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Ann Marie Ellinwood
Missing since April 15, 1978 from Corvallis, Benton County, Oregon
Classification: Endangered Missing
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Ann Ellinwood was last seen April 15, 1978, in Pioneer Park in Corvallis. On Saturday April 15, 1978 Ann Ellinwood disappeared while participating in Corvallis' March of Dimes walk-a-thon. She was a seventh-grader at Highland View Junior High at the time. The course took walkers along a bike path by the Marys River. At about 13.00, Ann, complaining that her foot hurt, told her two friends to go on without her; she would head to a checkpoint at Gill Coliseum. She was last seen on the path near the Pioneer Park ball field, just across Highway 34 from the coliseum.
At 17:15, Ann's parents reported her missing after she failed to return home.
Witnesses described seeing a red pickup pulling a trailer near the area where Ann was last seen.
A suspect, and known sex offender was brought in and questioned by police, but he committed suicide a week later stalling the investigation.
Investigators Corvallis Police Department
If you have any information concerning this case, please contact:
Detective Karin Stauder
Corvallis Police Department
Agency Case Number: 78-2445
NCMEC Case Number: NCMC1167249
Please refer to this number when contacting any agency with information regarding this case.
Source Information:
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Namus MP#8105
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NEW ORLEANS UP CLOSE; Antebellum Grandeur by the River
By CAROL PLUM
Published: August 14, 1988
The River Road, which follows the Mississippi to New Orleans, evokes the elegance and prosperity of this part of Louisiana before the Civil War. The road was once lined with grand homes and working plantations, live oaks and magnolias. The plantations shipped their crops on the Mississippi, and the river traffic carried to the inhabitants news of European customs and fashions, which influenced the decoration of their homes.
The Civil War brought an end to this prosperity, and many homes subsequently fell into decay. Troops often used these fine houses as headquarters and treated them roughly. Fortunately, many of the houses still standing along the River Road have been restored. Some, furnished with period decor, are open to visitors and some take overnight guests, but most are private homes whose exteriors are worth seeing from the road.
Many of the houses built along the Mississippi in the 19th century were designed as raised cottages. The ground floor typically housed service rooms and sometimes the dining room. The main floor was above, often with a terrace, called a gallery, running the length of the house's facade. This construction provided natural air-conditioning, kept the house relatively free of insects and protected the finer furnishings from flooding.
Following is a selection of homes within 100 miles of New Orleans.
Destrehan Plantation, built in 1787, is the oldest surviving plantation home in south Louisiana. The original owner was Robert Antoine de Logny, a French planter. The house is built with a second-floor gallery running along the front and two sides, and two-story Doric columns. The original construction of cypress timbers sealed with bousillage-entre-poteaux (a mud-and-moss combination) has been preserved. The house is furnished with European and early American pieces and paintings. The home is set on four acres among trees, including four live oaks.
Destrehan Plantation is in Destrehan about 22 miles from New Orleans.
Hours and admission: 10 A.M. to 4 P.M. daily; tours of the house begin on the hour and the half-hour, with the last tour at 4 P.M. Closed New Year's Day, Mardi Gras, Easter, Thanksgiving and Christmas. Admission, $4; $3 for those aged 12 through 17 and those 62 and older, $2 for children 6 to 11.
More information: Post Office Box 5, Destrehan, La. 70047; 504-764-9315.
San Francisco Plantation House, built in 1856 under the supervision of Edmond Bozonier Marmillion, whose family owned several estates in the area, was decorated by his son Valsin. The home was restored in 1977 and is furnished with period pieces, selected on the basis of inventories of the original contents. The house is best known for its ornately painted decorative ceilings. The exterior is painted a violet blue. On either side of the home is a cistern with brick foundation and blue dome, and there are eight acres behind.
San Francisco Plantation House is on State Route 44 in Reserve, about 45 miles west of New Orleans.
Hours and admission: 10 A.M. to 4 P.M. daily; closed New Year's Day, Mardi Gras, Easter, Thanksgiving and Christmas. Admission is $5; $3.50 for those aged 12 through 17, $2.25 for children 6 through 11 and free for children under 6. A small increase is anticipated by Sept. 1.
More information: Post Office Box AX, Reserve, La. 70084; 504-535-2341.
Oak Alley Plantation was named for the double row of live oaks forming a lane between the house and the Mississippi River, which were planted some 100 years before the house was completed in 1839. It was restored in the 1920's by Andrew Stewart, a cotton broker, and his wife, Josephine. Cabins built in the late 1800's have been renovated, air-conditioned and decorated with country furniture and are available for overnight stays.
Oak Alley, on State Route 18 in Vacherie, is about 60 miles from New Orleans.
Hours, admission and rates: Open for tours 9 A.M. to 5:30 P.M. March to October; 9 A.M. to 5 P.M. November through February; closed New Year's Day, Thanksgiving and Christmas. Admission to the house is $5; $2.50 for those aged 13 through 18, $1.50 for children 6 through 12. Accommodations cost from $60 to $75, double, a night and include Continental breakfast.
More information: Oak Alley Foundation, Route 2, Box 10, Vacherie, La. 70090; 504-523-4351.
Tezcuco Plantation, a raised cottage built in 1855 by Benjamin Tureaud, is named for a lake in Mexico. The house is known for plasterwork friezes and medallions; the doors and windows are decorated in faux bois (cypress treated to look like pine, which was fashionable in those days). The outside galleries are ornately decorated in wrought iron. Some of the buildings were moved from other plantations and reconstructed on the property. The slave quarters, originally one large room, have been restored and several rooms created to accommodate overnight guests. Some of the guest rooms have fireplaces and kitchens and all are furnished with period pieces. On the grounds are live oaks, a gazebo and various outbuildings, including a chapel and a country store. The main house, restored in 1982, contains a collection of period furniture, art, crystal and pottery.
Tezcuco Plantation is on State Route 44 in Darrow, about 60 miles from New Orleans.


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One of my favorite blouses was too snug in the underarm area, and the thought of taking out the sleeve and altering it in the conventional way was not appealing. I'm familiar with the simple crotch-lowering trick in which you turn one leg inside the other and carefully sew a narrow seam lower than the original to increase the body space. I decided to try a similar procedure on the blouse underarm; after all, it's the same principle. It worked like magic. It was fast and easy, and the results are perfect. The blouse is now comfortable, and you can't tell it was altered.
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St. Croix County Fair's Battle of the Bands will take place on Friday evening, July 19, at the St. Croix County Fairgrounds in Glenwood City, under the Croix Court Tent.
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Some interesting facts on the incidence of cancer in the US –
- Cancer incidence in the US is high. One in three women and one in two men will get cancer in their lifetimes. One in four will die of it. "Since 1990, there have been approximately 5 million cancer deaths [in the US]" (American Cancer Society: Cancer Facts & Figures – 1998).
- According to Sandra Steingraber, the incidence of all types of cancer combined rose 49.3 percent between 1950 and 1991. Steingraber says about 40 percent of people living in the US (38.3 percent of women and 48.2 percent of men) will contract cancer sometime in our lifespans. Cancer is the leading cause of death among US Americans aged thirty-five to sixty-four (Steingraber, p. 40). Cancer is the second leading cause of death among children (after accidents) (Rachel's Environmental Health Weekly #599).
- Some forms of cancer are receding, but others are increasing. Cancers of the lung, breast, prostate, colon and rectum have all become more frequent. Leukemia and brain cancer are increasing among children.
- Some people tend to dismiss statements about increased cancer incidence by attributing it to smoking. About 30% of cancer deaths in the US are caused by smoking. If lung cancer is excluded, writes Steingraber, overall cancer incidence rose 35 percent (1950-1991). Dr. Samuel Epstein, MD states that 75 percent of increased cancer incidence since 1950 occurred in sites other than the lung (The Ecologist, Vol. 28, No. 2, March/April 1998, p.72).
- There is widespread belief that cancer incidence is increasing because people live longer. This is the trade-off, we are told, for longer life expectancy. If this were the case, only old people would get cancer. Epstein points out, however, that cancer incidence rates are age-adjusted ('age-adjustment' is a statistical technique which removes the effects of age distribution and allows researchers to focus on the risk factors). Furthermore, National Cancer Institute figures show that childhood cancers increased by 21.3 percent in US whites between 1950 and 1988 (cited in The Ecologist, p.53).
