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Reputation Risks
Risks of Celebrity Sponsors
Companies are using actors, prominent sports figures and other celebrities to endorse their products more than ever before.
However, while they may generate lots of publicity around a product or service, not all of it is good publicity.
You only have to open up a copy of the newspaper to read about scandals engulfing stars such as Bill Cosby, Brian Williams or Tom Brady with the New England Patriots' 'deflate-gate' saga.
Sponsors have reacted by withdrawing their support, most notably in the NFL, where domestic violence allegations hanging over the sport prompted Procter and Gamble to pull the plug on a deal to supply players with pink mouthguards during Breast Cancer Awareness Month and cancel all on-field marketing.
The risks for any sponsor associated with this type of negative publicity are infinite, said experts, often resulting in the cancellation of lucrative advertising and marketing contracts, ultimately costing the company millions of dollars in lost revenue.
Worse still, the sponsor may be forced to pull its product from the market altogether, with the end result that millions of dollars are wiped off its share value.
The main risk of hiring a celebrity to endorse a product is the unexpected or disgraceful behavior of that individual, or unforeseen events such as death. — Lori Shaw, executive director, entertainment practice, Aon Risk Solutions
Lori Shaw, executive director of Aon Risk Solutions' entertainment practice, said the main risk of hiring a celebrity to endorse a product is the unexpected or disgraceful behavior of that individual, or unforeseen events such as death.
"The first step is to analyze the potential risks, discuss 'what if' scenarios; outline the financial consequences; and to be aware of the risks that can be avoided, those that can be transferred contractually to the celebrity or talent, those that can be transferred to insurance and the risks that must be retained," she said.
Shaw said that companies need to take a holistic approach to their branding and marketing activities in order to assess the potential impact of any adverse publicity on their balance sheet.
Nir Kossovsky, CEO of Steel City Re, a corporate reputation measurement and risk management specialist, said another major problem of negative publicity is the damage to a company's reputation.
"The primary risk is that an adverse behavior at an event or by a celebrity will be viewed by stakeholders as a reflection of that company's culture, values or operational ineptitude," he said.
"In this situation where the stakeholder holds the company culpable for any such action, often they will respond by altering their future expectations and exercising their financial clout, usually to the company's detriment."
Kossovsky said that, rather than calculate the potential risk, sponsors need to first determine the value gained from the sponsorship deal, and the costs of acquiring that value.
Then they must assess the costs of communicating to stakeholders the steps it took to mitigate against any adverse events and publicity that may occur, he said.
"There are two instances when a company should walk away from a deal," he said.
"The first is if the costs of a parallel communication strategy coupled with the direct costs of sponsorship outweigh the value of the expected gain.
"The second is if, on objective reflection, there is a compelling case that the average stakeholder will hold management culpable for an adverse event no matter what the management says to the contrary."
To mitigate against these risks, corporations are increasingly turning to specialized insurance plans and writing clauses into their contracts allowing them to cancel a deal if the celebrity is considered to have acted in an inappropriate manner that may damage the company's brand.
Recently, AIG launched a new policy protecting sponsors that hire celebrities to endorse their product.
Celebrity Product RecallResponse is triggered by any "actual or alleged criminal act or distasteful conduct" from the celebrity that has a significantly adverse impact on a company's product.
It covers certain costs incurred by companies to remove or recall those products bearing the celebrity's name and image, as well as the costs of removing advertising.
"In this age of social media and instant news," said Jeremy Johnson, president and CEO of Lexington Insurance Co., which provides the policy, "reports of indiscretions by celebrities or high profile athletes can spread worldwide instantly, with swift, adverse implications for products or brands associated with the individual."
Risk Insider: Hala Helm
Unseen Costs of Measles Outbreak
By now, we have all heard about the measles outbreak in California. We have heard both sides of the vaccination "controversy," even though all of the evidenced-based research findings are uncontroversial.
What you probably haven't heard much about is the immense time, effort and expense expended by health care providers and the public health department to respond to a known or suspected case of measles.
When a person begins to experience the signs and symptoms of measles, it is likely that they will seek medical care.
If the medical staff is aware that the patient may have measles they can take precautions like masking the patient and physically isolating them from others to prevent the spread of infection.
In reality, however, the health care providers might not suspect a patient is infected until a medical professional has performed a physical examination and taken their history.
A known or suspected measles exposure triggers a cascade of response activities.
Facility staff must identify the infected patient (the index case), interview the patient to determine where he or she has been, who they might have come in contact with, and whether or not they were masked, and at what point.
Any person who has shared air space with an un-masked measles patient is considered at risk of exposure.
The response costs to a potential measles exposure have been calculated at as much as $100,000 per event in lost productivity and remediation expense.
While waiting one to two days — or up to a week — to get results from measles serology and PCR analysis, facility or public health department staff compile a list of any patients who likely shared air space with the index case.
These are primarily patients who had appointments proximal to the time and location of the index case and for one hour afterwards, who may have shared a waiting room area.
Obviously, this is an incomplete list, as it cannot possibly include contact with individuals in public places like elevators, restrooms, etc.
If measles is confirmed, every patient who is at risk of exposure must be contacted. The clinic or public health department may offer prophylactic MMR vaccinations to any exposed patient who can't produce documentation of immunity, but that is only effective for 72 hours post-exposure.
If an exposed patient can't produce proof of immunity and can't obtain a prophylactic vaccination within the 72-hour time window, the public health department may order them quarantined for 21 days.
The response costs to a potential measles exposure have been calculated at as much as $100,000 per event in lost productivity and remediation expense.
It introduces cost and inefficiency into the health care system, a system that many already criticize as being costly and inefficient. Measles is on the rise, from under 200 documented cases in 2013 to nearly 650 in 2014, and 102 documented cases in January 2015 alone.
