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Ten people were shot between Saturday afternoon and Sunday morning on the city's South and West Sides, including a man who died this morning after being shot on the Lower West Side and a 12-year-old girl who survived a gunshot wound on the West [wshh-embed][/wshh-embed]Side Saturday night.
The girl was standing on a sidewalk in the 500 block of North Springfield Avenue in East Garfield Park about 10:30 p.m. Saturday when she was shot in the left foot, police said. It's not clear exactly what the circumstances were that led up to the shooting, police said. She's in good condition at Mount Sinai Hospital, police said.
The girl's family didn't cooperate with the investigation, according to police.
About 1:25 a.m. Sunday, a man was killed in the 1300 block of West 13th Street in the University Village /Little Italy neighborhood. He was in a car with another man and stepped out when someone started shooting at him, police said, hitting him in the back and armpit. He ran from 13th Street a short block north through a park to rows of townhomes before collapsing near Washburne
He was pronounced dead at John H. Stroger, Jr. Hospital of Cook County, police said. Nobody is in custody.
Police found shell casings on 13th Street. A silver Chevy Impala with bullet holes in the passenger side doors and a flat rear tire was a block south of where the shooting happened, at the corner of Throop and Hastings streets, under two security cameras: one attached to the south end of a townhome and the other a Chicago Police Department blue-light camera. It's unclear if detectives investigating the homicide were able to pull video from either one.
A 26-year-old man was shot in each thigh, the hand, and suffered a graze wound to his abdomen about 12:15 a.m., police said. He was standing on the 2900 block of West Polk Street in the Lawndale neighborhood on the West Side when a car rolled up and someone inside started shooting, police said. The man flagged someone down after being hit and was driven to Mount Sinai Hospital where his condition has stabilized, police said.
A man in his 20s was shot about 12:10 a.m. on the 5800 block of South Wolcott Avenue in the West Englewood neighborhood on the South Side, police said. He was taken to St. Bernard Hospital. His age and
About 11:15 p.m., an 18-year-old man riding his bike was shot in the buttocks by someone standing among a group of males on the 7200 block of South Green Street in the Englewood neighborhood. He's in good condition at Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, police said, and the shooting appears to be gang related.
A 24-year-old man walked into Mount Sinai Hospital about 10:30 p.m. after getting shot in the back in the Near West Side neighborhood, in the 300 block of South Campbell Avenue. Police said the man refused to provide any other information about the incident, including his
About 7:15 p.m., a 40-year-old man was shot on the 300 block of West 104th Place in the Fernwood neighborhood on the South Side, police said. A man approached the victim and asked for a lighter, and when he replied that he didn't have one, the other man shot him a few times, police said. He's in stable condition at Advocate Christ Medical
A 15-year-old boy was shot in the leg about 5 p.m. Saturday shortly after getting off a bus near 105th Street and Indiana Avenue in the Rosemoor neighborhood on the South Side, police said. His brother drove him to Roseland Hospital, and he's in good condition, p olice said. A 19-year-old man was shot about a block away Friday night.
Two people – a 42-year-old man and a 43-year-old woman – were shot about 3:20 p.m. Saturday in the 3700 block of West Roosevelt Road in the Lawndale neighborhood, Chicago Police News Affairs Officer Veejay Zala said. Both were shot in the arm, drove to Stroger hospital and walked in, Zala said. They're both in good condition. It''s not clear what prompted that shooting.
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Carly Simon once sang, "You're so vain … you probably think this song is about you, don't you? Don't you?" If you think a speech from Barack Obama is about you, you're not vain — just sadly mistaken. Americans for Prosperity put this clip together from Obama's January 22nd speech in Elyria, Ohio, where the topic was jobs. Or that's what the topic was supposed to be, anyway. As AFP totes up the mentions of taxpayers, small businesses, tax cuts, and finally references to himself, take a guess at which one got 132 mentions? No, it's not Cousin Pookie on the couch:
When taking writing courses many years ago, instructors stressed that constant self-references in essays were amateurish crutches, used by weak writers. Blogging is a more informal presentation, but even on blogs, a constant drumbeat of self-references gets annoying. When a speaker's three favorite subjects are Me, Myself, and I, voters have to wonder if there's any room in Barack Obama's love affair for them.