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Confessions of the World's Best Father
In his new collection of hilarious and poignant family portraits, "Confessions of The World's Best Father," Dave Engledow and his little daughter Alice Bee depict one parent's heroic journey from clueless new dad to World's Best Father.
Confessions of the World's Best Fatherof
There can be only one 'World's Best Father'
In his new collection of hilarious family portraits, "Confessions of the World's Best Father," photographer/author Dave Engledow and his little daughter, Alice Bee, depict one parent's heroic journey from clueless new dad to World's Best Father.Dave Engledow / Dave Engledow
Confessions of the World's Best Fatherof
Day 66
Apparently, fathering is not going to be quite as easy or glamorous as it looks on TV. These past nine weeks since Alice Bee arrived in our house have provided a nonstop barrage of crying, peeing and pooping at all hours of the day and night, wreaking total havoc on my daily routine.
Alice Bee's constant need for attention has also prevented a proper replenishing of the groceries, meaning we were totally out of the coffee creamer this morning. Luckily for me, when I checked the back of the fridge I discovered a cache of milk that Jen had bottled up for Alice Bee. I'll have to ask her where she bought the stuff – it was a bit sweeter and thicker than our regular milk, but my coffee was amazing.
Confessions of the World's Best Fatherof
Day 226
We have now been on our own for six days, and this morning I noticed that Alice Bee was quite a bit grungier than Jen normally keeps her.
Earlier in the week, I perfected a technique I was sure would revolutionize diapering – by simply adding a new diaper on top of the old one each morning, I had managed to keep my hands poop-free for days. However, I was now beginning to suspect that I had merely been prolonging the inevitable.
Since Jen also neglected to leave instructions for me on exactly how to bathe a baby, I had to figure it out on my own. I vaguely recalled reading somewhere that babies are unsafe in as little as two inches of water, which obviously ruled out using the bathtub. Luckily, I remembered that our washing machine had something called a "delicate cycle," which seemed entirely appropriate for someone with such smooth skin. Stripping Alice Bee down to the original diaper, I managed to get her sparkling clean just in time for Jen's return.Dave Engledow / Dave Engledow
Confessions of the World's Best Fatherof
Day 248
This morning the TV alerted us to the fact that a big weather system is headed our way. I've always loved stormy days, and I'm really excited about sharing this new experience with Alice Bee.
I spent the morning going over all the details of how to prepare our home for the impending storm and divvying up the assignments. I sent Jen to the store to buy staples (batteries, mayonnaise, bottled water and toilet paper) while Alice Bee and I stayed behind to take care of tasks around the house.
I easily completed my duties getting the inside of the house ready, and now that the rain is beginning to fall, I have a wonderful surprise ready for Alice Bee: a warm cup of hot cocoa, her favorite stuffed toy and a cozy blanket are here waiting for her. I sure hope she shows up soon.Dave Engledow / Dave Engledow
Confessions of the World's Best Fatherof
Day 258
I love s'mores. Even before becoming a father myself, I used to daydream about the pure joy of introducing my progeny to the gooey, chocolaty, graham-crackery decadence of a perfectly crafted s'more. But Jen insists that Alice Bee is still too young to go camping.
Today, however, I had an epiphany – I could teach Alice Bee how to make s'mores from the safety of our own backyard using charcoal briquettes instead of building a dangerous campfire.
I was so proud – she quickly figured out how to spear the marshmallows with the pointed stick I carved for her. However, the charcoal fire she built was not anywhere near big enough to get a proper char on her marshmallows, providing me the perfect opportunity to educate her about the magical properties of lighter fluid.Dave Engledow / Dave Engledow
Confessions of the World's Best Fatherof
Day 317
Halloween! According to Jen, Alice Bee is not yet old enough to go trick-or-treating with me; however her small size provided an invaluable advantage in helping to prepare our family's jack-o'-lantern this year.
The part I've always hated the most about carving a jack-o'-lantern is cleaning out all of those slimy, stringy pumpkin guts. Fortunately, Alice Bee fits in there perfectly and had no problems getting the inside of that pumpkin as smooth as … well, as her own bottom.Dave Engledow / Dave Engledow
Confessions of the World's Best Fatherof
Day 393
Alice Bee has become obsessed with the toilet, but unfortunately not for its intended purpose. No, her fascination stems from seeing how many things she can splash into the water before Jen or I discover what she's up to.
I should have known something was going on this afternoon when she readily agreed to go down for a nap without any fussing or fighting at all. I think I was just so relieved to actually have a bit of alone time that I didn't think twice about how odd it was that she was actually cooperating at the normally reviled naptime.
But sure enough, I hadn't been in the shower longer than a minute before hearing a splashy commotion; peeking out, I discovered that she had filled the bowl with all of my most important things.Dave Engledow / Dave Engledow
Confessions of the World's Best Fatherof
Day 414
Divvying up the chores has turned out not to be such a big hassle. The yard looks great thanks to Jen's mowing, and I still get to read the sports page thanks to Alice Bee's help with the iron.Dave Engledow / Dave Engledow
Confessions of the World's Best Fatherof
Day 498
Jen caught Alice Bee playing with the toaster again last night. After another 30-minute lecture about how I am "10 months behind" on my promise to baby-proof the house, Jen finished by directing me to, at the very least, teach Alice Bee that the toaster is not a toy.
Taking Jen's directive to heart, this morning I carefully showed Alice Bee how to plug the toaster in to the socket, walked her through how to drop the bread in and even how to perfectly butter each slice when it pops up.
I figured she'd enjoy this process, but I had no clue that she'd take the job so seriously. Apparently, her quality-control protocol requires her to test each piece before putting it on the plate. I have no idea where she got the inspiration to do that.Dave Engledow / Dave Engledow
Confessions of the World's Best Fatherof
Day 527
Jen has finally gotten fed up with having to buy new clothes every time Alice Bee and I do the ironing, so we're switching chores and I'm in charge of the lawn this week.
I know from my own traumatic childhood experiences that a gas-powered mower is definitely not the sort of thing an 18-month-old can safely operate, so I was truly delighted to discover that the mower we own is powered by electricity. Alice Bee has been operating electrical devices for months now, so running this new piece of equipment should provide little challenge for her.
It was pretty hot today, and Alice spent a good portion of the morning whining and procrastinating. I finally laid down the law and told her that I wouldn't give her any milk until the lawn was perfect. She ultimately got the yard looking gorgeous, but not before I had used the last bit of milk for my coffee. I think Alice Bee learned a valuable lesson today about the importance of finishing tasks in a timely fashion.Dave Engledow / Dave Engledow
Confessions of the World's Best Fatherof
Day 580
Alice Bee loves Pizza Night. And while Jen is away, I've been teaching her every aspect of making the perfect pie. Last week, I showed her how to toss the dough and make homemade tomato sauce, and the week before that she mastered using the peel to quickly get the pizza in and out of the oven.
Tonight we're going to work on presentation – I know Alice Bee is really excited about finally getting to use the shiny pizza cutter (or, as she calls it, "da circle knife") that has fascinated her since she was a baby.Dave Engledow / Dave Engledow
Confessions of the World's Best Fatherof
Day 593
I've decided that it's time for Alice Bee to start mastering a sport. And with only four years until Rio, Alice Bee's really gonna need to get over her fear of heights if she's to have any shot at all of making the 2016 diving team.Dave Engledow / Dave Engledow
Confessions of the World's Best Fatherof
Day 600
We have a new sport! While playing in the crawl-space earlier this week, Alice Bee discovered an old set of weights, and we are now in our fifth day of training for the clean and jerk. I'm pretty sure Jen will approve of this new event. I don't have to spend any more money out of the joint account to fund it, and since there's no water involved, our hardwood floors should be safe from any additional damage.Dave Engledow / Dave Engledow
Confessions of the World's Best Fatherof
Day 648
Unbeknownst to me, Alice Bee has secretly been posting our family photos online for several months now. Apparently, the images went viral last week and have now been seen all over the world.
Things got so crazy that Alice Bee and I were even invited to appear on the TODAY show earlier this week. Meeting Matt and Savannah was pretty cool, but our appearance was marred by Alice Bee's continued attempts to escape the stage during the live broadcast.
Now that we're safely home from NYC, I am having Alice Bee review the video of her performance and write a five-hundred word essay on how to comport herself on national TV.
Excerpted from "Confessions of the World's Best Father," copyright (c) 2014 by Dave Engledow. Used with permission by Gotham Books, a division of The Penguin Group, all rights reserved.Dave Engledow / Dave Engledow


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This paper presents a review on recent progress in quantitative structure-property relationship (QSPR) studies of surfactants and applications of various molecular descriptors. QSPR studies on critical micelle concentration (cmc) and surface tension (γ) of surfactants are introduced. Studies on charge distribution in ionic surfactants by quantum chemical calculations and its effects on the structures and properties of the colloids of surfactants are also reviewed. The trends of QSPR studies on cloud point (for nonionic surfactants), biodegradation potential and some other properties of surfactants are evaluated.
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On the other hand, close attention has been given to the impact on the environment, especially on soils and waters, caused by the use of large quantities of surfactants [
Consequently, studies on quantitative structure-property relationships (QSPRs) of surfactants and understanding of the effects of molecular structures on their functions and properties are becoming increasingly important [
In chemistry, the critical micelle concentration (cmc) is defined as the concentration of surfactants above which micelles are spontaneously formed. Upon addition of surfactants into a system, they will initially partition into the interface, reducing the system free energy by lowering the energy of the interface and by removing the hydrophobic parts of the surfactant from contacts with water. When the surface coverage by the surfactants increases and the surface free energy (surface tension) has decreased, the surfactants start aggregating into micelles, thus again decreasing the system free energy by decreasing the contact area of hydrophobic parts of the surfactant with water. Upon reaching cmc, any further addition of surfactants will just increase the number of micelles (in the ideal case). As a measurable physical quantity for sudden change in surfactant solution, cmc can be used as a gauge for the surface activity of surfactants. In the beginning of development of QSAR models for surfactants, the length of lipophilic chain of surfactants was mainly considered, e.g., Becher
Using the CODESSA program, QSAR models have been developed by Huibers
Multiple linear regression (MLR) analyses of molecular descriptors and the logarithm of the cmc were carried out using the heuristic algorithm, and the best model obtained is:
For the study of anionic surfactants, a dataset of 119 samples was selected, and molecular structural types under research are shown in
When the hydrophilic moiety is sulfate or sulfonate, change in cmc only depends on the hydrophobic moiety, and the change in the hydrophilic moiety is small and even a fragment descriptor is not needed for this. The regression equation is [
In this model, the three descriptors are related to variation of the hydrophobic moiety of the surfactants. KH1 is the first-order Kier & Hall molecular connectivity index and is related to molecular surface domain and volume. KS3 is the third-order Kier & Hall molecular connectivity index, which contains the information for molecular shape. This index has a higher value for molecules with a straight chain than for those with a branched chain. HGP is hydrophobic group position on the longest chain, which simply describes the carbon number attached to the hydrophilic moiety. This descriptor explains the phenomenon that the cmc increases as the head group moves farther from the α-carbon position.
It is known that dissolving of a surfactant in water and micelle formation is an exothermic process due to free energy reduction in the system [
The model for the anionic surfactants is [
The correlation coefficients (R2) between the calculated values with the above two models and the experimental values are 0.9965 [
Utilizing MLR and an artificial neural network (ANN) algorithm, Katritzky
A QSPR study was also performed using wavelet neural network (WNM) to relate the structure of 94 cationic Gemini surfactants to their cmc [
Considering the fact that relationship between free energy change in micellization process and the nucleus structure is related to hydrophobic fraction of surfactants, Robert
A variety of properties for surfactants are related to charge distribution in their molecules. A recent study showed that in colloidal dispersion systems (mainly system with low particle concentrations and high surface charges) there existed a long-range force purely from electrostatic interactions between particles in addition to short-ranged forces caused by van de Waals interaction [
For ionic surfactants, net charge carried on the headgroup of the molecules has been normally treated as a point charge, although it is factually located on several atoms in the hydrophilic groups and even enter tails of surfactant molecules (see
Using an
Huibers has recently studied charge distribution in common ionic surfactants using four widely accepted semiempirical methods (MINDO/3, AM1, PM3 and MNDO/d), and developed QSAR models for some properties of these surfactants (
NMR data from Zhao and Fung [
Furthermore, using the Huckel molecular orbital theory, Jacobs and Anacker have computed charges on hydrophilic group for decyl pyridinium chloride [
In the meantime, it should be realized that the above calculations are based on gaseous-phase models. Although no environmental effects are considered in the calculations and only pure charge distribution is provided, this can be used to compare different surfactants. To consider the environment's perturbation on charge distribution,
To study interactions between molecules, some researchers have used solvent-accessible molecular surface area as a descriptor. There have been some reports on descriptors for molecular surface area, atomic charges and charge scaling factors and their applications [
The geometric model for CPSA descriptor is to utilize overlapping of hard spheres defined by the van de Waals radii of atoms. The calculation for this descriptor was performed with a UNIX system (Sun4/1102) and ADAPT software. Solvent-accessible area calculation adopted SAVOL algorithm developed by Pearlman [
Surfactants can to some extent balance interfacial unsaturated force fields to reduce surface tension. Different structures of surfactants and the resulted difference in intermolecular interactions can be understood at different levels. The Wang group has focused on parameters of molecular structure of surfactants [
Their chosen data set of γ0 contains 30 diverse structures of nonionic surfactants and molecular descriptors ΔHf, ET and D are obtained from calculations using MNDO-MOPAC 7.0. Through energy and electronic parameters, this model set up indirect QSAR between surface tension and electron motion.
The IIcmccal values calculated with this model is highly related to the observed values, and the regression equation is as follows:
The cloud point of a nonionic surfactant is the temperature where the mixture starts to phase separate and two phases appear, thus becoming cloudy. This behavior is characteristics of non-ionic surfactants containing polyoxyethylene chains, which exhibit reverse solubility
The squared correlation coefficient for this model was R2 = 0.9948. Huibers
In 2003, Yuan
In 2006, Ren
More recently, QSPR analysis has been directed to a series of pure nonionic surfactants containing linear alkyl, cyclic alkyl and alkyl phenyl ethoxylates [
QSPR studies with respect to cmc, charge distribution and surface tension prediction of surfactants have received a high attention as described above. However biodegradation potential of surfactants should be another highly important issue as this decides their environmental impact. Concerning biodegradation of surfactants, the reported studies include effects of alkyl chain structure (straight and branched chains) and position of branching in the chain,
Biodegradation with respect to surfactants is defined as primary biodegradation, ultimate biodegradation and ready aerobic biodegradability. Primary biodegradation means the structural change (transformation) of a surfactant by microorganisms resulting in the loss of its surface-active properties due to the degradation of the parent substance. Ultimate biodegradation means the level of biodegradation achieved when the surfactant is completely used by micro-organisms resulting in its breakdown to inorganic end-products such as carbon dioxide, water and mineral salts of any other elements present (mineralization) and new microbial cellular constituents (biomass). Ready aerobic biodegradability is an arbitrary classification of surfactants which have passed certain specified screening tests for ultimate biodegradability; these tests are so stringent that it is assumed that such [
PFC surfactants can resist degradation by acids, bases, oxidants, reductants, photolytic processes, microbes and metabolic processes [
Structural, electronic, and thermodynamic properties of linear perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS) and its trifluoromethyl-branched isomers (
The higher accessibility of the LUMO orbital in these branched anions implicates that they have a higher probability of reacting with free radicals compared with the linear counterpart. This finding is in agreement with the experimental observation that only the branched PFOS isomers were susceptible to reductive defluorination by reduced vitamin B12 as previously reported. The relative stability of the linear and branched PFOS in their different forms computed by comparing their calculated Gibbs free energy showed that 1-CF3–, 6-CF3–, and linear PFOS are the most favorable structures in terms of chemical stability.
