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Push gas pedal all the way down and no go.
Its a 85mk2 auto. First of this car is a friend of mine. He had some one swap a low mileage engine. When he received the car it ran fine and all the only problem was it had trouble starting cold. So he took the car back and after a longtime of waiting he got the car back in worst condition. The guy copped up the wiring blahblahblah . The worse problem the car has is that on Drive when I push the gas down all the way down the car wont go. If I press the gas for normal driving it feels fine on first gear then after the tranny shifts to second it doesnt pull even if I press the gas down it dont go. The fastest the car goes is about 50mph. When the car is on N or P and u rev the engine the RPMs clime fine and the engine feels powerful. The engine doesnt smoke from the exhaust. I rewired his wirring(engine harnest) and still no improvement. Any suggestionsSDR 85' 5spd MK2 [I/H/E] Suspension by OgE. Two years of failure ZSS team "Eat shit and Die!!!"
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This may sound dumb but is the accelerator cable adjusted properly? I always try the simple stuff firstAlex
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Sounds like the TPS to me. Either the replacement engine has the wrong one or a bad one. Does he still have the OE one? If so, switch it back. If it has the wrong type on it, you may have to switch the whole TB back over. Even if it is the correct type,... It may still be bad. Test it per the TSRM.
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The auto tranny may be getting tired (torque converter). How many miles on it etc.? More info about the car helps us narrow down to an answer. My first guess would be what the members above stated. After the basics, it gets into the wiring, and the mechanical. I have a black 85 auto as well and am interested if you ever figure out the problem.
when you do that is it still running correctly, i had a car that when you pressed the throttle it would go no where and almost die, ended up being the fuel pump only putting out about half the pressure it needed.Gera
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TPS Might be, the only reason I think isnt, is that when I rev the car in P it feels nice and powerful and revs through out the rpm range. But I will change TPS next time I see car.
As for the accelerator cable its adjusted properly.
Gas pump I thought about it but I think its fine because car revs fine smooth and powerful in P. the problem is on D. If it where my car id buy it but it aint mine dont want to tell the guy to buy one and then it aint the prob. $110 down the hole.
Tranny The guy said that when the got the car the first time it was running fine car felt fine and strong tranny felt fine not slipping. The only problem was would not start cold so he took it back, after he got it back was when the car had these problem.
About how the tranny feels. To me it feels fine it doesnt slip. If I press the gas gradually it moves normal and shifts normal to the next gear after that it feel like it loses power and barley climes even if I put my foot down all the way theres no go it doesnt get that pull that auto get like it down shits gear. Now if the car is at a stop and I put my foot down on the gas it moves but accelerates like if I would be accelerating normal. The rpms dont clime no power so the tranny aint slippin and when it shift it shift fine. That basically what the car does. I know that not a lot of info but its kind of hard to explain.SDR 85' 5spd MK2 [I/H/E] Suspension by OgE. Two years of failure ZSS team "Eat shit and Die!!!"
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The cataytic converter could be plugged up with junk. In Drive, you're pumping more gas thru the engine/exhaust than in Park for the same revs. Or maybe the O2 sensor is shot?
is the timing set correctly? i have the 5 speed, but my timing is off due to bad keyway (being fixed) and cant go faster then 50mph.
i also can rev it up t0 5000+, and it has seems to have alot of power when out fo gear, but when in gear, max rpm i can get is 2100.
id say you vac advance on the dist might be damgaged or not working, but if yours is an 85, your advace is comp controlled.
just a thought87 turbo targa bone ass stock
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yea well he swapped out the dist already from another 85, changed the AFM, changed the TPS, changed the wireharness (previous mechanic mickymoused the shit out of it), changed wires, fixed a few vaccum leaks
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This week, the nation marks the 50th anniversary of President John F. Kennedy's assassination. It's a milestone that's hard to miss, given the dozens of TV specials, documentaries, books, articles and commemorations marking the date. Washington Post TV critic Hank Stuever joins us to reflect on what the programming reveals about our cultural connection to the eras that ended and began Nov. 22, 1963.
"For the first time I realized the enormity of what we'd been reporting for a couple of hours anyway. I was announcing the death of this young president of the United States, this horrible death by madness of some individual or group of individuals; we didn't know yet. I have learned something about myself and drew a very quick comparison, not at that moment but as I had to review the day and how it all went." Hear more from Cronkite's reflection.
"Somebody would come by and offer us coffee or bouillon or a sandwich, and that hardly anybody ate anything. That everybody was wrapped in his own cocoon, sort of, or nightmare or…. And Lyndon was vastly more alert than I was. I remember, suddenly he looked around, and he said, 'This is the President's compartment; let's get out of here.' And so we went back and sat in the body of the plane, and in just a few moments Mrs. Kennedy came in and, of course, went in there." Listen to more of Johnson's recollections.
MS. CHRISTINA BELLANTONIWelcome back. I'm Christina Bellantoni of the PBS News Hour sitting in for Kojo Nnamdi. And 50 years ago this week, under a bright blue Dallas sky, the course of history was altered in an instant, with a burst of violence that left the president dead and the nation reeling. Five decades later the emotions can still be raw. Countless what ifs and whys are still left unanswered. Twenty plus hours of documentaries and specials airing this month attempt to answer some of those questions.
MS. CHRISTINA BELLANTONIBut after watching them, TV critic Hank Stuever was left with still more questions than answers. Questions about the rituals surrounding grief, what we tune out when we tune into these shows and replay the past. And he's here now to reflect on what this programming reveals about our cultural connection to the eras that ended and began on November 22, 1963. Hank Stuever, thanks for being here.
MR. HANK STUEVERWell, thanks for having me. You summed that up a whole lot better than I did.
BELLANTONIWell, we have plenty of time to get through all of the details of it but, yeah, so these questions that you're left with, 20 plus hours of footage. That is a lot of programming. What are people trying to answer 50 years later?
STUEVERYeah, and I just barely scratched the surface. I did -- you know, I -- all year long, of course, I've known that the anniversary was coming up. And the DVD screeners from different networks kept piling up. And I probably shouldn't have binged watched 20 plus hours of JFK documentaries. They're all very different from one another. But they all -- none of them really surprised me. And I don't need -- you know, some people are looking for quote unquote "surprise" from JFK programming, like I need to know more of what happened. I need to know things I didn't already know.
STUEVERI don't come at that way. I just need to see that the story has evolved and is being told for an audience in 2013 instead of an audience that is sort of stuck in time. And I don't think a lot of the programming really achieved that. There's some really good moments but I had some problems -- I kept thinking, wow all this time and we really don't have a new way of telling ourselves this story. We're still sort of guarded by, well, reverence for one thing obviously. But also just sort of telling ourselves the story over and over and over the same way.
BELLANTONIAnd obviously looking at all the pictures, which we're going to talk at length about -- and I should point out -- sorry for not doing this at the outset -- you are the TV critic for the Washington Post and author of the books "Off Ramp: Adventures and Heartache in the American Elsewhere" and "Tinsel: A Search for America's Christmas Present."
STUEVERWell, thank you for saying that.
BELLANTONIYeah. So I will also point out that the PBS News Hour, we're doing our, you know, look at JFK this week. And one way that we've tried to do it a little differently is we're having conversation with our founders, you know, Robert MacNeil and Jim Lehrer, about their experiences coming up in journalism at this event. They were both there. They weren't working together at the time but it did shape their journalism philosophy and their careers. And we're airing that this week.
BELLANTONISo what did these networks say that they're trying to achieve by doing this? Is it about getting audiences or are people really demanding this kind of coverage?
STUEVERWell, some of them have had pretty good ratings. You know, a lot of the JFK-related material that's on this month has already aired. This is a big week, of course, Friday being the actual anniversary. The Washington Post is doing its commemorative on Friday. And I've written a piece -- a shorter piece for that. You know, I think what they're looking for is just a piece of the game. You know, it's important. We all know it. It has to be observed in some way and I think that they all kind of reflectively ordered up some programming so that they would not be left out.
STUEVERI think everybody has, you know, the fear of missing out. I think this often drives a lot of news agendas and a lot of programming agendas as well.
BELLANTONISo were there any things that stuck out to you particularly as, you know, good content that you saw in these 20 hours or bad?
STUEVERThe best thing I saw aired early and it aired right before -- it was on National Geographic Channel and it aired right before -- they did "Killing Kennedy." They adapted the Bill O'Reilly book and had Rob Lowe playing Kennedy and Ginnifer Goodwin playing Jackie. And that was a bit stilted. But right before that they aired a movie called "The Final Hours," which is really sort of -- it sort of blew me away, the agenda that the president and the first lady were on in those couple of days in Texas.
STUEVERAnd it follows everywhere they went and talks to as many people who brushed up against them who prepared dinner for them or served them or touched them or shook their hands or made the beds, you know. And I liked seeing all those real people. You know, one notable thing about all this JFK programming is a lot of the people doing the talking were men. One thing I liked about "The Final Hours" on National Geographic was that it interviewed a lot of women who were teenage girls on November 22 in Fort Worth, in Dallas all cramming for a look at Jack and a look at Jackie.
STUEVERAnd, you know, so watching them was sort of a relief because I've watched a lot of male conspiracy theorists, male historians, male secret service agents who are still alive. You know, just all the people that seemed to be talking to the camera were guys.
BELLANTONISure. And then also the letters from Jackie Project, which...