An exponential increase in measles will tax the system to the point where it will not be able to respond effectively, leaving our most vulnerable at risk.
And unfortunately, those most at risk from an exposure are exactly the types of people most likely to be found in hospital and clinic waiting rooms.
Read all of Hala Helm's Risk Insider articles.
Sponsored: Liberty Mutual Insurance
Commercial Auto Warning: Emerging Frequency and Severity Trends Threaten Policyholders
The slow but steady climb out of the Great Recession means businesses can finally transition out of survival mode and set their sights on growth and expansion.
The construction, retail and energy sectors in particular are enjoying an influx of business — but getting back on their feet doesn't come free of challenges.
Increasingly, expensive commercial auto losses hamper the upward trend. From 2012 to 2015, auto loss costs increased a cumulative 20 percent, according to the Insurance Services Office.
"Since the recession ended, commercial auto losses have challenged businesses trying to grow," said David Blessing, SVP and Chief Underwriting Officer for National Insurance Casualty at Liberty Mutual Insurance. "As the economy improves and businesses expand, it means there are more vehicles on the road covering more miles. That is pushing up the frequency of auto accidents."
For companies with transportation exposure, costly auto losses can hinder continued growth. Buyers who partner closely with their insurance brokers and carriers to understand these risks – and the consultative support and tools available to manage them – are better positioned to protect their employees, fleets, and businesses.
Liberty Mutual's David Blessing discusses key challenges in the commercial auto market.
"Since the recession ended, commercial auto losses have challenged businesses trying to grow. As the economy improves and businesses expand, it means there are more vehicles on the road covering more miles. That is pushing up the frequency of auto accidents."
–David Blessing, SVP and Chief Underwriting Officer for National Insurance Casualty, Liberty Mutual Insurance
More Accidents, More Dollars
Rising claims costs typically stem from either increased frequency or severity — but in the case of commercial auto, it's both. This presents risk managers with the unique challenge of blunting a double-edged sword.
Cumulative miles driven in February, 2016, were up 5.6 percent compared to February, 2015, Blessing said. Unfortunately, inexperienced drivers are at the helm for a good portion of those miles.
A severe shortage of experienced commercial drivers — nearing 50,000 by the end of 2015, according to the American Trucking Association — means a limited pool to choose from. Drivers completing unfamiliar routes or lacking practice behind the wheel translate into more accidents, but companies facing intense competition for experienced drivers with good driving records may be tempted to let risk management best practices slip, like proper driver screening and training.
Distracted driving, whether it's as a result of using a phone, eating, or reading directions, is another factor contributing to the number of accidents on the road. Recent findings from the National Safety Council indicate that as much as 27% of crashes involved drivers talking or texting on cell phones.
The factors driving increased frequency in the commercial auto market.
In addition to increased frequency, a variety of other factors are driving up claim severity, resulting in higher payments for both bodily injury and property damage.
Treating those injured in a commercial auto accident is more expensive than ever as medical costs rise at a faster rate than the overall Consumer Price Index.
"Medical inflation continues to go up by about three percent, whereas the core CPI is closer to two percent," Blessing said.
Changing physical medicine fee schedules in some states also drive up commercial auto claim costs. California, for example, increased the cost of physical medicine by 38 percent over the past two years and will increase it by a total of 64 percent by the end of 2017.
And then there is the cost of repairing and replacing damaged vehicles.
"There are a lot of new vehicles on the road, and those cost more to repair and replace," Blessing said. "In the last few years, heavy truck sales have increased at double digit rates — 15 percent in 2014, followed by an additional 11 percent in 2015."
The impact is seen in the industry-wide combined ratio for commercial auto coverage, which per Conning, increased from 103 in 2014 to 105 for 2015, and is forecast to grow to nearly 110 by 2018.
None of these trends show signs of slowing or reversing, especially as the advent of driverless technology introduces its own risks and makes new vehicles all the more valuable. Now is the time to reign in auto exposure, before the cost of claims balloons even further.
The factors driving up commercial auto claims severity.
Data Opens Window to Driver Behavior
To better manage the total cost of commercial auto insurance, Blessing believes risk management should focus on the driver, not just the vehicle. In this journey, fleet telematics data plays a key role, unlocking insight on the driver behavior that contributes to accidents.
"Roughly half of large fleets have telematics built into their trucks," Blessing said. "Traditionally, they are used to improve business performance by managing maintenance and routing to better control fuel costs. But we see opportunity there to improve driver performance, and so do risk managers."
Liberty Mutual's Managing Vital Driver Performance tool helps clients parse through data provided by telematics vendors and apply it toward cultivating safer driving habits.
"Risk managers can get overwhelmed with all of the data coming out of telematics. They may not know how to set the right parameters, or they get too many alerts from the provider," Blessing said.
"We can help take that data and turn it into a concrete plan of action the customer can use to build a better risk management program by monitoring driver behavior, identifying the root causes of poor driving performance and developing training and other approaches to improve performance."
Actions risk managers can take to better manage commercial auto frequency and severity trends.
Rather than focusing on the vehicle, the Managing Vital Driver Performance tool focuses on the driver, looking for indicators of aggressive driving that may lead to accidents, such as speeding, sharp turns and hard or sudden braking.
The tool helps a risk manager see if drivers consistently exhibit any of these behaviors, and take actions to improve driving performance before an accident happens. Liberty's risk control consultants can also interview drivers to drill deeper into the data and find out what causes those behaviors in the first place.
Sometimes patterns of unsafe driving reveal issues at the management level.
"Our behavior-based program is also for supervisors and managers, not just drivers," Blessing said. "This is where we help them set the tone and expectations with their drivers."
For example, if data analysis and interviews reveal that fatigue factors into poor driving performance, management can identify ways to address that fatigue, including changing assigned work levels and requirements. Are drivers expected to make too many deliveries in a single shift, or are they required to interact with dispatch while driving?
