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Andrew Cox has a most thorough interview with Linh Dinh where the frank conversation covers topics from technology to poetry and takes us through Dinh's perspective on the State of the Union.
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"I've always been interested in so-called losers, because that's the general human condition, if not now, then soon enough."
Why did you start State of the Union?
In 2005, I taught a writing course called State of the Union at Naropa University, in Boulder, CO. I've also taught this course at the University of Montana and University of Pennsylvania. I wanted the students to address the crises afflicting our nation. It's certainly not easy to make sense out of what's going, especially since there's so much disinformation and propaganda out there.
State of the Union is my attempt to track, through images and words, what's happening to this country. The project has also forced me to spend much more time in the physical world, as oppose to sitting in front of the computer.
Like most of us, I was living a mediated life, I was living mostly through the computer, but, with this project, I'll walk for miles though the streets, looking and hearing, and sometimes asking questions. Before I started, I had become alienated from much of my home city. I had forgotten the names of the neighborhoods, places I had known as a housepainter.
I was also tired of being an inhabitant of the poetry ghetto. Poets are entirely invisible and irrelevant in this society. As America collapses, poets have nothing to contribute to the general conversation. Few have anything to say, and the ones who do are ignored in any case.
I was tired of being published in books and literary journals that no one reads. My political essays, then, are my attempt at reaching a bigger audience, a more general audience. I want to use all of my skills as a writer to address people who would not likely read my poems. I'm particularly happy that my latest piece, "Mare Mere," is being run by both CounterPunch and Dissident Voice, since it has elements of the prose poem. It is 2/3 political essays and 1/3 poetry. I'll try to write more in this vein.
Why do you think poets are ignored? Is it worldwide or just an American phenomenon?
Conditioned by the car and television, we value speed above all. We want everything to be fluid and accelerated. We don't care about quality, just quantity. It doesn't matter what we eat, we just want to stuff ourselves as fast as possible.
Poetry is too slow for this culture. The poets themselves are also to be blamed, however. Dodging life instead of confronting it, most of them are ridiculously feeble. They think the ideal life is to be on campus forever, with a break once a year to go to their much-anticipated convention. There, they can suck up and screw down.
Da Vinci said, "A man who looks forward to spring is looking forward to his own death." To always look forward, then, is to be forever dissatisfied with the present, but that's the culture we have, we're always looking forward to next year, next week, next hour, we can't stand this present second. Our culture doesn't just anticipate death, it's living it!
In short, a people who will not reflect and who can't stand silence will not read a poem. Though this has become a worldwide phenomenon, it's much more advanced in certain places, like the U.S., for example, where we've reached a psychotic state. We hate our own mind, frankly. We don't want to hear it speak.
Notice how people must turn on an electronic device soon as they enter a room, be it TV, stereo or computer. Sometimes all three are turned on simultaneously. Without these surrogate voices, we're lost. What I'm talking about goes way beyond poetry, obviously. What I'm trying to get at is the reverence and courage that allow you to hear yourself and other people not just more clearly, but at all.
A quick observation about Vietnam. I went back in 1995, 1998, then stayed for 2 ½ years starting in 1999. While there, I could observe it shift towards the American model, which is all distraction all the time, where serious thinking is drowned out by nonsense, titillation and trivia. Wearing T-shirts with weird or actual English, many people started to listen to loud, recorded music, watch mindless TV and lust after brand names, though few could afford them.
None of this is necessarily bad in itself. I mean, a stupid T-shirt is just a piece of underwear with some moronic writing on it, and I enjoy a good soccer match as much as the next guy, but this rising pop culture was helping to mask many, many serious problems.
There was prostitution on practically every street. In factories, workers were being abused. Likewise, the servants in middle class households. I'm not even against prostitution in itself, only the poverty that forced many young women to become whores.
Top Communist officials became obscenely rich, bought many properties and sent their kids to Western universities, while the poorest sold their bodies and begged. However, with this loud music, exciting soccer matches, constantly flickering TV and many sexy photos, intimate or blown up, it was no longer necessary to arrest serious writers and thinkers. As in America, the Vietnamese intellectual has become irrelevant.
When you first left the office and computer how did you feel getting out into the physical world?
The office sounds so grand! Well, I have a little room with a desk and a tiny bed. I didn't snore ten years ago, but now I do, so my wife and I sleep in different beds, in different rooms.
In my so-called office, there's some food stored in the corner: a case of tuna, one of instant noodles and several bags of rice. We don't have much room, so every square foot must be stacked with something. Where I work, then, where I'm typing this, is more survival bunker than regular office.
If there's a nuclear explosion or meltdown, my wife and I could lock ourselves in this rat hole of a room and survive until Jesus, Allah or Buddha, whoever's truly biggest, meanest or asskickingest, knocks on the door to say, Hey, everything's OK, you can come out now!
By definition, a writer or artist must work in isolation. He must be removed from the world as he writes, paints or whatever, but a writer must also be among other people so he can have something to write about.
My first book, Fake House, was populated mostly by losers, the types I was surrounded with, and with whom I worked and drank. Of course, some of the characters were more or less me. I was a total loser, financially, socially and erotically. I was an embarrassment. Still am. I couldn't get any of anything.
You asked about the media. Well, the media is all about getting stuff. It's about having all of your natural and unnatural appetites fulfilled. It's about whooping it up, partying, fucking and spending, but real life is not anything like that. Well, you might have a few highlights here and there, fondly remembered, but most of the time, it's incredibly hard just to get by. Just to maintain your basic dignity, you have to exert yourself like crazy; you have to be a physical and mental athlete just to get by.
My first book, Fake House, was dedicated to "The Unchosen." I've always been interested in so-called losers, because that's the general human condition, if not now, then soon enough. We will all lose, but there's also dignity and strength in losing. I came from a losing society, South Vietnam, and I'm experiencing a collapsing culture right now.
Anyway, I've always been a wanderer, a walker. As a kid in Saigon, I walked all over. When I lived in Italy and England, I'd go to many strange cities, towns and villages and just walk. This project, then, is an intensification of an impulse I've always had.
The only time in my life when I didn't walk was in high school. I lived in San Jose and Northern Virginia then. These two places are heavily car-dependent. I hate them, frankly.
The computer is very addictive. I have never been addicted to the TV, for many years I didn't even have a TV, but with the computer, I became sort of a screen addict for the first time.
My site, State of the Union, gives me a clear reason to leave the house, so that's a good thing. I can walk out without going to the bar. I don't drink a fraction of what I used to.
When you're among people, you're always surprised. You think you already know how they look and talk, but you'd often be wrong. People are always inventive because they're restless, bored and exhibitionistic. They also like to have fun. Packaging themselves, they're always refining their acts. They'll come up with the weirdest way of putting on a hat, for example, or of conveying the simplest message.
What surprised you the most when you first started documenting the homeless? What surprises you now?
I've lived in cities most of my life, so the homeless is nothing new. There is a lot destitution and squalor in Saigon, where I was born and spent my early childhood, and where I returned to live for 2 ½ years as an adult.
When I moved to Philly in 1982, I saw many homeless living in the subway concourse, and I remember seeing hundreds of homeless in Tompkins Square in New York in the mid 80's.
Before I started my State of the Union project, I never talked to the homeless, however. It is enlightening to hear people's stories. I don't want to generalize too much about the homeless, but it is amazing to observe how tough and resilient these people are. On their faces and bodies are evidences of the very difficult lives they've endured, even before they became homeless. Many of these people look beaten up, because they have been. In Vietnam, too, you see these types of faces and bodies.
"Home" is such a physical and emotional necessity. While most of us still have roofs over our heads, I'd say that many of us are emotionally homeless. At best, we are dwelling in emotional halfway houses, or emotional bunkers, with many cans of expired tuna in a corner.
Now, I'd like to shoehorn an umbilical cord mooning monologue about home: I was born in Saigon and have lived there as an adult, but to call that home would be a stretch. I'm most familiar with Philadelphia and do identify with it, but I can't deny feeling elated whenever I could leave it, if only temporarily.
I was calmest and happiest when I lived in Certaldo, Italy, population 16,000, but I could barely speak the language and didn't have to make a living there. With the exception of San Jose and Northern Virginia, I'm fond of all the places I've lived in, including Norwich, England, and Missoula, MT, but, as Camus said, and I'm quoting from memory and probably butchering it, "He loves all women, which means he loves none of them."
My mother is from Hanoi, so I can still fake a fairly convincing Hanoi accent, and several times I've caught myself thinking, while in Hanoi, "It'd be beautiful to die here," but of course I'm not dying to live there, so that's not really home either. I'm OK with being home/less. I'm happiest when I'm on a train, though of course, I'm also anxious to get off.
You said many homeless people have been beat up. Who is attacking these people?
Tyrone, a 45-ish black man who was on the streets for nearly a year, told me he was beaten up by three teens. He showed me stitches on his forehead. A thirty-ish white guy was almost stabbed with a box-cutter by a white, drunken girl, walking with a group of friends. She slashed his bag. The story sounded a bit outlandish, but everything else he said was plausible. He said black women treated him the best, and, sure enough, a young black woman gave him a bag of McDonald's food while we were talking.
In Richmond, a white former nurse, Tony, also said that black women were the kindest to him. As if on cue, again, a black woman gave him an apple not even a minute later. Tony related how a Mexican homeless man was hit with a stick as he washed his clothes in the river. His attacker was some black guy, maybe another homeless dude. This Mexican guy had a big gash on his head but didn't dare go to the emergency room because he was illegal. Knowing Tony had been a nurse, he asked Tony for help. Tony looked at it and said it would heal eventually, so that was that.
If you're lying on the sidewalk, you're going to be vulnerable, obviously. That's why so many of them sleep during the daytime, because it's safer that way, with many people walking around. Even when you're not attacked, it's impossible to get a good night's sleep, obviously, because of the weather, the noise and because you're lying on cardboard.
Some of your pictures feature images of advertising. What do you think about the relationship between marketing and the homeless?
Much of photography is used to seduce. It sells you on a fantasy so you will buy the product. The glamorous advertising images and catchy slogans serve as an obscene contrast to what's actually on the streets.
The last time I was Vietnam, in 2001, I often saw the slogan, RICH PEOPLE, STRONG COUNTRY, on government billboards, but this was still old style Communist propaganda. With their heroic, broad shoulders and determined figures, always depicted from below, the Communists sought to inspire, but Capitalism is all about seduction.
On American TV, there's an ad that shows a famous football player, first in uniform, then stripped down to near total nudity. These female hands then dressed him in slacks, shirt and tie. Only at the end would you discover that this is actually a car commercial!
In any case, photography plays a central role in this come-on economy. There's photographic seduction everywhere you turn. The system will strip you and leave you with a very cool photo, and it won't even be yours to own, son, you can only look at it! I'm trying to capture this swindle in my photos.
In your writing you are critical of the spread of casinos. Why?
Casinos are perfect emblems of our non-productive economy. A lot of money changes hand in a casino, but it produces absolutely nothing. Factories are being abandoned in cities and towns across America, but casinos are spreading all over. Fools and crooks who support casinos say they bring jobs, but casinos are net losses in every community.
Do you ask for permission before you photograph anyone? Do you explain what you are using the images for and if so, what is a typical reaction?
If I can get away with sneaking a photo, I'll do that. Generally speaking, I don't want my subjects to pose or even be aware of my presence, but since I carry a large camera, this is not always possible.
From each photo, you can generally tell whether I've engaged my subject. Sometimes I offer people a bit of money, usually just a buck or two, to take their photos. I gave $10 to a Camden woman, however, so she could buy cans of Sterno for her tent.
In Detroit, I also gave an old man 10 bucks because he was in such bad shape. He said he needed this money for a prescription. Whenever I visited the tent city in Camden, New Jersey, I'd bring 24 large cans of beer, though I'd end up drinking three or four myself. I've also bought food for the homeless.
When I talk to people on the streets, I do tell them I'm writing about the economy. Most know full well the economy is in horrible shape and will get even worse, and most of them don't mind talking to me about their dire situations.
Once, I saw a young woman who was raving and extremely dirty, she even smelled of urine, but as soon as I talked to her, she became sane and radiant. Not to exaggerate but she became shockingly beautiful. I bought her something to drink and lent her my cell phone so she could call a friend in Baltimore to pick her up in Philadelphia.
As an artist, you're always a kind of vulture when you're around people, you're always trying to make use of what they say, how they look or who they are, and since art is always subjective, a kind of distortion, you're always deforming people to suit your purposes. Although art is always, in this sense, an exploitation, it is also a kind of tribute, and hence, of love. Sometimes I can barely stand how magnificent and beautiful people are.
You mentioned bringing beer or food with you sometimes. A common stereotype is the homeless asking for money or holding a sign by the freeway just want it to buy drugs and alcohol. How accurate is this stereotype?
Well, there are soup kitchens. In Camden, I went with a group of homeless to a very clean and dignified soup kitchen. People sat down at these long tables and were served by volunteers. When this homeless couple left a bit early, I asked them, "What happened? Didn't you like the food?" The woman was a deaf mute, so only the man answered. He said, "Yeah, we liked it fine, but now we're going to a second soup kitchen!" Another guy told me, "You have to be a moron to starve in Camden." The problem is, many of the homeless are at least slightly crazy. Though some started out mentally ill or deficient, I'm sure many more became that way from having to live on the streets.
There's a guy who wandered around the shopping mall in downtown Philadelphia. His pants were falling apart and sagging. You could literally see his crotch. My wife actually tried to give him a belt, but he wouldn't take it. He wouldn't even take cash. He never said a word, not one word, so maybe he couldn't talk at all. Every now and then, you'll run into a homeless person who won't even take money.
In any case, I bring beer to the tent city in Camden because I figure, why shouldn't these people have a beer? Also, I'd not be so welcome if I didn't bring beer!
The tent city in Camden, New Jersey has made headlines in the past but I think many people would be shocked to hear tent cities exist in American. Some news reports said the type of people there would surprise you. What was it like when you went there?
It was orderly and safe. In the summer, you could smell the shit in the honey bucket, but it wasn't terribly dismal. Sure it was bad, but people were making the best of it. They'd hang out in the center, talk and laugh. Sometimes people would fight, they'd scream at each other, but I was there maybe ten times and never saw any violence. I'd hear about violent episodes, however, but these were very rare.
In any case, the rest of Camden was much more dangerous. Jamaica, the head guy of the tent city, kept everything under control. Later, I'd hear from someone, living in another Camden tent city, that Jamaica would charge people a nominal fee to live in "his" tent city. I don't know if this was true, but I did notice that Jamaica sometimes hoarded some of the beer I brought. Whatever. He was the "mayor" of that place, and a lot of the people I talked to seemed genuinely grateful to him. Rex, 76 years old, told me Jamaica carried him on his back to the hospital. Hardly anyone had a cell phone there, so it wasn't like you could easily call 911 if there was an emergency.
One time I went there and it was, like, 5 degree out, and there was a huge snowstorm, and this kid, maybe 22, was freaking out. We were standing around the fire, trying to warm ourselves, and this kid was raving because he couldn't take it anymore. I lent him my cell phone so he could call his mom. He started to beg her to let him come home. "I'll do anything you want me to do, Mom! I can't take this anymore." Jamaica said he'd put the kid on the Greyhound, and he apparently did, because I never saw that kid again.
That tent city got too much publicity, so the city government finally shut it down. It didn't do anything but chase the people out and put a chain link fence around that plot. As for all the newly displaced, a private organization did take them to a motel, where they could be cleaned up, groomed then assisted in finding a job or housing.
The official unemployment rate of Camden is 25%, however, so I'm sure many of these folks have ended up on the streets again. As for other tent cities, I've seen people living in tents or makeshift dwellings in a few other places besides Camden. There must be dozens across the country.
American cities are outlawing sleeping or camping in public. In many places, dumpster diving is also illegal. One should remember that during the 1929 Depression, much food was destroyed even as the nation starved!
In Hawaii, Santa Cruz and elsewhere, you can't sleep in your own car, and in San Francisco, you can't even sit on the sidewalk. These cosmetic measures are designed to mask our accelerating economic collapse. And yet, despite all the evidence, the mainstream media trumpet daily that the recovery is here.
To close, I want to quote Texas Congressman C. Wright Patman, as recorded by the great Studs Terkel in his 1970 oral history of the Great Depression, Hard Times, "A dictatorship could spring up here over night, if this country got so bad. If another Depression came, we'd have a revolution. People wouldn't take it any more. They have more knowledge. The big ones, they'd be looking for somebody that'd have the power to just kill people, if they didn't agree. When John Doe begins to get up, they'd just go down and shoot him."
Well, that depression is here!
Linh Dinh is the author of two books of stories, five of poems, and a just released novel, Love Like Hate. He's tracking our deteriorating socialscape through his frequently updated photo blog, State of the Union.
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (Feb. 14, 2011) – The current U.S. Women's National Team Weekly update released on Feb. 14 includes briefs on U.S. players competing overseas and other team news.
McCUTCHEON ACCEPTS POSITION AT MINNESOTA: Hugh McCutcheon (Christchurch, New Zealand), who has served as either the U.S. Women's or U.S. Men's National Volleyball Team Head Coach since 2005, has accepted the University of Minnesota offer to become its head women's volleyball coach according to Minnesota Athletic Director Joel Maturi. McCutcheon will continue to fulfill his current obligations with USA Volleyball and join the Gophers as their full-time head coach at a mutually agreed upon date in the future. Current Minnesota assistant coach Laura Bush, who has twice been a NCAA Division I head coach during her career, will serve as the interim head coach at this time while McCutcheon is with the U.S. Women's Volleyball Team. "I am honored and excited to coach the women's volleyball program at the University of Minnesota," McCutcheon said. "This is a wonderful opportunity, both personally and professionally, and I hope we can continue the (Minnesota) team's strong history of success. It is and continues to be an honor and privilege to coach the U.S. Women's National Team." McCutcheon, 41, has served as the head coach for the U.S. Women's National Volleyball Team for the past two seasons after leading the U.S. Men's Olympic Team to the gold medal at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing. "We always want the best for our employees and we are trying to develop a win-win situation that works for USA Volleyball, Hugh and his family and the University of Minnesota," USA Volleyball Chief Executive Officer Doug Beal said. "We value very much Hugh as a coach of our U.S. Women's National Team and want what is best for him in the long-term. Hugh has been remarkably successful and we hope that success can continue. But ultimately, we want what is best for Hugh." For the full press release, click here.
U.S. WOMEN'S TEAM OPEN TRYOUTS: USA Volleyball projects a record 215 athletes will participate in open tryouts for the U.S. Women's National Team, U.S. Women's National A2 Program and U.S. Women's Junior National Team. The tryouts are set for Feb. 25-27, 2011, at the U.S. Olympic Training Center (USOTC) in Colorado Springs, Colo. The tryouts are open to current college-age athletes and older. The U.S. Women's National Team program is open to athletes who have concluded their college eligibility and who wish to train full-time. This program could begin as early as March 2011, or when an athlete's scholastic or professional club season has concluded. Athletes who will have remaining collegiate eligibility may still participate in the program with participation beginning May 2011 or when their scholastic calendar ends. Athletes in college with collegiate eligibility remaining for the 2011 season and not selected to the USA Women's National Team may be invited to participate in the U.S. Women's National Senior A2 Team. This program is tentatively scheduled to take place in Dallas from May 23 through June 1. A projected 36 athletes will be invited to participate in the program, which will include training and competition in the 2010 USA Volleyball Open National Championships in the Open Division from May 28-31. USA Volleyball considers the event as the National Championship for the sport of volleyball in the United States. Tryout participants born in either 1992 or 1993 will be also considered for the U.S. Women's Junior National Team program. The U.S. Women's Junior National Team will compete in the FIVB Women's Junior (U-20) World Championship to be held July 21-30 in Peru. A full roster of tryout participants will be available later this week once all tryout participants are confirmed.
U.S. WOMEN'S TRAINING BLOCK ADDS PLAYER: The U.S. Women's National Team is holding its winter training block from Jan. 17 to mid-April at the American Sports Centers in Anaheim, Calif. Ellie Blankenship (Cedar Rapids, Iowa), a libero who just finished her collegiate eligibility at University of Northern Iowa, was added to the U.S. Women's National Training Team roster which now numbers 16 players. The training roster includes setters Carli Lloyd (Bonsall, Calif.), Jenna Hagglund (West Chester, Ohio), Cassidy Lichtman (Poway, Calif.) and Lexi Zimmerman (Barrington, Ill.); middle blockers Ashley Benson (Bloomington, Ind.), Lauren Gibbemeyer (St. Paul, Minn.), Naomi Johnson (Bloomington, Minn.) and Dominique Olowolafe (Lansing, Mich.); outside hitters Becky Perry (Austin, Texas), Kari Pestolesi (Huntington Beach, Calif.), Julianne Piggott (Newport Beach, Calif.) and Kaitlin Sather (Santa Rosa, Calif.); opposite Kindra Carlson (Eaton, Colo.); and liberos Kayla Banwarth (Dubuque, Iowa), Blankenship and Cami Croteau (Orange, Calif.). Pestolesi will also see training time at libero. Additional players may be added to the roster during the course of the training block.
KIM GLASS WITH RABITA BAKU IN AZERBAIJAN: Kim Glass (Lancaster, Pa.), a 2008 Olympic Games silver medalist with the U.S. Women's National Team, is competing for Rabita Baku of the Azerbaijan professional league in 2010-11. In addition to the Azerbaijan Super League, Glass' Rabita Baku squad is competing in the CEV Champions League Playoff 12 Round. After losing a hard-fought five-set match in the initial contest of the home-and-home series with Czech Republic's VK Modranska Prostejov, Rabita Baku dominated the second match on its own court with a 25-21, 25-23, 25-19 victory. Glass scored eight kills on 19 swings, four blocks and an ace for 13 points in the victory. With both teams having won a match in the home-and-home series, Rabita Baku earned the right to advance to the Playoff 6 Round by capturing the Golden Set 15-11. For the photo gallery, click here. Rabita Baku will meet Poland's Bank BPS Fakro Muszyna in the Playoff 6 Round home-and-home scheduled for between Feb. 22 and March 3. To view highlight clips of Rabita Baku from this season, click here.