STUEVER...is a very female centric project. TLC has "Letters to Jackie." I think it aired last night. All of these things are, of course, available to watch either OnDemand or you can ask your DVR to hunt for them. And "The Letters to Jackie" is a movie that takes some of the, I think, 800,000 letters that Mrs. Kennedy received in the wake of the assassination and has celebrities, male and female, read the letters in the voices of the people who wrote them.
STUEVERAnd it is moving. It's a very beautiful movie. It's a very -- it's a softer and more original approach to this anniversary than just a lot of Daley Plaza, a lot of Zapruder, a lot of conspiracy theories.
BELLANTONIWell, one of the -- the reason that the media can do this is because we like to reflect back on where we were, what it says about us, about our own role and how we viewed these major events. So we'd love to hear from the audience if you'd like to give us a call at 1-800-433-8850. You know, tell us if you've watched any JFK specials this year and what attracted you to them. Why were you interested? But we did get an email from Robin Cook asking specifically why have we developed such an obsession with milestone anniversaries? And we have seen this.
STUEVEROh, I know. And, you know, fasten your seatbelts because there's a lot of them in the '60s. The next big one we're going to have to deal with is...
BELLANTONIAnd a lot of baby boomers to celebrate that, right?
STUEVERYeah, exactly, exactly. And, you know, the baby boomers have had a sort of -- have been the controlling force in popular culture forever now for most of us. You know, it's interesting to point out that the average age in America is 37. So that disqualifies a lot of people from having any first-hand memories of the Kennedy assassination, or just about anything that happened in the '60s. I was born in '68, you know, so I get a lot of email back from people like, how can you possibly know what any of this means or how any of this felt?
STUEVERAnd part of my response is, well I want to know. I've always been interested in the '60s. But part of my response is, well I'm 45 now. I know what I know, you know. I'm not -- anybody who wasn't alive for the Kennedy assassination is not necessarily a child, is not necessarily naïve or unaware of what it meant to American culture and American politics.
BELLANTONISure. And we've seen that with replaying of September 11th events, you know. And the way that the networks are doing a lot of this coverage is sort of the minute-by-minute -- there are networks that choose to replay exactly what happened on September 11, 2001 with those terrorist attacks minute by minute. And even social media strategy, tweeting it...
STUEVERAnd I have heard from my readers that the thing that they would like to see most on television is sort of an accurate minute-by-minute replay of November 22, 1963. There's a whole lot less television to be watching on that Friday. One of the better projects is a PBS project that's about how Walter Cronkite confirmed the death and went on the air with it and how UPI had it and then AP had it and who had it first and how had it how. And it's called "1:00 pm Central Standard Time" on PBS.
BELLANTONIGood. Thanks for the plug for PBS. We appreciate it. So members of the Kennedy family participate in only very few of these programs. So it's important for us to sort of think about how this might be a shared national event for us, but for them this is a very personal tragic family loss.
STUEVERYeah, I think every time, you know, we are still curious about the Kennedys, the generation that was contemporaneous with Jack and Bobby, but also their children. I think probably one of the better projects that's ever been made about the Kennedys was last year on HBO when Rory Kennedy, the youngest of RFK's children made a documentary about her mother. It was certainly the most personal and obviously the most access to the family and to that sense of loss that we've ever seen.
STUEVERI keep reminding people that for the Kennedys this is a murder. This is murder that happened in their family and it was one of two really big murders that happened in their family. You know, they've processed a lot of grief and a lot of death and a lot of tragedy and a lot of mistakes. But they are officially pretty unavailable for everybody's need for a milestone anniversary. And I can't really blame them, you know.
BELLANTONIRight. Right. And, you know, as we approach the one-year anniversary of the tragic school shooting in Newtown, you've seen those families ask for the media to stay away. We don't want to do retrospectives. We don't want to be part of that because they're, you know, grieving very palpably there. So we've got a couple callers. You can of course join our conversation at 1-800-433-8850.
BELLANTONITell us how do you think the way we reflect on historic events, what it says about our current culture. You can also send a Tweet to @kojoshow or email email@example.com. Bob in Frederick, Md. is on the line and says he thinks there's something missing from the coverage. Thanks for joining us, Bob.
BOBOh, thank you. I'm 67 years old. I grew up in the Washington area and of course I remember delivering newspapers on that morning, the Washington Post that had the headline, you know. And I have watched all of the developments over the years. And I happen to be of that school who believes that this was one single crazy man who did it.
BOBAnd my remark about this is that it wasn't until I read the book "Case Closed" that I got a really whole picture of Oswald as a human being and what his background was in detail. I think that in the popular culture, I don't think enough attention has been paid to who Oswald was and what his demons were and beyond those questionable things, like what did he got to Mexico for, I wonder if you think that programs that would delve into a little more about who Oswald was as a human being would be of benefit to the whole country in terms of resolving the sadness and tragedy of the entire thing for all of us.
BELLANTONIThanks, Bob.
STUEVERWell, possibly, yeah, a good question, Bob. There is a program, I mentioned earlier, "Killing Kennedy" which was a movie on National Geographic channel which is still showing it. Rob Lowe plays the president, but, you know, the book by Bill O'Riley is called "Killing Kennedy" and it's sort of a rehash of just sort of all the available known facts about Oswald and why he did it.
STUEVERAnd it's actually the best part of that movie, is the young man who plays Oswald is really good. My colleague, Amy Argetsinger, gave me a great line. She's like, yeah, he was like the poor man's Ryan Gosling, which I put in the paper. But he's really good and that story is actually more about who Oswald was. It follows him to Russia where he meets his wife and comes back. He changes his mind, you know.
STUEVERHe defected to Russia. It was kind of in the news and then he came back and it tries to get a little of who was Oswald. The only other really sort of memorable project for me, of course, is Don DeLillo's novel "Libra" which came out probably 25 years ago. But yeah, you know, it would be kind of -- I mean, I'm sure people could remember 10 or 20 projects that were Oswald-centric. But, you know, and then, of course, the History Channel and all of its programming this Friday night.
STUEVERThey conducted a new survey that says presently, in the present day, 71 percent of Americans, they claim from their survey, don't believe that Oswald acted alone. I happen to believe that Oswald acted alone. I think I believe that because it's just easier at this point. You know, like, okay, what if he did, what if he didn't. It's still been 50 years. Kennedy is still dead. We went our way, you know, all of those events changed American culture, but we processed it and went on, you know.
BELLANTONIAnd there's actually a book out about Oswald, "The Interloper" by Peter Savodnik that's interesting. And I should point out that we're getting a lot of questions and tweets of people asking us about some of the programming you're mentioning and when it's airing. Hank did this great schedule in your story that we will make sure to post on Kojo.
STUEVERYeah, yeah, please do.
BELLANTONIKojoshow.org so check that a little bit later. So now, Maryanne is on the line. She is joining us from Woodbridge, Virginia. Thanks for calling, Maryanne.
MARYANNEHi. I was 15 when this happened. My dad was in Congress. I went to school in Alexandria. And I remember really well a teacher sticking his head in saying the president had been shot. And I started watching a lot of the programs and I agree with you that the best one was the day to day, moment to moment what they were doing. That was the best one.
MARYANNEAnd then, I stopped 'cause I felt like, god, I'm getting caught in my own past.
STUEVEROh, yeah, yeah.
STUEVERNo, yeah, fatigue sets in, absolutely.
MARYANNEYeah, it's sort of like -- it was a moment, but, you know, at a certain age, you start thinking a lot about the past and you need to stop doing that and thinking about the future and that's the way this felt to me. It was, yeah, it was major. It was really big. But it was 50 years ago.
BELLANTONIThat's right. Thank you, Maryanne, for calling. We're going to continue our conversation about coverage of the JFK anniversary, the assassination after a short break. I'm Christina Bellantoni. You're listening to "The Kojo Nnamdi Show."
BELLANTONIWelcome back. I'm Christina Bellantoni of the PBS News Hour sitting in for Kojo Nnamdi. I'm talking with Hank Stuever of The Washington Post about all of the 20 hours of coverage of the JFK assassination that we are going to be seeing this week and have been seeing. We're getting a lot of people writing us and tweeting at us. So we've got one email to email@example.com from Silver Spring -- Constance in Silver Spring.
BELLANTONI"No more Kennedy shows, please. We have had quite enough, especially those of us who actually lived through the event. We now know two things about the assassination. Cheap guns kill people. Jack Kennedy is dead. Enough already. How about some shows about the many other worthy people both alive and dead." So Hank, what kind of response did you get to your story where you were saying there wasn't a lot of new in this 20 hours?
STUEVERI got some agreement 'cause the central thesis of my very long piece which ran on November 8, which you can find on WashingtonPost.com, is, you know, if we cannot move on from this, then we can certainly do less than we have done. It's not just 20 hours. It's 20 plus hours of programming, probably verging on more than 30 or 40 hours of programming spread out across all networks.
STUEVERIt seems like everybody wanted a piece of this. You know, so I did get response from people who were like, yes, agree, too much, enough, let's move on, live in the present, live in the future. Some of it was, well, you feel that way because you weren't alive for it, therefore you don't know how important this is to me. I would say that I, in fact, do know how important this is to you.
STUEVERI've spend a lifetime studying American culture and American history and listening to people talk about things that they remember. Nobody loves the past more than I do. But, you know, we're going to have a lot of these 50th anniversaries and people are going to have a lot of responses to a lot of things that happened in the '60s. The next big one is what is thought to generally be the healing moment in U.S. history, which is the Beatles came.
STUEVERFebruary 9, 1964 was "The Ed Sullivan Show" and CBS has already planned a big concert for that.
