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Disclosed is an ink that is intensely colored in solution with the vehicle of the ink. The ink "disappears" or becomes invisible to the naked eye after a period of time has elapsed from the application of the ink to a record document. The ink being utilized to identify an unsatisfactory character on a document such as a MICR check which has had an erroneous character printed which must be corrected before being correctly machine read.
1. A high saturation disappearing sympathetic ink having a time delayed disappearance consisting essentially of:
a solvent, and,
a reactive additive consisting of 1.7 to 8% by weight of the ink, the reactive additive consisting essentially of a pH acid base indicator cyanine dye consisting of 9% to 42% by weight of said reactive additive and the remaining portion of the reactive additive consisting of an effective solvent soluble acid chosen from a group consisting of citric acid, tartaric acid, oxalic acid, acetic acid, formic acid, phosphorous acid, phosphoric acid, zinc chloride, aluminum chloride, stannic chloride and mixtures thereof;
said solvent consisting essentially of the remainder of the ink by weight, the solvent being chosen from the group in which said acids are soluble and consisting of methyoxy triethylene glycol, triethylene glycol, diethylene glycol, tetraethylene glycol, ethylene glycol, phenol ethylene glycol ether, butoxy diethylene glycol, butoxy triethylene glycol, ethylene glycol monobutyl ether and diethylene glycol monobutyl ether and butyl alcohol and benzyl alcohol and methyl alcohol and mixtures thereof, and
wherein said ink remains 50% visible 5 minutes after application of the ink to paper and disappears to a less than 20% visibility eight hours from printing and on exposure to air.
2. An ink according to claim 1 wherein said dye is ethyl red.
3. An ink according to claim 1 wherein said acid is selected from a group consisting of zinc chloride and aluminum chloride.
4. An ink according to claim 1 wherein the solvent is selected from a group consisting of butyl alcohol, methyl alcohol, ethylene glycol monobutyl ether and diethylene glycol monobutyl ether.
5. A high saturation disappearing sympathetic ink which has a time delayed disappearance consisting essentially of, in percent by weight based on the total weight of the ink composition,
a reactive additive consisting of 1.2 to 4.5% of zinc chloride and 0.4 to 0.5% of ethyl red;
and a solvent for the reactive additive consisting essentially of, within a variance of 20 to 50%, zero to 46% methyl alcohol,
zero to 46% butyl alcohol,
39.2 to 52.3% ethylene glycol monobutyl ether, and
zero to 21.2% diethylene glycol monobutyl ether;
wherein upon application of the ink to paper the paper causes a slight change in pH level in an amount sufficient to cause disappearance of color from the ink while remaining 50% visible 5 minutes after printing but disappearing to a less than 20% visibility eight hours from printing and on exposure to air.
This invention relates generally to systems for reading characters and more particularly to an ink formulation of the sympathetic type which are used to mark characters to identify machine readable characters having a need of a correction.
In particular the ink is utilized in order to print the marking dot which is described, for example, as a disappearing ink spot, as in U.S. Pat. application Ser. No. 573,787, filed May 1, 1975 now U.S. Pat. No. 4,068,212 granted Jan. 10, 1978 entitled, "Method and Apparatus for Identifying Characters Printed on a Document which can not be Machine Read", said application being incorporated herein by reference in its entirety.
As mentioned in the application referred to above, ink from a reservoir is applied to a document to cause a marking dot to appear adjacent an unsatisfactory character. If the document may be handled by humans at a later time after correction of the character, the presence of the marking dot may cause confusion since the viewer will be unable to determine whether or not the character which appears to be machine readable has been corrected. It was suggested in the aforesaid application that it would be desirable to use a "disappearing" ink. Such a sympathetic ink will have a color change to an invisible shade or a slightly visible or invisible shade shortly after the document leaves an inspection-correction station. In order to aid the operator in identifying a character to be corrected as each document which passes a read station is inspected electrically and after determination is made that the document cannot be read the "can't read" mark is printed with the sympathetic ink adjacent the unreadable character. This identifies the character which must be corrected by an operator.
The requirements of this sympathetic ink are that it be of high saturation so as to clearly identify the unsatisfactory character yet it cannot mar the document nor can the document be discolored by subsequent handling. The ink should disappear shortly after the time required to correct the document.
An earlier application Ser. No. 654,125 filed Feb. 2, 1976 which has been abandoned in favor of continuation application Ser. No. 853,521, filed Sept. 17, 1977, has been filed by my associates. In that application the prior art is discussed. This earlier application is incorporated fully herein by reference. Sympathetic inks have been known as novelties since Ovid and Pliny the Elder (see C. E. Waters, Inks, Circular of the National Bureau of Standards, C. 426, 1940).
There are three general types of sympathetic inks, those which are originally invisible but become dark upon heating, those which appear to change in the background by wetting a paper and the type that is developed by a reaction. Of the later type, the well known reaction of tincture of iodine and starch or soap yields a colored ink which will disappear after a period of time. Copper sulphate and red acetate are colored temporarily. Copper sulphate on exposure of ammonia fumes which give a dark blue compound, but exposure of the ammonia to air causes the writing to become invisible due to the high volatility of ammonia.
Also well known for many years has been the use of a reagent, such as phenophthalein which turns a brilliant red in the presence of alkaline material, e.g., sodium carbonate, borax, or ammonia, (see Printing Inks, Carleton Ellis, Reinhold Publishing Corporation, 1940, p. 405). The problem with most of the reagent mixtures is that the color once presented is permanent and the action cannot be reversed, or for those that do disappear the color is not stable in solution so that shelf life is too short, or for those that store well the period of time before disappearance does not accommodatingly disappear at a predetermined time, as for instance is the case with the formulation of U.S. Pat. No. 3,244,549, Column 14, lines 5-18.
It is also known, see U.S. Pat. No. 3,617,325, Nov. 2, 1971, Spokes, et al, to apply an alkanolamine to a coating on paper containing orthocresol-phthalein such that the conjunction of the amine and the phthalein produces a blue image which disappears after a time lapse. This patent does not store the ink in solution.
The objective of the invention is to provide a high saturation sympathetic ink which disappears after a predetermined time lapse and which can be applied to a variety of ordinary commercial papers or films and yet disappears after a predetermined time lapse. This objective is fulfilled in my preferred formulations by the use of a dye in acidic formulation which has advantages over a dye in basic formulations, such as those disclosed in the aforementioned copending application, Ser. No. 654,123 filed Feb. 2, 1976 entitled, "High Saturation Sympathetic Ink Having Time Delayed Disappearance" (assigned to our common assignee). These basic solutions tend to leave a salt behind on the nib of the applicator pen, a fault overcome by my preferred embodiments.
It is an important feature of my invention that the ink in solution, when exposed to air is not noticeably affected. In addition the ink is stable, has a high contrast and is suitable for application to documents through porous nibs.
The formulation of the preferred embodiments of this invention can be had by reference to the following detailed description of the inventions.
The preferred embodiments of my invention are incorporated in an ink utilizing indicator dyes which become colorless at higher acid levels. In the course of my associates at Burroughs investigation, they and I discarded the use of fluorescent ink formulations as those utilizing General Electric's organic phosphors, Catalogue No. 118-15-1 (blue) and No. 118-15-2 (yellow) because it is difficult to obtain sufficient phosphor loadings in the inks in order to obtain crisp visibility utilizing ultraviolet (black) light in a commercial surroundings as in daylight or under office lighting conditions. In addition, in order to avoid confusion in the future, the marks cannot be "permanent" as is the case of fluorescent colors and most dye formulations.
I have discovered that the desired "disappearing inks" can be obtained from a mixed acid based system which maintains color in solution and yet which upon exposure to air does not disappear rapidly but over a predetermined extended period of time. In order to obtain the sufficient high saturation so as to obtain the required contrast in daylight and under office lighting conditions when the ink is applied to ordinary documents such as checks, I have found that the most useful formulations suitable for use are those given in the examples below.
The formulations resulting from my investigation are readily visible and disappear slowly when exposed on paper to air. The ink meets a 70% visibility test two minutes after printing; is 50% visibile after five minutes, but has almost completely disappeared (less than 20% visible) after eight hours from printing, after exposure to air. It can be stored for a period exceeding six months in a polyethylene container with plastic screw-on top. The ink is of high contrast with a background ranging from white through the pastels used for checks.
It will be understood that in the examples all percentages given are percentages by weight, if liquid, weight wet.