TAMAS WITH AZERRAIL BAKU: Jennifer Tamas (Milpitas, Calif.), a 2008 Olympic Games silver medalist playing middle blocker for Team USA, is playing for Azerrail Baku of the Azerbaijan Super during the 2010-11 professional club season. In addition, Azerrail continues its success in the CEV GM Capital Challenge Cup as it won both its Playoff Round 8 matches this past weekend to advance to the Playoff 4 Round. Azerrail will face the Playoff 8 winner LP Salo of Finland in the Playoff 4 Round with home-and-home matches held between Feb. 22 and March 3.
IGTISADCHI LOADED WITH AMERICANS IN AZERBAIJAN: Two-time Olympian and 2008 Olympic silver medalist Tayyiba Haneef-Park (Laguna Hills, Calif.) is playing for Igtisadchi of the Azerbaijan Super League. Igtisadchi continued its success in the CEV GM Capital Challenge Cup by winning both its home-and-home series matches against Romania's Stinta Bacau in the Playoff 8 Round to advance to the Playoff 4 Round. Igtisadchi will face Playoff 8 winner Kralovo Polo Brno of Czech Republic in a home-and-home series in the Playoff 4 Round held between Feb. 22 and March 3.
DAVIS, METCALF, RICHARDS HEADLINE LOKOMOTIV BAKU IN AZERBAIJAN: U.S. Olympians Nicole Davis (Stockton, Calif.) and Nancy Metcalf (Hull, Iowa), along with 2008 U.S. Olympic Team alternate Kristin Richards (Orem, Utah), are playing for Lokomotiv Baku of the Azerbaijan Super League. In the CEV GM Capital Challenge Cup, Lokomotiv advanced to the Playoff 4 Round by winning both its home-and-home matches with Cyprus' Apollon Limassol in the Round of 8. Lokomotiv advances to the Playoff 4 Round to face the Playoff 8 winner Schweriner SC of Germany in a home-and-home series held between Feb. 22 and March 3.
MORRISON, SIX AMERICANS ON ONE AUSTRIAN TEAM: U.S. Women's National Team Assistant Coach Jamie Morrison (Dana Point, Calif.) is serving as head coach of the Austrian Post Schwechat team during the 2010-11 season. The team has six American players including Jill Collymore (Seattle), Alexis Crimes (Rancho Cucamonga, Calif.), Jessica Jones (Naperville, Ill.), Tamari Miyashiro (Kaneohe, Hawaii), Angie Pressey (Lake Mary, Fla.) and Courtney Thompson (Kent, Wash.). Post Schwechat competes in the Middle European Volleyball Zonal Association (teams from Czech Republic, Austria, Slovakia, Slovenia and Croatia). In CEV Cup action, Post Schwechat lost to Galatasaray 25-18, 12-25, 22-25, 25-22, 15-11 on Feb. 9 in the second match of the home-and-series. Crimes produced nine kills on 17 swings, a match-high seven blocks and three aces for 19 points in the victory. Pressey added 10 kills on 50 attacks and five blocks for 15 points. With both teams having won a match in five sets in the series, a Golden Set was played to determine which team would advance to the Challenge Round. Like the two full matches, the Golden Set produced its own drama as Post Schwechat walked away with a nail-biting 16-14 victory despite taking an early 5-1 lead. Pressey scored three kills and a block in the Golden Set, while Jones added three key blocks and a kill. Post Schwechat will now face Serbia's Crvena Zvezda Beograd in the Challenge Round with home-and-home matches taking place between Feb. 22 and March. 3. Post Schwechat improved to 13-2 in the MEVZA following a 25-6, 25-14, 25-17 victory over A. LINZ-Steg on Feb. 12. Pressey pocketed eight kills on 10 attacks to go with two aces for 10 points. Jones added 10 points with seven kills on nine attacks and two blocks. Thompson, who started just the first two sets, led Post Schwechat to a 73 kill percent. Crimes added five points in the victory, while Miyashiro had 14 service receptions with a 57 positive percent.
SYKORA, ALISHA GLASS SETTING TABLES FOR VOLEI FUTURO IN BRAZIL: Three-time U.S. Olympian Stacy Sykora (Burleson, Texas) and U.S. Women's National Team setter Alisha Glass (Leland, Mich.) are competing for Volei Futuro in the Brazilian Superliga during the 2010-11 professional club season. Volei Futuro improved to 3-0 in the second half of the league with a hard-fought 26-24, 25-18, 19-25, 20-25, 15-10 victory over BMG/Mackenzie on Feb. 11. Sykora was the libero for both matches, while Glass was still absent with an injury. To view the entire match, click here.
FAWCETT IN BRAZIL WITH USIMINAS MINAS: Nicole Fawcett (Zanesfield, Ohio), a U.S. Women's National Team opposite, is playing the 2010-11 professional club season in Brazil with Usiminas Minas. Usiminas knocked off Banana Boat/Praia Clube on Feb. 14 as Fawcett scored 19 points in the victory. She was credited with 12 kills on 29 attacks, six blocks and an ace.
SCOTT-ARRUDA IN BRAZIL WITH SAO BERNARDO: Four-time U.S. Olympian Danielle Scott-Arruda (Baton Rouge, La.) is back on the volleyball court after giving birth last spring and is playing for BMG Sao Bernardo in the Brazilian Superliga. Scott scored nine points with five kills and three blocks in a 25-22, 28-26, 25-17 loss to Unilever on Feb. 12.
HOOKER WITH ITALY'S PESARO: Destinee Hooker (San Antonio, Texas), who played her first season with the U.S. Women's National Team in 2010, is currently competing for Scavolini Pesaro of the Italian Serie A League. In CEV Champions League action, Pesaro edged Russia powerhouse Dinamo Moscow for the second time in Playoff 12 home-and-home series with a 25-17, 19-25, 26-28, 25-12, 15-8 victory on Feb. 10. Hooker notched 21 kills on 45 attacks with only two hitting errors. She added six blocks and an ace for a match-high 28 points. Hooker also handled 35 of the team's 87 service receptions with a 57 positive percent. Pesaro advances to the Playoff 6 Round and will challenge Switzerland's Volero Zurich in a home-and-home series set for between Feb. 22 and March 3. For the photo gallery, click here. In the Italian Serie A league, Pesaro had its four-match win streak snapped on Feb. 13. Hooker did not compete in the five-set loss to Rebecchi Nordmeccanica Piacenza. Pesaro ended the first half with a 7-4 record, but captured first place with 24 points as second-place Spes Conegliano (8-3, 22 points) lost in straight sets to MC Carnaghi Villa Cortese to end the first half on Feb. 13. Pesaro begins the Italian Serie A second half on Feb. 20 versus Riso Scotti Pavia.
BERG, HODGE WITH VILLA CORTESE IN ITALY: U.S. Women's National Team setter Lindsey Berg (Honolulu) and Megan Hodge (Durham, N.C.) are competing for MC-Carnaghi Villa Cortese in the Italian Serie A league during the 2010-11 professional club season. After taking a five-set loss to Poland's Bank BPS Fakro Muszyna in the first match of the Playoff 12 round, Villa Cortese forced a Golden set with a 25-23, 18-25, 25-19, 8-25, 17-15 victory on Feb. 9. Berg set the squad to a 36 kill percent and added a kill and ace in the process. Hodge started just the second set and subbed in the fourth set. However, Villa Cortese could not keep the momentum in the Golden Set losing 15-11 and bowing out of the Champions League playoff. In Italian Serie A action, Villa Cortese (7-4) swept second-place Spes Conegliano 25-21, 25-16, 25-19 on Feb. 12 to finish with 19 points and in a tie for sixth place in the first half. Continuing her play as an opposite, Hodge scored 12 kills on 31 swings to go with a block and ace for 14 points. Berg set the squad to a 44 kill percent while adding two kills on three swings. Villa Cortese opens the Italian Serie A second half on Feb. 20 against Chateaux d'Ax Urbino Volley.
PAOLINI WITH NOVARA IN ITALY: Lauren Paolini (Ann Arbor, Mich.), a middle blocker on the U.S. Women's National Team, is competing this professional season in Italy with Asystel Volley Novara of the Italian Serie A Division. On Feb. 13, Novara defeated LIU-JO Volley Modena 25-23, 25-17, 21-25, 25-23 to improve to 6-5 on the season. Paolini was error-free in the match with nine kills on 14 swings to go with three blocks for 12 points. She also turned in six service receptions for an 83 positive and excellent percent. Novara finished the first half with 20 points and in fourth place. Novara starts the second half of the season on Feb. 20 against Rebecchi Nordmeccanica Piacenza.
BOWN WITH TURKEY'S ECZACIBASI: Heather Bown (Yorba Linda, Calif.), a three-time Olympic Games middle blocker for the U.S. Women's National Team, is competing in Turkey for Eczacibasi during the 2010-11 professional club season. In CEV Champions League action, Eczacibasi swept France's RC Cannes for the second time in the Playoff 12 home-and-home series with a 25-21, 25-14, 25-21 victory on Feb. 9. Bown charted 10 kills on 15 swings with just one error to go with three aces and two blocks for a team-high 15 points. Eczacibasi advances to the Playoff 6 Round and will face VakifGunes Telekom in an all-Turkey home-and-home series set for Feb. 22 to March 3. In the Turkish League, Eczacibasi topped MKE Ankaragucu 21-25, 25-22, 25-15, 25-21 on Feb. 12. Bown did not compete in the contest.
LARSON WITH KAZAN IN RUSSIA: U.S. Women's National Team outside hitter Jordan Larson (Hooper, Neb.) is playing for Dinamo Kazan of the Russia Super League during the 2010-2011 pro club season. She helped Kazan to a 25-16, 25-16, 26-24 victory over Avtodor-METAR on Feb. 13. Kazan, now 11-1 on the season and in second place in the Russia Super League, resumes action on Feb. 16 against Torch and on Feb. 20 against Dinamo-Yantar.
BARBOZA IN RUSSIA WITH KRASNODAR: Cynthia Barboza (Long Beach, Calif.), an outside hitter for the U.S. Women's National Team, is competing for Dinamo Krasnodar of the Russia Super League in the 2010-11 professional club season. Krasnador topped Leningradka 25-14, 25-15, 25-17 on Feb. 13 to improve to 10-2 on the season and remain in third place in the league standings. Barboza, who has been in the starting lineup much of the season, was absent from the active roster for the second consecutive match. Krasnador resumes Super League action on Feb. 16 against Proton, followed by a Feb. 20 contest against Odintsovo. In CEV Cup action on Feb. 10, Krasnodar swept Switzerland's Sagres Neuchatel Universite 25-10, 25-9, 25-15 in the second and final match of a home-and-home series in the Playoff 4 Round. Krasnador advances to the Challenge Round to face Italy's Norda Foppapedretti Bergamo in a home-and-home series played between Feb. 22 and March 3.
SPICER WITH POLAND'S GCB CENTROSTAL BYDGOSZCZ: Nellie Spicer (Barrington, Ill.), a setter for the U.S. Women's National Team, is competing in the Polish professional league this winter for GCB Centrostal Bydgoszrcz. Spicer's side topped AZS Bialystok 25-16, 21-25, 25-18, 25-22 on Feb. 12 in the 11th round. Spicer set her squad to a 40 kill percent while she added one individual kill in the victory. GCB Centrostal Bydgoszrcz will challenge Impel Gwardia Wroclaw on Feb. 18 in the 12th round of the Polish league.
AKINRADEWO WITH TOYOTA IN JAPAN: Foluke Akinradewo (Plantation, Fla.), a middle blocker with the U.S. Women's National Team, is currently playing for Toyota Autobody in Japan's V-League for the 2010-11 professional season. Toyota improved to 9-11 on the season after splitting a pair of matches this past weekend. Toyota stopped NEC 25-16, 25-22, 25-17 on Feb. 12 as Akinradewo pocketed 15 kills on 27 swings to go with three blocks for a total of 18 points. However, JT ended Toyota's three-match win streak with a 21-25, 25-20, 25-18, 25-22 victory on Feb. 13. Akinradewo charted 20 kills on 41 swings in the loss. Toyota returns to the court versus Hisamitsu on Feb. 19 and JT on Feb. 20. Both matches will be played at Saga.
TOM WITH GUANGDONG HENGDA IN CHINA UNDER FORMER U.S. HEAD COACH: Three-time U.S. Olympian Logan Tom (Salt Lake City, Utah) is playing for Guangdong Hengda (also known as Evergrande) in the Chinese club league's top division. Evergrande, led by 2008 U.S. Olympic Games head coach "Jenny" Lang Ping, snapped a two-match losing streak by defeating August Keming Flour Industry on Feb. 12. Tom scored 17 kills on 22 attacks to go with three aces and two blocks for 22 total points. The squad, 9-2 and in second place, takes on Jiangsu East China on Feb. 15 in its next match.
U.S. WOMEN TO HOST JAPAN GIRLS' YOUTH TEAM: The U.S. Women's National Volleyball Team will host the Japanese Girls' Youth National Team in Anaheim, Calif., from Feb. 25 to March 4. The visiting squad, which includes former U.S. Women's National Team volunteer assistant coach Gen Kawakita as an assistant coach, will train at the American Sports Centers and scrimmage against local junior clubs and the U.S. Women's National Training Team at venues in the Southern California Orange County area. A full detailed schedule will be available later this month once all details are determined.


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Leadership does not end with the person who shows the characteristics. Leadership is a journey; Journey is moving from one point to another – Leadership is moving from one level to another; even if you return to the same point you will have a different level of thinking and understanding. Leadership needs followers, it requires dedication and one needs to follow its principles throughout his/her life. This might be the reason why it is a bit complex to understand Leadership as a whole.
We already briefed about Transformational Leadership in earlier post, now it is required to know the constituents of it to practice it well. Transformational Leadership has a long history and it evolved after earlier theories on behavioral, trait, charismatic & situational leadership models. So, it has overlapping with those other theories. Especially, Charisma is one of the components of Transformational Leadership.
There are four components of Transformational Leadership[1]. Some time it is referred as four I's of Transformational Leadership. They are:
1. Idealized Influence(II)
2. Inspirational Motivation (IM)
3. Intellectual Stimulation (IS)
4. Individualized Consideration (IC)
Idealized Influence (II):
Whoever be the writer or presenter, everyone agrees that -'Influence' is the first and foremost out of all leadership qualities. The stress on influence is more with the word 'Idealized'. About Influence –
Maxwell says – "The true measure of leadership is Influence nothing more, nothing less."
