text: You are here: Home>Categories>Gender>Female>Lynn Hancock (now Sayer) of Ramsey St. Mary's winner of Fenland Junior Princess competition with Miss Anglia Lynn Hancock (now Sayer) of Ramsey St. Mary's winner of Fenland Junior Princess competition with Miss Anglia Date of coverage 1973 Contributor marlnehancock Reference number 51020430004 Keywords Hancock; Lynne (now Sayer) (1) No CommentsStart the ball rolling by posting a comment on this page! Add a comment about this page Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *Your comment: *Name * Email * Website Female Ramsey Archive Group presentation to Ramsey W.I.???1833-1887 Sarah Ann Freeman (nee Stacey) of Great Whyte, Ramsey1st Ramsey Brownies and Guides 192355 Members of Ramsey Mereside WI enjoying afternoon tea held at Red House, Bury Road, Ramsey. 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Ramsey Community Centre Office, Manager.Four Generations of Swearer, Kirby and Beacham Family.Gathering at Ramsey Mereside Village Hall (early 1950's)Grimme Potato Harvester at G.W.Jones's Ramsey Mereside Farm (l-R)Iris Weber, Mollie Howard, Sonia Parish.Group of German Girls on a visit to the area dancing in the Great Whyte, RamseyGt Grandmother & Gt Gt Grandmother & Relation Pauline Harding Harvest work on Mereside farm, at Ramsey MeresideHelpers at the celebrations of the Coronation of King George VI & Queen Elizabeth, Ramsey Fortyfoot and the HollowHester BishopHester CurtonHester Maud BurtonHigh Jump at The Huntingdonshire's Young Farmers Club Rally. June BentHilda Greenwood(fourth from left front row) of Ramsey with other members of the girls friendly society.Ivy Edwards (left) and Alice Janet Edwards(right), cousins, in Princes Street, RamseyIvy May Richardson (nee Ingle) of Bury,Ramsey.Ivy May Richardson, Stella Stephens (nee Richardson) & Martha Ingle at the Avenue, RamseyIvy Petit, Evelyn Taylor and Annie Butler working on the land in Ramsey. 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It was then taken to Huntingdon by Dorothy.Mrs Doris Wade in her grocers shop at 80 Great Whyte, RamseyMrs Mahala Richardson (nee Wyles of Gidding) of Stacey Yard, Ramsey and Ramsey HollowMrs Martin & Daughter (in hats) from Ramsey Forty Foot.Nanny Goodliff of 24 Newtown Road RamseyOlive Hales of Mill Lane, Wistow in fancy dress.Olive Howes (nee Hales) in her home at Mill Lane, WistowOlive Howes (nee Hales) of Mill Lane, Wistow at the age of 100.Pageant outside Ramsey Abbey Gateway by members of the Girls Friendly Society, to mark Coronation YearPondersbridge Women's InstitutePresention by Olive Coggins of Ramsey St Mary's Womens Institute to Mrs RobinsonRamsey 1940s Weekend 2006 - 1st Place Best Window Display awarded to Ramsey Community Information CentreRamsey 1940s Weekend 2006. 1st place Best Window Display awarded to Ramsey Community Information CentreRamsey 25 Mile Walk Winners.Ramsey Abbey Grammar School 1954Ramsey and District British Legion.Ramsey and District British Legion.Ramsey Carnival 1926.Courtesy Ramsey Rural MuseumRamsey Flowershow FloatRamsey FriendsRamsey Girls FCRamsey Library celebrates Pam Peacock and Eileen Baker working together for 20 years.Ramsey Mereside Fen Land Tigers Tug of War Annual DinnerRamsey Mereside W,I, 50th Anniversary.Ramsey Mereside Womens institute,Ramsey Mereside. 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She married Horace Chamberlain of Ramsey Hollow.Sailor Girls from Ramsey at the Sea-sideSarah Ann Freeman (nee Stacey) of Great Whyte, RamseySarah Ann Freeman (nee Stacey) of Great Whyte, RamseySarah Jane Pedley who married William Greenwood of Ramsey.St Johns Ambulance GroupSt Johns Ambulance GroupStaff at Ramsey Infant School. (1960's)Staff Of Ramsey Infant School (1977)Stella Stephens (nee Richardson) taken at the Avenue, Ramsey.Strawberry Pickers at Ged Bowd's Farm, Ramsey Forty FootSue and Hester BurtonSue Maycock.Susan Howard practicing the recorder at New Cottages, Dairy Farm Rd, Ramsey MeresideSybil Marshall, Born Sybil Edwards, Ramsey Heights 26th Nov 1913. On her wedding day, when she married Ewart Oakesshott at Ely Registry Office.. Sybil MarshallSyliva Godfrey's Easter School Report from the Ramsey Town Council SchoolSyliva Harding nee Godfrey in her number one fire uniform as Fire Runner. 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They have more than a bit of country in them, but they still know how to enjoy a sophisticated wine. Next time they bring out a bottle, they'll keep it in this rootin' tootin' wine bottle holder.

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TimePanic Publisher's description
TimePanic is an award-winning application for tracking time spent at the computer.
TimePanic is an award-winning application for tracking time spent at the computer. If you need to keep track of the work you do and when you do it, and want to stay on top of tracking projects or your business, then TimePanic is the ideal solution.
Improve your efficiency at work.
Keep on top of all your projects.
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See where the time is going in your day.
See which projects/clients consume the most time.
What's New in This Release:New features
TimePanic now supports partial free days, for example half day holidays or two hours of sick leave (customer request).
Changed features
In previous versions, two-colored days in the year view were used to display free days containing activities. As of this version, two-colored days are used for partial holidays and partial leave days.
Some of the numbers shown in reports (such as the number of annual leave days) can now have decimal places.
The minimal decimal resolution of the duration format has been changed back from 0.05 to 0.01 (customer request).
The option automatically compensate for rounding errors is now enabled by default in new reports. It is now also available in TimePanic FE (the freeware edition).
Bug fixes
Fixed: In some types of reports, sorting did not work properly (customer request).
Fixed: Copying days in the year view did not work properly for days that extended beyond midnight.
Fixed: Grouping activities by quarters and half years did not work properly in matrix mode.
Fixed: The command Flag Activities of the Report did not work (customer request).
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New Courthouse Architecture
They're being built at a staggering rate. New ones are rapidly replacing old ones. Top architects are being called in to design them. . . .
No, I'm not talking about stadiums. I'm talking about courthouses. A recent Legal Affairs article chronicles a dramatic transformation in courthouse architecture and describes the building boom in new courthouses. Courthouses used to be built as "solemn, neo-Classical style structures," but recently things have changed. Today, top architects bid on the construction of courthouses:
The new architect selection standards coincide with the largest federal courthouse building initiative in the nation's history, a program necessitated by the rise in the number of federal cases—up some 20 percent in the last decade—and a shift in caseloads from the Rust Belt to the Sun Belt. As droves of people continue to move from Buffalo to Houston or from St. Louis to Phoenix, caseloads are moving with them. In all, nearly 200 courthouses will be built or renovated over the next 25 years, at a cost in the tens of billions of dollars.
