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by Adam McCulloch
Gerry Robinson's illuminating analysis of the dementia care home sector showed the need for far better training and standards (BBC2 Tuesday 9pm).
As he says, the business model for care homes is not too challenging for any half decent businessman or woman: it is akin to that of a hotel where the number of guests remains relatively constant and occupancy is continually high. He says homes are often making a 30% profit.
Care home improvement has recently been highlighted in Community Care, through coverage of the My Home Life project (p30, 12 November).
One owner was interviewed in his £4m stately home, although, admittedly he was facing financial problems and was looking to sell.
The programme linked the failure of homes to make money with a failureto provide high standards of care. Dementia care mapping, in whichresidents are monitored on an almost minute-by-minute basis, andconstantly engaged one-to-one, was presented as goodpractice. It is an approach similar to that employed in good pre-schoolestablishments where children have their own keyworkers ensuring thatthe child is involved in activity throughout the day.
Care home owners were often seen to be shortsighted. They appearedoverly managerial, focusing on reducing costs, often through measureslike withdrawing free snacks for nightstaff. Robinson described thiskind of penny-pinching approach as serving only to threaten staffmorale and reduce care quality, which had a knock-on effect onstandards and ratings, and thus, profitibility.
Unhappy staff
The staff in one of the 'failing' homes told Robinson of theirunhappiness, one young woman telling him that kitchen staff sometimesbecame carers without any training. Again the lack of free hot food forstaff on long shifts, up to 12 hours, was cited.
Overall, Robinson highlighted the lack of trained staff in the dementiacare sector as its major problem. Care home owners by implication were not always able to recognise this as a threat toquality and profitibility.
The home where dementia care mapping was used appeared a far happierenvironment.
High staffing levels
There were no lounges full of slumped older peopleresigned to boredom in front of a TV. An abundance of activity involving residents wastaking place. But there appeared at a glance to be very high staffinglevels, yet Robinson said this home's fees were no more than many. Itwould be interesting to find out how homes can manage this quality andstill generate the same returns. Perhaps this is a topic part two will return to.
Useful links:
Critical, but informed review from The Guardian
Anchor Trust's Victoria Metcalfe on dementia mapping
National Dementia Strategy
Joseph Rowntree Foundations' guidance on best practice in care homes
Judith's story – a typical tale of the dementia route through hospital and, inevitably, a care home
Dementia patients discharged from hospital with bags full of drugs
The need to match the care home to the severity of the dementia
Fighting Monsters blog on Gerry Robinson programme


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Residents say dangerous medevac shows King Cove's need for a road
The small community continues to fight for a "life-saving road" to an all-weather airport in Cold Bay.
ANCHORAGE – A King Cove woman remains in critical condition after being medevaced out of the small Aleutian town on Friday.
Residents said the situation highlights their need for a life-saving road to Cold Bay, one Interior Secretary Sally Jewell denied in December.
King Cove Mayor Henry Mack was in Anchorage on Tuesday to visit his sister-in-law Irene Newman, the woman the U.S. Coast Guard rushed to a hospital on Friday.
Video of the rescue shows just how bad the weather was. With his smartphone, Vincent Perino captured the Coast Guard's decent into King Cove. The helicopter is only visible for a few seconds before it disappears in the heavy snow and high winds.
The Coast Guard is the last resort for the community. On Friday, Mack said, the weather was so bad even the Coast Guard almost didn't make it.
He's said he's frustrated with Jewell's decision to protect birds in the Izembek National Wildlife Refuge instead of letting the community build a life-saving road.
Doctors were still performing tests to see if his sister-in-law might have been in heart failure by the time she got to Anchorage, he said.
"Every hour on the ground and not being at a hospital, it doesn't do your heart any good," Mack said. "We're hoping it's not serious heart problems. We could have been at the airport to life flight a lot earlier if we have a road over to Cold Bay."
Jewell visited King Cove last year and heard residents' stories of medical emergencies. One elder was medevaced out in a crab pot; a pregnant woman miscarried her baby before she was able to make it to an Anchorage hospital.
Sen. Lisa Murkowski accompanied Jewell on that trip. She said she continues to fight for King Cove residents after Jewell denied the road.
Murkowski has sent three letters to Jewell since the December decision. In her most recent letter she said, "The stress felt by the residents of King Cove, for the safety of their families, is unforgiveable. While plenty of our smallest communities face transportation challenges, none are as close to an all-weather runway and access to hospital care as King Cove. To be left in harms way, not because of geography, but because of the callous decision of Washington bureaucrats is unacceptable."
Mack said he still can't believe Jewell met with the community face-to-face and still said no to a road.
"We spent hours, many meetings with the Wildlife Service, Sally Jewell," Mack said. "They heard our stories, but apparently they never listened because of a decision that they made over a few birds over human life. So it's very disheartening."
KTVA called Jewell's office Tuesday afternoon but was unable to reach her for a comment.

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We reported President Obama's comments yesterday, but his point bears repeating: All the U.S. problems pale in comparison to the prospect of a nuclear bomb going off in a major city.
The worry isn't about other countries, but terrorists who are trying to scrape together enough loose nuclear material floating around to build a weapon.
Put starkly: What if al-Qaeda had a nuclear device on 9/11?
"This is something that could change the security landscape of this country and around the world for years to come," Obama said Sunday.
It's also the reason behind the Nuclear Security Summit: Tracking down and securing the world's nuclear material. USA TODAY's Mimi Hall previews the summit here.
The problem stems from the end of the Cold War and the break-up of the old Soviet Union, producing years of government chaos that made nuclear stockpiles vulnerable.