BELLANTONIThat's a feel-good event. I can get behind that. So we have a tweet to @kojoshow from Luigi saying "Kennedy's assassination is as distant to this generation as Lincoln's or Caesar's," which is an interesting point. So we have on the line, Jack from Washington D.C. who has some thoughts about what actually would be useful to learn about the assassination 50 years later. Hi, Jack.
JACKYes. Hello. Am I the person on now?
STUEVERYou are.
BELLANTONIYes. And actually -- sorry. You're...
JACK(unintelligible) I'm sorry. I'm sorry. That's why I didn't -- yes. I actually applied for a committee which was -- there was a second assassination committee struck. John (word?) was a part of that. (word?) was there and sort of thing. They came up with a finding which was an acoustical report and I think that we do a disservice to the entire situation when we talk subjectively, what we feel, what we don't feel, this, that and the other.
JACKWe should think in terms of -- after all, this was a president of the United States. That's number one. Number two, one commission may have had as a top objective, if not a secondary objective, called pacifying the country, to make ends meet. We can have a successful succession. LBJ is now president and our country rolls and that sort of thing. This has nothing to do with the factual discrepancies and that sort of thing.
JACKLifton, I believe his first name was David, wrote a good book called "Best Evidence." I would urge people to look at it, talking about what actually happened in the pathology room and discrepancy so...
BELLANTONIThank you for that, Jack. Appreciate...
JACK...that's about it. Thank you so much.
BELLANTONIThank you.
BELLANTONIWe've got a tweet from Bethie, who is curious to know with only print media existing, how people reacted to the 50th anniversary of President Lincoln's assassination. I don't know the answer to that.
STUEVERI don't know the answer to that either. I might go back to The Washington Post and look through the microfilm, what would that be? 1915? Yeah, 1915. You know, it's hard to think of -- and I did write this. It's hard to think of something that could have or would have occurred in 1913 that we would've cleared the decks for in 1963, like done a special sections in newspapers, special issues of magazines, 30, 40, 50 plus hours of television programming, you know.
STUEVERThere's a line of thought out there that we are such nostalgia addicts in this present culture that we are really having a hard time living in our own century because we have so many tools with which to look back, you know. We have good television from 50 years ago that we can sit and watch about this.
BELLANTONIAnd that's going to continue, absolutely, from that point.
STUEVERAnd that's going to just keep building. It's compounding interest in the nostalgia bank, you know. So I think, you know, in the long term, it would be interesting if American culture could learn to look forward instead of backward all the time.
BELLANTONISure. Well, back to the looking backward. I should also point out that it's the anniversary of the Gettysburg Address tomorrow and the News Hour's actually taking a look at that and the importance of the speech and everything about Lincoln. And we do, we take these milestones of, you know, these landmark presidents, presidents that meant something or changed our society and we reflect back endlessly, in some cases.
BELLANTONISo we have a question from Richard in Washington D.C. about a certain Oswald -- or no, a certain documentary from PBS, I believe. Richard, you're on the line.
RICHARDHello there.
RICHARDActually, many years ago, shortly after the assassination, CBS did a fabulous piece called "Four Days in November" which they then repeated in about 1988. And maybe you know it.
STUEVERNo. I remember it, yeah. I remember it being on in the repeat, yeah. The 25th anniversary.
RICHARDAnd my memory is that it was harrowing in that caught exactly the flavor of being 21 years old in 1963 and at Harvard. Do you know whether they are going -- CBS or anybody else is going to repeat that show and also I understand there is a piece that is also called "Four Days in November" that is on DVD by David Wolper and whether that is essentially the same content. Do you know?
STUEVERI do not know. I have not had any advisories from CBS that they're planning to reshow that.
RICHARDBoo, hiss.
RICHARDBoo, boo. That was so -- and I just advise anybody who's never seen it, if one can, and I observe that somebody has posted it in 12 not very easy installments on YouTube and it is just fabulous.
STUEVERWell, that is what I was going to suggest, that you -- one way or another, all things go to YouTube until, you know, some copyright attorney puts a stop to it.
BELLANTONIRight, exactly.
RICHARDRight, yeah. Anyway, I would strongly recommend that to anybody who has not seen it and who wants the flavor of what that was like.
BELLANTONIThank you, Richard, for calling.
RICHARDThank you a lot.
BELLANTONIAppreciate it. So we have Anne in Silver Spring who has some thoughts about all of the extensive coverage that we're seeing here. Hi, Anne.
ANNEHi. Hi, thanks for taking my call. I was a freshman in college when President Kennedy was shot and I can remember it seems like dozens, hundreds of people, streaming back to the dorm where there was only on TV so everyone was going.
STUEVEROh, wow.
ANNEAnd hearing, you know, all the women in dorm -- well, maybe not all of them, but lots of them sobbing and I was one of those. But I have to say that over the years what I have read and heard from perfectly respectable sources about the Kennedys and the Kennedy administration makes me a little disturbed about the degree to which we are all plunging back into the past as if this were a great hero.
ANNEI do want to say that I think the assassination of anyone and certainly of an American president is a great tragedy and very shocking and continues to be, but I feel as if I think of those sobbing young women and think that -- I'm not a person who likes to dump on the media, but I kind of feel like we were fooled. We had an idea and the country had an idea of someone who was, in fact, not a hero at all.
ANNEAnd I don't want to go into any detail. I don't know if that would be appropriate, but I'm not watching any of these shows. I am just sticking with "Sherlock Holmes."
BELLANTONIMore PBS plans.
ANNEThis is a very disturbing week for me so I leave it to everyone else to critique the TV.
STUEVERThanks for calling.
BELLANTONIThank you, Anne.
ANNEThanks again, bye.
STUEVERYou know, that is an interesting response and a common response. I remember it firsthand. I remember how horrible it was. And now, all these years later, I have also had enough time and information, which I should point out, came from the media, to reevaluate this man, this very complicated, flawed man whose presidency was not a shining success, as brief as it was. It had its, you know, it achieved a lot and it set a tone for the country, but this tragic event put him in a perspective and put him on a pedestal from which we feel weird about removing him from in order to have a frank discussion about who he really was, what he really achieved.
STUEVERAnd I think Anne's response is completely valid, you know, especially if you feel let down in hindsight, you know.
BELLANTONIWell, it's another thing to reflect on for this week. So we have Karen in Washington D.C. This will be our last caller, I believe. So Karen, you have a different perspective on all of this coverage. Briefly, if you wouldn't mind.
KARENHi. I do. I'm a nurse practitioner and I was in nursing school at University of Maryland on the day of the assassination. And the assassination of our president, regardless of who he was, whether he was Kennedy or Nixon or Eisenhower or whatever, was absolutely devastating. And to this day, I find it far more devastating than 9-11 because regular people are supposed to be vulnerable, not -- we're supposed to be a civilized country where we don't assassinate our president.
KARENAnd I think that people who forget their history are bound to repeat it. And I think the idea of saying, well, this is behind us, it doesn't happen anymore, let's focus on the future, is wrong-headed, especially, with this particular president that we now have who has had targets painted on his back and who has been -- people have suggested that he should be hanged or shot or whatever. I think that focusing on whether Kennedy was a wonderful man or not or whether it was Camelot or not is wrong.
KARENI think the issue is that a president was assassinated.
BELLANTONIThank you, Karen, for your perspective. We really...
STUEVERThat's a great point. That's a great point.
BELLANTONI...appreciate that. And we want to remind everybody again that all these resources will be at KojoShow.org. I wanted to thank very much, Hank Stuever...
STUEVERThanks for having me.
BELLANTONI...TV critic for The Washington Post, author of the books "Off Ramp: Adventures and Heartache in the American Elsewhere," "Tinsel: A Search for America's Christmas Present." Thank you.
BELLANTONIAnd I have been filling in for Kojo Nnamdi. I'm Christina Bellantoni of the PBS News Hour. Thanks very much for being here. Have a great day.
The suspect accused of murdering a Muslim teenager in Fairfax County, Va. was an undocumented resident. What role does his immigration status have when we discuss his crime?
The abduction and killing of Nabra Hassanen, a 17-year old Muslim from Reston, shocked people across the country. Members of Northern Virginia's Muslim community join Kojo to reflect on Nabra's life, how her death has affected their community and offer their perspective on Muslim life in the region.
D.C. Police Chief Peter Newsham discusses the ACLU lawsuit against MPD officers for their actions during Inauguration Day protests. And Democratic candidate for Maryland Governor Alec Ross is in studio.
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Now it seems that even an occasional Hollywood actress like Liz Hurley finds it a struggle: the nation's most famous single mother has just applied for permission to build a baby-wing extension to her Chelsea home.
While she recovers from the recent birth of Damian Charles at Sir Elton John's Windsor home, the 36-year-old has employed a firm of architects to design an extension for her £2million townhouse. This will transform a dressing room into an elaborate nursery for her month-old baby.
Hurley has applied to the planning department of Kensington and Chelsea council to have the 14ft wing built at the rear of her Victorian terrace house off the Fulham Road.
The dressing room is being stripped of floor-to-ceiling mirrors and wardrobes, ready to house 14 boxes of sky-blue furniture, clothing and toys Hurley had delivered from the Babylist boutique a few days before Damian was born. The crëche is to be built on the same floor as the other two bedrooms.
LGH Architects, of Chelsea Wharf, submitted drafts of the proposed changes to the council - at a cost of £95 to Hurley - two weeks before Damian was delivered by Caesarean section at the Portland Hospital.