If you're interested in the history of courthouse architecture, the article is well worth checking out. One of the courthouses discussed in the article is the stunning new federal courthouse in Boston, pictured below:
For all the law architecture nerds out there, I did a little web surfing and found some pictures of new or planned courthouses. Beginning with state courthouses, here are ones from Lexington, SC, Lexington, KY, and Syracuse, NY:
Here are courthouses from Albequerque, NM and Hall County, GA:
Here are new federal courthouses from Washington, DC and Fresno, CA:
Here are new federal courthouses in Las Vegas, NV and Minneapolis, MN:
Here are new federal courthouses in Seattle, WA and Buffalo, NY:
And, although not brand new, it is certainly worth mentioning the 9th Circuit courthouse in Pasadena, CA where I clerked, which is one of the most beautiful courthouses I've seen:
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Recognizing the needs of active participation of every citizens mostly rural groups in the backward area in Rural Development and Social Welfare movement in our country with the involvement of rural poor, uneducated and most deprived section of the society, irrespective of caste, race and religon and with this firm objective, a Society named RURAL DEVELOPMENT SOCIETY was established on 2nd October, 1983 in a function held in relation to GANDHI JAYANTI.
Through the Headquarter of the society is located at Wanjing but it works specially in the interior tribal and schedule caste villages and other communities in general of Thoubal (valley) and Chandel (hills) District of Manipur on comprehensive rural development programmes. Also, in the time of calamities (Natural &


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Skokholm island's lighthouse appeal raises £100,000
A wildlife trust has raised more than £100,000 just six weeks after launching an appeal to buy a lighthouse, three miles off Pembrokeshire.
The Wildlife Trust of South and West Wales needs to find £250,000 to purchase the building and cliff face on Skokholm island.
The trust said it was "bowled over" by the response to its appeal.
The island is one of the UK's most spectacular havens for sea birds, and the trust already owns most of it.
Plans include turning the lighthouse, built in 1916, into visitor accommodation for people to see up close the colonies of Manx shearwater and storm petrels.
It would continue operating despite the sell-off.
Skokholm was bought by the trust in 2006 after it raised £650,000. The mile-long island was the first bird observatory in Wales.
"In excess of £100,000 has been received through the appeal so far," said a spokeswoman.
"It is in part thanks to some wonderful local support and the support of the trust's members."
The trust wants to purchase the land around the lighthouse as this has one of the densest populations of Manx shearwaters in the world, but the land is fragile near the birds' nesting burrows.
Island warden Jerry Gillham said: "We would worry about anyone else buying the lighthouse and land in case damage was done to the incredibly delicate nesting burrows.
"Worse someone could accidentally bring rats on to the island which would do untold damage to the precious ground nesting birds which thrive across the island, including the wonderful puffins, storm petrels and Manx shearwaters."
Skokholm, with its nearby sister island, Skomer, is thought to the breeding home of roughly 50% of the world population of the species.
The trust has until the end of the year to raise the money to head off the possibility of the lighthouse being put on to the open market.


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GUSTAVO POYET has challenged misfiring striker Jozy Altidore to use Wembley woe as a way of kick-starting his Sunderland career ahead of a first team recall in the FA Cup tomorrow.
The excitement Altidore must have felt building up to his first cup final in English football was taken away last Sunday when he was completely omitted from the Black Cats' match-day 18 to face Manchester City.
The American is determined to learn from the disappointment this week and Poyet is ready to give the player an immediate opportunity to prove it when he starts against Hull City.
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Altidore has already been told he will be leading the line for Sunderland in the FA Cup quarter-final at the KC Stadium – and he knows a turnaround in fortunes in front of goal is exactly what is required.
Since his £6.5m move from AZ Alkmaar last summer he has scored just twice in 32 appearances, reminiscent of his loan spell at Hull in 2009-10 when he scored two in 30 outings.
Poyet said: "Jozy - it's up to him. We saw it with Lee Cattermole. Lee's playing on Sunday at Hull. Because of me? No, because of him. It's that simple.
"I would like Jozy to do the same. He needs to say 'I deserve to play on Sunday' and if he does well enough, he will play against Crystal Palace and then Norwich. But because of him, not me. I'm not a charity.
"Here it depends on how you perform. I bought Liam Bridcutt to Sunderland, he's my player but on Sunday it's Lee Cattermole (playing). That's what Jozy has to think."
Rather than make a big deal out of his Wembley omission, Altidore chose to go down a different avenue. He described how 'it is difficult' for him at Sunderland because of the team's poor form this season when he was on midweek duty with the United States for a friendly with Ukraine in Cyprus.
Poyet said: "His reaction to being left out was quiet. I've got nothing to say about anything, he was professional. It was probably a shock for him because he didn't know. Only he knows how he felt inside.
"His comments? We can talk about too many things, how we play, the system we play, who is playing or not playing - at the end of the day we put plenty of effort in to get to him the club and we try to use him the best we can. We need him. It doesn't matter what he said."
In highlighting Cattermole's situation for Altidore to draw comparisons with, Poyet was keen to stress the importance of the Stockton-born midfielder to his squad.
Cattermole almost left to join Stoke City on deadline day only for the £5m deal to break down at the last moment when the Uruguayan boss intervened.
The £2.5m arrival of Liam Bridcutt from Brighton increases the competition for the holding midfiled role which Poyet has tended to play. In Cattermole, though, Poyet believes he has a player worth retaining.
The Sunderland manager said: "It's a good opportunity for me to talk about Lee - his performance against Manchester City shows why we kept him when he was so difficult on the final day of the transfer window.
"It showed the type of character he is and why he plays most of the time. It was a perfect example of a player who goes on the pitch and gives it everything. You need those types of player.
"It will be difficult for Liam, simple as that. You have to explain it to players and sometimes they get it, sometimes they don't. You give players an opportunity to play and if they play well, they are back the following week.
"When Vito Mannone was man of the match the week after he played, when Wes Brown was the same he played. It will be the same. If we win it's a team because you get the best performance of the players."
Poyet, aware that around 4,000 fans will make the trip from Wearside, plans to make changes to the Sunderland team that lost out in the Capital One Cup final and it could mean Fabio Borini starting on the bench.
The Italian was impressive against City but, with next weekend's crucial Premier League survival battle with Crystal Palace penciled in next, Poyet is considering all options - even if he was impressed with Borini.
"If you want to create personality in terms of how he comes into training every day, what time he's out to train, how he prepares, how he trains, what he gives you - Fabio is the type of player you would like to have in your squad all the time, playing or not," said Poyet.
"He was desperate to play up front. For some reason every time he played up front something went bad - the Hull game or other games where it didn't happen - but he took his chance.
"In certain games when we have to play the way we played against City he can be very important to us. It will depend on the game, how we are playing. It was one of the best decisions we made in the final."


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|01 May 2013
Windows 7 Ultimate 64
Using multiple Recorded TV folders
I have multiple drives in my computer and I have one folder which is on the first drive with a "Recorded TV" folder. I created another "Recorded TV" folder on the second drive and told Media Center to use that directory as well. Wacky thing is, it is writing everything to both of the folders. It will show "show name (2)" and then have two copies of the episode listed. Viewing the directory itself, the file is there in both. If I delete one of them from withing Media Center, both copies are deleted from Media Center and both hard drives. What I want it to do is to write to drive 1 until it reaches its recorder limit and then switch to drive 2. Has anyone else experienced this wackiness? Does anyone have a resolution?
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|12 May 2013
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I am not aware that WMC supports more than one \Recorded TV folder to RECORD new content. I'm not even sure I know how you went about doing what you think accomplished that. Can you elaborate?
You can add multiple \Recorded TV folders (to the "Recorded TV" list in WMC settings) on other drives for playback, so that you can manually move WTV content from your primary one-and-only recording folder to these secondary "playback only" holding tank folders. This allows you to have LOTS of capacity for storage of previously recorded content, while still keeping the one-and-only primary recording folder relatively empty... if it's not really large enough to meet your ongoing regular needs without housekeeping every now and then to move to other locations.