"Management support of safety is so important, and work levels and expectations should be realistic," Blessing said.
A Consultative Approach
In addition to its Managing Vital Driver Performance tool, Liberty's team of risk control consultants helps commercial auto policyholders establish screening criteria for new drivers, creating a "driver scorecard" to reflect a potential new hire's driving record, any Motor Vehicle Reports, years of experience, and familiarity with the type of vehicle that a company uses.
"Our whole approach is consultative," Blessing said. "We probe and listen and try to understand a client's strengths and challenges, and then make recommendations to help them establish the best practices they need."
"With our approach and tools, we do something no one else in the industry does, which is perform the root cause analysis to help prevent accidents, better protecting a commercial auto policyholder's employees and bottom line."
To learn more, visit https://business.libertymutualgroup.com/business-insurance/coverages/commercial-auto-insurance-policy.
This article was produced by the R&I Brand Studio, a unit of the advertising department of Risk & Insurance, in collaboration with Liberty Mutual Insurance. The editorial staff of Risk & Insurance had no role in its preparation.


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Early Development of the Fish Populations and Fisheries of Volta Lake
- William C. Ackermann,
- Gilbert F. White,
- E.B. Worthington and
- J. Loreena Ivens
Published Online: 19 MAR 2013
DOI: 10.1029/GM017p0114
Copyright © 1973 by the American Geophysical Union.
Book Title
Man-Made Lakes: Their Problems and Environmental Effects
Additional Information
How to Cite
Evans, W. A. and Vanderpuye, J. (1973) Early Development of the Fish Populations and Fisheries of Volta Lake, in Man-Made Lakes: Their Problems and Environmental Effects (eds W. C. Ackermann, G. F. White, E.B. Worthington and J. L. Ivens), American Geophysical Union, Washington, D. C.. doi: 10.1029/GM017p0114
Publication History
- Published Online: 19 MAR 2013
- Published Print: 1 JAN 1973
Book Series:
ISBN Information
Print ISBN: 9780875900179
Online ISBN: 9781118664117
- Summary
- Chapter
- References
- Fish stocks;
- Herbivores and piscivores;
- Semipelagic and benthic omnivores;
- Stock assessment;
- Tilapia;
- Volta Lake
This chapter contains sections titled:
Description of Volta Lake and its Fishery
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Filed under: Bureaucracy, Domestic Policy, Law, Media Bias, Progressives, Regulation, The Constitution | Tags: Chick-fil-A, Rep. John Lewis, Sixties-Style Sit-Ins
Democrats were inspired by memories of the Sixties, and decided to hold a "Sit-In" on the floor of the House chamber. They were demanding gun control by disallowing anyone on the no-fly list from being able to purchase a gun. Trouble is, the U.S, Constitution guarantees citizens Due Process before they get forbidden to do something—that means a hearing before a judge or judge and jury, not a quickie law written as a stunt. But as people started to focus on the stunt, they quickly learned that 26 of the Democrats who took part in the sit-in own guns.
Rep, Lewis was once on the no-fly list (erroneously), but they were interested in backing up their ban on buying guns with evidence, but the evidence clearly shows that crime has been dropping for several years, but is starting to edge up in response to the anti-cop publicity, and release of felons from prison (who have a 75% recidivism rate).
Then it began to get funny. Several Twitterers pointed out that it was absurd to stage a "sit-in" on the floor where there were enough chairs for everyone. Charlie Rangel said he thought it should not be possible for his constituents to own guns, but when asked, said that Congressmen 'deserve' protection. Despite a long speech about the problem of guns in the inner city and the deaths of so many young blacks, when it came time for dinner they turned to the fast food restaurant that NY Mayor De Blasio demanded that New Yorkers should boycott — Chick-fil-A. Which was also a validation of the restaurant's tasty fried chicken and denied Chick-fil-A's supposed anti-gay bigotry.
The media fell all over themselves with the drama of a real live sit-in, and failed to notice the absurdity of the whole thing as the video above shows. Don't expect consistency or logic. That's just the way Democrats are.
Filed under: Bureaucracy, Election 2016, Europe, European Union, Free Markets, Freedom, History, Law, Regulation, United Kingdom | Tags: "Leave or Stay", BREXIT, The Telegraph
From today's Telegraph
In Britain it's pouring, flash floods, and voters are caught in commuter chaos. The final opinion polls are too close to call, and are divided. There's been a fake "BBC" announcement that says the polls are open on Friday. Long lines at the polls. The polls close at 10 p.m. London time (6:00 a.m. Pacific time here). They will get results around nine hours later on Friday beginning around 7:00 a.m (London time). Lots of anger. British papers picked up videos of our Democrat's publicity stunt "sit-down" on the floor of the house, to show that all's normal in the Anglosphere.
More seriously, pause and think back to the first election in Iraq that swept like a thunderbolt across the Muslim world, with women proudly holding up their purple fingers to show that they had voted.
Makes you think about our chaos and anger a little differently.
Filed under: Bureaucracy, Crime, Domestic Policy, History, Intelligence, Law, Media Bias, Military, National Security, Police, Regulation, Terrorism, The United States | Tags: Atty Gen Loretta Lynch, Representative John Lewis, Terrorist Omar Mateen
The Orlando massacre was carried out by an American citizen of Afghan family, who went to great lengths, including calling 911, to tell everyone that he was pledging himself to ISIS. Since the shooting was conducted in a nightclub frequented by gays, strenuous efforts have been made by our government to make sure it is connected with homosexuality, and not Islamic terrorism, which is never to be called Islamic terrorism, but only violent extremism or some other bland euphemism.
