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For the most current version of this Note, see Background Notes A-Z.
Area: 181 sq. km. (about 70 sq. mi.) of land area scattered over 750,000 sq. mi. of the Western Pacific.
Cities: Capital--Majuro (pop. 30,000 in 2008). Other towns--Ebeye (12,000), Jaluit (1,700).
Terrain: 29 low-lying coral atolls and five single islands.
Climate: Tropical with a wet season from May to November.
Nationality: Noun and adjective--Marshallese.
Population (2009 estimate by RMI Government health ministry): 61,300. (Figures do not include Marshallese in the U.S., who are located primarily in Hawaii, Oregon, California, and Arkansas).
Annual population growth rate (2008): 2.14% (due to high annual emigration); RMI Government health ministry reported 2008 birth rate of 4.54%.
Ethnic groups: 90% Marshallese, 10% estimated U.S., Filipino, Chinese, New Zealander, Australian, other Micronesian (FSM), Kiribati, Korean, and Fijian.
Religions: Christian, mostly Protestant.
Languages: Two major Marshallese dialects from Malayo-Polynesian family; English.
Education: Literacy (2002)--98% (officially based on question, "Do you read the bible?").
Health: Infant mortality rate--(2006) 3.0% Majuro and Ebeye, 9.4% on outer atolls. Life expectancy--men 65.7 yrs.; women 69.4 yrs.
Work force (2006) 25,706 of working age: 39% employed, 61% unemployed or inactive. National and local government and government enterprises--45.9%; private enterprise and non-profits--41%; USAKA and foreign embassies--13%.
Type: Parliamentary democracy in free association with the U.S. A Compact of Free Association entered into force in 1986 and an Amended Compact entered into force May 1, 2004.
Independence: October 21, 1986 from the U.S.-administered UN trusteeship.
Constitution: May 1, 1979.
Branches: Executive--president (chief of state), cabinet. Legislative--unicameral parliament (Nitijela) and consultative Council of Iroij (traditional leaders). Judicial--Supreme Court, high court, district and community courts, traditional rights court.
Political parties: United Democratic Party, United People's Party, Aelon Kein Ad (Our Islands) Party.
Suffrage: Universal at age 18.
Administrative subdivisions: 24 local governments.
GDP (current market prices, 2008 est.): $161.7 million.
Natural resources: Marine resources, including mariculture and possible deep seabed minerals.
Agriculture: Products--copra (dried coconut meat) and breadfruit are subsistence crops.
Industry: Types--copra processing, fish processing, tourism, pearl farming, handicrafts.
Trade: Major trading partners--U.S., Japan, Australia, China, Hong Kong, New Zealand, Taiwan.
Official currency: U.S. dollar.
The Marshall Islands is comprised of 29 atolls and five single islands, which form two parallel groups--the "Ratak" (sunrise) chain and the "Ralik" (sunset) chain. Two-thirds of the nation's population lives in Majuro and Ebeye. The outer islands are sparsely populated due to lack of employment opportunities and economic development.
The Marshallese are of Micronesian origin, which is traced to a combination of people who emigrated from Southeast Asia in the remote past. The matrilineal Marshallese culture revolves around a complex system of clans and lineages tied to land ownership.
Virtually all Marshallese are Christian, most of them Protestant. Other Christian denominations include Roman Catholic, Seventh-day Adventist, Mormon, Salvation Army, and Jehovah's Witness. Small Bahai, Jewish, and Muslim communities also exist.
Marshallese is the official language. English is spoken to some extent by most of the adult urban population. However, both the Nitijela (parliament) and national radio use Marshallese.
The public school system provides education through grade 12, although admission to secondary school is selective. The elementary program employs a bilingual/bicultural curriculum. English is introduced in the fourth grade. Many Marshallese and American observers have lamented the poor state of the public education system as a major stumbling block to economic development. The Marshall Islands' largest secondary institution--the 2-year College of the Marshall Islands--experienced U.S. accreditation problems between 2003 and 2008. However, thanks to an increase in funding, it has shown steady improvement and has now achieved full accreditation. The University of the South Pacific offers courses at a small campus on Majuro. Specialties taught on campus are marine resources and nursing as well as basic undergraduate education courses.
Little is clearly understood about the prehistory of the Marshall Islands. Researchers agree on little more than that successive waves of migratory people from Southeast Asia spread across the Western Pacific about 3,000 years ago and that some of them landed on and remained on these islands. The Spanish explorer de Saavedra landed there in 1529. They were named for English explorer John Marshall, who visited them in 1799. The Marshall Islands were claimed by Spain in 1874.
Germany established a protectorate in 1885 and set up trading stations on the islands of Jaluit and Ebon to carry out the flourishing copra (dried coconut meat) trade. Marshallese iroij (high chiefs) continued to rule under indirect colonial German administration.
At the beginning of World War I, Japan assumed control of the Marshall Islands. Their headquarters remained at the German center of administration, Jaluit. U.S. Marines and Army troops took control from the Japanese in early 1944, following intense fighting on Kwajalein and Enewetak atolls. In 1947, the United States, as the occupying power, entered into an agreement with the UN Security Council to administer Micronesia, including the Marshall Islands, as the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands.
On May 1, 1979, in recognition of the evolving political status of the Marshall Islands, the United States recognized the constitution of the Marshall Islands and the establishment of the Government of the Republic of the Marshall Islands. The constitution incorporates both American and British constitutional concepts.
The legislative branch of the government consists of the Nitijela (parliament) with an advisory council of high chiefs. The Nitijela has 33 members from 24 districts elected for concurrent 4-year terms. Members are called senators. The president is elected by the Nitijela from among its members. Presidents pick cabinet members from among the members of the Nitijela. Amata Kabua was elected as the first president of the republic in 1979. Subsequently, he was re-elected to 4-year terms in 1983, 1987, 1991, and 1996. After Amata Kabua's death in office, his first cousin, Imata Kabua, won a special election in 1997. The third president, Kessai Note, served two 4-year terms from 2000 to 2008. Litokwa Tomeing was elected president in January 2008 and was removed from office in a vote of no confidence in September 2009. Jurelang Zedkaia was elected president in October 2009. New elections are scheduled for November 2011.
The Republic of the Marshall Islands has four court systems: The Supreme Court, the high court, the district and community courts, and the traditional rights court. Trial is by jury or judge. Jurisdiction of the traditional rights court is limited to cases involving titles or land rights or other disputes arising from customary law and traditional practice.
Principal Government Officials
Head of State--President Jurelang Zedkaia
Minister of Foreign Affairs--John Silk
Ambassador to the U.S.--Banny de Brum
Ambassador to the UN--Philip Muller
The Republic of the Marshall Islands maintains an embassy at 2433 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20008 (tel. 202-234-5414). It has two consulates in the U.S., one at 1888 Lusitana St., Suite 301, Honolulu, HI 96813 (tel. 808-545-7767) and the other in Springdale, Arkansas. The Marshall Islands also has embassies in Tokyo, Suva, and Taipei.
The Marshall Islands' Mission to the United Nations is located at the News Building, 220 E. 42nd St., 31st Floor, New York, NY 10017 (tel. 212-983-3040).
Citizens of the Marshall Islands live with a relatively new democratic political system combined with a hierarchical traditional culture. The first two presidents were chiefs. Former President Kessai Note is a commoner. Current President Jurelang Zedkaia is a traditional high chief.
There have been a number of local and national elections since the Republic of the Marshall Islands was founded, and, in general, democracy has functioned well. The United Democratic Party, running on a reform platform, won the 1999 parliamentary election, taking control of the presidency and cabinet. Elections on November 19, 2007 elected a new Nitijela that took office in January 2008, giving control of the government to the opposition, while the September 2009 vote of no confidence replaced both parties with a coalition no longer following any party lines.
