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LIVERPOOL manager Brendan Rodgers insisted it was disrespectful to suggest his selection policy was wrong as the Reds went down 1-0 to Anzhi Makhachkala in the Europa League in Moscow.
Liverpool, who left the likes of Steven Gerrard and Luis Suarez at home, lost to Lacina Traore's goal seconds before half-time in Group D.
But Rodgers felt the team, which contained nine Englishmen, a debutant in Conor Coady and had an average age of just under 24, had performed well.
"Not at all. I think that is a little disrespectful to the players who are here," said the Northern Irishman in relation to whether bringing Gerrard and the others would have made a difference.
"They have been magnificent and I thought they did really well and we just got punished for a mistake.
"That led to us losing the game but I don't think it was anything to do with Suarez, Gerrard, Joe Allen, Martin Skrtel or Daniel Agger not being here.
"It was just one of those things. We will take it as a team, we are disappointed but there are so many positives from tonight."
Traore's goal came when he turned Sebastian Coates and lobbed goalkeeper Brad Jones.
Rodgers said the players knew what went wrong and he felt the team he picked had justified his selection.
"We are disappointed with the result. I thought the players put everything into the game," he added.
"Tactically our concentration was very good. We controlled the game for 44 minutes and 50 seconds of the first half
"We made a bad mistake and got punished and that is the level.
"It was more of the same second half. We had chances and there is real disappointment in the changing room and I felt for the players.
"We were up against a good side with top players and we held our own.
"Some of the young players were terrific and we are disappointed not to have got something from it.
"It was a mistake late on in the half. We just have to do that better at defending it once he (Traore) has turned.
"That is something the players involved know themselves so it is nothing they need to be told.
"I thought the performance level was good on a difficult pitch but I thought the players played the system tactically very well.
"We just find ourselves unfortunate not to get something from a very difficult place."
Anzhi manager Guus Hiddink was happy to gain revenge for their defeat at Anfield a fortnight ago.
"They had a young side but that does not mean they were not experienced as some of those players play frequently in the Premier League," he said.
"They were good players, skilful players who were tactically good.
"They tested us but we also have some young players so it's a good result for us.
"We didn't finish it off in the second half, we had two big opportunities, but it was an interesting game on a very bad pitch.
"They tested us so we have to be happy with this result."


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I have a Nehalem CPU and I would like to count the FLOPs that my code executes. My code comprises a for loop with only double precision operations, here:
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#define INDEX 10
unsigned int Events[2] = {PAPI_SP_OPS,PAPI_DP_OPS};
long long values[2];
/* Initialize the Matrix here */
if(PAPI_start_counters((int*)Events,2) != PAPI_OK)
printf("ERROR at init.");
/* Matrix-Matrix multiply */
for ( j = 0; j < INDEX; j++ )
for ( k = 0; k < INDEX; k++ )
mresult[k][j] = mresult[k][j]/2;
if(PAPI_stop_counters(values,2)!= PAPI_OK)
printf("ERROR at end.");
printf( "\n \n single precision: %lld double precision: %lld \n \n", values[0],values[1] );
When I compile it with the -O2 flag, I get the following,
single precision: 0 double precision: 100
which is what I expected.
When I compile with the -O3 flag, I get the following,
single precision: 150 double precision: 100
I know I should only be looking at the PAPI_DP_OPS value, but I am curious to know why exactly PAPI_SP_OPS is being incremented when I vectorize the for-loop due to the -O3 flag.


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Member retention is one of the most challenging aspects of running a club. Each year, 15 million people join clubs while 12 million leave through the back doors.
To retain members, many club owners focus on external factors, such as sending greeting cards and having top-notch facilities, but the internal factors that boost retention are often missing.
Most members see their club only as a place to exercise. They have no strong emotional connection to it, which makes it easy for them to leave at anytime.
By using these three persuasive strategies, club owners can boost retention:
1. Why vs. How. Have you heard of the Iceberg Theory? Ninety to 95 percent of an iceberg is hidden under water and only 5 to 10 percent is visible above the surface. The human mind operates in much the same way, scientists have determined. Our mind consists of two parts: the conscious mind (above the surface) and the subconscious mind (below the surface). Too often, we think that the 5 to 10 percent (conscious mind) is governing our decisions, but really it is the 90 to 95 percent (subconscious mind). People have the best of intentions about getting healthier, but many still struggle to do so because of the powerful subconscious mind.