The room is expected to be painted sky-blue to match the baby accessories. These include Christian Dior baby rompers and cashmere cardigans and a carved cherrywood changing unit and cot. The actress is also believed to have bought the Simon Horn nursery collection, designed in Louis Philippe style. This costs £1,299 for a changing unit, £1,899 for a cot and £1,799 for a baby armoire. In addition, she is said to have bought a Bill Amberg leather sling, a Dior baby bottle and a Gucci bottle carrier (£130).
Much of the cost of bringing up Damian could be met by US film producer Steve Bing. Hurley has agreed to allow Damian to undergo DNA tests to decide whether her wealthy former lover is the baby's father.
Mr Bing, 35, who is heir to a £400million property empire, earns about £1.5million a year and, under Californian law, he would have to pay up to 30 per cent of this in child maintenance. Miss Hurley could be entitled to as much as £40,000 a month.
She originally said DNA tests would not be necessary but Mr Bing cast doubts on her claims he fathered the child and threatened legal action, so she was left with no choice. Hurley is adamant Bing is Damian's father but the producer has said the actress had other partners while she was dating him.
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By Leah Schnurr
OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canada's main stock index was down for the second day in a row on Friday as energy shares fell alongside the price of oil and financial shares came under pressure.
U.S. crude CLc1 prices were down 1.5 percent to $59.86 a barrel after Saudi Arabia said it stood ready to raise output to new records.
The energy sector led the way down, falling 1 percent. Among the laggards, Suncor Energy (SU.TO: Quote) fell 1.1 percent to C$35.14, while Canadian Oil Sands COS.TO dropped 2.4 percent to C$9.99.
Canadian Natural Resources (CNQ.TO: Quote) tumbled 1.7 percent to C$36.06 as it was caught in the broader energy sell-off, despite saying output at its Primrose and Kirby South oil sands projects had returned to normal levels after wildfires in northeastern Alberta.
"The bigger issue for oil companies is that if oil stays around these levels, they're going to feel more pain because, especially large-cap oil companies, their cost structure is way out of whack with their returns," said Paul Harris, portfolio manager at Avenue Investment Management, in Toronto.
At 10:53 a.m. ET, the Toronto Stock Exchange's S&P/TSX composite index .GSPTSE fell 85.81 points, or 0.58 percent, to 14,745.07.
After touching a seven-month high in mid-April, the index has since waned as investors have taken in disappointing economic data on both sides of the border. The uncertainty around when the Federal Reserve will start to raise interest rates adds to the sense of a lack of direction, said Harris.
"In our view, you probably see a pullback just simply because this is a bad time of the year," said Harris. "Seasonally, people are weary of the stock market and the market seems to be wanting to go down as opposed to going up." Continued...


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Chart Beat: "Another Way To Die," Taylor Swift, Patti LuPone, Enya, AC/DC, Beyonce, Aretha Franklin
Fred discusses "Another Way To Die," Taylor Swift, Patti LuPone, AC/DC, Beyonce and more!THE 'DIE' IS CAST: Recording a James Bond theme is not a guarantee for chart success - just ask Tina Turner ("Goldeneye"), a-ha ("The Living Daylights") or Sheryl Crow ("Tomorrow Never Dies"). Jack White and Alicia Keys have avoided such a fate, as their duet "Another Way to Die" (what would have rhymed with "Solace"?) is the 13th official Bond theme to appear on the Hot 100 over the last 43 years, a run that started with Shirley Bassey's "Goldfinger" (No. 8 in 1965).
The most successful Bond theme is Duran Duran's "A View to a Kill," the only song from a 007 film to achieve pole position. Paul McCartney's "Live and Let Die" and Carly Simon's "Nobody Does It Better" both had three-week runs at No. 2. Aside from Bassey, the only other artists to have top 10 hits with Bond themes are Sheena Easton and Madonna.
"Another Way to Die" is the 16th chart entry for Keys and the first for White under his own name. He had three previous chart entries with the White Stripes:
"Seven Nation Army," No. 76 (2003)
"Blue Orchid," No. 43 (2005)
"Icky Thump," No. 26 (2007)
Here is a recap of the 13 official Bond themes to chart on the Hot 100, in order of peak position. Songs that didn't incorporate the title of the film are indicated:
No. 1: "A View to a Kill," Duran Duran (1985)
No. 2: "Live and Let Die," Paul McCartney (1973)
No. 2: "Nobody Does it Better," Carly Simon (1977) ["The Spy Who Loved Me"]
No. 4: "For Your Eyes Only," Sheena Easton (1981)
No. 8: "Goldfinger," Shirley Bassey (1965)
No. 8: "Die Another Day," Madonna (2002)
No. 25: "Thunderball," Tom Jones (1966)
No. 36: "All Time High," Rita Coolidge (1983) ["Octopussy"]
No. 44: "You Only Live Twice," Nancy Sinatra (1967)
No. 57: "Diamonds Are Forever," Shirley Bassey (1972)
No. 79: "If You Asked Me To," Patti LaBelle (1989) ["License to Kill"]
No. 79: "You Know My Name," Chris Cornell (2006) ["Casino Royale"]
No. 81: "Another Way to Die," Jack White and Alicia Keys (2008) ["Quantum of Solace"]
The list does not include songs from the 1967 film "Casino Royale" starring David Niven as an aging James Bond who comes out of retirement. This spoof, not part of official Bond canon, included the songs "The Look of Love" (No. 22 for Dusty Springfield) and Herb Alpert's recording of the title song (No. 27).
Official Bond themes have charted in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s but not the 1990s. Three 007 songs have charted this decade, continuing this fine tradition and allowing us to look forward to the next Bond song.
TAKING THE REINS: Taylor Swift rides in on her "White Horse" at No. 13 on the Hot 100, her sixth top 20 debut of 2008, breaking a record set by the Jonas Brothers for the most any artist has had in a calendar year. The Jonas Brothers had five top 20 debuts this summer.
Swift is now tied for second place with Mariah Carey and the Beatles for the most top 20 debuts in a career. One more new entry inside this elite tier will put her in a three-way tie for first place with Janet Jackson and Madonna.
With five more new entries this week, Swift has a total of 13 debuts in 2008. Of those 13, 11 are from her new album, "Fearless" (Big Machine), which opens at No. 1 on The Billboard 200. It is the first No. 1 album on this chart for Swift; her eponymous debut set peaked at No. 5 in January.
On Top Country Albums, "Fearless" is Swift's third chart-topper. Her first album spent 24 weeks on top between August 2007 and July of this year. Her EP "Beautiful Eyes" debuted at No. 1 the first week in August, succeeding her own first album.
TOUR DE FORCE: The original Broadway cast album of "Evita" peaked at No. 105 on The Billboard 200 in 1980. That same year, while starring in the title role, Patti LuPone would leave the Prince Edward Theatre on Saturday nights and head over to a nightclub on 11th Avenue called Les Mouches, where for 27 weeks she performed a midnight cabaret concert.
Now, 28 years later, "Patti LuPone at Les Mouches" (Ghostlight/Sh-K-Boom) debuts at No. 25 on Top Heatseekers. LuPone is eligible for this tally because she has never charted under her own name before, despite numerous chart appearances on cast albums like "Sunset Boulevard," the 2005 revival of "Sweeney Todd" and the current revival of "Gypsy."
THE 'WINTER' TAKES IT ALL: Enya spends her 283rd week at No. 1 on Top New Age Albums, thanks to the debut of "And Winter Came..." (Reprise) in pole position. This new holiday collection is the Irish singer's sixth album to top this chart. In chronological order, her half-dozen No. 1s are:
"Shepherd Moons," 29 weeks (1992)
"The Memory of Trees," 37 weeks (1996)
"Paint the Sky With Stars - The Best of Enya," 43 weeks (1998)
"A Day Without Rain," 93 weeks (2000)
"Amarantine," 80 weeks (2005)
"And Winter Came...," one week to date (2008)
Enya's 283 weeks at No. 1 represents five years and 22 weeks on top, spread out over 16 years.
On The Billboard 200, "And Winter Came..." is new at No. 8, giving Enya her fourth top 10 title. Her highest-ranked set on this chart is "A Day Without Rain," which peaked at No. 2 in October 2001. "Rain" contained the song "Only Time," which was heard frequently as a theme for TV coverage of the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
FORM A LOVE 'TRAIN': If the Rolling Stones, U2 and Aerosmith can chart on the Hot Dance Club Play chart, why not AC/DC?
The veteran act makes its first appearance on the dance list with "Rock N Roll Train" (Columbia), which travels onto the survey at No. 48. It's the first dance chart entry for AC/DC, a group that made its initial Billboard chart appearance 31 years ago.
HOT 'SINGLE': Beyonce scores the fifth No. 1 of her career away from Destiny's Child on Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs. "Single Ladies (Put a Ring On It)" (Music World/Columbia) is Beyonce's first chart-topper since "Irreplaceable" had a nine-week reign that began two years ago this week.
Beyonce's other No. 1 hits on this chart include "Crazy in Love" (three weeks in 2003), "Baby Boy" (five weeks in 2003) and "Deja Vu" (two weeks in 2006).
HAPPY HOLIDAYS: Aretha Franklin's first solo Christmas album (she was a guest on an album of holiday songs recorded with the Four Tops) debuts on The Billboard 200 at No. 103. "This Christmas" (DMI) extends Aretha's chart span to 46 years and two weeks, dating back to the debut of "The Tender, The Moving, The Swinging Aretha Franklin" in November 1962.
"This Christmas" is Aretha's 43rd album to chart on The Billboard 200.


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Shanghai 2010
On June 2-3, IBM convened forward-thinking leaders in Shanghai, China, to explore how we can build smarter city systems.
