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The scope of the nursing shortage has changed the rhetoric surrounding the practice
By Timothy A. Mercer
Photoilustrations by Tom Centola
With the shortage of nurses worsening across the United States, many health care providers are stepping up their recruitment efforts on foreign shores. The practice is not new. But it is being viewed differently in the context of the current nursing shortage – considered an international dilemma.
In the United States, concerns over the shortage have politicians scrutinizing immigration policy in an effort to make the passage of foreign nurses into the country less burdensome. But many are concerned that foreign recruitment is a shortsighted solution that might have a negative effect domestically and abroad. Finding a way to respect individual labor rights while not contributing to the current staffing dilemma has proven to be a difficult task.
Foreign recruitment is an important tool for some facilities, according to Alain Bois, RN, nurse manager of the children/adolescent psychiatric services at Northern Maine Medical Center in Fort Kent. A native of New Brunswick, Canada, Bois said the facility's close proximity to the Canadian border has helped it weather the nursing shortage thus far.
"We have felt the nursing shortage, but we have not felt it as much as we might have because of the Canadian nurses," he said. "We are very close to the border, and we have many nurses who still reside in Canada and work here.
"It has been a good crutch for us," Bois said, " because we are very remote, and usually people who graduate from the local nursing program want to go to a bigger city. So it is hard to attract nurses graduating from the nursing schools."
Judy Jones, MS, RN, vice president for nursing administration at Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas, said her facility recruited foreign nurses during the nursing shortage of the late 1980s. And although one might expect some reticence from American nurses working in facilities where foreign recruitment is practiced, Jones said she has not experienced any backlash.
"Acclimating new nurses is the real issue," she said. "Our nurses are always happy to see new nurses, and they welcome helping hands. What we have found is that the new nurses need time to settle in. Support groups are needed; a buddy is needed; they have to purchase everything from scratch. They really start out in the negative as far as possessions go, and transportation is often an issue as well."
However, despite Jones' experiences, a recent unscientific online spot survey by ADVANCE for Nurses revealed that many American nurses do not support foreign recruitment. Nearly 60 percent of the respondents said they unequivocally are against recruiting nurses from outside the United States, with or without a nursing shortage.
Bois said there has been some hostility toward his "angels" from the Great White North. "When I started here there was a campaign to get a union in the hospital, and that was the time that I felt that the most, the coldness between the Canadian nurses and the American nurses," he said. The common perception in such cases, Bois surmised, is that foreign nurses are coming in to take jobs from American nurses. "But that is not it at all," Bois said. "They are simply stepping up to the plate because no one else will."
Hospitals dealing with the national shortage of qualified nurses are literally scouring the earth to find the talent they need to maintain necessary staffing numbers. A report in the May 4 edition of the Atlanta Business Chronicle stated that Tenet Healthcare Corp. hopes to recruit nurses from Northern Ireland to help staff hospitals in the Southeast.
But hospitals that have turned to foreign recruitment are running into immigration hurdles that did not exist during the last nursing shortage, in the late 1980s. In May, hospital CEOs testified before a Senate subcommittee on behalf of the American Hospital Association (AHA) regarding the flexibility of immigration policies in the United States. Specifically, health care providers want Congress to reinstate the H-1A visa program, which would enable foreign nurses to work temporarily in the United States.
Carla Luggiero, JD, RN, the AHA's senior associate director for federal relations, said the H-1A program was a pilot program that ended in 1995, and it was the favored method for recruiting foreign nurses. The H-1C visa, which she said was established after the H-1A, is too restrictive and limits the number of nurses who can come in under its wing and what hospitals they go to. And most immigration tools open to hospitals today take too long for facilities that need help in the short term, Luggiero said.
"We can help ease the situation in some hospitals through foreign recruitment," Luggiero said, "particularly those facilities that are having problems, like rural hospitals and inner city hospitals."
Parkland's Judy Jones says another visa available to nurse recruiters, the H1-B, is problematic as well. "One of the things is that the people coming in under the H-1B have to have is a bachelor's degree. But that is not a minimum requirement for staff positions at many facilities, and staff positions are the hardest to fill right now."
But changes to the management of health care systems worldwide have complicated foreign nurse recruitment. Bois said he is starting to see the pool of nursing talent in Canada shrink a bit. Ten years ago, changes in the government's funding of health care restricted entry-level nursing jobs in Canada, he said, sending many Canadian nurses to the States. Now, a reinvigorated health care system has Canadian hospitals hiring again. And since Canada, like the United States, is facing an ongoing shortage, facilities like Northern Maine Medical Center are seeing less interest from nurses looking to emigrate.
And that is perhaps the primary difference between this shortage and the shortage of the late 1980s. This time around, the crisis is a global health issue. A recent study by the University of Pennsylvania suggests that nursing around the world has been hit hard by cost-cutting initiatives. A team of researchers conducted surveys of 13,471 acute-care hospital nurses in the United States; 17,450 in Canada; 5,006 in England; 4,721 in Scotland; and 2,681 in Germany during 1998 and 1999. They found that despite differences in health care delivery systems, all countries were dealing with many of the same issues, including a lack of nursing satisfaction and concern about providing quality patient care.
"It was striking the same types of problems in countries that have very different health care systems," said Sean Clarke, PhD, RN, assistant professor at the University of Pennsylvania and associate director for the Center of Health Outcomes and Policy Research.
"No matter what country you look at, where there have been active efforts to rein in the cost of hospital care, nursing has borne the brunt of those cost-cutting efforts. And what it translates into is nurses in all these countries are showing similar levels of dissatisfaction, "concern about staffing and the responsiveness of administrators to reports of problems, concern about quality of care, and burnout levels."
The study found:
• As many as half of the registered nurses reported a decline in the quality of patient care provided in their hospital within the previous year and no more than one-third judged the care provided on their units as excellent.
• Two-thirds of nurses say there aren't enough nurses in their hospitals to provide adequate quality of care to patients.
• In four of the five countries, including the United States, approximately 40 percent of the hospital nurses reported being dissatisfied with their current jobs; the comparable statistic for professional workers in the United States at large is 10 percent.
• Burnout levels are high and significant numbers (at least one in five of all nurses and one in three nurses under 30) indicated they intended to leave their jobs within the next year.
These types of statistics have led to criticism of the techniques used by health care professionals to retain new nurses, including foreign recruitment. Specifically, concerns have been raised as to whether foreign recruitment actually masks the larger problems facing health care providers – the need to change the work environment of the typical RN.
Immigration lawyers representing hospitals and recruitment firms are pushing for opening up immigration policies, Dr. Clarke said, but there are ongoing debates between advocates of increased immigration, people against such a move (largely nurses' unions and representatives from the countries themselves) and lawmakers.
"Those in favor of allowing more foreign-trained nurses in say yes, we can use as many nurses as are willing to come, while those against warn that bringing nurses from other countries is a band-aid solution with potentially negative consequences both for the countries who are losing them and in the long run, for North American hospitals.
"I think we have to look at what is making hospitals such noxious places to work, to put it bluntly, and remedy those problems so that all nurses working in hospitals – whether they trained here or abroad – will stay, instead of looking for the easy fix."
Others agree, including the International Council of Nurses, which issued a position paper addressing some of its concerns regarding recruitment policies. "Massive recruitment campaigns for foreign nurses have been initiated by some governments and private agencies," according to the statement. "These campaigns delay effective local measures that would improve recruitment, retention and long-term human resource planning.
The policy statement also states that some recruitment agencies follow "unethical methods of work that prevent informed decision-making on the part of the recruited nurse." It goes on to state, "discriminatory treatment [e.g. pay, working conditions] may occur between national and foreign nurses and between foreign nurses from different countries."