Here is Obama's full statement yesterday on the threat, and the challenge:
The central focus of this nuclear summit is the fact that the single biggest threat to U.S. security, both short term, medium term and long term, would be the possibility of a terrorist organization obtaining a nuclear weapon. This is something that could change the security landscape of this country and around the world for years to come.
If there was ever a detonation in New York City, or London, or Johannesburg, the ramifications economically, politically, and from a security perspective would be devastating. And we know that organizations like al-Qaeda are in the process of trying to secure a nuclear weapon -- a weapon of mass destruction that they have no compunction at using.
Unfortunately, we have a situation in which there is a lot of loose nuclear material around the world. And so the central focus for this summit is getting the international community on the path in which we are locking down that nuclear material in a very specific time frame with a specific work plan.
And one of the things that I'm very pleased about is that countries have embraced this goal and they're coming to this summit, not just talking about general statements of support but rather very specific approaches to how we can solve this profound international problem.
(Posted by David Jackson)
David's journalism career spans three decades, including coverage of five presidential elections, the Oklahoma City bombing, the 2000 Florida presidential recount and the 9/11 terrorist attacks. He has covered the White House for USA TODAY since 2005. His interests include history, politics, books, movies and college football -- not necessarily in that order. More about David
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Thanks in no small part to the old adage "It's not what you know but who you know" I recently had the opportunity to go to the NHL Entry Draft. A friends brother is an executive with the NHL so he provided my family with amazing tickets that put us in the front row of the section reserved for draftees and their families. From this vantage point my two youngest brothers, my father, and I witnessed the first round of the draft. While, in all honestly, it did get a little boring at times (it is just a sequence of names being called out) it was still pretty interesting and a neat experience that I don't regret going to at all.
We arrived just before the actual draft began so we missed most of the Commissioners opening remarks and basically just had to wait a few moments for the Blackhawks to make their first selection - a young American named Patrick Kane. He was sitting in another section reserved for players exactly opposite us inside Nationwide Arena (in Columbus, OH). In fact the first five selections were all on the opposite side of the stadium. The third pick, Kyle Turris by the Phoenix Coyotes, was upstaged by the man who announced the draft pick, none other than "The Great One" Wayne Gretzky. I believe Wayne received the loudest and longest ovation of the night - even surpassing the announcement by Commissioner Bettman that the local team, the Blue Jackets, were on the clock.
I have been a lifelong Boston Bruins fan. My seat, however, was directly behind the Montreal Canadiens table. This is their "War" table where about ten team executives sit and debate who their next pick will be. If you know anything about the Bruins you know their natural rival is, none other than, the Canadiens. While the Bruins were able to pick with the 8th overall selection (Zach Hamill) it was the Canadiens who occupied most of my attention as I regularly sent out "boos" in their general direction. Their first pick was the 12th in the draft and they picked a guy right out of high school - Ryan McDonagh. I thought that was pretty cool, but interesting all the same. The NBA recently put a block on drafting kids out of high school yet baseball and hockey continue to do so. There was an uproar when kids were drafted into the NBA - so why is the media so silent on the same drafting policy of major league baseball and hockey? Inquiring minds want to know.
I took a lot of photos of the event but many didn't come out very well because I am a poor photographer however I put up the best ones I had in an online photo album. You can also read a much more humorous review of the draft over at Page 2 on espn.com courtesy of Bill Simmons


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We really cannot believe that a poet of the seventh century had made excavations in Mycenaean graves.
Don dropped into an armchair and began to load his pipe from the Mycenaean vase.
One can but say that only within the last thirty years have we found, or, finding, have recognised Mycenaean burial records.
Mycenaean tombs and other antiquities have been found (see Cyprus).
In 1895 Dr. Tsountas found twenty arrow-heads of bronze, ten in each bundle, in a Mycenaean chamber tomb.
Lead, in fact, was perfectly familiar to the Mycenaean prime.
The resemblance to some of the finest objects of Mycenaean work is very striking.
Did a race so backward hit on an idea unknown to the Mycenaean Greeks?
The discs on the box and on the dress of the bearers suggest those which were found in such numbers in the Mycenaean shaft-graves.
Homer did not live in or describe the Mycenaean prime, with its stone arrow-tips.
1590s, "pertaining to Mycenae," the ancient city on the Argive plain, from Latin Mycenaeus, from Greek Mykenaios "of Mycenae," from Mykenai. In reference to the Aegean civilization that flourished 1500-1100 B.C.E. and was centered on Mycenae, it is from 1890s.


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WITH sandbags still standing guard outside doors, Ham-worthy flood victims are hoping this weekend's spring tides will not be accompanied by wind and rain.
Then the vulnerable homes at Fisherman's Wharf at the bottom of Blandford Road, Poole – six flats and three houses – stand the chance of escaping another torrent.
"It was like a river running through Blandford Road," said John Ruddock, whose ground floor flat was the worst affected as speeding drivers sent waves of water through homes.
On the evening of Valentine's Day water raced across the road from the direction of Sydenham's yard, rising to above knee height and threatening homes whose front doors are right on the pavement.
"Drivers were speeding through the water and pushing the water through the doors," said Narinder Chadha, who lives with his wife Nina in a Grade II-listed house.
"They were not driving slowly. I tried to get them to slow down."
With sea water flooding in through the doors, this is a repeat of 2008, after which it took him two years and a very high excess, before he could get insurance cover again.
Although the government is offering £5,000 grants from April 1 to improve a property's resistance to flooding, Mr Chadha said he was not sure this would help. "You can't change anything to the property – it's listed," he said.
John and Melanie Ruddock had to evacuate their children Megan, nearly four, and Chloe, 2½, as the waters rose.
He said they had to buy their own sandbags to barricade the doors and as dehumidifiers dried the living room they had just finished redecorating, they face at least six months in rented accommodation.