The government is the largest employer, employing 46% of the salaried work force. GDP is derived mainly from payments made by the United States under the terms of the Compact of Free Association. Direct U.S. aid accounted for 61.3% of the Marshall Islands' $137.4 million budget for FY 2010.
The economy combines a small subsistence sector and a modern urban sector. In short, fishing and breadfruit, banana, and pandanus cultivation constitute the subsistence sector. On the outer islands, production of copra and handicrafts provides some cash income. The modern service-oriented economy is located in Majuro and Ebeye. It is sustained by government expenditures and the U.S. Army installation at Kwajalein Atoll. The airfield there also serves as a second hub for international flights.
The modern sector consists of wholesale and retail trade; restaurants; banking and insurance; construction, repair, and professional services; fisheries; and copra processing. Fish products are by far the nation's largest exports, with frozen fish being exported on large freezer ships to Asia and fresh caught fish by air to Japan and Hawaii. A tuna loining plant that employs 600 workers--starting at under $2.00 per hour--reopened in early 2008. Copra production, the previous most important single commercial activity for the past 100 years, now depends on government subsidies. The subsidies, more a social policy than an economic strategy, are intended to help reduce migration from outer atolls to densely populated Majuro and Ebeye. Migration from the outer islands is estimated at 8% annually.
Marine resources, including fishing, aquaculture, tourism development, and agriculture, are government development priorities. The Marshall Islands sells fishing rights to other nations as a source of income. Since 1990, the Marshall Islands has offered ship registrations under the Marshall Islands flag. It now registers about 2,000 vessels, the fourth-largest fleet in the world, and receives an income of approximately $4 million annually. As a small nation, the Marshall Islands must import a wide variety of goods, including foodstuffs, consumer goods, machinery, and petroleum products.
While the Government of the Marshall Islands is free to conduct its own foreign relations, it does so under the terms of the Compact of Free Association. Since independence, the Republic of the Marshall Islands has established relations with 67 nations, including most other Pacific Island nations. Regional cooperation, through membership in various regional and international organizations, is a key element in its foreign policy.
The Marshall Islands became a member of the United Nations in September 1991. The Marshall Islands maintains embassies in the U.S., Fiji, Japan, and Taiwan.
The Republic of the Marshall Islands is a sovereign nation in "free association" with the United States. After more than a decade of negotiation, the Marshall Islands and the United States signed the Compact of Free Association on June 25, 1983. The people of the Marshall Islands approved the Compact in a UN-observed plebiscite on September 7, 1983. The U.S. Congress subsequently approved the Compact, adding several amendments which were accepted by the Government of the Marshall Islands, and the Compact entered into force on October 21, 1986. From 1999-2003, the two nations negotiated an Amended Compact that entered into force on May 1, 2004. Under the Amended Compact, the U.S. will provide the Marshall Islands at least $57 million every year until 2023, including contributions to a jointly managed trust fund. Marshallese will continue to have access to many U.S. programs and services. A Joint Economic Management and Financial Accountability Committee (JEMFAC) comprised of representatives of both governments will ensure that Compact assistance funds are spent effectively.
Under the Compact, the United States has full authority and responsibility for security and defense of the Marshall Islands, and the Government of the Marshall Islands is obligated to refrain from taking actions that would be incompatible with these security and defense responsibilities.
The Department of Defense, under a subsidiary government-to-government agreement of the Compact, has use of the lagoon and several islands on Kwajalein Atoll. The atoll consists of approximately 90 islets around the largest lagoon in the world. The agreement allows the United States continued use of the U.S. Army Kwajalein Atoll (USAKA) missile test range until 2066 with an option until 2086. Another major subsidiary agreement of the original Compact provides for settlement of all claims arising from the U.S. nuclear tests conducted at Bikini and Enewetak Atolls from 1946 to 1958. Under the terms of free association, more than 40 U.S. Government agencies such as the Federal Aviation Administration, the U.S. Postal Service, the Small Business Administration, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), the Department of Energy, the Department of Agriculture, and the Department of the Interior operate programs or render assistance to the Marshall Islands.
The United States and the Marshall Islands have full diplomatic relations. The Marshall Islands has expressed an interest in attracting U.S. investment.
Principal U.S. Embassy Officials
Ambassador--Martha L Campbell
Deputy Chief of Mission--Eric Watnik
Political/Economic Officer--Lawrence Kimmel
IPO/General Services Officer--Carl Lance
Office Managers--Derrain Cook/Darlene Korok
The U.S. Embassy in the Marshall Islands is located on Long Island, Majuro (tel. 692-247-4011, fax 692-247-4012). Mailing address: P.O. Box 1379, Majuro, MH 96960-1379.
Short URL: http://m.state.gov/md170755.htm


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Viera, FL (Sports Network) - Bryce Harper hit a three-run home run in the
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Danny Espinosa and Denard Span also reached home twice, while Jayson Werth and
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Jordan Zimmermann got the start for Washington, allowing three runs -- one
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Mets starter Matt Harvey allowed three runs -- two earned -- and fanned six in
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Andre Agassi made his much-anticipated TV appearance on last night's 60 Minutes sitting down with Katie Couric to discuss "Open" and the revelations that have shocked much of the tennis world. The first half of the segment is above while the second is below.
I began reading his autobiography this weekend (thanks to the Knopf for the advanced copy) and although I'm not finished I can say it's absorbing stuff - revealing in so many ways. Andre's humanity really comes through here, and the revelations take on a different tone when read in the context of his life rather than as singular, isolated incidents.
More later!
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UPDATE: Martina Navratilova responds to AA's call for "compassion"...
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Monday, November 9, 2009
(UPDATED) VIDEO VAULT: Agassi on 60 Minutes, discusses "Open" revelations
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It's a great book, isn't it? I feel like Andre's the little brother I always wanted. Sometimes I want to kick his a$$, but, in the end, I'm just so proud of him.ReplyDelete
It's a shame Katie Couric did the interview. She's terrible, imo. (I'm sure Andre chose her, so it's another reason I want to kick his a$$. ;))
I can't wait to read the book and I agree that the book taken as a whole probably reads better than the dribbles that have been spewed out by the media.ReplyDelete
After hearing the "60 Minutes" interview and Agassi saying how his dad told him how unimportant school was, I get the sense that's the main reason Agassi is so dedicated to his Prep School.
natch: it's really a human story and i can relate to the some of the ways he felt about himself, life, etc. Obvs his is on a hugh scale and not the normal trajectory most of us live but the feelings are relatable.ReplyDelete
Tim: Isn't that how life really is? Not a bunch of random, isloated incidents but an evolution from one place to another and one situation influencing the next and so on? you really do feel compassion at time, but also anger, frustation mixed with all the LOL moments in the book.
Navs is badass. I LOVE HER.ReplyDelete
Saw the 60 mins interview with Agassi and was just kinda like "whatever." The problem I have (besides him lying & the ATP covering it up) is that I don't understand how someone who supposedly hates the sport so much, can 1) win important titles like Grand Slams; and 2) fall to his knees & tear up with happiness upon winning those titles. That part doesn't make sense to me. And when he told Couric he didn't think about the ramifications of taking the drugs when he was using because he "didn't care" then why the hell didn't he own up to it when he got caught? That to me tells me he cared. If he didn't care, he wouldn't have lied. That's my opinion. And he wouldn't have continued to play the sport for so long when he could have just walked away. I have problems believing he truly hated tennis. You can't win Grand Slams and hate what you do for a living. It just doesn't add up to me.
I, too, relate to him on so many levels, especially after reading "Open".
"Not a bunch of random, isloated incidents but an evolution from one place to another and one situation influencing the next and so on?"
You know what, though? So many people go through life not realizing that. That's why mistakes often get repeated. I'm glad Andre continues to learn and evolve.