The variances which are acceptable from the percentages by weight given are ± 15% of the stated percentage of weight.
The principle of cyanine dye disappearing ink is a little different from thymol blue. Some solvents and acids have some difference.
I have found that it is especially advantageous to provide mixed alcohol, glycol and glycol ether solvent solutions for the dyes which are employed to provide color for the ink.
The preferred alcohols, glycols include butyl carbitol, butyl cellosolve, ethylene glycol, diethylene glycol, Methyoxy triethylene glycol, benzyl alcohol and butyl alcohol.
Additional solvents will be chosen from the above group alone, in combination or in combination with the following group of solvents having a high boiling point, (preferably higher than 220° C.). These solvents include triethylene glycol, diethylene glycol, tetraethylene glycol, phenol ethylene glycol ether, butoxy diethylene glycol and butoxy triethylene glycol, with some more volatile solvents such as benzyl alcohol and/or n-Butyl alcohol. It will be noted that with ethyl red some n-Butyl Cellosolve has been used effectively.
The principle which I employ is that the solvents separate the dye and the reactant chemical in solution permitting the dye, which is a known pH indicator dye to remain in its colored state. However, upon application of the ink to paper, the solvent evaporates and the chemical reactant will cause the color to disappear within the above stated parameters, as will be explained below.
The ink passes through the nibs by capillary action. The nib may be the high density porous polyethylene nibs, such as are commerically available.
The preferred embodiment of my invention uses an acid based dye. The solvents are chosen so as to volatilize within the parameters set forth above. By mixing more volatile solvents with those having a high boiling point, the time release of the solvent is obtained.
Here an acid is used as a chemical reactant. It is noted that the CO2 in the atmosphere is also acid and does not cause degredation of the system upon exposure to air.
Likewise, no salts are left at the nib of the applicator in the acid system which I prefer. The saturation levels are high and the disappearance is effectively achieved.
A preferred solvent formulation is:
______________________________________ Grams______________________________________n-Butyl Alcohol 35.2Butyl Carbitol 20.7n-Butyl Cellosolve 39.2Reactant Additive 5.0______________________________________
The reactant additive may be about 4.5 grams of the chemical reactant, as the acid Zinc Chloride or Aluminum Chloride and .5 grams of the dye.
Acids which are suitable for substitution may be selected from the group including citric acid, tartaric acid, oxalic acid, acetic acid, formic acid and some inorganic acids including H3 PO4, H3 PO3 and SnCl4. Citric acid and tartaric acid may be mixed to form the acid reactant in the foregoing example, with the range in weight being 2-8% of the total formulation's weight.
A species which is effective and which is highly saturated and disappears or becomes invisible after an acceptable time lapse is based upon Cyanine dyes, particularly ethyl red. While other cyan dyes which remain highly colored in acid solution may be used, I prefer ethyl red for its ready availability and specific color change at a relatively low pH value.
Accordingly, the preferred example of my invention is illustrated by the following examples.
Most preferred would be
______________________________________ % by weight______________________________________n-Butyl Alcohol 35.2Butyl Carbitol 20.7n-Butyl Cellosolve 39.2Zinc Chloride 4.5Dye (Ethyl Red) .4______________________________________
There may be substitutions in the reactant additive and dye as aforementioned.
Other examples are:
______________________________________% by weight #1 #2 #3 #4 #5 #6______________________________________Methyl Alcohol 46.0 45.5 45.0 44.5 34.6 --n-Butyl Alcohol -- -- -- -- -- 46.0n-Butyl Cellosolve 52.3 51.7 51.2 50.6 39.4 51.2Butyl Carbitol -- -- -- -- 21.2 --Ethyl Red 0.5 0.5 0.4 0.4 0.4 0.5Zinc Chloride 1.2 2.3 3.4 4.5 4.4 2.3______________________________________
In the above examples use of lower volatile solvents such as Benzyl Alcohol solvent, Butyl Carbitol, diethylene glycol will be usefully employed to extend the shelf life of the ink.
In all of the above examples the ink remains highly saturated, more than 50% visible 5 minutes after application to paper. Color change then proceeds occurring as the neutral paper causes slight pH level change of the ink in amount sufficient to cause the desired color change.
The range of any specific solvent in my preferred embodiments may vary by 20% to 50% by weight. This range from the examples is applicable regardless of the stated percentages by weight so long as the aggregate solvent does not exceed 90% (even 95%) by weight of the formulation.
While I have given a preferred example and several alternate examples, it will be understood that those skilled in the art may now or in the future make rearrangements and substitutions without departing from the scope of the claims which follow.
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TT with HD: Coco Newton
[Ed. note: More information on Coco's approach to clinical nutrition is available at Lifetime Nutrition]
HD: Let's climb aboard!
CN: Okay.
HD: And the first order of business, before we actually start teetering up and down is to get the standard ...
CN: ... the photo ...
HD: ... yeah, teeter tottering photo taken. [Ed. note: photography ensues]
Let's do some actual teeter tottering.
CN: Alright.
HD: Is this going to work for you?
CN: Yeah! No hands!
HD: First of all, welcome to the teeter totter.
CN: Thank you!
HD: It's not every week that you see a letter from Ann Arbor show up in the New York Times Magazine letters section. And the letter that you wrote, it was a commentary on this regular feature called Diagnosis--as best I can tell, it is a regular feature, right?
CN: Mm hmm ...
HD: ... presenting some medical puzzle, a real-life thing that someone solved. And as I recall, it had to do with some patient, whose wound was not healing properly?
CN: Right.
HD: And the solution was, he turned out to be on mega-doses of zinc, or was it that he was not on enough zinc?
CN: Yeah, he was a guy who had a hernia repair ...
HD: ... so basically garden-variety operation?
CN: Yeah, pretty much no-brainer. And he had no healing--he would just keep coming back with infections and being sick, so he was re-hospitalized--as I recall the write-up that they did. And so months went on, and he was being worked up for various disorders, and several months later, he's in the hospital, and his wife walks in with a little brown bag and says, Here, honey, here's your vitamins. Being that they had worked him up and spent lots of money and lots of time, someone took interest in what those vitamins were. They looked at it, and it turned out that he was taking mega-doses of zinc. What had happened is that he had induced a copper deficiency by taking so much zinc, without the right ratio of zinc to copper.
HD: Did it say in the article who told him it would be a good idea to take the zinc?
CN: His surgeon initially is the one who told him to take zinc--which is not a bad idea, it is involved in wound-healing. But he wasn't given the instructions on how much to take, how often, for how long, and then what other nutrients to take along with it. There is no single nutrient that's going to do it.
HD: So this is not a situation where you have a patient who's doing something that might fall into the general category of 'alternative' medicine and sort of fails to report that. I mean, when Zach London was here--he's a neurologist over at the U of M--he was saying that a frequent issue with patients he sees is that they won't tell you everything they're doing, because they might be a little embarrassed to fess up to the fact that they're doing some kind of 'crazy' herbal thing ...
CN: ... I'm going to interrupt on that, though.
HD: Okay.
CN: I think that's the perception that the doctor typically holds. I think the perception of the patient--which is the ones I hear from--is that they don't tell their doctors, because they do not want to be invalidated for what they think they're doing correctly. And that they don't think it's crazy, but they think their doctor is going to think it's crazy, and they're not really embarrassed about what they're doing, but they don't want to involve their physician and his or her attitude. That's the issue.
HD: Yeah, I think I remember Zach saying something like, They must have had that bad experience of a physician's reaction at some time or other, or maybe if not they themselves, then maybe it's just part of the received culture of patients ...
CN: ... yes ...
HD: ... that, Yeah those doctors don't have any respect for anything except for traditional, conventional western medicine, so don't tell them.
CN: But the typical answers are, Don't take that, because it's a waste of money and you know you'll just pee it out in your urine. Or, Don't take that, because it could be dangerous, it's not protected by the FDA! So there's these black-and-white answers that most patients get, and that's really easy when you haven't studied it. Because you just give the black or the white--you don't bring new information to the patient.
HD: So do you read that regular feature, Diagnosis, as a clinical nutritionist in the same way a chess player might read the chess column, where it's a case study and as you read through it, ... ?
CN: ... yes ...
HD: ... you're thinking, Okay, so what's the answer to the puzzle? Oh, so you absolutely do?
