign Health Adolescent & Young Adult Programs
Treatment Facility
"High Quality and Comprehensive Adolescent Substance Abuse, Co-Occurring, Mental Health Treatment Programs Sovereign Health Adolescent Treatment Program is licensed by the Department of Social Services, Community Care Licensing. Our adolescent program provides evidence-based treatment modalities with a strong emphasis on intensive family therapy. Sovereign Health specializes in addressing the underlying mental health conditions by utilizing innovative and cutting edge cognitive testing, rehabilitation, and creating a long term support system and plan. We accept Most Private Insurances. Call today or visit our website to watch or read patient reviews about their treatment experiences at Sovereign Health Adolescent Treatment Program.
(866) 425-0741
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St. Luke's Behavioral Health Center
Treatment Facility
"St. Lukes Behavioral Health Center is a 124-bed mental and behavioral health facility located on the campus of St. Lukes Medical Center in Phoenix. For more than 40 years, St. Lukes Behavioral Health Center has been serving the mental health and substance abuse needs of the community with a full spectrum of inpatient and outpatient treatment programs for children, teens, adults and seniors. For more information, visit stlukesbehavioralhealth.com, or call 602-251-8535 in the metro Phoenix area or toll-free at 1-800-821-4193 to schedule an assessment.
(602) 910-6762
Spectrum College Transition Program
Treatment Facility
"Spectrum College Transition Program is a nonprofit 501(c)3 corporation, and was founded in 2008 by O. Robin Sweet and Dr. Thomas A. Bloom. Spectrum is the first Transition Program in the State of Arizona, specializing solely in students with Asperger's Syndrome, and has the first Asperger's Fraternity in the United States, which helps normalize their residential college experience.The purpose of our program is to offer Post Secondary students the opportunity to earn a Vocational Certificate, College or University Degree. Our program focuses on real time redirection, such as: perspective taking and cause and effect. Students participate in a broad variety of campus organizations: clubs, social events, tutoring, and internships. Our staff actively support the students on campus by helping facilitate meetings with professors and counselors.
(480) 568-6487
Scottsdale, Arizona 85258
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Sovereign Health Mental Health Treatment
Treatment Facility
"Sovereign Health Group is a leading residential Addiction, Dual Diagnosis & Mental Health Treatment provider with multiple treatment locations in the US. We offer evidence based treatment, individualized treatment plans, cognitive testing and rehabilitation, individual and group therapy sessions, and many other treatment components We invite you to review our website, chat with us online, or call for a free confidential assessment to learn more and discuss how Sovereign Health can be a solution for you. We ACCEPT MOST PPO insurances and offer private pay options.
(866) 456-0323
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JFCS of Southern Arizona
Treatment Facility
"JFCS's experienced and compassionate team has a long history of serving people at very difficult times in their lives, often when they have no where else to turn. JFCS's 25+ therapists are well trained, accessible, and offer a broad range of modalities that fit a wide variety of patient needs. Clients come from all faiths, age groups and economic backgrounds, and for 72 years, JFCS's counseling and social services programs have helped them negotiate life's tough challenges, including depression, family conflict, and trauma.
(520) 314-4988 x2363
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Rogers Memorial Hospital - Eating Disorder Svcs
Treatment Facility
"Rogers provides specialized treatment for children, teens and adults with eating disorders. Rogers was the first provider in the nation to offer exclusive treatment for males and is the only program in the country to offer a specialized program for adults and teens with co-occurring anxiety and OCD disorders. Led by board-certified psychiatrists, our dedicated treatment team gets to the heart of eating disorders. Comprehensive evidence based treatment for: Anorexia, Bulimia, Binge eating disorder, Other eating disorders, Co-occurring anxiety disorders or OCD. Separate and unique programs for: Children, Teens, Males, and Women of all ages. Our treatment approach encourages self-empowerment and family involvement. Personalized treatment plans address each patient's needs and focuses on three key areas: nutritional stability, changes in thinking and overcoming obstacles for recovery.
(888) 754-5960
Verified by Psychology Today
Gambling Treatment Services
Treatment Facility
"Gambling Treatment Services has been providing treatment for Compulsive Gambling and Problem Gaming for over 14 years. Our mission is to create a safe environment for our Clients; one in which our clients begin to feel safe enough to slow down and begin to heal the effects that addictive gambling and gaming have had on them, their loved ones and even friends and employers. Gambling Treatment Services is grateful to be one of the only residential treatment programs in the United States that treats Gambling and only Gambling. The majority of our staff is in Recovery from Compulsive Gambling and understand as few do the unique issues surrounding the Problem Gambler, Gamer or Day Trader. We are an intimate program and our staff to patient ratio is almost one to one.