As far as actually designating that the new recordings go into "multiple recording folders" and expecting WMC to "load balance" the recordings (i.e. spreading them evenly across the multiple folders in the pool) much as real DVR's do when an external SATA drive is attached, or when other TV/DVR products like BeyondTV do (they actually have a notion called "recording pool" of multiple folders that you can specify)... well again, I've been using WMC for a long time and I am not aware that anything but one and only one \Recorded TV folder is used for recording new content.
Again, multiple \Recorded TV folders are available for playback (you simply add as many of these other drive locations as you want, with each one automatically created by WMC as "\Recorded TV" on that drive). They will all participate in your recordings list. But there's only one folder used for new recordings... at least to the best of my knowledge.
And it's up to you to manually maintain that one-and-only recording folder if necessary, to manually move WTV files to your secondary \Recorded TV folders thus freeing up space for new ongoing recordings.
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The Nine Circles of Hell! – all the news that gives you fits in print – for Friday, October 29, 2010, are:
Gulf fishermen find new six mile-long oil plume
US wind industry has slowest quarter since 2007
Most Americans "concerned" about next mortgage payment
America's secret spy budget more than triples in 12 years
Obama "undercutting" Bush-approved Child Soldiers Prevention Act
America's double-standard on domestic, international flight security
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Gulf fishermen find new six mile-long oil plume
Scientists Find New Oil Plume In Gulf
Scientists speaking at the Fort Lauderdale International Boat Show say they continue to see effects of the BP oil spill surfacing in the Gulf of Mexico.
At a conference Thursday, scientists with a group called the International SeaKeepers Society, unveiled a map showing a new plume of oil — about 6 miles long — that's been discovered in the Gulf by fishermen.
"They described it as having millions of specks of reddish-brown oil in it," Dr. Mark Luther from the University of South Florida told CBS 4′s Carey Codd.
Scientists cannot say for certain that the plume is from the BP spill, but they said it's a possibility.
Luther said the oil appears not to be toxic. "It's not in any concentration that is going to foul the beaches or make seafood inedible."
However Luther said that since so much oil spilled — millions of barrels– a lot of it sank to deep waters. He said the oil down below will not decay as quickly as oil on the surface and it will eventually rise to the top.
"There's likely to be effects for years or even decades because there's so much oil that's still out there," Luther said. "We just don't know where it is."
Luther is especially worried about how the oil will affect generations of fish.
US wind industry has slowest quarter since 2007
The New York Times
Wind Power Growth Slows to 2007 Levels
In July, the American Wind Energy Association reported that it was having a lousy year. It appears the third quarter of 2010 wasn't much better.
According to an analysis to be released on Friday, the trade group reports having its slowest quarter since 2007, adding just 395 megawatts of wind power capacity.
For the year to date, new installations were down 72 percent.
The reasons are many.
For starters, as any number of unemployed Americans can testify, the nation's economic engines just aren't humming like they used to, and that means less demand for electricity over all. Natural gas, the chief fossil-fuel competitor to renewable sources of electricity, is also dirt cheap these days, making wind power a tougher sell for cost-conscious utilities and state regulators.
But the wind association — and advocates for increased renewable electricity capacity over all — argue that policy is a problem, too. Despite lots of talk on Capitol Hill about the hazards of fossil fuels, their contribution to climate change and the need for broad, long-term supports for the renewables industry, legislators have failed to reach agreement on what that might look like.
Absent such policies, they argue, investment is riskier, clean power deals are harder to broker and entrenched fossil-fuel sources like coal and natural gas enjoy an advantage.
Most Americans "concerned" about next mortgage payment
The Washington Post
Most Americans worry about ability to pay mortgage or rent, poll finds
A majority of Americans now say they are worried about making their mortgage or rent payments, underscoring the extent of economic anxiety in the country heading into midterm elections.
A new Washington Post poll shows that concerns about housing payments have spiked since 2008 despite some improvements in the overall economy. In all, 53 percent said they are "very concerned" or "somewhat concerned" about having the money to make their monthly payment. Worries are the most intense among those with lower incomes and among African Americans.
The poll results highlight the political challenge facing the Obama administration: Despite committing hundreds of billions of dollars to bail out troubled financial firms, create jobs and keep distressed borrowers in their homes, it has not been able to make many people feel better about their personal situations or even relieve fears about the cost of a need as basic as shelter.
The recent foreclosure mess provides another example of this gap between the policy decisions in Washington and the sentiment of ordinary Americans. The poll reveals that just over half of the country thinks the administration should impose a national moratorium on foreclosures to sort out whether banks are improperly seizing the homes of struggling borrowers. But the White House rejected that idea, saying it would gravely wound the fragile housing market.
America's secret spy budget more than triples in 12 years
Los Angeles Times
Overall U.S. intelligence budget tops $80 billion
The U.S. government on Thursday disclosed for the first time in more than a decade what it spent in total on intelligence gathering in the fiscal year that just ended: $80.1 billion.
That's more than the U.S. spent on the Department of Homeland Security ($53 billion) and the Justice Department ($30 billion), according to figures from the White House Office of Management and Budget. It represents about 12% of the nation's $664-billion defense budget.
The total intelligence budget has doubled since 2001, Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) said in a statement.
"It is clear that the overall spending on intelligence has blossomed to an unacceptable level in the past decade," said Feinstein, who chairs the Senate Intelligence Committee, which sets the budget and oversees policy.
Intelligence spending has long been classified, but in 2007 the government began revealing part of it — but only the amount not devoted purely to military operations. That figure, known as the National Intelligence Program, was $52.1 billion for fiscal year 2010, which ended Sept. 30, up 6.6% from the previous year.
The government revealed the total intelligence budget twice before, in 1997 and 1998, in response to a lawsuit. It was $26.6 billion and $26.7 billion, respectively, meaning the budget has tripled in 12 years.
Obama "undercutting" Bush-approved Child Soldiers Prevention Act
The Associated Press
US waiving penalties for use of child soldiers
In a move criticized by human rights organizations, the Obama administration has decided to exempt Yemen and three other countries that use child soldiers from U.S. penalties under the 2008 Child Soldiers Prevention Act.
In a memorandum to Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, President Barack Obama said he had determined that "it is in the national interest of the United States" to waive application of the law to Chad, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Sudan and Yemen. He instructed Clinton to submit the decision to the Congress with a written justification for the move.
Obama's memo, released by the White House on Monday, did not include the justification. Administration officials have said, however, that cutting off military aid to those four countries as required by the law would do more harm than good. And they have said that continuing close cooperation with them can be a more effective way of changing their practices.
Jo Becker, children's rights director at Human Rights Watch, said Obama had supported the legislation when he was in the Senate.
"This is a ground breaking law," she said. "This is the first year it has taken effect and he's undercutting it."
The law was signed by President George W. Bush shortly before he left office but did not take effect until this year.
America's double-standard on domestic, international flight security
BBC News
UK airlines back call for airport security changes
The UK airline industry has backed British Airways chairman Martin Broughton's call for changes to airport security checks.
Mike Carrivick, of BAR UK, which represents more than 80 airlines, said the industry should "step back and have a look at the whole situation".
The Department for Transport said there were no plans to change rules on checking laptops and shoes.
Mr Broughton said some "completely redundant" security checks should go.
Practices such as forcing passengers to take off their shoes should be abandoned, he added.
He also criticised the US for imposing increased checks on US-bound flights but not on its own domestic services, saying the UK should stop "kowtowing" to US security demands.
And he questioned why laptop computers needed to be screened separately.
Mr Carrivick, of BAR UK, which represents scheduled airlines such as Virgin Atlantic and BMI, said airport security seemed to be a "layered approach".
He added: "Every time there is a new security scare, an extra layer is added on to procedures.
"We need to step back and have a look at the whole situation. Standards change fairly regularly and this puts pressure on airports and airlines. We need to decide what we are trying to do and how best to do it" …
The US stepped up security in January in the wake of an alleged bomb plot.
It introduced tougher screening rules, including body pat-down searches and carry-on baggage checks, for passengers arriving from 14 nations which the authorities deem to be a security risk.
Passengers from any foreign country may also be checked at random.
Speaking at the UK Airport Operators' Association annual conference, Mr Broughton said that no-one wanted weaker security.
But he was quoted by the Financial Times as telling the conference: "We all know there's quite a number of elements in the security programme which are completely redundant and they should be sorted out."
'Consider essential'
Mr Broughton, who is also chairman of Liverpool FC, added the UK should only agree to security checks that the US requires for passengers on domestic flights.
"America does not do internally a lot of the things they demand that we do," he said. "We shouldn't stand for that.
"We should say, 'We'll only do things which we consider to be essential and that you Americans also consider essential'" …
Chris Yates, an aviation security analyst, said scanning technology was sufficient to detect any suspicious devices.
He added: "We need to keep passengers safe, but there's also a whole bunch of security rules that could be eased out.
"We could be talking about getting rid of the shoe check, because the metal detectors at airports are sensitive enough to pick up the metal strap in my leather shoe, so they should be able to detect whatever might else be hidden in the heel of that shoe.
"There are better ways in which we can do things now at the airport checkpoint. The redesign of that checkpoint, in my opinion, is long overdue."
Col Richard Kemp, who was a member of the national crisis-management committee Cobra between 2002 and 2006, said a universal approach to airport security was needed.
"One of the key points in this is consistency, to make sure that if a security measure is necessary it's universally applied.
"I think people are annoyed and rightly; some airlines or some airports want one thing done, others don't and it doesn't make sense to the public."
And Admiral Lord West, a security minister in the previous Labour government, agreed security checks had become far too complicated.
"We were already talking with the Europeans and, of course, the problem is there's American demands as well.
"Just from my travelling in America it does seem that they have very different standards travelling within [the US].
"So I think the government does need… to push very hard to rationalise these things, working with airport authorities, with the airlines and getting a Europe-wide agreement."
Iraqis ask government to investigate Wikileaks' torture claims
The Associated Press
Iraqi Lawmakers Demand Inquiry of Abuse Claims
The Iraqi prime minister's political opponents demanded Thursday that parliament hold a special session to investigate claims that prisoners have been tortured by his government.
Lawmakers from the Sunni-backed Iraqiya group have seized on the abuse allegations that surfaced last week in a cache of secret U.S. military documents released by online whistle-blower WikiLeaks as evidence that Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki is unfit to govern. Al-Maliki, meanwhile, has attacked the WikiLeaks release as an attempt to undermine him as he seeks to clench a second term in office.
Parliament has been stalled while Iraqiya and al-Maliki's Shiite-led coalition battle for the right to form a new government after inconclusive March 7 elections.
"The representatives of the people should not be any less humane than the international organizations that have called for an investigation," Iraqiya spokesman Haidar al-Mullah told reporters.
He said the inquiry would focus in part on al-Maliki's oversight of Iraqi security forces in his role as the nation's commander in chief since some of the alleged abuse by Iraqi security forces occurred after he became prime minister in May 2006 …
The reports of alleged abuse of mostly Sunni detainees at the hands of the Shiite-dominated Iraqi security forces has reignited Sunni fears of another four years under al-Maliki, despite the prime minister's efforts to portray himself as a national leader above sectarian divisions.
Al-Maliki's office has insisted the documents show no proof that detainees were abused under his watch.
Uganda's violent homophobia reignited
Mail & Guardian
Gay Ugandans targeted after outing
Heather Kitaka (not her real name) was in her Kampala home on October 15, listening to music, when it began.
"It started at 3pm and went on all night. People started throwing stones through my gate and shouting. My friends came and said: "Look, you have to leave; you have to get out of here." So the next day, I left. I haven't been back since."
Kitaka is one of 100 people listed in an October 9 article in Uganda's Rolling Stone newspaper, which featured a list of the country's 100 "top" homosexuals. Across the front-page story ran a bright, yellow banner that read: "Hang them."
At least three other people have been attacked and many more are in hiding since the publication in the two-month-old newspaper, started by journalism students.
It included the photos and addresses of many of those "named and shamed", with claims that the country's gay community was trying to "recruit" a million children by raiding schools and that a deadly disease causing "shattered flesh" was spreading through it.
This is not the first time that a Ugandan newspaper has ousted members of the country's gay community …
The articles and the reaction to them underscores the growing homophobia in the country, say the country's gay community, a year after a Ugandan MP drew up a Bill in Parliament that would have imposed the death penalty for some homosexual acts and life in prison for others.
The legislation was introduced after the visit in March last year of Scott Lively, an American evangelist, and two other American fundamentalist Christians warning about "the gay agenda" and the threat homosexuals posed to the traditional African family.
The Bill has since been suspended in response to pressure from international donors, but the country's gay community says that it has done its job of seeding prejudice in the East African nation.
"It's getting worse. Gays were harassed before the Bill was introduced, but since its introduction it has escalated. More people are being beaten up, chased from their churches and evicted from their homes," said Julian Onziema of the rights group Sexual Minorities Uganda (SMU) …
"Things are getting worse," said Kitaka. "People are so scared that they're going back into the closet. But some of us don't have that option any more."
Superstitions and the people who believe in them
Superstitious Beliefs Getting More Common
It's that time of year again. Ghosts, goblins and other spooky characters come out from the shadows and into our everyday lives.
For most people, the thrill lasts for a few weeks each October. But for true believers, the paranormal is an everyday fact, not just a holiday joke.
To understand what drives some people to truly believe, two sociologists visited psychic fairs, spent nights in haunted houses, trekked with Bigfoot hunters, sat in on support groups for people who had been abducted by aliens, and conducted two nationwide surveys.
Contrary to common stereotypes, the research revealed no single profile of a person who accepts the paranormal. Believers ranged from free-spirited types with low incomes and little education to high-powered businessmen. Some were drifters; others were brain surgeons.
Why people believed also varied, the researchers report in a new book, called "Paranormal America: Ghost Encounters, UFO Sightings, Bigfoot Hunts, and Other Curiosities in Religion and Culture."
For some, the paranormal served as just another way of explaining the world. For others, extraordinary phenomena offered opportunities to chase mysteries, experience thrills and even achieve celebrity status, if they could actually find proof.
"It's almost like an adult way to get that kidlike need for adventure and exploration," said co-author Christopher Bader, of Baylor University in Waco, Texas. "Other people are sitting at home and renting videos, but you're sitting in a haunted house that is infested with demons" …
When the scientists broke down the results, they found that people who are moderately religious are most likely to believe in the paranormal. This could be because they are open enough to believe in the unknown, but not so rigid in their religious beliefs to reject mysterious experiences altogether.
The numbers also showed that different types of paranormal entities appeal to different demographics. Women, for instance, are most likely to believe they live in haunted houses. College graduates are most likely to have out-of-body experiences. Unmarried white men are most likely to believe in UFOs.
Bigfoot hunters were perhaps the most surprising group, Bader said. They defied all stereotypes of paranormal pursuers who wear flowing clothes and commune with spirits.
Instead, they were very serious, extremely conventional and often highly professional. In fact, their beliefs contradicted their lifestyles so much that many of them were plagued by anxiety, which drove them even further to stick to their beliefs.
"Their friends and family consider them kooky," Bader said. "Everyone is saying they're nuts. So, they have a real aggressive style and seriousness of purpose. They want to prove everyone wrong."
For one hunter, the search began one day when he was out in the woods and, he swears, he saw Bigfoot cross his path.
"Imagine the stress that would put on your life," Bader said. "You consider yourself a normal, smart guy, and you think you just saw a giant monkey walk in front of you. Now, you have to fit that into your life."
"These are not people trying to explain a crazy world," he added. "They are trying to prove to themselves that they aren't crazy."
Regardless of the person or the phenomenon, paranormal experiences are purely quirks of the human brain, said Michael Shermer, executive director of the Skeptics Society, an educational organization, and founding publisher of Skeptic magazine.
Whether it's hearing creaks in an old house or watching dots move randomly on a computer screen, he said, people tend to look for patterns and meanings in everything.
"The default condition in brain is that all patterns are real," Shermer said. "It's just what we do."


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DHAKA: Bangladesh cricket coach Stuart Law has expressed fears about the team's scheduled tour to Pakistan, where international cricket has been suspended for three years.
Bangladesh are set to be the first Test-playing nation to visit Pakistan since a gun attack on the Sri Lankan team bus during the Lahore Test in 2009, when eight people died and seven visiting players and an assistant coach were injured.
"It's got to be made sure by the two associating boards that everyone is 100% safe to go," Law told the Dhaka-based New Age. "I cannot speak on behalf of the players. I've spent time with the players and everyone is a bit concerned. Not just Bangladesh, but the other teams as well. The initial response from the players around the world is, 'I don't want to go'."
Bangladesh will play a One-Day International and one Twenty20 on April 29 and 30 in Lahore, a move hailed by Pakistani political leaders, players and fans. But newspapers in Bangladesh criticised the country's cricket board chief Mustafa Kamal for agreeing to the tour.
The New Age daily described the decision as 'irresponsible, unprofessional, autocratic and downright selfish'.
Law, from Australia, declined to confirm if he would go on the tour, while Bangladesh's cricket authorities said they were seeking clearance from the International Cricket Council.
Law grabs new role in Australia
Meanwhile, Cricket Australia announced it had appointed Law to a high-performance role at Australian cricket's Centre of Excellence.
Law, who played one test and 54 ODIs for Australia, will return to his home city of Brisbane to take up the appointment. He will assist Centre of Excellence head coach Troy Cooley in providing tactical and technical support and development to Australian cricketers in the state and national programmes.
"The opportunity to return home to be closer with family and work in Brisbane with Australia's established and emerging talent was too good to pass up."
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We have tested products from 5 vendors offering whole disk (really partition) encryption for Windows 7 in a UEFI (EFI) based motherboard. UEFI is a replacement for the traditional IBM compatible BIOS and is currently vigorously promoted by Intel and Microsoft. The results are disappointing, but see the letter at the end of this page for a promising possibility.
The OS was Windows 7 Ultimate SP1. Because Windows defaults all user files to the boot drive, it is essential to us that this partition be subject to full disk encryption. Various schemes to move user default directories to other locations are documented on the web, however all are unsupported by MS, quite complicated and online complaints about subsequent difficulties are rife.
These tests were conducted on January 5-8, 2012. The OS was reinstalled for each test.
If you try this you might be disturbed as encryption starts to find that your drive is suddenly full. This will gradually subside as the drive is encrypted. Once encrypted we were unable to convert to dynamic or mirror the volume. No doubt there are procedures to do these things, but the usual menu items were grayed out.
In summary, Bitlocker was the only package able to encrypt user files, however storing keys on a USB drive seems unsafe to us. We would be pleased to hear of any alternatives, or effective updates to the packages listed above.
On September 6, 2012 I received an interesting email from firstname.lastname@example.com saying that "DriveCrypt Plus Pack has had UEFI support since last december [2011]. We still have to resolve Secure Boot; at this time it needs to be disabled."
On April 17, 2013 I received the following message out of the blue from Jetico, in Finland. I haven't tested the software, but it would be worth looking at. There is a free trial download available. If you try it out, please tell me how it works out. Note that "two-factor" authentication mentioned in the message would not really qualify as two factors, rather it is more like two passwords.
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To: 'Daniel Feenberg' Subject: RE: Jetico Solution Hello Daniel, Yes our product can encrypt both boot and System volumes. We create our own bootloader that is used to do the end user verification. Also our bootloader can also reside on a USB stick that allows two factor authentication where any user needing access to the hard drives would require to have a USB stick/token at the time of boot and they need to enter a correct password to be able to start up the system. More information about the System and Boot volume encryption: http://www.jetico.com/web_help/bcve3/html/04_usage/01_volume_encryption/03_s ystem_boot_volumes.htm (the whole help file: http://www.jetico.com/web_help/bcve3/) Regards, -- Kari Hyt?en Technical Sales Manager


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Affiliation: Nagoya University
Country: Japan
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- The expression and crucial roles of BMP signaling in development of smooth muscle progenitor cells in the mouse embryonic gutShigeko Torihashi
Department of Health Science, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, 1 1 20 Daikouminami, Higashi ku, Nagoya 461 8673, Japan
Differentiation 77:277-89. 2009..Taken together, BMP signaling was expressed for a short window in the smooth muscle progenitors and the signal, especially BMP2, plays an essential role in smooth muscle differentiation in cooperation with PDGF signaling...
- In vitro developmental model of the gastrointestinal tract from mouse embryonic stem cellsShigeko Torihashi
Programs in Physical and Occupational Therapy, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, 1 1 20 Daiko Minami, Higashi ku, Nagoya 461 8673, Japan
Nagoya J Med Sci 69:133-7. 2007..In addition, we pointed out several unique features different from gut in vivo that provide useful and advantageous tools to investigate the developmental mechanism of the gastrointestinal tract...
- Gut-like structures from mouse embryonic stem cells as an in vitro model for gut organogenesis preserving developmental potential after transplantationShigeko Torihashi
Department of Anatomy and Molecular Cell Biology, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya, Japan
Stem Cells 24:2618-26. 2006..They maintain their developmental potential after transplantation. Therefore, gut-like structures provide a unique and useful in vitro system for development and stem cell studies of the GI tract, including transplantation experiments...
- Crucial transcription factors in endoderm and embryonic gut development are expressed in gut-like structures from mouse ES cellsRie Matsuura
Department of Anatomy and Molecular Cell Biology, Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya University, Japan
Stem Cells 24:624-30. 2006..They also indicate that the in vitro system using mouse ES cells mimics in vivo development and should prove useful in the study of molecular mechanisms for endoderm and gut development...
- Formation of gut-like structures in vitro from mouse embryonic stem cellsShigeko Torihashi
Department of Anatomy and Molecular Cell Biology, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Japan
Methods Mol Biol 330:279-85. 2006..EBs develop to form gut-like structures when induced to spontaneously enter a program of differentiation in vitro without addition of any extrinsic factors...
- Spontaneous rhythmicity in cultured cell clusters isolated from mouse small intestineShinsuke Nakayama
Department of Cell Physiology, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Japan
Jpn J Physiol 52:217-27. 2002....
- Calcium oscillation linked to pacemaking of interstitial cells of Cajal: requirement of calcium influx and localization of TRP4 in caveolaeShigeko Torihashi
Department of Anatomy, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya 466 8550, Japan
J Biol Chem 277:19191-7. 2002..Taken together, the results infer that the Ca(2+) oscillation in ICC is intimately linked to the pacemaker function and depends on Ca(2+) influx mediated by TRP4...
- Attenuated nitrergic inhibitory neurotransmission to interstitial cells of Cajal in the lower esophageal sphincter with esophageal achalasia in childrenYoshio Watanabe
Department of Pediatric Surgery, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Showa Ku, Nagoya, Japan
Pediatr Int 44:145-8. 2002..The aim of this investigation is to clarify the status of ICC and nitrergic inhibitory neurons in the LES of EA using immunohistochemistry...
- Mesenchymal stem cells originating from ES cells show high telomerase activity and therapeutic benefitsNana Ninagawa
Department of Health Sciences, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Higashi ku, Nagoya, Japan
Differentiation 82:153-64. 2011..They thus indicate a promising new source of cell-based therapy without teratoma formation...
- Switching of actin isoforms in skeletal muscle differentiation using mouse ES cellsYota Mizuno
Department of Physical Therapy, Nagoya University School of Health Sciences, Nagoya, Japan
Histochem Cell Biol 132:669-72. 2009..The exchange of isoforms is not directly linked to the sarcomere formation. As a result, ES cells provide a useful in vitro system for exploring skeletal muscle differentiation...
- Muscularis inflammation and the loss of interstitial cells of Cajal in the endothelin ETB receptor null ratToshihiko Suzuki
Department of Veterinary Pharmacology, Graduate School of Agriculture and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo 113 8657, Japan
Am J Physiol Gastrointest Liver Physiol 287:G638-46. 2004..Increased numbers and activation of macrophages may result in damage to ICC networks leading to disordered intestinal rhythmicity in regions of the gut in which myenteric ganglia are intact...
- [Genetic basis of autonomic gastrointestinal motility and pathophysiological models]Yoshiko Tokutomi
Department of Pharmacology, Kumamoto University School of Medicine, Kumamoto 860 0811, Japan
Nihon Yakurigaku Zasshi 119:227-34. 2002..Here we review the genetic basis of autonomic gastrointestinal motility and the pathophysiological models...
- Phagocytotic activation of muscularis resident macrophages inhibits smooth muscle contraction in rat ileumKoichi Sato
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- In vitro functional gut-like organ formation from mouse embryonic stem cellsTakatsugu Yamada
Division of Developmental Biology, Department of Parasitology, Nara Medical University, Nara, Japan
Stem Cells 20:41-9. 2002..The aim of the present study was to investigate the electrophysiological and morphological properties of ES cell-derived contracting clusters...


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Rafe Spall felt pressured to prove talent
Actor RAFE SPALL heaped "a lot of pressure" on himself to succeed in the early days of his career to prove his talent independently of his famous father.
The One Day star is the son of Harry Potter actor Timothy Spall and he reveals he was spurred on to succeed by a fear of critics accusing him of trading off the family name.
He says, "I certainly put a lot of pressure on myself to show that I wasn't just being employed because of who my dad was. Plus, like anybody, you want the approval of your parents."
However, the actor admits his dad is fiercely proud of him, adding, "You know when you're young and you do a really s**t drawing of a car and your mum says it's the best drawing she's ever seen? It's like that with him. Although I can tell when he really likes something."


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Seeing as the only letters to the editor to be printed lately have to do with Christianity and the Bible, I figured that was my best chance to be published.
In reading the online comments, I find these Christians say the Bible is the absolute word of God and to be taken literally. These same Christians keep bringing up the verse in Leviticus that says homosexuality is an abomination to God. They say the Bible is the utmost truth, and every sentence was breathed by the Almighty.
That being said, how can these same Christians overlook the fact that God also says eating pork and shellfish is an abomination? I won't even get into God's thoughts on slavery and the number of wives a man can have. One of the commandments even says that no work is to be done on the Sabbath.
How can a Christian quote the Bible on a certain subject saying it is a sin, and to repent, when other passages are completely overlooked?
I find this very interesting.


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Eric Garner's Mother Thanks Jesus for Homicide Ruling, Al Sharpton: It's Probable Cause for an Arrest
The family of Eric Garner, the man killed in a police officer's choke-hold, gathered in New York over the weekend and offered thanks to Jesus.
Garner's mother Gwen Carr expressed her gratitude for the medical examiner ruling her son's death a homicide last week following his death last month.
"When I heard the coroner's report, I tell you," Garner's mother said during a rally in Harlem, New York on Saturday, Aug. 2, according to CBS News. "I was downtown Brooklyn and I was in a store, and when I got the telephone call I guess people thought I was crazy. I just started saying 'Thank you Jesus.'"
Carr and other members of Garner's family were joined at the rally by Reverend Al Sharpton who agreed that the coroner's homicide ruling was positive.
"That in and of itself is probable cause for an arrest," Sharpton said.
The Baptist minister went on to reveal plans to lead a protest march across the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge in New York City later this month, according to the Los Angeles Times. Sharpton also called upon the federal government to issue a civil rights investigation since the incident occurred between a white police officer and Garner, who was black.
"The district needs to either say I'm going to move forward and arrest or I'm going to defer it to the federal government," Sharpton said.
Garner was killed in Staten Island on July 17 following his arrest for allegedly selling untaxed cigarettes. On Friday, Aug. 1, a report from the Office of the New York City Medical Examiner determined that Garner died from compression of the neck, known as a choke-hold, compression of the chest and prone positioning during physical restraint by officers, reported SILive.com. The victim's weight – over 300 pounds, and his pre-existing medical conditions - acute and chronic bronchial asthma and hypertensive cardiovascular disease - also contributed to his death.
Several of Garner's six children as well as his widow, Esaw Garner, were also present at the rally on Saturday. The bereaved wife briefly addressed the crowd explaining her mission to get justice for Garner.
"I met with the prosecutors and I felt like I did the right thing by doing that, and I just want them to do the right thing and give me justice for my husband," Garner's widow said, according to CBS. "I want to thank God above for giving us justice for my husband, so that we can move forward and get this cop done with."
Meanwhile, police are banned from using the chokehold maneuver, and video footage of Garner's arrest revealed the 43-year-old victim in a choke-hold by Officer Daniel Pantaleo. According to early reports, police indicated that Garner died from cardiac arrest. However, video captured by a bystander with a cell phone revealed that Pantaleo used a banned choke-hold and dragged Garner to the ground with help from others. The victim was heard saying, "I can't breathe! I can't breathe."
Consequent to Garner's death, four emergency workers were suspended without pay pending an investigation.
"The investigation into Mr. Garner's death continues," the District Attorney's office said, according to CBS.
Watch the video from Garner's arrest here.


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Wettbewerb in kapitalgedeckten Krankenversicherungssystemen: Ein risikogerechter Ansatz zur Übertragung von Alterungsrückstellungen in der Privaten Krankenversicherung
The capital-funded health insurance system in Germany (the PKV) is afflicted with a lack of competition because insurants lose their ageing provisions if they switch their insurer. Therefore the transfer of "individual ageing provisions″ has been discussed for many years, but it is mostly regarded as impracticable due to information and incentive problems. In this article a transfer mechanism based consequently on the risk allocation in the PKV is derived. This mechanism can solve the information and incentive problems linked with the transfer of ageing provisions. The result is that the PKV can be extended to a very attractive model to organize health insurance markets. Copyright 2008 die Autoren Journal compilation 2008, Verein für Socialpolitik und Blackwell Publishing Ltd.
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Based on extensive fieldwork and archival records, this book traces the emergence and flourishing of madrasas and the myriad ways in which they impact upon local Muslim communities, especially in West Bengal. It also addresses issues of identity, 'secular' education and gender in this context, while exploring the myths that surround these institutions. Amongst other things, it interrogates why Muslim communities prefer sending their sons to government schools to… (more)
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P.S. 115 Third Graders Put On Quite A Show
Students from four third grade classes at Public School 115 presented their culminating Center for Arts Education performance on February 13. The classes involved were: 301, Ms. S. Giordonello; 302, Ms. C. McKenzie; 307, Ms. D. Schneider, and 308, Ms. J. Menna. The students produced a show based on their third grade Social Studies Puerto Rico curriculum.
Class 308 performed a skit on the animals of the rainforest. Class 302 created an original folktale about saving the rainforest from environmental attacks. The story of the native Taino's, the African slaves and the Spanish conquerors were subjects for Class 308, while pupils in Class 301 danced the salsa.
The production was funded by a grant from the Center for Arts Education, which has allowed the East 92nd Street elementary school to develop a partnership with Brooklyn Arts Exchange to create a dance/theater program that integrates movement with the state's Social Studies curriculum.


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A's and Tigers
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Hall of Fame: 1947
Cochrane's Hall of Fame plaque notes that he "compiled a notable record as a player and manager. The spark of the Athletics' championship teams of 1929-30-31, he had an average batting mark of .346 for those three years. Led Detroit to two league championships and a World Series title in 1935." Cochrane's lifetime .320 average is the highest of any ML catcher.
Cochrane demonstrated his leadership and versatility in his years at Boston University, where he was not only a quarterback, punter, and running back, but also at times the trainer and coach. Cochrane's competitive nature secured him the sobriquet "Black Mike." "Lose a one-to-nothing game," said teammate Doc Cramer, "and you didn't want to get into the clubhouse with Grove and Cochrane. You'd be ducking stools and gloves and bats and whatever else would fly." A natural leader, Mickey was also quick enough of foot to occasionally be placed in the leadoff spot, but more often he hit third in the order.
Cochrane joined the A's in 1925 and hit .330 that year, the first of his nine .300 seasons. On May 21, 1925, the lefthanded batter hit three home runs in a single game. That season was the first of his four campaigns as fielding leader among AL catchers. During his career, Cochrane twice led in errors, but led catchers six times in putouts and twice each in double plays and assists. He caught over 100 games in all but his final two seasons. Cochrane batted a career-best .357 in 1930, and reached career highs in homers (23), RBI (112), and runs scored (118) two years later. He hit for the cycle twice in his career (on July 22, 1932, and August 2, 1933). He was named AL MVP in 1928 with Philadelphia and in 1934 with Detroit. Chosen as a player to two All-Star teams, he also managed the AL to victory in the 1935 contest.
Cochrane played in five World Series. In his first, 1929, he scored the tying run in Game Four as the A's overcame an 8-0 Cub lead with a 10-run seventh inning. The A's won the game en route to their first World Championship since 1913. In the 1930 WS, Cochrane hit an opening-game homer off Burleigh Grimes of the Cardinals, and a HR off Flint Rhem in Game Two. The A's won both contests. In 1935, on what he later called his "greatest day in baseball," Detroit's player-manager scored the run that beat the Cubs in the sixth and final Series game. Though he played in just 315 games over four seasons with the Tigers, Cochrane was chosen by Detroit fans in 1969 as the team's all-time catcher.
Black Mike's playing career ended abruptly on May 25, 1937, when his skull was fractured by a pitch from Yankee Bump Hadley. Cochrane, who had been the Tiger pilot since 1934, continued as manager until August 6, 1938. His .582 winning percentage (413-297) tops all who have spent at least one full season at the Detroit helm.
After WWII erupted, Cochrane was given a Navy commission to coach the Great Lakes Naval Base baseball team. In 1944, Great Lakes won 33 in a row, and beat the Cleveland Indians 17-4, to finish 48-2. Among his Great Lakes players were Tigers Barney McCosky, Schoolboy Rowe and Virgil Trucks, as well as John Mize, Billy Herman, and Gene Woodling. Following the 1944 season, the Navy assigned Lieutenant Commander Cochrane to the Pacific and replaced him at Great Lakes with Bob Feller. Cochrane eventually served as coach and GM for the A's, scout for the Yankees and Tigers, and VP of the Tigers. He and longtime batterymate Lefty Grove were elected to the Hall of Fame in 1947 by the BBWAA. Another Hall of Famer, Mickey Mantle, was named after Cochrane, his father's favorite player.
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For one thing, Gore would not have attacked Iraq in 2003. In his speech to the Commonwealth Club of San Francisco in 2002, he said: 'If we quickly succeed in a war against the weakened and depleted fourth-rate military of Iraq, and then quickly abandon that nation, as President Bush has quickly abandoned almost all of Afghanistan after defeating a fifth-rate military power there, then the resulting chaos in the aftermath of a military victory in Iraq could easily pose a far greater danger to the United States than we presently face from Saddam.'
He was wrong about the hasty exit from Iraq, but in all other respects, he was spot on. And it is quite possible that if the US and United Kingdom had not invaded Iraq, the West would not now be facing the threat from Iran's uranium-enrichment programme because President Ahmadinejad would not have been given the opportunity to maximise a position only made possible by Saddam's fall.
The 'what if?' conjecture underlines two things about good leadership in America. The first is that doing nothing is a hell of a lot better than reaching for your gun and firing at the wrong target. The second is that it took some courage for Gore to speak out against the martial din of Rupert Murdoch's Fox News network during that period.
Someone once said that leadership is the capacity to explain oneself to others in a way that clarifies and expands a vision of the future. There's maybe too much of the management handbook in that, because the greatest leadership quality is to be true to what you think and to go on saying it, whatever the prevailing view.
In his Vanity Fair/Carbon Trust lecture last week, Gore explained himself and his convictions on climate change with a good deal of ease and charm. Because he is on the stump to win minds and not, as yet, votes, he is free along the way to touch on the institutionalised heartlessness of America under George W Bush, a landscape which stretches from the ruination of Appalachia by the coal industry, through the derelict city of New Orleans, to the $400bn US budget deficit.
In the background looms America as it is today - the TV networks run by six corporations (as opposed to 50 when Ronald Reagan first stood for President), political funding of parties ($500m at the last count), the interesting fact, given its quality, that an average American spends more than a fifth of his life watching TV, and the recent decision by Congress to vote for an increase in the US national debt to $9 trillion. Whether he runs for the presidency in 2008 or not, Gore beckons to the ingenious, open-hearted and staunch nation that has been shouted down these past few years.
That seems to be leadership of a very desirable kind. I cannot say whether he would be a good President, but he is infinitely more impressive than the leading Democratic contender, Hillary Clinton, who voted for the war, has visited Baghdad twice since 2003 and is allowing Rupert Murdoch to hold a benefit for her in July. That alone must signal that she is already too compromised to be President, but also that she lacks the ability to explain herself and clarify a future, which, because of China, the national debt, oil prices and environmental threats, especially from hurricanes, is bound to be very different for all Americans.
It is the vision thing - or the combination of reflection, language and independence of mind - that we look for in a leader and which, to the surprise of many, Gore has found in his years out of office. He will have to trim his message if he goes for the Democratic nomination, but at least he will have spoken as he thinks today. That is not true of Hillary Clinton at any stage since 1992, when her husband was elected President.
A couple of years ago, I was sitting at dinner in Italy with an American Express executive, the impenetrably cool Kenneth Chenault, who told me about serving with Henry Kissinger on the board of Amex before becoming CEO. After giving a speech on a mundane banking matter, Chenault was approached by Kissinger, who said: 'You understand power and you know how to use it.' That is the other component of a great leader.
He challenged me to name five great leaders in office anywhere in the world at that moment (I couldn't) and then asked me about Tony Blair. I had to explain that I was not a supporter because he'd gone into Iraq without a second UN resolution and that his record on civil liberties was troubling. But Blair certainly understood power and he knew how to use it.
I added that he was brave and had found a sort of demotic and insistent language to speak to the British people about public services and security. And his vision? Well, that was wrapped up in his ideas about modernisation and management. As far as I remember, Chenault asked whether competent management and leadership were the same.
They aren't and that is where Gordon Brown comes in. I have to say I find him completely opaque as a potential leader and that, in itself, is not a good sign. As journalists move their allegiance from the Prime Minister to the Chancellor, like flies blown from one cowpat to another, I keep on wondering what they see in Brown, or whether it's just that they feel power is already shifting to Number 11 and have taken off to follow the scent.
It may be that Brown has not been free to explain himself as his friend Gore has, but even so, you would expect a bit more than the rather weird ruminations about flag flying and Britishness. And bravery? Well, I don't see it. He knew about the preparations for the invasion of Iraq from a very early stage because he had to find the money for it, but somehow he has kept his distance from sharing that responsibility with Blair. And on the big cock-up of the moment, concerning working tax credits, he has remained schtoom. Finally, there is no sense of Brown clarifying and expanding a vision of the future in a way that addresses the ordinary person.
Cicero once said that in order to persuade an audience, you needed to inform, to charm and to stir the emotions. Brown certainly does well in the first, with all that banter about endogenous growth, but there is a lot of work to do in the second two areas. His speeches do not have what Cicero called functional beauty. However, I do concede that he understands power and knows how to use it and, perhaps, that is ultimately what bothers me about him.


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Every month the Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics releases its Employment Situation Summary-- "the latest jobs report." Analysts and pundits claw each others eyes out upon hearing the figures and more often than not the President takes the hit. But what does it mean for us as individuals? These are the jobs we're applying for, but do the statistics affect how we conduct our job search? Probably not for the average worker, although it appears millions have stopped trying and exited the job market altogether.
Here's the first paragraph of this month's report (the next one comes out September 6th):
"Total nonfarm payroll employment increased by 162,000 in July, and the unemployment rate edged down to 7.4 percent, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Employment rose in retail trade, food services and drinking places, financial activities, and wholesale trade."
So Americans are buying more food, booze, and clothes; does that information somehow influence where they're looking for jobs or how they write their resumes? Few of us read the jobs report or alter our job search as a result of its findings. When we're unemployed we just want a job (preferably one we won't hate) and we tend to follow a pretty standard method for getting one.
Working with a diverse demographic of job seekers, I find that most have tried a similar job search strategy: 1) update resume 2) write a good enough cover letter 3) spend hours poring over the big job boards and click submit on as many jobs as they have patience for.
They then call me, downtrodden and exasperated, because their job search strategy isn't working. And who can fault them? This same 3-part job search is what most of us know because it's the standard everywhere we look. The government, for its extensive lists of online career resources, is limited to providing moderately helpful but ultimately superficial career resources. The resources don't offer a whole lot of suggestions for how we can set ourselves apart as individuals competing for those 162,000 new jobs. The message has been the same forever: search more job boards, write a better cover letter, and update your resume. Oh, and don't forget to take a slew of career and personality assessments.
I remember taking one of the common high school job assessments and scoffing at its suggestion that I was most suited to be a bowling alley attendant. No disrespect to bowling alley attendants, but I've never scored above 120 and I wanted to become a chef. We're all asked what we want to be when we grew up, but unfortunately that question comes long before we're taught how to conduct the kind of self-inquiry that will lead to the answer.
If I sound aggravated, it's because I empathize with the millions of career seekers who are feeling tired and defeated. They're doing what they were taught on high school career day, in college career offices, and on all of the big corporate job search engines. Yet if those methods were truly working, I'm confident far fewer Americans would be underemployed or unhappily employed. Not just looking for a job, but creating their careers.
As a nation we are failing on this fundamental level of how we approach our career search. We rarely encourage students and job seekers to first and foremost identify who they are and what makes them thrive as individuals. Creative explorations of in-depth self-inquiry. Yet these important discussions inevitably tend to show up at some point in our careers. When the great click-and-send resume send-off yields no interviews, when a string of bad jobs leads us to career desperation, when the ubiquitous midlife crisis strikes-- we head to the therapist, career counselor, or life coach to find the answers to our unhappiness. So why haven't we introduced a better process at a younger age before students are shuffled off to career day to learn resumes 101?
A truly helpful career exploration is going to look more like a life exploration. It's an identification of core values, strengths, interests, passions, family and personal commitments, ambitions and goals, physical abilities, personality style, psychological resilience, support network, financial stability/viability, learning style, learning new and effective habits, and understanding the human change process. A career exploration ought to highlight individual uniqueness as an asset and pair exploration with education. An education on which factors influence how people thrive and live meaningful lives vs. those which tend to be less satisfying pursuits over time.*
Early in my first year of social work grad school I applied for a part-time opening at a busy student career center. I arrived for my first day of job orientation with the mindset that I was embarking on my own career of helping eager students identify the course of their lives. But that first day of training was my last day on the job. I was told I'd be helping students 1) update their resumes 2) write a good enough cover letter and 3) spend hours poring over the big job boards. I was to keep the revolving door spinning, and that was not my mission.
Don't get me wrong, there are guidance offices and career centers with amazing counselors who are dedicated to nurturing relationships with students and honoring their individuality. There's just nowhere near enough of them and it's not happening early enough in our education/career stream, or in the home. Too many students are walking out of those offices with only a few resume templates when they should be walking out with a big blank journal and the homework assignment of conducting in-depth career-focused self-discovery.
In my upcoming follow-up, I'll go further in depth into the components of an effective career exploration. Click the "subscribe by RSS" on the right side of the screen to be notified of my new articles.
*Additional reading for understanding what makes us thrive and how to deeply get to know ourselves as we embark on our career search:
Brad Waters MSW, LCSW provides career-life coaching and consultation to clients internationally via phone and Skype. He helps people explore career direction and take action on career transitions. Brad holds a Master's degree in social work from the University of Michigan and Master's certification in Holistic Health Care from Western Michigan University. Brad is also a personal development writer whose books are available on Amazon and BradWatersMSW.com
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Now TV taps into apps to boost users
More than 660,000 mobile device users have downloaded the Now Player and Now News apps, as PCCW's 24-hour pay-TV service provider, Now TV, seeks to enlarge its pool of users in Hong Kong.
'The growth speed was faster than we expected,' PCCW's managing director for TV and new media, Janice Lee, said.
Lee said the apps, which were launched earlier this year, were free for the moment, but the company might consider charging a fee in the longer term.
Half of Hong Kong's total of 2.3 million households already used Now TV, Lee said, and the proliferation of tablets and smartphones in the city showed the potential for the service to attract new subscribers.
'There are eight million people living in Hong Kong, and those who use our apps may start subscribing to the pay service,' she said.
Now TV teamed up with Hunan Satellite TV to launch a Hong Kong channel called Now Mango.
It also has a joint venture with the Beijing-based TV series producer Hairun Media and Entertainment, and launched a Hairun channel in Hong Kong in January.
The channel offers a 24-hour menu of drama programmes produced by Hairun but edited and packaged by Now TV to suit Hong Kong tastes, the company said.
Now TV said it was in discussion with local partners to expand overseas distribution of Chinese TV dramas.
'We hope the first deals can be closed this year,' Lee said.
She said the company was also interested in Southeast Asia, and countries with large Chinese communities, including the United States, Canada and Australia.
HK Television and Entertainment, which is owned by PCCW Interactive Media Holdings, a broadband and cable television provider, applied for a licence to run a free-to-air television service in 2010 but is still waiting for approval.
'The process is taking longer than we thought but we're confident that we'll receive the licence,' Lee said.
'We're preparing high-quality programmes for our Hong Kong audience.'
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