In summary, QSPR studies on degradation of surfactants are far from complete, and further studies should be initiated especially on fluorosilicone surfactants and silicone surfactants. Due to their higher degradation potential than those of PFOS and PFOA, they belong to a promising direction, where QSPR method can be actively applied for studying their degradation-related properties.
It is well known that surfactants are typically amphiphilic molecules that contain both hydrophilic and lipophilic groups. The hydrophile-lipophile balance (HLB) is one of the indicators representing the ratio of the hydrophilicity of a surfactant to its hydrophobicity. The value of HLB number is between 0–60 defining the affinity of a surfactant for water or oil. Chen
It is noteworthy that using these quantum mechanical descriptors can differentiate the differences between the HLB values of different isomers of the surfactants and overcome the difficulty encountered by Davies equation (HLB = ∑(hydrophilic group numbers) + ∑(hydrophobic group numbers)). Davies in the 1950s developed a system based on the analysis of group numbers. The "group number" characterizes the contribution of each specific functional group to the energy that would be required if a solvent molecule were changed from water to an organic solvent [
Structure of alkyl chain, especially the chain length, has a direct or indirect effect on properties of a surfactant. By using the methods of quasielastic light scattering spectroscopy, Biz and Occelli derived hydrodynamic radius of alkyl sulphate micelle (Rh) [
By changing surfactant concentration, washing temperature and washing time, Lindgren
Warszynski and Lunkenheimer analyzed experimental results on surface tension for dimethyloxy phosphine with 7–13 carbon atoms in alkyl chain and its homologues [
Based on linear solvation energy relationships (LSERs), Vitha and Carr studied fundamental chemical interactions responsible for solute retention in micellar electrokinetic capillary chromatography (MEKC) [
For predicting the interaction parameters
It is known that when more than two surfactants with different molecular structures are mixed, their surface activities often can be increased intensively (synergism) [
In previous paragraphs, the progress in the QSPR studies on surfactants relating to cloud points, charge distribution, surface tension, degradation and other properties have been reviewed (
At present, it has been understood that biological surfactants have some properties which synthetic surfactants do not have, especially in the aspects of biological degradation, safety and physiological activity. For surfactants or molecule with amphiphilic structure [
This work was supported by Chinese Ministry of Education (Project No. 206135) and Government of Guizhou Province (Projects No. 2005106, [2006]2017 and TZJF-2006-27).
Representative structures of the seven nonionic surfactant classes used by Huibers
Representative structures of the anionic surfactants, showing the diversity of the hydrophilic and hydrophobic domains [
For ionic surfactants, quantum chemical calculations suggest that the charge is distributed throughout the molecule [
Distribution of charge in selected surfactants between the head group, the α-methylene, and the remaining portion [
Results of the best four-parameter multilinear regression for cloud point of nonionic surfactants based on the 20-member training set.
|relative molecular weight
|average information content (order 2)
|relative number of rings
|Kier shape index (order 3)
X, regression coefficient; DX, error of the regression coefficient;
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Lennar and the FDIC, which insures bank deposits, will hold equity interests in two portfolios of loans with a combined unpaid balance of $3.05 billion, Miami-based Lennar said. The transactions include about 5,500 distressed residential and commercial real estate loans from 22 failed bank receiverships.
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Rachel Zoe's baby Skyler may only be 3-months-old, but he's already been exposed to some seriously lavish fashion events.
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The Big Boss
The Big Boss (Chinese: 唐山大兄) is a 1971 Hong Kong martial arts action film written and directed by Lo Wei, with assistance from Bruce Lee. It stars Lee, Maria Yi, James Tien and Tony Liu. Lee's first major film, it was written for James Tien. However, when the film's original director, Ng Kar-seung, was replaced by Lo, Lee was given the leading role instead.[2] Lee's strong performance overshadowed Tien, already a star in Hong Kong, and made Bruce Lee famous across Asia.
|The Big Boss
Hong Kong film poster
|Táng Shān Dà Xiōng
|Tong4 Saan1 Daai6 Hing1
|Directed by
|Lo Wei
|Produced by
|Raymond Chow
|Written by
|Bruce Lee
Lo Wei
|Bruce Lee
Maria Yi
James Tien
Nora Miao
|Music by
|Wang Fu-ling
|Chan Ching-kui
|Edited by
|Sung Ming
|Distributed by
|Golden Harvest
Release date
Running time
|110 minutes
|Hong Kong
|Box office
US$2,800,000 (US/ Canada rentals)[1]
Cheng Chao-an (Bruce Lee) is a Chinese man from mainland China who moves to Thailand to live with his cousins and work in an ice factory. He meets his cousin Hsu Chien (James Tien) and Hsu's younger brother by accident when Hsu Chien stands up to local street thugs - Cheng Chao-an had largely stayed out of the fracas as he swore to his mother he would resist participating in any fighting.
Cheng begins work at the ice factory. When a block of ice is accidentally broken, a bag of white powder falls out. Two of Cheng's cousins pick up the bag, and are asked to see the manager. The factory is really a front for a drug smuggling ring led by Hsiao Mi, also known as the Big Boss. When Cheng's cousins refuse to cooperate, they are killed and their bodies disposed of.
Hsu Chien and another cousin go to Hsiao's compound to find out what happened to the two cousins. Hsu doubts Hsiao's claims he does not know what happened to them and threatens to go to the police. Hsiao has the duo killed before they can leave. When the workers at the ice factory learn that Hsu is missing as well, they start to riot. To ease tensions, Hsiao makes Cheng a foreman, providing him with alcohol and prostitutes.
Cheng gets drunk at Hsiao's dinner party and is seduced by Sun Wuman, one of the prostitutes. She later warns Cheng that his life is in danger if he goes after Hsiao, and that Hsiao is running a drug trafficking operation. Immediately after Cheng leaves, Hsiao's son, Hsiao Chiun, sneaks in and kills Sun by throwing a knife at her heart. Sun's body is disposed of in the ice factory, just as Cheng's cousins were. Cheng breaks into the factory and finds the bodies, and is discovered by the gangsters.
Cheng fights his way out, killing Hsiao Chiun and many gangsters in the process. He returns home to find that almost all of his family have been murdered, while Chiao Mei has gone missing. Cheng exacts revenge by killing Hsiao Mi in a final fight. Once he knows that Chiao Mei is safe, he surrenders to the Thai police when they arrive at Hsiao's house.
- Bruce Lee as Cheng Chao-an (Chinese: 鄭潮安; Cantonese Yale: Zeng Ciu-On), a young man who, along with his uncle, travels from China to Pak Chong, Thailand to stay with his cousins.
- Maria Yi as Chiao Mei, a typical "damsel in distress". She is Cheng's only female cousin.
- James Tien as Cousin Hsu Chien, a martial artist who gets into fights with the local gangs.
- Nora Miao as a local cold drinks vendor. (guest star)
- Lee Kwan as Cousin Kun
- Han Ying-chieh as Hsiao Mi ("The Big Boss") owner of an ice factory which is really a front for his drug dealing.
- Tony Liu as Hsiao Chiun, Hsiao Mi's son.
- Kam San as Cousin Shan
- Li Hua-sze as Cousin Wong
- Marilyn Bautista as Miss Sun Wuman
- Chan Chue as Sheng, the ice factory's foreman.
- Billy Chan Wui-ngai as Cousin Pei
- Lam Ching-ying as Cousin Yen (also Assistant Action Director of the film)
- Tu Chia-cheng as Uncle Lu, Cheng's uncle.
- Peter Yang as Cousin Chen
- Peter Chan as Hsiao Mi's henchman
Original Mandarin cutEdit
When the film was released in 1971 in Hong Kong, it included scenes that were later removed from all the mainstream versions. This was a result of the "1972 Hong Kong movie censorship crackdown", when martial arts films were censored for extreme violence and explicit content. When these cuts were asked to be made, editors also took the opportunity to cut out full sequences, most likely to increase the pacing of the film. These were the scenes that were cut:[3]
- Longer fight between Cheng Chao-an/Hsiu Chien against the gambling den bouncers, in which the bouncers try to run the two over with a burning cart.
- A scene of dialog with Hsiu bragging about the aforementioned fight to the other cousins and their uncle once they've returned home.
- A scene of dialog with Chiao Mei, Cheng and their uncle before going back to the ferry dock.
- A scene of dialog between Cheng and the drink stand girl (Nora Miao) after Bruce sees his uncle off at the ferry docks.
- Longer and more graphic scene of the first two cousins' deaths via large circular saws.
- Longer fight between Hsiu and Hsiao Chiun featuring a shot of Hsiu with blood literally squirting out of his head due to a knife attack.
- A cut from the banquet scene where Cheng gets drunk. While his vision blurs, he hallucinates and sees Sun Wuman topless, and it quickly changes to an image of Chiao Mei.
- More bodies shown in the ice blocks when Cheng is investigating at the ice factory.
- The infamous "saw in the head" scene in which Cheng slams a handsaw into a villain's head
- Slightly extended scene with Cheng finding his cousins murdered.
- An entirely deleted sequence of Cheng returning to the brothel prior to the final fight. He picks a prostitute in a red sweater (who is actually visible in the background the previous time Cheng visits the brothel), and they go to her room. They both completely strip down, and they proceed to make love in bed. Cheng subsequently takes out all his remaining money, and lays it down on the prostitute's stomach while she's sleeping. He also then sees a bag of prawn crackers and decides to take them as a "last meal". This explains why he has the crackers when he shows up at the boss' mansion.
- A second "blood tasting" shot, in which Cheng tastes the blood from his stomach when he's been cut with a knife by The Boss.
Most of these presumably-lost scenes were supposedly present in a print shown in London in 1979 as part of a Bruce Lee film festival, with the exception of the "saw-in-the-head" shot. Nowadays, the deleted shots and scenes exist in the eyes of the public only as still photos or quick snippets of footage in trailers, though there are supposedly collectors who possess copies of the footage, but such reports have yet to be confirmed as of 2017.
In 2004, special version with unknown features was announced on DVD by budget DVD company Video Asia entitled The Big Boss: The Version You've Never Seen!. It raised high hopes but the DVD never came out. Presumably due to copyright issues, it remains unknown when the original version will see a release in home media.
Alternative title confusionEdit
When The Big Boss was being prepared for American distribution, the U.S. release was to be re-titled The Chinese Connection, a play on the popular The French Connection, since both dealt with drug trafficking. The U.S. title of Lee's second film, Fist of Fury was to be kept nearly the same, except for being Fists of Fury plural. However, the titles were accidentally reversed. The Big Boss was released as Fists of Fury and Fist of Fury became The Chinese Connection.[4] Film purists refer to the films by their original titles. Recent American TV showings and the official US DVD release from 20th Century Fox have restored the original titles of all Bruce Lee films.
|Original Title
|Mistaken Release Title (A.K.A.[a])
|Intended Release Title
|The Big Boss
|Fists of Fury
|The Chinese Connection
|Fist of Fury
|The Chinese Connection
|Fists of Fury
Alternative music scoresEdit
Unlike other Lee films, The Big Boss is unique in having not only two, but three completely different music scores. Fist of Fury, Way of the Dragon, Enter the Dragon, and Game of Death all only feature one score with minor alterations.
The first music score for it was composed by Wang Fu-ling, who worked on films such as The Chinese Boxer and One-Armed Swordsman. This was made for the Mandarin language version, and was also used in the English export version, in addition to the theatrical French and Turkish versions. It similar to other martial arts film scores, especially the Shaw Brothers films. Wang was the only one to receive credit, but it is also believed composer Chen Yung-yu assisted with the score. At least one cue from Japanese composer Akira Ifukube's scores for the Daimajin trilogy of films was also utilized as stock music.
The second and most popular of the music scores was by German composer Peter Thomas. This did not become widely known until 2005, when most of the music he composed for the film appeared on iTunes in a Big Boss collection. Thomas's involvement stems from a complete reworking of the English version of the film. The early version featured the British voice actors who worked on all Shaw Brothers films and used Wang Fu-ling's score. It was decided to make a new English version that would stand out from the other martial arts films. New actors were brought in to voice the film in English, and Thomas re-scored the film, abandoning Wang Fu-ling's music. The German dubbed version features his score, especially in the German title of the film in the iTunes compilation.
The third score is the 1983 Cantonese release score, which primarily features music from Golden Harvest composer Joseph Koo. However, a good portion of Koo's music in the Cantonese version was originally created in 1974 for the Japanese theatrical release of The Big Boss, which was half Koo's music and half Peter Thomas'. Golden Harvest simply took Koo's music from the Japanese version and added it to the Cantonese version. Aside from this, this version is most infamous for its use of the Pink Floyd music cues from "The Grand Vizier's Garden Party, Part 2", "Time" and "Obscured by Clouds", as well as King Crimson's "Larks' Tongues In Aspic, Part Two".
Other actors as Bruce Lee playing Cheng Chao-anEdit
Various Bruce Lee biopics have been filmed over the years, with the two most famous being Bruce Lee: The Man, The Myth and Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story. Both of these films feature their respective actors, Bruce Li and Jason Scott Lee, at one point acting as Lee on the set of The Big Boss. Both films feature a variation of the rumor that Lee was challenged on the set by a Thai boxer. In Myth, Lee was challenged on set and was caught in the middle of an ambush later on off the set. In Dragon, Lee is challenged during an actual take during filming of The Big Boss, wearing the trademark rolled up long sleeve white T-shirt, white sash, and black pants. Both of these are highly exaggerated accounts (not to mention that Dragon makes the mistake of saying that filming for The Big Boss began in July 1970 rather than in July 1971), as the story told is that Lee merely discusses martial arts with a Thai fighter on the set. Besides these two examples, a third Bruce Lee biopic, The Legend of Bruce Lee, this time with Danny Chan Kwok-kwan as Lee and filmed in mini-series form, was shown in Hong Kong in 2008 as part of China's hosting of the summer Olympics. Once again, this biopic shown Lee encountering a Thai boxer on the set of The Big Boss, this time with the challenger being played by martial arts film veteran Mark Dacascos. Photos and behind-the-scenes video of this scene have appeared on various websites, including Dacascos's official site.
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- Upon its release The Big Boss became the highest-grossing film in the history of Hong Kong and remained unsurpassed until Bruce Lee's second film, Fist of Fury.
- When the film was released in the United States, the death of Hsiao Mi, "The Boss", was cut down to him simply being stabbed in the chest with a knife in order to receive an "R" rating. The original version of his death, which not only shows an explicit close-up of the knife in his chest but Cheng Chao-an's fingers piercing his rib cage and blood flowing from under his shirt, would have given the film an "X" rating. The first time this scene was shown in the US was when it played on cable channel AMC in July 2004.
- Columbia Pictures released the film as a re-issue in 1978 and again re-issued it with Fist of Fury as a studio sanctioned double feature in February 1981.
- Miramax distributed The Big Boss on television & streaming (Hulu & Netflix) along with Bruce Lee, the Legend (1977), Game of Death, Way of the Dragon and Fist of Fury.
VHS releasesEdit
4 Front (United Kingdom)
- Released: 17 March 1997
- Classification: 18
4 Front(United Kingdom)
- Released: 1 October 2001
- Part of a boxset
- Classification: 18
20th Century Fox (America)
- Released: 21 May 2002
- Named Fists of Fury
- Classification: R, X (known in some video releases)
- Color: NTSC
- Run time: 99 minutes
DVD releasesEdit
Universe (Hong Kong)
- Aspect ratio: Widescreen (2:35:1) letterboxed
- Sound: Cantonese (Dolby Digital 5.1), Mandarin (Dolby Digital 5.1)
- Subtitles: Traditional, Simplified Chinese, English, Japanese, Korean, Indonesian, Malaysian, Thai, Vietnamese
- Supplements: Trailer, trailers for Way of the Dragon, Enter the Dragon, Game of Death, Legacy of Rage, star files
- All regions, NTSC
Mega Star (Hong Kong)
- Aspect ratio: Widescreen (2:29:1)
- Sound: Cantonese (Dolby Digital 2.0 Dual Mono), Mandarin (Dolby Digital 2.0 Dual Mono)
- Subtitles: Traditional, Simplified Chinese, English, Japanese, Korean
- Supplements: Trailer, synopsis, cast and Crew biographies
- All regions, NTSC
Fortune Star – Bruce Lee Ultimate DVD Collection (Hong Kong)
- Released: 29 April 2004
- Aspect ratio: Widescreen (2:35:1) anamorphic
- Sound: Cantonese (DTS 5.1), Cantonese (Dolby Digital 5.1), Cantonese (Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono), Mandarin (DTS 5.1), Mandarin (Dolby Digital 5.1)
- Subtitles: Traditional, Simplified Chinese, English
- Supplements: Original trailer, new trailer, still photos, slideshow of photos, celebrity interviews, unseen footage, Game of Death outtakes, Enter the Dragon alternate opening, 32-page booklet
- Region 3, NTSC
Fox (America)
- Released: 21 May 2002
- Aspect ratio: Widescreen (2:27:1) letterboxed
- Sound: English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono)
- Subtitles: English
- Supplements: None
- Region 1, NTSC
Fox – Bruce Lee Ultimate Collection (America)
- Released: 18 October 2005
- Aspect ratio: Widescreen (2:35:1) anamorphic
- Sound: Cantonese (Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono), Manadarin (Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono), English (DTS 5.1), English (Dolby Digital 5.1)
- Subtitles: English
- Supplements: Original trailer, new trailer, still photos, slideshow of photos, interview with Tung Wai, bonus trailers
- Region 1, NTSC
Hong Kong Legends – Special Collector's Edition (United Kingdom)
- Released: 6 November 2000
- Aspect ratio: Widescreen (2:35:1) anamorphic
- Sound: Cantonese (Dolby Digital 2.0 Dual Mono), English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Dual Mono)
- Subtitles: English, Dutch
- Supplements: Commentary by Bey Logan, production photo gallery, animated biography showcase of Bruce Lee with voice over, original Mandarin trailer, Hong Kong promotional trailer, UK promotional trailer, bonus trailers
- Region 2, PAL
Hong Kong Legends – Platinum Edition (United Kingdom)
- Released: 23 October 2006
- Aspect ratio: Widescreen (2:35:1) anamorphic
- Sound: Cantonese (Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo), Cantonese (Dolby Digital 2.0 Dual Mono), English (2.0 Dual Mono)
- Subtitles: English, Dutch
- Supplements: Disc 1: Commentary by Andrew Staton and Will Johnston, bonus trailers; Disc 2: UK platinum trailer, UK promotional trailer, original Mandarin trailer, Hong Kong promotional trailer, rare uncut 8mm UK trailer, original 35mm UK title sequence, textless 35mm title sequence, original lobby cards, "Paul Weller: Breaking the West", "Fred Weintraub: A Rising Star", "Tom Kuhn: What Might Have Been", "The History of The Big Boss: A Photographic Retrospective", "Deleted Scenes Examined: The Story of the Elusive Original Uncut Print", animated biography showcase of Bruce Lee with voice over, DVD credits
- Region 2, PAL
Blu-ray Disc releaseEdit
Kam & Ronson (Hong Kong)
- Released: 6 August 2009
- Aspect ratio: Widescreen (2:35:1)
- Sound: Cantonese (DTS-HD Master Audio 7.1), Cantonese (Dolby True HD 7.1), Mandarin (Dolby Digital EX 6.1), Thai (Dolby Digital EX 6.1)
- Subtitles: Traditional Chinese, English, Thai
- Supplements: Tung Wai interview
- Region A
- ^ "Big Rental Films of 1973". Variety: 19. 9 January 1974.(subscription required)
- ^ Michael Ewins (2012-07-04). "In Review: The Big Boss on DVD". New Empress Magazine. Retrieved 2015-11-27.
- ^ "Bruce Lee". Retrieved 8 April 2016.
- ^ "Alternate title confusion - The Big Boss (1972) - Chinese Kungfu Kaleidoscope". Cultural China. Retrieved 25 June 2016.
External linksEdit
- Official site at Miramax Films
- The Big Boss on IMDb
- The Big Boss at the Hong Kong Movie DataBase
- The Big Boss at AllMovie
- A gallery of still shots from The Big Boss
- An in-depth article on the missing scenes featuring rare publicity shots and screenshots
- The opening credits from the "version you've never seen"
- "the big boss & the beautiful orphan" by d. (contemporary artist/designer). "the big boss & the beautiful orphan" is a remix/remake of "The Big Boss." Genre: cross-genre, appropriation art, experimental, literary. "the big boss & the beautiful orphan" appeared 22 March 2011 in the online arts journal, "Orion headless."


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some of my favourite recent street style shots credits: [1 + 2] styleclicker [3 +4] vanessa jackman [5] garance dore [6] hanneli mustaparta [7 + 8] mr. newton [9+10] all the pretty birds [11+12] stockholm street style
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leather and skirt…. the words don't even sound right together. but it works! nice in winter, but you don't want to be caught in a heat wave in a leather skirt – that's for sure.
both images: vanessa jackman
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i did a wee guest post about winter fashion over at kim gray yesterday, go have a look see. (all images: vanessa jackman – my faaaaavourite street style blog)
hanneli mustaparta gets it right pretty much 100% of the time. (you should really visit her blog, too) images from mr newton
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woot toot toot jump on the mid week bumper fashion special train – #21 for those who are keeping count! fischer clothing margaret howell tina kalivas urban outfitters ba & sh mink pink we are handsome (thanks to kate desmarais) stella mccartney alexander wang zimmerman acne vanessa jackman copenhagen street…
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bumper fashion special #17 – all the spring shows are starting to blur into one, will pick up with more 'normal' fashion specials next week! moschino cheap & chic luisa beccaria gianfranco ferre alberta ferretti eley kishimoto a détacher after looking over my selections these past few weeks, i realised…
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NEW YORK (Nov. 18)
While American Jews remain more liberal than most Americans, the findings of a survey released by the American Jewish Committee suggests that younger Jews are growing increasingly conservative.
"There is no question that Jews are for more liberal than the average American," according to Milton Himmelfarb, research director for the American Jewish Committee. "However, there is evidence of a growing conservative political trend, at the college freshmen level, for instance, based on figures compiled by the American Council on Education. These figures show college freshmen are less liberal than their older brothers and sisters and parents."
At a news conference last week at the head-quarters of the AJCommittee, preliminary findings of Jewish voting patterns in the November 6 Presidential election showed that American Jews voted by a margin of two to one in favor of Democratic candidate Walter Mondale.
These findings corroborated the conclusions of a major pre-election survey of 959 Jews nationwide on their political attitudes, done by sociologist Steven Cohen of Queens College. Cohen's survey showed 57 percent of Jews identifying themselves as Democrats, 12 percent as Republicans and 31 percent as independents.
On a broad range of issues, from gun control to opposition to tuition tax credits for parochial schools, Cohen's survey found Jews consistently siding with the liberal positions on these issues in an approximate ratio of two to one.
According to Himmelfarb, one reason for the seemingly small size of the Jewish vote for President Reagan in 1984 is the fact that the President's better showing among Jews in 1980 was due to an anti-Carter vote, rather than a pro-Reagan choice.
In 1980, Jimmy Carter received about 44 percent of the Jewish vote to 39 percent for Reagan. In 1976, Carter received 68 percent of the Jewish vote to 32 percent for Republican Gerald Ford.
But the change in voting patterns, however small, is viewed as a shift toward what Himmelfarb described as a more "pluralistic Jewish electorate."
Jews voted for the party of their choice in 1976, since both Ford and Carter had no basic appeal for the Jewish electorate, Himmelforb said. In 1976, Jewish voters went by a margin of three to one for the Democratic Party.
Continuing, Himmelfarb said: "This year, when the Democratic nominee did carry special attraction for Jewish voters, they went only two to one for the Democratic candidate. This would suggest a definite trend away from the Jews' established liberal-Democratic voting patterns of the past, toward a more pluralistic Jewish electorate willing to vote for Republican Presidential candidates."
Hyman Bookbinder, Washington representative of the AJCommittee, noted that while the national trend of the Jewish voters had been to support the Democratic ticket, in the recent election, "Texas Jewish voters cast ballots for President Reagan over Mondale by a three to one margin."