Indeed, there seems to be reason for concern in this regard. In August, Reuters Health reported on a case highlighted by England's Royal College of Nursing involving five Filipino nurses. The nurses reportedly signed contracts with a nursing home before coming to the UK last year. But upon their arrival, the nursing home changed their employment contract and slashed their initial salaries.
The RCN also told Reuters it has come across cases of foreign nurses being threatened with deportation or legal action if they broke their contracts, and some nurses reportedly were asked to pay large sums of money to recruitment agencies in return for jobs.
Other emerging economic trends make the current shortage stand out from past staffing dilemmas. A background paper written for the International Council of Nurses in Switzerland by Per Godtland Kristensen, international secretary for the Norwegian Nurses Association, suggests that current migratory trends of nurses could create new ethical dilemmas regarding nursing recruitment. Kristensen maintains that increased professional migration raises concerns about the discrepancies between individual labor rights and ethical practices in a global economy.
"Employment migration is not a modern phenomenon," he said. "People all over the world, including nurses, have been migrating in search of work for ages – inside countries and across borders. What is new is that employment migration seems to be on the increase, at least as far as professionals, including nurses, are concerned."
Globalization and the emergence of regional trade agreements are fueling this change in professional migration, Kristensen said. "We have been used to imports and exports of material goods for generations. Now we experience a new development: The import and export of services, regulated by the World Trade Organization's General Agreement on Trade in Services."
Kristensen goes on to identify three driving forces behind movement or migration: individual choice, exchange programs and active recruitment. It is the last of these factors, he said, that when abused poses a threat to stabilized health care across the globe.
"I think we all agree that the individual choice has to be respected," he said. "I think we also agree that exchange programs are of mutual benefit É Neither shall I oppose employers' rights to recruit nurses from other countries. But the right to recruit does not mean that a country should recruit aggressively. That is a fairly new trend, and it does not reflect any fair competition."
This trend tends to benefit richer nations at the expense of poorer nations, Kristensen said, a situation that is likely to worsen given a climate of globalization.
"This trend is likely to grow in line with developments of the General Agreement on Trade in Services. It is not likely to create a "win-win" situation. The wealthier countries will gain, while the poorer countries will lose. Massive recruitment is likely to increase the burden in many countries, which already have a problem. In some countries it will even come on top of a decreasing nursing work force É"
Most of those familiar with the current nursing shortage agree that foreign nurse recruitment is not going to go away, nor should it. But they also agree that it should not be considered a solution to the shortage, the roots of which are buried in the dirt of management policies and rising patient acuity.
While the AHA and others continue to push for continued easing of immigration restrictions, Luggiero said they know they are pushing for a short-term solution. "We need both a short-term and long-term approach," Luggiero said.
The ICN puts the aegis for change squarely on management and health care officials, as well as government. "Management and compensation practices greatly affect the severity of nursing shortages, particularly in health institutions," according to a position statement.
Also, "In many countries, the career structures for nurses are inappropriate. Some governments have failed to address the identified problems relating to hours of work, ongoing education, re-entry programmes, staffing levels, attitudes of administrators, security, housing and day care services."
Jones of Parkland categorized foreign recruitment as a tool to help cope with current conditions. "There are some things in nursing we need to address," she said. "Salaries are going up, but the working conditions for nurses in hospitals remain an issue. So I think that foreign recruitment is most specifically a tool to help us manage in the shortage."
But the sobering results of the University of Pennsylvania's study suggest that the problems hospitals face could get worse before they get better, Dr. Clarke said.
"[The Center's] position is that foreign nurses can help meet some needs in the short term but in the long term, we need to attend to the fundamental climate issues in hospitals and assist nurse leaders in addressing them," he said.
"Nurses' concerns are fundamentally about the quality of care, the impact on the patients – not just themselves," Dr. Clarke said. "And I think nurses fundamentally know what kind of resources are needed in a hospital, and where you get into trouble is when management for various reasons can't or won't respond to what nurses believe is necessary."
Timothy A. Mercer is assistant editor at ADVANCE.
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BWW Interviews: Lara Teeter Talks SHOW BOAT, Cap'n Andy, His Career and About Teaching
Me: Since its opening, people have taken issue with SHOW BOAT for being prejudiced or not politically correct enough. What are your feelings on the touchy subject of race in SHOW BOAT?
Lara Teeter: Okay, now you think I've talked a lot. [We both Laugh] I get very emotional when I talk about SHOW BOAT in my class because Florenz Ziegfeld decided to take this project up and produce it at his New Amsterdam Theatre in 1927. Here is a man who is all about glitz and glamour, and, as history tells us, is all about glorifying the American girl. In other words, he basically developed commercialism. Whether you like it or not, he basically said to be an acceptable woman in society you have to look a certain way; your figure has to be this and you have to have this look. He really kind of established that with his show. He was quite a ladies man. And some of the things he did might be looked at as being very chauvinistic and the like. But then he allowed Bert Williams, one of the great Black comedians of all time to share the stage with his White company. They actually threatened to quit. And his response to that was, "You go ahead and quit if you want to because I can replace all of you with the exception of the person you want me to fire." So, here, he stood up to all of these White stars of the time by saying this man is a brilliant artist, and I'm going to keep him.
When he decided to produce SHOW BOAT he-of course, it was the first time that a Black cast and a White cast was on stage together-he, well, the reason I get very emotional about this is because at all points in history it's the artists of our society that really are at the forefront of our civil rights. And it started with Florenz Ziegfeld. He was a man ahead of his time. Even today when you talk about political correctness or you talk about certain issues in our society, whether it be race or political or gay or straight, you know, entertainment has always kind of lead the way in terms of raising the social awareness. In terms of SHOW BOAT, I'm going to go back to your question. Can you ask the question again?
Me: Not a problem. Since its opening, people have taken issue with SHOW BOAT for being prejudiced or not politically correct enough. What are your feelings on the touchy subject of race in SHOW BOAT?
Lara Teeter: Well, my particular feeling in terms of race is that we are all one. I really believe that. I mean, I believe that we are all on this planet, we all have the pursuit of happiness, and where it gets really rough is on either side of the fence when a person feels their way is right and feels like they are bound and determined to prove what they think and how they fell about any particular subject is the only way and the right way to feel. That's when wars are fought. That's when people end up getting hurt. So, that's just my personal feeling.
SHOW BOAT, I think, is incredibly right on the money in terms of how Edna Feber chose to describe a family. She chose to describe a way of thinking. To think that miscegenation, there when the Show Boat docks in that particular part of the country, it's against the law to have a person a White person be married to a Black person because that is mixing blood is incredible to realize. And this is why the show is so timely. You have to understand that there are people who still feel that way-who still feel that this is wrong. And I'm going to jump to SOUTH PACIFIC for a minute. SOUTH PACIFIC won the Pulitzer Prize for, I believe it was 1949, for drama. When the show toured in, I think, 1953, it came through Atlanta, Georgia, and there were two men in the Senate that stood up on the Senate floor and tired to ban the show from being played there. They felt that it was a dishonorable to talk about a White person mixing blood with an Asian person. They stood on the Senate floor and talked about there being true blood, their blood is true, and that any other blood would be tainted-it would taint the true blue blood of a white person. And that wasn't that long ago that you realize that happened.
So, I think it is important and that it will always be important for shows like SOUTH PACIFIC and shows like SHOW BOAT to hold up a mirror to our society and say take a close look at what you're saying, what you're thinking, and what you're believing and hopefully shed some important light on the fact that a person on this planet has the right to feel, think, do, celebrate and love the way they feel; the way they are called to do. And to tell someone that they cannot love a person because of race or to tell someone that they can only be "saved" by having, by accepting, a particular religious belief is wrong. It is something to consider, I should say.