A councillor's concern
Hamworthy councillor Charmaine Parkinson and Borough of Poole officers have visited the families to give them help and advice about government schemes for flood victims.
"Residents are really upset and they are angry that nothing happened since 2008," said Cllr Parkinson.
"I really do feel for them, I'm trying to do what I can to support them. I have written to the MP and the EA and the borough."
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Celebrate the 30th Anniversary of 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off' With the Best Bueller Moments
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June 11, 1986, Ferris Bueller's Day Off was released in theaters, the tale of a mischievous teenager and his friends faking sick to pursue adventure in the city of Chicago.
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Royal Purple ATF vs. Redline ATF
This poll is for everyone who has change their transmission fluid with either Royal Purple ATF or Redline ATF
Please vote on which one you think is better, and give your reason why it is superior or why you chose it.
Hopefully this thread will help people get a better idea as to what oil they should use when the time comes to change their fluid.
Thanks and let the poll begin!:excited:
RP Diff/Tranny fluid here. Night/day difference from OEM BMW "lifetime" fluid :rofl:
Anyone else use these fluids for their transmission oil change?
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Recent Record Pickups .:Dec 20 08:.
So far my
favorites are the Shafiq, Data Bwoy, and the Clutchy Hopkins / Shawn
Lee collab. FIRE! That DJ Cam record is something I have been
searching for, and is worth the buy for the track "Success" alone.
My Design Work .:Dec 08 08:.
Here are a couple of the latest design projects I've created for the crew. Since I've moved to the bay, I decided to pursue graphic design as a career. I like to design things for the crew to keep my Photoshop skills sharp, and to add some value to my portfolio. Hope you guys like....I do plan on making the following poster a wallpaper for visitors to download.
HGB Poster Ver. 2
HGB Logo Splattered
Huge Talons .:Feb 26 08:.
So we had a visitor land on our lawn this morning. Thought it was a seagull at first, then I saw it had some talons. Most exciting thing to happen in Union City that day. I don't want to be stuck in Union City for the rest of my life.
Romali is my new girlfriend .:Nov 30 07:.
Well it's been about 5 months since I've been out here in the Bay
Area, and I really haven't had a chance to post up what I've been up
to. I'm living in the East Bay (Union City) for now...but I'll be
somewhere closer to the city sometime next year...FOR SURE. There's
less to do in Union City than there is to do in Oxnard. So until I
move, I'm in the city about 2 times a week. Romali and I were out and
about town Wednesday night...
Started the night at TRUE to drop off a mix CD order to my man Hiro. Pick 'em up! Jaba got his new Common mix out there right now.
Last time Romali was eye-ing these trainers. We called them "Optimus Primes".
After that...we picked up some "Soul Food" at the Hard Knox Cafe on 3rd Street. Romali walks an hour walk to this place about twice a month just to eat. It's that good. Corn muffins tasted like sweet cakes...that's what Romali calls me when we're alone too. No sh*t though...best corn muffins I've ever had in my life.
Gumbo was good and spicy....Romali's Blackened Catfish was no joke either.
Had some time to kill before we headed out to Skylark. Romali said he wanted to visit this place to pick up some leather chaps? Said he needed it for some "project."
Every Wednesday night my homies Junot and Strategy play at Skylark on 16th in the Mission. Kinda' reminds me of my old days playing at the Morena Club. Only difference is it's ALWAYS crackin' on a Wednesday night. Junot set up 3 decks so that we could scratch.
Ended the night with my boy JP at Farolitos. It ain't Albertos, or Adelbertos, or Sombreros, or Taco Fiesta, or Lolitas, or Super Sergio's...but it's still good. No such thing as "California Burritos" or "Carne Asada Fries" up here. All good...that's what makes San Diego what it is.
Scratching Is for Kids .:Sep 20 07:.
Skratch Sessions .:Aug 27 07:.


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TRAFFIC light sequences need to be changed to end congestion which is grinding Taunton to a halt.
That is according to Taunton Deane MP Jeremy Browne, who has urged Somerset County Council to re-phase the lights outside Pizza Express on Bridge Street.
The area is regularly gridlocked with cars queuing back into town at peak times, causing misery for commuters.
Mr Browne said: "The Third Way Bridge should be helping with traffic congestion but it is currently making it even worse at peak times.
"Cars coming from the Third Way Bridge have a very long left-filter light at the Pizza Express three-way junction but they then get held up at the next set of lights at the beginning of Staplegrove Road.
"That means hardly any cars coming from the town centre can get out when their light turns green."
During the rush hour, it can take cars up to 20 minutes to get from the Market House to the Pizza Express junction.
Frustrated motorists are regularly seen blocking the box junction in a desperate attempt to get through.
Mr Browne added: "The lights at the Pizza Express junction need to be re-phased so that fewer cars coming from the Third Way Bridge can filter left each time and some space is left for the cars coming from the town centre.
"I have written to the county council to ask them to address this problem which is causing huge frustration every day for hundreds of motorists.
"The congestion is always pretty bad in Taunton and recent road closures have made it even worse, but the problems at this junction can be addressed and they need to be sorted out as soon as possible."
A spokesman for Somerset County Council said: "The phasing of traffic lights systems is complicated but we are happy to consider the issues raised by Mr Browne and investigate whether any changes would improve the situation."
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Aston Martin has plans in two to three years to release an all-electric variant of its Rapide, it could potentially boast 1000 brake horsepower on a four wheel drive platform while also including a range of 200 miles. The creation process is already in motion in the UK, plans are being drawn up and battery […]+ Read More
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As the year winds to a close, the U.S. alternative energy car market saw a number of mileposts passed last month, including a not-insignificant 150,000 plug-in cars sold since their inception. This cumulative multi-year total is comprised of plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) and all-electric vehicles (EVs) including contribution from sales of the discontinued Tesla […]+ Read More


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PC Users Struck by Dean, but How?