If I can have Sara as my daughter, then Andre is my new little bro. Welcome to my family, Andre! ;)
I'm not going to debate you, but I wanted to recognize what you said. One of the things I learned long ago (from an old beau, can you believe it?) is that people think differently. My opinion doesn't make me correct. Yours doesn't make you correct, either. Debating every single word won't make any difference. But we are all entitled to our own opinions.
natch: I was never debating you personally, so I'm a little confused by your post to me. And, to be quite honest, a little offended that you're talking to me like I'm 5 years old...LOL what was that? I fully understand that people are different and that we're all entitled to our own opinions. And I was expressing mine above by commenting on the issues Andre has brought up with the release of his book & his appearance on 60 Minutes. I never presented my opinion as fact and I was not debating you.ReplyDelete
I did not think you were debating me. I just said I was not going to debate you. Then I followed that up by saying, in other words, you deserved to be heard. It was my way of being fair. I addressed Riche and Tim (granted, Tim was in a roundabout way) and I didn't want you to feel excluded. You clearly had a different opinion than I did. I also did not express that you presented your opinion as a fact.
"And, to be quite honest, a little offended that you're talking to me like I'm 5 years old...LOL what was that?" I don't have any idea what part of my words you are referring to. I don't even think I know how old you are. If you have told me and I've forgotten, I apologize.
natch: I understand now what you're saying...sometimes the way things are written & the way they are interpreted are 2 entirely different things. I interpreted your post to me as some sort of life lesson (hence the 5 yr old reference) that you wanted me to learn bc you thought I wasn't understanding that people have different opinions & that my opinion doesn't make me right. I read it as though you were being condescending, but clearly that's NOT what you intended. Sorry for the confusion!ReplyDelete
Oh and I didn't feel excluded, it's OK. :)
- AnonymousNovember 9, 2009 at 7:30 PM
I'll admit that I was disappointed in Agassi when I first heard the meth story, but now I'm over it. He screwed up, he admitted it; if people want to be pissed, they should be pissed at the ATP for glossing over it and accepting Agassi's BS letter. He should have been suspended and it's the ATP's fault for not standing up to the star system, not Agassi's fault. Don't know why he is getting all the hatred in this.ReplyDelete
And LOL at that asshat Martina Navratilova backtracking like crazy. If she said the comments about Agassi and Clemens she needs to stick by them. I appreciate assholes who stick by their assholeishnes than those who backtrack and deny it.
I know Agassi is going to have sell a lot of books for the publisher to recoup their money, but AA's book is currently #1 in preorders at Barnes & noble and #4 at Amazon. So someone is buying what he is selling.
- AnonymousNovember 9, 2009 at 8:12 PM
Anon, she explained her comparison with Clemens, she didn't backtrack. Listen to the interview again.ReplyDelete
I don't like this anti-doping system and I think the use of recreational drugs shouldn't be punished, but it pisses me off that the ATP let this pass at the time.
Anyway, I don't like it when people make confessions like this only to sell their books. It makes me not want to read it, no matter how interesting it may be.
- AnonymousNovember 9, 2009 at 8:42 PM
Anon at 11:12:ReplyDelete
Agassi admitted doing meth, Clemens still hasn't admitted doing steroids. Meth is not a performance enhancer while steroids is.
I said above that Agassi should have been suspended the three months and that the ATP was chickenshit for not doing it, but there is virtually no comparison between Clemens and Agassi. And, yes, Martina is an asshat for making that comparison.
Considering she has yet another lawsuit being put forth against her by another girlfriend she used and discarded (this is, what, the fourth of fifth such lawsuit against her), she probably wants to say anything to get the spotlight off her foibles.
She criticized Agassi yet in the interview above she says "recreational drugs" (which meth is) should not be tested for. Then what the hell is her beef? She is contradicting herself (which is nothing new for Martina of Starwood, as Pete Bodo calls her).
- AnonymousNovember 9, 2009 at 9:20 PM
She said she made the comparison because they both lied, not because of the kind of drugs they used.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousNovember 9, 2009 at 9:53 PM
Pete Bodo is a friggin idiot. I can't help but laugh whenever his drivel is used in some sort of an attempt to further prove a point. Sorry.ReplyDelete
Whoah, what the hell happened with this comment section?ReplyDelete
Hey Anonymous posters out there - please put a name to your ramblings so others don't have to keep referring to "Anonymous at 10:30" or "Anonymous at 11:12."
Agree with Anonymous at 12:53 though - anyone who references Peter Bodo automatically loses the argument. Sorry Anonymous at 11:42.


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Pro bikes: Who's riding what in 2014, and what it all means
- By Caley Fretz
- Published Jan. 23, 2014
- Updated Jan. 24, 2014 at 8:46 AM EDT
- Who's riding what in 2014. Chart: Caley Fretz | VeloNews.com
- Ag2r-La Mondiale returns with Focus bikes, Ekoi helmets, Fizik cockpits, Campagnolo drivetrains, and Fulcrum wheels for 2014. Plus lots of brown, of course. Photo: Tim De Waele | TDWsport.com
- Astana's equipment and kit remain largely unchanged: Specialized frames (Tarmac SL4 and Venge), helmets, shoes paired with Corima wheels, and Campagnolo drivetrains. Photo: Tim De Waele | TDWsport.com
- Belkin will use Bell helmets, Santini kits, Bianchi bikes, Shimano drivetrains and wheels, and FSA components in 2014. Photo: Tim De Waele | TDWsport.com
- BMC will be outfitted by Pearl Izumi in 2014. The team moved from Bell to Giro helmets, and the bikes remain the same: BMC SLR01 or TMR01 frames (the latter shown here) paired with Shimano drivetrains and wheels. 3T is providing cockpits. Photo: Tim De Waele | TDWsport.com
- Peter Sagan and his Cannondale team will once again ride in Sugoi kits with Rudy Project helmets aboard team-issue SuperSix EVO frames. SRAM provides components and Vision provides wheels. Photo: Tim De Waele | TDWsport.com
- There are more bike brands acting as title sponors than ever, including Cannondale. Photo: Tim De Waele | TDWsport.com
- Europcar moves into the UCI WorldTour this year and brings most of its old sponsors with it: Colnago bikes, Campagnolo drivetrains and wheels, Deda cockpits, and Louis Garneau kits. Photo: Tim De Waele | TDWsport.com
- Giant-Shimano got off to a great start in Australia, as Marcel Kittel took his first win of the year. Kittel did so aboard the Giant's aero road bike, the Propel. The team will also ride the TCR model. Shimano provides the drivetrains and wheels. Photo: Tim De Waele | TDWsport.com
- Tom Stamsnjider's new training bike, a Giant TCR. The Giant-Shimano rider uses a new time trial saddle from PRO. Everything on the bike is either Shimano, Giant, or PRO branded. Photo: Tim De Waele | TDWsport.com
- VeloNews columnist Phil Gaimon shows off Garmin-Sharp's new kit, including the interesting helmet from new sponsor POC. Garmin is sticking with Cervelo for 2014, riding the R5, R5ca, and S5 frames. The team will ride Mavic wheels, Rotor cranks, and Shimano drivetrains. Photo: Tim De Waele | TDWsport.com
- Katusha is sticking with Canyon, and mostly riding the aero Aeroad CF model. The ream rides Mavic wheels, Giro helmets, and Ritchey cockpits. Photo: Tim De Waele | TDWsport.com
- Lampre-Merida will ride Merida bikes, Shimano drivetrains, Fulcrum wheels, and will wear Champion System clothing. Photo: Tim De Waele | TDWsport.com
- Lotto-Belisol will ride in Vermarc clothing on the same Ridley bikes they used last year, with Campagnolo drivetrains and wheels and Deda cockpits. Photo: Tim De Waele | TDWsport.com
- Movistar moves from Pinarello to Canyon for 2014. Most of the team appears to prefer the aerodynamic Aeroad CF model. The team rides in Catlike helmets, on Campagnolo wheels and drivetrains, and with Deda cockpits. Photo: Tim De Waele | TDWsport.com
- Orica-GreenEdge stays on Scott bikes for 2014. The team will ride Foil and Addict models with Shimano drivetrains and wheels. Scott makes the team's helmets as well. PRO takes care of cockpits. Photo: Tim De Waele | TDWsport.com
- Omega Pharma-Quick Step is an all Specialized/SRAM team, riding Tarmac and Venge frames paired with SRAM drivetrains and Zipp wheels and components. Specialized makes the helmets and Vermarc provides kits. Photo: Tim De Waele | TDWsport.com
- The Omega Pharma-Quick Step Tarmac SL4. Photo: Tim De Waele | TDWsport.com
- The Omega Pharma-Quick Step Venge aero road frame. Photo: Photo: Tim De Waele | TDWsport.com
- Sky sticks with Pinarello, Rapha, Kask and Shimano for bikes, kits, helmets and drivetrains. New for 2014 is the team's use of Stages power meters. Photo: Tim De Waele | TDWsport.com
- Tinkoff-Saxo rides identical bikes to Omega Pharma-Quick Step: Specialized frames with SRAM drivetrains, Zipp components and wheels. They ride in the same Specialized helmets, too. Photo: Tim De Waele | TDWsport.com
- Trek Factory Racing is, as the name suggests, all Trek, all the time. Trek's component and soft goods brand Bontrager is used frequently. The team will even use Bontrager clothing this year, along with Bontrager helmets, shoes, wheels, and cockpits. Photo: Tim De Waele | TDWsport.com
- The Trek Madone 7 that will be used by Trek Factory Racing in 2014. The team will also have access to the Domane endurance frame. Photo: Tim De Waele | TDWsport.com
Bike brands love telling stories about cooperation with their pro riders, of using the best riders in the world to develop products to match. There is, of course, a wide spectrum of truth to these claims; some brands do indeed work closely with athletes during the engineering process. Many, perhaps most, do not.