If that's how you're going to live your life, you're missing the greater opportunity of what it means to be a human being by feeling so self-centered and self-delusional. At any point, if any one feels that that we have a right to say that what we believe and that we think is the only way to be right, the only way to be a "good" human being, goes back to what I try to tell my students about breath and awareness. I mean, if you are aware that you feel a certain way or that someone else [feels a certain way]. If I state an awareness that someone feels a certain way, it's a less judgmental thing. I'm aware that they feel this way. I am aware that this person is reacting to this particular situation, and then it doesn't carry a lot of judgment to it. And I feel like there is so much judgment in our society. Of course, it's no great surprise in our political climate right now that there is a complete divide in our country or in the world, but particularly in America. Right now, there is a complete divide over things like guns, taxes, the economy, and large business versus small business. And I don't know. I wish I had the answer. I'm not someone who talks very much about this actually just because I'm not the type of person who thinks a lot or spends a lot of time worrying about it. I know what I believe, and I try to demonstrate that in my everyday life. That's the best I feel like I can do.
That's a long-winded answer, but I just think that SHOW BOAT is a very valuable piece of work in our society right now because I think that these are subject matters that still live with us today. They don't harken back to the turn of the century. It's a hundred years later and its still happening in our world today, and I think that as artists-whether directors, choreographers, performers, conductors, people who play in the orchestra, costume people, wig people, props, stage management, all of us who are involved, the small army that it takes to put on a show at Houston Grand Opera. I mean, it's a village over there. You walk into those offices and there are six people in one department who are handling one aspect of what it takes to put up one show and the audience never sees that, of course, they just see the final product-I think all of us involved in the theatre, and of course, being a person who educates and teaches in the fine arts, I tell my students on the first day of classes that we have a responsibility to our local regional, national, and world communities to really reflect and show what our society thinks and feels about all subjects. I think SHOW BOAT does that.
Me: Has preparing to play Cap'n Andy presented any unique challenges for you?
Lara Teeter: Well, every role has a lot of challenges. You know, any role that you play comes with a particular preconceived notion of what the role should or should not do. You know, any actor is presented with the challenge of taking the words that are on the page and perhaps other versions of that role that they've seen played either in a movie or on stage by a particular actor, and you have to bring yourself to those words on the page.
Every actor can tell you stories about their particular process. I approach a lot of my work very physically, so I'm someone who works from the outside in. I sort of get a sense of the character, the way they move and the way they fill a space in terms of their movement, and then I kind of go inside it.
In a show like this, there is a Southern dialect involved. And so there are certain technical aspects that you go with. And then for this particular production there is a great need for us to articulate the words, to enunciate the words a particular way, particularly the end of words because it is such a huge stage, and we have to make sure that people understand. So, you've got the dialect, you've got the enunciation, you've got the physicality, and then you have to start thinking about the arc of the character. What's the beginning, middle, and end, and how does the character fit into the show?
So, Cap'n Andy, for me, is not a lot unlike any other role I will ever play or that I have ever played. You start by reading the story and you go into rehearsals. Actually, we had a week or so of rehearsals before the Christmas holiday, and I think everybody was agreeing that first week we were kind of just throwing ourselves to the wolves. You know, just kind of, you know, [Laughs] "Here's what I got today, what do you think?" And Francesca [Zambello], the director, is there to say, "That's great, but let's change that" or "That's not working. Let's see what we can do to make this work better." So, it becomes a true collaboration between the director and the actor. That's the process that makes being an actor on stage so rewarding. It would be kind of boring wouldn't it if you just kind of walked into it. And even if you've played the role before, you're going to come in and it's a different set of circumstances because it's a different cast member you're playing opposite of. So, even that has its wonderful challenges to keep it fresh and to make changes according to the person that's now standing next to you. And we have people in this cast that, I think, have played their roles before. But then there are many people in the cast who, like me, never played the role in SHOW BOAT before. And that's always exciting when you have a whole group of actors that are new to the piece.
Cap'n Andy, you know, is a lot like me. We've made a decision that he-there's a character in the show, Frank, who is sort of second banana. He's kind of the song and dance man of the show. You know Magnolia and Ravenal are the romantic leads of the show, and then Frank and Ellie are kind of the second bananas, and the director, the choreographer, Michelle Lynch, and I all realized at a certain point in the rehearsal, maybe the second or third day, that this Cap'n Andy, in his former life, was really Frank. He was really the song and dance guy, and then he ended up taking over the show boat. But he really is an older song and dance person, which is, of course, me. So, we started layering in Cap'n Andy in some of the dances because that's kind of what I do. That's not so typical, but they're willing to make some adjustments to make this Cap'n Andy fit me and make my version of it fit the show. It's been very, very rewarding and very exciting so far to find those kinds of little nuggets of information that we can use for this particular show.
Me: Awesome. And you're Frank is, I think, one of the better performers we have in the Houston area. Tye Blue is fantastic.
Lara Teeter: TYE! Tye! What a sweetheart! And I know that about him. When I got the part, [Laughs] it all happened so fast. Finally, when the contract was done, I said, "Oh yeah, who's playing Frank?" [Laughs] And, you know, he [Tye Blue] was basically described to me as being a Houston favorite and being a great performer. He's been so, so kind and sweet, and he's going to be wonderful in the part. So, that's going to be very exciting.
Me: What is a dream role that you have yet to play?
Lara Teeter: Well, there is a role that I've always dreamed of playing which is Bert in MARY POPPINS. Elizabeth, my eleven-year-old daughter, is currently playing Jane Banks on Broadway in MARY POPPINS. We know Bert from Dick Van Dyke in the movie. And, now, on Broadway for the last eight or ten years this guy from England, Gavin Lee, has been playing the role of Bert all this time. He is incredibly...[Pauses] He is just phenomenal, and I have become a huge fan of his. And it's amazing. I've seen the show about four times, and every time I see it, I keep looking for any traces of him marking or being board. And you just don't see it. He's really an amazing performer, and Bert is a song and dance role. So, I would have to say Bert in MARY POPPINS.
I would love to do Henry Higgins again at some point; come back to that role. And is there any other role that I would like to do? I'm sure there are, but I can't think of them right now. I'm really starting to direct and choreograph more in my career, and I enjoy that quite a lot.
Me: As an artist, what inspires you?
Lara Teeter: I'm going to have to say my wife and children inspire me the most, without a doubt, and then also my students because of their willingness and courage to learn and grow. Webster Conservatory is a very intense place because we have very high standards for our students. We are very, I would say more so than not, we are very old school in our training. It's a lot like a four-year boot camp. And with the things we demand of our students it is quite inspiring to see them rise to the occasion day after day. And of course the boundless creativity of my children and all four of them are different. It's inspiring. And then my wife is at the top of the list simply because the way she parents our kids. She's our Cap'n Andy. She keeps our boat floating in the Teeter household. She is an artist and a scientist. And she's just able to be a very, very, very creative person, but at the same time she has the ability to organize and to keep us moving in a positive way. I think, in the back of my mind, every morning when I wake up, I try to think about what Kristen would do in a particular situation at some point in the day. You know, she's just my inspiration. So, that's what inspires me-my family and my students.
Me: Thinking back on the beginnings of your career, what is one piece of advice you wish you had been given as a young artist?
Lara Teeter: To...[Pauses]...I would say to take time every day to breathe and to meditate and to...[Pauses]...and to...[Pauses]...stay focused on what's really important. Yes. You know, to stay focused on what's really important, and those things that might seem important but aren't really important, to be able to develop earlier on the ability to recognize that.