Hosted by IBM Chairman, President and CEO Samuel J. Palmisano, SmarterCities Shanghai offered an unprecedented opportunity to hear from enterprising leaders who are enlisting public support, securing funding, locating the right partners and fast-forwarding approvals to make their cities more efficient, more productive and—in a word—smarter.
Approximately 800 leaders from 180 cities in 38 countries across Asia Pacific, Europe, the Middle East, Africa and the Americas gathered to explore how to transform critical components of their cities to become more resilient, more sustainable and more secure. After all, the health of our planet and of society depends on it.
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Session I: A Planet of SmarterCities—Seizing the Opportunities
Cities are the economic engines of sustainable economic growth for the 21st century. This session featured senior government leaders and state-owned enterprises from China who discussed the bold steps they are taking to manage rapid urbanization and drive innovation.
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Session Chair:
D.C. Chien, General Manager, Greater China Group, IBM Corporation
Sam Palmisano, Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer, IBM Corporation
Special Remarks
Madam Ma Xiuhong, Vice Minister of Commerce, People's Republic of China
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The Transformation of Shanghai
Yang Xiong, Senior Vice Mayor, City of Shanghai
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Building a Smarter Planet, City by City
Sam Palmisano, Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer, IBM Corporation
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Smart Grid: A Path to a Smarter Future
Wu Yusheng, Chief Engineer and Chief Information Officer, State Grid Corporation of China
A Conversation with:
Sam Palmisano, Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer, IBM Corporation
Wang Jianzhou, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, China Mobile
Discussion Leader: Yang Lan, Chairperson, Sun Media Group and Sun Culture Foundation
Session II: SmarterCities—A Shared Agenda
Global competition for funding, energy and talent is making leaders do more with less. Here, we explored how enterprising, forward-thinking mayors from some of the world's most rapidly growing cities have garnered support and addressed citizen concerns to embark on serious urban transformation. We looked at the broader interrelationships between cities that help to build strong regions and countries, and discussed how these forward-thinking leaders are working to differentiate their cities to attract and retain the citizens and institutions they need to compete in a knowledge-based economy. Finally, we heard about Shanghai's preparations to host Expo 2010 and the best practices it has to share with other cities of the world.
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Session Chair:
Bruno Di Leo, General Manager, Growth Markets, IBM Corporation
Special Address: The Growth of Smart, Connected Cities in Asia—A Business Perspective
Dr. Victor K. Fung, Group Chairman, Li & Fung
A Conversation with:
Dr. Chen Gang, Vice Mayor, Nanjing Municipal Government
Toshikazu Matsuoka, Chief Executive, Environmental Bureau, City of Kitakyushu
Terry Moran, AO, Secretary, Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet, Australia
Discussion Leader: Dr. Victor K. Fung, Group Chairman, Li & Fung
Special Address: Shanghai Expo and the World
Professor Zhou Hanmin, Vice Chairman of the Shanghai Expo Executive Committee and Vice Chairman of Shanghai CPPCC, Professor of Law
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Professor Zhou Hanmin, Vice Chairman of the Shanghai Expo Executive Committee and Vice Chairman of Shanghai CPPCC, Professor of Law
Discussion Leader: Yang Lan, Chairperson, Sun Media Group and Sun Culture Foundation Video
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Session III: How to Build a Smarter City
Cities today are at the intersection of major global shifts. As the world's population becomes more urban, the center of gravity of major challenge and opportunity is being shifted to cities. To respond to these changes, civic leaders are shaping their own leadership agendas and making new investments.
In this session, we heard how cities—particularly those in Asia—are taking advantage of the new opportunities created by urbanization and globalization, and how they are responding to the social and economic dimensions of these shifts. Later, we heard IBM's viewpoints on how to build a smarter city. And then broke out into several groups discussions on how to get started, hearing from seasoned leaders and subject matter experts who have implemented programs in their cities in healthcare, energy, transportation, water management, public safety and government services.
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Session Chair
Cordelia Chung, General Manager, ASEAN, IBM Corporation
Special Address: At the Intersection of Globalization and Urbanization
Dr. Fareed Zakaria, Editor, Newsweek International
A Conversation with:
Janamitra Devan, Vice President, Financial and Private Sector Development, The World Bank Group
Hiroo Mori, Senior Managing Director, Mori Building Co., Ltd. and Chairman, Shanghai World Financial Center, Ltd.
Professor Wu Zhiqiang, Assistant President, Tongji University and Chief Planner, World Expo 2010 Shanghai China
How to Build a Smarter City
Ginni Rometty, Senior Vice President, Global Sales and Distribution, IBM Corporation
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Smarter Public Safety
Public safety is essential to the health and vibrancy of a city. It is among the most important factors influencing an individual's or a business's decision to locate in, live in or visit a particular city.
Today, a host of new technologies and innovative, community-based approaches are proving effective in helping to reduce urban crime and improve emergency response measures. But reducing crime and cutting down emergency response times do not necessarily make people in cities feel "safe" in this age of large-scale urban threats. To feel secure, citizens must have confidence in the entire city environment and its ability to resist those threats, which include natural disasters, violent crime and terrorism. This level of public safety requires collaboration from many policy and operational areas—from urban planning and education, to law enforcement and social cohesion.
This session highlighted how smarter cities can use advanced technologies and innovative approaches to help anticipate and prevent crimes, to respond quickly and effectively to emergencies, to predict and plan for disruptive events like fires or floods and to enhance the overall perception of safety among their citizens.
Moderator: Mark Cleverley, Director, Strategy, Global Government Industry, IBM Corporation (1.1MB)
Dr. Jia Chen, Program Director, Innovation, Research, IBM Corporation (5.2MB)
Stephen Leane, Superintendent and Chief of Staff to the Chief Commissioner, Victoria Police (1.6MB)
Smarter Energy and Utilities
New technologies, system-level analysis, and optimization dramatically improve the delivery of a city's basic utilities: energy, gas and water. These basic utility services are the foundational elements—and, in fact, a prerequisite—for any smarter city implementation.
We can change the way power is generated, distributed and used by adding digital intelligence to the current systems to reduce outages and faults, manage demand, and integrate renewable energy sources such as wind and solar power.
By adding a layer of digital intelligence, these smart grids use sensors, meters, digital controls and analytic tools to automate, monitor and control the two-way flow of energy across operations—from power plant to plug. A power company can optimize grid performance, prevent outages, restore outages faster and allow consumers to manage energy usage right down to the individual networked appliances. Smart grids can also incorporate new sustainable energies such as wind and solar generation, and interact locally with distributed power sources or plug-in electric vehicles. The whole system becomes more efficient, reliable and adaptive—a necessity for 21st century cities.
This session offered examples of how new technologies, capabilities, vision and leadership are transforming and modernizing electricity systems around the globe, and how these are a critical foundation for other systems in our cities.
Dr. Hu Zhaoguang, Vice President and Chief Energy Specialist, State Grid Energy Research Institute of China (475KB)
Liu Jianming, President, State Grid Information & Telecommunication Co., Ltd. (7.1MB)
Smarter Government Services and Education
More effective government services and an innovative education system are the most important economic investments a country can make in its future. Government services for businesses and citizens should be readily accessible to increase the productivity of users and government agencies.
Our session explored how thoughtful and well-designed government services are making it easier for businesses to thrive and for citizens to obtain necessary support. We also discussed how, citizens are preparing to be productive in the 21st century global economy. This session reviewed the best practices that global leaders are using to ensure that their governments provide innovative services and effective education to their communities.
Moderator: Jeffrey A. Rhoda, Vice President, Public Sector, Growth Markets, IBM Corporation (1.5MB)
Alex S. Kim, Research Director, IDC Government Insights Asia/Pacific (2.5MB)
Dato' Dr. Mohd Shukor B. Hj. Mahfar, Deputy Director General, Tax Operation, Inland Revenue Board of Malaysia (258KB)
Professor Zheng Qinghua, Director, Computer Science and Technology Department and Cheung Kong Professor, Xi'an Jiaotong University (3.1MB)
Smarter Healthcare
As healthcare systems worldwide strain under escalating costs, globalization, outdated legislation, complex regulatory environments and misaligned incentives, they struggle to serve increasing patient volumes with obsolete reimbursement models. The rising incidence and cost of chronic disease and re-emerging infectious diseases only heighten the urgency of this situation, particularly in large urban settings.
The good news is that smarter healthcare systems are in fact starting to emerge and, with them, a host of best practices, better quality of care, increased efficiency, and increasing value. In this session we reviewed how national health networks can provide patient-centric, collaborative healthcare in urban and rural settings and help medically disadvantaged citizens lead better lives. We also heard about organizations that are improving patient safety and quality, increasing efficiency and contributing to overall citizen wellness through the use of health analytics.
Moderator: Irving Wladawsky-Berger, Vice President Emeritus and Consultant, IBM Corporation and Visiting Lecturer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Imperial College (623KB)
Lv Yu Bo, President, Guang Dong Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine (436KB)
Dr. Wang Shan, Professor of Surgery and President, Peking University People's Hospital (6.6MB)
Smarter Water
Simply put, we cannot exist without water. It is the lifeblood of the entire planet, yet the only thing most people in the world have been able to control about their water is turning on and off their faucets. As urban areas become increasingly developed and populated, the challenge of providing enough clean water to their inhabitants continues to grow.
Municipalities lose as much as 50 percent of their water supply through leaky infrastructure. Water flow, capacity and quality issues affect businesses and the daily lives of millions. However, with advances in technology—sophisticated sensor networks, intelligent meters, deep computing and analytics—we can now make water management smarter.