In the end, though, these claims are a little more than smoke and mirrors. Sponsorship is about one thing: visibility. Getting gear underneath a team at the top of the sport puts it in front of millions of potential buyers around the world. Visibility is why sponsors shell out hundreds of thousands of dollars, or far more, to get the pros on branded gear.
With few exceptions, sponsorship is part of a carefully crafted marketing plan. Sponsorship often involves not just providing product, but writing a rather large check to team management as well. All the data below should be viewed through that lens.
First, let's take a look at a few of the general themes currently running through equipment sponsorship.
Consolidation. Shimano has been making a major push in this direction in recent years, utilizing its PRO component brand and its recently revamped wheel program to get teams on bikes built exclusively with Shimano products. Campagnolo has been doing the same with its wheels.
Shimano now has more teams on its wheels than any other brand — including wheel giants like Mavic. In fact, most of the wheels rolling through UCI WorldTour racing this year have a direct relationship to a component manufacturer. Combine Zipp (owned by SRAM) and Fulcrum (owned by Campagnolo) with the Campagnolo and Shimano branded hoops and you get 13 out of 18 teams. The only independent or semi-independent holdouts are Mavic, Corima, Vision and Bontrager.
Why are so many teams running equipment from just one or two major brands? Bargaining power may be a big part of it. Equipment sponsors don't want competitors' products on the same bike, so a large brand like Shimano or SRAM may offer a better deal on their drivetrains (which the team needs) in exchange for running the company's wheels as well. Brands focused on just one component don't have the cash or any of the less tangible bargaining chips to compete.
Consolidation is occurring in team cockpits as well, though to a lesser extent. Omega Pharma-Quick Step and Tinkoff-Saxo are both on Zipp cockpits and seatposts; in fact, both team's bikes are essentially identical: Specialized frame, Zipp wheels, Zipp components, SRAM drivetrains. Shimano has four teams on its PRO cockpits, too.
Nonetheless, there is more diversity in handlebars and stems than anywhere else, with smaller brands sneaking in. Ritchey, 3T, Deda, FSA, and Fizik are all represented.
Big names, big budgets. But are they big enough?
With Giant taking over title sponsorship from Argos on the Giant-Shimano squad, there are now more title sponsorships held by bike brands than any time in recent memory. Giant joins Merida, Trek, BMC and Cannondale in this distinction. Many within the industry worry the trend is unsustainable — as large a company like Giant is, footing the bill for an entire WorldTour squad may be beyond the company's budget over the long term. Look for these teams to continue to seek major, non-endemic sponsors.
Trek Factory Racing, formerly Radioshack-Leopard, is living up to its name, operating as a true factory squad. It may be the most uniform team ever, with everything but the team's Shimano drivetrains branded with the logos of either Trek or Bontrager, a Trek brand. The team will ride Trek Madone frames and everything else will be Bontrager: cockpits, saddles, wheels, helmets, and clothing. Expect to see quite a few riders on Bontrager shoes as well.
A total of 14 different bike brands across the 18 teams in the WorldTour is an average figure, nearly identical to last year's 15 brands across 19 teams. Being a frame sponsor of a ProTeam is extremely expensive, so only the biggest brands (see Specialized) are able to sponsor more than one squad.
There is only one newcomer to the WorldTour peloton this year, Colnago, thanks to Europcar's move to the top echelon. There is also one disappearance in Felt, as Argos-Shimano becomes Giant-Shimano.
Pinarello's double sponsorship of Sky and Movistar has ended, as the brand will focus on Sky for 2014. Movistar has moved to Canyon, a brand popular in Europe but difficult to source in North America (at least for now). Canyon becomes the second brand to double up, sponsoring both Movistar and Katusha, which it equipped last year as well.
The Dutch squads have done some bike swapping. Belkin, formerly Blanco and formerly on Giant bicycles, will ride Bianchi for 2014. Giant-Shimano will now be outfitted by Giant. Felt is said to be seeking a WorldTour squad, but there are only so many slots available. Felt is sponsoring a top women's squad, Twenty16, for 2014.
Other than these changes, the frame brand landscape remains largely the same. Specialized has maintained its team tally at three, holding onto all the teams it sponsored last year: Astana, Tinkoff, and Omega Pharma. The company tends to partner with riders, following them around to whatever new team they join — and often paying part of that rider's salary. Alberto Contador (Tinkoff), Mark Cavendish (Omega Pharma), and Vincenzo Nibali (Astana) are the three major targets at the moment.
As a small side note, 12 of the 18 ProTeams are now sponsored by bike brands that offer an aerodynamic road frame. Only Europcar, Sky, Ag2r-La Mondiale, Belkin, FDJ.fr, and Cannondale do not have an aero option, though the regular road frames used by Belkin, FDJ.fr, and Cannondale do have some aero design queues.
SRAM has halted its slow evaporation from the WorldTour, sticking with the same three teams (Cannondale, Tinkoff, Omega Pharma) for 2014. That is quite a drop from 2011, when SRAM had eight teams, or 2012, when it sponsored five.
Shimano leads the component brands once again, with 10 teams on its drivetrains. Of note, though, is that the company does not sponsor all 10 teams — Garmin, for example, bought all its Shimano components in 2013. We've yet to confirm whether it has done so again in 2014.
Campagnolo will sponsor five teams, up from four last year with the addition of Europcar.
Other notables
With frames, wheels, and major components covered, there are few opportunities for other brands to slot themselves into the WorldTour. But when the stars align, it can be a major boon for a small- to medium-sized brand.
Perhaps the greatest coup of the 2014 sponsorship season comes from Stages, a relatively small company that will provide Sky with power meters for 2014. Given how notoriously fastidious Sky is with its equipment, particularly something as important to proper training as a power meter, the sponsorship should go a long way toward cementing Stages within a crowded market.