Of course, you know what I'm saying right now. That hindsight is 20/20 they say. If I could go back to when I was 18 and have the wisdom and know the things that I know now, I would have invested in Microsoft. [We Both Laugh]
You know, I wouldn't trade this for anything because of all of the turns twists that occurred in my life that lead me to this thing, and that lead me to that thing, and that ultimately lead me into teaching high education. I believe a lot in the Eastern philosophies in terms of spirituality and one of the things I believe in is that, you can call it what you want, but we all come into this life with a certain set of karma. Another way to say it is that when we were born we were sort of handed all these gifts, but along with that we were handed the challenges that, in our lifetime, we were going to have to work out. Some of us have challenges physically that we to have to live with and work with. Some of us have challenges financially. Some of us we have the challenge of throughout our life dabbling in many different things and never really settling into one thing that we really want to do with our life. Some of us are challenged with being able to offer ourselves to the service of man kind to be able to serve the community. Scrooge, for instance, that's his challenge. He is very self-deluded and self-centered, and he ultimately comes around to meeting that part of his life challenge. So, I do realize that as the person I am standing here today that I was given a set of challenges, and I meet them and greet them everyday. And one of the reasons I ended up being a teacher, I realized that everyday is a chance to learn. I think that its no great surprise that if you talk to any teacher one of the reasons they are teachers is because they are a student [Laughs], and they're always trying to learn something, always trying to read something, always trying to find out more about something.
I think ultimately, as a performer, I felt like it was kind of a dead end street for me. I felt like I was doing really well and my career was really going great, but then there was just something that was missing. Then I got offered a chance to direct and choreograph a production of WEST SIDE STORY for a college, and none of the guys I was working with could dance, so I had to keep simplifying the movement and approach it from an acting standpoint. By the time the show opened those guys were flying across the stage and there was just something about that that triggered in me the need to teach, and so now I have my cake and eat it too. I'm a very lucky man because I have my stable job with benefits and all of that, and I am able to then go off and do projects like this and work with people like Francesca [Zambello], Michelle Lynch, and the artists I am sharing the stage with.
And I've already learned something just from being in rehearsal with this cast. I have already learned something about myself and about the way this director works, which is something I'm putting in my back pocket to use when I'm directing next time. So it's just a constant source of learning and inspiration. To look back at when I was 18 years old. Gosh! Boy would I do that differently now. [Laughs] But that's not the point. I wouldn't be standing here talking to you had it not been for who I was then and had to work things out. If I was this person when I was 18, then there would be a whole other set of things I would have to work out.
Houston Grand Opera's production of SHOW BOAT runs from January 18 to February 9, 2013. For more information and tickets, please visit http://www.houstongrandopera.org/ or call (713) 228 - 6737.
Photo courtesy of Insight Theatre Company's website.


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BELLFLOWER - A shooting outside a party at Masonic lodge in Bellflower left a man hospitalized Sunday, a sheriff's sergeant said.
The shooting in the 9800 block of Beach Street was reported just before 11 p.m. Saturday, Sgt. Michael Melikidse of the Lakewood station said.
Melikidse said the victim should live. There was no word of any arrests early Sunday.


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NEW ORLEANS — "Green side up!" "Desperate Landscapes" host Jason Cameron called out jokingly to the volunteers laying sod in the front yard of Sandra Dusset's Gentilly home.
At eight different locations across New Orleans on Wednesday, the crew of the DIY Network reality television show, a local landscaping team, and volunteers from Rebuilding Together and Chevron worked a marathon day to dramatically improve the yards of six homes, one community center and one child care center.
For each episode, "Desperate Landscapes" usually picks just one location, with the goal of transforming the "worst" yard on the block into the "first."
But knowing the continued needs for recovery in New Orleans, Cameron said, the show decided, "Let's go big!" The goal was to make the biggest impact in the shortest period of time, he said, adding that it helped that the yards in New Orleans are relatively small.
The single-day effort required months of planning and some prep work in the days leading up, said Jon Skvarka, executive director of Rebuilding Together New Orleans.
The homes selected were mostly houses Skvarka's organization has helped to rebuild over the past seven years.
Cameron said they spent time ahead talking to homeowners about what they needed and they didn't want to go overboard. Keeping the yards easy to maintain was an important aspect, he said.
"My mother had the green thumb," Dusset said. "I don't — I told them to give me plants I can't kill."
On Tuesday, the crews worked in the rain. Despite the cold temperatures at 7 a.m. Wednesday — chilly even for the Northerners — Cameron said he'd take cold over rain any day. By noon on Sumpter Street, it was a perfect sunshine-filled fall day, though still cool enough for a jacket.
Dusset moved back into her childhood home in August with the help of Rebuilding Together, which provided approximately $60,000 in resources to rebuild her home, which was inundated with 6 feet of flood water following Hurricane Katrina.
"They were a lifesaver," Dusset said.
Skvarka said the nonprofit has rebuilt 350 homes in the New Orleans area since Katrina.
Recovery in Dusset's neighborhood remains spotty, with rebuilt houses interspersed with overgrown vacant lots and boarded-up homes.
After living in California for several years, Dusset said it was her mother who was determined to move back to New Orleans and back to the same home her father and uncle had built. She said they were still waiting on Road Home money and that their insurance providers had persuaded the family to drop their flood insurance just a month before Katrina.
With the overwhelming challenges of returning and rebuilding, landscaping is often the last priority, Cameron acknowledged. But a front yard with healthy grass, blooming azalea bushes, lush palms and garden boxes full of flowers gives the home and the entire street "pop," he said.
"It makes a big difference in attractiveness and perception when people come into the neighborhood," he said. "It looks lived-in and alive — people want to come back and it entices them to."
Surrounded by friends and family who joined the crew for a makeover that lasted just over an hour, Dusset was beaming.
After seven years away, her mother made it back to her home in August but passed away in October, Dusset said.
Cameron, who lives in New Jersey, said he felt a stronger connection after his own community was hit with a 41/2-foot storm surge during Hurricane Sandy.
"I can relate now more than I could before," he said. "I got a glimpse of what people here went through."
Dusset said she enjoys watching Cameron's show and witnessing gray and brown settings transform into colorful and beautifully landscaped havens. She said she could hardly believe what had just taken place in her yard "in the blink of an eye," which was only the fourth project on the list for the busy day, which took crews from the Lower 9th Ward and Holy Cross to Mid-City and Algiers
Asked by Cameron in front of the rolling cameras and boom microphone what her favorite part of her new yard was, Dusset said it was the freshly painted garden boxes bursting with delicate blue flowers, because they reminded her of her mother.
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THE HUSBAND of a popular Marlow nursery worker whose sudden death shocked the town last year has smashed the fundraising target he set himself following the loss of his wife.
Alison Clarke, who along with her husband Chris had been involved with youth projects in Marlow for around 17 years, died in June after suffering extensive brain damage following an epileptic fit.
Her death sparked an outpouring of emotional tributes from Marlovians, with over 550 people packing out All Saints Church for a memorial service.
Chris then vowed to raise £10,000 for Wycombe Hospital's Intensive Trauma Unit where his wife spent six days before she passed away.
And the 32-year-old, who shared Alison's love of working at youth clubs and events around Marlow, said he is amazed by people's generosity after exceeding his target in just nine months.
He said: "Due to the amazing care Alison and my family received from the ITU unit at Wycombe hospital we set about raising money to donate to the unit to improve patient, nurse and family facilities at the hospital.
"Before I left the hospital I told one of the nurses I would raise £10k for the unit and at the moment we are over £12k!
"90 per cent of this money is from donations from friends and family and 10 per cent is from fund raising. It's just amazing people's donations!"
Alison's mum passed away after a battle with cancer aged 36 when she was just 11.
She met Chris when she was 15 and the couple got married in 2007.
After attending Foxes Piece School and Great Marlow School, Alison later went to Henley College to get her child care qualifications and later secured a job at Marlow Day Nursery.