Yesterday we had the embarrassment of the Justice Department attempting to remove all the evidence of Omar Mateen pledging anything at all to anyone at all by deleting them from the transcript which they released, which brought a significant amount of outrage from those who had been paying attention. They were forced to admit that they had removed Mateen's many calls to 911. Attorney General Loretta Lynch was forced to admit that Mateen never said anything to cops about specifically targeting gays. The federal government does not want to consider this to be a terrorist attack, they would prefer to consider the whole thing as a hate crime against a core constituency under unreasonable threat in the United States. You can't blame a liberal administration for a hate crime against gays.
Today Mrs. Lynch talked about how the federal government may never know what Mateen's prime motive was between gay hate and terror. She added that "Our most effective response to terror is compassion, unity, and love." The most effective response to terror is to believe the terrorists when they say they want to destroy America and Israel. They do mean it. Just tell the truth.
Whenever there is a terrorist attack, Democrats blame guns, usually what they refer to as "assault weapons," partly because they don't know what an assault weapon is (and isn't), and it sounds more dramatic. The president has started bloviating about "weapons of war on our streets" a term not used when the military was offering their excess weapons of war (scary looking vehicles) to police and sheriff's departments across the country. Nobody talked about "weapons of war" when they were equipping special agents at the IRS with Ar-15 military style rifles, or when Health and Human Services "Special Office of Inspector General Agents" were being trained by the Army's Special Forces contractors, or the VA was arming 3,700 employees.
The number of non-Defense Department federal officers authorized to make arrests and carry firearms (200,000) now exceeds the number of U.S. Marines (182,000). In its escalating arms and ammo stockpiling, this federal arms race is unlike anything in history.
So it makes perfect sense that 40 Democrats are currently staging a"sit-in"— sitting on the floor of the House chamber because the House's Republican leadership won't bring up a gun-control bill for a vote. What they actually want is for everybody on the no-fly list or the possible terrorist list — which seem to be long lists of thousands of people don't seem to include the people who are actually committing those terror attacks. Michael Medved's 11-year-old son was once on the no-fly list, and Rep. John Lewis (who is leading the floor-sitting demonstration) was once erroneously placed on the No-Fly list he wants to use to deny due process for those who want to buy a weapon.
Murders are seldom examined seriously, only politically, in the context of gun-control controversies, with the same arguments and the same ideas. Tighter gun control laws do not reduce the murder rate. Here's Thomas Sowell on "The Gun Control Farce"— a serious look at the data from around the country and around the world. The facts are quite plain. It's not long, and worth your time.
Filed under: Bureaucracy, Democrat Corruption, Domestic Policy, Foreign Policy, Free Markets, Freedom, History, Intelligence, Law, National Security, Politics, Regulation, The United States | Tags: Congress Shall Make No Law, Silincing Those Who Disagree, Stamping Out Free Speech
The furor over Brexit continues to heat up, and polls waver back and forth. A telling article on the 14th of May pointed out a central issue of concern about the European Union. 'The President of the unelected executive arm of the EU has vowed to block all right wing populists from power across the continent, shortly after acquiring the power to exert "far reaching sanctions" on elected governments."
If this seems reminiscent of the Left's current efforts to stamp out free speech, with the need for "safe spaces" on campus to avoid hearing any disagreeing speech; or the group of attorneys general who want to go after "climate deniers" in the interest of shutting down those who do not worship at the altar of global warming, and getting a big windfall from suing Exxon Mobil; or the effort to simply shut down free speech or do away with the First Amendment, you're absolutely correct.
Attorney General Loretta Lynch announced that she would release a censored version of Omar Mateen's 911 calls , omitting any mention of ISIS. She said she didn't want to "further [Mateen's] propaganda. (Obama-Clinton U.S l Resolution Against Negative Speech about Islam.) Broadly ridiculed, DOJ reversed course.
Most graduations are over, but the season had its usual numbers of graduation speakers who were protested, rejected, or insulted. I find it hard to imagine that the snowflakes are so unmannerly that they refuse to hear someone who has ideas with which they are not familiar.
U.S. Internet giants Facebook Inc., Twitter Inc., Google and Microsoft Corp pledged to tackle online hate speech in less than 24 hours as part of a joint commitment with the European Union to combat the use of social media by terrorists.
Beyond national laws that criminalize hate speech, there is a need to ensure such activity by Internet users is "expeditiously reviewed by online intermediaries and social media platforms, upon receipt of a valid notification, in an appropriate time-frame," the companies and the European Commission said in a joint statement on Tuesday.
We hear the term "Hate Speech" far more than "free speech." "Hate speech" is just another Leftist weapon to attack anyone who offers a different opinion. Only today, a student called in to Michael Medved's talk radio show to speak about his professor who would not allow differing opinions in student papers. Unfortunately this is increasingly common. During the 1960s Liberals fought for the right for political demonstrations on campus in the fabled "Free Speech Movement." Well, time moves on and minds change. Now the Left wants to put people behind bars for any speech that disagrees with standard Liberal talking points.
The other nations in the Anglosphere have vestiges of free speech, but not so much. It is, to be completely accurate, a very hard idea for people to understand. People are all for free speech until someone says something to which they take exception, then it's hate speech, or they shouldn't be allowed to say that, or just demand that they shut up. We used to have Polish jokes, and French jokes, and Norwegian jokes, but now it's all "diversity" and "racism"and "gender identity."
We all have to think through what is meant by free speech. It is expressed in the First Amendment as forbidding Congress from making any law that abridges freedom of speech, and adds freedom of the press, or the right of the people to peaceably assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
You can't shout FIRE in a crowded theater. You can still punch someone who insults your mother in the nose, but you may get hauled in for battery. If you are paying attention, you will find an example of why it is so important—every single day. Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn disagreed publicly with Stalin and spent eleven years in the Gulag Archipelago as a result. He was one of the lucky ones.