You will understand more about Influence when you read Dale Carnegie's "How to Win Friends and Influence People". John P. Kotter dealt in detail on this topic in his book "Power and Influence".
No matter whoever it is, as a Transformational Leader, you have the capability to become the role model for them. You are respected & admired by your followers. They have a separate place for you in their heart. You have absolute trust on your followers and they also have it for you. Your followers understand that you have great potential and determination which will take them to higher levels. You are having the willingness to take risks and be consistent. In any situation, you show high standards of conduct.
Inspirational Motivation (IM):
One or the other way, Inspiration and Motivation are always part of leadership. We know about Inspiration and motivation separately and they are used interchangeably. Let us see their connection in the below highlighted text before we get into Inspirational Motivation.
Motivation really comes down to inspiration. Since motivation comes from within, it is a form of self-inspiration. This process is nurtured by watching others achieve their goals. Most often it is developed by following the example of leaders who do the right thing for people, communicate frequently, empower vigorously, coach regularly, and sacrifice for others.[2]
As a Transformational Leader, you have a vision. You communicate expectations with followers and show optimism in reaching the goal. By your vision, activities and behavior, your followers get motivated and inspired. They all feel team spirit and work enthusiastic as a group. They start demonstrating their commitments towards the goal. Motivation can occur only if two-way communications happen.
Intellectual Stimulation (IS):
"People respond to a challenge because it taps their inner desire to succeed."[2]
This component deals with stimulating followers' analytical skills and problem solving ability. Everyone has the skill to analyze problems in their hand. Each one has a different approach to an issue. As a Transformational Leader, you need to allow followers' to come up with their solution (it may be different from yours) for the same problem. If the issue is not understandable you can help them to re-frame it. Encourage them to approach old issues with new methods to come up with meaningful output. Encourage their creativity and innovation. Don't criticize or don't pass sarcastic comments in public.
Individualized Consideration (IC):
Each individual is different. Followers' have different needs & show different levels of potential. As a Transformational Leader, you need to accept this. You need to develop higher levels of potential. It cannot be achieved by showing the same level of attention. You should take special care of each individual follower's need for achievement and growth. Provide supportive environment. Have clear two-way communication in understanding their concerns. Develop your follower by delegating tasks. Monitor and provide improvement tips on delegated activities and make them produce finer output. This increases followers' confidence and morale.
Closing Notes:
I thought it is worth mentioning a quote and a Q & A from Steven Covey. Following is the quote by Steven Covey on Transformational Leadership:
"The goal of transformational leadership is to "transform" people and organizations in a literal sense – to change them in mind and heart; enlarge vision, insight, and understanding; clarify purposes; make behavior congruent with beliefs, principles, or values; and bring about changes that are permanent, self-perpetuating, and momentum building."
Following is a Q & A from "The Mission Statement That Changed The World", posted on March 3rd, 2008 in Steven Covey's Blog (Link). You can match each of the transformational components with Gandhi's mission statement listed below.
Q: Who is one of your personal heroes?
A: Mahatma Gandhi. Let me read you his personal mission statement:
"Let the first act of every morning be to make the following resolve for the day:
* I shall not fear anyone on Earth.
* I shall fear only God.
* I shall not bear ill will toward anyone.
* I shall not submit to injustice from anyone.
* I shall conquer untruth by truth. And in resisting untruth, I shall put up with all suffering."
– Mahatma Gandhi
1. Transformational Leadership (Second Edition) BY Bernard M. Bass, Ronald E. Riggio, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc.,2006
2. Great Motivation Secrets of Great Leaders BY John Baldoni, McGraw-Hill,2005
My Other posts on Transactional & Transformational Leadership:
1. Transactional Leadership Vs. Transformational Leadership


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We Are All Earthlings is an album collecting Sesame Street songs with an environmental or world unity theme. The album was dedicated to Richard Hunt, who died in 1992.
Track listing
Side One
- We Are All Earthlings - A Boy and the Anything Muppet Animals
Music by Jeff Moss, Lyrics by Sara Compton © 1990
- Good Morning, Mr. Sun - Big Bird
Music and Lyrics by Tony Geiss © 1984
- On My Pond - Kermit the Frog and the Singing, Gargling Fish
Music by Christopher Cerf, Lyrics by Sarah Durkee © 1989
- Love the Ocean - Frankie Monster and Annette Monster
Music by Paul Jacobs, Lyrics by Sarah Durkee © 1989
- Keep the Park Clean for the Pigeons - Bert and the Company and the Singing Pigeons
Music and Lyrics by Tony Geiss © 1989
- (I Believe in) Little Things - Joe Raposo
Music and Lyrics by Joe Raposo © 1972
- I Love Trash - Oscar the Grouch, with Bob
Music and Lyrics by Jeff Moss © 1970
- Stand By Your Can - Hammy Swinette
Music by Christopher Cerf, Lyrics by Belinda Ward © 1990
- No Matter What Your Language - Big Bird and Luis
Music and Lyrics by Jeff Moss © 1972
- One Small Voice - The Kids, Hoots, Prairie Dawn, Elmo and Telly
Music and Lyrics by Jeff Moss © 1989
Side Two
- The Dirtiest Town In the West - The Inhabitants of Dirty Gulch
Music and Lyrics by Joe Romano © 1974
- Every Bit of Litter Hurts - Lillian
Music by Paul Jacobs, Lyrics by Sarah Durkee © 1989
- Once is Not Enough - An Anything Muppet Family
Music by Christopher Cerf, Lyrics by Nancy Sans © 1990
- Skin - Kevin Clash
Music and Lyrics by Jeff Moss © 1990
- Be Kind to Your Neighborhood Monsters - Grover, Cookie Monster, Herry Monster and the Sesame Street Monster Chorus
Music by Sam Pottle, Lyrics by David Axlerod © 1975
- This Song is For the Birds - Biff, Stella and Sully
Music by Christopher Cerf, Lyrics by Christopher Cerf and Norman Stiles © 1990
- Antarctica! - Anything Muppet Travel Agents and Penguins
Music by Christopher Cerf, Lyrics by Christopher Cerf and Emily Perl Kingsley © 1991
- I Don't Want to Live on the Moon - Ernie
Music and Lyrics by Jeff Moss © 1978
- Todos un Pueblo - Luis, with Maria, Elmo, Prairie Dawn, Rosita and Telly
Music by Alan Menken, Lyrics by Nancy Sans and Luis Santeiro © 1990
- Let's Make a Dream - Joe Raposo
Music and Lyrics by Joe Raposo © 1988
- Ivy Austin as Hammy Swinette
- Camille Bonora as Annette Monster and Stella
- Fran Brill as Prairie Dawn
- Kevin Clash as Elmo and Hoots
- Emilio Delgado as Luis
- Jim Henson as Ernie, Kermit the Frog and Marshal McClean
- Sonia Manzano as Maria
- Bob McGrath as Bob
- Jerry Nelson as Biff, Frankie Monster, Herry Monster, the Balladeer in "The Dirtiest Town in the West" and the Boy in "We Are All Earthlings"
- Carmen Osbahr as Rosita
- Frank Oz as Bert, Cookie Monster and Grover
- Marty Robinson as Telly
- Caroll Spinney as Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch
- Lillias White as Lillian
- Introducing the Singing, Gargling Fish: Christopher Cerf, Sarah Durkee and Paul Jacobs
- And Featuring Ada Dyer, Richard Hunt, Paul Jacobs, Yvonne Lewis and Joe Raposo
- Produced by Christopher Cerf
- Arranged and Conducted by David Conner, Paul Jacobs, Stephen J. Lawrence and Joe Raposo
- Singing Pigeons Directed by Dick Maitland
- Music Supervisor: Danny Epstein
- Mixed by Jim Czak at Nola Studios, New York City
- Mastered by Phil Klum at The Master Cutting Room, New York City
- Art Director: Bonnie Erickson
- Cover Painting by Mark Hess
- Executive Producer: Pat Tornborg
- Executive Co-Producer: Meg Prata
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Focus on the Family sent me a voter registration form*. The mailing told me all about which Pro-Life, Pro-Jesus candidates I need to vote for and how I can help even further by signing up my like-minded friends!