By the way, be sure to visit AFP — it's a great organization putting forward a solid, fiscal-conservative agenda. Keep an eye out for their next event, as they routinely have powerful presentations from leading conservative voices … and the occasional blogger who now has to avoid a self-reference at all costs.
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A Man and an Institution is in reality three books combined into one. It is, first, a contribution to a biography of Sir Maurice Hankey, the first Cabinet Secretary; second, a history of the origins of the Cabinet Office and its development until Hankey's retirement in 1938; and third, an account of how the Cabinet Office came to be the guardian of official secrecy.
Peter Yearwood has carried out impressively extensive research to produce this account of how British foreign policy was closely linked to the formation and operation of the League of Nations in its early years.
If there is a popular image of George II, it derives from the Whig historians of the 19th century, who established him as the counterpoint to their chief subject of 18th-century interest, his grandson and successor, George III.
The present volume marks the latest in a succession of modern editions and/or translations of Richard fitzNigel's Dialogus de Scaccario and the Constitutio Domus Regis, stretching back in the case of the former to the edition by A. Hughes, C. G. Crump, and C. Johnson published in 1902.
The Parliament Rolls are the principal record of the meetings of English Parliaments from the 13th to the early 16th centuries. Their importance to scholars of medieval England has long been recognised; between 1776 and 1777 they were edited, under the direction of the Reverend John Strachey, and published as the six-volume edition of Rotuli Parliamentorum.
Every prime minister's reputation combines a mixture of image and reality, and that of Wilson has all too often been the image of the wily, pipe-smoking fixer.
This book charts the 'experimental' peace between Britain and France in 1801–1803, often regarded as little more than an interlude in the twenty-year struggle between the two.
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Volunteerism is about doing something good and feeling something real (the Points of Light Foundation).
Volunteer management is about making volunteers feel good about what they have done
Good morning ladies and gentlemen and best wishes from the Organising team for next year's Games
There are many things of importance to the successful delivery of mega-events such as the Olympic and Paralympic Games - one of the more important is the delivery of a memorable experience to the stakeholders.
It is through volunteers that at least some component of that experience will be achieved. Volunteers will the face of our Games - first person a volunteer and last person a volunteer. And the memories and perceptions of our Games will be strongly influenced by the hospitality and work performance of our volunteers.
Volunteerism in Australia has a long tradition and is quite strong. Sport in Australia has long been reliant on volunteer support and sports volunteering has also been quite strong.
This strength has been evident in our efforts to bring together a 50,000 strong volunteer workforce for next year's Olympic and Paralympic Games in Sydney.
BUT there are threats and challenges to volunteerism. And we at SOCOG are facing those challenges.
Challenges face ALL voluntary organisations.
Volunteering in Australia and volunteering in sport are losing numbers and are being "challenged" by the same pressures which are reflective of our society and the world's society.
Included among these challenges are the ageing of our population, the ageing of our volunteer force, the professionalisation of sport, and the daily demands and stresses of life.
Whatever the challenges though, all organisations which rely on the support of volunteers, should remain mindful of the following points:
Current Status
Firstly, the good news about Sydney's Volunteer Program for next year's Olympics and Paralympics:
Those who have volunteered for the 2000 Games are passionate in their support of the Games and for assisting as volunteers; We have a very good number of applicants although perhaps fewer than we might have anticipated; We have high quality applicants - we have been fortunate to accept as many as 95%. They have a strong commitment and are very genuine about being involved and stamping their own mark on the Games. In almost all 43 functional areas and 28 sports, our progress towards selecting our volunteers is running to target We are optimistic that there will be positive outcomes and longer-term legacies for volunteerism and sport in Australia
We have a very good number of applicants although perhaps fewer than we might have anticipated;
We have high quality applicants - we have been fortunate to accept as many as 95%.