Of course, that's not the only power meter news for 2014. Garmin has finally released its Vector power pedals, and its team will certainly ride them this season.
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Democrats: Losing Capitol?
Who was most spooked by the Dow's wild ride last week? Not corporate executives with stock options in their compensation packages. (The CEO of Mattel lost $24 million in a single day.) Not college presidents whose endowment funds shrank, or even individual baby boomers whose retirement plans tanked. The most nervous American of all, by law, doesn't even know what he has invested in stocks. Thus President Clinton's worries were more political than financial. With scandal at home and unrest abroad, it seems the only thing keeping his approval ratings high has been a strong economy. If that's the case, a sustained market downturn would almost certainly mean the same for his administration. With half the voting public invested in stocks, Democratic hopes of recapturing the House may also be tied to the market. The lesson is clear: Scandal and terrorism aside, in the minds of many voters, it's still the economy, stupid.
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Ask the operational head of one of America's most successful brokerage firms what's wrong with the stock market, and he's as likely to mention an impaired U.S. president as he is the financial turmoil in Russia and Asia. Robert Avis, vice chairman of A.G. Edwards and Sons, headquartered in St. Louis, told WORLD that last week's highly volatile stock market was almost certainly not "an indication of something that is problematic in the economy to come." "Interest rates are low, have been low, and are probably going to go lower," said Mr. Avis. "Inflation is so low we probably ought to worry more about deflation than inflation. The precursors to a recession just simply aren't on the scene." Mr. Avis called the market's huge 512-point drop on Aug. 31 a "painful cleansing," but wasn't particularly alarmed by it. "What we're looking at today is a very sound economy, with almost no external reasons for slipping into recession." Did the Clinton scandals help fuel the market roller-coaster? "I don't think there's any question about it," Mr. Avis said. He explained that "follow-the-leader fear" gave the day its downward momentum-but "some of that initial fear clearly came about by virtue of concern over the presidency. Who's in control? People naturally tend to ask that question right now.... The perception that Washington is distracted destroys investor confidence faster than anything else." At the same time, he pointed out that before the big price drops of the last couple of weeks, there had been five similar gigantic adjustments since World War II. "The 1973-74 decline was a horrendous 42.6 percent. The other four were 21.8, 22.3, 29.3, and 29.5." By comparison, the 1,000-point correction of the last several weeks amounted to just over 10 percent of the Dow's value. Stressing that he's not a professional analyst, Mr. Avis nevertheless predicted: "It will take a while to heal these wounds, but I think before the year ends, you'll see us back up at least at the level where all this started." Not all stock-watchers are so sanguine, of course. Some, concerned about the international situation and Y2K on the horizon, are predicting an extended downturn. But everyone agrees the markets are volatile; both bulls and bears are hanging on for a wild ride.
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Metal detectors and see-through backpacks will not be common as college students head back to campus, but some university presidents may want to borrow a breath analyzer from a nearby high school principal. Louisiana State University received a public relations black eye last week when one of its fraternities, Sigma Alpha Epsilon, was ordered to pay almost $23,000 in fines stemming from 86 counts of underage drinking. In August of 1997, 12 revelers were found unconscious on the floor of the SAE house after an evening of celebrating the new pledge class. One of those new pledges, 20-year-old Benjamin Wynne, was rushed to the hospital with a blood alcohol content six times the legal standard for intoxication. He died the next morning. "There's no admission of guilt," stressed Hillar Moore, an attorney for the fraternity's president. Mr. Moore argued that the victim, though not quite of legal drinking age, was nevertheless an adult responsible for his own actions. But the court found plenty of responsibility to go around. In addition to SAE's fine-which will go to support binge-drinking education programs-the fraternity has been kicked off campus for three years. The bar that served the alcohol faces the same 86 counts and high fines. And LSU is trying to avoid a repeat this fall by sponsoring non-alcoholic events on campus and moving fraternity bids to Sunday, when bars in Louisiana are closed.
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The rash of shootings in public schools last year has given a whole new meaning to the term "back-to-school supplies." As parents invest in notebooks, rulers, and calculators, principals are stocking up on metal detectors, breathalyzers, and police officers. This fall, such urban-style security measures are finding their way into rural and suburban schools, following violence in quiet towns like Paducah, Ky., and Pearl, Miss. In Marshall County, which borders Paducah, traditional backpacks have been banned this year. Instead, elementary students will be required to carry see-through totes or mesh bags approved by the principal. Middle and high school students will have to tote their books without the benefit of bags, period. In Evansville, Ind., principals will be armed with hand-held metal detectors to frisk students they suspect of carrying weapons. They'll also have breath analyzers on hand to weed out those who have been drinking. Photo ID cards will be required dress in a few school districts across the country, while others are adding anonymous, toll-free hotlines to allow students to report classmates they suspect are planning to commit violence.
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Are love and marriage as obsolete as the horse and carriage? For the first time in 60 years of data collection, a Census Bureau study found that a majority of firstborn children in America are now born out of wedlock. Back in the 1930s the figure was 18 percent. While teen pregnancy skyrocketed in the late 1980s and early 1990s, today's explosion in out-of-wedlock births is mostly among women in their 20s and 30s. These women are old enough to marry, but choose to be single mothers. "There are no scripts for people living in the kinds of relationships people are living in," says NYU sociologist Arlene Skolnick. But there are plenty of glamorous role models, with celebrities like Madonna, Jodie Foster, and Rosie O'Donnell proudly raising their children alone. Yet even as unwed motherhood seems to be escalating out of control, younger people say they long for a return to traditional families, according to a study by the service group Public Allies. The study found that young people cited their generation's No. 1 problem as "the increase in divorce and single-parent families." Survey respondents, a group of 728 young adults aged 18 to 30, even picked "having a strong family" as their most important goal-above even money and career. Economists theorize that marriages are less alluring because men and women have similar roles. Since the husband no longer acts primarily as breadwinner and the wife as child-rearer, the partners depend less upon one another. "As you lose the economic reasons to marry, the reasons are about love and romance and being with the person you most enjoy," says Barbara Risman, author of Gender Vertigo: American Families in Transition. "That kind of a connection is a lot less strong glue than obligation and dependency and social rules."
Thanks to an FDA ruling last week, the so-called "morning-after pill" will be in drug stores everywhere by the end of the month. The contraceptives, sold under the name PREVEN, are said to be 75 percent effective at preventing pregnancy when taken within three days of unprotected sex. The new pills delay or prevent ovulation, keeping a woman's eggs from entering the uterus to be fertilized. PREVEN also alters the uterine lining, preventing the implantation of an already fertilized egg. Gynetics, the N.J.-based company that will market the pill, says it differs from the French abortion pill RU-486 in that it has no effect on eggs already implanted and growing in the uterus. Not surprisingly, the biggest customer for morning-after pills is Planned Parenthood, which dispenses them in their clinics. The pro-abortion group has launched a year-long publicity campaign promoting "emergency contraception," while Gynetics plans to advertise on radio and in magazines such as People and Soap Opera Digest.
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Deborah Gaines picked the wrong day for an abortion in 1994. John Salvi opened fire at the clinic that day, killing two receptionists. Ms. Gaines, who fled for her life, says she was too traumatized by the killings to have the abortion later, so she gave birth to a daughter instead. Now she's suing the clinic for "wrongful birth." Ms. Gaines, 31, says she loves her little girl, but is so poor that the clinic should help support the child. The almost-aborted baby was Ms. Gaines's fourth. She says she was treated for post-traumatic stress disorder after the incident, but the clinic insists that does not make it responsible for Ms. Gaines's daughter. A defense attorney compared Ms. Gaines to a person too afraid to fly to a distant hospital for medical treatment because she once saw a plane crash. "That doesn't give you the right to sue Pan Am because you chose not to do something," James Franchek said. In 1996, Mr. Salvi apparently killed himself in prison while serving a life sentence for the murders.