(858) 437-5633
Verified by Psychology Today
Alive Recovery | Adult & Teen Alcohol & Drug Rehab
Treatment Facility
"Whether you are an ADULT or ADOLESCENT, whatever issues that you are battling, we can provide effective treatment, whether it be any addiction or substance abuse--alcohol abuse, alcoholism, drug abuse--such as heroin, cocaine, or prescription drugs--we can help. Or, if you are dealing with mental health or behavioral health issues, such as depression, bi-polar, anxiety, self-harming, thoughts of suicide, we have a rehab program that will start you on your road to recovery.
(866) 593-1089
Depression Treatment Centers
If you're looking for help with depression in Arizona (AZ) or for an Arizona (AZ) depression Therapist, these Treatment Centers provide depression therapy (and depression therapies), depression treatment and depression help in Arizona (AZ). They include depression Treatment Centers, depression psychologists, depression psychotherapists and depression counselors in Arizona (AZ). They can help with relationship Treatment in Arizona (AZ). A Therapist can help with post partum depression, feeling depressed, depression anxiety as well as teen depression. Treatment Centers provide Arizona (AZ) depression counseling, depression support, referrals to depression support groups in Arizona (AZ) and Arizona (AZ) depression groups. If you're depressed in Arizona (AZ), get help from one of these depression specialists.
Inpatient or Outpatient Treatment
Residential Inpatient treatment in Arizona (AZ) usually consists of 24 hour care at a live-in facility. Full treatment services, including medical and behavioral therapy are provided all at one location near Arizona (AZ).
Medical supervision is generally placed over each resident. In drug treatment centers, clients can detox safely. In eating disorder centers in Arizona (AZ), residential programs enable effective monitoring of the client's health during the treatment program.
Inpatient care offers a structured atmosphere and allows the client and providers to focus on physical and psychological healing.
Outpatient treatment programs in Arizona (AZ) or clinics provide flexibility to those who are unable to take time away from their regular lives, work or school. Programs typically meet at the clinic a couple of times every week for a few hours at a time.
Because clients are living away from the centers, outpatient facilities in Arizona (AZ) are less able to focus on medical conditions and nutritional needs.
Certain programs provide a combination of the in/out approach: Inpatient for medical stabilization, partial hospitalization for moderate cases, intensive outpatient programs, and outpatient clinics for follow-up.


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Celebritating Democracy
The A-list gang's all back in the second remarkably uncringeworthy "Don't Vote" public service announcement produced by Leonardo DiCaprio's Appian Way, with a bunch of new additions. These include Steven Spielberg (who brought Harrison Ford and Shia Labeouf with him), Will Smith (who called up buddy Tom Cruise) Scarlett Johansson (who seems to have agreed to appear on the condition that her B-list husband, Ryan Reynolds, get a lot of screen time) and Borat, who says he has seven friends. A few more observations:
• After being conspicuously absent for most of this election, celebrities
are now combining their powers in a massive YouTube onslaught. Could they all be trying to prove that Obama really isn't the biggest celebrity in the world?
• Also, where are Clooney and Affleck?
• It's unspoken that pretty much everyone here supports Obama, but in the interest of fairness, they don't overtly pick sides. The bias is clear, however, by the fact that they chose Jason Segel to voice the token nod to how groundbreaking it is that Sarh Palin is running.
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Johnson looking to add to momentum at Dover
Six-time Sprint Cup champ Jimmie Johnson won for the first time this season at last weeks Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte Motor Speedway. If that wasnt enough to alert any detractors that he hasnt gone anywhere, hes racing Sunday at Dover International Speedway a track where he has eight career victories.
There is a feel, a sensation, I look for to get around this race track, said Johnson, who starts fourth in the FedEx 400. Everything has worked well for me, for (crew chief) Chad Knaus, for the team, our equipment. Its just been a very good track for us.
Heres another indication of how tough Johnson is at Dover: In 24 career starts, hes finished in the top five 12 times and has only failed to finish twice.
No hard feelings: Theres no bad blood between Johnson and Matt Kenseth for Kenseths move to block Johnson late in last weeks Coca-Cola 600.
When it comes to the end of the race, everything is out the window, said Johnson, who went on to pass Kenseth for the victory. I dont expect anybody to be polite and courteous and give me all kinds of room.
Said Kenseth, who finished second to Johnson: Youve got to do whatever you can to try to win the race toward the end. Obviously I knew that I wasnt going to be able to stay in front of him as fast as he was, but you still want to try to stay there. As I got farther down the straightaway, it was clear he was going to get in the hole there, so I had to move back up and give him his lane.
Practice makes perfect: For those drivers all but assured of berths in the Chase, racing at a unique track like Dover, which is also included in the playoffs in the fall, provides a chance to study up.
Its the only track that we have that is like this, said Jeff Gordon. One-mile, high-banked, big sweeping corners and its concrete. You carry a lot of speed into the corner. You have to be really committed to the throttle and the steering wheel.
Sharing the wealth: Joey Logano and Kevin Harvick are the Cup series only multiple race winners this season, with two apiece. The 10 different race winners are the most since 2003, when there were 11 through 12 races.
Three things to watch
1. Pole winner Brad Keselowski was fast again in practice on Saturday morning, when he had the fastest lap. He likes the Monster Mile: his win in the fall of 2012 helped kick-start his drive to the championship.
2. If Kyle Busch leads 28 laps Sunday, he will become the 15th driver in NASCAR history to lead at least 10,000 laps in his career. Busch starts on the front row with Keselowski.
3. Logano note after nationwide race .
• The spring Dover race has a similar feel to the PGA Tours tournament at Hilton Head the week after the Masters. After 10 intense days in Charlotte, the NASCAR crowd gets a chance to step back and take a breath at the Monster Mile.
• Theyre racing Sunday for one of the coolest trophies in motorsports a statue of Dovers ferocious Miles the Monster.
• Looking for a darkhorse? Greg Biffle, winless this year, runs well at Dover. Hes got two career victories and starts 12th.
Best bets
Three picks for your fantasy team:
Jimmie Johnson, Brad Keselowski, Joey Logano
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SE Division Place and 6th Avenue Sewer Repair Project
Environmental Services – your sewer and stormwater service provider – is designing a project to replace and upsize about 270 feet of public sewer pipes on SE Division Place between SE 6th and SE 7th avenues that are between 95 and 106 years old and failing due to age. This project will increase sewer capacity and reduce the risks of street flooding and sewage releases to buildings and streets.
The work will include replacing storm drains, manholes, and service laterals that connect properties from the curb to the public sewer in the street.
The map below shows the location of pipes Environmental Services will replace in 2015. Construction methods on on SE Division Place between SE 6th and SE 7th avenues and in both intersections will include jack and bore and open trench excavation (click here for more details on each method). There will be construction signs, traffic controls, on-street parking removal, and equipment storage in the construction area. Watch for updates as planning for construction continues.
Design for this sewer repair project is underway and is expected to continue through October 2014. Survey crews have been in the area collecting information and identifying issues that might affect construction, such as the locations of overhead or underground utilities and soil conditions.
Construction is expected to begin in early 2015 and last for about five months. When the city hires a contractor, we will provide a more exact schedule.
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21. "All at Once"
"All at Once," from Whitney's 1985 debut, was only released as a single overseas, but it's still a key moment in her career, one of her first massive, pop-diva ballads, paving roads for Mariah, Celine and others to drive down. The slow start, the big finish, the key modulation at the end, the impossible high notes — all the ingredients are there.
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Kaiser Permanente names three finalists in hospital design competition
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Three finalists—Aditazz, Gresham, Smith and Parters, and Mazzetti Nash Lipsey Burch—were selected for Kaiser Permanente's Small Hospital, Big Idea competition. Each firm will receive up to $750,000 to create their winning concepts over the next few months.
Energy-efficient designs and interactive technology for patients are among some of the ideas that caught the judges' eyes. A design jury selected the finalists last month in San Diego.
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The day after the inauguration, Kennedy telephoned Shriver and asked him to form a presidential Task Force "to report how the Peace Corps should be organized and then to organize it." When he heard from Kennedy, Shriver immediately called Harris Wofford.
At the time, Shriver was 44; Wofford was 34. They had become good friends during the campaign. Wofford had worked as Kennedy's adviser on civil rights, and together they had worked on the talent hunt for staffing for the new administration.
Initially, the Task Force consisted solely of Shriver and Wofford, sitting in a suite they had rented at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington. Most of their time was spent making calls to personal friends they thought might be helpful. One name led to another: Gordon Boyce, president of the Experiment in International Living; Albert Sims of the Institute of International Education; Adam Yarmolinsky, a foundation executive; Father Theodore Hesburgh, president of the University of Notre Dame; George Carter, a campaign worker on civil rights issues and former member of the American Society for African Culture; Louis Martin, a newspaper editor; and Franklin Williams, an organizer of the campaign for black voter registration, and a student of Africa.
Shriver had scheduled the first official meeting of his Task Force for February 6. Despite the recommendations, opinions, and reports they had received, Shriver and Wofford had made relatively little headway in defining the new program in terms of specific size, costs, organization, and objectives. Kennedy had called requesting a report by the end of February, and Shriver had to concede that, as of yet, he had not even settled on an official name for the new agency. While it was less than two weeks since the President had given him the assignment, "Kennedy wanted to know what was taking us so long," says Shriver.
Kennedy had given Shriver a report written by Max Millikan, the director of the Center for International Studies at MIT. The report stated that the development of such an agency should be slow, placing several hundred people in the first year or two. This opposed everything Shriver believed in. Shriver later wrote, "We knew the Peace Corps would have only one chance to work. As with the parachute jumper, the chute had to open the first time." It had to be new, in both size and thrust.
Unbeknownst to Shriver and Wofford, while they were busily managing the Task Force, two officials in the Far Eastern division of the International Cooperation Administration (ICA) were working on a Peace Corps plan. Warren Wiggins, who was the deputy director of Far Eastern operations in ICA, was still in his 30s but had already helped administer the Marshall Plan in Western Europe. He was totally dissatisfied with the manner in which American overseas programs were run; he called them "golden ghettos."
With Wiggins was Bill Josephson, just 26, and a lawyer at ICA.
They started with a program which would be limited to sending young Americans overseas to teach English. But as they worked on it, their vision broadened.
The paper they prepared detailing their recommendations they called "A Towering Task," taking the title from the phrase Kennedy had used in his State of the Union address: "The problems . . . are towering and unprecedented - and the response must be towering and unprecedented as well."
They sent copies to Wofford, another to Richard Goodwin at the White House, and to Shriver. As Wiggins said, "we wanted to make sure Shriver would get it."
Shriver read the paper late on Sunday, February 5th. He thought it was brilliant and immediately sent a telegram to Wiggins inviting him to attend the Task Force meeting the next morning. With that, the so-called "midnight ride of Warren Wiggins" became an early legend in the Peace Corps.
Meanwhile, Wofford had read the Wiggins proposal and he called Shriver at 7 a.m. to talk to him about it. Shriver told Wofford that Wiggins had already been invited to the first Task Force meeting.
Wiggins had written the proposal in the hope that it might, as he said, "stimulate thought." In fact, it provided a philosophy for the Peace Corps throughout the Kennedy era.
Wiggins fundamentally disagreed with most of the academic and other institutional approaches which counseled caution and a slow beginning. Instead, he advocated initiating the Peace Corps with "several thousand Americans participating in the first 12 to 18 months."
What Wiggins and Josephson had going for them was that Shriver agreed.
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Establishing The Peace Corps: A Towering Task, Post 9
The day after the inauguration, Kennedy telephoned Shriver and asked him to form a presidential Task Force "to report how the Peace Corps should be organized and then to organize it." When he heard from Kennedy, Shriver immediately called Harris Wofford.
Establishing the Peace Corps, On Campus at Michigan, Post 8
On the Michigan campus, after hearing Kennedy, two graduate students - Alan and Judy Guskin - wrote a letter to the editor of The Michigan Daily, the university newspaper, asking readers to join in working for a Peace Corps. (The editor of the Dailywas the future radical, Tom Hayden. The paper later won a journalism award for its coverage and support of the Peace Corps movement.) On campus, students began to circulate a petition urging the founding of a Peace Corps. This effort began to spread onto other campuses in the midwest and east.
Then a Democratic National Committeewoman and UAW official, Mildred Jeffrey, learned about the students' response from her daughter Sharon, who was studying at the university. Jeffrey put the students in touch with the Kennedy camp.
At first, they couldn't reach anyone until they got to Ted Sorensen who liked the idea of a major speech on the subject and promised to tell Kennedy about the Ann Arbor petitions. By now the Michigan petition was also being circulated at other Big Ten universities and at colleges throughout Michigan - I signed at Western Michigan University where I was studying, as did a dozen other friends who later became early PCVs.
In the Republican camp, Nixon was still being urged to embrace the Peace Corps idea. Two Michigan faculty members - Elise and Kenneth Boulding - who were critical of Kennedy's cold war stances, pushed for the students to be nonpartisan with the idea. But when Nixon wouldn't take up the plan, the Guskins turned to Kennedy in late October.
Because Kennedy's people had (incorrectly) heard that Nixon was on the verge of proposing an overseas volunteer program for college graduates, they urged Kennedy to move out front with the idea before Nixon could claim it as his own.
On November 2, the Guskins were notified that at the Cow Palace that evening Kennedy was going to make a major address on the Peace Corps idea. And more important–at least to them–he wanted to meet with the couple and the other students taking the lead in the petition drive. This was six days before the general election.
The Michigan students were told to drive to Toledo, Ohio, where they would meet up with Kennedy when he stopped on his way back to Washington. They could deliver their petition - this was the same petition that we had signed at other Michigan schools–in person.
About this meeting, Wofford writes in his book: "Kennedy grinned at the long scroll of names, and sensed the students' discomfort when he started to put the petition in his car. 'You need them back, don't you?' he asked. He had guessed right; it was before the era of Xerox and they had not copied the names and addresses."
How important was this petition? How important were those students in the creation of the Peace Corps?
In his book, Point of the Lance, Sargent Shriver concluded that the Peace Corps would probably "still be just an idea but for the affirmative response of those Michigan students and faculty. Possibly Kennedy would have tried it once more on some other occasion, but without a strong popular response he would have concluded that the idea was impractical or premature. That probably would have ended it then and there. Instead it was almost a case of spontaneous combustion."
So, as they say, 'in a very real sense' we can thank two graduate students at the University of Michigan, Judy and Alan Guskin, for making the Peace Corps a reality. And they, too, left the University of Michigan campus to become Peace Corps Volunteers in Thailand.
A Voice From The Field
I don't know who this PCV "dilana" is, but as far as I can tell, it is our first comment from a current PCV, and it is a wonderful one. It is an example of what Marian and I hope to achieve with this website and that is to get comments and opinions and information from all over the globe, and from all parts of the Peace Corps World. So, if you missed "dilana" comment sent on the 21st of this month, here it is in full.
dilana on 21/03/2009 in 19:50
Honestly what I am disappointed about at this point is the fact that so many people actually think three months should be enough time apparently to bring the country out of debt, find money from somewhere to use to bring more volunteers to various countries, enlist new countries for Peace Corps, stop the war, increase the budget for PC and everything else, and a whole lot of other things. I am a current Peace Corps volunteer right now IN THE FIELD and to be honest there is so much going on right now in the developing world and at home that I think that its ok if our President AND government need to take a year or two before they can get to increasing the number of volunteers in the field. We barely have enough money to function since Bush just cut the budget and food prices are rising and volunteers are barely making it. It seems as if everyone expects the president to perform a couple miracles which include the home base concerns of unemployment, home ownership, income, the economy, the education system, bringing our soldiers home, and the list goes on. While I know Peace Corps volunteers make significant impact in the countries they serve we are usually not sent to (in this era) countries at war or those that even are too unstable so I dont see how we will be helping certain countries in the middle east when we have these regulations. I'm very upset about the budget cuts but if you come into a job and someone has emptied the bank account you cant make money appear to make all your changes happen. In case no one sent the bulletin to the American people WE ARE BROKE as a country and we need to dig ourselves out of debt. What that means is that any change that is made means a cut somewhere or everywhere which means someone is always going to be unhappy until we can get back on our feet with a decent budget to handle all of our needs. Until then everyone is going to have to grit and bear because the wound of debt needs to heal before we can start increasing budgets and functioning adequately. I have also learned that 2 years is hardly enough time for me to really turn over a high yielding product with my projects, usually it takes at least 2 follow up volunteers before a project is sustainably successful. If thats how it is for us on a grassroots small initiative level what can 3 months really be for a nation trying to turn things around nationally AND internationally? Problems will have to be attacked in an orderly and strategic basis and I have already seen a lot of initiatives that were promised in action. Actually I just applied for a grant for my community from USAID whom just sent out applications for funding for development projects thanks to the new mandate for more international aid funds. Good and sustainable progress takes time not frenzy disorganized demands, we got enough of those with the Bush administration. I dont even have a T.V. but I traveled 5 hours and heard a speech where President Obama said 'I will do my best to fulfill all my promises during my campaign, we may not get it done this year, or even in this term, but we will get it done'. The fact of the matter is to dig us out of 8 years of mess (or more for Peace Corpst) it might take 8 more years of hard work. If you dont learn anything else in Peace Corps you learn patience and you learn that things dont happen as fast as you want them to or even how you want them to but you know that it can be done. Maybe because I have stepped out of the microwave world of the U.S. for so long I forget how quickly everyone expects things at home. I hope President Obama takes his time to look closely at the Peace Corps budget and is able to give Peace Corps the budget increases it so desprately needs to function well with the number of volunteers currently in the field. THEN I think it would be a great idea to look into additional countries, an increase in volunteers worldwide, and other advances but I understand that all of that may take a back seat to the fact that job fairs have a turn out of over 2,000 people for a mere 200 jobs or that more people in the world (and my own pueblo) are starving because basic food like rice has gone up dramatically; and this might take more than 3 months or even 2 years to get a handle on.
Establishing The Peace Corps: Ann Arbor, Post 7
On October 14, Kennedy flew into Michigan from New York, where he had just completed his third debate with Nixon. He had agreed to say a few words to the students at the university. Ten thousand students waited for him until 2 am, and they chanted his name as he climbed the steps of the student union building.
Kennedy launched into an extemporaneous address. He challenged them, asking how many would be prepared to give years of their lives working in Asia, Africa and Latin America?
The audience went wild. (I know, because at the time I was a new graduate student over in Kalamazoo. I was also working part time as a news reporter for WKLZ and had gone to cover the event.)
According to Sargent Shriver, "No one is sure why Kennedy raised the question in the middle of the night at the university." Possibly Kennedy thought of the Peace Corps at Michigan because someone reminded him that Professor Sam Hayes taught at the university's International Studies Department. Samuel Hayes was an early advocate of the "Peace Corps idea," and had been asked by Kennedy to prepare position papers on the idea of a national volunteer organization.
Harris Wofford thinks that Kennedy's remarks were a counterattack to a criticism that Nixon had made during the debate earlier in the evening. Nixon had said that the Democrats were the "war party." In his book, Of Kennedys and Kings: Making Sense of the Sixties, Wofford writes: "Stung by Nixon's words, Kennedy may have remembered the idea of a Peace Corps and spoken as he did in order to counteract the image of a Democratic war party."
After that speech - the next day, in fact - Chester Bowles, former governor of Connecticut and an advisor to Kennedy who would later become Kennedy's Ambassador to India, gave a long talk on the same theme. (A day later in Kalamazoo I was part of the press that interviewed Bowles, who was following after Kennedy on this tour through the Midwest. What I remember most about this event was that in responding to my question of what area of the world would be most interesting in the next decade, Bowles said Africa, where vast changes would occur because of the end of colonial rule.)
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Establishing the Peace Corps: Kennedy's Involvement, Post 6
JFK's first direct association with the Peace Corps came on February 21, 1960. He was on a college television show called "College News Conference" and someone asked about the "Point Four Youth Corps." Kennedy said he didn't know what the legislative proposal was. Afterwards, he told aide Richard Goodwin to research the idea. Goodwin, who was the Kennedy link with the "brain trust" at Harvard, wrote to Archibald Cox at the university's law school about the idea.
Then in April and May of 1960, when Kennedy was running against Humphrey for the nomination, the idea was discussed further. Humphrey introduced his bill for a "Peace Corps" in the Senate in June, but after Kennedy won the nomination in July, Humphrey transferred all his research files to Kennedy's office. The Cow Palace speech made by Kennedy right before the election, which revealed his growing commitment to the "Peace Corps" concept, owed a great deal to Humphrey's ideas.
In early September, Kennedy asked both Congressman Reuss, and Professor Sam Hayes at the University of Michigan, to prepare position papers on a national youth service program.
On September 22nd, at the University of Nebraska, Lyndon Johnson, the Vice Presidential candidate, called for a "Volunteers for Peace and Humanity" program and got a great campus response. He called Kennedy that night and told him that such a volunteer program would be a "great political asset."
In October, during the debates with Nixon, Kennedy discussed the Third World, the Communist threat, and the need for new foreign policy initiatives, but never mentioned a "Youth Peace Corps."
Establishing the Peace Corps: The Ugly American, Part 5
One of the most important books of the late 1950s was the novel, The Ugly American,by William J. Lederer and Eugene Burdick. The book's hero was Homer Atkins, a skilled technician committed to helping at a grassroots level by building water pumps, digging roads, and building bridges. He was called the "ugly American" only because of his grotesque physical appearance. He lived and worked with the local people and, by the end of the novel, was beloved and admired by them.
The bitter message of the novel, however, was that American diplomats were, by and large, neither competent nor effective; and the implication was that the more the United States relied on them, the more its influence would wane. The book was published in July 1958. It was Book-of-the-Month Club selection in October; by November it had gone through twenty printings. It was so influential that in later paperback editions its cover proclaimed that "President Kennedy's Peace Corps is the answer to the problem raised in this book."