"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the Bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same." Ronald Reagan
Filed under: Bureaucracy, Democrat Corruption, Foreign Policy, Immigration, Intelligence, Iran, Iraq, Islam, Law, Military, National Security, Syria, Terrorism, The United States | Tags: CIA Director John Brennan, President Barack Obama, The Islamic State
Filed under: Afghanistan, Crime, Democrat Corruption, Domestic Policy, Foreign Policy, Free Markets, Freedom, Immigration, Iran, Islam, Law, National Security, Politics, Pop Culture, Progressivism, Syria, Terrorism | Tags: Major Nidal Hassan, Omar Mateen, What Really Matters
President Barack Obama bitterly attacked Donald Trump for challenges to his presidency for not taking the threat of radical Islamic terrorism seriously enough. (Do too! Do Too!)
"Calling a threat by a different name does not make it go away, Obama said. This is a political distraction"
He described the attacks on him as "yapping" and denounced 'Politicians who Tweet and appear on cable news shows."
Omar Mateen's murder of 5o gays in an Orlando nightclub and wounding of as many others has a striking familiarity to the Fort Hood Massacre when Major Nidal Hassan, a U.S. Army Psychiatrist, fatally shot 13 people and wounded more than 30 others.
Both killers had been identified as dangerous and unhinged by those who worked with them. Their employers, the Army in the case of Nidal Hassan, and the Department of Homeland Security in the case of Omar Mateen knew that their conversation indicated "there's something wrong with him" but the employer was unwilling to do anything about it because he was Muslim. Obama's refusal to say the words "radical Islam," or to allow anyone else to use the term, is so obvious to all that it approaches comedy. Obama's instant reaction is always to find something wrong with American society, and to go for the standard Leftist approach: "We have to ban assault weapons".
Weapons, from duded-up .22s to knives, baseball bats, pressure cookers, bomb-making materials, box-cutters, bows and arrows, are all inanimate objects, and require a human actor to put them to any use. The Left becomes hysterical about weapons, but refuses to deal with those who should not be allowed access to weapons. It's the bad people, not the weapons.
If you remember, President Obama dismissed the Fort Hood massacre as "workplace violence." They even went so far as to deny VA benefits to those who had been wounded, and refused to award purple hearts.No medals for "workplace violence."
The Boston Massacre, the beheading in Oklahoma, and the stabbings at UC Merced had nothing to do with firearms.The attacks in Paris and Belgium took place in locales with the some of the strictest firearm regulations anywhere.
The President sets the agenda. For the last seven years, government officials have seen the suspicious activities of Muslims as the result of America's Islamophobia, and our insults to the peaceful Muslim religion. Obama has taken the lead in encouraging Syrian refugees to settle in the United States.
A NASA Chief declared that one of the agency's three primary missions was Muslim outreach. The director of National Intelligence called the Muslim Brotherhood "largely secular." a top counterterrorism adviser praised jihad as a "legitimate tenet of Islam." Obama has removed the requirement for new citizens to be available for national service if called upon. He said "We are to blame, not Islamic terrorism, for the Massacre." He has said, in a video aimed at convincing migrants to pursue American citizenship that they didn't need to assimilate. Government officials know who signs their paychecks.
I think that Obama lives in a different narrative, one in which he is the hero, wisely directing the American people in the way they should go. That it bears little relation to reality is beside the point. Because he is giving away citizenship to all comers, erasing the citizenship and border control laws, the newcomers will be reliable Democrat voters, and that's what really matters, isn't it?
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People might come to blame the Left for their attack on the Second Amendment. Or they might conceivably blame President Obama for his excruciatingly wrong-headed pandering to the Islamic radicals in Iran and the Middle East. He has encouraged the caliphate, handing the Middle East over to Iran to manage, so he can pursue his aim of getting America out of the Middle East, and bring peace to that unhappy tribal area.
Obama reportedly believes that he was elected to get the U.S. out of the Middle East, which isn't even remotely true. He was elected to be the first Black President of the United States in the mistaken belief that he would take on the job of better relations between the races. Instead he has made every effort to stir up hatred in the interest of getting more blacks and Hispanics to the polls.
He has been the most divisive president in history, sending #Black Lives Matter activists to stir up dissension on our college campuses. And with his Iran Deal, he has made sure that the mullahs get the necessary funding to perfect their nuclear weapons with which they intend to strike Israel and the United States. Or is there some other target they want to hit with an intercontinental ballistic missile?


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Posted January 14th, 2012 at 9:13 PM by Twiggy
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Never thought I'd have to think about it. So, you probably do not know this, but I do have a Club Nintendo account. The problem is that I do not have a US address. I think I'm going to need a service that gives me a "US address" that will then resend whatever's sent there to my local address.
Any way to do it? Any suggestions? I think it would save me a lot of trouble when it comes to physical goods off Club Nintendo, and perhaps a whole lot of other places that ship only to US addresses normally.
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Back in February, NASA announced that it intends to bring back the X-planes, a series of experimental aircraft designed to test out new technologies that dates back to the first plane to break the sound barrier in 1947. Now the newest member of the family, dubbed the X-57, has been revealed. With 14 electric motors driving 14 propellors, the X-57 is designed to test greener propulsion technologies.Read More
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Research Article
Ethnic Variations in Suicidal Ideation and Behaviors: A Prominent Subtype Marked by Nonpsychiatric Factors Among Asian Americans
Version of Record online: 24 MAR 2014
DOI: 10.1002/jclp.22082
© 2014 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
Journal of Clinical Psychology
Volume 70, Issue 12, pages 1211–1226, December 2014
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How to Cite
Chu, J., Chi, K., Chen, K. and Leino, A. (2014), Ethnic Variations in Suicidal Ideation and Behaviors: A Prominent Subtype Marked by Nonpsychiatric Factors Among Asian Americans. J. Clin. Psychol., 70: 1211–1226. doi: 10.1002/jclp.22082
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- Issue online: 13 NOV 2014
- Version of Record online: 24 MAR 2014
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- culture;
- diversity;
- suicide;
- ethnic minorities;
- suicide subtypes;
- Asian Americans
Main objectives were to utilize multivariate rather than traditional regression approaches to capture the heterogeneity of subtypes of suicidal ideation and behaviors within ethnic minority groups. Mental illness is associated with suicidal ideation and behaviors in a vast majority of the general population, making psychopathology a common identifier of suicide risk. Yet recent studies suggest a need to better characterize suicidal ideation and behaviors among ethnic minorities and Asian Americans who do not exhibit the most commonly assessed risk factors.
The present study examined adults 18 years of age or older from the National Latino and Asian American Study and utilized latent class analysis to classify 191 Asian Americans with a history of serious suicidal ideation or attempts from a community sample into subtypes.
Two main subtypes resulted, including 48% in a "psychiatric" and 52% in a "nonpsychiatric" subtype of suicidal ideation and behaviors. The nonpsychiatric subtype was predominantly characterized by sociocultural factors (discrimination, family conflict, and low acculturation), medical problems, and limited functioning. The nonpsychiatric was less likely than the psychiatric subtype to seek help for mental health but was no different in access to a medical doctor, highlighting possible points of outreach.
Findings advance the culture and suicide literature by highlighting how current research and practice that characterize suicidal ideation and behaviors as a mental health phenomenon may not comprehensively identify suicidality among an ethnic minority group.


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Mary Ouida Taliaferro Lankford, 89, resident of 101 Mimi's Manor, widow of Veldee Grayson " Val" Lankford, Sr. died Tuesday, July 1, 2014 at Self Regional Medical Center.
Born in Grenada, Mississippi, November 2, 1924, she was a daughter of the late Edwin Loving and Lillian Easter Taliaferro. Mrs. Lankford was a 1949 graduate of the University of Tennessee where she received a Bachelor's degree, majoring in Bacteriology and minoring in Zoology. After graduation she worked for Bowman Gray, now Wake Forrest School of Medicine and went on to work with the Institute of Tropical Medicine in the West Indies. Mrs. Lankford was retired from the Medical College of Georgia as a Microbiologist. Throughout her tenure there she co-authored many publications in research that are still used in text books at the college.
A member of St. Mark United Methodist Church, she was also a member of the Adult 1 Sunday School Class. Mrs. Lankford was an active volunteer and enjoyed working with the Greenwood Food Bank, Greenwood United Ministries, Free Clinic, HospiceCare of the Piedmont and had served as a Reading Mentor for Greenwood School District 50.
Survivors include a son, Gray Lankford and wife Renee of Augusta; daughter, Jenny Lynn Perkey of the home; four grandchildren, Toni Hamilton and husband Dr. Greg Hamilton, Cory Powell, Chloé Lankford and MaryAshlynne Perkey; two great-grandchildren, Raymond and Jimmy Hamilton; and several nieces and nephews.
Funeral services will be conducted Thursday at 2:00 PM from St. Mark United Methodist Church with Rev. Carl Hunsucker and Rev. Ryan Spurrier officiating. Burial will follow in Oakbrook Memorial Park.
Pallbearers will be Dan Richardson, George Martin, Wilson Bruce, Brian Waldrep and Charlie Watkins.
Honorary escort will be David Ross and John Hughes, along with the Adult 1 Sunday School Class at St. Mark United Methodist Church.
The family will receive friends Thursday from 1:00 PM until the service hour at St. Mark United Methodist Church Social Hall and at other times at the home.
Those desiring may make memorials to St. Mark United Methodist Church, 550 Highway 72 NW, Greenwood, SC 29649.
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10 release dates to watch for in July.
The Fourth of July is right around the corner and that means there will be a ton of patriotic, USA-themed sneakers releasing in celebration of our country's Independence. Furthermore, the Summer Olympics are also on the horizon so you know July is going to be jam packed with star-spangled sneaker releases.
"Niggas be rapping like they Tony/ When they really just a little pink pony" - Reese LaFlare * Here Reese is referring to Lil Uzi Vert, the meteoric Philly rapper whom he briefly befriended and later accused of swaggerjacking. The song is "180Secs" and it is the best diss track of 2016 to date.
Kanye West's "Famous" video is being hailed as a master class in the art of provocation by some and derided as "dumpster juice" by others. Inspired by "Sleep," a painting by American realist Vincent Desiderio, the video depicts a bed in which wax statues of 12 celebrities doze peacefully in the nude: George W.
Summer officially began this past week, and with it came a whole bevy of huge tracks, most of the biggest ones being collabs. There's something decidedly warm weather about the low-stakes posse cut, and that's mainly what our list consists of this week. All but two of these ten tracks didn't appear on last week's Top Ten, with a bunch of stuff falling off in the past week.
Vic Mensa has dramatically changed his entire aesthetic since dropping his debut mixtape Innanetape in 2013 at age 19. Innanetape received a 98% reader rating on HNHH. It was a fantastic mixtape. Why the change?
Take a blind swing at any of the coke rap icons from the mid-2000s and you're bound to hit something Jay Z related.
It often takes a blast of exciting new music to really get oneself into the groove of summer, a season in which no Friday night should be squandered. Earlier today, the site experienced an invasion from DJ Esco and Future's Project E.T., and it's looking like Summer Sixteen, as was the case with Fifteen, will be theirs for the taking.
We're only a week away from July. Let that sink in. With the 4th of July right around the corner and a plethora of highly anticipated sneaker releases coming next month it's easy to forget that there is still plenty of heat dropping in this final week of June.
Hearing Sway Calloway introduce his radio show's centerpiece, the "Five Fingers Of Death" challenge, is truly something to behold.
Follow Kylie Jenner on Snapchat and you'll find her riding in the G-Wagon bumping Bryson Tiller and hamming it up for the camera and not watching the road.
DJ Khaled's stock was at a low when he released his widely-planned album I Changed a Lot last October. (It was evident that he had not changed at all. As this article will demonstrate. Khaled has always been incorrigible.) What followed was an unlikely resurgence, due in large part to the popularity of Khaled's Snapchat.
Last night, Gucci Mane responded to rumors that the skinny, mild-mannered Gucci released from jail is in fact a government clone. "I will neither support nor deny those accusations," he said.
Drake continues his dominance as VIEWS spends its seventh week now at the #1 spot. The 6 God is showing no signs of slowing down, and even a new release from Nick Jonas and a surge from The Cast of Hamilton couldn't dethrone him, although they were enough to nudge Beyonce back a couple spots.
YG followed up an impressive debut album with an almost more impressive sophomore album. That alone is quite a feat.
Most mornings, Zaytoven rises to take his son Xavier, 10, and daughter Olivia, 7, to school. He drops them off at 7:30 and returns to his house, looking for something to do. So he descends to the studio in his basement and starts making beats.
The drought is over in Cleveland. The city itself hasn't had a championship team to call their own in 52 years, and the Cavaliers alone had waited 46 long seasons which is the entire existence of the franchise.
Two years ago, My Krazy Life surprised everyone. It was a debut album made by someone whose biggest claim to fame was novelty club smash "Toot It And Boot It," but somehow, it had the scope and consistency of a select few L.A. classics-- The Chronic, Doggystyle, and more recently, good kid, m.A.A.d city.
Few artists have made a more dramatic and entertaining entry into the office than Sosamann, leaping out of the elevator with an emphatic "OOOWEEE" and quickly reclaiming the space as HotNewDripHop. I soon learned what the sauce was all about. There was no telling when it would overtake his physical being, making him need to get up and drip it evenly throughout the room.
Childish Gambino isn't someone who often loads his projects with features, but over the course of his career he has made some special bonds with a couple of artists, as well as experimenting with other rappers' sounds on his ROYALTY mixtape. With news that his PHAROS album is on the way in September, we've decided to revisit some of the best work Gambino has done with other artists.
For ten out of the 24 weeks of 2016 we've experienced thus far, Drake has held the top spot in our Top 100 tracks list. Similar to the streak VIEWS is currently enjoying at the top of the Billboard charts, Drizzy's dominance in our metric of streaming-and-viewing success is pretty astounding, especially considering the mixed reaction his new album received.
Lil Yachty has nearly completed his evolution from Internet phenomenon to permanent fixture in the rap game. In the past 10 days, he earned a spot in XXL's 2016 Freshman class and signed to Quality Control to the surprise of no one -- QC head honcho Coach K has managed and mentored Yachty since late 2015.
Right now, two of the summer's most anticipated albums feature producers' names in the top-billed spot: Mike Will Made It's Ransom 2 and Clams Casino's 32 Levels.
Signature sneakers have been taking a beating lately. We all know what happened when Under Armour unveiled the "Chef" Under Armour Curry Two Low and when Adidas debuted James Harden's kicks for next season it was more of the same. Next up on the basketball sneaker roast of 2016 is Minnesota Timberwolves' star, Andrew Wiggins, also repping Adidas.
It's no secret that dancehall has become en vogue outside of the Caribbean.
We ended the week on a high note, not only because of the music we received-- it's a good day for West Coast rap lovers, with new albums from YG and The Game-- but because we launched our latest digital cover story with Bompton's aforementioned YG. Suffice to say, we're pretty content about today. On top of all this, it's Friday. So yeah, doesn't get much better.
Today marks the 22nd anniversary of O.J. Simpson's white Bronco police chase. O.J. is locked up now at Lovelock Correctional Center in Nevada for committing armed robbery. Even from behind bars, O.J. is still able to capture America's imagination's like few else. He was recently the subject of the FX show, "The People v. O.J.
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What a wild Game 6 it was. LeBron James put on another epic performance, Stephen Curry lost his composure, an innocent fan got smoked in the face with a mouthguard, Ayesha tweeted, Kerr bitched about the officiating, Draymond didn't kick anyone in the balls, and now we're looking at a Game 7 on Sunday night.
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Four of our climbers summited Blackburn yesterday evening at 6pm! Sorry for the delay in posting, but here is the joyous dispatch they left from 13,394ft. Great work you guys, safe descent and see you soon!
Four of our climbers summited Blackburn yesterday evening at 6pm! Sorry for the delay in posting, but here is the joyous dispatch they left from 13,394ft. Great work you guys, safe descent and see you soon!
We got another dispatch from our Blackburn Team today. They had an 18 hour day yesterday fighting through deep snow and avoid crevasses but it's the last day of good weather so it sounds like 4 of the 6 are going to summon the energy to go for the summit.
Good luck guys and gal – climb safe and strong!
Hard Earned High Camp and Summit Bid!
We heard from our Blackburn team this morning and they've spend the last few days hauling loads up to their advance basecamp through heavy snow. They're tired but happy and making good progress. It's bluebird today and the forecast for the rest of the trip looks decent with a couple days of snow so hopefully they'll have summit success and some amazing views along the way!
Click below to hear the dispatch from lead guide Scott.
Hauling Loads and Crevasse Excitement!
Mt. Blackburn from McCarthy
Our team is climbing from the Nabesna Glacier on the other side of the peak.
The best schools come in all shapes and sizes, but few are better than the upper Baldwin Glacier. In early June, two guides and five guests flew out to the Baldwin to learn the finer points of ski mountaineering in a remote Alaskan classroom. Over the course of five days in the backcountry, guides Anya and Tim taught the group rope team skills, crevasse rescue, and navigation and route-finding. However it wasn't just teaching and learning on this trip. The hearty crew enjoyed bountiful turns of endless powder as they skied numerous peaks and couloirs out from their basecamp.
After gathering in McCarthy for a gear check, Anya, Tim and their five clients enjoyed a 45 minute flight out to the Baldwin Glacier. Coming from all over the world, the team included ski racers from Richmond, Virginia, a physicist from Switzerland, and a lawyer from Australia. On Day 1, after setting up camp, they took a short tour before settling in for a lesson on avalanche rescue and beacon use.
The morning of Day 2 saw more skills lessons put into practice as Anya (gleefully) jumped into a crevasse and the team hauled her out. In case her family is reading this, Anya describes the jump as "great fun, short and safe." The group spent the afternoon taking laps and touring up on the peaks surrounding camp. Day 3 was all skiing, all the time, as they took four tours on new peaks near camp, including a previously unclimbed couloir they dubbed "Punter's Passage." The couloir was narrow and steep enough to require belay access. Rodney took stunning pictures of the terrain, while Winston and Turner, ski racers extraordinaire, carved grand slalom turns all over the glacier.
Unfortunately, the bluebird weather they'd been enjoying began to disappear on Day 4. The team found themselves socked in early on, but were still able to get in a few tours of "mixed skiing" routes in the afternoon. They arranged to be picked up a day early on Day 5, and after a great round of frisbee and one last morning of Annabelle's snow yoga, they were picked up and flown them back to McCarthy for a well deserved sauna and pizza party.
With an extra day back in town, our ski mountaineers were able to join forces with our Mt. Blackburn expedition crew–temporarily delayed in McCarthy by weather–for a day of ice climbing on the Root Glacier. The timing was fortuitous, as ski client Oscar bonded with the Blackburn team and decided to join the expedition last-minute. Currently, he's on his second mountaineering trip in as many weeks! You never know what will happen when you're caught up in the Wrangell-St. Elias spirit!
While spring is skiing and mountaineering season in the Wrangells, our river trips are right around the corner. For all you river lovers – stay tuned for more exciting stories from McCarthy – on liquid water this time, instead of frozen water!
In one of our guides' favorite traditions, the 2016 pre-season trip saw twelve returners tackle an expedition up Mt. Bona, the fourth highest peak in the United States. Mt. Bona, which the Duke of the Abruzzi legendarily named after his favorite yacht, sits in the Saint Elias Range at 16,421ft. Bona is blanketed in snow and glaciers, and its elevation makes it an ideal peak for honing mountaineering skills all season long. One of the more remote Alaska high peaks, the guides at St. Elias Alpine Guides thought it would be the perfect challenge to tackle before officially opening for the 2016 season.
On Day 1, two trips in a ski plane transported the crew out to a plateau at 9,500', and the guides roped up in teams of skiers, splitboarders and snowshoers before descending down towards the Klutlan Glacier and then back up towards basecamp at 10,000'. Dragging sleds, they carried food and fuel and equipment to spend 2 weeks on the mountain. The next day, the crew divided as some carried six days worth of food up to cache at Camp 1 (12,200') while others remained at basecamp, generating water with snow and trash bags, and perfecting a five foot deep snow kitchen, complete with hobbit hole. On Day 3, the group ascended past a tremendous ice fall up to Camp 1, and then on Day 4 traveled the remaining distance to High Camp, at 14,500'. High Camp was nestled in a valley between Mt. Bona and Mt. Churchill (15,636'), as well as a smaller peak the guides affectionately call Lil' Bona.
Over the next three days at High Camp, battling intermittent white outs and mild altitude sickness, seven guides summited Mt. Bona unroped, four skied to the top of Mt. Churchill and three jaunted up to Lil' Bona. On Day 8, one rope team set off down towards basecamp while two others took advantage of the great weather that morning to summit Bona and Lil' Bona, respectively, before hauling themselves down to basecamp. This last Bona summit is the only one that produced any good pictures, so we're all glad they decided to do it, even though it doubled their vertical travel to 8,000' in one day. A blizzard kept the crew in basecamp for most of Day 9, but they took advantage of a brief sunny window that evening to pack up camp and hustle back to where the plane had dropped them off the week before.
Continuing stormy weather on Day 10 gave everyone a chance to finish the books they'd packed, play card games (Scott was the clear winner), and rest their tired legs. The clouds cleared way on Day 11, allowing for a rousing game of "Snow Bocce Ball", and giving the pilot a chance to swoop in and bring the distinctly stinkier guides back to McCarthy. Thankfully, now, everyone has had a chance to sauna and reacclimate, and is excited to bring the same sense of adventure to everyone visiting Wrangell-St. Elias! If you haven't made your summer vacation plans yet, don't hesitate to give us a call for the adventure of a lifetime!
If Mt. Bona sounds interesting to you, we've got a trip scheduled for July 1 – July 13. Call for details!


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Eastern Sierra Roadsides
By Alexis - Now on Flickr
10 Apr 2010
California's Eastern Sierras are rugged, sparsely populated and stunningly beautiful. Traveling on Ca Route 178 and then on Highway 395, between Lake Isabella and Lone Pine, traffic is so light you can pull off the road to photograph practically anywhere. In this series I chose to emphasize the traces of civilization - road signs, fencing, electrical poles and such - that connect the landscape to its use by people, and also by contrast emphasize its untamed majesty.
The richness of detail is an important part of my intention for these images, so to really experience the images please do click on the "View Large" link.
A series of landscapes shot at the same locations, but omitting the human element, is at Aamora
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Every single one a masterpiece!!!
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When I'll be there one day, I will follow your route description and hopefully there will be a similar fantastic light to enjoy this compelling landscape!
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my vote, great trip!!!
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