As a Pro-Choice, Anti-Jesus lefty, my first thought was, "These people aren't just barking up the wrong tree, these batshit insane religious dolts are dry-humping the earholes of the raccoon family living several forests away. "
But then it occurred to me. I probably got on their mailing list because I have three young children.
This is the problem with atheism.
We are not seen as family friendly. The religious right have equated atheists with evil and the moderate religious believers follow right along. What is worse, is that we as a group have done nothing, absolutely nothing, to fight this misperception, this utter demonization of non-belief (aka sanity or aka book reader).
American Atheist are our most visible organization and their output is snarky, immature billboards and screwing around with 9/11 victims and families.
Just because you have a valid point doesn't mean you won't end up coming off like a tremendous jack-hole anyway.
9/11 was a direct result of religion. It is sadly ironic to have a crucifix memorial on the site, it's kind of like "Let's put up a symbol of admiration to the very mind disease that caused this tragedy".
However, there is a more effective way to make that point than Am Atheist are doing. They are once again feeding into the religious right's portrayal of atheists as some kind of evil zealous nitwits. Thank you American Atheist for making us all look awful!
* this Focus on the Family "voter form" seemed borderline illegal. It seemed to infer I was not registered to vote! I wonder how many fall for it.
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/Nod - you've outlined the reason that I don't belong to any national organizations and have removed myself from several of the more popular blog sites. We're never going to affect change if we keep aiming to divide ourselves thorugh ill will and all they're doing with this lawsuit and billboard campaign, is giving the fundies another enemy to aim their vitriol at... good job!
Shouldn't we be taking care of one another and our own communities while thumbing our noses at bad behavior and ill wishing. Shouldn't we be showing ourselves as a force in the world worth investing in rather than engaging in sophomoric taunting via billboards and internet forums? Are we not just playing right into the media's desire for a 'big bad wolf' to strike 'fear' into viewers hearts and 'pump up' ratings when we engage in stunts like the musem and billboard debacle? Why are we not pushing to raise money for education, especially science and mathematics right alongside the likes of Neil DeGrasse Tyson rather than playing heckle the heckler as if we're all at some midsummer renfaire? We're supposedly the more intellectual crowd, or so I'm told... we've let the media turn this into an 'us against them' debate, when it's an equality issue, it's the oldest trick in the book and our supposed 'spokespersons' (who appointed these folks to speak for us?) have seemingly fallen over themselves to land in it face first.
As for the Focus on the Family mailer, I think I'd be hard pressed to resist the urge to mail it back to them with some Planned Parenthood and NARAL Pro brochures, with a big "THANK YOU for REMOVING me from your mailing list!" 3X5 card.....
That Planned Parenthood idea is perfect! I am so doing that right this moment. Thanks!
LOL it tickles me that someone else is doing this to them, not that I ever expect them to get the message, but it's fun to poke the bag with a stick and see if anything falls out anyway!
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SEAL from Monroeville dies in Afghanistan hostage rescue
Nicolas Checque was on mission to save Dr. Dilip Joseph
A Navy SEAL was killed during a weekend rescue mission in Afghanistan that freed an American doctor who had been abducted by the Taliban.
The Department of Defense identified the victim as Petty Officer 1st Class Nicolas Checque, 28, of Monroeville, and said he was assigned to "an East Coast-based Naval Special Warfare unit."
An anonymous Pentagon official told The Associated Press that the fallen service member was a part of SEAL Team Six, the same unit that killed Osama bin Laden, but did not know if he was involved in the bin Laden operation last year.
Checque had been living in Virginia Beach, according to a report by WAVY in Virginia, but he was a graduate of Norwin High School in North Huntingdon, Westmoreland County, where he was an honors student and member of the wresting team.
"He was hardheaded in a good way. He would never let an inch go, always took everything given to him and worked hard for everything in life," said wrestling teammate Michael Choby.
Former Physics teacher Doug Knipple said Checque was moved by the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
"He was very upset that his country had been attacked, and he was determined to defend his family, his friends and his country," said Knipple.
Checque's former wrestling coach, Rich Ginther, said he would never forget him.
"You remember certain things about athletes through the years, and that's something pretty special. Here we are, 10 years later, and he's done a lot for this country. He wasn't the most talented, or the strongest, but he had a lot of heart," Ginther said. "I remember state champs and qualifiers, but this is one I'll never forget."
Assistant coach Larry Hohman said he remembered Checque's desire and drive, even as a teen, to become a Navy SEAL.
"He said, 'I know I might not get in the lineup or do anything on the mat, but I know this will prepare me to get on the SEAL team," Hohman said.
Former teammate and current Norwin wrestling coach Todd Schuchert said Checque will serve as an inspiration to the school's young wrestlers.
"The things we do here seem so important, but whenever you take a step back and look at the grand scheme of things, what he's doing and what he did were really quite remarkable," said Schuchert.
Checque received many honors during his military career, including the Navy Commendation Medal and the Bronze Star.
Military officials said the abductee -- Dr. Dilip Joseph, of Colorado Springs, Colo. -- was rescued early Sunday in eastern Afghanistan after intelligence showed he was in imminent danger of injury or possible death.
Joseph, the adviser for Colorado Springs-based relief group Morning Star Development, was abducted Wednesday with two other aid workers in eastern Kabul province.
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta released this statement:
"I want to commend the U.S Special Operations team who rescued an American citizen captured by the Taliban in Afghanistan. I was deeply saddened to learn that a U.S. service member was killed in the operation, and I also want to extend my condolences to his family, teammates and friends. The special operators who conducted this raid knew they were putting their lives on the line to free a fellow American from the enemy's grip. They put the safety of another American ahead of their own, as so many of our brave warriors do every day and every night. In this fallen hero, and all of our special operators, Americans see the highest ideals of citizenship, sacrifice and service upheld. The torch of freedom burns brighter because of them."


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IDIOPATHIC UVEITIS (1.5 year old shepherd/husky mix breed)
This dog was presented blind due to the associated serous retinal detachment. In addition to the conjunctival hyperemia, both irises had severe swelling and vascular engorgement. The pupil margin is irregular due posterior synechia and pigment deposits are present on the anterior lens capsule. A +3 aqueous flare was present.


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USPTO Issues Four Patents to Stevens Researchers for Healthcare, Communications and Management Inventions
As The Innovation University®, creating new knowledge through cutting-edge research to benefit society is a core mission of Stevens. Every day, Stevens researchers – including distinguished faculty members, graduate students and undergraduate students – work to achieve solutions to pressing global problems by pursuing scientific breakthroughs and technological advances in engineering, the sciences, business and other fields.
