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"He wrote of winos and bar-room piano players and small-time thieves in a vein of tortured lyricism all his own, whose very excesses seemed uniquely appropriate to the subject matter. As his titles announce--Street of the Lost, Street of No Return, The Wounded and the Slain, Down There (the original title of Shoot the Piano Player)--he was a poet of the losers, transforming swift cut-rate melodramas into traumatic visions of failed lives."----Geoffrey O'Brien, critic.
Direct evidence on the secret life of David Goodis from Paul Wendkos and Alan Norkin and told to Philippe Garnier.
Philippe Garnier speaks about Goodis in French.
Ed Holub: Retracing the Footsteps of David Goodis, America's Great Lost Noir Writer
"After a while it gets so bad that you want to stop the whole business. You figure that there's no use in trying to fight back. Things are set dead against you and the sooner you give up the better. It's like a mile run. You're back there in seventh place and there isn't a chance in the world. The feet are burning, the lungs are bursting, and all you want to do is fall down and take a rest."
----First paragraph of David Goodis' first novel Retreat from Oblivion (1939).
David Goodis surrounded by Lauren Bacall and Humphrey Bogart. Notice the lines of B&B's clothing and Bogart's real hairline. Photo courtesy of April Feld Sandor.
So began the writing career of David Goodis. Typical Goodis. A statement of frustration, introducing a tale of gloom, depression and despair. Noir at its blackest.
David Goodis was Philadelphia's noir prince. After graduating from Temple University in 1938, Goodis moved to New York where he wrote advertising copy, radio scripts and thousands of words for pulp magazines. In the mid-1940's he was in Hollywood as a screenwriter. He crashed and returned to his parents' home in Philadelphia, where he churned out novels and short stories, depicting the bleakness and darkness of lives in free fall.
Who was David Goodis and why did he write as he did?
Down and Out Press releases "Pulp According to David Goodis by social historian and literary critic Jay Gertzman.
Andrew Kevorkian, friend of David Goodis, dies at 90. Click to photo tribute by Lou Boxer. For more information click to Funeral and Beyond.
Jay Gertzman: "Incest and Its Shadows: David Goodis' "Of Tender Sin"
New scholarly article by Jay Gertzman.
Counterfactual on the Lost Works of David Goodis
Watch Tirez le pianist (Shoot the Piano Player) by Francois Truffaut in French with Spanish subtitles from the Internet Archive
Duane Swierczynski honors Goodis as his inspiration. Peter Rozovsky interviews Swiercynski on his new graphic novel The Black Hood.
Jay Gertzman on Dark Journeys
Stuart Mitchner: On the Streets of Philadelphia — Discovering the Noir Universe of David Goodis
Goodis in Spain
Jordi Canal (email@example.com http://bobila.blogspot.com.es) of BIBLIOTECA LA BOBILA provides the following links
Pulp According to David Goodis
We know Goodis was obsessed, apparently, with the down-scale. His solitary trips to the "slum" areas at night, especially bars, are almost as legendary as his motives were unclear, despite the evidence of his sexual needs. But he loved teasing middle class friends with his exchanges of the fancy for the common. Garnier tells of how he celebrated his payment ($25,000) for the Saturday Evening Post serialization of Dark Passage. He took his buddy Monroe Schwartz to a fancy NYC restaurant, When the entree arrived, he placed it on the floor. Then he and Monroe went to a Nedick's stand for a hot dog and orange juice. "That was a night on the town with Dave."
Click to Jay Gertzman's Facebook site for more profiles on David Goodis
Goodis in Finland
"Shoot the Piano Player" also called "Down There" translated into Finnish as "Melody of Murder."
Goodis Fever has reached the Arctic Circle. Finnish crime writer and Goodishead Tapani Bagge is writing an article on David Goodis, the Garnier book and the Withers documentary for Ruumiin kultuuri, the magazine of the Finnish Whodunnit Society.
Shooting Pool with David Goodis
Superior Billiards
Elaine Astor, the Mysterious Mrs. Goodis
Behold This Woman
Goodis on Goodis
The Uncertain Death of David Goodis
Funeral and Beyond
Library of America's Goodis Anthology
Fantasy World of David Goodis
Where Goodis Wrote: House on North 11th Street
The Mystery and Legend of David Goodis
The Soul of David Goodis
The Route 50 trolley ran through the heart of Goodisville. The trolley was killed about 13 years after the uncertain death of David Goodis.
Goodis in Hollywood
Bill Sherman's Tribute from 1968
Research Goodistyle
The Fugitive
The Lost Works
David Goodis in Film
Dark Passage
Cassidy's Girl
The Night Editor
The Bad and the Beautiful
Goodis on You Tube
Lou Boxer's Photos
Mike Dennis on Cassidy's Girl
The Burglar Revisited
Brian Greene Reviews Larry Withers' Film "To A Pulp"
Truffaut and Goodis
Did David Goodis ride the Route 50 trolley in search of scenes for his works of noir?
Route 50 photos by David Wilson on Hidden City Philadelphia.
2009 Memorial
2010 Memorial
2011 Memorial
2014 CAR-a-van from Hell
Jawntes: A Local Writer and His Roots
A Tragic Tale of Movie Making
Mike Dennis on The Blonde on the Street Corner
Cullen Gallagher on Critical Perspectives
Cullen Gallagher on Fire in the Flesh
Cullen Gallagher on Of Missing Persons
Selections From the Best of Goodis
The Last Letter (?)
Charlotte Halpern Remembers David Goodis
The Temple Archives
2007 Memorial
Philadelphia City Council Honors Goodis
Frank Ford and Mortimer Gurmshire
Jay Gertzman on Goodis
Herb Gross Remembers David Goodis
Gary Lovisi: "He Lived It As Well"
Brian Kellman: "Working Title"
Robert Polito: "Words & Words"
David Schmid: "What David Goodis Means to Me"
Selma Burke, Girlfriend of David Goodis
Louis Boxer: "Finding David Goodis"
Len Cobrin: Goodis, "One of the Funniest People to Ever Have Lived"
Ken Bruen: "For the Love of Goodis"
Seymour Shubin: "I Met David Goodis Twice"
Keith O'Neill: "He, You, I: Shifting Points-of-View in Down There"
Alexander Anichkin: "WS Maugham and David Goodis"
Mike Nevins: "Boucher on Goodis"
Christopher Forth: "David Goodis: A Certain Kind of Amputation"
Bill Sherman: ". . . A Myth Grew Around Him"
Clark Howard: "I Never Met David Goodis. . . ."
Anthony Neil Smith: A "Literary Life Out in the Cold"
Michael Gabriel: "Tender Sin"
Woody Haut: "Some David Goodis Moments"
Tony Williams: "Two or Three Things I Know About David Goodis"
The Final Destruction of Goodisville
Jay Gertzman: "A Segment of Moribund Goodisville"
Brian Greene on The Blonde on the Street Corner
Max Goldberg: "No Exit"
Joe Chauncy: David Goodis on the Black Dahlia Murder
Philadelphia Weekly: Stranger than Fiction--Philadelphia Noir (David Goodis)
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"Every character [of a Goodis] book is suffering profoundly. The main character can do nothing about it," said Geoffrey O'Brien, Editor-in-Chief of Library of America. "The 1950's drove Goodis to such relentless self-analysis."
Robert Polito, Goodis scholar and editor, and Geoffrey O'Brien, editor-in-chief of Library of America, present Goodis anthology at 2012 Philadelphia Book Festival.
Library of America has released Goodis, Five Noir Novels of the 1940s and 1950s edited by Robert Polito, director of Writing Programs at The New School.
This volume contains five Goodis classics: Dark Passage, Nightfall, The Moon in the Gutter, The Burglar and The Street of No Return. Tour the noir geography of David Goodis as he writes about San Francisco, Manhattan, the American West, Philadelphia's docks, working class Philadelphia, working class Atlantic City and Philadelphia's tenderloin.
The volume is a study in Goodis' deepening inner torment.Dark Passage and Nightfall were written before Goodis returned to Philadelphia after an unhappy stint as a Hollywood writer and a failed marriage. The Moon in the Gutter, The Burglar and The Street of No Return were written in a second floor bedroom in Goodis' parents' home on North 11th Street. These three Philadelphia novels are progressively gloomy. The characters are progressively hopeless. As Goodis advances in his career, his books address deeper and deeper psychological themes.
Polito includes a detailed chronology of Goodis' life, from his parents' occupations and residences, through Goodis' education, his publications, his disastrous marriage, his hushed romance, his brilliant descent into paperbacks, and his demise. Polito provides notes explaining the contemporary cultural references in the five novels.
I won't tell you about the plots. Get the book.
On April 19, 2012 Goodisheads gathered at the Free Library of Philadelphia to celebrate the release of the Goodis anthology. Editor Robert Polito proclaimed, "It's great to be in Goodisville or Goodis Country. How similar things are as when Goodis wrote his novels and how different they are." NoirCON founder Louis Boxer discussed the life of David Goodis. Robert Polito and Geoffrey O'Brien read from Goodis novels. They completed the evening with a panel discussion.
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Goodis film probes 'dark tendencies' and hidden lives
Brian Greene interviews
Larry Withers on "To A Pulp."
Brian Greene is a freelance writer from North Carolina. He writes regularly for Shindig! music magazine from
the UK, and he is working on a biography of the late British crime writer/cult figure, Ted Lewis.
In September 1966, David Goodis' mother died. Harold Silver sent David Goodis a basket of fruit. David Goodis sent the following note to Harold Silver. (Photos by Louis Boxer)
"Franchement, il est très difficile d'imaginer le printemps à Philadelphie."
----Philippe Garnier, Goodis biographer
In the early 1980's, Goodis' biographer, Philippe Garnier, traced the scenes of Goodis' Philadelphia stories. His conclusion: "I find it very difficult to image springtime in Philadelphia." Philippe Garnier, Goodis, vie en noir et blanc, Editions due Seuil, 1984. Video on Philippe Garnier. Woody Haup's review of new translation of Garnier book. LARB review of new translation.
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NEW YORK — More than 6,000 Jewish teens will compete in an Olympic-style sporting competition in four U.S. cities this summer.
The Jewish Community Center Association (JCC) of North America's Maccabi Games began in 1982 with 300 athletes and has grown to become the largest organized sports program for Jewish teens in the world.
The international, multisport, athletic and cultural event promotes community involvement, teamwork and pride in being Jewish. In addition to competing in sporting events, the 13-year-old to 16-year-old participants team with local community organizations to volunteer for social action projects through a program called Days of Caring and Sharing. In the past the athletes have built homes for the poor, organized carnivals for children with disabilities or packaged food for the hungry.
In order to participate in the 2005 competition, the teens must be part of a delegation, which is a group of athletes and coaches who represent a JCC. Each delegation competes in one of four host cities — Dallas; Richmond, VA; San Antonio; or St. Paul, MN. For more information, visit the JCC Web site at www.jcca.org.

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Change reflects offering of advanced meter infrastructure solutions for utilities
Mueller Water Products, Inc., announced that it is integrating its Hersey Meters business with its Mueller Systems division, in a move it says will reflect the breadth of innovative system solutions for advanced meter infrastructure the company now offers.
The combined entity will be known as Mueller Systems, while Hersey will remain the company's brand for water meters. Hersey Meters has been part of Mueller Co., one of Mueller Water Products' three operating units, since 1988 and has been in existence since 1859.
"We are committed to providing our customers with the infrastructure technology needed to optimize their operations," said Greg Rogowski, president of Mueller Co. "Integrating Hersey Meters into Mueller Systems will facilitate seamless operation with Mi.Net Mueller Infrastructure Network, our advanced meter infrastructure solution."
Mueller Systems provides water infrastructure products and services and offers metering systems for electric, gas and water systems.
"Consolidating our entire metering efforts will allow us to implement a unified strategy to help municipalities better manage their resources," said Hassan Ali, vice president and general manager of Mueller Systems. "For more than 150 years, municipalities have relied on Mueller Water Products to lead the industry, and that tradition continues with Mueller Systems."


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text: Just Eat It: Sausage Gravy on Toast By Stiff My inspiration for cooking can come from a variety of things. Sometimes I get inspired by having a dish from a restaurant that I've never had before and try to replicate it at home. Sometimes inspiration comes from recipes I may see on television. I mostly get inspired by the certain items I see in the grocery store or farmer's market. Sometimes I fail at the outcome of what I'm making and sometimes I succeed. I just like to try new things and expand my horizons when it comes to testing new ingredients or cooking methods. James, my fiancé is a great guinea pig. He will generally eat whatever I make and is honest about how the food tastes. Unlike James, I myself am much more critical about how my food turns out. Posts on this blog will comprise of old and new recipes and of course all those recipes that my friends have asked me for... Sausage Gravy on Toast 1/3 tube of packaged breakfast sausage (soysauge for vegetarians) 4 T. butter 1/4 c. + 1 T. flour 2 1/2 c. milk Kosher Salt and Cracked Black Pepper to taste Cut sausage into 1" thick slices and add to large heated fry pan. Fry until crisp on each side. Once crispy, crumble into small pieces and fry until cooked all the way through. Transfer meat to a bowl and set aside. Return pan to medium heat and start the roux. Roux: a combination of fat and flour used to make a sauce. For this roux, you will use the sausage pan drippings plus the butter. Melt butter until it starts to bubble on top and then add the flour. With a metal whisk, incorporate the flour and butter until the flour becomes soft paste like clumps. Continue to whisk this mixture for about 5-6 minutes, this will ensure that the flour taste is cooked out. Add salt and pepper. Take the milk and slowly incorporate it into the butter and flour mixture, about a 1/3 cup at a time. Continue to whisk until the flour clumps are well combined into the liquid. Do this until all of the milk has been added. The gravy will thicken as long as it has heat on the pan. Add as much/little milk to the pan for desired consistency of gravy. Taste and add salt and pepper as necessary. Add sausage to the gravy and stir together until will combined. Toast bread of choice and top with gravy and serve with a side of homefries. Homefries Serving Size 2 3 med. Idaho potatoes 1/4 c. olive oil 1/4 c. water Kosher salt and cracked black pepper to taste In a large non stick pan, coat bottom with olive oil and heat to medium-high. Cut potatoes into irregular 1" cuts. I cut them on the bias of each angle. Add to hot pan and crisp on each side of the potatoes. Add salt and pepper to taste, toss and continue to fry until slightly crisp on each naked side. Once they are crisp, add 1/4 cup of tap water and cover with lid for 5-6 minutes. This will steam the potatoes all the way through since they are thick cuts. Remove lid and allow all of the liquid to evaporate. Add a drizzle of oil back to the pan to coat the bottom. Fry potatoes until they are crispy again. Once they outer layers have crisped, take a potato masher and run across the pan to break up the chunks. Continue to fry until broken pieces are crispy. Taste and add salt as necessary. These potatoes usually take about 30-40 minutes to cook. I'm not one for exact measuring, this is one of the reasons why I am terrible at baking. I will do my best to write down measurements for my recipes. It's all about taste, not exact measurements of ingredients to me. If it tastes good, stop fucking with it. If it needs salt, then add it. Please feel free to post any of your recipes that you want to share. (Stiff is an amateur home cook and food blogger. Stiff can be found at a grocery store, Instagram @stifferoni and Tumblr: http://stiffers.tumblr.com/.)


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Our site will provide users the ability to sign up to one of three online packages for online golf coaching and golf fitness evaluation.
At golf potential we believe that any golfer no matter what the level can improve. The way to do this is by combining golf coaching, movement screening and fitness. Working closely with TPI, our Team at Golf Potential have developed the most complete golf coaching and fitness solution available to all levels of golfer. This unique service has been designed to allow you access "Tour Player Services" from the comfort of your home.
When customers land on our site we want them to say "this looks like a modern, professional and exciting service".
We want the site to be bold, professional clean and exciting
Our target audience is serious golfers probably from a more affluent background
The goal of this site is twofold:
- Get people to sign up to our newsletter
- Sell our three online packages
We want our Wordpress template to be SEO friendly and easy to modify the actual inner content of pages, sidebar, etc.
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Sites with design we currently like. Many of these are bold, clean, and make a statement...
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http://www.theonlinegolfcoach.com/ - good background and good sign up process
http://www.golfcoachdirect.com/ - Like the cleanness of this site
http://www.intensifygolf.com/index.php - good use of video to show how it works
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The Osmo Water Filters site begins the article with an explanation of what reverse osmosis and a whole house reverse osmosis system are, and their function in removing impurities such as salts, fluorides, pesticides, lead, and other harmful materials from drinking water. It also highlights that the system purifies water on all faucets so that individuals can access clean drinking water anywhere in the home.
The article then moves on to describe the three-stage of osmosis, which includes Firstly, the removal of calcium carbonate and rust particles by the sediment filter. Secondly, the water passes through an activated carbon filter so that chemical agents and chlorine particles are removed, which would otherwise damage the fragile reverse osmosis membrane. The third and final stage is where the reverse osmosis membrane is put into action removing the variety of harmful impurities present in water.
The article also mentions 5 Stage Whole House Reverse Osmosis Systems, which homeowners opt for additional water purification. Such systems include an extra sediment filter with smaller pores to pick up tinier particles and another carbon filter located after the reverse osmosis membrane to filter any more chemicals that the membrane might not have picked up.
Osmo Water Filters' guide then highlights the important advantages of the Whole House Reverse Osmosis System. These include pure, healthy water, savings achieved from not having to purchase bottled water, eco-friendliness arising from less plastic being thrown away from drinking bottled water, convenience from having cleaning drinking water available all around the house, and a better taste as all impurities are removed. In addition, it makes food taste better as water is used to cook meals.
Osmo Water Filters was launched to provide site visitors useful information on all the water purification solutions available. These solutions include reverse osmosis system reviews, commercial reverse osmosis systems, countertop reverse osmosis, and many other systems. Interested readers can browse the information by visiting www.osmowaterfilters.com
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Watts, who was called the "father of software quality" by Business Week, dedicated the majority of his career to addressing problems in software development. He was the pioneering innovator behind several important software development processes, including the Software Capability Maturity Model and the Software Process Assessment and Software Capability Evaluation methods. These later became the basis for the development of the Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) framework of software engineering best practices that have been adopted by thousands of organizations across the globe."Watts Humphrey was one of the icons of software engineering — one of a handful of engineers like Barry Boehm, Fred Brooks, and Vic Basili who have helped define this young field," said SEI director and CEO Dr. Paul Nielsen. "Watts brought engineering to software engineering. His work has had immeasurable impact on the global software community, tirelessly urging the community to emphasize quality, measurement, and performance."
"Changing the world of anything is an outrageous personal commitment," Humphrey said in an interview in early 2010, discussing his decision to come to the SEI at Carnegie Mellon University. "I knew I couldn't do it alone, and I wanted to be in an environment where I could work with folks and do that."
"As the pioneering innovator behind several important software development processes, Humphrey more than met his promise to change the world of software engineering. His contributions go well beyond methodology and the many awards and accolades he received. For decades, his work inspired software engineers and his colleagues and friends worldwide. His warmth, energy, great spirit and dedication will be missed by all of us at Carnegie Mellon," said Jared L. Cohon, president of Carnegie Mellon University.
Watts came to the SEI after working for nearly three decades at IBM where, as director of programming and vice-president of technical development, he supervised 4,000 software professionals spread across 15 laboratories in seven countries.
"When Watts began his work, he faced his critics, but never gave up on his commitment that software development could be more effectively managed by process," said Larry Druffel, SEI director and CEO from 1986 to 1996. "We all understood the importance of things like version control, configuration management, and methodology, but I don't think that anyone knew how to put that into a transferable form. That's what Watts did for the field of software engineering. There were enough people out there criticizing his approach, but he stayed with it, and he made it work."
Humphrey explained his motivation in a 2010 oral history for the Computer History Museum. "We're not going to get very few defects per million lines of code by just having people try hard and hope they're doing it well. The lack of a really serious attack on this problem by the entire community, the academics, the theoretical types, industry is, I think, totally irresponsible. People need to understand that poor quality software work is responsible for just about all of the problems in the software business."
For his work in software engineering, Humphrey was awarded the 2003 National Medal of Technology which he received from President George W. Bush in a special ceremony at the White House in 2005. Humphrey was the author of 12 books on software engineering and hundreds of technical reports, journal articles, and columns. The Watts Humphrey Software Quality Institute in Chennai, India, is named after him.
He is remembered with love by his brother Bill Humphrey, sister Dorothy Bedell, wife Barbara, children Kate Pickman, Lisa Fish, Sarah Humphrey, Watts S. Humphrey Jr., Peter Humphrey, Erica Jarrett and Christopher Humphrey, and 11 grandchildren.


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Fun thought for the day...I guess I got/get paid more than Curto since I got two Lego figures yesterday courtesy of my boss. How about that? Rumor has it I'm being fired though being, and quoting from my performance review, "A bit of a dickhole". It was initialed JMAC&OCB.
All of the mod team moderate this site do so in our free time for the sheer love of the hobby (we don't get paid for this) but please show some respect towards all of us, no matter what section we're from and/or the decisions that've been made Remember this site is what YOU make of it, we're here to keep the peace and keep it all in check, sadly that thread (I have checked it out) was way out of line and the comments posted just unacceptable period.
Well good for you. You and your pals do a ****** *** job of modding what used to be a really awesome site. AND for free no less. WOW!!! good for you. Too bad, if you got paid, you guys would get fired for the job you're done lately.I never read the thread it was gone before I had a chance to look. Which is another problem we have. It should have been locked down. As for comments being way out of line. It shows the action was taken by someone who doesn't know Joe even a little bit. Bringing up another issue. I always thought each section had it's own set of mods. That's the impression I've always had, considering I know I've never see your name pop up here.I'm curious why I was singled out as I wasn't the first to make a comment about this mods brain power. And whoever did Joes ban BTW deserves the "moron mod" title. Trust me I was showing respect I could have just called him a ******bag ******* **** knob dickbag. Which would have been alot more fitting I think.AND finally take your and shove it up your ***.
I appreciate you coming in here and posting about this. This proves it's not difficult. Would have been nicer and meant more if the mod who actually was involved took a couple seconds out of his busy day ruling with an iron fist and governing through fear and tyranny (at least how I see it) to step up and make any type of statement. I guess it's easier and better to ban people and remove undesirables when no one knows who you are and you aren't accountable to the people that you're over seeing.
I'm starting to think there will be another wave of ex-RS members dropping by, if that thread continues on its current path.
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Navy Information Dominance Corps Human Capital Strategy 2012-2017
Navy Information Dominance Corps Human Capital Strategy 2012-2017
IDC Human Capital Mission - Build and sustain an agile Total Force that acquires, exploits, and employs ID capabilities to achieve Navy mission requirements.
IDC Human Capital Vision - Attract, develop, and retain a cohort of highly trained and competent officers, enlisted, and civilian professionals who are fully integrated with the Navy's combat forces, and delivering warfighting effects (including Cyber Warfare) to Naval and Joint forces across the full spectrum of military operations.
Developing and sustaining a viable and responsive Information Dominance Corps (IDC) requires a commitment to workforce planning and management processes, delivery of a Corps-wide learning continuum, and cultivation of an identifiable, inclusive Information Dominance culture and ethos. This Human Capital Strategy constitutes the first installment on that commitment and provides a structured, balanced and deliberate approach for ensuring the Navy's IDC is qualified, ready and sustainable. It is framed on four strategic goals, each supported by a set of measurable objectives, which drive their implementation:
- Manage the Corps as a Total Force
- Develop a strategy for the effective utilization of all components of the Total Force, including a specific plan of action for the civilians across the IDC.
- Identify which ID human capital advantages are complementary to the overarching operational mission.
- Create and strengthen partnerships with centers of innovation and thought leadership within the Federal, Defense, and private sectors.
- Build Competencies through Training, Education, and Experience
- Validate IDC core competency framework and refresh the Community-specific competency models.
- Conduct competency-based training needs assessments.
- Conduct analyses to prioritize, resource, and sequence training development, modification, and repurposing efforts.
- Develop cross-functional ID career paths.
- Strategically Integrate and Align the IDC Workforce with Mission and Capability Requirements
- Define the mission requirement (duties and tasks).
- Translate mission requirements into capability requirements.
- Develop a resourcing strategy for the fulfillment of capability requirements (manpower).
- Create a Warfighting Culture (within Cyber Warfare Forces)
- Orient the total Navy workforce to the IDC mission and vision through a multi-mode, leadershipdelivered strategic communication initiative.
- Leverage kill chain concepts (integrated fires) to depict and communicate the process through which ID discipline contributes to the delivery of warfighting effects.
The Information Dominance Corps Human Capital Strategy reflects the essential value we place on people at the leading-edge of the Navy's Information Dominance capability. It likewise reinforces the IDC's commitment to creating an environment that capitalizes on talent, further develops expertise, advances professional careers, and promotes the fullest contribution to the ID mission. The Human Capital Strategy provides direction to the workforce and to the supporting Manpower, Personnel, Training & Education domain that ultimately drives the IDC as a profession. This strategy sets the IDC on a path towards success as information becomes a principal warfighting pillar in the Navy's arsenal. The IDC's success depends on agility, flexibility, and adaptability to deliver the right people with the right skills, at the right time and place, and at the best value. We are committed to leveraging the best
This IDC Human Capital Strategy supports the Navy Strategy for Achieving Information Dominance, additional related supporting documents include: the Navy Information Dominance Roadmap, 2013-2028; Navy Cyber Power 2020; the Naval Intelligence Strategy, 2013-2020; and, the 2013 Navy Space Strategy. Within this integrated framework, the Navy begins in earnest the process of marshaling its resources, galvanizing the workforce, and aligning Navy's Information Dominance capabilities to fully enable the Navy's primary tenet of Warfighting First.
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Eventually, any deal to restore the nation's finances will have to look something like the Simpson-Bowles proposal, which combines tax increases and cuts to entitlement spending. There is no viable alternative.
Debt fighters Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson, dining with reporters Wednesday morning, discussed a White House official's admission that the nation's fiscal problems won't be solved by a "naked" tax increase alone, without spending cuts.
"I asked, 'Is that the same thing as nekkid?' " recounted Bowles, a North Carolinian who was Bill Clinton's chief of staff.
"You didn't tell him the difference between naked and nekkid?" inquired Simpson, a former senator from Wyoming and co-chairman with Bowles of the nation's debt commission.
"I should've," Bowles said. "If you'd have been there, you would've."
And so Simpson did. "If you're naked, you don't have any clothes on," he explained, "but if you're nekkid, you don't have any clothes on but you're up to something."
By that definition, our leaders are just plain naked. As the nation approaches the year-end "fiscal cliff," nobody is up to much of anything. And there isn't so much as a fig leaf to conceal the lack of progress.
As of Thursday, Congress has only 10 legislative days left before the cliff plunge, yet President Obama and House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) haven't met in 13 days, and reportedly haven't spoken on the phone all week. Staff-level talks have produced little progress. Instead, both sides have embarked on a campaign of photo ops with business leaders and middle-class taxpayers aimed less at persuasion than at avoiding blame once the cliff — a combination of huge spending cuts and tax increases — is reached.
The few voices on Capitol Hill pleading for compromise — Democratic Sen. Dick Durbin, Republican Sen. Bob Corker, Republican Rep. Tom Cole and, of course, Simpson and Bowles — have been isolated. In fact, they've been harassed by extremists on both sides. As Bowles met privately with House Republican leaders Wednesday, liberal Sen. Bernie Sanders sent a letter to colleagues and issued a press release with the title "Simpson-Bowles must not shape deficit debate."
"I'm really worried," Bowles said over a bacon-and-egg breakfast at the St. Regis Hotel arranged by the Christian Science Monitor. "I believe the probability is we're going over the cliff, and I think that would be horrible. ... It would be insane to breach this fiscal cliff, yet I think there is only a one-third possibility we'll actually get something done before Dec. 31."
He became gloomier as the meal progressed. "It's at most a one-third probability," he clarified.
Eventually, any deal to restore the nation's finances will have to look something like the Simpson-Bowles proposal, which combines tax increases and cuts to entitlement spending. There is no viable alternative to their core formula. Yet the threat of a crisis doesn't seem to be enough to spur action; lawmakers are apparently content to wait for an actual crisis — and Simpson and Bowles are passing the time as scolds and jesters.
At the Monitor breakfast, the folksy Simpson tried out a variety of his witticisms on unbending Republicans ("They're rigid as a fire poker but without the occasional warmth"), on compromise ("If you can't compromise, you shouldn't be in the legislature, and you should never, ever marry") and on why the commission they led was called Simpson-Bowles, not Bowles-Simpson. "The acronym for that is not appropriate. So we called it Simpson-Bowles, but that means sumbitch."
Bowles, usually Simpson's straight man, joined in, calling the two of them "Sonny and Cher" and describing his past as a university president: "It's like being CEO of a cemetery. You got lots of people underneath you but ain't nobody listening." He might say the same of his current role, except he doesn't have many people under him.
Jackie Calmes of the New York Times reports that the two have turned their act into a "sort of off-Broadway show" that sometimes nets them $40,000 apiece from business groups. But here in Washington, reviews of their act have been highly selective.
Obama says their work is reflected in his "balanced" plan of tax increases and spending cuts, even though the president's plan is far less aggressive and in different proportions. Boehner points to the duo's insistence that the White House agree to entitlement cuts, while largely ignoring their prescription on taxes.
Bowles expressed exasperation with both of them. If they were serious about the problem, "you wouldn't be going home for Thanksgiving, you wouldn't be going home for Christmas," he said. "If we go over this fiscal cliff, you have bet the country, and the unintended consequences — none of us knows."
That's the naked truth.
Milbank is a Washington Post columnist. His email is
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For a decade now Emily and Joshua and I have spent a week at the end of the summer on Long Beach Island, the 18-mile strip of beach just north of Atlantic City.
Greg and I traded assignments this week; he got stuck with Wednesday night's game and the interminable spectacle of whatever it is Daisuke Matsuzaka does between pitches, while I drew tonight's game and Dillon Gee facing the Nationals.
Emily and I went to dinner, which took much longer than expected because it's Labor Day weekend and everything here is packed. We watched the early innings unfold via Gameday, frowning at Wilton Ramos's homer and nodding happily at Ike Davis's answering shot. By the time we left the restaurant we were in the middle innings; Gee and Jordan Zimmermann were setting hitters down in the time Dice-K uses to contemplate the rhythms of the universe before turning his mental energies to the possibility of throwing a pitch. We headed up the island for our last ice cream of vacation (boo) with Howie painting the word picture of an urgently needed insurance run thanks to Daniel Murphy's hustle and Ryan Zimmermann's excess zeal, and returned home to find Gee in trouble and the game in the balance.
This is what I get for marveling at how quickly things have gone I thought as Steve Lombardozzi slapped a homer to right and Scott Rice faced off against Bryce Harper. It seemed obvious to me that Harper would tie the game and the Mets and Nats would play into the 15th or 16th, with some disaster awaiting us as it always seems to in Nationals Park.
But no: Murph bobbled Harper's grounder. But wait: The Nats star was too busy emoting to watch the play and make it dangerously close. Nifty plays by Omar Quintanilla, Ike Davis and a called strike three from LaTroy Hawkins sent the Nats home, and in regulation to boot.
All very good, but as I gave a somewhat perfunctory fist pump I realized something unhappy: It's been five years and five LBI vacations since the Mets had anything to play for while my family was giving summer a last hurrah and sendoff. LBI means garbage time, with the Mets playing something fiddle to the beach and dinner and ice cream and bike rides and most everything else. The sole remaining intrigue of games watched here concerns possible waiver-wire deals and September call-ups. (Well, OK, and occasional aces going for MRIs, which proves no news really can be good news.) If we're here, it means the Mets are done and the next season is starting to come into view.
That's a pattern I'd love to see broken. The Mets should be leaking out of radios (or iPhones) on the beach and causing craned necks in bars and being debated nervously by like-minded folks across the aisles at breakfast, instead of being reduced to a shared hat or jersey that leads to a sympathetic nod and eye-roll and a grunt about waiting till next year. Vacation is wonderful, but mine could use some more drama — I've had quite enough of sitting pennant races out.
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Brazil President Rousseff meets youth representatives in wake of mass protests
RIO DE JANEIRO – Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff has pledged to open new channels of dialogue with Brazil's youth, the dominant demographic at mass nationwide protests that have rocked the country over the past two weeks.
Rousseff and Education Minister Aloizio Mercadante met Friday in the capital city of Brasilia with leaders from 25 youth organizations, including student and labor unions and gay rights groups.
Rousseff's office also announced the imminent launch of a long-planned government website focusing on youth issues.
The demonstrations took off earlier this month over a 10-cent hike in bus and subway fare in Sao Paulo. The demonstrations morphed into a mass, nationwide movement voicing public dissatisfaction with a range of issues such as government corruption, poor education and health care. Scattered smaller protests continued on Friday.


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If we need a revolution or something , we need genuine thinkers and visionaries not so called hakims or so called spiritualists who copy the ideas re-mold them into their dirty deceptive agenda and use the names and work of great genuine people like Iqbal, Jinnah etc for their bogus agenda. I am seeing lots of good people following these deceivers just in the name of nationalism, patriotism etc .
My suggestion is to use your free mind and sense of justice so that you don't get misguided by these so called nationalists.
Some of my friends on these views of mine against the war think that I support the terrorists for them I need to say:
Opposing the war doesn't mean supporting the terrorists.
I consider both army and the suicide bombers or terrorists who are killing the innocent civilians as destroyers of peace and don't find their actions as just.
The problem is when I oppose the war the "nationalists" think as if I am supporting the
terrorists in fact I am opposing the mess and pointing out to destroy the root cause.
I consider prime responsible for this mess are army and government and reason is they
brought an unwanted war on our land and people.
I oppose the killings of innocent civilians in suicide bombs and by army/air force bombings
but again I consider prime responsibility goes to the country institutions because they (means their key heads rest are just blind followers) created the mess for dollars and this mess has created terrorism.
It was army and government who breached the agreement made by Jinnah for dollars.
It was again army and government with allied forces in Afghanistan with their missile attacks and drone attacks destroyed three peace deals after 2004 .
Before this operation ISPR and Information ministry deliberately tried to mold the facts as if the agreements were broken by tribes but even former army generals like Asad Durrani rejected these claims.
Try to find out how "Neik Muhammad" got killed after the peace deal by USA missile attack and then look at the government reaction of owning it.
The terrorist activities can mainly be categorized as:
1) Revenge of the innocent killings by our forces here and Allied forces in Afghanistan.
Also our support in the form of giving supply route to NATO supplies and Drone attacks are playing it's part as well.
2) Revenge and anger exploited by enemies of Pakistan but its our fault we are providing them the ground to play with.
3) Attacks like on Shariah academy,Peshawar and Benazir were done by players of weapon-blood-dollar game which includes enemies of Pakistan who want us to remain engaged in the war (so called allies in the so called war against terror) and their pets in our own ranks (politicians, military and civil establishment etc).
After the blast which killed Benazir Bhutto the place and all the evidence was washed within hours and a drama was created to link it with tribal situation which never got proved.
My question is who was being protected here?
4) Not to forget the ethnic and sectarian cards which Musharraf government played with their allied parties and groups to control power, they have also contributed a lot to this mess.
My questions are:
Can we support innocent killings in the name of nationalism?
Can we support injustice in the name of patriotism?
And after doing that can we expect peace?


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Lidded jug, 1605. Nagyszeben (Hermannstadt / Sibiu)
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Since earlier this year, the gold and silver collection of István Heller has been on view at the Museum für Angewandte Kunst in Frankfurt. István Heller has amassed an exquisite private collection of European goldsmith works, which had been shown at previous exhibitions and was published in several volumes by Hirmer Verlag. After a succesful career in medicine, Heller trained as an art historian late in his life, and at a mature age successfully submitted a thesis for a doctorate in the history of art - he is also the author of the books introducing his collection. István Heller has decided to make his collection accessible to the public through a permanent partnership with the Kunstgewerbeverein in Frankfurt am Main, thus the collection will have a place at the Museum für Angewandte Kunst Frankfurt in perpetuity. A total of 615 objects were placed in the Museum.
The Heller collection contains high-quality gold and silver objects, ranging in time from the mid-sixteenth century to the twentieth, largely from Central European centers of goldsmith art. All the important German centers of gold work are represented, as well as – for biographical reasons – those of Hungary and Transylvania. One of the four volumes mentioned above was dedicated to goldsmith objects from this territory in the collection. In the Museum für Angewandte Kunst Frankfurt, this magnificent collection will be permanently housed in a room of its own in the Historische Villa Metzler. The tasteful exhibition setting allows the visitor to trace the principles of ornamental design from the Renaissance to Art Nouveau.
Flask with lid, 1670. Neusohl
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This text and the images are based on the press release issued by the MAK Frankfurt (and also available in German). You can find an image gallery at hr-online.de.
If you are interested in such collection of gold and silver, you may want to read my earlier posts about the recent sale of Hungarian and Transylvanian goldsmith objects from the Herzog collection, or about the goldsmith objects which entered the Metropolitan Museum last year from the Salgó collection (see also part II and part III).


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Jackson, Tenn. - The men's golf team played a man down on the final day of the UT Martin Grover Page Classic. The Tigers were without senior Cameron Scitern who was not able to complete the course. The Tigers held on to finish ninth in the two-day, 54-hole tournament at the Par-72, 6, 783 yard Jackson Country Club in Jackson, Tenn.
Scitern (76-72-WD=148) could only manage six holes of play before having to withdraw due to illness. The senior had worked his way up to 11th after two rounds of play.
With Scitern out, the Tigers needed the four remaining members to step up. James Stepp (78-75-75=228) shot his second consecutive round of 3-over. The 75 in the final round gave Stepp a 12-over, 228 for the tournament. The final 18 performance moved Stepp up four spots to finish 21st.
Stepp used birdies on the par-4 fourth and the par eighth to go along with 11 pars to solidify his round. The sophomore led the tournament with 37 pars.
Andrew Warner (78-79-76=233) shot his best round of the two day event with a 4-over 76. Warner scored a birdie on the par-4 first and knocked down 14 pars, including 11 of the final 12 holes. The junior finished play tied for 32nd, moving up seven spots.
Matt Campbell (85-77-82=244) and Shane Sampair (81-83-86=250) were the final two countable scores for TSU. The duo struggled in the final round with Campbell shooting a 10-over 76, while Sampair entered the clubhouse with a 14-over 86.
Campbell managed one birdie, the par-4 14th, to go along with eight pars. Sampair, like Warner, birdied the first hole, as well as the par-5 fifth. Sampair recorded a birdie on the fifth in all three rounds. The sophomore-transfer added six pars to complete his final round of 18.
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Diagnosis of Melanoma
You will be asked about your symptoms, and medical and family history. A complete physical exam will be done. Your skin will be thoroughly examined. A dermatoscope is used to magnify skin lesions so they are easier to evaluate. Your doctor may suspect melanoma based on the skin exam. Many cases of melanoma are found during a physical exam or during a self-exam of your skin at home.
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Melanoma is confirmed with a skin biopsy. A sample of the suspicious tissue will be taken and examined under a microscope for the presence of cancer cells. A local anesthetic is used before taking the sample to eliminate pain during the procedure.
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If melanoma has spread down into the dermis it may spread to nearby lymph nodes. A lymph node biopsy involves removing lymph tissue for examination under a microscope. If cancer cells are found, it indicates that melanoma has spread beyond the mole.
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- Fine needle aspiration—A thin needle is used to remove fluid and/or cells from a lymph node.
- Surgical excision—The entire lymph node is removed.
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If melanoma is confirmed, results from completed tests and new tests will help determine the stage of cancer. Staging is used to determine characteristics of the tumor that will help develop the prognosis and treatment plan. Factors that play a role in staging include how far the original tumor has spread, whether lymph nodes are involved, and microscopic cellular details.
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Tests that may help determine melanoma stage:
- Blood tests to look for abnormal numbers of certain blood cells, proteins, indications of cancer, and abnormal cells. The tests may also show changes in kidney or liver function. For example, high blood levels of lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) may make advanced melanoma more resistant to treatment.
- Imaging tests—To help determine the depth of melanoma invasion. They will also help determine if other structures are involved and evaluate other parts of the body for metastatic growths. Some tests use contrast material to highlight structure so images are more clear and detailed. Imaging tests may include:
- Chest x-ray
- CT scan
- MRI scan
- PET or CT/PET scan
- Sentinel lymph node biopsy—Sentinel lymph nodes are the first nodes that a tumor will drain into. These nodes are located by injecting a traceable material near the tumor and watching which nodes take up the material first. If these nodes are free of cancer cells, it is unlikely that the cancer has spread. If cancer cells are present, then more lymph nodes may need to be removed to determine how far the cancer has spread.
- Tissue evaluation—Cancer tissue from the biopsy will be closely examined to look for characteristics that can help with prognosis and treatment selection. Important characteristics include the presence of genetic mutations like BRAF. BRAF mutations allow certain medications to work better in the treatment of advanced melanoma.
Stages of Melanoma
Melanoma is staged from 0-IV:
- Stage 0—Melanoma in situ—A very localized group of abnormal cells are still contained in the primary site. The cancer remains in the epidermis and has not spread.
- Stage IA—The tumor is 1 millimeter (mm) or less in thickness WITHOUT an ulcer.