We here at Infopackets have taken a few good looks at the 'Storm' Trojan virus, a bug that has been infecting unfortunate PC owners since the beginning of 2007. Now, speculation is that the Storm will take advantage of, well, the storm, capitalizing upon the public's interest in Hurricane Dean.
This is fair warning.
Although Dean is now tailing off in power as it ravages Mexico, it nonetheless remains a fairly popular news story. Its line of destruction in crossing the Caribbean captivated many of us, perhaps because of family links or vacation destinations. Regardless, we care, and it's playing right into the hands of malware goons.
Betcha didn't know...
The Storm virus, otherwise known as Peacomm, actually began life by offering news on a series of powerful wind storms that caused some significant damage to our friends across the pond. One report went so far as to proclaim, "230 dead as storm batters Europe".
The catch?
None of it was true, and those who bought in were put at risk by malware attached to the fake news.
True, no link between the Storm Trojan or Hurricane Dean has yet been made, but Symantec Corp. researchers are convinced it's only a matter of time. Alfred Huger, vice president of engineering for the company's security response group recently stated, "We expect [Storm] to again come on the back of big news items," and that could mean Dean. "As Dean lash[es] the areas around the Gulf of Mexico, don't be surprised to get emails about damage or death caused in its wake," Huger said. (source: pcworld.com)
Okay, so maybe Symantec is pushing it a bit. Dean is dying off every second as it passes over mainland Mexico, and may no longer be a story by early next week. However, the heart of the message remains this: don't just be critical of the news you read, be critical of its source and even medium. Make sure you're familiar with the email sender, and always be wary of attachments.
Finally, although Hurricane Dean is petering out, Storm, aka Peacomm, is not. Symantec reports a new variation of the virus, Peacomm.c, is now in circulation. Storm is now slamming into consumers through the promise of membership in various clubs, so careful joining that "Ping Pong Players Unite!" group you thought sounded so great. (source: channelregister.co.uk)
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China government reportedly planned to announce the preliminary result of the anti-dumping and anti-subsidy investigation on February 20, but now the announcement has been delayed, according to China-based reports.
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Published: June 6, 2011 at 4:48 PMCheetah Hunt has got to get it. New exhibit, renovated skyride, and a multilaunch coaster. Very impressive project. But I imagine the disney crowd will be pulling for Star Tours. As for Mach Tower, that ride is just having some issues with the braking apparently. Something like they ran a full test and the brakes didn't slow the ride enough for a safe landing is what I heard. Interesting, but apparently it's a new carriage design for Moser. Someone messed up somewhere.
Published: June 7, 2011 at 11:19 AMRobert: I've always found the timing of this a little odd since conceivably an attraction could open late June - have little time for audiences to experience it and vote on it and therefore and never have a shot at winning, even if it were an awesome groundbreaking attraction.
Considering, with the exception of the year-round parks, most attractions debut more or less when the park opens for the season in early to late Spring. The window to experience and vote is usually very short for new attractions at regional parks. I realize you're also helping advertise new attractions and that's good for everyone - just seems the eligibility period versus the average debut date is skewed to the Big 10 parks.
A good example might be "The Voyage" at Holiday World. It's been named the best wood coaster by Amusement Today for 4 years in a row. It debuted on May 6, 2006 giving it about 7 weeks to earn enough votes. The winner that year (Expedition Everest) was opened to annual passholders and DVC members in January (I know because I was there and couldn't ride it - so I never got to see a working Yeti) - giving it much longer to amass votes. (Grated EE probably would have won anyhow - but think how much a boost this might have brought Holiday World if The Voyage had been given an even period of time to be experienced and rated and won.)
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Published: June 7, 2011 at 2:29 PMNo sweat, Todd. Great comment.
Harry Potter opened in mid-June last year and won in a walk.
Most parks - even Disney - now try to debut their new rides around the Memorial Day weekend, if they don't open for the start of the season in March/April/May. Rarely do new rides open in the latter half of the year anymore. It would be those rides that would be at a disadvantage in this system, honestly, since in our experience, average ratings tend to diminish over time and as more and more votes are cast. A ride that debuts in June to a blast of early favorable reviews has the best shot at this reward.
That said, with so many rides debuting around the same time now, they're pretty much on an even footing to start. The public's reaction to them will determine the winner, as it should be.
Looking back, I think that the award's done a pretty good job of selecting the best attraction of its year. The Simpsons Ride over Toy Story Midway Mania might be one debate (and that was a razor-thin margin). And I still don't understand how Mystery Mine beat Maverick and Griffon. But the rest are solid.
Even Everest. Remember, at that time the Yeti worked. While Everest isn't as a great a coaster as Voyage, with a fully functional Yeti, I'd argue that Everest is a superior attraction.


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As evening falls,
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Along high walls;
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The muted city seems
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Flash, are extinguished, flash again,
To mingle and glow at last in the enormous brain
And die away . . .
As evening falls,
A dream dissolves these insubstantial walls,—
A myriad secretly gliding lights lie bare . . .
The lovers rise, the harlot combs her hair,
The dead man's face grows blue in the dizzy lamplight,
The watchman climbs the stair . . .
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The tired clown
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Feeling the praise of a thousand eyes.
As darkness falls
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Moving like music, secret and rich and warm.
How shall we live tonight? Where shall we turn?
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A thousand winding stairs lead down before us;
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Through half-lit halls which reach no end.
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The following comes from a story by Mark Kowalewski posted on the website of the International Youth Coalition.