CN: Yeah! It's like a whodunnit mystery. Do I ever really guess what's going on? Not right away, if ever, because it's such a short one-page article usually, or two-page, so you're reading so quickly that ... But they usually bring in all the answers at the end. But no, I wasn't thinking, Zinc deficiency! But also, at the very end was when they brought in the fact about the zinc, so it all wrapped up at once. But I'm always looking at what I, as a nutritionist, would want to ask.
HD: In your letter, sort of the conclusion that you suggested was couched not in terms of 'doctors should' or 'health professionals should', but rather you chose the word 'healers'. And I figured that was probably a very conscious lexical choice on your part, not random.
CN: Well, the title of the article was 'The Healing Problem'.
HD: Ah, okay.
CN: So that's what made me choose the word 'healers'.
HD: Okay, so the title was the specific reference to wound healing, okay, yeah, got it.
CN: So I just took it to the next level, and not wanting to just point a finger at a doctor. It was the healer. Doctors are healers, nutritionists are healers--if you really look at in a broad sense.
HD: So in trying to get a basic understanding of what it is that you do, it seemed to me like in a lot of cases, people come to you because they're at their wit's end? And they've sort of tried everything that conventional establishment medicine has to offer and they're taking their very last shot? Is that a fair description?
CN: How did you figure that one out? It's true.
HD: Oh, you know, I can read! Do you watch the television show, House?
CN: No.
HD: Basically there's a diagnosis team--they handle all the cases that no one else can figure out.
CN: Wait a minute, which one is this?
HD: It's the one with Hugh Laurie. On FOX.
CN: Okay, what kind of cases?
HD: Oh, all manner of weird stuff. Crohn's disease seems to come up quite often. They're trying to figure out if it's Crohn's disease. Is it Crohn's? No, it can't be Crohn's, because blah blah blah.
CN: Oh, I see. No, I haven't seen that. But you're right, I work with the 'walking wounded'--people who don't have a terminal illness, are able to get to their jobs, they're not disabled, they are functioning--but just barely--and suffering behind the scenes with a lot of ailments that don't get deep attention. So let's say someone is always tired, or has muscle aches, or has skin rashes, or sinus problems, or gut issues--that's a big one, from Crohn's to constipation, to everything unpleasant that can go on. I get those patients.
HD: The testimonial on the website from the national-class tri-athlete--that was basically a gut issue, right?
CN: Oh, right, on my website? Yeah.
HD: Just as a stray question, does that woman have an Australian accent?
CN: Yes!
HD: Okay. I worked at a bike shop for a little while and I think she may have come into the store a couple of times while I was working there. So I guess this just proves that Ann Arbor is just a really small town.
CN: She volunteered to put her name there. If I was going to do testimonials, I was going to do them because people said they would. I don't want J.L. or A.C. ...
HD: ... because you could just make that up.
CN: You can make anything up, and they have the right to take them down anytime if they change their mind [laugh].
HD: I followed one of the links to the USDA website with their food pyramid thing, and I keyed in my 'data'--male, 170 pounds, 5 foot 11--and based on that it gave me some information. I'd assume you are giving people more detail than: three cups of vegetables and, I forget how many cups of grain. I just thought to myself, This is useless information to me, truly. I don't think in terms of cups of anything, or weight of anything. Tell me how many pop-tarts I should eat, and I can execute on it, that's what I can relate to. So how detailed can it get?
CN: Well, that information is only there for people who care about other aspects of nutrition information. I don't use that website in my practice at all. It is a thing to play with and to look at. People don't fit in pyramids. And people don't fit in cups and ounces. So I agree. Everything I do is very individualized. That would be more of a public health general education approach to go look at the USDA food pyramid. I don't use their material for my education of patients.
HD: I meant it more of a way of expressing my frustration with the USDA that they can't do better than suggesting this many cups of that or that many ounces of the other thing.
CN: But on the other hand, USDA is really meant for a very generic public. So it can't get a whole lot more specific for individuals. What happens sometimes is that USDA material gets used as educational from one individual to another. Or from a doctor to a patient, or from a nutritionist or dietician to a patient. And that's where I see that as a kind of lazy approach and not that relevant.
HD: Do you find yourself constantly fighting a battle with information presented in the media in the general context of 'health news you can use'? I mean, that seems to be a standard beat for any broadcast media, any print media, they all have some section devoted to stories like, Research has now shown that Food X can help prevent Disease Y. Things along those lines.
CN: Mm hmm, or the opposite: that Food X has been proven not to help, basically invalidating the hundred studies before that said it did. That type of thing? Is that what you mean?
HD: Well, any of these kinds of studies. To me, I look at those studies and think, Okay, you gotta die of something. But it'll eventually wind its way back into advertising: Cheerios, has got lots of oat bran! But, you know, I don't care! Put honey on it, and it tastes really good. But I would imagine that it creates a challenge to you, because you have to fight against all of the received knowledge or the conclusions that people might draw based on all these health-news-you-can-use type stories. Do you spend a certain amount of time just saying, Let's wipe all of that out of your head and make a clean slate?
CN: No, it's not happening. I wonder why. I feel that people are coming and they have wiped everything out, and they're just ready to learn. I don't have people coming in saying, Hey, I just read this! Sometmes, if something comes up when I'm seeing someone, they'll ask, What do you think of this? But I don't feel like I'm being pinned to those issues. And I feel like all the work really gets down to that individual level.
HD: It might be that the people who see you self-select as a category that is fundamentally skeptical of that kind of story ...
CN: ... yes ...
HD: ... or they attach a certain distance, taking it as just another data point as opposed to, Oh, I've got to go out and stock up on--I don't know--beets, because beets can help prevent whatever. Are beets, in fact, good for anything?
CN: [laugh] Yeah, beets are good! They're a good source of iron.
HD: But as far as a specific disease?
CN: I think you brought up the thing: we're always looking for that one magic bullet. So we're going to say that Vitamin E does work or doesn't work, or a particular phytochemical is going to fight cancer or not. It is a synthesis and a synergy of nutrients. We're going off that old model of the double-blind, placebo-controlled, randomized trial research study, which is really borrowed from the pharmaceutical industry ...
HD: ... and what is the alternate model?
CN: Well, there isn't one that has been established. There isn't one that has been condoned and used. But what I'm saying is, that to use nutritional research and base it on that gold standard for the pharmaceutical industry isn't appropriate.
HD: So basically, you have a patient and instead of applying generalizations that have been established in the scientific literature, the idea is to figure out how that particular patient's metabolism works?
CN: Right.
HD: So you run tests and figure out how well your body is able to absorb this vitamin and is able to process whatever, and figure out something that works for you, as opposed to trying to figure out the scientific rule.
CN: Right, so I do metabolic assessments. And that could be on anything from the thyroid or the adrenal or the gut--we do a lot of gut work.
HD: Could you just describe, maybe not in necessarily graphic detail--but I mean, is it a matter of measuring what goes in, and measuring what comes out, and seeing what the difference in the nutritional content of each is? Or is it a matter of just doing an analysis of blood or?
CN: It's everything. It's blood, urine, stool, saliva. So depending upon what you're looking at, any of that could be done. Most of these labs are specialty labs where the patient is actually sent a kit. And they can collect their stool sample at home, or they can bring the kit into a lab with their urine and have it sent off, or they can go and have blood drawn. But it's a special kit, it's not one of the local labs, usually. But there's a lot of information that can come off regular laboratory tests.
HD: I have say, to be perfectly honest, if you said, Here, Dave, here's a kit, it's a stool-collection kit, I think I'd say, Maybe this whole thing is not for me. Do people ever balk at that step at all?
CN: Nope. Never. I'll tell you why: because they're suffering. By the time they're getting to this point, they are so frustrated that nobody is looking, that they've spent sometimes years, lots of medication, lots of dollars, and a lot of anguish, and they're continuing on with their symptoms or sometimes they're worse because of the side-effects of all the medications. So then they finally end up in my office, thinking of things that haven't been looked at that should be looked at: this [stool-collection kit] is a piece of cake. Because I'm looking at parasites, and yeast, and bacteria, and inflammation, and immunity, and digestive capability. That's where I get a lot of my data, and that's when I can decide what to do next. So actually people don't really have any issues with that. I've never had that happen. But you'd have to be in bad enough shape.
HD: Yeah, I guess I was just thinking, if I were to do it 'just for fun' ...
CN: ... oh, no way! ...