Cash for the crash
Everybody hopes the millennium bug will pass quietly, letting the calendar roll over with nary a ripple of disturbance. But what if ATMs go haywire and credit cards don't work? The Federal Reserve Board figures that scenario has gotten enough publicity that people may start hoarding cash, just in case. The government's answer: Print more. Today, $460 billion in green paper money is circulating and another $150 billion is held in reserve. The Bureau of Engraving and Printing has been ordered to print an extra $50 billion that will be stored in government vaults until it is needed. "It's purely a precautionary measure," said Clyde Farnsworth, a Fed official. "We want to be able to meet increased demand from commercial banks should private consumers request more currency." To make up for all the extra greenbacks coming off the presses in 1999, less money will be printed in the year 2000. "It just means we're printing the currency earlier than we normally would," Mr. Farnsworth said. The bug has forced schedule-juggling in other areas as well. Medicare was scheduled to correct a computer glitch that was charging seniors a 50 percent co-pay instead of the required 20 percent-a $570 million overcharge. But those fixes have been pushed back in order to focus on the more urgent Y2K problem. "Medicare must deal with year 2000 compliance aggressively to ensure no interruption in our services in claim payments," said administrator Nancy-Ann Min DeParle. Meanwhile, House Majority Leader Dick Armey is taking a closer look at the 2000 bug. He put up a Y2K page on his Web site (http://www.freedom.gov) that focuses on efforts to fix the federal government's computers. If Washington's built-by-the-lowest-bidder computer systems can't understand the year 2000, everything from national defense to mail delivery to air traffic control could have problems. Mr. Armey warns that government computers are behind schedule on an immovable deadline, leaving America at risk. "Recently just one wayward satellite wreaked havoc on millions who didn't even know that they depended upon it," he points out on his site.
Flood of bad news
Mexico's Popocatépetl volcano shuddered and sent a fountain of steam 3,000 feet into the air last week. Experts worried about the implications of increased activity at the volcano just 50 miles southeast of Mexico City, one of the world's most populous urban centers. Meanwhile, Bangladesh continued to suffer through the most prolonged flooding on record. More than 400 people have died, and 60 percent of the country is now under water. And in China, flooding along the Yangtze River has killed 3,000 this summer, creating a political firestorm in the normally tight-lipped media. Environmentalist Dai Qing is criticizing one of China's top officials, Li Peng, for promoting the outsized Three Gorges Dam. She said money spent on the $29 billion project could have instead been used to reinforce existing dams along the flood-prone lower reaches of the Yangtze.
World in brief
Opposing view
Not everyone in Sudan is angry about last month's U.S. cruise missile attack. Televised protests over the air strike were "very much orchestrated and unspontaneous affairs," according to a Religion Today report. Students and "more educated members of society," the report said, hope to see the Islamic fundamentalist government in Khartoum ousted. One European diplomat who called a Sudanese friend to apologize for the U.S. attack was told, "I'm not sorry at all. They should have hit much harder." Embassy alert
The American embassy in Lome, the capital of Togo, was closed Aug. 31 after renewed threats against U.S. facilities in Africa. The State Department advised Americans to "avoid all U.S. facilities" there. A similar notice was issued to American citizens in Ghana, where the embassy was closed Aug. 31- Sept. 3. The State Department also issued a warning to Americans in South Korea. It said U.S. officials "received unconfirmed information that terrorist action may possibly be taken against official U.S. Government installations and/or personnel." Serb insecurity
U.S. envoy David Scheffer, seeking to investigate reports of mass graves in Kosovo, was denied a visa by Serbian officials. Mr. Scheffer said on Radio Free Europe that the denial reflects the Serb government's "insecurity about its own accountability under international law."
IMF: New World welfare
Blame-layers at the Kremlin accused the International Monetary Fund of precipitating Russia's financial crisis because the lending agency did not come through with funds in time to avoid a stock market crash and rapid devaluation of Russia's currency, the ruble. In reality, however, the Communist leadership in the Duma, Russia's lower house of parliament, refused to accede to stringent economic reform measures tied to the IMF bailout, and now the Communists are looking for cover. More dollars may be coming. The U.S. Senate passed, 90-3, a measure to replenish IMF coffers, depleted by bail-outs attributed to "Asian flu" markets from Jakarta to Japan. The measure authorized an additional $18 billion in U.S. contributions to the IMF. A less extensive measure is pending in the House, where pro-life Republicans have held up further funding of IMF without restrictions on overseas population-control programs. A House vote is expected later this month. Russia has already received $50 billion from past IMF "loan" packages. With food supplies in serious question, Russians appeared to pay little attention to a three-day summit meeting between Presidents Boris Yeltsin and Bill Clinton. Economic pep talks and nuclear arms treaties notwithstanding, press and pundits were free to focus on the embattled tenures of both leaders. Russian ultranationalist leader Vladimir Zhirinovsky said, in reference to Mr. Clinton, that Russians had no business meeting "with a man who cannot settle his relations with a secretary." Missionary and journalist Beverly Nichols said not all Russians find it so simple. "They look at the strong economy and standard of living in America under Clinton's presidency, and then the state of their country under Yeltsin, and decide they would be happy to trade," she said.


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Shooting | As they mourn, local churches seek to bring hope to a spiritually desolate city after the horrific Sandy Hook shooting
"A town clothed in misery" Continued...
NEWTOWN, Conn.—Newtown, Conn., is a small town that looks like the setting for one of New Englander Barbara Cooney's children's picture books. Lumpy pastures fill the landscape between small windy roads, and colonial homes are criss-crossed with dry-stacked stone walls. It's a town full of families. The last murder Newtown Police Lt. George Sinko can recall was about a decade ago.
The town's peace was broken on Friday, Dec. 14, when 20-year-old Adam Lanza, who grew up in Newtown, murdered his mother in their home. Lanza then proceeded to break into nearby Sandy Hook Elementary School, where he gunned down six teachers and administrators as well as 20 first-graders. When the police arrived a few minutes after the shooting began, Lanza took his own life.
"This is what marks the town now," said Brian Harrington, who lives in Newtown with his wife and four children. He looked at his two handsome sons, 8 and 9 years old, across the table at a Newtown Starbucks. Everyone in the coffee shop was trying to talk about other topics, but the conversations would inevitably turn to the shooting. "The whole community feels violated. We feel an unleashing of supernatural evil," Harrington said. The Harringtons used their usual Friday family worship time to talk to their children about what happened, to tell them that the purpose of Jesus coming to earth was "to crush evil." The Harringtons have two friends who lost children.
In a town of 27,000, everything is close about this inexplicable tragedy. Everyone knows someone. The pianist at Newtown Bible Church went to high school with the shooter, Adam Lanza. Parents all know parents who lost children. Children name friends who were murdered. Before the names of victims came out, a neighbor's driveway filled with cars and state troopers was its own news report.
"If you drive through Newtown, you can feel it. It's oppressive," said Mike Mancini, a college pastor at Walnut Hill Community Church, whose main campus is about five miles from the elementary school. "I feel at every moment, there's this thin veil, and if I just exhale too deeply, I will start to cry." He has struggled to sleep since the shooting.
One of the girls killed was at the Mancinis' house for dinner only a couple of months earlier. Mike and Kara Mancini have three sons, one of kindergarten age. Last year they were debating moving to Sandy Hook or Bethel, a town a few miles west. In the end they decided to move to Bethel. If they had moved to Sandy Hook, their son would have been a student at Sandy Hook Elementary.
"This evil is not new, it's just never been so close to us before," said Mancini.
Four families at Walnut Hill Community Church lost children. Walnut Hill, with about 3,500 members, is the largest evangelical church in an area where an estimated 4 percent of the population is evangelical.