….I want to share a personal story that details a small victory during my final years as an enlisted soldier in the United States Army opposing the "Repeal of Don't Ask Don't Tell". This policy is being used by the Department of Defense to proselytize service members away from their traditional Christian faith. As Archbishop Broglio of the Archdiocese of Military Services described it, "behind the repeal lies an agenda to force everyone to accept as normal and positive a behavior that is contrary to the moral norms of many religions, including the Catholic Church."
Following the enactment of the new policy, my battalion (300 plus soldiers) was in a mandatory training session on diversity. The training involved placing "sexual orientation" alongside race and gender as a diversity issue. The result – if I were to state my disagreement with the bedroom behavior of another, and defend natural and divine law, I am the equivalent of a racist or a sexist. I acknowledged this as an attack on religious liberty, and fully realized LGBT advocates would use their foothold in the military to bring down traditional marriage. Once homosexuality is accepted within the ranks, they would cry discrimination for not receiving the military benefits heterosexual married couples receive since their relationships were not officially recognized. Due to this realization, I walked out of the training.
I decided to look beyond the shallow waters in which the media holds the discussion of homosexuality, and thoroughly research, not only the "Repeal", but the history of the homosexual movement in the United States. I submitted my findings in a 20 plus page letter entitled "Subordination Defined" up my Chain of Command…. My letter made it clear to my leadership that I walked out of the mandatory training, and the initial 80 percent of the paper covered the following topics:
- The New Testament demands nothing less than love and respect for all people, to include those who believe the homosexual act is acceptable. However, it likewise makes it clear that true love is not to ignore or endorse immoral or destructive behavior.
- The propaganda techniques outlined by the homosexual movement that are very apparent in our present day society, to include making those who oppose the lifestyle feel they are heavily outnumbered and without hope.
- The corruption of the Repeal process to include, but not limited to, the results of the official Inspector General investigation.
- The 1973 decision by the American Psychological Association to remove homosexuality from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. A move our present day media claims was an authoritative scientific decision, yet homosexual activists of the day make it clear that it was anything but scientific.
- The vote to approve homosexual marriage in New York that involved the votes of four Republican state senators being bought.
- Children across the country (on the tax payer's dollar) being informed by teachers that their parents are lying to them if they tell them the homosexual act is immoral. It is now being taken to a level where children are allowed to actually choose their gender without parental consent, because according to the teacher, gender is a "state of mind".
My first line supervisors respected my views against the promotion of homosexuality; however prior to handing my paper to the Battalion Commander (BC), my Company Commander (CC) warned me that the BC's position on homosexuality was unknown. Since it is such a polarizing issue, if the BC supports homosexuality, on a personal level it could cause serious problems for me. On a more professional level, due to the fact that I admitted refusing orders, and I'm being insubordinate to the Commander in Chief, I could face legal action and possibly an "other than honorable discharge". Taking my CC's warning into consideration, I decided to proceed forward with my original course of action, to have my paper submitted to the BC and to arrange a closed door meeting.
Following the closed-door meeting with my BC; I sent my paper to Congress as well as the Chief of Staff of the Army. The only Congressman to respond with a personal letter and provide assistance was former Florida Congressman Allen West, who topped his response off with Joshua 1:5-9. He agreed to pass my packet off to the Army/Congress LNO so pressure could be applied from the top. I wasn't sure what the response would be from the Pentagon, but I decided to send the below letter along with "Subordination Defined" regardless:
July 15, 2012
To General Raymond Odierno:
I am SFC Mark Kowalewski, US Army, currently stationed with the XXX MI BN at Fort Meade, Maryland. I would like to begin by thanking you for your continued service to our America. Prior to joining the Army, I felt if I was on my deathbed, I would question if there was any true purpose to my life. After 10 years of service and two deployments to Iraq, I take great comfort in knowing I could die tomorrow with more accomplished in a decade than most accomplish in a full lifetime. At 33, I have already lived a life full of purpose, and it has been an honor to go to work each day surrounded by people who can say the same.
I am writing you regarding the Repeal of Don't Ask Don't Tell [DADT], as well as the diversity training the Army is currently providing which indicates that sexual orientation is a diversity issue which should be placed along side race and gender. It appears due to strong media bias, as well as service members concerned about repercussions for openly voicing opposition to the new policy, that the Repeal of DADT is a good case of "the dog that didn't bark" as our Commander in Chief stated while giving a speech in Chicago. I have decided to use this letter, as well as the attached packet as my way of barking.
After LTG Benjamin Mixon was reprimanded and forced into retirement for urging Soldiers to write their Congressman if they disagreed with the repeal, I decided to thoroughly research the repeal process as well as the history of the homosexual agenda in America, and submit my findings in a letter entitled "Subordination Defined" up my chain of command. Even though I fully understood and acknowledged the recommendations of the Pentagon Study Group, I requested early release from the military [which was denied]. I also informed my battalion commander that if I was not released, I would not take part in any diversity training from this point forward that placed sexual orientation along side race and gender as a diversity issue. I will not be reenlisting in the Army due to the manner in which the Repeal Study/Survey took place. After reading the "Report of the Comprehensive Review of the Issues Associated with a Repeal of DADT" authored by the Pentagon Study Group,as well as the official Inspector General complaint filed against the Pentagon Study Group, it is very apparent that the final results and recommendations of the repeal study were a completely dishonest hack job. A decade of war, thousands dead, and so many critically wounded; what a shame for our military to be used as nothing more than a political tool.