Action Step: Hold regular goal-setting sessions with new and existing members. Work with them to establish why they are getting fit, set specific goals and determine the tangible results they wish to achieve. The more emotional the goal, the better, as it will get them back in your club week after week. Spell out some of the costs of remaining unfit, such as lower energy levels.
2. Create Early Wins. The biggest reason members come to your club is to get results, but many people find it challenging to maintain an exercise routine. You can have the best health club on the planet, but if your members can't find the motivation to get themselves through your door, they won't renew their memberships.
Action Step: Establish goals that excite your members emotionally. Once these goals are established, break down these goals so members can experience small "wins" each week. Their goals could be losing an inch off their waists, sleeping through the night or eating fruit in place of junk food five days per week. Your trainers should work with members regularly to create goals and keep track of their progress.
3. Combat Out of Site, Out of Mind Thinking. Your members have a distinct separation between their club lives and their lives outside your club. Once they leave your facility, they probably rarely think about it. All it takes is a week-long vacation, sick kids or a stressful event for your members to get out of the habit of coming into your club. If they don't go to your club, they get frustrated about wasting their monthly dues and they cancel. You must create a persuasive link between members' lives outside and inside your club. Just sending them a newsletter won't cut it. The key is engagement.
Action Step: Get your members involved by holding regular club events. Host product evenings where members can socialize and sample products and services of benefit to them. Think outside the box. Offer samples from alliance partners who are willing to extend great deals to your members. For example, invite in a local spa to give sample facials and mini massages and work a deal with that business so that your members can get a special rate later by showing their club card. This simple, persuasive technique will keep them loyal to your club.
At club events, pair members with a club buddy who has similar goals so they can hold each other accountable. This emotional bond is a powerful persuader as people dislike letting others down. Suggest that they call each other regularly to make sure they go to the club, perhaps meeting there to work out together. It's more effective if you pair them up rather than letting friends pair up.
Both ideas enable your members to engage outside of your club but also through your club. They also add value to membership in a way that other clubs don't. The more unique you make the club events and the more added benefits these events offer, the more loyalty you will garner.
By working the above tips into your club, you can start to see changes in your membership retention. It really is the small changes that subtly persuade members to stick with your club.
Nalisha Patel is an industry consultant helping clubs increase member retention. She has a bachelor's degree in exercise science and psychology and uses psychology and persuasion to decrease membership attrition. Patel can be reached at [email protected]. She offers a free white paper, "7 Critical Mistakes Most Clubs Make that Encourage Members to Leave and What You Can Do About It to Increase Profits." Go to http://www.magneticmemberretention.com to download.


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USS KITTY HAWK -- To help sailors aboard USS Kitty Hawk learn more about fitness and nutrition while engaging in friendly competition, the ship's Morale, Welfare and Recreation (MWR) hosted a "Biggest Loser" contest.
Teams of four competed against each other to see which group could lose the most weight in a safe and healthy manner. After six weeks of competition, Team 4, made up of engineers from Main Machinery Room No. 2, racked up 118.5 points to win the competition.
Chad Quinn, Kitty Hawk's afloat fitness director, says the program is an adaptation of the popular TV show, "The Biggest Loser." The object was still to see who could lose the most weight in a set period, but Kitty Hawk participants came together as teams of four instead of competing individually. Every week, the teams were measured and weighed, and each inch or pound lost was one point added to the overall score.
Quinn says that although six weeks is not enough time for some people to see drastic changes, the results for each individual are hoped to be enough to motivate them to continue after the program is over.
"I had one participant come up and tell me how much more energy he's had since starting the program," says Quinn. "He was excited about having the energy to go play with his kid when we pull back into port."
In addition to shedding inches and pounds, weekly competitions helped teams add more points to their score. One of the competitions was a 10-kilometer relay race using treadmills in the ship's gym. Each teammate took their turn running 1.5 kilometers, and all the times were added together for an overall score.
Quinn says that many sailors enrolled in the program were not regular visitors to the gym but signed up after being encouraged by friends and co-workers.
"Now, I see these same people in the gym coming up to me excited about the progress they're making," says Quinn. "It's really great to see people getting excited about fitness, especially people who didn't make it a priority before."
The ship's 68 participants lost a total of 383 pounds and 302.5 inches.
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— The state of war is also a state of mind, terrifying even the bravest as it changes and challenges them.
This is what we are seeing reflected on movie screens. The stories of foot soldiers are shifting, becoming more intimate, more stripped to the bone, more concerned with the ripple effect of war's violence.