New England has the reputation of being spiritually dead, and Newtown too. The town is largely culturally Catholic or of no faith. The family of one of the children killed, Noah Pozner, 6, attended a conservative Jewish synagogue in Newtown, but the Jewish population in the county is about 4 percent. An Orthodox Presbyterian Church in Newtown closed its doors recently. "A difficult town to plant churches," as one Connecticut pastor described it. Walnut Hill is an oddity of evangelical growth. Christians I interviewed were shocked just to see the "God Bless Newtown" and "Pray for Newtown" signs that now dot many stores and street corners. In the midst of the deaths of these young ones, local pastors are seeing the seeds of new spiritual life.
Clive Calver, former head of the Evangelical Alliance in the United Kingdom and more recently the head of World Relief, is the senior pastor at Walnut Hill. His church has approached Newtown as a mission field well before the shooting.
"I do think the rest of America has forgotten that New England exists, and its spiritual condition," said Calver. When he took over pastoring the church, it had about 1,000 members. Though the church has more than tripled since, he estimates 800 of those original members have left, many moving to the South or retiring elsewhere. "We're not getting many reinforcements … I'd like some help. I do want churches who will stand with us."
When I talked to Calver, he was preparing for a funeral for one of the shooting victims, a boy, the next day. And he had a memorial service a few days after that. "Pray for the community," Calver said. "It doesn't have the Christian roots, so it doesn't have anything to hang onto."
When Calver left World Relief to pastor Walnut Hill eight years ago, he realized that the spiritual geography was in many ways like Britain. Faith in this heavily academic culture is viewed with skepticism. Growing the church has been and will be a decades-long process, he knows, with a whole different language and approach than anywhere else in the country. Calver is not discouraged, though. "God's doing something, slowly, steadily," he said. In its fellowship hall, Walnut Hill has a yellow flower for every person who has come to faith in the last year. Right now, the church has 180 yellow flowers.
The church has been sending young pastors through seminary, on the condition that they serve in New England. Mancini, at 31 one of those young pastors, is a native of Connecticut with a shaved head, a bushy beard, and an easy manner. He grew up an atheist and became a Christian in college. He spends most of his time working with college students at the church and then for InterVarsity at the local university, Western Connecticut State. He sees his college students' new, earnest faith and calls New England "God's playground." Where campus ministries have struggled to gain acceptance at other northeastern universities, Western Connecticut has been open to InterVarsity.
"I think the culture in New England that is skeptical and a little bit academic and a little bit closed off, I see God moving and opening up doors," said Mancini.
"There's no other good that can come out of this," said Pastor Joey Newton, who leads Newtown Bible Church, one of the only other evangelical churches in town. "Maybe the community comes together for a moment. But that's temporary. … The relatives go home, and it gets silent and there you are with your loss."
Newton was at the local firehouse with other pastors, including Calver, shortly after the shooting, where parents gathered to hear updates about their missing children. As the hours passed, Calver recalled that one parent called out, "Are there any [more] survivors?" Connecticut governor Dannel Malloy, on hand to be with the families, finally said no. Parents wailed and screamed. Newton said some of the parents couldn't move for some time after hearing the news.
Pastors said the local government was very open to letting clergy remain at the firehouse during that time, and allowing the pastors to come to the designated grief counseling centers in days since. Five hundred people attended a prayer service at Walnut Hill on the night of the shooting.
The comfort from the mainline churches in town was thin. Priest Kathleen Adams-Shepherd at Newtown's Trinity Episcopal Church told her congregation, according to USA Today, "Try to see just a pinpoint of light, if you can. … Jesus will come no matter what. And so will Santa. Amen." At St. Rose of Lima Catholic Church, the central church in town where 10 families lost children, the parish pastor Robert Weiss said, "If we work together, good things can happen."
Down the road, Newtown Bible Church pastor Parker Reardon preached a different message the Sunday after the shooting. "We are not adequate in ourselves, our adequacy is in God," he said. "People want to appeal to the inherent goodness of man. That's not what the Bible teaches. We can't make sense of it that way. ... Man's condition is hopeless and helpless to save himself." Reardon hadn't slept since the shooting. He had a puddle of a tear on his cheek that he didn't seem to notice.
That morning in the Sunday school class for fourth- through sixth-graders at Newtown Bible Church, the curriculum called for studying Matthew 2. It was planned well before the shooting happened. The teacher, Matt Bilotta, went carefully through the first part of the passage, about the three wise men seeking the newly born Messiah. Then he came to the part of the chapter where Herod is so enraged about the reports of a newborn "king" that he orders the slaughter of every child under the age of 2. "A voice was heard in Ramah, weeping and loud lamentation, Rachel weeping for her children; she refused to be comforted, because they are no more," reads part of the passage. The teacher explained it to the class, "Herod did an awful, awful thing." The kids didn't miss the connection for a second. "That's like what happened here," said one boy.
The kids will remember what happened, and the parents already have it seared across their memories—it's Newtown's new identity. The town Christmas tree on Main Street was turned into a memorial. An entire elementary school remains sealed as a crime scene until further notice. But the pastors don't want the town's identity to be one of only sorrow and despair.
"I believe that God uses all things for good," said Mancini. He continued: "I don't know how He's going to use this for good. But what I see in the students who I work with who have grown up in this area, who for them, the reality of the brokenness of this world has always been a concept to be agreed with, and like, a philosophical point to be made in communicating the gospel. I think for the first time ever they are actually feeling and experiencing the injustice and brokenness of the world in a way that people who live in the richest county in the richest nation that's ever been have probably never experienced before. I don't want to for one second say this is good. This is awful."
Mancini grew emotional as he talked, the veil covering his grief slipping away. "I have to preach tonight. I have to go speak to a community of young adults and college students tonight and I still don't know what I'm going to say. God is good and the gospel is true, and this is Advent. If there's ever a time that we need to be longing—we talk about longing for Jesus to come. But so much of the time we're just like, 'Well, I don't know, things are pretty good.' … Maybe in this, when we're confronted with this darkness, man, I don't know, my hope is that people will see that the gospel is true. And that there is hope. … There is no other faith, other view of God, other than the God of the Bible who knows this pain firsthand. And He conquered it and He's coming back to make all things new. So there's hope. That's it."
Escalating violence: mass shootings in the United States
April 20: 13 killed, 24 injured; Columbine, Colo. In a four-hour siege at Columbine High School, students Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold shot students and a teacher before taking their own lives—in what was then the deadliest school shooting in U.S. history.
July 29: 9 killed, 12 injured; Atlanta, Ga. At All-Tech Investment Mark Orrin Barton, 44, killed and injured fellow investors and office workers. Barton killed himself following a six-hour manhunt.
Sept. 15: 7 killed, 7 injured; Fort Worth, Texas. Worshippers at Wedgwood Baptist Church kept singing as Larry Gene Ashbrook opened fire in the crowded chapel then took his own life.
Dec. 26: 7 killed; Wakefield, Mass. Seven employees died at Edgewater Technology Inc., after colleague Michael McDermott, 42, shot them.
March 5: 2 killed, 13 injured; Santee, Calif. Charles Andrew Williams, 15, surrendered to police after opening fire in the bathroom and courtyard of Santana High School.
July 8: 5 killed, 9 injured; Meridian, Miss. At a Lockheed Martin defense plant, employee Doug Williams, 48, killed five and wounded nine before ending his own life.
March 21: 9 killed, 7 injured; Red Lake Indian Reservation, Minn. After fatally shooting his grandparents in their home, 16-year-old Red Lake High School student Jeffrey Weise arrived at school and killed classmates, a teacher, and a security guard before taking his own life.
Oct. 2: 5 killed, 5 injured; Nickel Mines, Pa. Ten Amish girls, ages 6 to 13, were taken captive in their one-room schoolhouse and then shot by Charles Carl Roberts IV, who killed himself during a police assault.