In the past academic year, innovative and novel inventions borne from university research activities were transformed into intellectual property with real economic value, as Stevens researchers – aided by the Stevens Office of Innovation & Entrepreneurship (OIE) – were issued four patents by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). The inventions will improve the outcomes of spinal surgery patients, help corporations implement the highest potential ideas from employees, advance the treatment of HIV and AIDS, and improve transmission of high bandwidth data communications networks.
"A key thrust of Office of Innovation and Entrepreneurship is to educate and provide intellectual property awareness training to all Stevens faculty, research staff, employees and students," said David Peacock, director of intellectual property management at Stevens. "Anyone can have a good idea. We stress the importance of protecting that idea and the value it may have by securing appropriate intellectual property protection, be it a patent, copyright, trademark or trade secret."
One of this year's patents was issued to Industry Professor of Biomedical Engineering Dr. Vikki Hazelwood and Assistant Professor Dr. Antonio Valdevit, both of the Department of Chemistry, Chemical Biology and Biomedical Engineering. They spearheaded research which led to the invention of a "spinal distractor and measuring device," which allows for more precise disc placement during spinal surgery.
The invention uses sensors and a measurement rod to provide feedback to the spinal surgeons about the size of the spaces between vertebrae and the magnitude of hand force applied to the device by the surgeon. Specifically for use during lumbar fusion surgery or total disc replacement surgery, the invention enables spinal surgeons to more accurately size and place intervertebral implants, reducing the instance of serious complications that can result of these procedures, such as reduced range of motion, the need for subsequent surgeries, or even nicked arteries or spinal cords which can cause paralysis or death.
"Sizing is a common problem surgeons encounter when putting in a spinal spacer for patients who require infusion," said Valdevit. "This device allows you to distract in parallel and also get an indication of height in both the back and front so the surgeon can fit the right implant."
Professor A.K. Ganguly, also of the Department of Chemistry, Chemical Biology and Biomedical Engineering, was issued a patent for his discovery of a novel class of HIV-1 protease inhibitors (HIV-PIs) used in the treatment of AIDS. Although HIV-PIs have been shown to be an effective therapy in fighting against HIV, widespread use has caused some strains to become drug-resistant, so the discovery of a new class of HIV-PIs is a crucial advancement in AIDS research.
Dr. Peter Koen, associate professor of technology management, was issued a patent for his invention of an enterprise "idea market system" for recording, managing, improving and evaluating ideas by using a stock-market algorithm to identify the best ideas for a crowd-sourced community. The system enables participants to launch an "idea IPO," invest in other proposals, and track the "value" of an idea through an instant price-setting mechanism. The purpose of the invention is to streamline the collaboration and innovation process, build community engagement, and maximize the potential that an idea will bring a positive return on investment to the enterprise. Koen founded the company ID8 Systems based on this idea.
Finally, Dr. Kishore Pochiraju, director of the Design and Manufacturing Institute and associate professor of mechanical engineering, was issued a patent, with two Stevens students, for the methodology and devices that minimize data transmission delay, or latency, between sensors and monitoring/control equipment. In applications requiring real-time data from the sensors, delay in communication networks drastically reduces the utility of the sensed data. Their invention actively monitors and reduces the data latency by altering the sensor resolution in real-time. Devices incorporating this method have applications in the fields of security, industrial process control and entertainment.
"In security monitoring applications, delays in sensor data communications translate to reduced response times and inaccurate situational awareness," said Pochiraju, who has also applied the invention to industrial applications and is extending his research to online entertainment. "Delays in communication networks are unpredictable as they depend upon the traffic or environmental conditions. This invention reduces the delay by reducing the amount of data transmitted."
With 30 patents issued in the past six years, Peacock said the Stevens pipeline is strong and growing stronger.
"The quality of the Stevens faculty and research collaborations in key strategic areas has enabled Stevens to build and enrich its patent portfolio," Peacock said. "We are now seeing a significant increase in industry relationships and potential licensees as a result of these innovations."


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Harry Styles of One Direction Has a New Tattoo
Harry Styles of One Direction is an ink addict. The singer, recently split from Taylor Swift, has added to his ever-growing tattoo collection. His latest piece of art? A butterfly, smack dab in the middle of his chest, just below the nipples.
Styles recently had a ship tattooed on his arm and has a random collection of stuff sprinkled all over his body. This one looks to be the most well done, though!


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For your eyes only....Johnny Cueto in Action
Cueto is ready and he NEEDS to be in the rotation out of spring training. He's got electric stuff and tremendous command. If he breaks camp with the Reds, there's no doubt in my mind that he would be the Reds second best starting pitcher behind only the great Aaron Harang. Cueto has comparable stuff to Homer, but his command makes him much more effective. Johnny could be the pivotal man for the Reds and their chances for success in 2008.
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I am right with you, Cueto has just continued to impress with every outing i have seen if he doesn't make the team at the end of camp then that will answer my questions about Baker for sure. It amazes me that there hasn't been much more talk about him, everyone seems to be focusing on Homer and his struggles, but maybe thats helped Johnny kind of fly under the radar. I dont know. Any way what do you think the chances are he would make the rotation sitting behind Harang? I always saw Bronson as a number 3 even when we first traded for him.
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It is interesting to see Homer still more highly regarded than Johnny. At the very least, they need to be ranked equally. However, it may indeed be better for Johnny, as he hasn't had the expectations to live up to like Homer.
It may also be good for Johnny to slide past Homer, as it might help motivate Bailey a bit.
I'd say that Cueto would be worthy of being our #2 starter, but Arroyo would like hold on to that title in name. I'd imagine that Cueto actually gets slotted in as the #5 starter.
Either way, it would be a big victory for us just to have Cueto in the rotation to start the year. I wouldn't have expected the Reds to be so forward thinking on the subject, so that would be encouraging.
Lark - what do you see the rotation settling down to. I just don't think Homer has earned it yet. After Affeldt's terrible outing, I'm going with Harang, Arroyo, Fogg, Volquez, and Cueto. If we're going to have 2 rookies in the rotation, I think we need Fogg to eat up some innings.ReplyDelete
Boy, Affeldt was practically handed the job and still couldn't secure it. It doesn't seem like Dusty can give him much more time.
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Honestly, I don't know what the rotation will be. I waffle back and forth about it, but there is such a new dynamic in Cincinnati that it's difficult to say how it'll play out.
If I had to guess by reading the tea leaves, I'd say it'll be:
1) A.Harang
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3) M.Belisle
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5) J.Cueto
I don't know what that means for Homer, but I think Cueto has secured a spot. It doesn't make sense for the Reds to sign Fogg if they aren't going to use him in the rotation. And, oddly enough, the Reds still seem very high on Matt Belisle, though I'm not entirely sure what he's done to justify their faith.
If I had to guess, I'd say Volquez goes to the bullpen and Homer goes to triple-A until the Reds tire of the substandard production of either Belisle or Fogg.
It'll be very interesting to have Volquez's power arm in the bullpen and I just don't think the Reds and Dusty are going to be comfortable having two rookie pitchers in rotation out of spring training.
And, if it's an either or, I think it's Cueto over Homer. Anyway, just my $.02.
I was discussing Cueto's mechanics with someone the other day and he thought there were real similarities with Tom Gordon. However, the more I watch Cueto, the more I see similarities with Pedro Martinez. It's in that electric follow through. And, any similarities to Pedro are always good!!ReplyDelete


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