I will never accept sexual orientation [action/behavior based] being placed along side gender and race as a diversity issue. I will forever reject homosexuality as the "Modern Day Civil Rights" issue. Among others, one key difference between the homosexual agenda's push for acceptance of their actions, and the Civil Rights Movement of the 50s and 60s is as follows: I do not recall Martin Luther King Jr [a champion for natural and divine law] having to deceive or pay people off in order to gain equality for Black Americans.He used the truth, and the truth set them free [John 8:32]. In "Subordination Defined", I highlight several key moments in history [to include the Repeal itself] when the homosexual community, and those assisting it, did nothing but pay people off, and use tactics of deception in order to push its way into our communities. Those supporting the homosexual agenda have a strong financial backing, but they are severely misguided if they believe the truth can be bought or suppressed with money. No amount of money will ever be enough to eclipse the truth that shines down from heaven, and into the heart of every woman and man…if one would only observe [Romans 2:15].
To me, the key question is which of the following statements is true:
The homosexual agenda, with the assistance of Hollywood, the mainstream media, and now the Department of Defense [DOD], is combating bigotry and hatred, or….
The homosexual agenda, with the assistance of Hollywood, the mainstream media, and now the DOD, is combating the good conscience of many Americans who are trying to do everything they can to hold onto a moral, value based America; one that is quickly slipping away….
Very Respectfully Submitted,
SFC Mark Kowalewski
I concluded my paper "Subordination Defined" with the following three sections:
- Subordination Explained: I demanded early release from my military contract for no other reason than to show my rejection the Pentagon Study Group's recommendation: that service members shall not be released early if they oppose repeal. I then made it clear if I was not released; my command can expect nothing but my complete subordination for the remainder of my contract. That being: I will refuse to attend, or inform any of my subordinates, about all mandatory training that places "sexual orientation" alongside race and gender as a diversity issue. I do not seek punishment, but I will accept punishment before I comply with the new policy. This doesn't sound like subordination explained? I will clarify….
- Subordination in Action: I included a picture of Pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer (Lutheran) and Saint Thomas More (Catholic). Below each picture, I provided a brief paragraph of their final moments, dying for Christ while standing in opposition with man. And then, I concluded my paper with the obvious definition….
- Subordination Defined: Subordination in its truest sense, is being subordinate to the Supreme Commander in Chief, even in the face of heavy punishment from man.
I never received a response from General Odierno. My opposition was well received by my BC; however he had to balance his own personal feelings against his job as a commander: to enforce policy. He told me early release from my contract would not be authorized based on the Pentagon's recommendation. He said, however, that he would pass my paper off to the Brigade Commander and the Brigade Chaplain to see if any adjustments could be made to the training. If not, at the very least, I would no longer have to attend. At the following diversity training, all references to sexual orientation and homosexuality were removed and no longer observed by the 300 plus soldiers in my battalion (at least for the remainder of my enlistment).
There is a serious problem with proselytizing in the military, the leading culprit being the Pentagon; attempting to force service members on a large scale to reject traditional Christianity and at the very least, reprimanding those who refuse to comply. The Joint Chiefs of our military are in lockstep with secular progressives that are destroying the soul of our country under "moral relativity". Regardless of the issue, this is no time for good, moral citizens to stand by and watch quietly. Uncle Sam is bleeding out, and help is desperately needed.
To read my collection of letters in their entirety, click here.
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Tony, growing up in the Daytona Beach area, how special was it to win the pole for the Daytona 500 earlier this year, and what are your goals heading into this weekend's Coke Zero 400?
TONY GIBSON: Well, it was obviously extremely gratifying to go down there and run well. To go to your hometown where I grew up and all your friends and family, and to go there and to do something that is pretty amazing, to make history, to just be a part of that is incredible. It was something that obviously will never be done again, and I feel real fortunate to be a part of that.
I've got to thank Go Daddy, Danica and StewartâHaas Racing and all my guys for sticking through the testing and the building of cars and going and doing all the things it takes to go down there and put those two laps together and make history. It was pretty crazy, too, with all the media and all the hype going into it, and actually the pressure of actually testing well and going down there and repeating and making it happen, it was a huge relief, but it was also very gratifying and probably ranks up there as probably one of the greatest things I've accomplished in my career.
Goals for July are the same as they were in February when we went to Daytona: We want to go down there and we want to make a statement. We want to try to sit on the pole again, obviously, and this time come up a few spots further up. We felt like we had a shot to win it, ran in the top three or four all day and had a fast car, and it came down to the last lap and kind of got snookered a little bit there at the end. But we felt like we were definitely in contention to win it, so we're going back there with the same mindset, to try to be the fastest car in qualifying and try to close the deal at the end of this thing.
Q. With all the spotlight being on you, when you get a good result like a pole and you go through the season and you still have more than average attention being directed to you with Danica, could you kind of explain what that's like with your team? Your team gets a little bit more of a microscope than a lot of other teams.
TONY GIBSON: Yeah, we do, and we knew that going into it. Most of us on the 10 car, most of my guys were with me when we were with Dale Jr. at DEI, and we've been through some of the microscope deal with a highâprofile driver. So we were kind of used to it. At least we thought we were.
But obviously it's a little bit more than that with Danica. The fan base is a little more spread out. There's kids and little girls and boys and women and men, and she has a huge fan base now. You're dealing with a lot of different folks at the racetrack and talking to different people and things like that.
It's a little different than what we've experienced in the past. So moving forward you want to please everybody. You want your performance to be good because you don't want to let your fans down. You don't want to let her fans down. When you've got to look a little girl in the eye and she asks you what happened last week or why didn't Danica win, it's pretty hard to come up with an answer that's going to satisfy a little girl.
But it's crazy. It's different. But we approach every week the same. We want to go in, and we set goals, and we want to do the best we can every week as a team, and we want to build a stronger team and a relationship with Danica because it's only going to help us down the road.