Feb. 12: 5 killed, 4 injured; Salt Lake City. Shoppers at a city mall fled for cover as Sulejman Talovic, an 18-year-old Bosnian refugee, began firing at random with a 12-gauge shotgun. Police killed Talovic in a subsequent shootout.
April 16: 32 killed, 17 injured; Blacksburg, Va. Senior Seung-hui Cho, 23, killed himself after shooting nearly 50 students and teachers at Virginia Tech in the deadliest shooting rampage in U.S. history.
Dec. 5: 8 killed, 4 injured; Omaha, Neb. At Von Maur department store Robert Hawkins, 19, fired at customers and employees with an AK-47. He took his own life after killing eight others.
Feb. 14: 5 killed, 16 injured; Dekalb, Ill. A Northern Illinois University geology class erupted when former student Steven Kazmierczak sprayed bullets into the classroom of more than 100 students before shooting himself.
April 3: 13 killed, 4 injured; Binghamton, N.Y. After blocking the back entrance with his car to prevent people from escaping, Jiverly Voong, 41, murdered 13 and killed himself at an immigration services center.
Nov. 5: 13 killed, 32 injured; Ft. Hood, Texas. Army psychiatrist Nidal Malik Hasan, 39, allegedly shouted "Allahu Akbar" (Allah is great) before shooting 45 people—13 fatally.
Feb. 12: 3 killed, 3 injured; Huntsville, Ala. University of Alabama in Huntsville faculty dove under a conference table as biology professor Amy Bishop, denied tenure, began shooting. Bishop, 47, was sentenced to life in prison without parole.
Aug. 3: 8 killed, 2 injured; Manchester, Conn. Accused of stealing beer, truck driver Omar Thornton, 34, fatally shot eight people at Hartford Distributors before taking his own life.
Jan. 8: 6 killed, 11 injured; Tucson, Ariz. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords was among the injured in 22-year-old Jared Lee Loughner's shooting spree at a constituent meeting in a supermarket parking lot.
Oct. 22: 8 killed, 1 injured; Seal Beach, Calif. Scott Dekraai, 41, allegedly killed his ex-wife and seven others in an attack lasting two minutes at the Seal Beach Hair Salon. He has pleaded not guilty.
April 2: 7 killed, 3 injured; Oakland, Calif. At Oikos University former student One Goh, 43, allegedly used a semi-automatic handgun to kill seven and wound three. A court-ordered psychologist has ruled Goh, who said he's "deeply sorry" for the shooting, mentally incompetent to stand trial.
July 20: 12 killed, 58 injured; Aurora, Colo. A midnight premiere of The Dark Knight Rises became a nightmare as 24-year-old James Holmes entered through an exit door and began firing. He is being held pending trial.
Aug. 5: 6 killed, 3 injured; Oak Creek, Wis. In the Sikh Temple of Wisconsin, Army veteran Wade Michael Page, 40, killed six with a 9mm handgun before being wounded—then killing himself—during a police shootout.
Sept. 28: 6 killed, 2 injured; Minneapolis. The owner of a sign-making company and five others died after disgruntled former employee Andrew Engeldinger, 36, opened fire in a company office, then killed himself.
Oct. 21: 3 killed, 4 injured; Brookfield, Wis. Zina Haughton and two other women at the salon where she worked died after her estranged husband, former Marine Radcliffe Haughton, 45, shot seven people and then himself.
Dec. 11: 2 killed, 1 injured; Clackamas County, Ore. Christmas shoppers filled a shopping mall outside Portland when Jacob Tyler Roberts, 22, allegedly randomly killed two people and injured a third before turning the gun on himself.
Dec. 14: 27 killed, 1 injured; Newtown, Conn. Twenty first-graders at Sandy Hook Elementary died after Adam Lanza, 20, apparently killed his mother at home before embarking on a shooting rampage at the school and killing himself. Six adults at Sandy Hook also died, including the principal.


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On July 24, by a vote of 264-153, the House cleared legislation that includes funding for mental illness research and services for FY 2010. The bill, known as the FY 2010 Labor-HHS-Education Appropriations bill (HR 3293) includes a $52 million increase for mental illness research at NIMH, as well as an $8.4 million increase for the PATH program (outreach services for homeless individuals with serious mental illness) and a $17 million for the Childrens Mental Health program. The Senate takes up the FY 2010 Labor-HHS-Education Appropriations bill in Committee next week.
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2 Seaborn CD, Nielsen FH. Silicon deprivation decreases collagen formation in wounds and bone, and ornithine transaminase enzyme activity in liver. Biol Trace Elem Res . 2002;89:251–61.
3 Rico H, Gallego-Lago JL, Hernandez ER, et al. Effect of silicon supplement on osteopenia induced by ovariectomy in rats. Calcif Tissue Int . 2000;66:53–5.
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|WWII veterans highlight annual program
|Written by Chris Lee
World War II veterans highlighted the Veterans Day program held at Holyoke High School Monday afternoon, Nov. 12.
Emcee Steve Millage found it appropriate to include WWII veterans because Holyoke recently lost two of them in Deane Anderson and Bob Owens. "They're all in their 80s and I think it's important to hear their story," Millage said. "They all did what their government asked them to do."
John Vasa, who served in the Army from 1942-1945, encouraged the students in the audience to speak with the veterans close to them and have them write down their experiences.
John Vasa holds up a book titled "Sterling's Heroes" during the
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Vasa said even though some veterans don't enjoy talking about their time spent serving their country, it is important to get the information recorded either on paper or on a tape recorder so generations down the line will know the family history.
Vasa also had a copy of "Sterling's Heroes," which outlines interviews with 24 veterans and their experiences. "It's interesting reading. There's a chapter on each one of them," Vasa noted. "I highly recommend this book."
Richard Brown closed out the program by sharing a short background of his experience serving the United States of America.
"I'm half first-generation American," Brown told the audience. He said his dad was born in Nebraska and his mom was born in Italy. He remembers always trying to get his grandmother to teach him Italian. "She wouldn't do it," he noted. "She always left me with the same answer. You're lucky to be an American boy. And she was right," he noted.
Brown entered the service right after high school when he chose the Army.
Brown shared a story of how he carried a silver dollar with him during his service. It was given to him by his grandmother the day before he left for his service. "Everybody knew I had a silver dollar," Brown said.
He said when he got off the ship at Okinawa, he didn't have his silver dollar; he had lost it.
After 14 months overseas, he headed back to California to Camp Beale. He remembers walking down the sidewalk and hearing, "Hey Browny."
He looked around and there was one of the guys he had trained with in the Philippines.
"I thought I might run into you sometime," his friend said. "Remember the day you left and you lost your silver dollar?" Brown said he did. "It was under your bunk, I thought I'd run into you."
"And I got it back," Brown said as he held up his silver dollar Monday afternoon to a cheering crowd.
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Brown said 16 million served in WWII and there are currently only about two million left. He said they are dying at a rate of 741 a day.
"I know that when we step out, we're leaving the country in good hands," Brown said as he acknowledged the students in front of him.
Four students shared their Voice of Democracy essays during Monday's program. The winners in this year's contest were Matt Wilcox first, Savanna Krueger second, Erin Vieselmeyer third and Logan Tharp fourth. The topic of this year's contest was whether the Constitution of the United States is still relevant today or not.
Millage encouraged the underclassmen to participate in the contest in years to come. He said they had 20 entries this year, which allows them to send two to districts. Had four more students entered, three could've been sent to the district competition.
In addition to the speakers, Holyoke High School band played two songs, "You're a Grand Old Flag" and "America, the Beautiful." Eva Penzing began Monday's program by singing the national anthem, and Jack Wieland performed taps to close out the program.
2012 Voice of Democracy essay winners are pictured from left, Logan Tharp fourth, Erin Vieselmeyer third,
Holyoke Enterprise November 15, 2012


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