For nearly half her life the nursery worker was also involved in helping run youth clubs with her husband in Marlow.
And for the past eight years both Alison, Chris and her younger brother Michael helped run the Friday night Xtreme youth club which was run by members of her church MCF Community Church based at Foxes Piece School.
But in June, the epilepsy sufferer had a fit which caused her heart to stop and as a result suffered extensive brain damage due to lack of oxygen.
After spending four nights camped out in the family area of Wycombe ITU to be there for his wife, Chris saw first hand the areas that could benefit from extra funds.
Plans for the unit include a library for training ITU nurses, TVs for the ward and family room and a furniture including a sofa bed for visiting family members.
Chris and Alison's family are also keen to produce ITU information packs to help family understand better an area of the hospital that can be daunting, confusing and traumatic.
The family plan to present the cheque from their fundraising efforts to staff at Wycombe ITU in the near future.


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Over the last three seasons, including 2012, Oakland has come into Memorial Day Weekend above or around the .500 mark, only to see their season dwindle away with Memorial Day being the usual tipping point. In 2010, the A's were 28-24 through May and went on to a 10-17 record in June they couldn't recover from. Still, that team finished at 81-81.
In 2011, the A's headed into the third month of the year at 27-29, but fell apart in June once again, going 9-17 in the month. That team underwent a managerial change when it fired Bob Geren and inked Bob Melvin to become the new skipper.
Now, Oakland has lost eight of 10, including six-straight, and is appearing poised for yet another collapse at this stage of the season. The A's record was as high as 18-16 on May 12, but is currently at its low-watermark for the year at 22-27. They've been surpassed by the Los Angeles Angels for second place in the division after LA struggled out of the gates.
But unlike previous seasons, the A's appear to have reinforcements in the wings. Manny Ramirez and Yoenis Cespedes are currently playing for Triple-A Sacramento, and could potentially boost an offense that has the lowest team OPS in the majors at 622. Ramirez has yet to play for Oakland this season after serving a 50-game suspension, but he is eligible to return to the big leagues on Wednesday.
On Monday, the A's issued a statement that Ramirez would not be joining the team that day, and his situation will be evaluated on a day-by-day basis.
Since Cespedes last suited up on May 6, the club has struggled mightily without one of its top power threats, going 7-13 in his absence. He was still taking his lumps in his first go-around in the big leagues, but he was still one of the team's more productive players with a 753 OPS. Hitting behind Josh Reddick in the cleanup spot, Cespedes gave Oakland a formidable power threat in the middle of the lineup.
Cespedes played left field and hit second in his rehab debut with Triple-A Sacramento on Monday. Manager Darren Bush said he wasn't sure if there was anything to having the natural center fielder play in left, aside from keeping his running down after being sidelined for three weeks. But Cespedes struggled on plays where he had to run a long way. With a spacious center field in Oakland, perhaps the team's brass is thinking about returning Coco Crisp to center, where he's been the majority of his career, exhibiting great range.
Ending the season-long losing streak of six-games sooner rather than later is paramount if the A's hope to remain competitive for the entire summer. Playing in Minnesota and Kansas City over the next five days allows the A's an opportunity to regain some momentum before they kick off an important four-game set with the Texas Rangers next Monday in Oakland.
The A's snatched defeat from the jaws of victory Monday when they blew a 4-3 lead in the eighth inning in the series-opening game in Minnesota. Ryan Cook allowed two runs to the Twins, ending his 23-inning streak without allowing a run to start the year, and giving the home team the 5-4 win.
It was a crushing blow to the A's, who not only saw their best reliever fail to help secure the win, but also extended the bad feeling the team had after getting swept over the weekend at home by the New York Yankees.
When the team looks to rebound Tuesday, it will be sending rookie Jarrod Parker to the hill, who has become one of the team's most consistent starting pitchers with Brandon McCarthy on the disabled list nursing a shoulder injury.
Parker (1-2, 3.37) hasn't earned a win since May 1, but is coming off of his best outing of the season last week against the Angels. In seven innings, the right-hander allowed just an earned run on five hits while striking out eight, a career-high.
Since making his first start with the A's since being acquired in the Trevor Cahill deal in the offseason, Parker has only allowed more than two runs in an outing once. He lasted just two frames May 18 in San Francisco when he surrendered six earned runs, but had been dealing with stomach issues that day.
He'll take on Cole De Vries (0-1, 5.40 ERA), who will be making just his second major league start. In his first go May 24 in Chicago, the right-hander allowed three runs in give innings while striking out four. The St. Louis Park, Minn. native will be making his first home start for the team he grew up watching.
De Vries is a five-pitch pitcher, throwing a cutter with the usual assortment, with a fastball averaging 90 MPH in his first start. Originally signed by the Twins as an amateur free agent in 2006, De Vries' numbers in the minor leagues never jumped off the page. He has a career 13-28 record between Double-A and Triple-A, where he allowed 413 hits in 366 innings.
In Wednesday's series finale before Thursday's off day, the Twins will send Francisco Liriano (0-5, 8.47 ERA) against Tyson Ross (2-5 5.79 ERA). Liriano has struggled to stay healthy throughout his career, only topping the 190-inning plateau once (2010).
The left-hander had Tommy John surgery in November of 2006 and hasn't appeared to be the same pitcher since. That year, Liriano was one of the hottest pitchers in the American League, posting a 2.16 ERA, yielding just 89 hits in 121 innings. He went on to miss all of 2007, threw just 76 innings in 2008, and failed to find a semblance of consistency over the next three plus seasons.
Wednesday's start will be the first for Liriano since May 7. He's made five relief appearances since, where he's had a 721 OPS against after a dreadful 1024 in six games as a starter. He still has plus stuff, with a fastball above 92 with a heavy change up and slider, but has struggled with his control, allowing nearly seven walks per nine innings.
Ross will look to bounce back with a quality start after allowing 11 hits in just 4.1 innings in his last start against the Yankees. The right-hander has been on the hook for a loss for five of his last seven outings. He has struggled away from Oakland with a 7.11 ERA and .364 average against.


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Queensland mining billionaire
Buying into the internal Liberal Party spat in Victoria, Mr Palmer said former party power broker
"It's a fact that we need people of his calibre in federal Parliament to support [Opposition Leader]
"Peter Costello was an excellent treasurer for Australia. Mr Kroger should treat him with more respect considering his services and performance for the Howard government."
Mr Costello, who retired in 2009 and is conducting a commission of audit into Queensland's finances, has denied he ever contemplated a return to federal Parliament.
Mr Palmer used the Liberal Party ructions to refocus his attack on federal Treasurer
The iron ore and coal miner has threatened to run against Mr Swan in his Brisbane-based seat of Lilley, but he has yet to formally nominate to seek preselection for the Liberal National Party.
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Mushrooms are the unsung heroes of this meal. Their deep, earthy flavor and meaty texture are key in gravy, soup, salad, stuffing, appetizers, sides, and even pie. So; as any chef worth his or her fungi knows, having a cache of premium mushrooms at the ready is smart. Not only is the quality of Trader Joe's Baby Bella Mushrooms tops, the price is too – each 10 ounce container is $1.99*.
*Ounces, price and availability may vary by region as we strive to source our produce items as close-to-the-source as possible to keep them as fresh and tasty as possible. Currently Trader Joe's Sliced Baby Bella Mushrooms are only available in our East Coast, Midwest and Southeast stores.
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SPECTRUM: Rutter Requiem
St Olave's Church, Marygate, York
Saturday 15 June 7:30pm
Adults £12.00 | Concessions £10.00 | Students £5.00
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Please note that online booking for this event has now closed. Tickets will be available on the door from 6.45pm.
SPECTRUM continues it's successful series of York concerts with John Rutter's spellbinding Requiem alongside other popular choral works, including the Allegri Miserere and Parry's Songs of Farewell.
Spectrum is a young, dynamic chamber choir based in York, founded and directed by Ben Horden. Members of the ensemble are selected from the many talented musicians and singers studying at the University of York. The Choir performs a wide repertoire of music spanning over 500 years, from Renaissance polyphony and masters of the High Baroque to choral music of the present day. Spectrum continues a successful programme of events after its debut in York Minster in January 2012.
Spectrum is currently a non-profit making organisation; rather our focus is to enjoy making music together and to develop musically as a group, aiming to produce informed performances of the very highest standards and to share that music-making with the people of the city.


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"Obama administration at the highest levels is quite seriously concerned about the possible consequences for America of cutting off funds to the UN agency as required by Zionist lobby driven law enacted by Congress."
By Alan Hart
After UNESCO voted to give the Palestinians full membership, the words of State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland contained a hint that the Obama administration at the highest levels is quite seriously concerned about the possible consequences for America of cutting off funds to the UN agency as required by Zionist lobby driven law enacted by Congress. (The U.S. funds about 22 percent of UNESCO's budget or roughly $80 million annually; and $60 million was scheduled to be sent this month).
Most of Nuland's shortish statement would have been sweet music to the Zionist lobby's ears.
"Today's vote by the member states of UNESCO to admit Palestine as a member is regrettable, premature, and undermines our shared goal of a comprehensive, just, and lasting peace in the Middle East. The United States remains steadfast in its support for the establishment of an independent and sovereign Palestinian state (what nonsense, I add), but such a state can only be realized through direct negotiations between the Israelis and Palestinians (again what nonsense). The United States also remains strongly committed to robust multilateral engagement across the UN system. However, Palestinian membership as a state in UNESCO triggers longstanding legislative restrictions which will compel the United States to refrain from making contributions to UNESCO."
But the end words of Nuland's statement (presumably reflecting her mistress's views) would not have been so comforting for the Zionist lobby. "U.S. engagement with UNESCO serves a wide range of our national interests on education, science, culture, and communications issues. The United States will maintain its membership in and commitment to UNESCO and we will consult with Congress to ensure that U.S. interests and influence are preserved."
One possible implication of the words emphasized is that President Obama and perhaps even Secretary of State Clinton have looked into the future and realised that if America did default on its obligations to UNESCO, there could be moves to suspend or even expel it from the agency. Probably many misinformed Americans would welcome that happening, but it would be bad for America's image in the world. The further implication is that President Obama is at least thinking about trying to persuade Congress to untie his hands on the matter of cutting off funds to UNESCO with the argument that it's not actually in America's own best interests to do so.
That, it seems, is what Zionism's First Lady in Congress fears. (We'll get to who she is in a moment). Her response to Nuland's words on behalf of the State Department was the following: "This is no time for the U.S. to back down… Congress must pass pending UN reform legislation to cut off funding to any UN entity that grants any upgraded status to 'Palestine'. Such strong action is the only way to deter other UN bodies from following in UNESCO's footsteps, and to prevent U.S. taxpayer dollars from paying for biased entities at the UN."
In passing I have to say that I never cease to be amazed by the mind-blowing hypocrisy of almost all Americans in positions of political power. By far the most biased entity at the UN is the United States of America.
The Zionist lobby's First Lady in Congress is the Cuban-American born Ileana Ros-Lehtinen. (Her maternal grandparents were Sephardic Jews from Turkey who became active in Cuba's Jewish community. Her mother converted to Catholicism). She was the first Republican to be elected to the House of Representatives from Florida and she is today the chairwoman of its Foreign Affairs Committee. In that capacity she introduced the bill to cut off US funding to any UN organization that recognizes Palestinian statehood. She also advocates cutting funding to the Lebanese Armed Forces and the West Bank and Gaza.
That's on the one hand. On the other is the fact that one of her major campaign funders was Irving Moskowitz, a Florida businessman who is a major funder of illegal Israeli settlements on the occupied West Bank including East Jerusalem. Also a fact is that the J Street lobby group called on her to return campaign contributions from him because, it said, "he actively works to de-rail the chances for a two-state solution."
Against that background it was entirely logical that she would take (as she did) the lead in demanding that the Obama administration "halt its condemnations of an indispensable ally and friend of the United States."
Once upon a time it was only those seeking to be elected on the Democratic ticket who felt the need to kiss the Zionist lobby's bottom. Now the Republicans are at it, too.
What chance does any American president have of confronting this lobby in order to be able to put American's own real and best interests first? My answer (I never tire of giving it) is no chance unless and until enough American voters are informed enough to call and hold their Congressmen and women to account.
Ros-Lehtinen's history indicates that she is a fan of targeted assassinations, so presumably on this matter she thinks Obama is doing a better job than George "Dubya" Bush.
She appeared very briefly in 638 Ways to Kill Castro, a Channel 4 documentary film broadcast in the UK on 28 November 2006. It told the story of some of the many attempts by the CIA to kill the Cuban leader. Her contribution included this: "I welcome the opportunity of having anyone assassinate Fidel Castro and any leader who is oppressing the people."
When a 28-second clip of her saying that was circulated on the internet, she denied it by claiming that the production team had misrepresented her by splicing clips to make the sound bite. Director Dollan Cannell then released the unedited tapes of the interview with her, proving that she had twice welcomed an attempt on Castro's life. It was the production team that had been misrepresented by her, not the other way round. Cannel asked for an apology but he didn't receive one.
An inability to say sorry is, of course, one of the hallmarks of all who support Israel right or wrong.
Editors' Note: The following comment and Video submitted by a reader, in the comments box of the article posted on this site, titled: The Mess in the Middle East, by Amb. Chas Freeman , is compelling, explains why the American public are so misinformed about the Middle East and by who.
The power is not in our hands. The majority of the population is connected to the Zionist news feed network and they will not vote the Zionists out.
Lee Whitnum, who is running for the Senate, state of Connecticut, did a recent survey around her state and found out that less than one percent knew what AIPAC is. The survey was mostly done with college graduate professionals.
And even if we could remove the traitors from Congress, who is going to replace them? How many anti-Zionists do you know is running for Congress?
Lee has dedicated part of her TV/News exposure to bring AIPAC and criminal Israel to light, knowing full well she is committing political suicide.
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Fred, sadly, U.S. christian religious dogma is causing the USA and thus, our taxpayers to fund terrorism, killing, and maiming of human beings!
If you're so religious, why don't you stand up for the PALESTINIANS first who are living under horrific occupation as an indigenous population invaded by Europeans? They are human beings too! Or maybe you think they don't count because they don't wear your type of cloths or speak your language?
I say get some religion my friend and stand up for Jews, Christians, and Muslims and all those who want to believe as they choose. Absolutely! Furthermore, I strongly encourage you to stand up for human rights even if those rights are for humans you don't feel are worthy and denounce the Zionist political movement for what it is…. disgusting! Praise Jesus!
To all of the Israel and Jewish People haters on this blog. We love the Jewish people and
pray for Israel. Did you forget that your God was a Jewish man?
Also you have the Salk Polio Vaccine in your body. Salk was a Jewish doctor. If you still dislike Jewish people please do not listen or sing White Christmas, Easter Parade and the patriotic song God Bless America as they were written by Irving Berlin a Jewish composer.
PS Think of these comments when you bow down to pray to Jesus who was a Jewish Rabbi. Go figure?
The Catholic Church has intentionally been infiltrated since the 1930s. Fortunately a lot of the scum have died but the damage has been done. In the 70s-90s Malachi Martin was making it clear about the infiltration by Jews, high order Masons, Communists, homosexuals, pedophiles, and other assorted bums. Fortunately, the Church is doing better but the process of rooting out all these creeps will still take time. The billions of dollars in payments for sexual predators has affected almost everything including funding of high school basketball teams. The mainstream media has never mentioned the intentional infiltration of the Church as hateful Jewish people run MSM.
I don't use superlatives very often, RobertUSMC, but I'll say it now: WOW. Thanks for the info. I just ordered a used hardcover copy of "The Plot Against the Church" for $23 on Amazon and think it will be another eye-opening book. I saw another copy for as little as $25, so any other VT-er interested might find it for a bargain price.
Incidentally, Robert, there are no reviews of the book on Amazon, so you might want to do one yourself. And please break it up into lots of paragraphs! It's a good idea to paragraph often on this site too. Easier on the old eyes.
In addendum to my previous post: Over 109 countries, empires, and kingdoms have expelled the Jews for reasons of treason, theft of the countries wealth, and usury on a massive scale, murder (the blood libel that they have crucified young christian children on certain feasts and times with ritual murder – proven in the courts of Portugal, Spain, and other Christian countries but today hidden or denied or said to be false by the Jews). Every single country that has given them refuge and freedom they have returned the charity of thier hosts with espionage, theft of the countries wealth, treason, fraud, murder, and the propagation of the most vile, despicable, and perverted morals. Today, feminism, homosexuality, pornography, hate crimes legislation, abortion, near every perverted and vile practise is promoted and championed by Jewish interests, politicians, and lawyers. Our recent wars, initially promoted by Jewish interests, by the zionist neo-cons, near all Obama's Czar's are Jews, Hollywood – all the movie production company's – the majority of publishing houses, most of the bankers, many of Obamas advisors and cabinate positions, most near all Congressional committes, are all controlled, chaired or run by Jews. Both the Republican and Democratic party's are controlled by Zionist Jews and should there be a third party endeavor look for Jewish interests to be behind the scenes. Near every spy caught in America has been a Jew or has been connected with the Mossad recently. Now, scientific, historic, investigative, and documented evidence shows and declares that the Holocaust was an absolute lie. The International Red Cross stated that they were allowed free and unobstructed access to all German prison camps, recorded all the deaths, approximately 350,000 only, and mostly from typhoid in that the Allies, they stated bombed everything that moved in Germany in the last two years of the war preventing any medical or humanitarian supplies from reaching the camps. The Nuremburg trials were chaired by Russia Communists and Allied Jews and the Germans were refused any real legal defence, even some American Judges that were participating left in discust and called it a kangaroo trial. We might remember that the Germans were accused of the Kytn murder of over 10,000 Polish officers by the Jewish and Communist court superiors, when it was later found that the Russians had done the killings. Of the 502 Communist Officials in Communist Russia in 1920, 490 were Jews. The butchers of the Russian people – Aleksandr Lolzhenitsyn in his last book, "200 Years Together" he documents how 66 million Russians were murdered by the Jews, not counting the 10-15 million Ukrainians, the Hungarians, Polish, Chech's, etc. Now the Jews control nearly the media, Hollywood, publishing company's, the military, the Judiciary, Congress, media, and all the social networking and educational institutions in American – we are toast – they think- but God has other plans. Why do you think it is against the law in Europe and near political or social suicide to comment, expose, or dispute anything about Israel or the Jews – it is for fear that the people will wake up and realize that we have been used as a host by the leeches and blood suckers of the Israeli lobby, the neo-cons, and Jewish interests over the real interests of the American people.
In 1962 twelve Vatican Theologian/Historians, while studing ancient histories and documents in the original latin and greek languages found in the Vatican Library volumes of untranslated and hidden history's of the Jews. Thousands of Jews through the centuries faked conversion ( Marranos ) in order to advance financially and in positions of power. They became Catholic priests, bishops, cardinals, muslim clerics, pagan priests, protestant ministers, and for centuries they hid their Jewishness in these elements, for generations secretly practising their Jewish faith, all the while undermining the Church, governments, religions, and societies in order to further their dream of a One World Satanic Judeo/Masonic Dictatorship. Many seemed the most devote Bishops, they led prayers, devotions, wrote books on pious subjects, but made sure that the real histories of the treason of the Jews always against their host country was never found out. So today we have some even that are found out like John Kerry, Madalaine Albright, Gen. Wesley Clark, etc, Oh, I didn't know my mother, father, grandparents, sister, brother, etc, were Jews, but we "converted", yea right, they are always surprised when they are discovered. Nancy Pelosi and her husband are Marranos, both of their families come from Argintinian Jews, as are many other prominent politicians, military leaders, government officials, etc. Read "The Plot Against the Church" written under the pen name "Maurice Pinay" available from "Omni Christian Books of California". A blockbuster that gets none, not any, advertising, even the Vatican tried to stop the publication of the book in 1962, which had the collaboration of several unknown Cardinals and Bishops, but it had already left the publisher when they found out. So today, many secret Jews (Marranos) are Cardinals, Bishops, priests, Muslim Clerics (yep), pagan priests, protestant ministers, and SPYs for Israel.
Indeed it should.
Henry Ford wrote The International Jew, around 1920, where he describes these same exact issues happening to the Germans and how upset they felt.
Homo sapiens is actually a mix of several hominid species throughout time.
Mated is a nice substitute for the "F" word.
The Neanderthals, who became a minority in northern Europe 30,000 years ago, were mated by the migrating Africans and disappeared.
The Denisovans were creating problems in east Asia, were mated by the incoming Homo Sapiens 20,000 years ago and disappeared.
I have an idea of what do to with the Jews.
Make love, not war.
"I welcome the opportunity of having anyone assassinate Fidel Castro and any leader who is oppressing the people."—Careful what you ask for lady…you might get it.
Although I hate them… virulently…. I think this is a good thing because it highlights the control of our congress by these vermin.
Europe is waking up…. Americans are still in a 3 hanky holohoax induced coma.
This next act of alienation actually isolates the demons among us…. pointing them out…. keeping them in the spotlight….
and we all know what happens to them in the LIGHT OF TRUTH……
Despicable. She should move to Israel and leave that culture of killing, war, terror, and assassination there. She doesn't represent Americans.
As prophesied by Karl Marx's letter….
"The Jewish people as a whole will be its own Messiah. It will attain world domination by the dissolution of other races…and by the establishment of a world republic in which everywhere the Jews will exercise the privilege of citizenship. In this New World Order the Children of Israel…will furnish all the leaders without encountering opposition…" (Karl Marx in a letter to Baruch Levy, quoted in Review de Paris, June 1, 1928, p. 574)
Good article Alan, however, the "AIPAC DICTATORSHIP" that rules over the American Congress and Oval Office is still in place. No need to worry for Israel!
And here's the latest from euronews dot net:
"Israel has decided to speed up Jewish settlement building in the West Bank and East Jerusalem one day after the Palestinian's successful bid to join UNESCO.
"It has also imposed a halt on the transfer of VAT and customs revenues due to the Palestinian Authority worth over seven hundred million euros a year."
Joe: This is enough to make one's blood boil!
Perhaps UNESCO should bite the bullet, budget for the cut, and expel the US.
Amazing how these people can be advocates to a cause to which they had no right to anyway. It beggars belief.
"but it would be bad for America's image in the world."
Can Americas image …"get worse"
"persuade Congress to untie his hands on the matter of cutting off funds to UNESCO"
not just tied …but hog tied……
"I welcome the opportunity of having anyone assassinate Fidel Castro and any leader who is oppressing the people."
does this mean open season on all North American oppressers…..hmmmmmmmm
Expose Expose. but Netanyahu knows the character of our people better than we do, as he often has said when reminded, him even during the Clinton administration, that settlements were against the policy of the US Congress and administration: "Oh I am not concerned abut Congress they will come around.."