Stage IB
- The tumor is 1 mm or less in thickness WITH an ulcer OR
- The tumor is 1-2 mm thick WITHOUT an ulcer
Stage IIA
- The tumor is 1-2 mm thick WITH an ulcer OR
- The tumor is more than 2-4 mm thick WITHOUT an ulcer
Stage IIB
- The tumor is 2-4 mm thick WITH an ulcer OR
- The tumor is over 4 mm thick WITHOUT an ulcer
- Stage IIC—The tumor is over 4 mm thick WITH an ulcer
Stage IIIA—The tumor can be any thickness WITH or WITHOUT an ulcer AND one or more conditions:
- Cancer is found in one or more lymph nodes
- Lymph nodes are joined together
- Cancer is found in a lymph vessel that runs from the tumor to nearby nodes—cancer that is found is over 2 centimeters (cm) from the main tumor
- Smaller tumors are on or under the skin and up to 2 cm from the main tumor
- Stage IV—Melanoma has spread beyond the main tumor to other parts of the body. The most common sites for metastatic melanoma are the lungs, liver, brain, bones, and intestinal tract.
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Melanoma. EBSCO DynaMed Plus website. Available at: http://www.dynamed.com/topics/dmp~AN~T115302/Melanoma. Updated January 10, 2017. Accessed March 16, 2017.
Melanoma skin cancer changes. American Cancer Society website. Available at: https://www.cancer.org/cancer/melanoma-skin-cancer/detection-diagnosis-staging/melanoma-skin-cancer-stages.html. Updated May 20, 2016. Accessed March 16, 2017.
Stages of melanoma. National Cancer Institute website. Available at:https://www.cancer.gov/types/skin/patient/melanoma-treatment-pdq#section/%5F96. Updated March 10, 2017. Accessed March 16, 2017.
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Revision Information
- Reviewer: Mohei Abouzied, MD, FACP
- Review Date: 03/2017
- Update Date: 10/18/2016


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In the We-Might-Have-Guessed Department:
Florida Georgia Line's Here's to the Good Times has bounced back into first place on Billboard's country albums chart, and Luke Bryan's dolorous "Drink a Beer" tops the trade publication's country airplay chart for the second week.
Eric Paslay's self-titled CD is the week's highest debut, breaking into the Top 5 cluster at No. 4 on Nielsen SoundScan-calculated sales of 10,655 copies.
The other album newcomers are Whiskey Myers' Early Morning Shakes (No. 10), Tim McGraw's Love Story (No. 19) and Moonshine Bandit's Calicountry (No. 22). A Walmart exclusive, the McGraw album is a compilation of recordings he made during his tenure on Curb Records. He is now signed to Big Machine Records.
Vince Gill and Paul Franklin's salute to the music of Buck Owens and Merle Haggard, Bakersfield, takes a major bounce, springing this cycle from No. 18 to No. 7.
Four songs move onto the chart for the first time: Miranda Lambert's "Automatic" (No. 26), Parmalee's "Close Your Eyes" (No. 55), Darius Rucker's "Miss You" (No. 56) and Lee Brice's "I Don't Dance" (No. 59).
The No. 2, No. 3 and No. 5 albums this week are Luke Bryan's Crash My Party, Jennifer Nettles' That Girl and Kacey Musgraves' Same Trailer Different Park (last week's No. 1), in that order.
Trooping in directly behind "Drink a Beer" in the Top 5 songs lineup are Jason Aldean's "When She Says Baby," Cole Swindell's "Chillin' It," David Nail's "Whatever She's Got" and Paslay's "Friday Night."
So are you up for another round of Title Tales, via which we string current chart song titles together to reveal a greater (or infinitely lesser) truth?
How about "Miss You/Callin' Me When I'm Lonely" or "Everything I Shouldn't Be Thinking About/Friday Night" or even "When She Says Baby/I Hold On"?
Try it. No electronic assistance required.


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Hi -
Been lurking for a few months and had hopes of tapping some gum trees (about 20) this year in Central/Southern Maryland (Southern Anne Arundel County). New baby and general lack of knowledge on when to do it prevented me from taking the plunge this year, but would like to prepare for next year. I have a couple of regional/tree specific questions that I haven't seen clear answers for:
I'd like to tap about 20 gum trees on my property, using ~5 foot lengths of tubing into milk jugs to start. Anyone else in my area tap gum trees? How about Black Walnut (I have several of those too). Success or lack thereof?
When? I know the standard answer of when temps go from freezing at night to above freezing in the day, but in our area, that can be nearly the whole winter. Is there a particular date range for this area that is more specific?


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Father Frank Pavone, National Director of Priests for Life, released the following statement regarding the ongoing protests in Austin, TX, over the imminent passage of powerful pro-life legislation.
"Abortion supporters are once again showing their true colors," said Father Pavone, a priest of the Diocese of Amarillo, TX. "They are threatening pro-lifers with physical violence, chanting 'Hail Satan' to drown out 'Amazing Grace' and putting profane signs into the hands of children. And the world is watching.
"They are not interested in any kind of dialogue, nor will they ever admit that the babies this legislation would protect are fully formed human beings whose movements inside the womb can be felt by their mothers. There can be no 'when does life begin' debate here, so they are resorting to thuggery. But might does not make right. This pro-life legislation will pass, and Texas will have fewer brutal abortions as a result. And with new clinic regulations in place, women will have some measure of protection from unscrupulous abortionists."
Bryan Kemper, full-time Youth Outreach Director for Priests for Life, noted that a Twitter campaign he organized with other pro-life groups on Tuesday trended all day with the hashtag #Stand4Life. Another campaign, to begin Monday, will use the hashtag #prochoiceviolence to highlight the troubling tactics of the pro-abortion protesters who are being paid to travel to Austin.
"Our voices will be much stronger next week, thanks to all the young people who are traveling to Austin to advocate for these babies," Kemper said.
Dr. Alveda King, niece of Martin Luther King, Jr. and full-time director of African-American Outreach for Priests for Life, said she looks forward to final passage of the bill.
"The angry outcries of the abortion industry and its supporters as Texas makes a valiant stand for life signal the imminent defeat of the scourge of abortion," she said.