We can be more effective in how we preserve, protect and use clean water for drinking, bathing, electric power, industrial manufacturing, food production and the irrigation of crops. We can monitor, measure and analyze entire water ecosystems from rivers and reservoirs to the pumps and pipes in our homes. We can give people, businesses, communities and countries dependent on a continuing supply of freshwater—that is, all of us—a single, reliable, minute-by-minute view of our water usage.
This interactive session explored how water management is being transformed at every level, thanks to better leadership, smarter visions and new intelligent solutions and tools.
Moderator: Dr. Sharon L. Nunes, Vice President, Big Green Innovations, IBM Corporation
Smarter Transportation
The movement of people and freight across towns, between cities or around the world is critical to economic vitality and quality of life. Transportation operators must balance capacity needs while addressing four key imperatives: predicting demand and optimizing transportation infrastructure and assets; improving the end-to-end traveler and customer experience; improving operational efficiencies while reducing carbon emissions; and sustaining safety and security. To address these requirements, smarter cities must consider the multimodal transportation needs within the city and the movement between cities and countries. This will require integrating the transportation "system of systems," and moving beyond the traditional solutions of steel, asphalt and concrete to a mix of technologies such as cameras, sensors and analytics within and between transportation operators. This session examined the relationships across this "system of systems" and how to create smarter transportation that is adaptable, responsive, sustainable and affordable.
Moderator: Michael Rouse, Vice President, Distribution Sector, Growth Markets, IBM Corporation (1.2MB)
Dr. Chin Kian-Keong, Chief Engineer, Transportation and Group Director, Transportation and Ticketing Technology Group and Road Operations and Community Partnership Group, Singapore Land Transport Authority (1.5MB)
David Gray, Chairman, Queensland Motorways (1.4MB)
Hou WeiXing, Vice Director, Passenger Dedicated Line Department, Transportation Bureau, Ministry of Railways, People's Republic of China (8.8MB)
Session IV: The Urban System of Systems—Making the Case
The benefits of city growth are far-reaching, and multiple players have a stake. This session will explore urban subsystems—and how they overlap, support and influence each other to improve the mechanical functioning of the city and its quality of life. We brought together some of the experts from our breakout session—from academics to industry leaders and urban planners—to take a systemic look at how to tackle structural problems horizontally across the urban spectrum.
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Session Chair:
Glen Boreham, Managing Director, Australia and New Zealand, IBM Corporation
Special Address: The City—A Machine for Living, A System of Systems
Dr. Liu Thai-Ker, Chairman, Centre for Liveable Cities, City of Singapore and Director, RSP Architects Planners & Engineers (Pte) Ltd
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Dr. Mohamed Baka, Advisor to the Chairman, Abu Dhabi Water & Electricity Authority and Chairman, UAE IT Forum
David Gray, Chairman, Queensland Motorways
George Maltabarow, Managing Director, EnergyAustralia
Dr. Wang Xiaolan, Greater China Commercial Director, Dow Water & Process Solutions
Discussion Leader: Dr. Nick Leon, Director, Design London at Imperial College London and the Royal College of Art
Session V: Investing in the SmarterCities Innovation Ecosystem
Around the world, governments are working closely with venture capitalists for economic recovery and growth. Here, top global investors discussed how they are driving transformative innovation by investing in smarter urban ecosystems in the growth markets.
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Session Chair:
Claudia Fan Munce, Managing Director, Venture Capital Group and Vice President, Corporate Strategy, IBM Corporation
A Conversation with:
Ira Ehrenpreis, General Partner, Technology Partners
Promod Haque, Managing Partner, Norwest Venture Partners
David Schwab, Managing Director, Sierra Ventures
Discussion Leader: Thomas G. Tsao, Co-founder and Partner, Gobi Partners
Session VI: Leadership in the Decade of Smart
Cities—more than states, provinces or even nations—are clearly the platform on which to make 21st century life more productive, more efficient and more vibrant. Yet, if we're really going to drive meaningful change, we need to get a lot smarter. We concluded the event with practical ideas on how to seize this historic moment to transform our cities.
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Session Chair:
Sam Palmisano, Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer, IBM Corporation
Special Address: SmarterCities—The View from a Global Bank
Stephen Green, Group Chairman, HSBC Holdings plc
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Stephen Green, Group Chairman, HSBC Holdings plc
Sam Palmisano, Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer, IBM Corporation
Discussion Leader: Dr. Fareed Zakaria, Editor, Newsweek International
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Winter 2011 Newsletter
Consortium Meets at Oregon State
Members of the Hybrid Hazelnut Consortium met at Oregon State University in Corvallis, Ore., August 30-September 2, for their annual meeting and to view first-hand the work of Oregon State University and Oregon hazelnut growers.
Those attending got a detailed look at Oregon State's hazelnut breeding program and toured OSU's Smith Farm plus several hazelnut industry sites including growers, a nursery, wholesaler, equipment dealer and packing company.
Oregon State University began hazelnut research in 1969, and Dr. Shawn Mehlenbacher was hired in 1986. The focus of OSU's program has been on developing new hazelnut cultivars for the Oregon hazelnut industry. Eastern Filbert Blight (EFB) resistance, microsatellite marker development and DNA markers for EFB resistance are now part of this effort. Their work also includes global germplasm exploration and collection to increase the world's largest hazelnut germplasm collection.
About 4,000 seedlings are planted yearly (100 each of 40 crosses) on 65 acres of OSU's Smith Field Farm near Corvallis. After years of intense screening, the 4,000 plants are whittled down to 25-30 possibilities for the breeding program. The best trees are layered, banded, and sent to the nursery for a year, then placed in a field trial. Nut data is taken in years 3-7.
Work is Ahead of Schedule
The Hybrid Hazelnut Consortium's progress in the tasks outlined in the three-year Scope of Work of the CSREES/USDA Specialty Crops grant is well ahead of schedule.
Genome Sequencing Continues
Major work in progress includes sequencing the
Jefferson hazelnut genome using Illumina technology, which is nearly complete. Understanding its genetic diversity will help HHC researchers manage the collection and choose parents and seedlings based on markertrait associations. The genome sequence could be the basis for additional funding in the future, said Dr. Mehlenbacher. The next big step, he said, is mapping the incompatibility marker.
EFB Test Developed
Dr. Tom Molnar and Rutgers ashsociates have developed a test to detect Anisogramma anomala, the pathogen that causes EFB in hazelnuts. They next plan to evaluate native hazelnuts for A. anomala. The Consortium is actively seeking wild hazelnuts to continue its work in developing EFB-resistant, climatically adapted hybrid hazelnuts.
Rutgers HHC researchers also have identified EFB-resistant plants from those collected in Russia and Crimea. More than 2,000 progeny from about 10 resistant plants have been created and inoculated with EFB. Some of these plants are being tested and evaluated in Nebraska and Oregon as well as New Jersey. Other work includes searching for EFB resistance in new germplasm collections from Georgia and from previous germplasm collection trips to Eastern Europe.
Rutgers also is evaluating the response of OSU hazelnut selections to EFB, including new sources of resistance and advanced-generation hybrids that showed a high level of EFB resistance in Oregon. Many of the plants were established 3-4 years ago and the results of yearly inoculations are being seen.
In all, Rutgers has more than 18,000 progeny in its greenhouse and fields segregated for EFB resistance directly or through advanced-generation progeny of other resistant hybrids and plants from OSU, Arbor Day Foundation (ADF), Georgia, Russia, Turkey, Uzbekistan, Poland, Estonia, Latvia and other locations. They will be planted in New Jersey for the first time in spring 2011 and over the next two years will yield a significant amount of information about their viability.
Nebraska Planting Site Readied; Top Arbor Day Foundation Hybrids Selected
In Nebraska, an additionalv40 acres have been cleared at the Nebraska Forest Service's Horning Farm for hazel and future nut research and demonstration plantings. Leveraging the USDA grant funding by tapping other funding sources, a well providing water and associated distribution system for drip irrigation for the entire field has been installed, nut-processing equipment has been acquired and a 30 x 90-foot shade house constructed. In spring, 1,546 seedlings developed at Rutgers and Oregon State will be planted at Horning Farm to test for disease resistance and weather hardiness.
Nuts from the top 25 hybrids in the Arbor Day Foundation's orchard in Nebraska City and commercial nut cultivars from Oregon have been sent to the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's Industrial Agricultural Products Center lab to test for oil qualities.
Oil Content Analysis Begins
The lab has received nuts from all HHC sites and to date has conducted a nutritional composition breakdown on those received from ADF; the shells are being evaluated for gasification. Researchers also are looking at the potential of shell byproducts for use as fuel and landscape material. Shell char also might be used as fertilizer in organic systems, and pelletizing as a solid fuel shows promise. An area of particular interest is the presence of taxane in hazelnut shells. Taxanes have been used to make chemotherapy drugs.
One of the next steps in the oil analysis is to test for taste and oil content among the top cultivars. Taste is important for the confectionery and cooking oil markets and high oil content is desirable for potential biodiesel production.
Rutgers Hosts Field Day
HHC members continue with outreach activities in each geographic area. Rutgers held a field day in July 2010 with more than 80 people attending including extension agents, professors, farmers, potential growers and gardening enthusiasts. The day included tours of research plots and presentations by Rutgers lead researcher Dr. Tom Molnar, Ferrero Inc. (the hazelnut candy manufacturer) and Arbor Day Foundation. Dr. Molnar reports that the day yielded about eight potential new locations for on-farm trials of plants developed through the HHC breeding program.