At the Toronto Film Festival, war is the subject of several films. But three films in particular, two making their world premieres at the festival, provide insight into war's impact on its fighters.
Unlike "Patton" or "The Longest Day," there are no great campaigns filling the screen with men and machinery. Nor are there bloodily dirty assaults of the sort we saw in "Full Metal Jacket," "Platoon" and "Saving Private Ryan." There are no special units diffusing bombs à la "The Hurt Locker" or a band of "Inglourious Basterds" staging theatrics to destroy the enemy. Even disillusionment is cast in everyday terms, none of the soul-questioning soldier's angst of "All Quiet on the Western Front" or the insanity of "Apocalypse Now."
On the most fundamental level, the men in "Canopy," "Omar" and "Break Loose" are in survival mode. No doubt they could tell you what they were fighting for, but the focus is on the gritty reality of merely staying alive, finding their way back to normal — and figuring out what normal is.
They exist in environments where violence — avoiding it, enduring it or inflicting it — is a way of keeping score. Some find courage, some hang on to their humanity if not always their dignity. Others have stopped feeling, stopped being, anything at all.
"Canopy," set in 1942, is only a sliver of the giant expanse of World War II. It follows a downed Aussie pilot in the jungles near Singapore and marks a strong feature debut for director Aaron Wilson. "Break Loose" opens on the threshold of the millennium in the waning days of the Yeltsin era. Prolific Russian director Aleksey Uchitel has his eye on the violent drives of four ex-soldiers, now part of an elite force fighting the rising rebellion in their homeland.
"Omar," already a provocation and the Un Certain Regard winner at Cannes earlier this year, comes to the festival with an awards run in sight. From director Hany Abu-Assad, Oscar-nominated for his controversial discourse on suicide bombers, "Paradise Now," his new film is, in a sense, a love story. No "Casablanca" sentimentality, no giving up love for the greater good, "Omar" is a harsh, hard story of a young Palestinian man, the girl he wants to marry and the West Bank rebellion. A man who finds himself at war not by choice but by circumstance. He is the collateral damage.
Abu-Assad, Uchitel and Wilson use the medium to tell their war stories in very different ways. Yet deep chasms between ethnicity and ideology are there in the subtext. As are the psychological wounds on the men — deeply embedded, extremely private and unstintingly profound.
The films choose different entry points to take us there. For "Canopy" it is on the ground in enemy territory, whereas "Break Loose" envisions a generation that sees violence as its trade. "Omar" exists in a state of siege, the time-bomb tension of occupation. Of the three, "Canopy" is the most experimental, "Break Loose" the most distressing, "Omar" the most searing.
In "Canopy," Wilson creates a remarkably immersive experience. There is virtually no dialogue, and what dialogue there is likely won't be in a language you understand. That is the point. Wilson drops us into jeopardy alongside the downed pilot, Jim (Khan Chittenden), in a densely overgrown Singapore jungle that suggests the film's name. His parachute has left him hanging high in a tree. He wakes to the sound of something crashing through the brush below. He knows he must run.
Chittenden, already a favorite on the Aussie indie circuit, is riveting: the fear when he spots Japanese soldiers on patrol; the frustration as he sorts through his woefully small survival kit; the tremor in his hands as he tries out the compass; the battle against the insects that rise from the swamp and descend from above; and the terror when he crashes into another man (Mo Tzu-Yi).
In Wilson, we are introduced to a fearless filmmaker — one who trusts his audience to feel the racing pulse of one soldier fighting not to win a war but merely to live.
"Break Loose" is as brash as "Canopy" is contemplative. It begins with a call to arms in the middle of the night. German (Alexey Mantsigyn) rolls out of bed to meet his buddies on the front lines. That night it is a local disco, packed with drugged dancers. For the men, there is fun to be had, heads to break. The next morning, it's a factory closing, riot gear and more beatings required. The resentment that their military service means so little burns hot, the lack of opportunity even hotter.
Ger has the audacity to fall in love with the wrong girl, and soon he and his comrades are locked in a guerrilla war with the local drug lord on one side, the growing ranks of the unemployed on the other. Uchitel gives the film a grainy and raw hand-held look. The neon of the night, the desperation in the dancing, stand in stark contrast to the washed-out colors and dreary worker's faces of the day. Fast moving and angry, it captures a time of transition, of chaos, of ex-soldiers still armed and dangerous, flailing, unable to find traction in a changing world.
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But when it comes to anger personified, that you find in the war Omar (Adam Bakri) wages inside. Filled with repression, rage and such deep wells of love, "Omar" is the most complex and challenging of the three. It is also the best.
Though Abu-Assad has said the idea is spun out of childhood friendships tested by conflict, the director gives us an incredible love story in the harshest of circumstances. A baker and a poet, Omar risks life and limb to slip across the West Bank wall to woo Nadja (Leem Lubany) and spend time with old friends — Amjad (Samer Bisharat) now a leader in the underground, and Tarek (Eyad Hourani), who is vying to get in.
The killing of an Israeli soldier leads to Omar's capture. Infiltrating the operation of his friends is the only way out of a life term. Abu-Assad ties the knot around Omar so tightly that the man can barely breathe. Neither can we. The suspense that comes with each move Omar makes — to salvage his dignity, to suffer the beatings, to prove his loyalty, to save his love — is almost unbearable. Bakri, making his film debut, bares his soul, filling the screen with an astonishing range of emotional colors, from the gentleness in stolen moments with Nadja to the physical and psychological blows he absorbs time and again.
Whether or not the men survive, there are no happy endings. Perhaps that is what the films do best. At a time when the Syrian chemical weapons crisis hangs heavy, the withdrawal from Afghanistan winds down ever so slowly and bombs go off with frightening regularity in Baghdad while memories of the Iraq war remain embedded in our minds, these films remind us that war will exact its wages long after the enemy is brought to its knees.
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Patton's date, Kite Day's date, Sprinkle's trail
* The construction date of the Patton mansion that UVA is saving on West Main Street was incorrect in an image caption with last week's cover story. As the story noted, the structure was built in 1907.
* The news story and caption about Brown's Mountain last week gave the wrong date for the final Kite Day. (Photophile, however, had it right: Saturday, May 29.)
* Readers may have been pleased to read Tim Sprinkle's "Walkabout" feature on National Trails Day twice in last week's issue, but next time we'll aim to run each story just once.


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In A. Mann's paper: Enumerating finite groups and their defining relations (1998, J. group theory), that can be found Here ,
Mann's says (see pages 62-63):
" Let $F$ be a free group of rank d, and let $F_i$ be the lower p-central series of $F$ . Let $ H= F/F_{c+1} $ for some $c$ , and let $ G= H/N$ for some subgroup $N $ of $H_c=F_c/F_{c+1} $ satisfying $|H_c/N|=|N| $ or $ p|N| $ . Since H is the free group of rank d in the variety of groups with lower p-central series of length $c$ , two such factor groups $H/N,H/M$ are isomorphic if and only if $M$ and $N$ are conjugate under $Aut(H) $ ".
Can someone help me understand the bold part ? Why is it true ? I understand that if we have an automorphism $\phi $ of $H$ , such that $\phi( N )= M $ , then the corresponding factor groups are isomorphic. But why in this case, if we have $H/M \equiv H/N$ i it implies that there is an automorphism of $H$ sending $N$ to $M$ ? Does someone have any good reference for this kind of theorem? Can someone help me understand it? Does similar results hold for general free groups? (i.e- $F/N \equiv F/M $ iff $M$ , $N $ are conjugates under $Aut(F)$ ) Are there any similar results for other varieties (such as the variety of groups with p-derived series of length $c$ ? or even derived/central series of length $c$ ?
Hope someone will be able to help me understand this
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The teams were on the field for 6 hours, 32 minutes in a marathon game that ended at 1:41 a.m. on the West Coast. By time, it was the longest game ever played in Oakland ? and the longest in Angels history.
OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) ? Two games in one.
Brandon Moss hit his second home run of the night with two outs in the bottom of the 19th inning to give the Oakland Athletics a 10-8 victory over the Los Angeles Angels early Tuesday in the longest major league game of the season.
The teams were on the field for 6 hours, 32 minutes in a marathon game that ended at 1:41 a.m. on the West Coast. By time, it was the longest game ever played in Oakland ? and the longest in Angels history.
Oakland slugger Yoenis Cespedes singled off the left-center wall against closer Ernesto Frieri to drive in the tying run with two outs in the bottom of the ninth.
Los Angeles went ahead 8-7 in the 15th on Brett Anderson's bases-loaded walk to J.B. Shuck, but the A's tied it in the bottom half on Adam Rosales' two-out single off Jerome Williams after a costly error by Angels first baseman Albert Pujols.
Pujols homered twice earlier in the game and finished with four hits and three RBIs. Mark Trumbo also went deep for the Angels and added a two-run double.