But the demands to perform and run better and to do things like that seem to be a little higher than they were because of the expectations she puts on herself and that the fans want to see her do good. So that's a little bit different for us.
That's been a little bit of a struggle for us to get our hands wrapped around and absorbing that and trying to make things ââ try to justify each thing we do and keep ourselves in check, you know.
Q. And being from the Daytona area, do you believe that there's anything of a homeâfield advantage for a NASCAR team?
TONY GIBSON: Well, I think there is. I think for me I have a lot of family down there, a lot of friends, and a lot of history at that place. And I think it's kind of like going and playing football or baseball or basketball in your hometown. You always feel like you've got that little ââ you've got the eighth man there, and it's a little bit of a pumpâup and a boost, and knowing that your friends and family are there and rooting for you. Yeah, I think it's different, and I think it's a plus.
Q. Just want to ask you a couple different things about the organization and such. Obviously you documented about the early season struggles, but certainly there have been better performances, much more so in the last month or so. How have things changed? I know the results maybe at Kentucky weren't what you guys hoped, but how have things changed and how are things ââ how do you guys feel moving forward compared to maybe earlier in the season?
TONY GIBSON: Well, I think we've definitely made some gains as a company. We're nowhere near where we want to be or where we need to be each and every week on every level, from the 39, the 14 or the 10. I mean, our goals are a little bit less than the other two guys, at least the goals we set for ourselves are a little lower but reachable. But we have struggled as a company and with the Genâ6 car, and we've worked really hard. We've done a lot of testing here lately, and I think the testing that we've done has definitely paid off in her performance.
Has it taken us from a 15thâplace organization to a winning organization? Well, not really. Dover was a good day and it was a good race for the 14 to win it, but they weren't the dominant car all day. They put themselves in a good position. They were a topâ10 car and put themselves in position to win it and did so. But the performances have been better, but our expectations and where we need to be is not there yet.
But I think the reason that we have been running better is because of the testing and the developing we've been trying to do on our 7 posts, our future rigs, and our engineering staff has been working around the clock trying to come up with a solution to what we've been fighting with this Genâ6 car with all three drivers.
So I think it's paid off. But the bad thing about this is when you pick up two to three steps, they're still working two, so they're picking up another one. So you have to make gains twice as much, twice as fast as your competition just to stay caught up to them like the Gibbs guys seem to be rolling pretty good, so we're working double time to try to get caught up to them, not so much pass them but just stay caught up.
Q. And I know you talked about the testing, I know you guys have done three team tests so far this season, the New Hampshire test most recently. When you're testing with Danica, is it any different from what you might have done with another driver because of her ââ she doesn't have as much experience at some of these tracks, and how valuable has that proved to be to have that testing brought back to where you can test at least a few of these Cup tracks for somebody like her?
TONY GIBSON: Yeah, it's huge. Any time that we can get to go do a test at the right racetrack on the right tire, even if you're not on the right tire, but to be at that racetrack that you're going to compete on is huge. Any lap behind the wheel of this Genâ6 car for her is a plus. You know, it's definitely been a plus for the seat time side of it.
You know, the tests that we have done have been huge, and the biggest thing that's really helped her is having the data from the other two drivers, the EFI data from the other two drivers as far as breaking traces and throttle traces and steering traces and those things that we really ââ that we can sit down and look at, and she can talk to Stewart or Newman and they can help her if she's struggling and they can kind of go to some of these racetracks where she hasn't been. Some of these tracks she's never been to in any kind of car. Having those two guys at a test when we go has been huge for us.
And it shows. I know it doesn't make us run top 10, but it makes us run 15th to 20th. That has been huge for her. That's been the biggest thing I'd say for us is going to those tests and being able to do that, and if we could do it more, we would, and we go to VIR, we go to Road Atlanta, we go to Nashville, we go to Greenville Pickens, we go anywhere we can go to make laps and learn. And a lot of these tracks we have ââ even when we go to Nashville, all of our drivers have been there and the Hendrick guys have been there obviously, so we have a lot of data we can look at that helps her on the driving side as well as on the setup side, too.
Q. You all did the tire test down there at Daytona. I know they've changed the tire setup compared to February. Do you have any sense of whether that will change in any way the way they race?
TONY GIBSON: No, it's not going to make any difference. Actually the tire when we were on it, we did a lot of drafting. We did some 20âlap drafting runs and put the car in several different compromising positions, and everything was good. But I don't think any driver there could tell the difference in the tire, and I think that's what Goodyear wanted to hear. They didn't want to hear that they could feel a difference.
When we left there, we would have never known that it was a different tire or anything. I think it's just a more durable tire, and it's supposed to be a little bit better for punctures and things like that.
I think it's a plus, and like I said, the good thing is it didn't change the way the cars drove at all, so I don't think it'll change the racing.
Q. As far as restarts go, we've seen a lot of controversy this year on restarts and when people are starting and if people are kind of braking either before or after the zone. I'm curious as crew chiefs, do you guys look at your own EFI data after a race to see what it says, how fast maybe y'all were going at times prior to restarts to try and figure out what is the best strategy on those?
TONY GIBSON: We do. We look at our shifting things that we can do with our transmissions, which is not a whole lot. NASCAR regulates that pretty good, but there is a few little things we can do ratioâwise to help that.
But on these restarts it depends on ââ these tires sometimes are a little harder than others, and the racetrack, the pavement is different. So a lot of times you'll have wheels spin more so than anything to do with the shifting or where the driver fires. But I think we do work on that when we go test places, we do simulate restarts, but most of that's working on transmission ratios.
The drop from third to fourth, if it needs to be larger or smaller, we work on that for certain tracks. Dover is one of those odd tracks that has a firstâgear pit road deal and a secondâgear restart gear, so that's an odd animal, and a lot of guys ââ we've always seen it with Jimmie there, that had the issue there at Dover.