They have a strong commitment and are very genuine about being involved and stamping their own mark on the Games.
In almost all 43 functional areas and 28 sports, our progress towards selecting our volunteers is running to target
We are optimistic that there will be positive outcomes and longer-term legacies for volunteerism and sport in Australia
For a country of Australia's relatively small population base, recruiting a 50,000 strong volunteer workforce was always a big ask.
As you know, making a Volunteer Program work is VERY demanding.
Recruiting, preparing, managing and retaining volunteers demands many things, but two are of fundamental importance:
Our progress to date has been positive ... and VERY INSPIRATIONAL to our paid staff.
Many of our paid staff have not previously worked with volunteers and therefore carry what I call "baggage" - there are many with preconceived views and attitudes on volunteers, and not all flattering - many of those perceptions are wrong and emanate from ignorance.
Our FIRST GROUP of 500 volunteers have been on board with us for some years now and have already contributed considerable time to our preparations for the Games - in all sorts of roles
We call them our PIONEERS - the first - they have contributed 150,000 hours of time already to our preparations
The eyes of our paid staff have been opened wide by this connection with our volunteers - to their tremendous skills, to their amazing dedication, and to the significance of their contribution.
Many of our staff are building good working relationships with those volunteers and commenced the all important team building process.
That's exactly what is needed not only for the Games themselves but also for the longer-term health of sport and volunteerism beyond the Games
Our SECOND GROUP of 25,000 volunteers are our SPECIALISTS. I'm referring here to those people with particular skills to match the demands of the job. Examples include roles in Medical, Media, Technology, Sport and in Languages.
We began sourcing this group of volunteers in September 1997 primarily through professional associations, sponsors and tertiary institutions. A key source of this group has been 21 Australian universities. The universities have been wonderfully supportive in providing students to roles directly related to the practical component of their courses. One of these universities (UTS) has also worked with SOCOG to source 68 candidates from Greece to work full time with the Organizing Committee (Note: a separate paper on this is to be delivered at this Symposium).
Our THIRD GROUP of volunteers are those for more general roles - the many front and back of house positions.
This group of volunteers are from the general community - an official call for applications was made for these roles in October 1998
Our recruitment process has been:
Gender of our applicants
Female 55% Male 45%
Age of our applicants
So, 41% under age 35 and 59% under age 45
Effective preparation of our 50,000 volunteers is quite a task.
We well understand the importance and magnitude of this task
Volunteers expect and deserve to be well trained and we have a responsability to give them the best possible opportunity to perform to their very best.
And we are committed to getting it as right as we possibly can.
Such a huge exercise could not be done without the support of a major training or educational institution - TAFE NSW is one of our Games sponsors and is doing a wonderful job in helping us develop our training program.
Our training of all our volunteers will cover:
* Orientation * Job specific training * Venue training * Event Leadership * Training your team - directed to each functional area
Quite a lot of training has already been done - for the 17 Test Events already held and also for those volunteers assigned to roles demanding a lot of training.
While our current status is quite positive, we HAVE faced some issues and we STILL have a few hurdles to get over.
The biggest early challenge was to the principle of recruiting non-paid staff for such a huge profile and budgeted event.
The current biggest challenge is to retain our volunteers during periods of controversy for the Olympic Movement and for our own organisation.
Let me just highlight a few of the more important issues and how we've had to work on:
The Games obviously present opportunities for the wider community to benefit long term.
As you know 2001 is the designated International Year of Volunteering.
The Olympics and Paralympics is a perfect springboard for the volunteering movement in our country to leap into this important year.
A constant dilemma for any Organising Committee is and always will be to find the right "balance" between running a great Games and also fulfilling broader community responsibilities in this case to volunteering beyond the Games.
we have always taken the view that our Games-specific responsibilities must be our prime driver and I know that everyone has supported us in this.
We have also always maintained that the biggest and best legacy we can provide for volunteerism will come from how successful our Volunteer Program is.
And this is both before and during the games. But SOCOG is merely the catalyst for the generation of legacies - the community needs to work with us, learn from our successes AND failures, commit to their their own action and of course make directional changes where necessary.
Let me share just FIVE EXAMPLES of what we see as important legacies resulting from our Volunteer Program - some of these points are relevant messages for the future direction of volunteerism.
As I move towards concluding my address, I want to highlight a few challenges for volunteerism in sport. Civil society and volunteering go hand-in-hand.
But civil society hasn't always been easy to apply to sport.
Why ? Let me suggest just 3 reasons:
That is precisely the reason for us developing strong connections with the respective sports federations, with professional associations, with corporations and with the volunteering bodies. It is also the reason why we have developed what we call "The Volunteer Experience" - this document represents "AS da in the life of a volunteer at the Games" - including their needs and expectations.
The longer-term legacy for volunteerism in sport in Australia will be strongly influenced by how well we now implement our plans. Effective management of our volunteers is the key to creating positive experiences for them, keeping the attrition rate at a low level, and generating the legacy for volunteering and of course for sport.
We are pleased with the current status of our Volunteer Program and are confident of delivering an effective Program at the Games.We have made mistakes and are sure to make more - but as long as they are minimal. Thank you very much for your interest in our volunteer Programm and more importantly for your support.


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Ian Clemens is the Chief Technology Officer for IDV Solutions. In this role, he spearheads the vision for IDV's technology and products. Bringing more than 15 years of experience in the technology and consulting industries, he oversees research, product development, and technology strategy.
Ian is an expert in interactive data visualization, location intelligence and business intelligence software, and has authored a number of articles on the topic in publications including DM Review and Directions Magazine.
Prior to joining IDV, he was director of technology solutions for Universal Map, a map publisher and distributor, and senior consultant for BBK Ltd. / Anderson Economic Group a consulting firm specializing in economics, finance, and public policy.
Clemens holds a degree in Applied Mathematics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and master's degree in Christian Studies from Regent College, Vancouver, BC.
He co-founded IDV Solutions with CEO Mark Morrison in 2004.
Mark Morrison is the CEO for IDV Solutions. With his expertise in software, technology solutions, marketing, sales force development, management and leadership, Mark leads the company's overall efforts in business vision, growth and expansion. He has spent the last twenty five years working with Global 1000 companies delivering productivity technology solutions, all aimed at improving performance and ROI.
Prior to IDV Solutions, Morrison co-founded Strategic Interactive Inc., a successful technology company. Strategic Interactive created web-based, large-scale training and human resource systems for government and Fortune 500 companies. Strategic Interactive grew to 126 people in 7 years.
Mark holds a degree in Liberal Studies from Western Michigan University.
He co-founded IDV Solutions with CTO Ian Clemens in 2004.
John Dougherty is the Vice President of Operations for IDV Solutions. In this role, he oversees all product and project development activities, from pre-sales planning through completion. John also provides general business oversight and directs the work of IDV's general counsel.
John began his career with AT&T Bell Laboratories (now Lucent) and has over twenty-five years of technical management experience. Before joining IDV Solutions, he was a project manager for a five-year $36 million enterprise application development effort. In prior organizations, John has held leadership roles in software product development and systems integration companies.
Dougherty holds a degree in Computer Programming Science from Michigan State University, and a master's degree in Computer Science from the University of Michigan. He is also a PMP (Project Management Professional) as certified by the Project Management Institute (PMI).
Stanley Starkey is EVP of Sales for IDV Solutions. In this role, Stan is responsible for overall sales for IDV globally. Stan has been a top-level sales and operations executive in the software industry for more than 30 years building both direct and partner sales channels.
Prior to joining IDV, Stan was vice president of sales for insurance software leader Vertafore, where he managed all sales for the producer lifecycle management division. Stan's extensive sales and operations experience includes executive positions at eJustice, Workforce Software and Comshare, where he was senior vice president of field operations and carried worldwide P&L responsibility. He also served at Comshare as vice president of sales, North America and in top regional sales positions. Stan also served as vice president of sales, North America, for Gentia Software, Inc. of Wimbledon, England, where he grew the software firm's license fees by 65 percent.
Mr. Morrison brings over 25 years of marketing, sales and product management experience to IDV Solutions. As Executive Vice President of Marketing, Scott is responsible for managing the company's branding, communications, media relations and marketing programs.
Prior to joining IDV Solutions, Scott held executive positions at several technology companies. Most recently, he served as vice president of marketing and sales at CFI Group, a customer experience technology and services company. Scott has also held management positions at Vertafore, Infor, Media Station, Epicor Software, and Accenture.
Mr. Morrison was honored with the Platinum Award for excellence by the Marketing and Sales Executives of Detroit (MSED), and received his Bachelor's degree in Business with honors from the University of Notre Dame, where he also founded Adworks, and served as a Board member.
Scott Caulk is the Vice President of Platform and OEM Sales for IDV Solutions. In this role, he leads all sales and account management related to IDV's platform technology, Visual Fusion.
Caulk has over 13 years of IT experience as a developer, project manager, and product manager. Prior to IDV Solutions, he held IT roles at Northrup Grumman and Universal Studios, among others. In his career he has managed and developed dozens of successful projects and products, including start-up web properties, global 100 e-commerce, and US defense systems.
In addition to graduating with honors and earning an MBA from Michigan State University's Eli Broad Graduate School of Management, Scott also holds a master's degree in Education from Azusa Pacific University.
Chris Kushmaul is responsible for leading IDV's supply chain risk management practice including guiding the development, sales and implementation of Visual Command Center for Supply Chain.
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Chris holds a Master of Business Administration degree from the University of Michigan's Ross School of Business and a Bachelor's from U of M and has earned a Risk Management Education Certificate from the American Production and Inventory Control Society (APICS).
Chuck Fields is Senior Director of Product Development for IDV Solutions. In this role, his primary responsibility is product management for Visual Command Center, IDV Solutions' physical security and risk visualization (PSRV) software.
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Formerly a Senior Software Engineer with Munro & Associates and a founding partner with BC Designs, Chuck has more than fifteen years of team-based software development experience on the Microsoft Platform. He holds a Programmer/Analyst associates degree from Lansing Community College, as well as a Microsoft Certified Professional Developer Certification. He also participated in the U.S Naval Nuclear Power Program in Orlando, Florida.
John is the Director of Visualization for IDV Solutions, working with customers and product teams to deliver intuitive and effective user experiences for IDV's software suite.
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How to "Summerize" your Board?
hey guys,
welp the time has come... no mountains are opened near me, and time to put away my snowboard... how do i "summerize" my board? like, should i take the bindings off, or wax it... im sorry this is my first time putting a snowboard away... (started snowboarding this year) thanks for all your future answers!!! nick :thumbsup: |
Loosen the bindings, then throw on a layer of wax and don't scrape it off. When next season rolls in, tighten bindings, scrape wax, ride.
haha ok thanks guys :thumbsup:
peepee on it
You can also just put some spray wax on the edges instead of WD40. As an East Coaster, I like to clean the base with some citrus de-waxer. The reason for this is that, on the East Coast, you are generally riding on pure pre-made snow base at the end of the season. They use a dark oily substance in making the base at the start of the season, to keep it from melting and icing too quickly. At the end of the season, that crap gets all over your board. I think it is good to get it off and keep it from either soaking into or damaging the base of your board in any way. Once the board is clean, I simply spray wax the whole bottom, including the edges and put it in my board bag for the summer. The spray wax keeps it 'wet' and protects the base. It won't rub off or evaporate/dry-out in the bag. Then next year, I just wipe the base with a rag and do the usual hot wax. That's my East Coast method. |
I gotta ask....where are you riding that they add "dark oily substances" to their snow base? |
I thought most East Coast mountains do this. When it gets down to a really low base, you can see that the snow appears 'dirty'. It looks brownish in color, kind of an even spread over patches of slushy snow. If you don't really check it out, you will mistake it for dirty snow. Your board slows down a bit when you slide over it. You often can't see it on your base, but it is there. Sometimes you can feel it if you slide your finger over the base. I tend to ride to the last day of the season on the last open resort, so experience may vary for people. I've encountered the stuff at Okemo, Killington, Jay Peak and Butternut that I can remember. I'm sure many do as well, I thought it was normal for east coast snow making. |
I just can't imagine it's an additive. I always figured it was just the water source (ie not filtered municipal water) That would be a pretty pricey additive for snowmaking, probably require an environmental assesment too. .... a quick google search later and I'm wrong. There is quite variety of additives for snowmaking and a few websites concerning the environmental impact of ski hill runoff. Not sure who uses what or if the additives are primarily responsible for dirty spring snow, but it's probably not a bad idea to clean your base before summer storage |
yea welp i still didnt "summerize" my board haha, but i will tomorrow or the next day... can i keep the board in my room or do i have to store it?
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In free societies, wrote George Orwell, 'unpopular ideas can be silenced, and inconvenient facts kept dark, without any need for any official ban'. One of the least discussed, some would say most suppressed issues of the contemporary world is the part played by the media in promoting the ideology and propaganda of Western power. The roots of this propaganda, which can influence how we in the developed world see ourselves and other societies, go back more than 60 years to a largely forgotten history.
In the United States in the 1930s, revolution was in the air as working men and women rallied to a view of life very different from that which had brought about the Great Depression. 'Politics is the shadow cast on society by big business,' said the populist John Dewey. Millions of people rounded on capitalists as the source of their hardship and of inequality. The response of the American establishment was a propaganda crusade of extraordinary intensity. A series of 'Americanization' campaigns was launched, depicting strikes and demonstrations as unpatriotic, trade unions as the enemy of workers and social democracy 'infected' by communism. This reached a crescendo in the 1950s with the inquisition known as McCarthyism, which singled out as heretics those who questioned 'free enterprise' and 'the American way of life' – a slogan invented by a public relations agency.
The scale of the crusade, wrote the editor of Fortune magazine, was 'staggering'. By 1954, business-sponsored propaganda consumed half the resources devoted to school textbooks. Alex Carey, the social scientist who pioneered the study of Americanization, described the three most significant political developments of the 20th century as 'the growth of democracy, the growth of corporate power and the growth of corporate propaganda as a means of protecting corporate power against democracy'.
Monocultures of the mind
Today, most of humanity is subjected, in one form or another, to corporate propaganda. While the clichés have changed – 'the American way of life' has become 'globalization' – the essential aim is the same: to expand the power of capital, mostly Western and American capital, into most aspects of our lives so that almost everything is a commodity and the only value is measured by cost and consumption. Unlike the 1930s, the modern crusade has been institutionalized in totalitarian bodies with prodigious power: the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund and the World Trade Organization, whose manipulative 'loans', 'bail-outs' and 'treaties' ensure foreign ownership of everything from education to water to living organisms. Indian environmentalist Vandana Shiva has described this as a form of brainwashing, a 'monoculture of the mind'.
The media is the main carrier of the crusade's propaganda. For example, media language has systematically appropriated positive concepts, emptying them of their dictionary meaning and refilling them. 'Reform' now means regression, even destruction, and those who promote laissez-faire capitalism are 'reformers'. Selling off public enterprises (such as Britain's integrated railways) is 'breaking up monopolies'. 'Restructuring' is the transfer of income from production to speculation. 'Deregulation' is the shift of power from the national welfare to international banks and a local corporate élite. And 'market economics' means capitalism for the majority and socialism for the rich and powerful: an ingenious system under which the poor are persecuted and the rich given billions in public subsidies, such as minimal corporate tax and a range of opportunities to avoid tax.