Bookbinder added, "While Jews were the only ethnic group that showed less support for Reagan in his second bid for the Presidency than in 1980, I would argue that a base support of 30 percent for the Republican candidate in 1984 is a figure that neither party can ignore. Jews are not a monolithic group, and this election clearly proves that."
Bookbinder contended that if the election were held last summer when the Rev. Jesse Jackson's campaign was still a factor, "the vote may very well have been fifty-fifty." But, he added, Reagan's speech during the Republican Party convention in Dallas at which time he termed those who oppose school prayer in public schools as being "intolerant of religion" and the prominence of the religious right at the convention, may have contributed to Jews voting in majority for the Democrats.
In the survey by Cohen, who directed similar surveys of American Jewry's attitudes on various issues since 1981, it was determined:
*Jews opposed quotas in hiring minorities by 64 to 22 percent with 14 not sure, but supported affirmative action in other forms by 70 to 20 percent, with 10 not sure.
*Jews supported the goals of social welfare by 75 to 20 percent with 8 percent not sure, but split on their effectiveness and on maintaining financial support by 64 to 23 percent with 13 respondents not sure.
*Jews overwhelmingly supported gun control and capital punishment.
*Jews tended to support "gay rights," but appeared "troubled" by the rise of homosexuality.
*Jews support the separation of church and state, opposed tuition tax credits for families which send their children to private schools, and opposed silent meditation in public schools.
*Support "dovish" or "detentist" U.S. policies toward the Soviet Union.
*The respondents were generally for less military spending but also for a strong U.S. military to back up Israel.
On other public issues, Cohen found that American Jews were split on protecting extremists' civil liberties, supported capitalism over socialism, were split on the use of U.S. military force, opposed nuclear power plants, and supported staying in the United Nations.
Cohen explained that his data was derived from 959 mail back questionaires returned from households with "distinctive Jewish names" as listed in the nation's telephone directories. He added that the characteristics of this sample were compared with data from a more costly data collection technique used in the 1981 Greater New York Jewish Population Study, conducted by Cohen and Paul Ritterband, pointing out that such comparisons revealed "few if any significant differences."


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Firefighters have dispatched a helicopter for a remote rescue near the J.F. Shea Therapeutic Riding Center, in order to take the woman to a nearby hospital, said Capt. Marc Stone of the Orange County Fire Authority.
The 46-year-old rider is believed to have injured her arm and head when the horse fell atop of her.
"She does have some extensive injuries," he said.
Firefighters were called at 1:26 p.m., after the horse was reported to have fallen on the female rider near a creek by the riding center, Stone said. It was not immediately clear how the incident occurred.
The woman is expected to be taken to Mission Hospital to be treated for her injuries, he said.
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Aug 28, 2012 - By Craig Blumenshine, Staff WriterIf change is good, then Riverton is good, at least as far as Riverton High School Athletics are concerned.
A lot has changed since one year ago, when the football Wolverines still called Tonkin Stadium home and Terry Snyder was working his first days in his new job as superintendent of Riverton's schools.
As the semester started last year, Snyder faced a somewhat controversial decision regarding whether the Wolverines would continue to play at Tonkin Stadium or move to Wolverine Field, where some seating had been installed on Riverton's showcase, artificial-surface, athletic complex. After considering ample public input, the superintendent was decisive in crafting a plan that gave Tonkin a fitting farewell and the team and community a nice transition to a new football home on the campus of RHS.
Even more impressive is that you started to see superintendent Snyder out in the community, at athletic events, even traveling to support the Wolverines and Lady Wolverines as they competed. Snyder was there and cheering as loud as other Riverton fans when Lady Wolverine Olivia Thompson was mowing down the Class 4-A's best runners in Douglas as a freshman on her way to winning a state cross country title for the Lady Wolverines.
He was in the seats watching the Lady Wolverines compete at their state volleyball tournament. He was at football games, basketball games, track meets and soccer matches, and probably caught a tennis match or two.
And his presence wasn't noted at just athletic events, Snyder supports all activities in person -- athletic, artistic or academic -- and that is a refreshing change.
The superintendent has many, many issues on his plate as he works to improves Riverton's schools. But his leadership in supporting and improving RHS athletics can't be understated.
Snyder led the delicate transition that resulted in the hiring of Riverton's new activities director.
His vision will be on full display Friday night when our football team hosts its first home game in an expanded and improved Wolverine Field.
More seating, including more comfortable seats with added legroom, has been installed for home-side fans and even more bleachers will be there for our visiting friends.
We're about to have indoor plumbing again and a nice concession stand at the home of our soccer, track and football teams.
Standing on the field, you finally get the feeling that you are in a stadium.
As RHS football coach Jeremy McCormick correctly noted, the seats are high enough that you aren't just looking at the school.
And much of the credit goes to Snyder, who, with the support of the Riverton school board, has expanded the facility within the means of school resources. Wolverine Field is nearing the point where the term "stadium" may be more accurate.
Snyder is a former coach.
He has expressed his commitment to supporting Riverton's athletes and believes in the vertical integration of athletic programs. In other words, Snyder gets it that our middle school and high school programs must work together in a planned way to give our athletes the best opportunity for success with programs, coaches and leadership crafted with concern for our student's future from the moment they enter the world of school athletics. Change is good.
Former Riverton High School activities director Bill Strannigan, a good man and my friend, passed away Monday. I will miss him.
Have a great sports week.
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Bernie Sanders Destroys Hillary Clinton in West Virginia Democratic Primary, 51% – 36%
Coal country is no longer Clinton country as Hillary Clinton found herself getting her miners hat handed to her by socialist Bernie Sanders in the Democrat West Virginia primary. When the dust steeled Sanders beat Clinton 51% to 36%, a much wider victory than polls had indicated. What a turn of events for Hillary Clinton. In the 2008 Democrat primary, Clinton beat Obama in WV, 67% to 23% and got over 240,000 votes. Flash-forward to 2016 and Hillary received a mere 84,000 votes.
Not so fast Hillary in pivoting to the general election, you still have a socialist on your tail who has now won a remarkable 19 states. It is safe to say that Hillary Clinton, the presumptive Democrat nominee, who is limping over the finish line, has no chance of victory in the general election in West Virginia. On the GOP side, Trump wins in WV and Nebraska as he ran unopposed.
Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders has won the West Virginia Democratic primary, NBC News projects, a victory that will add yet more fuel to his argument that he should remain in the race despite badly trailing front runner Hillary Clinton in the overall delegate count.
The win comes one week after Sanders prevailed in Indiana's Democratic primary and two weeks after Clinton dominated a series of contests in the northeastern United States.
Democrats also voted on Tuesday in a presidential "beauty contest" in Nebraska, although the delegates from that state were all previously assigned during a March 5 caucus. In that contest, Sanders won 15 pledged delegates, compared to 10 for Clinton.
"With this outcome, we now have won primaries and caucuses in 19 states," Sanders said in a statement after the results were in. "We are in this campaign to win the Democratic nomination and we're going to stay in the race until the last vote is cast."
It is hard to believe that Bernie Sanders continues to make political life difficult for Hillary Clinton. An unknown, 74 year old socialist is showing just how weak a candidate Hillary Clinton really is. No one, and I mean no one, including Democrat strategists saw this coming. Not even Bernie Sanders.
Posted May 11, 2016 by Scared Monkeys
2016 Elections, Bernie Sanders (I-VT), Democrats, Hillary Clinton, Liberals, Primaries, Primaries, Progressives, Socialist | no comments
Bernie Sanders Upsets Hillary Clinton in Democrat Indiana Prmary 52% to 48%
A funny thing has happened on the way to Hillary Clinton's Democrat presidential coronation, she continues to lose to a socialist. Last night self-proclaimed socialist Bernie Sanders defeated Hillary Clinton in the Democrat Indiana primary 52% to 48%. WOW, that's going to leave a mark. Not so fast Ms. Clinton, let's forget about looking to the general election just quite yet, you have a socialist on your tail. Sanders shocked Clinton last night defeating her by 4 percentage points as all of the polls leading up to the Indiana primary had Clinton leading between a margin of 4 and 13 percent.