HD: ... I think I'd say, It's been nice chatting with you, but I'll skip this.
CN: I reserve that for only people who need it! It's not a standard.
HD: So what is your understanding of the state of the art of medical student education with respect to nutrition? I mean, I assume they teach future doctors something or other about nutrition beyond what they learned in 8th grade health class?
CN: It varies from medical school to medical school. It is still a very under-served area. A lot of the nutrition classes do not take it to the level of therapeutic relevance. So you might learn about nutrition, but you don't learn about it to the level that you're really applying it in medicine. And you're seeing it often as a specialty that somebody else has--maybe the dietician in the hospital.
HD: The case of that national-level tri-athlete, they actually did two surgeries on her? Which is just kind of mind-boggling to think that somebody said, Let's cut you open twice, when I guess her underlying problem had to do with eating the right stuff in the right proportions.
CN: And it had to do with more than just food. It had to do with correcting some of the ecology of her gut. So it wasn't just, Oh, don't eat this, eat that, that'll make it better! It had to do with healing the tissue ...
HD: ... is this what's referred to as 'detoxification' or is that a different phenomenon?
CN: That's a slightly different phenomenon, but they can go together, because you can detoxify by cleaning out your gut as well as your liver.
HD: Well, you know, before we hop off the teeter totter, I wanted to point out a connection that you have--it's a very tenuous connection--to one of the previous totterees. [Ed. note: Briefly put, the point HD will try to make next--while mis-naming every street possible--is that Dale Winling's thesis used the Thompson Block as a case study, and CN's business is located right in the middle of that block.]
You have your business on Maynard Street, right?
CN: Thompson.
HD: Oh, right, sorry. But it's across from the Maynard parking structure.
CN: Yeah.
HD: So Thompson Street between Main and William, right?
CN: Between Liberty and William.
HD: Okay, I've completely screwed up the names of the streets.
CN: You know where I mean, between Liberty and William on Thompson, right across from the parking structure?
HD: Yeah, yeah. So there was this master's of urban planning student who did a thesis on the historical significance of the Thompson block, which is the same block where you have your downtown business. So you know, I thought that's a interesting connection you two have.
CN: And he's on that block now, or he's on Maynard and he studied that block, or?
HD: No, he just did a master's thesis about that block [Ed. note: This is a gross simplification of what Dale Winling's thesis is about.]
CN: Wow. I'm sure there's a lot of history in this house that I'm in. It's beautiful.
HD: I bet. I bet he could tell probably tell you a lot about the history of the house. His name is Dale Winling.
CN: Okay!
HD: So I wanted to make sure I mentioned that. And the other thing is, you know, you are located right across from this Maynard Street parking structure and on your website you mention that you validate parking. Now, parking is a topic that people in this town are passionate about. Where do you park?
CN: [laugh] I have the same problem.
HD: So you don't have a permit?
CN: No! I have nothing! I won't pay for a permit, because they're really, really expensive and I would have to be there 365 days a year, practically, to make it worthwhile for me. So I did the math on that, it's not worth it. Even with a permit, sometimes if the garage is full, it's full, and you can't park in it. So I don't know, I just decided not to do that.
HD: So you park on an hourly basis in the structure?
CN: Yeah.
HD: I guess from your math it turns out to be too expensive, but on a gut level do you feel like it's too expensive?
CN: The parking?
HD: Yeah, for the monthly permit.
CN: Yeah, I thought it was. But I guess it would be worth it, if I was there 8 hours a day, five days a week and I didn't take vacations. But if you add up all the time off, it's just not worth it.
HD: Did it rankle you at all that Google's being given however many spaces--200 or 400--or did you just figure that just has to be done?
CN: I just figured it was some inducement--maybe temporary also, as they're getting settled. I didn't make a big deal about it [laugh]!
HD: Is there anything else you had on your mind before we dismount?
CN: I don't know, I can't think of anything!
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Bobcat soccer teams beat Meridian on "Sophomore Day"October 21, 2013
ELLISVILLE – The Jones County Junior College soccer teams celebrated "Sophomore Day" in fine fashion here Saturday at Bobcat Soccer Field.
The 13th-ranked Lady Bobcats defeated Meridian Community College, 3-1. In the nightcap, Kevin Ndongo's goal at 7:04 of the first overtime lifted the Bobcats to a 4-3 victory.
The Lady Bobcats are now 14-1 overall, 8-1 in the MACJC South Division. They can claim the MACJC South Division title outright with a victory at Mississippi Gulf Coast on Tuesday in the final regular season game.
The Bobcat men are now 11-2-1 overall, 7-2 in division play.
Meridian hosts Pearl River on Tuesday.
Lady Bobcats 3, Lady Eagles 1
JCJC took the lead at 12:21 when Kelsey Cochran scored an unassisted goal.
The Lady Bobcats made it 2-0 when Lindy Tabor scored off a Cochran assist at 46:07. JCJC's final goal came at 68:32 when Tabor scored off an assist by Carolina Berryhill.
Meridian's goal came at 72:29 when Meme Huff scored off an assist by Haley Hegwood.
Briahna Dickerson was in goal for the Lady Bobcats and had two saves.
The Lady Bobcats took 18 shots in the game, seven on goal. Meridian took three shots on goal. JCJC had six corner kicks compared to one for MCC.
MCC is now 11-4 overall, 5-4 in the division.
Bobcats 4, Eagles 3 (OT)
JCJC took a 1-0 lead at 11:49 when Souleymane Diakite scored off an assist by Zack Traylor.
Meridian tied it at 47:49 on a goal by Tyler Germany. Germany then scored at 66:47 and 79:33 to give the Eagles a 3-1 lead.
Diakite's goal at 83:59 made it 3-2 and Ndongo's goal at 86:23 tied the contest at 3-3.
Gabe Brown was in goal for JCJC and had six saves.
The Bobcats had 12 shots, nine on goal. MCC took nine shots, all on goal. Each team had five corner kicks.
The Eagles are now 4-11 overall and 3-6 in the division.


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By Samantha L. QuigleyAmerican Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, March 14, 2005 Country singer Craig Morgan said that his performances overseas to support the troops serve a couple of purposes: to catch up with old friends and make sure the troops know people care.
Morgan said he appreciates the chance to catch up with friends he met during his years as an Army Ranger, including serving in Panama in 1989 for Operation Just Cause.
"I get the opportunity to go over there and visit with them and get caught up and kind of get a feel for what's going on with them and know that everything's kind of OK," Morgan said today in an interview with the Pentagon Channel and American Forces Press Service.
His other purpose for the trips serves a loftier goal: Making sure the troops know they are supported.
"I want to go over and let the soldiers know how much that America supports what they're doing," he said, "not just them individually, but the mission that they have undertaken."
Morgan said he knows that kind of support is important because he remembers how he felt as a young soldier serving overseas when celebrities came to entertain.
"When I go overseas now it's really weird, 'cause I can remember the impact that artists and celebrities and entertainers had on me as a soldier when they came over to serve us," he said. "It was such a cool thing.
"To have a soldier come up to me in a place like that and say, 'You know what? For a few minutes there, I forgot where I was at.' It's just the most wonderful thing in the world," Morgan said. "Of all the things that I do, that's right up there with being on the Grand Ole Opry."
Having experienced combat helps Morgan communicate with troops better than someone who hasn't served or been in a combat environment. He said it gives him an avenue to start a conversation, gives them some comfort and lets them know that there is "light at the end of the tunnel."
Morgan's joining the "America Supports You" team is another way for him to emphasize that he and America support the troops.
"There are so many people that I run into in my life, in particular when I'm doing concerts, because of my past, my service to my country, they ask me, 'You were just over there talking to soldiers. What can I do?'" he said.
"It's nice now to be able to say, 'Look. It's really simple. Go to AmericaSupportsYou.mil. It's so simple that my 8-year-old child can do it.'"
Morgan said the America Supports You program is an easy way for those who want to help to choose their preferred method of support, whether it's a letter or a monetary donation or some other form of support. There are many options for Americans who want to support the troops.
"It's a way for America to show the soldiers how much they support them and what they do," Morgan said. "That's something I want to be a part of. I'm just real excited to be a part of that, and I can't imagine another organization that's doing what they're doing to the magnitude that they are."
His efforts to support the troops go beyond performing for them overseas; he supports deployed troops through stateside events as well.