This reversal of political language has an incessant message: there is no alternative to the single-ideology state, with its almost identical competing pro-business parties. Political lobby journalists and commentators, conservatives and liberals alike, work assiduously to obfuscate this truth, promoting personality differences between essentially likeminded politicians. The real divisions are to be found outside government and they have never been greater. They reflect the unprecedented disparity between the poverty of the majority of humanity and the power and privilege of a corporate and militarist minority, headquartered in Washington, with a branch office in Whitehall. Their goal is to control the world's resources. One of the reasons these mighty pirates have such a free reign is that the Anglo-American intelligentsia – journalists, academics, writers, the 'people with a voice' – are quiet or complicit or 'twittering', as one critic said of English mainstream novelists, and often rich as a result.
As I write this, a BBC reporter casually describes the American ideologue Milton Friedman as 'the respected … perhaps the world's greatest economist'. There is no qualification, no suggestion of who this important figure really is. As head of the infamous Chicago School, Friedman inspired the policies of Reagan and Thatcher, the blueprint for the extremes of 'globalization', using Chile under the fascist Pinochet as his 'laboratory'.
History without memory
One of the most pervasive myths is that we live in an 'information age'. We actually live in a media age, in which most of the available information is repetitive, politically safe (that is, it reflects the one true path) and is limited by invisible boundaries. Certainly, media technology, such as the 'digital revolution', may appear to offer more choice and greater horizons, yet the media itself is actually shrinking in terms both of its ownership and editorial agenda or world view. According to a comprehensive study by the leading British voluntary agencies, television in Britain, reputedly the best, has so drastically cut back its serious content that little more than three per cent of its overall output is devoted to the rest of humanity, and most of that is on the minority channels.
Consider the coverage of the Middle East. While Palestinian grievances may be acknowledged, Israel's news agenda dominates; the Israeli military, a colonial oppressor employing a terrorist and homicidal strategy, is still 'the security forces'. Britain and America bomb Iraq day after day, killing civilians, illegally, with scant media reporting. Until recently, there was no recognition of the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Iraqis, mostly children, as a direct result of Anglo-American designed sanctions. This followed the 1991 attack, known as the 'Gulf War', that saw the slaughter of as many as 200,000 Iraqis: a fact that went largely unreported in what was generally agreed to be a bloodless victory for military technology. In Kosovo in 1999, the justification for raining cluster bombs on Yugoslavia, killing 1,500 civilians, and precipitating the stampede of Kosovar Albanians was a 'genocide' evoking 'World War Two and the Holocaust' (Tony Blair). There was no genocide. Last year, international forensic teams found that 2,700 people on both sides had died over a year-long period, the victims of a civil war not unlike that in Ireland in the 1970s. This passed virtually unreported.
It is time we journalists analyzed the often subtle pressures that manipulate us. Humanity is too often reported in terms of its usefulness to Western strategic and corporate interests. The culpability of 'our' governments is too often minimized. Regardless of the innovation of media supplements in newspapers and media studies courses, this subject remains a taboo, or is skirted defensively.
A barely recognized danger is the growth of public relations almost as a substitute for real journalism. Max Clifford, the famous celebrity PR man, says the public relations consultant 'is filling the role investigative reporters should fill but no longer can because [of] cost-cutting'. According to PR Week, the amount of 'PR generated material' in the British media is '50 per cent in a broadsheet newspaper in every section apart from sport'. What often passes for news in the financial pages, is 'packaged' by PR consultants paid by investment firms.
In the Australian press during the 1980s, the cheerleaders of what was known as economic rationalism – Thatcherism – were the financial page writers, who relentlessly misrepresented laissez-faire ideology as economic necessity. Their specious message, rather like that of a cult, was that there was no other way.
'History without memory,' says Time magazine, 'confines Americans to a sort of eternal present.' As the rest of us are drawn into this eternal present, the memory struggles to rescue the truth that rights come not from something called consumerism or from technology, but from a long and painful history of struggle. The great demonstration in Seattle in 1999 against the World Trade Organization was reported as a new phenomenon. On the contrary, there have been many Seattles in the developing world, the 'south'. Last year, an estimated million people demonstrated against globalization in some 30 countries. When this is reported in the 'global' media, the images invariably are of confused street conflict.
Those who teach journalism have a responsibility to make young journalists aware of the nature of insidious propaganda and of censorship by omission, and to provide them with survival kits and navigation routes through the system, warning them about the pitfalls, such as the seduction of the Murdoch mantra of 'giving the public what it wants' – code for giving the public no choice. The late James Cameron called journalism the first draft of history; if the propaganda of power is accepted and reported uncritically, if circus journalism and me-ism is allowed to dominate, journalists contribute to the shaping of history as an instrument of power, exacerbating human divisions and conflict.
However, if they recognize and expose propaganda, they give their readers, viewers and listeners the opportunity to shape their own history. The great muckraker Claud Cockburn offered this advice: 'Never believe anything until it is officially denied.'
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Impact of NO-synthase inhibition on renal hemodynamics in normotensive and hypertensive subjects. | |
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OBJECTIVE: To examine the acute effects of NO-synthase inhibition on renal hemodynamics in normotensive and hypertensive subjects. METHODS: Changes of renal plasma flow (RPF) and glomerular filtration rate (GFR) in response to intravenous infusions of NG-monomethyl-l-arginine (l-NMMA) (3 mg/kg per 30 min) were measured in 32 normotensive and in 39 essential hypertensive patients by use of clearance technique. RESULTS: l-NMMA significantly decreased RPF in normotensive and hypertensive individuals (P < 0.001), while GFR was preserved. Changes of renal hemodynamic parameters were similar in hypertensive and normotensive subjects (deltaRPF: -88 +/- 89 versus -81 +/- 105 ml/min, P = NS; deltaGFR 1.6 +/- 8.2 versus 4.3 +/- 8.9 ml/min, P = NS) Furthermore, l-NMMA increased mean arterial pressure (deltaMAP 5.3 +/- 6.3 versus 6.0 +/- 6.1 mmHg, P = NS) and decreased heart rate (deltaHR -5.8 +/- 3.9 versus -4.1 +/- 3.8 beats/min, P = NS) to a similar extent in both groups. CONCLUSION: Basal NO synthesis of the renal vasculature is not impaired in patients with established essential hypertension. |
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Title: Journal of hypertension Volume: 20 ISSN: 0263-6352 ISO Abbreviation: J. Hypertens. Publication Date: 2002 Mar |
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Created Date: 2002-03-04 Completed Date: 2002-06-20 Revised Date: 2010-03-23 |
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Languages: eng Pagination: 525-30 Citation Subset: IM |
Department of Medicine/Nephrology, University of Erlangen-N?rnberg, Germany. |
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Adult Blood Pressure / drug effects Cohort Studies Enzyme Inhibitors / administration & dosage, pharmacology* Female Heart Rate / drug effects Hemodynamics / drug effects Humans Hypertension / physiopathology* Injections, Intravenous Male Middle Aged Nitric Oxide Synthase / antagonists & inhibitors* Reference Values Renal Circulation / drug effects* omega-N-Methylarginine / administration & dosage, pharmacology* |
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the picture took in front of my friend's house and we have just watched ice age 3d before we went there.
I went there with the triplete boyess haha
They are Parveen with the Indian face haha peace, Albert my friend who is in vacation in Jakarta fyi he is studying in Aussie and is in his holiday here for a while, and the last is Bryan,my closest friend. This front pict was taken by Bryan *thank you so much
And I still love boyish look, I love to see my brother's wardrobe and mix it with my stuff well, this is one of the result.Actually I want to wearmy high fringed gladiator, but I think it's too much for "boys night out" haha so I just wore that ordinary Kimmy flat ): what do you think ?