I was furious, I said that it implied He had our Congress in his packet and it was offensive..? But in facts he did have all key places cornered. So, our anger could only be turned ion Congress…one would think other would express their "how dare you insult us?" But it was so quite…..What can one expect from people that allows his country to be insulted or if so, for Congress to place this Nation in such a position
other fighter will not stop, but after so many years is it not time the protester move to DC with brooms and and disinfectant and march those traitor out of there. starting with the lobbies, all of them. And guess what? you can do citizen arrest because there s a Law on the book already that should have been enforced but not on the untouchable, so, you will be doing your right as a citizen. Can you imagine Citizens placing those .. under arrest and marching them out of there. So, if Moore would let the protester do what they went there to do and not invite those professional protester with crazy fantasies we may get somewhere. …
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The 2012 ESPY Awards
She's gotta be an athlete right?
Fergie looking good!
I LOVE Connie Britton !
I will miss Friday Night Lights
Because we REALLY needed a close-up of this broad!
Nasty Soul-Less Ginger.
Would not.
LOL! Good to see you again, Dreg.
Tim Tebow's cross-dressing skit will not play well in the heartland.
This woman was good on Friday Night Lights. I've jerked off to her several times and would definitely bang her silly and motorboat her repeatedly. I'd probably even give her an old-fashioned rimjob.
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Hi all,
I was wondering if anyone could give me some suggestion on reshaping a
large wide longitudinal data set to long version.
I am working on a wide version of longitudinal set : about 10000
observations, 2000 variables totally for all the 10 years, data set
size : 113,440,212. It is wide because teh original data set is
wide. Now I would like to reshape it into a long version, since most
analysis can be done in long version. But it is not surprising the
--reshape---command can not be done because the data set is too large.
Stata suggests me to either increase memory, or to drop variables or
The thing is, I have not finally decided what variables are going to
be used in the following analysis yet . If I drop variables, it will
cause the inconvenience that I might have to reshape again and again
to add variables in the long version. Definitely I will not try to use
all the 2000 variables in the analysis, but it is still painful to
re-do the reshaping thing to add extra variables.
I was thinking a clumsy way: I break down the original wide data set
into several small wide data sets , reshape them separately, and then
append all the small long data sets together. Is this way OK?
Actually, what I am more interested in is , how the experts deal with
this kind of problem?
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Last night I watched a documentary about the JFK assassination on our local PBS affiliate, Ghost of Oswald or something like that. Anyway, I realized that I am still unable to watch the film clip showing the actual moment President Kennedy was shot in the head. I did catch a glimpse of that film when it was first released, but had to turn away. I still have to turn away.
There is just something very troubling about that moment to me--even beyond the fact he was President of the United States. I just can't stomach watching it. I cannot imagine the horror Kennedy's wife must have felt, as well as those close by. I somehow feel as if I'm being disrespectful or "reliving" something very painful if I watch that moment. Anyone else feel that way?


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Returning players happy to be at Kettler Iceplex
It is the little things that matter most: a locker stall to hang their gear, a room that doesn't smell like stale sweat, a place to sharpen their skates or torch their sticks just so.
A few lucky Capitals players returned to their home-away-from-home Monday morning when the doors at Kettler Iceplex flung open just 24 hours after the 113-day NHL lockout came to an end. There is still work to be done. The tentative deal between the NHL and the NHL Players' Association needs some legal loose ends tied, and both sides must ratify the new collective bargaining agreement.
But those are mere formalities. Training camps are expected to open by this weekend and games to be played a week after that. When five Caps showed up at Kettler for their daily skate Monday, they dressed in an auxiliary room off the main lobby but soon were back in their own cozy locker room. Jason Chimera, Mike Green, Jay Beagle, Mike Ribeiro and John Carlson -- five players who stayed in town most of the time since the lockout began Sept. 15 -- moved their equipment into the team's facility and then had an impromptu celebration, jumping around and high-fiving each other. Hockey is back. Finally.
"It felt better than Christmas," Beagle said.
"Coming in today, everyone has a smile on," said Ribeiro, who moved his wife and three children to the D.C. area at the end of the summer following a trade from Dallas and has yet to play a game for his new team.
More of their teammates are expected back in town Tuesday, and most should be here by Wednesday at the latest. Then it will be a brief training camp and a quick jump right into what NHL deputy commissioner Bill Daly told the Associated Press likely would be a 48-game season, similar to that of lockout-shortened 1994-95. It has been a tedious journey to get here.
The small group of Carlson, Beagle and Chimera -- along with former Caps forward Jeff Halpern, a Potomac native who signed with the New York Rangers in the summer -- usually worked out three days a week at Kettler Iceplex to keep themselves in something approximating midsummer form. It was hard to maintain hope when talks between the NHL and NHLPA imploded in early December. But their workload increased as the month progressed, and it became clear the two sides would make one last run at a deal after the holidays.
"It was hard to hide from that," Carlson said. "We come into the rink every day and sit in the locker room five feet across from each other and just talk. You want to stay updated because this is our careers and our lives and our jobs. We have to know what's going on, so it's not tough to follow it."


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Jasmine Pilchard-Gosnell is pictured breaking down in tears as she is comforted by a friend outside the actor's home in Santa Barbara.
Paul Walker's longtime girlfriend Jasmine Pilchard-Gosnell was spotted for the first time since the actor's shocking death over Thanksgiving weekend. She looked distraught and seemed to be crying as she hugged a friend outside his home in Santa Barbara on Tuesday, December 3.
Most recently, "Fast and Furious" family released a moving tribute video to remember the late actor. The video is filled with his various scenes from the six car race movies, with "Coming Home" by Diddy-Dirty Money played as a backsound.
Walker died with his friend Roger Rodas in a fiery Porsche car crash on November 30. The actor was a passenger, while the former pro racer was behind the wheel. The preliminary result of his autopsy reveals that he died of "combined effects of traumatic and thermal injuries."
A private memorial attended by friends, family and colleagues was held near the crash site Monday night. Co-star Vin Diesel was among the attendees, while Tyrese Gibson had visited the crash site before. He broke down in tears as he laid flowers during the emotional visit.
A funeral is currently in the works. Walker's "Fast and Furious" family is helping with the arrangements. In lieu of flowers or other gifts, fans are kindly asked to make donations to his charity Reach Out Worldwide (ROWW). They can also buy "Fast and Furious 6" DVD which part of the proceeds will benefit the organization.
Walker, 40, is survived by his 15-year-old daughter Meadow, while Rodas leaves behind his wife and two children.


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Local Hero: Shanaka Fernando
Shanaka Fernando is Australia's Local Hero for founding a not-for-profit restaurant group.
Photo: Michael Clayton-Jones
MELBOURNE'S Shanaka Fernando was named Australia's Local Hero for his work founding not-for-profit restaurant chain Lentil as Anything.
The group of four restaurants, which employs about 80 young people and provides space for artists and writers, does not set prices for dishes.
Instead, diners are encouraged to pay what they can afford or what they think the meal was worth.
Mr Fernando sunk his personal capital into the first restaurant and turned it into a co-operative and youth training enterprise. Lentil as Anything has shown that it is possible for a business to be run on a socially responsible, idealistic basis and still be financially successful and popular.
The 38-year-old restaurateur, who was born in Sri Lanka and arrived in Australia in 1989, said the award meant a great deal to him.
"Hopefully it means the nature of what is happening through our organisation is important and will spill out to the greater society.
"I hope this award will inspire other migrants and anyone in the community who may have ideas that might not seem normal and which have no prior format to go ahead and try these ideas and follow your heart."
And on the eve of Australia Day, Mr Fernando said he thought to be Australian was to be "welcoming of others to be encouraging of each other".
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