Last fall, he participated in the 7th Annual Warrior Relay. Money raised from the relay goes to the Special Operations Warrior Foundation. That non-profit foundation has provided college tuition for the children of fallen special operations personnel since 1980.
"I worked with the Special Forces element. A lot of my friends are still in ... serving with the Special Forces elements," Morgan said. "I can't imagine a soldier who is in a situation over there dealing with what he's dealing with and having to worry about if something happened to him if his family would be taken care of.
"A soldier serving his country and willing to make the ultimate sacrifice for his country should never have to worry about the safety and well-being and welfare of his children or her children," he said.
The next time Morgan sings for the troops, it's a sure bet that they'll hear, "That's What I Love About Sunday," his single that hit No. 1 on country charts March 14.
Another high point this week was today's visit to the Pentagon. "After hearing the #1 news, getting to meet Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz, Vice Chief of Staff Army General Richard Cody, and Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense, Public Affairs, Internal Communications and Public Liaison Allison Barber was icing on the cake," Morgan said in a press release issued by his record label.


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Mystery Sportsman: Can you identify Port Vale's marathon man?
Posted: June 20, 2009|
Bill Bentley, full back who played for Stoke City, Blackpool and Port Vale.
TO HIS Port Vale teammates he was the marathon man because of his non-stop running.
He was converted into an attacking midfield player after starting as a winger and became a favourite with the fans at Vale Park for his prodigious work-rate.
Over five years he helped Vale to win promotion and ran up a total of 176 games, scoring 25 goals, before leaving the club after becoming disillusioned with the manager's defensive tactics.
Afterwards he spent a happy five years with Stafford Rangers and fulfilled a personal ambition by playing for them at Wembley, although he was on the losing side. Born in London, he spent three years with Oxford United before coming to Vale. Now aged 66, he still lives in North Staffordshire.
Can you identify this former Port Vale player? Send your answers and comments to John Abberley, All Our Yesterdays, The Sentinel, Etruria, Stoke-on-Trent, ST1 5SS.
LAST week's mystery player was the former Stoke City full back Bill Bentley, who joined the club as a junior in 1963 and made his debut in the first team at 18.
Because of his style and physique, he was likened to a famous Welsh international of that era, John Charles.
However, Bentley was restricted to 53 appearances in five years at the Victoria Ground. In 1969 he moved to Blackpool, staying for 10 years.
In 1977 he returned his native Potteries to play for Port Vale, adding a further 92 games to his total before ending his career with Stafford Rangers.
In his early teens, Bentley played for Stoke-on-Trent Schoolboys team and also for England Schoolboys.


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A quick-fire brace just after the break secured the points for the Hammers as Allardyce's side made it back-to-back Premier League victories for the first time this season.
West Ham squandered a number of first-half opportunities but their 31-year-old captain flicked them ahead just 18 seconds into the second-half before seizing upon a Fabian Delph error to double the lead.
The win sees Allardyce's men move two points clear of the bottom three and he says the result was deserved due to the number of chances they created.
"It was really sweet for Kevin to score two goals just after half time because I was bitterly disappointed we weren't winning at half time," he told Sky Sports.
"We could've really put the game out of sight of Aston Villa had we done better in front of goal or in the final third the amount of times we got in behind their defence and in wide positions, getting corners and crosses into the box.
"Not finding the net was something I was hoping we weren't going to regret today and Kevin started the second half with two outstanding finishes and he's the reason we're sat here with three points, a well-deserved three points.
"Then there was some outstanding defending after that when Villa threw three up the middle and we put our three centre halves in there and we just defended correctly. All the long balls into the box from Villa's display were masterfully dealt with."
Nolan's double took his tally for the campaign up to six and subsequently made him the Hammers' top scorer, much to the delight of Allardyce.
"He's up there again," he said. "He was leading goalscorer last season and he's pulling away from Carlton (Cole) with five now which is nice to see.
"Our goalscorers have started scoring on a regular basis. It really has been a missing link throughout the whole of the season never mind the injuries to the defenders in December.
"Aston Villa have been going pretty well themselves just recently and been scoring quite often so it's a terrific performance and a terrific result for us."
Speaking of an injury picked up by Nolan, Allardyce said: "Kevin came off with only a slight groin so I don't think it's going to be too much of a problem and even more enjoyable, we kept 11 on the field today."
The result also meant that West Ham have now kept the most Premier League clean sheets so far this season.
Allardyce said: "Considering the position we are in the league, we'd normally have 12 clean sheets and we'd be sitting in the top-half generally.
"But our season has been not scoring chances created and if we'd have done that better, we wouldn't have been in such a desperate position through December into January but we're beginning to pull away from that position."


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College Station-- Multiple sources are indicating that Texas A&M has targeted Wichita State's Mark Turgeon as the most likely candidate to replace Billy Gillispie as the men's head basketball coach.
Andy Katz of ESPN.com and Terrance Harris of the Houston Chronicle are reporting that the Aggies have already made an offer to Turgeon.
The Wichita Eagle newspaper quotes a source who says stories about an offer may still be premature. However, that source does say that Turgeon is expected to talk to Texas A&M athletic director Bill Byrne about the job.
WSU athletic director Jim Schaus declined comment Sunday night.
The 42-year-old Turgeon is 128-90 in seven seasons with the Shockers. (Read Turgeon's bio from Wichita State at the Related Link below)
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After watching your video I clicked on this link here.
pretty much exactly how I play when I am playing faster. My wrists and hands don't really move, just the fingers (unless I'm using accents, which then I do kind of a push pull/moeller hybrid i suppose) . I have never seen anyone move there thumb so much like in your video to be honest. I wonder if there is benefits to this? My imagination is saying that speed wise you could get faster that way, but power and control would be lacking, because your not allowing the stick to bounce as much...
In JoJo Mayer's dvd he said he would hold his pointer finger to make sure it didn't move and was just relaxed. This helped me get more control. Maybe you can hold your thumb too?
After re watching the video again, I noticed I play exactly opposite to this dude. My right hand thumb arches like his but my left thumb is more flat against the stick.
Also it took me about 2 years of practicing finger control (without proper lessons) to get to where I am at today. And for a while I used to practice everyday for 2-3 hours at least. I feel I've seen almost every popular video on finger technique on youtube (until someone links me one lol, it's amazing how many there are). I also still feel I have light years of practice ahead of me.
I feel like in the past month or two i've made some decent progress by just practicing this exercise called Sanford Double Beat.
When you practice this, make sure all of your strokes sound even, and your hands are relaxed.
You may want to watch this video first
I know it doesn't directly apply to your finger technique. But it should help you gain more wrist control.
I practice 8 on a hand and the sanford double beat everytime I sit behind the kit now (with both feet and hands).
You don't even need fingers until a certain bpm(i think individually this would differ). Like I'm pretty sure at 70 bpm I would use almost all wrist unless we're getting into sextuplets or 32nd notes. I think for straight 16th notes I would just use moeller or just a standard velocity stroke.
There is a wide range of techniques I go through as the speed increases...but finger technique is pretty much last for me. I always try to play as "lethargic" as possible. As little effort as needed. But everyone is different.
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Donald and Darlene Marcos Shiley Honor Old Globe's Craig Noel
Darlene Marcos Shiley, chair of the University of San Diego Board of Trustees, and her husband, Donald, have given the joint Old Globe/University of San Diego Master of Fine Arts in Dramatic Arts program $500,000 to endow the Craig Noel Distinguished Professorship in Graduate Theater.
Generous supporters of the San Diego arts landscape, the Shileys initially shared their plans to establish a tribute in Mr. Noel's honor with the Old Globe/USD program's co-founder and former USD Provost, Sr. Sally Furay, RSCJ. Sr. Furay conveyed the news to Mr. Noel just days before his April 3 death. The iconic 94-year-old founder of San Diego's Old Globe Theatre was astonished. The Shileys intended to honor their dear friend's lifetime achievements and professional contributions to San Diego's theater arts community.
The Shileys established the Old Globe/USD Master of Fine Arts program with a $1 million endowment to fulfill one of Noel's most impassioned wishes – provide actors with superb training, tuition free, which ensures they are taught to speak and understand the lines well, especially the verse of Shakespeare. Now, with the $500,000 Noel gift, the Shileys have established the program's first endowed professorship. USD Professor Richard Seer, an award-winning actor and director and chair of the of USD's Graduate Theatre Department since 1993, has been awarded the inaugural Craig Noel Distinguished Professorship.
"We are honored that the Shileys have chosen the renowned Old Globe/University of San Diego program to honor their beloved friend, Craig Noel," stated Mary E. Lyons, President of the University of San Diego. "Each time our MFA students take the stage for another outstanding performance, the Shileys' extraordinary generosity will be memorialized," added Lyons.
"Through our gift, we hope to ensure that Craig Noel's legacy of creativity and excellence in theater will inspire countless men and women to pursue their passion for acting under the leadership of the best direction imaginable," stated Darlene Marcos Shiley (pictured with Craig Noel).
"During his more than 70-year career at the Old Globe Theater, Craig created what has become one of the world's most influential theater programs. We are privileged to establish this professorship in his honor," added Shiley.
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The existence of stable holes in graphene has been demonstrated. This is a major step toward the development of robust and reliable graphene-based nanopore devices that could be used, for example, in DNA sequencing.
Graphene is the ultimate ultrathin, impervious membrane. However, the introduction of nanopores in graphene would open the possibility of a wide range of applications including water purification, gas separation and molecular translocation. Fabrication of nanopores in graphene have been reported, but there has been no evidence that the created pores were actually formed in single layers and no direct evidence of stable pores with diameters less than 5nm. In fact, it has been shown that small holes in graphene are unstable against filling by adatoms (especially carbon atoms). Using aberration-corrected scanning transmission electron microscopy and density-functional calculations, it was discovered that Si atoms stabilize graphene nanopores by bridging the dangling bonds around the perimeter of the hole. These Si-passivated pores remain open, demonstrating that these structures are intrinsically robust and stable against carbon filling. Theoretical calculations reveal the underlying mechanism for this stabilization effect is that Si atoms bond strongly to the graphene edge, and their preference for tetrahedral coordination forces carbon adatoms to form dendrites sticking out of the graphene plane, instead of filling the nanopore.
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Why does my boyfriend say mean things to me when he drinks?
Sometimes he loveable and sometimes he is just there. He drinks and says belligerent things to me when he tips of on drinking. His father and... Show More
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Who cares why he does it. The point is he does it. All that should matter to you is 1) does it bother you and 2) Is he ever going to stop?
There could be no logical reason at all. A shrink could sit down with him for months and unravel an elaborate reason or trauma from his childhood where this is all rooted. But frankly who cares if all he does is nods at his shrink, drive home, drink, and acts bilegerent towards you. Understanding the problem isn't necessarily going to solve it or make you feel any better.
Dump him. Or when he does it just walk out the door and go have fun until he's sober.
Deep thinking is overrated. The simple approach is often best.
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if he thinks it drunk, he thinks it sober, just that drunks don't care who they hurt, so watch out, he sounds a nasty immature drunk who will drag you down if your not careful,c
OMGosh you all right! I just wanted to hear what I already knew, it really helps. UPDATE - I kicked him to the curve. Never in a 1000 years did I ever think I would be or deal with a situation like this. As strong as a person my friends and family see me as, is as weak as person one can be. So life goes on and the good think is that I am still a "Happy Go Lucky" type of gal, that people enjoy having around. Now back to my life! Thank you!
A strong and wise reply, if you always remember what your self worth is, then you won't allow anyone to treat you any less than you believe your worthy of. So if a guy treats you poorly, then that means your decision to choose him was poor, wait a little longer and your have what your talents desire. A bloke will prove his worth to you, and never treat you badly.
What Girls Said 2
you have to bear in mind that when someone drinks they lose their abilty to kinda "filter" out what they're thinking,and what they're saying,so as awful as it is,he might actually be thinking the drunken slurs he says to you all the time,but just doesn't say it when he's sober.
I would find a healther person that is for sure,you deserve better then that..There are a lot of nice guy's out there.
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Today's Game:
Toronto Blue Jays (40-29) vs. Baltimore Orioles (34-32), Oriole Park, Baltimore, 4:05 p.m.
Starting pitchers:
R.A. Dickey (6-4, 4.20) vs. Bud Norris (5-5, 3.94)
Keys to the Game:
Can Norris pitch as well as he did in his last start? Norris allowed just three hits in eight innings on Monday against the Red Sox.
Can the Orioles hit Dickey? While the knuckleballer is 2-4 with a 4.66 ERA against them, he nearly no-hit the Orioles in June 2012.
News and Notes:
Current Blue Jays batters have a .319 average against Norris.
Adam Jones is just 3-for-19 against Dickey.
The Orioles have been shut out six times this season, twice against Toronto and twice in the last four games.
Jose Bautista has reached base in 66 of his 69 games this season.


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Archive for the 'Marine Corps' Category
A special time this week, 2pm Eastern, in order to have a reasonable time for our guest on the other side of the world.
This week we are going to visit an AOR that may have dropped of a lot of people's scan, but in the Long War – it is still the front lines; the Horn of Africa.
Somalia, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, and the waters around the Arabian Peninsular – from terrorism to piracy – America and her allies and partners are at work every day to keep the beast over there, and not here.
Our guest for the full hour will be Rear Adm. Alexander L. Krongard, USN, Deputy Commander, Combined Joint Task Force-Horn of Africa at Camp Lemonnier, Djibouti, Africa. In this position, he supports the CJTF-HOA Commander to counter violent extremism in East Africa, foster regional security cooperation, strengthen partner nation security capability, and build and maintain U.S. strategic access in the region. Krongard is also responsible for developing relations with senior military leaders in African partner nations and directing CJTF staff and subordinate commanders' support to deployed personnel and units of all Services across the Horn of Africa. DCJTF-HOA.
A Navy SEAL by training, RDML Krongard is a graduate of Princeton University and the National War College.
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Is the profession of arms, as the Navy believes it is, primarily a technical job for officers – or is it something else?
To create the cadre of leaders one needs, do you train them as empty vessels that one only needs to fill up with what you want or an empty checklist to complete – or do you train them by helping them bring out their ability to lead and make decisions through informed critical thinking?
Our guest for the full hour to discuss this and more will be Major Matt Cavanaugh, USA. Matt is currently assigned as an Assistant Professor in military strategy at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point.
Prior to this assignment, Matt was a Strategic Planner at the Pentagon, after service with the with Second Squadron, Third Armored Cavalry Regiment with multiple deployments to Iraq from Fallujah, Ramadi, and Tal'Afar.
Matt earned his Master's in Strategic Studies at Victoria University in Wellington, New Zealand and is currently at work on a PhD dissertation on generalship at the University of Reading (UK). He is a Fellow at the Center for the Study of Civil Military Operations, has been published with several peer-reviewed military and academic journals, and is the Editor at WarCouncil.org, a site dedicated to the study of the use of force. Matt has represented the United States in an official capacity in ten countries, including: Iraq, Kuwait, Norway, Australia, New Zealand, Indonesia, Singapore, Malaysia, Latvia, and Great Britain.
Matt is the author of the blog essays Ten Questions West Point Does Not Ask Cadets – But Should, Another Ten Questions West Point Does Not Ask Cadets – But Should, and What Cadets Should Study – and Why Military History is Not Enough.
Join us live at 5pm (U.S. EDT) on Sunday, 29 June 2014 or pick up the show later by clicking here.
Since WWII, have we developed an officer corps that has not only developed a record of defeat, but has become comfortable with it?
Is our military leadership structurally unsound?
In his recent article, An Officer Corps That Can't Score, author William S. Lind makes a scathing indictment of the officer corp of the United States in from the structure is works in, to its cultural and intellectual habits.
We will have the author with us for the full hour to discuss this and more about what problem he sees with our military's officers, and what recommendations he has to make it better.
Mr Lind is Director of the Center for Cultural Conservatism at the Free Congress Foundation, with degrees from Dartmouth College in 1969 and Princeton University.
He worked as a legislative aide for armed services for Senator Robert Taft, Jr. and Senator Gary Hart until joining the Free Congress Foundation in 1987.
Mr. Lind is author of the Maneuver Warfare Handbook (Westview Press, 1985); co-author, with Gary Hart, of America Can Win: The Case for Military Reform (Adler & Adler, 1986); and co-author, with William H. Marshner, of Cultural Conservatism: Toward a New National Agenda (Free Congress Foundation, 1987).
Mr. Lind co-authored the prescient article, "The Changing Face of War: Into the Fourth Generation," which was published in The Marine Corps Gazette in October, 1989 and which first propounded the concept of "Fourth Generation War."
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"A Sense of Ownership"
By CDR Guy Snodgrass
A heartfelt thanks to all of you who've followed the journey of the "Keep a Weather Eye on the Horizon" paper and for the thoughtful conversations that have followed in its wake. The upcoming survey and study on retention presents an opportunity to get at the heart of what YOU think, and help provide that relevant information to senior decision makers, our Navy family, and the American public.
I've been humbled to have had many positive interactions with our Navy's leaders over the past few weeks — officer and enlisted alike, and from all communities. Please know that this effort is being watched by many, and the outcome — and your support — has the potential to foster a climate where our best, brightest, and most talented men and women choose to remain in uniform.
In many ways the continuing conversation is about two things: What it means to serve, and the importance of nurturing a sense of ownership throughout the fleet. "Service" isn't just wearing the cloth of our nation or collecting a paycheck from the government … it's about putting the good of the Navy before yourself. The paper has also helped reveal that many throughout the Navy, and at all levels, share a strong sense of ownership. Many have stepped forward with innovative ideas to improve processes and policies at their level of the organization, whether as a Yeoman, a Lieutenant in the F/A-18 community, or as a pre-major command surface warfare officer.
Luckily, there are many in senior leadership who openly support the potential for positive change, including Vice Admiral Bill Moran, the Chief of Naval Personnel. He has made the time for several "all hands calls" with the fleet since the release of the paper, and is truly interested in hearing from those of us at the deckplate — what inspires sailors to remain in uniform and, just as importantly, what is pushing sailors away. We're incredibly lucky to be having this conversation with a Chief of Naval Personnel, among other senior leaders, who are willing to listen intently, think deeply, and act boldly in support of our Navy.
In the end, no matter your rank or position, it's about asking ourselves what type of Navy do we want to dedicate some portion of our lives to … and what type of Navy do we want to leave for those that join 5, 10, 15 years into the future and beyond?
Again, my most humble and sincere thanks. The support for the paper and for the 2014 Navy Retention Study has been tremendous. If you haven't visited the website, please consider following our progress at http://navy.dodretention.org. Keep the constructive feedback and ideas coming!
All my best,
Tags: 2014 Navy Retention Study, Navy Retention Study, retention
Another Look in "The Shadow…"
By Bill Doughty
Women and men of the Class of 2002 may think they are in the shadow of their grandparents — "The Greatest Generation" who beat fascism, crushed nazism and crossed the Pacific to avenge Pearl Harbor and win the war in the Pacific in less than four years.
"In the Shadow of Greatness: Voices of Leadership, Sacrifice, and Service from America's Longest War" is a compilation by or about members of the U.S. Naval Academy Class of 2002. (USNI offers comprehensive reviews of the book, published in 2012; this is another look into the shadows.)
Put together with love and appreciation by Joshua Welle, John Ennis, Katherine Kranz and Graham Plaster — and including a foreword by David Gergen — the book is filled with essays and memories by and about members of the U.S. Naval Academy Class of 2002. The authors set the stage with a look back to the past:
"The magnitude of World War II provided the opportunity and experiences that shaped twentieth-century American leaders. As men served abroad, women provided support at home. All overcame great odds and faced adversity that gave them confidence and shaped their outlook in the decades to come. This 'greatest generation' returned from war, took advantage of the educational benefits offered through the GI Bill, and advanced the country's economy and transformed its society. World War II veterans, while fueling economic advancement, remained resolute in their value system: service, sacrifice, and community."
Among "Shadow's" contributors are aviators, surface warfare officers, submariners, U.S. Marines and mothers of junior officers killed during training or in action.
The book is filled with first-person, heartfelt accounts of triumph and hardships: what it's like in humanitarian assistance missions, duty at sea, Search and Rescue operations, and combat; what it means to face family separation, "setting aside the comforts a normal life in service to our country and the Constitution. The dark sides of these sacrifices are broken marriages, post-traumatic stress disorder, depression, and estrangement."
But there is plenty of triumph here, too, focusing on why and how Navy and Marine Corps leaders choose to serve — "not for self, but for country."
A highlight is the account by Meghan Elger Courtney, who served aboard USS John Paul Jones (DDG 53) of her commitment to promote warfighting readiness for Sailors aboard the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer. Courtney recognized a need to improve shipboard physical fitness opportunities to help Sailors who would deploy forward — either aboard ship or as individual augmentees in Iraq and Afghanistan.
With the blessing of her commanding officer and strong support from the command master chief and Chief's Mess, j.o. Courtney planned for, procured and arranged for installation of a new fitness center that replaced outdated insufficient gear and space. Courtney writes, "Almost immediately, I saw a positive renewal in people's attitude toward fitness, healthy eating, and incorporating workouts into their daily routine as a way to relieve stress and stay in shape."
"What some may have viewed as my silly pet project, the command master chief took seriously, and he became my closest ally in seeing it through. I never really knew how much the experience had impacted him until I saw him become visibly choked up recollecting it during his closing remarks when he transferred off the ship. I don't think he thought that a young officer like me could have cared about his crew so much, but I did, and I still do…"
Courtney's story is just one of many inspiring reflections. She said she was inspired by a quote by explorer Robert E. Peary on a motivational placard in Halsey Field House at the academy: "I will find a way, or make one."
Other essayists share their sources of inspiration as President Teddy Roosevelt, President Dwight Eisenhower, President John F. Kennedy, Senator Daniel Inouye and Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel, among others.
One essayist quotes the last two lines of a poem by Mary Oliver, "The Summer Day" in pursuing a life of purpose, wanting to make a difference:
"Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life?"
The authors and essayists show how core values of honor, courage and commitment make up an ethos that "forms the fabric of people's personality and drives them to a life of service, in and out of uniform."
"'In the Shadow of Greatness' was envisioned to recognize and chronicle the service of brave men and women and through their stories establish connections with the broader, nonmilitary community. These first graduates of the Naval Academy after 9/11 entered a global war at sea, in the air, and on land. This war would last more than a decade and define the United States in the early part of the millennium. The actions of the select few profiled here represent those of a much broader spectrum of patriots."
Attacks on 9/11/2001 changed the lives of the Class of 2002.
In a short introductory piece, "Inside the Gates of Annapolis," Adm. Sam Locklear (now Commander, U.S. Pacific Command) writes about the investment the country makes in the women and men who attend service academies, including the Naval Academy, reflecting on the morning of September 11, 2001 when he sat at his desk as commandant of midshipmen.
"I recall vividly watching the al-Qaeda attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon and the plane crash in Pennsylvania. When the images reached the Brigade, and the uncertainty of the events rapidly became reality, I asked myself, Are these men and women, these young patriots, ready for the challenges that most certainly lay ahead. A decade of war has proven that they were more than ready. Fortunately for us all, they remain ready today. We are extremely proud of all they have accomplished and thankful that we chose the right men and women to lead the next great generation."
The book, published by the Naval Institute Press, is a key title on the CNO's Professional Reading Program essential list under "Be Ready."
A version of this post appeared on Bill Doughty's Navy Reads blog.
Tags: Academy, Book, Book Review, Chuck Hagel, core values, ethos, Halsey, Inouye, John F. Kennedy, John Paul Jones, reads, Roosevelt
As with most concepts and good ideas, you really don't know what you need and how you need to do it until you put Sailors to task and head to sea.
The idea of an Afloat Forward Staging Base has, in a variety of forms, been a regular part of naval operations arguably for centuries under different names and with different equipment.
What about the 21st Century? More than just a story about the use and utility of the AFSB concept, the story of the USS PONCE is larger than that – it also has a lot to say about how one can quickly turn an old LPD around for a new mission, and how you can blend together the different but complementary cultures of the US Navy Sailors and the Military Sealift Command civilian mariners.
Our guest for the full hour to discuss this and more will be Captain Jon N. Rodgers, USN, former Commanding Officer of the USS PONCE AFSB(I)-15.
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Please join us on 30 March 2014 at 5pm (1700) EDT for Midrats Episode 221: "Officer Retention with VADM Bill Moran and CDR Guy Snodgrass
This Sunday, join our guests Vice Admiral Bill Moran, USN, Navy Chief of Naval Personnel, and Commander Guy Snodgrass, USN, Prospective Executive Officer of Strike Fighter Squadron ONE NINE FIVE, in a discussion of the challenge of officer retention that is facing our Navy.