Nebraska Forest Service Issues News Release
A news release announcing the CSREES grant resulted in coverage in more than 55 national and local news outlets, including usatoday.com; msnbc.com; forbes.com; finance.yahoo.com; canadianbusiness.com and businessweek.com. A story on the Consortium's work, "Hazelnuts: Not Only for Food, But Fuel," can be found here on the ABC News website.
The response to the announcement indicates widespread interest in the Consortium's work but also points to the need to create awareness without raising unrealistic expectations due to the long-term timeline of this research effort.
Outreach will continue via the HHC website, publications and presentations, and potentially through social networking, videos and visits with Congressional delegations.
Ferrero Agreement Could Serve as Model
When Italy-based Ferrero, maker of Ferrero-Roche and Nutella hazelnut products, established a new plant in Bradford, Ontario, the company imported 6,000 tons of hazelnuts the first year. The number grew to 10,000 tons in 2010, with projections of 25,000 tons needed annually in the future.
Ferrero would like to acquire hazelnuts locally for the Bradford plant, and is working with various people to accomplish this, including the HHC's Dr. Molnar and Adam Dale from the University of Guelph in Ontario. Both are among those working to establish hazelnuts as a viable crop in the area.
A group comprised of Ferrero, Guelph University, Canadian government officials and business interests is working to develop a business plan that would outline a value chain from hazelnut propagation to final product.
At the Corvallis meetings Dale and graduate student Walter Garrison updated Consortium members on their work to establish a local hazelnut supply in Ontario. Dale is interested in partnering with the Consortium to develop cold-hardy, disease-resistant hazelnuts that could be produced in the quantity needed to supply Ferrero. The Consortium will establish an agreement with Dale designating him as a research affiliate and allow him to test HHC materials. All materials will be covered by a Materials Transfer Agreement.
As the Consortium's work expands in the future, the agreement with Dale may serve as a model for work with other growers and researchers.
Advisory Board Set
The Consortium's newly established Advisory Board was introduced and met for the first time via conference call during the Corvallis meeting.
Advisory Board members are:
- Jeff Olsen
Horticulturist, Oregon State University Extension
- Jay Pschiedt
Plant Pathology Specialist, Oregon State University Extension
- Rich Birkemeier
Oregon Hazelnut Commission vice chairman; Oregon hazelnut grower
- Dennis Fullbright
Northern Nut Growers Association vice president; Professor of Plant Pathology, Michigan State University
- John Knorr
Nebraska Nut Growers Association president; Heartland Nuts
NMore board member
- Bill Kruidenier
Arbor Day Foundation board member; Coordinator of External Relations, University of Illinois


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TBILISI – The European Union on Monday condemned the violent disruption of a gay rights rally in Georgia by thousands of ultra-conservative Orthodox church supporters led by priests.
The EU office in Georgia's capital said in a statement it "was dismayed by the scenes of brutal intolerance and violence committed by some demonstrators on 17 May with a declared desire to prevent other demonstrators from expressing themselves peacefully."
Scores of gay rights activists were forced Friday to flee a rally in Tbilisi organized to mark International Day against Homophobia, after thousands of Orthodox supporters headed by black-robed priests broke through police cordons.
Activists had to board buses provided by police to escape the mob, which charged after them across Tbilisi's main square hurling stones, breaking windows and threatening to kill them.


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Students line up for tacos at the taco truck in Red Square. The truck will be on campus for one final day on Friday, Nov. 16. Courtesy photo
International Ed Week wraps up today
Friday, November 16, 2012 - 9:45am
International Education Week at Western Washington University wraps up with a spate of events Friday:
- Education Abroad Expo: 10 a.m. – noon | VU 567
Thinking about giving your Western experience a culture shift by studying, volunteering or doing service-learning abroad? Curious about the International Studies minor? Come explore your options, ask questions and figure out which program fits your needs.
- Lecture: 2-3 p.m. | VU 552
"Creating and Sustaining Mutual International Student Exchange Programs: The Case of ZU-WWU," featuring Kristen Parris, associate professor of Political Science, Western Washington University
- Food: Global Eats!
International plates at the dining halls and final day of the Red Square Taco Truck.
- Folly: 10 a.m. - 3 p.m. | Miller Hall Collaborative Space
Curious about where fellow students have traveled or what's on everyone's bucket list? This is your chance to put your pin in the map.
Students line up for tacos at the taco truck in Red Square. The truck will be on campus for one final day on Friday, Nov. 16. Courtesy photo
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I just went online and read the Boy Scout Oath and Law, something I hadn't done since I was a Scout (and, yes, they had Scouting in my ancient days). I don't see anything in them that would preclude a gay young man or leader per se from joining the Scouts. Both are full of virtuous stuff we'd want any youth, gay or not, to adopt.
Scout Oath: "On my honor I will do my best to do my duty to God and my country and to obey the Scout Law; to help other people at all times; to keep myself physically strong, mentally awake, and morally straight."
Scout Law: "A Scout is: trustworthy, loyal, helpful, friendly, courteous, kind, obedient, cheerful, thrifty, brave, clean, reverent."
Even if you think being gay is immoral, it seems the best thing would be to assimilate gays into this value system, not ostracize them. In fact, "The mission of the Boy Scouts of America is to prepare young people to make ethical and moral choices over their lifetimes by instilling in them the values of the Scout Oath and Law." That applies to young gay people, too.
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Salt Lake City


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Nurturing the curiosity in your mind to the engineering and digital world.
The Centre for Energy Systems (CES) aspires to be the centre of excellence in the learning and development of clean energy technology, electrical power system and green transportation. It supports the diploma courses in our School of Electrical & Electronic Engineering. The main R&D areas of the CES are in renewables application, energy efficiency, microgrids and smart grids, green transportation and environment. The Centre actively seeks collaborations to develop solutions for industry applications.
Capabilities and Technical Services
The centre specialises in energy systems and green transportation. It provides realistic demonstration of emerging technologies and practices in the areas of solar photovoltaic, wind energy, microgrids and smart grids, electrical power systems and green transportation systems.
The Centre promotes a wide spectrum of projects undertaken by students and staffs. Some of the achievements and past projects are shown below.
This system, built in 1996 is for research on solar and wind hybrid operation. It is composed of the following: 2.1kW solar PV system, 2.5kW wind generator and energy storage. The system converts both solar and wind energy into electrical energy for electrical appliances in the laboratory or is stored in the battery bank.
This system, installed in 1996, is to study the performance of a PV system connected to the power grid. It consists of four 4.8kW mono-crystalline solar PV systems. The systems are connected to a low voltage grid and supply the power to the teaching blocks. The system has been operating successfully since its installation.
The test bed consists of two different systems: one with 10 different PV technologies and another with 13 different installations. The main objectives of this EDB project are to study the performance of various PV technologies in the tropical region and to investigate the impact of different installations on the energy yield of PV system in Singapore.
EDB CERP project, funded by NRF, in collaboration with Grenzone Pte Ltd, Singapore and National University of Singapore (NUS). The project aims to develop new solar PVT collectors to convert solar energy into electrical energy and thermal energy simultaneously and set up a PVT test-bed in Singapore Polytechnic to conduct experiments on the new PVT collectors.
Singapore Polytechnic has been selected by EDB to set up a PV data centre that is capable of monitoring, collecting, analysing and recording the data of ten solar PV systems located at different sites in Singapore. The data analysis will help designers, installers and users of PV system to understand the performance of PV systems installed at different locations of Singapore.
MicroGrid system, a modern concept for a small-scale localized electricity generation and distribution system, has been developed and operated in SP. The system, integrating different energy sources and energy storages, is able to operate in two different modes: "island" mode" and "grid-connected" mode. Research is underway to optimize the control of the micro-grid system and its efficiency for further commercial applications.
A few new types of high performance power electronic drivers for high power LEDs have been successfully developed and commissioned in industrial environment for area lightings applications. The most notable one being the lighting up of the water features of Terminal 3 of Changi Airport in 2010.
Green Transportation projects
Some of our project partners from government agencies, academia and industries:
The project aims to develop an intelligent, modularly designed grid-connnected DC microgrid control system. Such a system will minimize the negative impact of the distributed renewable energy that are generated from solar PVs and wind turbines, thereby enhancing smart grid performance in terms of system efficiency, stability and reliability.
The project aims to develop a standalone mobile power network management system that is capable of integrating multiple small gensets as well as small renewable sources. This is done through power electronics-based converters, resulting in a mobile microgrid power system with high power capacity and energy efficiency.
The object of this project is to develop commercial prototypes of solar PV inverter systems with the capabilities of controlling the active and reactive power flow from the grid in order to achieve high-quality load voltage across sensitive loads and reduced total harmonic distortion (THD) of the grid current caused by non-linear loads.
4. Solar PV-Thermal (PVT) collector and system (MOE)
The project aims to design and develop a novel and compact PVT collector and its smart management system that integrates solar PV and solar thermal systems to achieve improved overall energy efficiency and energy density.
The centre conducts courses and seminars in the following areas:
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The No. 3 Wisconsin men's hockey team has sold out two more home games, setting a school-record with four Kohl Center sellouts.
The Kohl Center, which seats 15,237 people for hockey, is sold out Feb. 5-6 for Wisconsin's series versus Minnesota and Feb. 19 when UW hosts No. 2 Colorado College. The Badgers had previously sold out a Jan. 15 contest against Alaska Anchorage. There are approximately 3,000 tickets left for the Feb. 18 contest against Colorado College.