So we do work on that, and we look at it each and every week. In our debriefs we talk to the drivers on restarts, how they thought their car did and is there anything we can do to make it better. So we look at speeds and we look at accelerations and things like that so we can maximize our performance in that area for sure.
Q. I had a quick question for you here. This entire season there have been dramatic changes in the weather say from Thursday to Friday and Friday to Saturday and then race day. How difficult does that make your life getting the cars ready on race day?
TONY GIBSON: It's a little bit challenging because the weather is kind of crazy. Like in Kentucky there, obviously we were supposed to run at night, and everybody was prepared to start in the daytime and the track be tight and then go into the night and it gets freer. So I think everybody kind of put some adjustability in the car for that, and obviously that didn't happen.
But again, on Sunday the sun would pop in and out and would change the balance of the race car a lot, so that was quite challenging. But it is; the weather really dictates how our cars drive, not only from the tire side, but the racetrack I think is the biggest player in this deal because obviously what type of asphalt it is. Like our new paves, it's a different asphalt mixture than what we've seen like at Kentucky when it was paved; it's a totally different type of asphalt, so the weather affects those tracks differently.
So I think when you go to these tracks, whether it's a new pave or an old surface, the way you approach it are a little bit different. So it makes a pretty good ââ it's a balance changer for sure, and it makes it a little more difficult, especially when you're supposed to run at night and you end up running in the day. You pull your hair out trying to get it figured out, figure out where you need to be. It's a game changer for sure.
Q. I wondered if you could talk a little bit, I know that with a rookie driver there is a big learning curve, especially early in the season. How big a boost is it for you guys moraleâwise to return to Daytona where you did have such a high and things did go so well?
TONY GIBSON: Well, I think it's obviously a track that we feel like we can win at. I feel like that's right in Danica's wheelhouse there. She likes the drafting. She likes the high speeds, and I think most of that comes from the IndyCar side of it.
So yeah, it's exciting for us. We went to Daytona ââ and before when she was running the Nationwide car, she was really good at the restrictor plate stuff with the drafting and the air and that kind of deal. So we were pretty excited for going into this year, and then when we went to Daytona and tested, we knew that we were going to be fairly strong down there.
So it's exciting for us, and we're working really hard. We work hard every week, but when it comes to the restrictor plate racing, especially going to Daytona, we go all out. We put every little thing we can into those cars, because we know that that's a track that we can win at and we can really do some damage, on the good side.
But we're pretty excited about going to these restrictor plate races.
Q. Is it something you can even feel the excitement in the shop as you get ready to head down here?
TONY GIBSON: Yeah, you can feel the excitement in the shop. The guys are just rubbing and detailing and they're pumped up and they're excited. We have our trophy from Daytona for the pole down here, and so that stuff we bring out ââ we brought it out this week just to remind everybody of what we can do when we get down there. It's a little bit of a morale booster.
The vibe is different. When we get ready to go here, everybody gets jacked up, and we know we can go here and we can do really well.
AMANDA ELLIS: Tony, thank you for joining us today. We appreciate you for spending a few extra minutes with us, as well, and best of luck to you and the team this week at Daytona.
TONY GIBSON: Thank you so much for letting me be a part of it, and I really appreciate it, and thanks to everybody for calling in.
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While efforts to create a football playoff system for Division I-A continue to meet resistance, the NCAA is embarking on an aggressive expansion of its playoff format at the I-AA level.
The championship and competition cabinet last week forwarded a proposal to the NCAA's board of directors to enlarge the current 16-team field to 18 beginning in 2008. Cabinet chair Carolyn Femovich says that is the first step toward a field of 24 in the near future.
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President Alan Davis and alumnus Kenny Barron '78, a renowned jazz pianist who has been described as "one of the top jazz pianist in the world,"* were interviewed during an hour-long segment on WBGO FM (Jazz88.3 FM) on Dec. 21. The interview will air on Tuesday, Jan. 17. It will be the second segment on the show; and later a link will be posted on the Empire State College website.
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They were interviewed by host Joshua Jackson on his music magazine program "The Checkout," which airs every Tuesday at 6:30 p.m. Metropolitan Mentor David Fullard, who is organizing one of the center's Black History events, arranged the interview.
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Barron's recordings for Verve have earned him nine Grammy nominations. Barron spoke about his illustrious jazz career, while President Davis talked about the Metropolitan Center's programming for Black history month in February, which includes an event, "Made in America: the Depth and Breadth of Jazz Performance," scheduled for Friday, Feb. 3 from 4 to 9 p.m. at the Dweck Center for Contemporary Arts at the Brooklyn Public Library. The event features a reception with performances by The Mansoor Sabree Jazz Ensemble; and the Marcus McLaurine Trio, and discussions about African-American contributions to jazz, the relationship between jazz, society and politics and the impact of the Black Movement in Implementing Change, and other topics of historical interest in black arts and culture.
In addition, the Heritage Award given on certain milestone occasions to recognize and honor individuals who have given of themselves, their energy and their ideals to make Empire State College a distinctive and exemplary institution within American higher education will be presented to former Metropolitan Dean Nancy Bunch, Professor Emeritus, community activist and artist Dorothy Burnham and Rudy Cain, Ph.D., the first faculty mentor and also unit coordinator at the Bedford Stuyvesant Unit.
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In addition, a multimedia art exhibit, "Breaking Boundaries," with an opening reception from 5:30 to 7 p.m. Friday, Feb. 23 at the Livingston Street Gallery in Brooklyn, will be held in recognition of Black History Month. Graduate Mentor Raul Manzano is organizing that event.
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