As over a decade of major combat operations ashore winds down, economic and budgetary stresses grow on defense spending, a strategic re-alignment combined with a generational change are coming together in a perfect storm of challenges to keep the intellectual and leadership capital our Navy needs to meet its nations challenges in the coming decade.
What are those challenges? What lessons can be drawn from past retention problems, and what is different this time? What steps can be made in the short term to address this, and what longer term policies may be put in place to mitigate the systemic problems that are being looked at.
Our guests will be with us for the full hour, and the foundation of our discussion will be CDR Snodgrass's Navy officer retention study, Keep a Weather Eye on the Horizon: A Navy Officer Retention Study (as posted on the USNI Blog – original study here)
Also see VADM Moran's USNI Blog post A Navy needs critical thinkers … those willing to share their ideas.
The show goes live at 5pm EDT you can listen then or pick it up later by clicking here.
Update: Fixed date of show issue – show is Sunday, 30 March 2014!
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With the new defense budget out, new QDR out, the withdraw of maneuver forces from Afghanistan, rising interest in INDO-PAC operations, and a resurgent Russia: after over a decade of COIN and land wars in Southwest and Central Asia – what is the status of the United States Marine Corps?
Materially, intellectually, and culturally – is the USMC set up to move best towards the expected challenges and missions?
Our guest for the full hour will be Dakota L. Wood, Lt Col, USMC (Ret.), Senior Research Fellow, Defense Programs at the Douglas and Sarah Allison Center for Foreign and National Security Policy at The Heritage Foundation.
Following retirement, Mr. Wood served as a Senior Fellow at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments.
Most recently, Mr. Wood served as the Strategist for the U.S. Marine Corps' Special Operations Command.
Mr. Wood holds a Bachelor of Science in Oceanography from the U.S. Naval Academy; a Master's degree in National Security and Strategic Studies from the College of Naval Command and Staff, U.S. Naval War College.
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The Media Circus
By Jeannette Haynie
The Marine Corps Times and the Commandant of the Marine Corps have been in the news together recently, and not in a good way. After hearing sketchy details at work about integrity issues, whistleblowers, and biased reporting, and seeing the associated headlines, I finally spent time doing some catch-up reading to figure out what was actually happening. As a result I am now completely confused, and given the questionable coverage, bizarre headlines, and the "he said-she said" nature of it all, I'm probably not alone.
The news cycle started with the reporting surrounding the video that surfaced in 2012 of Marines urinating on Taliban corpses. The incident and subsequent official investigation garnered attention, and the news cycle continued with stories about unlawful command influence and who did or did not make specific statements to others about the investigation. This winter, media coverage veered off into the bizarre with allegations that the removal of the Marine Corps Times from the front shelves of PXs around the world was a purposeful act directed at the paper by a vengeful Commandant's Office. The reporting of the incidents in question is, of course, mainly performed by the Marine Corps Times and published by the same; as far as professional publications go, Foreign Affairs it isn't. I don't know that stating that "the Commandant's Office punted all questions" is a shining example of unbiased, objective reporting. To be honest, I haven't heard too much grumbling from fellow Marines over the stories; those I spoke to seemed as unaware as I was about the details of the stories in question. It seemed like the kind of background noise and drama that Marines avoid.
But the articles, however biased they may be, are disturbing for their existence if nothing else. Why are we reading about the diverging statements of top Marine generals? Why does it seem like the Commandant's office has a message problem? Is the Marine Corps Times stirring the pot in order to report on legitimate problems? Or is the paper, in the words of the Commandant's office, hoping to undermine good order and discipline by broadcasting stories that question the integrity of a sitting Commandant and cast doubt upon his abilities?
(One article in particular left me thinking that I had forgotten how to read the English language. A Marine Corps Times reporter interviewed four Public Affairs Officers, but I really can't tell if any of the questions were answered in the process. Give it a try here and let me know what you figure out.)
In wading through the mess, one point jumped out: the Marine Corps is creating an OPT to help decide what should be placed near the front of Marine Corps exchanges. We are going to have "focus groups," "discussions," and "an ongoing process" in order to conduct a "holistic," "comprehensive review." (All this from the same article).
What is going on here? Have we completely lost our way? We are at war and the Marine Corps is in a spitting contest with a JV paper over where that paper is placed in the PX? We're cutting funding by the pantload, trying to refocus a force after over a decade of conflict, and are spending money and energy creating an OPT to figure out what should go near the front of the PX? This entire exercise seems way beneath the dignity of the Commandant's office. Figuring out the PX layout and products should be number 800 on his priority list. What am I missing?
The message we are sending to our Marines with this mess is not pretty. It resembles the ugliness and distractions of politics. It reminds me of what my kids do when they are trying to keep me from discovering the indelible marker drawings on the wall or the candy they hid under their pillows. I am honestly not sure where the blame lies for this situation, but I hope for our own sake we recover quickly and move on to the 799 items that are more worthy of our attention as a service.
On Midrats 16 Feb 14: Talking About USNI's "West 2014 Conference" and more
By Mark Tempest
Just click here to get to the live show (you may have to click again on a show page, but what are two clicks among friends?). Call in during the show with comments or thoughts or join us in the chat room if you think your voice is not yet ready for radio.
I think Cyber, Russia, Christine Fox's comments, Coalition Warfare, budget constraints, the JSF, retention of our best talent, and the future of warfare will come up at some point. Plus more.
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A Juneau man faces new charges after he's already been sentenced for burglarizing area homes.
Joseph A. Allen, 30, was indicted by a Juneau grand jury on Friday on fifteen charges of felony burglary, theft, and robbery for at least seven incidents that allegedly happened in November and December of last year. During at least one burglary attempt on the day after Christmas, Allen allegedly was armed, and threatened or used force against a woman with two children.
One of the charges includes first degree vehicle theft.
Allen has already been sentenced to twelve months and fifteen months in prison in connection with two other burglary cases.


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PHOTO: Broadway actress Patti LuPone is headed to
Five concerts are set at the Fox Cities Performing Arts Center in
Music director and conductor Brian Groner returns for his 14th season.
The schedule:
- "Festa Italiana," Jodie DeSalvo, piano, Oct. 12. Program: Hector Berlioz, "Roman Carnival Overture;" Samuel Barber, "Concerto for Piano and Orchestra" with De Salvo; Felix Mendelssohn, "Symphony No. 4 in A Major, ('Italian')"
- "Far Away Places with Patti LuPone," Nov. 1, 2013. Program: The two-time Tony winner features songs from her CD, "Far Away Places."
- "Celebrating Women Composers," Linda Neilsen Korducki, flute, Jan. 25. Program:
Diane Wittry, "Mist;' Cecile Chaminade, "Flute Concertino in D Major" with Korducki; Amy Beach, "Symphony in E minor, ('Gaelic')"
- "Cory Chisel and the Wandering Sons," Cory Chisel, March 15. Program: Symphonic treatment of the
- "Carmina Burana," May 3. Program: Carl Orff's vocal-orchestra masterwork with New Voices featuring Alisa Jordheim, soprano, Steven Paul Spears, tenor, Chad Sloan, baritone.
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- Mitigation specialists from the Federal Emergency Management Agency who are at True Value in Newport will not work on July 4.
They are providing tips, techniques and literature that can help prevent harm to people and property from natural disasters.
The address is:
True Value
303 Wilton Springs Road
Newport, TN 37821
Hours are:
Thursday, June 30, to Saturday, July 2, 8:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. EDT
Closed on Sunday.
More information on ways to protect your home from future disasters is available at www.fema.gov. Choose the menu for Recover and Rebuild.
Disaster recovery assistance is available without regard to race, color, religion, nationality, sex, age, disability, English proficiency or economic status. If you or someone you know has been discriminated against, call FEMA toll-free at 800-621-FEMA (3362). For TTY call 800-462-7585.
FEMA's housing assistance and Other Needs Assistance grants for medical, dental, and funeral expenses do not require individuals to apply for an SBA loan. However, applicants who receive SBA loan applications must submit them to SBA loan officers to be considered for assistance that covers personal property, vehicle repair or replacement, and moving and storage expenses. Applicants who do not qualify for a SBA loan may be eligible to receive Other Needs Assistance grants for these items.
FEMA's mission is to support our citizens and first responders to ensure that as a nation we work together to build, sustain, and improve our capability to prepare for, protect against, respond to, recover from, and mitigate all hazards.