The authors summed up in a factual epilogue what should be done to improve the U.S. foreign service:
"Whatever the reasons, our overseas services attract far too few of our brightest and best-qualified college graduates . . . . What we need is a small force of well-trained, well-chosen, hard-working and dedicated professionals. They must be willing to risk their comforts and - in some lands - their health. They must go equipped to apply a positive policy promulgated by a clear-thinking government. They must speak the language of the land of their assignment and they must be more expert in its problems than are the natives."
The Cow Palace Speech
Six days before the 1960 election on November 2nd, Kennedy gave a speech at the Cow Palace in San Francisco - a speech written by Ted Sorensen, Richard Goodwin, and Archibald Cox. Referring to the charges in The Ugly American, Kennedy pointed out that 70 percent of all new Foreign Service officers had no foreign language skills whatsoever; only three of the forty-four Americans in the embassy in Belgrade spoke Yugoslavian; not a single American in New Delhi could speak Indian dialects, and only two of the nine ambassadors in the Middle East spoke Arabic. Kennedy also pointed out that there were only twenty-six black officers in the entire Foreign Service corps, less than 1 percent.
Establishing the Peace Corps: A New Frontier, Part 4
There was also, as there has always been, a search for a new frontier. That feeling was loose in America. The historian Frederick Jackson Turner has written about how America has continued to grow because of this search for another frontier. The Peace Corps gave all these young people a New Frontier.
A new generation
The Baby Boom had struck. 50 percent of the population was under 25 in 1960. For the first time a college education was within the grasp of the majority of young people. Unprecedented material wealth freed this new generation to heed their consciences and pursue their ideals. This spirit of generosity and participation had been sorely missed under Eisenhower. As one Peace Corps administrator puts it in Gerry Rice's book: "The 1950s made ancient mariners of us all - becalmed, waiting and a little parched in the throat. Then we picked up momentum on the winds of change that Kennedy brought in - the New Frontier, the fresh faces in government, the vigorous, hopeful speeches, the Peace Corps."
Founding Fathers
Two key people in Congress, Henry Reuss and Hubert Humphrey, both proposed the idea of the Peace Corps in the late 1950s.
Reuss voiced it in 1957 when he was a member of the Joint Economic Committee and traveled to Southeast Asia. He, by chance, came upon a UNESCO team of young teachers from America and other countries who were working at the village level. For three years after that, Congressman Reuss talked to student conferences about establishing a "Point Four Youth Corps" and wrote articles about it in magazines. In January of 1960, Reuss introduced in the House of Representatives the first Peace Corps-type legislation. It sought a study of "the advisability and practicability to the establishment of a Point Four Youth Corps."
In the Senate, Hubert Humphrey of Minnesota was a member of the influential Senate Foreign Relations Committee. In the late 1950s, he, too, suggested the enlistment of talented young men and women in an overseas operation for education, health care, vocational training, and community development. The idea was liked in the Senate, but the State Department was against it. Humphrey began to research the possibilities of such a program with his staff and realized there was a groundswell of popular support for the idea which he advocated during his unsuccessful campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination in the spring of 1960.
In June of 1960, Humphrey introduced in the Senate a bill to send "young men to assist the peoples of the underdeveloped areas of the world to combat poverty, disease, illiteracy and hunger."
What's important here is this bill - Senate S. 3675 - was the first to use the specific name "Peace Corps."
Now it was too late in the session for his proposal to have any hope of passing into legislation, but he wanted the bill to be printed and appropriately referred so as to focus the Congress and the public on the Peace Corps idea at a critical moment - just before the presidential election of 1960.
Meanwhile, Reuss's bill was added as a rider to the Mutual Security Act which authorized $10,000 for a study of a Point Four Youth Corps.
Also in 1960, several other people were expressing support: General James Gavin; Chester Bowles, former governor of Connecticut and ambassador to India; William Douglas, associate justice of the Supreme Count; James Reston of the New York Times; Milton Shapp, from Philadelphia; Walt Rostow of MIT; and Senator Jacob Javits of New York, who urged Republican presidential candidate Richard Nixon to adopt the idea. Nixon refused.
Establishing The Peace Corps:Naming the Movement,Part 3
Those of us who follow the history of the Peace Corps agency know the term "peace corps" came to public attention during the 1960 presidential election. In one of JFK's last major speeches before the November election he called for the creation of a "Peace Corps" to send volunteers to work at the grass roots level in the developing world.