Fans nominate nine Badgers for Hobey Baker
Fans showed their love for the Wisconsin men's hockey team by nominating nine athletes for the Hobey Baker Memorial Award, which goes to the best college hockey player in the nation. Senior netminder Bernd Bruckler, junior right winger Ryan MacMurchy, sophomore forward Robbie Earl and freshman center Joe Pavelski all advanced to the second round of fan voting.
Fans can visit www.hobeybaker.com and vote for their top three players once a day in the second phase. The voting ends March 6.
Other Badgers nominated in the first phase include junior forward Adam Burish, sophomore forward Ross Carlson, sophomore forward Jake Dowell, junior center Nick Licari and sophomore defenseman Jeff Likens.
In the polls…
The men's hockey team (19-6-1 overall) moved up two spots to No. 3 in the U.S. College Hockey Online poll and the USA Today/USA Hockey Magazine poll after it swept Notre Dame 2-0 both Friday and Saturday nights. The team is tied for 11th in the PairWise ranking, which is designed to mimic NCAA tournament selection criteria.
The Wisconsin women's team (18-5-1) remained at No. 4 in the USCHO.com poll after convincingly sweeping North Dakota over the weekend. The team is also No. 4 in the PairWise rankings and No. 4 in the USA Today/American Hockey Magazine poll.
Three former Badgers invited to Senior Bowl
Guards Dan Buenning and Jonathan Clinkscale, and defensive tackle Anttaj Hawthorne are all on the roster for the 2005 Senior Bowl, played Jan. 29 in Mobile, Ala. The game combines allows some of the top college seniors in the country to work with the NFL coaching staffs who coach the game. The three former Badgers are on the North squad, which is coached by the Oakland Raiders.


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Poor research Matt and a desire to if possible hype up any gun articles combine to as you say, further misinform the masses and extend or even amplify all the erroneous info out there.
They do us a great disservice - partly intentionally sometimes but often too thru as you say, shere ignorance - which I find inexcusable.
Good for you writing in about it - it just might help - we can dream.


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Davey, Marie and the others who join them struggle to decipher and learn the tribe's unwritten tongue. Within a few years the Wilo are reading and writing in their own language. But they want more. They want to know what "God's Talk" says. They hope there is something more to life than the vicious cycle of fearing and appeasing the spirits.
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When Davey Jank started a new life as a missionary among a remote tribe in the Amazon jungle, he entered a world most of us will never encounter: a world where witchcraft and shamanism are the trade of the powerful; where fear drives a timid and isolated society to acts of desperation and the brink of despair; where God's Word has not been heard.
Davey and his wife, Marie--and the others who later join in the mission--struggle to decipher and learn the unwritten language of the tribe. It takes years of comical and tragic misunderstandings, correction, and painstaking effort. Years in which the Wilo people, sometimes patiently and sometimes not so patiently, wait to learn what "God's Talk" says.
Our Witchdoctors Are Too Weak is Davey and Marie's honest and inspiring account of their more than ten years among the Wilos. Their modern-day miracle is sure to revitalize the reader's desire to spread God's Word to every corner of the world.
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Steph Blogging for BooksOntario, CanadaAge: 45-54Gender: female5 Stars Out Of 5A New FavouriteSeptember 17, 2011Steph Blogging for BooksOntario, CanadaAge: 45-54Gender: femaleQuality: 5Value: 5Meets Expectations: 5A book about grammar, syntax, and an unwritten language. A book about missionaries in a far away jungle.
Now, before you shake your head and say, "That's not for me," let me tell you why this book is now one of my favourites.
From the first page, the author is all the things I admire most - not just in an author, but in a human being. Honest. Transparent. Real.
On one hand, I'm willing to excuse mediocre writing if I really care about the characters. On the other, I'm willing to read a book in practically any genre if the writing carries me away. And then there are the rare and delightful finds, books with characters that draw me in and stories that transport me to another place. This is one of those books.
I'm a visual learner, and the Janks paint a vivid picture. It's as if I'm sitting in my living room with them, watching a home movie of their adventures and hearing them tell me all about their lives among the Wilo people. Relationships are what life is all about, and I feel as if I've made two new friends.
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ValerieBC, CanadaAge: 45-54Gender: female5 Stars Out Of 5Teaching 'God Talk'July 5, 2011ValerieBC, CanadaAge: 45-54Gender: femaleQuality: 5Value: 5Meets Expectations: 5Deep in the Amazon jungle, the Wilo people waited for a missionary to come teach them "God's Talk." They'd heard bits of it in Spanish and other tribal languages (which none of them spoke fluently) and they'd been asking for twenty-five years for someone to come explain it to them. Davey Jank was the answer to their request, and over time he was joined by several other people, including his wife, Marie, intent on learning the Wilo language and culture. There's no Rosetta Stone for Wilo! Davey and his partners had to learn it the hard way, and it took ten years before they understood well enough to begin teaching "God's Talk." New Tribes Mission advocates chronological teaching from Genesis onward, laying the groundwork for understanding what Jesus' sacrifice really means.
The tribal people found the strangers to be extremely interesting and spent hours peering in the windows and doors. Early on, Davey records:
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Davey and Marie's story, Our Witchdoctors are too Weak: The Rebirth of an Amazon Tribe, is told in an anecdotal style with a wry sense of humor. If you're interested in reading a contemporary tale of primitive people seeking truth, you will enjoy this true account.
temo5 Stars Out Of 5A literary missions tripMay 17, 2011temoQuality: 5Value: 5Meets Expectations: 5Davey and Marie Jank bring the Amazon jungle to life in this quirky and fun book. The short chapters touch on so many aspects of jungle life and cross-cultural ministry, but the under-riding theme throughout the book is a people (the Wilo tribe) who have been longing for someone to unlock for them the message of God's Talk. What sort of people does it take to bring God's Word to a remote tribe? You might be surprised to find out.
Nina4 Stars Out Of 5wonderfully amazingApril 14, 2011NinaQuality: 4Value: 5Meets Expectations: 4I was so amazed at the amount of sacrifice that our missionaries must endure to get a bible translated into another language.This book gave me great respect for their hard work to serve a people whom God loves.
Anita Draper5 Stars Out Of 5This book is a treasure!April 6, 2011Anita DraperQuality: 5Value: 5Meets Expectations: 4I don't usually read non-fiction and yet I really enjoyed this book. The author is very humorous and writes in an entertaining style that enthralled me. Several times I laughed out loud at the descriptions presented on everything from housecleaning ants to the Wilos lack of a word for `no'. Steadfast in his faith, the author sets out to learn the language and customs of an Amazon tribe who requested missionaries to teach them about 'God's talk'. He faces witchcraft in action, tribal traditions and dangerous situations while struggling to learn the Wilo language.
I wish the author had included more about his courtship with his coauthor since they met in the jungle and continued the work together, but perhaps that's a subject for another book.
This book would interest anyone who ever wondered what a missionary's life is about. It entails some of the harsh decisions missionaries face while preparing people to receive God's Word and tells of the joys of salvation by a people who waited over 25 yrs to learn how much God loves them. Even if you've never had the urge to travel this foreign path, this book will bless you with hope in the knowledge that the Gospel is being spread.
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In Sunday's victory, Connor Powers hit the game-tying home run in the eighth inning. For Powers, it was his team-best eighth home run of the season but first in this tournament. In the tenth inning. Powers again started things with a leadoff walk. A wild pitch moved him to second base and a Cody Freeman single brought Powers home.
Jaron Shepherd drew a walk. Ryan Collins followed with an RBI-single plating a critical insurance score for the Maroon and White.
MSU pitching sparkled in the second game win. Caleb Reed threw 5.1 innings in relief of starter Luke Bole. Reed allowed three hits and no runs, with five strikeouts and no walks. Bole was touched for two runs in the TAM-CC first inning. Ben Bracewell threw two scoreless innings of relief, giving way to C.C. Watson.
Watson (2-0) got a critical double play ball to work the Bulldogs out of a tight spot in the ninth inning. The freshman left-hander worked around a two-out walk to retire the side and close out the victory in the tenth inning.
The Bulldogs finished with 10 hits. Freeman led the way with three hits, while Powers had his 10th multi-hit game of the season. Jonathan Ogden also had two hits.
The Islanders finished with six hits. Chris Vergne had two hits for TAM-CC.
In the opener, a three-run ninth inning was not a big enough rally.
The Islanders took advantage of three MSU errors to build a 6-1 lead in the top half of the fifth inning. The Bulldogs rallied with a pair of runs in the home half of the fifth inning and three more scores in the ninth inning.
In the ninth inning, pinch hitter Wes Thigpen started things with a leadoff single. Nick Vickerson then drew a walk. Luke Adkins reached as a hit batsman loading the bases. Connor Powers then popped up on the infield.
Cody Freeman followed with a two-run single and Jet Butler had an RBI-single. Back-to-back popups closed out the contest as the Bulldogs stranded the potential game-tying runs on the bases.
MSU finished with 11 hits. Adkins, Freeman, Butler and Ryan Duffy all had multiple hits. Duffy hit his second home run of the season in the second inning.
Trey Hernandez had three RBIs for the Islanders, who finished with 13 hits.
Starting pitcher Devin Jones (1-1) worked 4.1 innings and took the loss. Jones allowed seven hits and six runs (four earned), with two strikeouts and two walks. Chad Girodo and Greg Houston worked in relief.
For the Bulldogs, Powers and Collins were named to the all-tournament team.
The Bulldogs host Mississippi Valley State at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday.