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Library Resources and Services for HBSE 4015, Applied Behavior Analysis I
This research guide is intended as an overview of library resources and services of particular relevance for students in Dr. Lin Du's Fall 2017 course HBSE 4015, Applied Behavior Analysis I. The resources, primarily electronic and accessible on and off campus, have been selected as ones supporting the objectives of the course, i.e., student mastery of "the three fundamental repertoires of strategic scientists: verbal behavior about the science (the use of vocabulary), contingency shaped behavior of teaching (fluent and automatic teaching practices), and verbally mediated repertoires (analyzing and solving instructional problems)." The guide also includes a section describing research consultation and assistance services and options for document retrieval and delivery available to all members of the Teachers College community.
Library Resources
Dictionaries and Encyclopedias
E-Collections (Text, Images, Sound)
Bibliography and Citation Management Programs
Library Services and Publications
All students, faculty, and researchers also have access to a number of important library services and publications provided to support and facilitate research and study in their particular programs and disciplines.
EDUCAT – The most definitive record of the holdings of the Gottesman Libraries at Teachers College, including books, e-books, journals, e-journals, dissertations, media, and other specialized collections of all kinds.
CLIO – The union catalog of Columbia University Libraries (exclusive of the libraries of Teachers College, the Columbia Law School, and Jewish Theological Seminary), providing the most definitive record of individual libraries' holdings of books, e-books, journals, e-journals, dissertations, media, and other specialized collections of all kinds.
WorldCat – The union catalog of the contents of over 10,000 libraries worldwide, providing the means to do exhaustive searching by author, title, subject, and numerous other criteria and to find locations for specific items in libraries nearby and elsewhere. WorldCat is also freely accessible on the Web at worldcat.org.
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH) are the official subject terms prescribed by the Library of Congress for the cataloging of books and are in use in essentially all academic libraries. To find works pertaining to subjects relating to applied behavior analysis and related subjects, it may be useful to use some of the subject terms, or combinations of terms, listed below when searching the online catalogs of libraries at Teachers College, Columbia University, and other institutions.
- Behavior modification
- Behavioral assessment
- Behaviorism (Psychology)
- Classroom management
- Educational psychology
- Environmental psychology
- Human behavior
- Learning, Psychology of
- Organizational behavior
- Psychology, Applied
- Reinforcement (Psychology)
APA PscyNET – Single search interface for PsycARTICLES, PsycBOOKS, PsycCRITIQUES, and PsycEXTRA (see E-Collections below).
Academic Search Premier – A multidisciplinary database providing full text for more than 4,600 journals, including nearly 3,900 peer-reviewed titles. PDF backfiles to 1975 or further are available for well over one hundred journals. See also Academic Search Complete, a scholarly, multidisciplinary full-text database, with more than 8,500 full-text periodicals, including more than 7,300 peer-reviewed journals. The database features PDF content going back as far as 1887.
ERIC – Sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education to provide extensive access to educational-related periodical literature, ERIC (which stands for Educational Resources Information Center) provides coverage of conferences, meetings, government documents, theses, dissertations, reports, audiovisual media, bibliographies, directories, books, and monographs. In addition to this version, made available via the ProQuest platform, ERIC is also accessible via the U.S. government ERIC site and through Ebsco ERIC.
Education Full Text – Provides comprehensive coverage of an international range of English-language periodicals, monographs, and yearbooks. Indexing coverage begins June 1983; abstracts are included beginning spring 1994; full text of some journals is available beginning in January 1996.
Education Index Retro – Provides cover-to-cover indexing for an international range of English-language periodicals and yearbooks; coverage from 1929 through mid-1983.
Education Research Complete – Provides indexing and abstracts for more than 2,100 journals, as well as full text for more than 1,200 journals, and includes full text for nearly 500 books and monographs.
Professional Development Collection – Designed for professional educators, this database provides a highly specialized collection of nearly 520 high-quality education journals, including more than 350 peer-reviewed titles. The database also contains more than 200 educational reports.
ProQuest – Provides broad multidisciplinary coverage of scholarly journals, newspapers, dissertations, and other types of publications; for international coverage and access to full texts of dissertations only, search Digital Dissertations, a subset of ProQuest.
PsycINFO – Covers the scholarly literature in the psychological, social, behavioral, and health sciences.
Social Sciences Full Text – Provides coverage of English-language journals across social science disciplines, with indexing from 1983, abstracting from 1984, and select access to full text from 1984 to the present.
Quicksearch (via Columbia University Libraries) – To search the catalog, multiple periodical indexes, and other web resources simultaneously within a variety of subjects and disciplinary subcategories.
Super Search (via Gottesman Libraries) – To search some or all of our periodical indexes, plus EDUCAT and CLIO, simultaneously for books, journal articles, reports, dissertations, etc.
Google Scholar – Provides the means to search for scholarly research across many disciplines and sources: articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities, and other web sites.
Dictionaries and Encyclopedias
Print Resources
Autism Encyclopedia : The Complete Guide to Autism Spectrum Disorders (2009)
Concise Encyclopedia of Special Education (2002)
Encyclopedia of Special Education: A Reference for the Education of Children, Adolescents, and Adults with Disabilities and Other Exceptional Individuals (2007)
Praeger Handbook of Special Education (2007)
Child Development – An encyclopedia covering human development from conception through adolescence, summarizing the latest research on physical, cognitive, social and emotional development and behavior, including areas of law, medicine, psychiatry, and demography among others.
Encyclopedia of Disability – With contributions from more than 500 scholars, the work comprises some 1,000 entries that discuss issues of accessibility, arts, language, children and infants, deafness and deaf culture, disability studies, economics and employment, education, ethics, the experience of disability, health and medicine, politics, organizations, and sports, among other topics.
Encyclopedia of Education (2nd Edition) – The 2003 version of the classic resource in education and related fields.
Encyclopedia of Special Education: A Reference for the Education of Children, Adolescents, and Adults with Disabilities and Other Exceptional Individuals – The 3rd (2007) edition of this resource features information about legislation and guidelines, school psychology, neuropsychology, reviews of new tests and curricula developed since publication of the second edition in 1999, and new biographies of important figures in special education.
Gale Encyclopedia of Psychology (2nd Edition) – In more than 650 entries covers the entire spectrum of psychology, including notable people, theories and terms; landmark case studies and experiments; applications of psychology in advertising, medicine and sports; and career information.
International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences – This key reference work comprises 4,000 articles, commissioned by 52 Section Editors, and includes 90,000 bibliographic references as well as comprehensive name and subject indexes
E-Collections (Text, Images, Sound)
Ebrary – Online books across a broad range of subject areas, searchable by Education; Psychology; Social Sciences, etc., and various sub-topics, and by author, title, and other criteria.
JSTOR – An online archive of over 1,200 leading scholarly journals across the humanities, social sciences, and sciences, as well as select monographs and other materials valuable for academic work. Journals are always included from volume 1, issue 1 and include previous and related titles.
PsycARTICLES – A full-text database of journals published by the American Psychological Association and other publishers in subject areas such as applied psychology, health, theory, research, social/personality, and more.
PsycBOOKS – A full text database of books published by the American Psychological Association, classic books, and entries from the Encyclopedia of Psychology.
PsycCRITIQUES – Full-text reviews of current books and some popular films, videos, and software, as well as comparative reviews of books in the field of psychology.
PsycEXTRA – A gray literature database comprised of material written for professionals and disseminated outside of peer-reviewed journals; documents include newsletters, magazines, newspapers, technical and annual reports, government reports, consumer brochures, and more.
SAGE Knowledge – "A database of ebooks and reference books published by SAGE covering the social sciences and education, including such areas as African American Studies, Aged & Gerontology, Anthropology, Communication and Media Studies, Criminology and Criminal Justice, Economics, Education, Gender & Sexuality Studies, History, Politics, Psychology, Social Issues, Social Work & Social Policy, and Sociology."
Handbook of Applied Behavior Analysis – This 2000 publication, edited by John Austin and James E. Carr, collects 20 chapters by experts in the field on various aspects of ABA. "Each chapter surveys the previous and contemporary research in its domain of interest, in includes directions for future research in the area."
Handbook of Applied Behavior Analysis – This 2011 publication, edited by Wayne W. Fisher, Cathleen C. Piazza, and Henry S. Roane, is a compilation of 30 chapters by experts in the field, divided into eight major sections: (1) Introduction (on the history, philosophy, principles, and basic methods of ABA); (2) Basic Principles and Concepts; (3) Measurement, Design, and Methodological Issues; (4) Behavioral Assessment; (5) Interventions for Increasing Desirable Behavior; (6) Interventions for Decreasing Problem Behavior; (7) Subspecialities; and (8) Professional Issues.
Annual Reviews – Reviews of topics in biomedical, physical, and social sciences published as annual journals; see series for Clinical Psychology; Organizational Psychology and Organizational Behavior; Psychology; and many others.
Review of Educational Research – A publication of the American Educational Research Association (AERA), the RER publishes quarterly critical, integrative reviews of research literature bearing on education, including conceptualizations, interpretations, and syntheses of scholarly work.
Review of Research in Education – A publication of the American Educational Research Association, the RRE provides an annual overview and descriptive analysis of selected topics of relevant research literature through critical and synthesizing essays.
Scopus – Abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature and quality web sources with smart tools to track, analyze, and visualize research.
Web of Science – Comprising the Arts & Humanities Citation Index, the Social Sciences Citation Index, and the Science Citation Index Expanded, this database supports searching by topic, author, or publication name, and is also a major means for doing cited reference searching, to find articles that cite a person's work.
Google Scholar – Provides the means to search by author or publication title, and indicates and provides links to works that have cited the documents retrieved.
Health and Psychosocial Instruments (HaPI) – Information on approximately 15,000 measurement instruments (i.e. questionnaires, interview schedules, checklists, coding schemes, rating scales, etc.) in the fields of health and psychosocial sciences.
Mental Measurements Yearbook (Ovid) – Produced by the Buros Institute, this database contains extensive information about and reviews of English-language, commercially available, standardized tests covering educational skills, personality, vocational aptitude, psychology, and related areas, as included in the printed Mental Measurements Yearbooks.
For further information on access to actual tests, measurements, instruments, scales, etc., see our Knowledge Database entry at http://library.tc.columbia.edu/kb/idx.php/0/196/article/.
Academic Commons – Columbia University's online repository, where current faculty, students, and staff can deposit the results of their scholarly work and research.
Internet Archive – A non-profit digital library offering free universal access to books, movies, and music, as well as 150 billion archived web pages.
PocketKnowledge – The social archive of Teachers College, including unpublished manuscripts and archives from the library's collections, documents from other departments and administrative offices College-wide, and the work of TC students, faculty, and researchers.
Bibliography and Citation Management Programs
Citation Management Software – An extensive description of and guide to the use of Zotero, Mendeley, and EndNote, courtesy of Columbia University Libraries.
Library Services and Publications
Ask a Librarian a Question – To explore a variety of kinds of research support: submit an email reference query to librarians onsite; request a research consultation with a Gottesman librarian; review frequently asked questions via the library's Knowledge Database.
E-Reserves – Provides online access to digital course readings, including e-journal articles and book chapters, as well as call numbers for physical course reserves materials (books, DVDs, videos, etc.).
Document Delivery – The means to recommend items for purchase and/or to request from other libraries materials (dissertations, book chapters, journal articles, etc.) not available through the Gottesman or Columbia University Libraries.
Learning at the Library – The Gottesman Libraries' blog via the Pressible platform, including content in many topical areas contributed by library staff members.


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Legislative and Regulatory Framework
The Ontario College of Trades and Apprenticeship Act, 2009 (OCTAA) replaces two previous pieces of legislation that set out the regulatory framework for the skilled trades in Ontario – the Trades Qualification and Apprenticeship Act (TQAA) and the Apprenticeship and Certification Act (ACA). On April 8, 2013, the TQAA and ACA and regulations under those Acts were repealed. OCTAA and regulations made under OCTAA now set out the legislative and regulatory framework for the skilled trades in Ontario.
Regulations governing the skilled trades and the establishment of apprenticeship programs
OCTAA gives the College's Board of Governors the authority to make regulations prescribing wage rates, ratios and training hours for apprentices.
To view the current regulations in effect under OCTAA, please click here.
Fair Registration Practices
The Office of the Fairness Commissioner (OFC) oversees the registration practices of Ontario's professional regulatory bodies, to ensure practices are transparent, objective, impartial and fair, in accordance with the Fair Access to Regulated Professions and Compulsory Trades Act, 2006.
The OFC requires each regulatory body to review their own registration practices, submit an annual 'Fair Registration Practices Report' for each regulated profession, and undergo compliance audits.
As the governing body for compulsory trades in Ontario, the Ontario College of Trades submits an annual Fair Registration Practices Report for each of 23 compulsory trades.
To view or download the College's 2015 Fair Registration Practices Report for each trade, select the trade below:
Alignment and Brakes Technician
Auto Body and Collision Damage Repairer
Automotive Electronic Accessory Technician
Electrician — Construction and Maintenance
Electrician — Domestic and Rural
Fuel and Electrical Systems Technician
Hoisting Engineer — Mobile Crane Operator 1
Hoisting Engineer — Tower Crane Operator
Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Systems Mechanic
Residential (Low Rise) Sheet Metal Installer
Residential Air Conditioning Systems Mechanic
To view or download the College's previous years' reports, click here
More information about the OFC can be found at www.fairnesscommissioner.ca.

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Bonjour from Paris...I hope you are having a lovely Sunday afternoon! I am currently lounging in our little white apartment {'ours' for the week} with the huge full height windows open to allow the warm breeze, and the sound of the rustling leaves from the trees outside the window and the chattering passers by float in...
Not had much time out with my camera yet having just arrived yesterday, but these two fab cats caught my eye whilst wandering in the Marais some hours ago...I love trying to spot these artists series paste-ons here!
Thanks so much for all the kind comments about the new work on Friday! I have managed to upload all the new designs to my shop - you can see them {and buy them, should you wish ;)} right HERE :)
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objectives of the Society as set forth in the Constitution and By-Laws.
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Any graduate or postgraduate student or postdoctoral scientist who is involved in advanced training in any area related to the study of Xenobiotics is eligible for student membership under the following conditions:
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LCJ/Ledger calendar
The LCJ/Ledger calendar lists the upcoming events over the next week. This is a free service so if you or your group have an event coming up and would like it added to the calendar, please send an email to [email protected].
High school baseball: Heavener at Pocola; LeFlore at Smithville Tournament; Spiro vs. Life Prep Academy at Bixby Spartan Invitational
Slow-pitch softball: Heavener, Wister at Oktaha Tournament; Poteau at Red Oak Tournament
Soccer: Heavener at Stilwell tournament
Kenneth Corn farewell reception 7 p.m. at the Kerr Mansion
Vice Hike half marathon and 5k
Vietnam Veteran's annual Easter Egg Hunt
Twyman Park annual easter egg hunt
Heavener Band Boosters fundraiser
High school baseball: LeFlore at Smithville Tournament; Spiro vs. Union, Bixby at Bixby Spartan Invitational
Slow-pitch softball: Heavener at Oktaha Tournament
College softball: CASC at Rose State
Soccer: Heavener at Stilwell Tournament
LeFlore County commissioners meet at 9 a.m.
Baseball: Heavener at Haileyville; Red Oak at Poteau; Cameron (Buffalo Valley) at Talihina; LeFlore at Panama;; LeFlore at Panama; Pocola at Oktaha; Spiro at Vian.
Slow-pitch softball: Hartshorne at Heavener; Poteau at Roland; McCurtain at Wister; Whitesboro at Wilburton; Webbers Falls at Cameron; Howe at Buffalo Valley; Kinta (Haileyville) at LeFlore; Panama at Central Sallisaw; Spiro at Wilburton
Golf: Heavener girls at Roland
College baseball: CASC at Eastern
Heavener Lion's Club meets at 5 p.m.
Baseball: Heavener at McCurtain; Poteau at Wister; Talihina at Howe; Cameron at Panama; Cameron at Panama; Talihina at Howe; LeFlore at Buffalo Valley; Roland at Pocola; Haskell at Spiro
Slow-pitch softball: Heavener at Vian; Poteau at Hartshorne; Cameron at Quinton; Howe at Pocola; LeFlore at Clayton; Panama at Warner; Muldrow at Spiro
Track: High school track meet at Heavener
Soccer: Heavener at Keys (Hugo)
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College softball: Eastern at CASC
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Golf: Heavener boys at Stigler
Baseball: Poteau at Stigler; Talihina at Atoka Tournament
Slow-pitch softball: Oktaha at Heavener; Spiro at Poteau
College baseball: CASC at Murray State
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I remember the first time I met the Orbit Baby team, in Orlando in 2005, and they showed me a sketch of how their brand new, totally innovative travel system could someday be extended to a double stroller. It was inspiring to imagine a system that was so modular and so flexible. And finally, in the year 2012, that sketch ... Read More »
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Low-fat (and delicious) apple muffins
The story of these muffins starts with a recipe for zucchini bread. I've loved zucchini bread for as long as I can remember, but I rarely get to eat it. So when one of our buyers brought in a home-baked loaf last week, I was delighted. And inspired. On Sunday morning, I decided to bake my own zucchini bread (and ... Read More »
Gearing up for the grandkids
I'm a long way off from experiencing it for myself, but I've heard it's pretty amazing to be a grandparent. You get to have fun with the kids, and then give them back to their parents when they're tired, cranky, or hungry. It's a great arrangement (I'm sure right now my parents and in-laws are reading this and thinking about ... Read More »
On the Dot
I've been taking a hiatus from blogging for a bit this summer, enjoying time with my family and working on some other projects. But I am taking a hiatus from my hiatus to bring you my review of the newest stroller entry from phil&teds, the Dot Buggy. First, let me give you some background. We've been selling phil&teds at Magic ... Read More »
In 2008, we watched the Olympics in Beijing together and saw Michael Phelps swim for gold eight times. Or more accurately, I watched while you nursed and slept. You were just days old, so you didn't really have much appreciation for sports. Four years later, Michael Phelps is still swimming for gold, but now you can swim too. You jump ... Read More »
8 and counting: then and now
A lot can change in eight years. Just ask my daughter Mira, who was born just 15 weeks before Magic Beans opened its doors on July 7, 2004. Eight years ago, she was sitting in the window of the store while Eli and I worked, smiling at anyone who made eye contact (and usually scaring them half to death, because ... Read More »
31 Days of Giveaways is coming (and a Twitter party!)
A little over three years ago, we were sitting in our conference room trying to brainstorm a special way to celebrate the 5th anniversary of Magic Beans. Eli looked up and said, "What if we gave away something awesome every day for the whole month?" It was a great idea, and we did it. 31 Days of Giveaways was born, ... Read More »
12 years, 12 lessons learned
The summer I was seven years old, I did something awful. It was Wild West Day at camp and, in the spirit of the theme, I stole a little boy's candy. I still haven't heard the end of it, because twelve years ago today, I married that boy. By then he had forgiven me enough to become (in succession) my ... Read More »
Bugaboo Cameleon gets a new look
It's official. The Bugaboo Cameleon is getting a makeover. The new Cameleon3 is coming September 1, and it has some amazing upgrades. We have all the details, including insider info and lots of pictures to share. Get ready, because this is good. It's really good. Improved design Design is in the DNA at Bugaboo, and they're never satisfied with "great" if ... Read More »
To epidural or not to epidural
That is the question many pregnant women consider as they get close to their due date. For some women, it isn't a question at all. They want it, and the sooner the better. For other women, an unmedicated childbirth experience is a really compelling goal. When I was pregnant with my first child, I thought I would absolutely have the ... Read More »


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The standard features of the Toyota 86 Base include 2.0L H-4 205hp engine, 6-speed manual transmission with overdrive, 4-wheel anti-lock brakes (ABS), side seat mounted airbags, curtain 1st and 2nd row overhead airbags, airbag occupancy sensor, air conditioning, 17" aluminum wheels, cruise control, ABS and driveline traction control, electronic stability.
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Unexplained Infertility: Biofeedback as a Tool
One of the most frustrating diagnoses I encounter in my practice is "Unexplained Infertility." Most couples that come to my office with this new medical label are despondent and teary-eyed. My role as a Naturopathic Doctor is to inform them that besides ultrasounds and hormone tests, there are other ways to evaluate fertility. What about


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Thirty year old donkey 'Oreo' rescued from a lifetime of hunger and neglect
The Donkey Sanctuary, Louth County Council and the equine pound in Louth recently collaborated when there was a report of four abandoned donkeys in the Cooley Mountains, Louth.
The four dishevelled donkeys were seized by the County Council and taken to Louth Pound. Officers got in touch with The Donkey Sanctuary whose welfare team began the began the journey to bring these four donkeys to the safety and protection of the Sanctuary in Liscarroll.
All four donkeys' feet needed attention, especially Scamper, who had approximately 4 inches of growth as a result of not being treated by a farrier but the most worrying discovery was the smallest donkey in the group, called Oreo. Oreo was emaciated, his bones protruding from his weak body. Oreo was treated by the Veterinary team, the farrier and the Equine Dental Technician (EDT). The EDT determined his age and told us that Oreo was 30 years old and his teeth were in very poor condition due to neglect.
The other donkeys Pacino and Oakley were younger and slightly stronger than Oreo although they suffered with a worm infection and overgrown feet, these health issues have since been addressed by the Sanctuary's Veterinary team.
The greatest obstacle with these four frightened donkeys is trying to teach them that they are safe now and can trust humans again. This is the beginning of their new life and their days of solitude and hunger are behind them.
They can look forward to a lifetime of love and protection and hopefully they will get to experience the ultimate fairy-tale ending in finding a home of their own with loving Guardians as part of The Donkey Sanctuary Rehoming Scheme.
If you would like to make a donation towards the care of Oreo, Scamper, Pacino and Oakley please log onto www.thedonkeysanctuary.ie/donate
All donations are gratefully received.
About The Donkey Sanctuary Ireland Ltd
The Donkey Sanctuary was founded by Paddy Barrett in 1987. Since then we have rescued over 5,200 donkeys and provided them with care and sanctuary for life. We work throughout Ireland to improve the quality of life for donkeys and are dedicated to rescuing and rehabilitating abandoned, abused and neglected donkeys and mules. Our mission is to transform the quality of life for donkeys, mules and people worldwide through greater understanding, collaboration and support.
We aim to educate the public on how to best care for your donkey and are always willing to offer advice and promote lasting, mutually life-enhancing relationships. We have a visitor centre and beautiful walkways that are free to explore in the heart of Liscarroll, near Mallow, Co. Cork.


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Domestic demons hit China economy
Jun 10 - Figures for May show China's economy suffering drops in domestic prices, output and sales but trade still buoyant. Paul Chapman reports.
There's something of a cloud hanging over China's previously booming economy. The nation's first interest rate cut since 2008 led some to expect things would be worse than anticipated. And they were right. Figures for May show falls in domestic prices, output and sales. Factory output rose 9.6 per cent on a year ago. That's less than expected and further heightens fears the world's second largest economy may slip into its worst downturn in a long time. Retail sales grew at their slowest since February 2011. And producer prices were down for the third straight month in a row, a drop of 1.4 per cent compared to the previous May. But there was better news on exports, up more than 15 per cent on the same time a year ago, more than double market expectations. Francis Lun, Managing Director of Lyncean Holdings, saying the news isn't all bad. SOUNDBITE: MANAGING DIRECTOR OF LYNCEAN HOLDINGS LTD. FRANCIS LUN SAYING (English): "The surprising thing is that the import and export figures are better than expected, and that really shows that the economy has much more intrinsic strength than people expected, so China will not experience a hard landing or decline." Despite May's boost, export growth is still well under the annual growth of more than 20 percent seen in 2010. And Chinese manufacturers face a double pinch of slackening global and domestic demand and rising labour and raw materials costs. Paul Chapman, Reuters


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Friday, November 30, 2007
Barack Obama Biography
His mother remarried to Indonesian Lolo Soetoro and the family moved to Indonesia when Barack was six years old. He has one sister, Maya, the daughter of Lolo and Ann. At the age of 10, Barack returned to live with his grandparents in Hawai'i.
He became a student at the prestigious Punahou School in Honolulu and after graduating studied at Occidental College in California before transferring to Columbia University in New York. He graduated with a B.A. in political science and specialization in international relations.
After working a short while with a corporation, Barack decided to follow his calling and took a low-paying job as a community organizer in Chicago, a city he had never lived in before.
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Rather than accept corporate job offers, Obama became a civil rights lawyer with Miner, Barnhill & Galland from 1993 to 1996. In 1996, he was elected to the Illinois State Senate. He also was a lecturer in constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School from 1994 until his election to the U.S. Senate in 2004.
In the Illinois State Senate, Barack worked on ethics and health care reform, and sponsored legislation improving tax credits for low-income workers. He negotiated welfare reform, and better subsidies for child care. Obama also played the key role in legislation requiring videotaping of homicide interrogations, and a law to monitor racial profiling.
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As a U.S. Senator, Obama is a Veteran Affairs Committee member. He has championed legislation on redeployment of troops out of Iraq, increased government accountability, veteran's benefits and care, nuclear non-proliferation, energy independence and global warming action.
In 2007, Barack Obama announced his candidacy for President of the United States. He has mounted an impressive grassroots campaign up to Nov. 2007.
He married his wife Michelle in 1992 and has two daughters, Malia and Sasha. In 2004, he published an autobiography, Dreams From My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance. His second book, The Audacity of Hope, was published in 2006.
Barack lives with his family on Chicago's South Side where they attend Trinity United Church of Christ.
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Barack is not a practical choice and here is my argument in a nutshell. Anyone who knows anything about democratic politics knows that if a lot of "pricey" celebs are backing you its for a reason. For those of you who may be a bit in the dark, I thought I should remind you that Oprah and the many, many others who are dishing out the cash aren't exactly the working class citizens and tend to like Barack's policies for a reason....not because he plans to tax the hell out of them..that's for sure. Lets face it, the desparity between poverity and middle class is closing and Barack, aside from oweing favors to many people who may have gotten him in office, is not going to help the desparity. A good speaker yes.. I fully agree;however,I'll take Hillary because she is clearly the better of the two. Please, before you vote, do some research and don't get caught in the above average media coverage. Our national media also follows Brittney Spears close, so would you vote for her?
- February 9, 2008 at 10:16 PM
?. are you saying that barack obama's presidency will owe favors to oprah? hillary is looking more ridiculous and less presidential every day with her bitterness and ill-wrought reactionary campaign. "don't get caught in the above average media coverage"...what in the world do you even mean? barack is smarter, more appealing, more electable, has more forward thinking policies, and would actually beat mccain in a general election, whereas hillary would not. i'd encourage you to not be caught up in the press the clinton campaign churns out, and look objectively at all factors. as far as a "practical choice" goes, if you're interested in your candidate winning the white house, the answer is obama.
- February 11, 2008 at 10:29 PM
- ed said...
What is obama's religious affiliation? I hear he is muslim. Is this true?
- February 12, 2008 at 10:37 AM
Why OBAMA not qualify to be a president!
He can't even tell anything about his pastor for which he associated with for over 20 years. How can he make dicision as a commander and chief of the US? not to mention he can make a good one. A poor dicision to stick with a bunch of physcos and just simply said I didn't know anything about it –is no the kind of person anyone want to rule or run the country. It is plain STUPID! the world will be burning b/c we vote a stupid person to be a president.
Also if he didnt distance himself from these physcos b/c he kind of believe them. Then why would we want this kind of person to be a president? This the hightest of honor and the most important job of all. Why would someone with this kind of background or story deserve to be in such important position?
If he only hang out with these phsycos for 20years and now he is not or that he didnt know anything about it –then you just simply said those people who hang out the Osama Bin Leden one time can simply come back and be our presient b/c he didnt know anything about bin Leden??
The OBAMA guy is jut too much. With this kind of credential — I dodn't know how he got to be a US senator.
American people WAKE UP, don't be stupid about this.
- May 8, 2008 at 8:16 PM
I heard that Barack Obama is actually an Irish citizen or is at least of partial Irish descent, and that he changed his name from Bearach O'Bama to make him sound more ethnically appealing in the United States. Does anyone have more information about this?
Patricia in Dublin, Ireland
- June 23, 2008 at 9:15 AM
I have not heard about him being "Irish" and I am not concerned about his heritage. I believe everyone in America should have their chance to make their dreams come true..black, hispanic, white, indian etc as long as they abide by the country's laws (including paying taxes which means working for a living!) Race should not matter if we are all united but unfortunately we are not. My ? is WHY? This is where I find fault in Obama. In a debate with Mrs. Clinton, Obama could not bring himself to say the word white. Charlie Gibson actually called him out on it saying "you mean white people". How can we vote a man or woman in as president of the United States of America if he/she cannot overcome their own racism. Which brings me to Oprah..someone who would never "allow" herself to go public on her policital choice UNTIL a partial black man was on the ticket!?!? Interesting..don't you think?
- June 24, 2008 at 8:44 AM
I will vote and support any candidate that does the following (In this order):
1.) Stands for the underpriveleged, the children, the infants, the ones that can't protect themself.
2.) Clearly and distinctly states their beliefs, and does not sway from that belief.
3.) Will support and honor a belief in the Christian faith and will uphold the entire scripture as the word of God.
Unfortunately, Obama has none of these qualities.
There are better candidates.
- July 7, 2008 at 8:21 AM
I thought I would point out a few areas of Change that we should expect with the new presidential candidate.
Since we hear we need a CHANGE, I did some easy research to understand what change we were looking at…..
I don't know that I discovered the real change we are to receive, but I did walk away with a few questions that I had after doing some light reading are noted below:
1) What religion is Barrack Obama?
2) Does he stand for and defend America (the United States)?
3) What is likely to really Change?
4) What Real Qualifications does he have?
I couldn't find answers to all of these, but found some easy indicators and noted some information below for the interested voter.
1 &2) He is not a Christian, as I was raised to know all true Christian would not debate truths of the bible. You stand on the Jesus' salvation and the bible as the cornerstones of a religious Christian faith. Obama has defiled this belief in only accepting portions of the bible as truth, so I will just ask, what religion does he place his foundation.
Apparently a belief that life is not precious and made by God ... he clearly states on his own web page that he is an abortion supporter (url:http://my.barackobama.com/page/content/womenissues).
Therefor life is not precious, and God's creation is not precious.
Supports a Woman's Right to Choose:
Barack Obama understands that abortion is a divisive issue, and respects those who disagree with him. However, he has been a consistent champion of reproductive choice and will make preserving women's rights under Roe v. Wade a priority as President. He opposes any constitutional amendment to overturn the Supreme Court's decision in that case.
He proclaims he has stayed with his Christian church (and pastor) for 20 years, but he just recently turned on this pastor as the vulgar and racist pastor to have used curse words toward his the USA (http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/DemocraticDebate/story?id=4443788&page=1).
Sen. Barack Obama's pastor says blacks should not sing "God Bless America" but "God damn America."
He admits to staying with this church for 20 years and sitting in the pulpit as his pastor continued this preaching. He compares him to an uncle that you let rant.
I wouldn't sit in a church that talked about my country, my god, and the races of the world in this manner. But, I will admit I am not presidential.
So, is his faith built upon this pastor, since he is using him as a reference for his relationship with Jesus? Does he represent this reference to help us believe he is a Christian and then turn against it because he doesn't want us to believe he is anti-American?
3) What change is he going with? Should we be ready to accept his doctrine as truth, since it "Changes" when it suits him?
I would ask each of you one serious question:
4) If you were going to hire a CEO of your company, and you could be the HR screener of this resume.... Would the following resume impress you to hire Obama as your CEO (or Chairman of the Board/President... etc)?
Barack Obama's Experience
US Senator
US Senate (IL-D)
(Government Administration industry)
January 2005 — Present (3 years 7 months) (WOW 3 & ½ Years of US Senator Experience - Couldn't make it through one entire term in DC)
In the U.S. Senate, I have sought to focus on tackling the challenges of a globalized, 21st century world with fresh thinking and a politics that no longer settles for the lowest common denominator.
Senior Lecturer in Law
University of Chicago Law School
(Educational Institution; 501-1000 employees; Law Practice industry)
1993 — 2004 (11 years) (Well he taught for 11 years – that seems equivalent to running the largest power on the GLOBE)
State Senator
Illinois State Senate
(Legislative Office industry)
1997 — 2004 (7 years) (7 Years of STATE Senator Experience)
Proudly representing the 13th District on Chicago's south side.
Consider an Opposing (and Intelligent) View on Abortion (John McCain's view) http://www.johnmccain.com/Informing/Issues/95b18512-d5b6-456e-90a2-12028d71df58.htm
Overturning Roe v. Wade
John McCain believes Roe v. Wade is a flawed decision that must be overturned, and as president he will nominate judges who understand that courts should not be in the business of legislating from the bench.
Constitutional balance would be restored by the reversal of Roe v. Wade, returning the abortion question to the individual states. The difficult issue of abortion should not be decided by judicial fiat.
However, the reversal of Roe v. Wade represents only one step in the long path toward ending abortion. Once the question is returned to the states, the fight for life will be one of courage and compassion - the courage of a pregnant mother to bring her child into the world and the compassion of civil society to meet her needs and those of her newborn baby. The pro-life movement has done tremendous work in building and reinforcing the infrastructure of civil society by strengthening faith-based, community, and neighborhood organizations that provide critical services to pregnant mothers in need. This work must continue and government must find new ways to empower and strengthen these armies of compassion. These important groups can help build the consensus necessary to end abortion at the state level. As John McCain has publicly noted, "At its core, abortion is a human tragedy. To effect meaningful change, we must engage the debate at a human level."
- July 7, 2008 at 10:12 AM
Well, the big day is here.
The big day when Obama, in concert, literally, with the Leftist Media, tries to make his
case for why we should vote for him.
He still expects so many of us to believe him, even after him being one of the biggest
LIARS, on the face of this planet, in ALL of human history.
Now that there's been uncovered, yet ANOTHER, of his Blatant and Obvious examples
of his root and core Socialist ideological beliefs, and no doubt why they will NOT
reveal his writings from his College / University years, he has more 'splaining to do.
Can ANY amount of Obama bought air time, be enough for him to explain how it is
possible that, since he has, from at least 2001 or before, held the beliefs, as he was
eager to explain in the 2001 radio interview, in which he SAID there should be MORE
Redistribution ( of wealth ), and the SUPREME COURT ( probably other courts too )
SHOULD be MORE involved. And, in CONTRADICTON to the Constitution, AND he
STILL expects us to NOT think he IS a Socialist? Not to mention, him apparently
being hell bent on our Constitution NOT being followed, which he MUST take an Oath
TO Uphold and Protect. HOW and WHY would / could, We The People, believe ANY
oath HE would take, under ANY circumstances?
Obama is either sooooo INCOMPETENT, or it's ANOTHER of his BIG LIES.
SO, just as has been asked in many ways, in cross examinations, and by those who
REALLY want to know, was he LYING, LYING, LYING THEN, or, is he LYING, LYING,
LYING Now? Or, is he just a CONSTANT Psychopathic Lying Sociopath? In ANY case,
Obama is either sooooo INCOMPETENT, or it's ANOTHER of his BIG LIES.
Or, BOTH? It sure looks like it, more, and more, and more.
Can ANY amount of Obama bought air time, be enough for him to explain how
it is possible, that 20 years in front of a "mentor" / Wright, was not enough for
Obama to KNOW what Wright was all about, and hear and see the divisive
anger and rage, which was demonstrated a number of times in sermons?
Obama is either sooooo INCOMPETENT, or it's ANOTHER of his BIG LIES.
Can ANY amount of Obama bought air time, be enough for him to explain how
it is possible that, since he is supposedly so well educated from his college
and university years, that he is apparently NOT well read enough, or NOT in
touch with RECENT American History, that he has no clue of who Ayers was?
Obama is either sooooo INCOMPETENT, or it's ANOTHER of his BIG LIES.
Can ANY amount of Obama bought air time, be enough for him to explain how
it is possible that, IF he has any REAL sense of politics, or the REAL world
around him, how is it that when he started to get involved with Ayers, and
ESPECIALLY Ayers involved in Obama's political career, that Obama did
NOT properly do research about Ayers, to make sure of who or what he was?
Obama is either sooooo INCOMPETENT, or it's ANOTHER of his BIG LIES.
Can ANY amount of Obama bought air time, be enough for him to explain how
it is possible that, since he was so involved with ACORN, but he did NOT
apparently also know, or care about, the following:
( From http://pajamasmedia.com/ )
The Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) is a community-based organization
that advocates for low and moderate income families founded in 1970 by Wade Rathke and Gary Delgado.
Rathke, one of the most powerful hard-Left activists in America, is a former member of a radical 1960s group,
the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS). The Weathermen terrorist group split off from the SDS in 1969.
Although the organization prides itself for its registration efforts, it also has a long history of scandal. In the
state of Missouri in 1986, 12 ACORN members were convicted of voter fraud. But that case was not an
isolated incident in the state. In December 2004, in St. Louis, six volunteers pleaded guilty of dozens of
election law violations for filling out registration cards with names of dead people and other bogus information.
Authorities launched an earlier investigation after noticing that among the new voters was longtime St. Louis
alderman Albert "Red" Villa, who died in 1990. The volunteers worked for "Operation Big Vote" — a branch of
ACORN — in St. Louis.
On February 10, 2005, Nonaresa Montgomery, a paid worker who ran Operation Big Vote during the run-up
to the 2001 mayoral primary, was found guilty of vote fraud. Montgomery hired about 30 workers to do
fraudulent voter-registration canvassing. Instead of knocking on doors, the volunteers sat at a St. Louis fast
food restaurant and wrote out names and information from an outdated voter list. About 1,500 fraudulent voter
registration cards were turned in.
In October 2006, St. Louis election officials discovered at least 1,492 "potentially fraudulent" voter registration
cards. They were all turned in by ACORN volunteers.
In November 2006, 20,000 to 35,000 questionable voter registration forms were turned in by ACORN officials
in Missouri. Most all of these were from St. Louis and Kansas City areas, where ACORN purportedly sought
to help empower the "disenfranchised" minorities living there. But the ACORN workers weren't just told to
register new voters. The workers admitted on camera that they were coached to tell registrants to vote for
Democrat Claire McCaskill.
In 2007, in Kansas City, Missouri, four ACORN employees were indicted for fraud. In April of this year eight
ACORN employees in St. Louis city and county pleaded guilty to federal election fraud for submitting bogus
voter registrations.
And, that was just Missouri.
( The whole story: http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/the-complete-guide-to-acorn-voter-fraud/ )
So, since Obama is supposedly so smart, HOW can it be he did NOT know ANY of this
FRAUD history of ACORN?
Obama is either sooooo INCOMPETENT, or it's ANOTHER of his BIG LIES.
Can ANY amount of Obama bought air time, be enough for him to explain how
it is possible that, IF he is supposedly so smart, politically, or otherwise, HOW
is it, he did not make sure of the ethicalness of his relationship and deals with
Rezko? WHY did Obama not realize the potential, for even the appearance of
scandal, let alone the ACTUAL deals we're now aware of? Maybe because it's
so accepted in Chicago / Illinois corrupt street thug politics?
Obama is either sooooo INCOMPETENT, or it's ANOTHER of his BIG LIES.
Can ANY amount of Obama bought air time, be enough for him to explain how
it is possible that, IF he has ANY amount of understanding of economics, or
our country's financial mechanisms, he could NOT see the potential for disaster,
with the KNOWN mismanagement, CORRUPTION, and artificial housing
market success, being perpetrated by, and because of, Fannie, Freddie, and
BAD legislation and requirements, for banks to make HIGH risk mortgages?
Maybe because so many DEMOCRATS were ALREADY getting away with it.
Obama is either sooooo INCOMPETENT, or it's ANOTHER of his BIG LIES.
Can ANY amount of Obama bought air time, be enough for him to explain how
it is possible that, IF he had ANY inkling of Foreign Policy, or even reality in
general, that it would be OK, to sit down with a KNOWN adversary, of ANY
degree, to discuss, and TO NEGOTIATE, almost anything, would be done with
NO preconditions, AND that ANY one, with an ounce of IQ, would ANNOUNCE
ahead of time, their strategy, like, NO preconditions?
Obama is either sooooo INCOMPETENT, or it's ANOTHER of his BIG LIES.
Can ANY amount of Obama bought air time, be enough for him to explain how
it is possible that, . . ., well, I guess the list could go on and on. And, I probably
have missed some things in my above chronology.
It all just comes down to this,
Obama is either sooooo absolutely, totally, INCOMPETENT, or,
he just, LIES, LIES, LIES, LIES, LIES, LIES, LIES, LIES, LIES.
In EITHER case he WILL be one of the WORST presidents we'd EVER have.
Maybe that won't happen.
- October 29, 2008 at 2:22 AM
- Navi Arora said...
- November 5, 2008 at 9:58 PM
- GMONEY said...
I guess what I find interesting about Obama's racial appeal is that, when I was growing up (I'm 44), African-Americans were anything BUT supportive of a man who's upbringing was not touched by an African-American (Uncle Tom, etc). Obama was raised strictly by white people (his mother, and grandparents), with the values AND AMBITION of those white people, etc. Further, he had little to no involvement with African Americans in his life as that population is next to zero in Hawaii. Coming from a white mother, and raised by (lets admit it, bigoted) white grandparents I think the real hidden story is NOT that whites accepted his candidacy, but that African Americans did! With that said, I hope the African American population realizes that "one of their own" has not been elected. That will take place when an individual who is brought up around, schooled by and raised by African Americans is elected President...and that has NOT taken place yet. Not even close. It is my hope that the African American community will not take Obama's election as some sort of accomplishment (as it is not for that ethnic group) but strive to achieve until one that is TRULY their own can call the highest office in the land their job. Now, what this SHOULD point out and signal is that we can now END affirmative action programs as the white population demonstrated en masse that we will actively participate in giving a job to the best man (or woman) for it. (Barrack, Hillary, Sarah, etc.) It has to happen sometime. If we are to see each other as equals (which is what Obama's election should signal) affirmative action HAS TO be eliminated...and lets get on to treating everything equally.
- December 28, 2008 at 11:44 AM
One thing everyone is forgetting, he's Mulatto-TERM FOR BIRACIAL/MIXED PEOPLE WITH HALF BLACK AND HALF WHITE BLOOD
SO, he should be for EVERY race.
The world needs to refer to him as Mulatto not African-American.
- January 19, 2009 at 4:13 PM
Vou dizer uma coisinha; que monte de discursos fedidos e sem fundamento.que bando de discursos perdido por quem não defende uma real mudança , uma real autonomia da população americana.Por quem não defende uma real igualdade do povo americano.
Gente pare de falar besteiras.... não importa nada do que disseram , tudo bobagem , o que importa mesmo é o HOMEM ; sua qualificação , seus desejo de transformar essa politica de merda dos presidentes americanos que o passado os levem , essa politica de merda dos estados unidos que só tem olhos para a guerra e a destruição do planeta.Só tem olhos pra cima e não vê o sofrimento do povo miserável do mundo.
- January 29, 2009 at 7:59 AM
He born in Malaysa. Sand Moslems is not eligable to be president. He need to resign and let Bill Clinton be president.
- August 5, 2009 at 9:10 AM
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1.) Stands for the underpriveleged, the children, the infants, the ones that can't protect themself.
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I don't know why some women are very happy when they want to collect money from their husbands but when it comes to sex, they automatically become frigid and look like they've been sentenced to death by torture!
Some women can't just understand why their husbands become restless when he needs sex. I listen to women who call their husbands all sort of derogatory, debasing, low down names because he wants sex daily or three days a week! Yet she's the first to scream all men are dogs at the top of her lungs when the man looks for sex else where there by leading innocent young ladies astray!
Listen ladies, a man is wired to need sex and becomes restless around you till he has that sex. I'm talking about sex in marriage. Only prostitutes have sex with yellow, black and white in exchange for money. You are not a prostitute so zip up till you get married!
Your husband is not an animal! He is not a dog! He is not carnal neither has he backslidden! He is created to want sex, need sex, get hungry for sex, yearn for sex and become restless till he finds expression in you! You must understand this and release your body with joy whenever he needs you, that is what marriage is about.
Your body is no longer yours, it is his likewise his body belongs to you. That is why you need knowledge, you can't be ignorant and have a good marriage, it is not possible! Thank God for my dear husband's article yesterday on KNOWLEDGE IS POWER, it teaches us to get adequate knowledge about marriage before we suffer unnecessary hardship for life!
The way some women complain about sex is making so many men feel unnecessarily guilty and abnormal. One young married man asked me why men become desperate when they need sex, I simply told him, because he is wired that way, there is absolutely nothing wrong with him -NOTHING!
Single ladies, prepare for marriage with the mind to please your husband with your body. Don't mind some women who claim sex is painful, boring or all those negative stuff that gets me angry. Sex is sweet, okay? Orgasm is the greatest pleasure your husband can give you! When you satisfy your husband sexually, he will treat you with tenderness and affection. My husband treats me like his greatest treasure on earth!
Sex three days a week won't kill you likewise sex 7 days a week. Some men have it once a week, while some prefers twice. It depends on the kind of man you marry. If you pray well, God will give you a man whose libido matches yours!Trust me, if you understand your body well and you marry a man who genuinely loves you and knows how to make you enjoy sex, you will want to have sex every single day of your life! I don't know why women are running away from sex, this thing is sweet, abeg! Once I started enjoying sex, I looked forward to it every time! I don't mind having it daily (I follow my husband's schedule though). It is God's blessing and should be enjoyed not endured.
Word of caution here: SEX IS STRICTLY FOR THE MARRIED. If you try it outside marriage, you will regret it for the rest of your life. 100% guaranteed!!!
So my ladies, let's work on our mindset please. Your greatest sexual organ is your brain, work on it. Reject all the lies the devil tells you about your husband. See the good in him, see God in him and celebrate him with your body. Have sex whenever you can with him, both of you will be happier for it and your marriage will move to a new level of bliss.
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With both of his parents struggling to survive in Poland post WWII, Jerry's family had a goal to provide a better life for him and his sister. Who knew that this young boy walked amongst the ruins of Warsaw would come to American to build a $100 million company.
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Alan: Welcome back I'm here today with Jerry Brenholtz, he's a cofounder of ATR international, Jerry welcome to today's show.
Jerry: Thank you
Alan: So Jerry for for the listeners here you have a very unique background. I'd like you to tell the listeners where it started and where it started and how you got to where you are today.
Jerry: Well... I don't know if I want to disclose my age but I was born 1942 so in a couple months I'll be turning 75. I grew up in Poland, but was born in Russia. The reason is that my mom escaped and my mom escaped to Warsaw about 3 months after the war started. And went to Russia because it was the only place to go, met my father there so as a result of that, I was born in Russia, Fortunately right after the war in early 1946. And since my mother was a Polish citizen, of my father could actually leave along with her from Russia and went to Poland. The objective was not really stay in Poland because Poland was in total ruins and is especially the city we came to. First we came to Warsaw- I was only 4 years old at that time so I can only tell you what my parents have told me but we came to Warsaw and my mom said, 'I can't live here, She said, the ground is soaked with blood. But there were some opportunities, Warsaw was totally destroyed. There were some opportunities to move to the western part of Poland which the poles took it from the Germans, the city Szczecin. And this was a port city, even though it was quite a bit destroyed but some of the buildings were still in pretty good shape. The city was probably 70 or 80 percent in ruins. So we settled there and at that point my parents never really thought that it was unsafe because unsafe was the war. But I remember very well that the streets and the trails that we were walking through were destroyed buildings. And the buildings that we were walking through at any minute could fall down. So we went there and lived there until 1965 for 19 years. And my father was not Polish so he hated it because he had language difficulties but quickly he learned then at one point he actually thought that maybe we should go back to Russia. Thank God that we did not, but life was pretty challenging at that point. You adapt to the particular situation and are optimistic in saying that things will get better and sure enough they were getting better and as a child my parents always worried that I would get involved with some gangs. There were some gangs but obviously we didn't know much about them. But they were constantly watching. Sometimes I would come home with a bump on my head due to somebody throwing a stone or whatever, so it was quite a you know quite a very challenging time for us. But they always felt that first we need to educate our children. The idea for them was, as I mentioned earlier, not to stay in Poland really, and the ideas was to go to Israel. Because in 1947 in the country was created but again Israel was not in such a great shape either and many people were you traveling to actually go to Germany. To everybody's surprise why would anybody want to go to Germany but the idea was to go to Germany and hopefully from Germany there was some organization setup that was bringing people to the US. So our ultimate goal was always to come to to the US. So in the early stages obviously Poland was under the communist control so you could not leave. So how do you leave if you cannot leave? We applied for immigration, the Polish government would ask so what's the reason for immigrating. You could not say that you didn't like the system. Because potentially you could end up with penitentiary. So the typical answers were uniting with the family because they were very sympathetic to people after the war because many had lost their families, my mother lost almost all her entire family.
Alan: Jerry it's a remarkable story of what you've goine through in life and I do need to take a quick break up but when we get back I want to continue on. I'm visiting here today Jerry Brenholtz, he's the cofounder of ATR International but he has a remarkable story of how he was born during the war and immigrated through several war torn countries in getting to the US. We'll be right back.
Alan: Welcome back I'm visiting here today with Jerry Brenholtz, he's the cofounder of ATR International. Jerry before the break we were talking about the miraculous journey that your mother went to through, filled with adversity in leaving Warsaw as the war broke out, finding your dad, marrying him in Russia and going back for 19 years or so into Poland. Resettling and eventually making it down to Germany-
Jerry: I'm sorry we did not go to Germany, we stayed in Poland, there were people that were going through Germany- primarily those that didn't have children. Those with children were actually afraid to travel because crossing the borders was still not legal. But we stayed in Poland.
Alan: So as the war broke out, your mom, did she travel or leave Warsaw by herself did she have family with her?
Jerry: She actually followed her younger brother who was at that time 15. And he is escaped first with a couple of his friends and they made a pledge to themselves that they will never come back and so on and what I hear is that they actually bought a gun. The actually bought a gun for protection. My uncle who was 15 at that time, his objective was to kind of interesting he said he's going to enlist in the Russian army, train, and then go to Israel to fight for independence. That was his objective. And so they made the pledge, we're not coming back. One of the kids came back, went there afraid, winter of course cold, they didn't have enough clothes in fact they escaped without the knowledge of my grandmother or my grandfather, just took off so imagine 15 year old kids. So one of the kids came back so that is why we know the story. So then my mom and her younger sister was 13 at that time is my mom was 17 she told the my is my grandmother, that she will go and find them. So first wanted to go with the with the boy who came back. My mother told her, you're not going with a boy. So she went with her younger sister who was 13 and you can imagine at 13 year old girl- constantly there were issues here and there and crying and all that but anyway they went there with very little clothes, it was for heavy winter they almost froze to death and she described that she was saved by a polish doctor who was close to the border into Russia and he took him into the hospital and kept him in the hospital- for longer than he was permitted. So anyway after leaving the hospital she moved on and then she found some work available in the Euro mountains. So you can imagine that was a couple thousand miles from the Polish border but they managed to go there and that this were she did meet my father. So the rest of her life for her was more of a survival. My dad was 20 years older than her. For her they didn't think of 'I love you', it was more of 'I need to survive.' And it's like The Fiddler on the Roof.
Alan: Obviously your dad when she wanted to go back to Poland, he came st the sacrifice of learning the new language but it's a remarkable story and I want to get into how you transitioned out of Poland and got over here into the United States, however before doing that I need to take a quick break. I'm visiting here today with Jerry Brenholtz, he is the cofounder of ATR International, and we'll be right back after these messages.
Alan: Welcome back, I've been visiting here today with Jerry Brenholtz, he's a cofounder of ATR International. Jerry before the break we were talking about your mom and that she was now with her young family over in Poland after the war. How eventually did she come over here to the United States?
Jerry: So the objective was always for us. For most people they were dreaming of coming to the U. S. Legal or illegal immigration, I don't know if it existed or not, but the first process was to apply for immigration. The US had a quota system and since we lived in Poland. The quota system is based on where you were born. So since my sister and I were born in Russia, and there were not many people in Poland at that time who were born in Russia. So the quota was a little bit shorter. There were Polish people applying for immigration to the U. S. but they were born in Poland. So there were many many more applicants who were born in in Poland. So had we applied for immigration based on my mother's birth we would have waited a long time. We still waited 6 years before our quota showed up. So then we were able to immigrate in 1965. We were given passports by the Polish government, I think the passports were valid for 3 months. We were allowed to leave with no more than $5 in our pockets. So what we did is how do we survive we come to the U. S. What would be our source of survival so my mother and father decided to buy various goods there that they'd be able to sell it once they arrived. So that this would happen.
So you came over here, obviously your education was a need. Did you immediately started into school or where did you end up immigrating to? So we immigrated to Detroit first. And the reason we came to Detroit was because I was at that time 23 years old. For my education I went to automotive engineering school. So the prospects for jobs were much better at that time in the auto industry. And so we came to Detroit. And of course without the language your prospects for a job are not very good. When I studied in Poland, my parent's objectve was that their children had to be educated. So we had only 2 choices, a doctor or an engineer. So my sister became a doctor and I became an engineer. Customarily at that time if you studied engineering, you had to study German. German was the predominant language for engineering. So when I came to the U. S. I didn't know any English. I think I probably maybe knew 30-40 words at maximum. So I made it a commitment that I would have to learn at least 50 words a day. So I brought a big polish-english dictionary and made that kind of a commitment. Of course I couldn't put the words together, the grammar was always an issue, but it was important. So then I enrolled in the University at Wayne State University. My English was still not good enough, so I was able to do enroll in the university is for foreign students. And there was english for foreign students. So there was I think [class levels] A,B,C and D. So I qualified for the D class which was one of the lowest. But since I had made the commitment to learn the language I went from D to C and then from C I went to A. And then obviously enrolled in composition writing and literature. The primary objective was to capture the language, that was the only objective at that point.
Alan: The whole life story is one of survival and perseverance and then after school you eventually made it out to California what brought you this direction?
Jerry: I graduated from Wayne State University with a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering sciences and one of our neighbors in Detroit to traveled to California to visit his daughter. And so he decided to drive because he couldn't afford it couldn't afford to fly. So he says I'm going to be driving, I and said, 'can I go with you? I'll help you with driving'. So we end up first in Los Angeles and I had a distant cousin there, was actually born in the U. S. Met her there and I fell in love with Los Angeles. I said wow these mountains and the ocean and the climate. It was December of course you know what the weather's like in December in Detroit. But then I also had a contact in Berkeley. So I decided to come to to Berkeley and also San Francisco was very much more impressive than Los Angeles at that time. When I came there, you could see what you are breathing in Los Angeles. So anyways I decided that I would look for a job in the San Francisco Bay Area. This was a time of a recession during Nixon's administration. The aerospace industry was shut down pretty much and so on. But lucky for me I actually found a job in a small consulting company that day was doing work for the nuclear power industry. And it was exciting because it was relatively new. And there were very very bright people working there so that was the beginning actually. The company had about 13 people. And so pretty much a you learn from one another, it's just part of an amazing beginning in California. Of course I'd meet friends and other people and so on.
Alan: So essentially from getting your career established, you broke out to do your own company, how much further along was that?
Jerry: I don't know if everybody's experience is similar, but to sometimes you start a company because of necessity. For me it was moving fast forward I went through some other industries, nuclear industry and then the late seventies the nuclear industry was-
Alan: Jerry I need to interrupt you, right now we're running up the break for a commercial, but when we get back, I want to jump into the inspiration of jumping out to do your own company. We'll be right back after these messages, we're visiting here today with Jerry Brenholtz, he's the cofounder of ATR International we'll be right back out these message.
Alan: Welcome back I'm visiting here today with Jerry Brenholtz, he's the CEO and cofounder of ATR International, and Jerry before the break we we're talking about the transition from a career to ownership of your own company. And how did that start out then?
Jerry: So again, I went from the nuclear industry to the semiconductor industry and at 1one point started doing consulting work and there were many other incidents that happened along the way but for the sake of time I think I'm gonna move it forward. So I started doing consulting work and started actually marketing my own profession. And then I realized that actually I'm pretty good in marketing my own profession so maybe I should market other people's professions. And this was 1988. My focus was in marketing other people's professions specifically within a highly skilled technical is area which at that time didn't quite exist didn't quite exist. There were temporary agencies that focused primarily on the lower skilled categories, administrative categories, but the presentation for technical people was rather minimal at that time. So we were in another recession in 1988, a white collar recession. But I quickly realized that maybe I'm not in the highly skilled technical categories but maybe I'm in them employment business. So the disk drive industry was at that time accelerating, many companies such as Maxtel, Quantum and so on were really doing quite well and I realize that day they are in the cyclical nature because they are dependent on the OEM's that are buying their drives and so, so because it's cyclical so it must be that people are coming and going. So I stepped into that industry, so before I even realized 95 percent of the people that we actually had to hire on our payroll were manufacturing support.
Alan: And how big did your company grow to for the staffing?
Jerry: Today we are $100 million company.
Alan: Amazing. How many people are you placing within companies?
Jerry: So today our primary focus is on industries which are industries of the future. So we're looking at industries such as the medical device industry which is growing by leaps and bounds, a financial service organizations which are focusing on building their IT infrastructure, and also healthcare industries. So over the last 28 years we've gone through several cycles in the economy, and every cycle brings different skill sets so we're always looking forward trying to see what is there next thing that will be marketable and we're finding today that the information technology industry are very very important and there's a tremendous shortage in that and therefore we have people of H-1B visas and so on. And again, the engineering skills within de medical device industry so... Today we have on our staff about the 1,200 people.
Alan: So Jerry, I have to ask this question, given where your mom started in her life in escaping a war torn country. What would she have to say today with with how her kids ended up?
Jerry: Well it was kind of interesting because when I started the company- their objective was always my daughter should be a doctor and my son should be an engineer. So when some of her friends would ask her, 'do you have kids?' and she said 'yes I do, my daughter is a doctor and my son used to be an engineer and now he's a salesman. So she never really understood this until shortly before she passed she said to me,take care of your sister.
Alan: An absolutely remarkable story, Jerry I'd like to thank you for being on today's show, we've been visiting here today with Jerry Brenholtz, he's the CEO and cofounder of ATR International, and thank you.
Jerry: It's been a pleasure thank you.
Jerry Brenholz co-founded ATR International, Inc. in 1988. He has been instrumental in developing ATR into an important provider of contract staffing for Information Technology. In his current role, he is responsible for establishing a corporate-wide vision and defining strategic direction. Prior to ATR, Jerry held various technical positions with General Electric, Westinghouse, Applied Materials and Quadrex Corporation. Here during his 18 year career as a technical professional he assumed a variety of leadership roles and made significant contributions in engineering as well as in research and technology development.
He is active in the American Staffing Association (ASA), TechServe Alliance (formally NACCB) and supports a number of cultural and non-profit organizations and institutions including The Tech Museum of Innovation, The Computer History Museum, The San Francisco Opera, SFMOMA, BASHOF, CYO, the de Young Legion of Honor.
Previously he also served on the Advisory Board of The California Israel Chamber of Commerce (CICC), he served on the Silicon Valley Regional Board of TechAmerica, Executive Committee of The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society for the Silicon Valley & Monterey Bay Area Chapter, he was a member of the Founders Circle for The National Conference for Community and Justice (NCCJ) and served on the board of directors of Adult and Child Guidance Center.
Jerry earned a Master of Science Degree in Engineering Mechanics from Santa Clara University, Bachelor of Science Degree in Mechanical Engineering from Wayne State University and completed an Executive Leadership Program at Stanford University.
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