The longer the Democrat primary goes on and more embarrassing losses for Clinton, the more divisive the Democrat party will become.
Hillary Feels the Bern in Indiana
Bernie Sanders upset Hillary Clinton in Indiana's Democratic primary Tuesday night, giving his flagging campaign another reason to carry on to Philadelphia even though he has virtually no chance of overtaking Clinton for the nomination.
With more than three-quarters of precincts reporting, Sanders led 53 percent to 47 percent.
The win bolstered Sanders' pledge to remain in the race through the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia despite trailing in the overall and pledged delegate counts. Because Indiana allocates delegates proportionally, though, it will produce more of a psychic boost for Sanders and his supporters than an actual dent in Clinton's lead.
The calendar for the rest of May portends favorably for Sanders, as well, with West Virginia up next on May 10, followed by Kentucky and Oregon on May 17.
Prior to the Indiana primaries according to RCP polling, Clinton led Sanders 50% to 43%.
Up next for the Democrats is West Virginia where Clinton looks to get politically whacked by Sanders. But that is what happens when you tell coal miners you are looking to shut down the companies they work for. Heading into the the final weeks of the campaign Hillary Clinton hardly looks like a strong candidate as the presumptive Democrat nominee limps access the finish line.
Who would have thought at this point, certainly not the bias MSM, that it would be the Republican primary that was over and had a presidential nominee and the Democrats would still be duking it out. Go Bernie, Go!!!
Posted May 4, 2016 by Scared Monkeys
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Following Indiana Priamry Loss Ted Cruz Ends His Presidential Bid
Following tonight's overwhelming primary loss in Indiana to Donald Trump, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz has ended his 2016 Presidential bid. Honestly, Cruz had no other alternative after the drubbing tonight in Indiana. The hand writing was on the wall and Cruz did the honorable thing and suspended his campaign. In his concession speech Cruz told supporters, "Together we left it all on the field in Indiana." Cruz went on to say, "We gave it everything we've got. But the voters chose another path." Cruz further went on to say that we was suspending his campaign but would "continue to fight for liberty".
Ted Cruz bowed out of the Republican presidential race Tuesday following a crushing loss to Donald Trump in Indiana, clearing the path for the real estate mogul to clinch the GOP nomination.
It was a remarkable turn of events in a presidential primary race that seemed destined — just weeks ago — to end in a contested convention this summer. Even in the final hours of the race in the Hoosier State, Cruz insisted he was staying in the race until June 7 — going so far as to attack his rival during a news conference as a "pathological liar" unfit for the White House.
In the end, the growing strength of Trump's candidacy and Cruz's own stumbles in the past two weeks were too much for Cruz to overcome. The Cruz, Kasich and anti-Trump forces had concocted elaborate plans to try to deprive Trump of the 1,237 delegates he needs to win the nomination outright. But those plans hinged on money and momentum. After Tuesday night, it appeared that Cruz would have neither.
"We left it all on the field in Indiana. We gave it everything we've got but the voters chose another path," Cruz said. "So with a heavy heart but with boundless optimism for the long-term future of our nation, we are suspending our campaign."
Posted May 3, 2016 by Scared Monkeys
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GOP Primary: Donald Trump Wins Indiana in Landslide
Donald Trump wins Indiana in a landslide.
With 81% of the vote counted, Trump leads with 53%, Cruz was a distant second with 37% and Kasich third with 8%. It appears that Trump will win all 57 delegates in Indiana.
Donald Trump virtually clinched the Republican nomination for president Tuesday night, a stunning victory for the brash billionaire who was considered more a celebrity curiosity than a serious candidate when he entered the race less than a year ago. He soundly defeated Ted Cruz, his last real rival, in the Indiana primary and the Texas senator quickly dropped out.
"Thank you Indiana, we were just projected to be the winner," said Trump, still highly controversial in his own party but a long shot no more.
Trump still must win about 200 more delegates to clinch the nomination. But his victory in Indiana — where he picked up at least 45 of the state's 57 delegates — made it all but impossible for Cruz to block him from doing so.
Posted May 3, 2016 by Scared Monkeys
2016 Elections, Primaries, Primaries, Republican | one comment
Donald Trump Sweeps I95 Primaries (CT, DE, MD, PA, RI) … But Do You Know the Real Story of the Night?
Donald Trump swept through the I95 primaries last night taking all five states, Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania and Rhode Island. Is it just me, but since when do Conservatives like candidates who win in liberal blue states? Wouldn't that generally be a RINO?
What Fox News will tell you, the suddenly recent cable channel turned Trump Super PAC, other media outlets and many what I thought was once Conservative bloggers that Trump had a HUGE night, his best ever and that all others should get out of the race. They will some how make it appear that winning liberal dark blue states in a GOP primary is a good thing. FOX News et all will talk about Trump getting to 60% and this is the most fantastic and awesome thing ever. REALLY? Just curious, has anyone taken a look at the vote count in the 5 primary states from Tuesday, April 26? Is anyone mentioning how both Democrat candidates Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders amassed a blistering number of votes Tuesday night that towered far above The Donald? The delegates may be important for Trump winning the GOP presidential nomination, but the voting shows that Trump does not have a snowballs chance in hell of winning any one of these five states in a general election.
Folks, you need to take a look at the volume of votes cast in ct, DE, MD, PA and RI. Its not even close. Did The Donald win 5 of 5 states last night? Yes he did. But please don't get lost in the spin and the BS put out by others, including FOX News and their Trump love-fest.
The math does not lie America, most notably Republicans and Conservatives. Honestly, who cares whether Trump won all 5 states in last nights primary, they are all dark blue or blue states where a Republican presidential candidate will never win in a general election. All it tells me is that Trump is the most liberal of the three remaining GOP candidates. That is hardly a badge of honor.
CT: Donald Trump: 122,519 – John Kasich: 60,447 – Ted Cruz: 24,779 (Total # of votes: 207,745)
Clinton: 169,763 – Sanders: 152,895 (Total # of votes: 322, 658)
DE: Trump: 42,472 – Kasich: 14,225 – Cruz: 11,110 (Total # of votes: 67,807)
Clinton: 55,950 – Sanders: 36,659 (Total # of votes: 92,609)
MD: Trump: 237,132 – Kasish: 100,333 – Cruz: 82,286 (Total # of votes: 419,758)
Clinton: 533,656 – Sanders: 281,700 (Total # of votes: 815,356)
PA Trump: 892,702 – Cruz: 340,201 – Kasich: 304,793 (Total # of votes: 1,537,696)
Clinton: 918,649 – Sanders: 719,911 (Total # of votes: 1,638,560)
RI: Trump: 39,059 – Kasich: 14,929 – Cruz: 6,393 (Total # of votes: 60,381)
Sanders: 66,720 – Clinton: 52,493 (Total # of votes: 119,213)
Hmm, Remember when Conservatives actually supported Conservative candidates?
Posted April 27, 2016 by Scared Monkeys
2016 Elections, Donald Trump, Donald Trump, Presidential Contenders, Primaries, Primaries, Republican, RINO, Ted Cruz (TX-R) | 2 comments


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Recruitment Day in Antibes
Our Superyacht Recruitment Day in Antibes is exclusively for graduates of superyacht crew training at Flying Fish.
With a history spanning 40 years, the superyacht industry in Antibes gets bigger and better as each year goes by - bigger in the number of yachts arriving here and bigger in the size of new yachts being built.
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After completing a Flying Fish superyacht crew course, you will need to know where to go, who to see and how to get employed as quickly as possible.
Our recruitment day helps to do just that. You will also have the chance to register with some of the top crew agencies in the business.
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- Basic history of Antibes and how it became the largest port in Europe
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- Types of yachts: private and charter, flag states, owners, guests and VIPs
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I understand that the Gainesville City Council is considering leasing the Georgia Mountains Center to Brenau University for additional school space. I strongly oppose this as do many other people since this will no longer provide a venue for entertainment (including our local talent) and community groups of all kinds. There is no other facility in the area for these events.
I understand that in these hard economic times the city is looking at possible solutions to bring in more money but I'm sure that all of the above events also bring in untold dollars in support of local businesses who in turn provide revenue to the city.
If you have a say in this matter, please do not support this idea.
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