However, the question remains: who said (or wrote) "peace corps" for the very first time? Was it Kennedy? Was it his famous speech writer Ted Sorensen? Or Sarge himself? But - as in most situations - the famous term came about because of some young kid, usually a writer, working quietly away in some back office that dreams up the language. In this case the kid was a graduate student between degrees who was working for the late senator Hubert Horatio Humphrey.
Today, forty-five plus years after the establishment of the agency in March of 1961, it is generally acknowledged that Peter Grothe, now the Director of International Student Programs at the Monterey Institute of International Studies, authored the term in the spring of 1960. I learned about the history of the naming from Peter when we exchanged a series of emails earlier this spring.
"There would have been no Peace Corps without John F. Kennedy being elected President," Peter told me first when he wrote me on April 19, 2006. The term "peace corps" came about when Peter, then Senator Humphrey's Foreign Relations Adviser, drafted a bill in May of 1960 and used the words "peace corps." This was on the eve of the U-2 incident and the West Virginia primary which Kennedy won, a victory that showed a Catholic could win in a traditional protestant state, and, therefore, could win a general election.
"I gave the name "Peace Corps," [in this draft of a Humphrey sponsored foreign assistance bill] in order to be consistent with the Senator's Peace theme," Peter explained. [Humphrey was also proposing an "education for peace" bill]. "I first, toying round, gave it the name "Works for Peace Corps," but that seemed too cumbersome," Peter remembers, "so I just shortened it to "Peace Corps" and Senator Humphrey approved. Some said that it sounded 'communistic.' Other said that it sounded too militaristic (corps). But somehow it stuck!"
Peter also added this important - and missing - piece of information about his involvement with the "peace corps" idea. "When I left Humphrey to go back to do my Ph.D. work, I asked him if I could take the idea to Kennedy, who, by that time, had won the Democratic nomination. Humphrey said, 'of course!' I drafted a speech I hoped JFK would use in the campaign and took it to the head of Kennedy's speech writers in the campaign, Archibald Cox.
"I told Cox we had received an enormous amount of mail, many of it from organized letter writing by Protestant groups, because the Peace Corps reminded them of action-oriented, Protestant missionary work. Cox listened to this because, as you know, no Catholic had ever been elected to the presidency.
"I returned to Stanford and was in the Cow Palace in San Francisco the night Kennedy chose to give the Peace Corps speech I had written. There were some changes, but about 75% of his speech was what I had written. The major change was that the Humphrey bill had the Peace Corps as an alternative to the draft, and Kennedy removed that provision (good politics!). I sat there in disbelief of Kennedy's giving MY speech and I said to myself, "if the Lord wants to take me right now, Lord, I am ready to go."
Well, the Lord didn't take Peter Grothe that night. He is still with us, and if nothing else, as he says today, he is forever "a footnote in Peace Corps trivia history.
There are others who had the name 'first' as well, and among them was William James who formulated the idea for a "peace army" into which young Americans would be drafted in the service of peace. He voiced this idea in 1904 at the Universal Peace Congress held in Boston.
John F. Kennedy once famous said, "victory has a hundred fathers and defeat is an orphan." We might say the same about the naming of the Peace Corps. It seems now that everyone had the brilliant idea to call the new agency, the Peace Corps.
Afghanistan In….Peace Corps Out
The breaking news this afternoon is that the U.S. is planning to send hundreds of additional diplomats and civilian officials to Afghanistan…all part of the new post-Bush "civil-military" regional strategy that President Obama security advisers have scripted and now waits the president's signature.
Okay, where are the "hundreds, if not thousands" of additional Peace Corps Volunteers that Candidate Obama promised to send overseas as soon as he got elected?
Remember, President Obama, you said you would double the number of PCVs to 16,000. Well, if the current cuts to the agency hold, based on the Omnibus Bill for 2009, the Peace Corps will eliminate 500 positions, dropping the number of new PCVs below 3,500. This is at a time when 22 + nations–including Indonesia, Sierra Leone, and Colombia–are asking for Volunteers.
President Obama, the Peace Corps isn't just a scribbled name in the margin of some paper on regional strategy for the United States. The Peace Corps has been the best face of America for nearly 50 years. Do better than Bush. Keep your promise to enlarge the agency. The Peace Corps is not part of your foreign policy problem; it is part of your solution.
As an ex-community organizer, you should be well aware of what men and women, PCVs living, working, and making friends in the villages of the world, can do for America.
Keep the faith. Keep the Peace Corps strong.
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