As the game dragged on deep into the night, fans who remained in the scattered crowd of 11,668 chanted the names of Oakland's radio announcers, Ray Fosse and Ken Korach. One player in the Angels dugout wore a rally cap folded in half, with the bill sticking straight up like a mohawk.
But it was the A's who finally pulled it out on Moss' two-run shot.
Seth Smith drew a leadoff walk from Barry Enright (0-1) in the 19th and, two outs later, Moss drove an 0-1 pitch to right for his fourth homer of the year. Josh Hamilton jumped in vain at the fence, but the ball sailed well beyond his reach.
Enright, normally a starter, was called up from the minors Thursday and was making his first big league appearance of the season.
Jerry Blevins (2-0) worked 1 2-3 scoreless innings for the win.
It was the longest game in the majors since the Pittsburgh Pirates won 6-3 in 19 innings at St. Louis on Aug. 19 last year, according to STATS. But it wasn't the only baseball marathon of the night.
The Miami Marlins beat the New York Mets 4-3 in 15 innings in a game that took 5 hours, 31 minutes, and ended about 12:45 a.m. on the East Coast.
Turned out, that was a breeze compared to what the Angels and A's had in store.
And all that baseball took a toll on both teams.
Angels center fielder Peter Bourjos was removed with a strained left hamstring and third baseman Luis Jimenez came out with a bruised left shin.
Oakland lost center fielder Coco Crisp to a strained left hamstring and outfielder Chris Young to a strained left quadriceps.
Brett Anderson was originally scheduled to start for the A's but was scratched with a sore right ankle in favor of Dan Straily. Anderson entered to start the 13th and pitched 5 1-3 innings before hobbling off the field with an apparent foot injury.
Blevins, the last reliever in the Oakland bullpen, was given as much time as he needed to warm up. He retired Mike Trout and Pujols to end the top of the 18th inning.
The A's scored four times in the eighth, two on Josh Donaldson's single, to close the gap.
Angels reliever Jerome Williams did not allow an earned in six innings. He gave up four hits, walked two and struck out two.
Tommy Hanson pitched six strong innings for Los Angeles, allowing two runs and five hits. He walked one and struck out a season-high six in his first start since being activated from the bereavement list.
Called up to fill in for Anderson, Straily lasted 4 2-3 innings. He gave up six runs on seven hits, walked one and struck out six.
Pujols homered for the first time in three weeks, when he also hit two at Texas on April 7, a span of 74 at-bats. He had three hits in his previous 31 at-bats.
Hanson pitched for the first time in 10 days. He extended his scoreless innings streak to 11 before allowing a run in the fourth.
Pujols homered with two outs in the first and Trumbo led off the second with his fourth of the season. He hit it with such force ? the drive was estimated at 475 feet ? that every A's player remained stationary, not even bothering with a cursory glance.
John Jaso's RBI single brought the A's to 2-1, but the Angels rallied for four runs in the fifth, with Pujols and Hamilton driving in runs and Trumbo knocking in two with a double. Pujols homered again in the seventh.
Bourjos went 0 for 4, was hit by a pitch and added a sacrifice bunt, ending his 10-game hitting streak. He strained his left hamstring running out the bunt in the 10th.
Crisp came out in the 13th inning.
NOTES: Angels INF Erick Aybar (bruised left heel) had two hits, a double and a home run, in his first rehab appearance with Triple-A Salt Lake. ... RHP Mark Lowe (neck strain) and INF Alberto Callaspo (tight right calf) will start a rehab assignment with Inland Empire on Tuesday. ... RHP Garrett Richards (1-1, 3.65 ERA) starts Tuesday night for the Angels against RHP Jarrod Parker (0-4, 8.10), whose four losses match an Oakland record for April. ... Donaldson was chosen AL player of the week. ... Pujols had his 46th career multihomer game. ... RHP Jesse Chavez was optioned to Triple-A Sacramento to make room for Straily.


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"Those who are organized, have the most money, the most influence, the most mobilized memberships are the ones whose viewpoints are being most heard."
— Charles Lewis
Founder, Executive Director, Center for Public Integrity,
in a speech to the National Press Club, 1994
Cynthia Berry rises at 6 a.m. to dress for the $500-a-plate fundraising breakfast she arranged for Arizona Sen. Jon Kyl at La Colline, a French restaurant near Capitol Hill. By 9:30 a.m., the health care lobbyist and lawyer is back in her Washington office at Wexler & Walker Public Policy Associates, returning calls and e-mail messages and arranging educational briefings for congressmen and staff members.
A medical client is in town, so she dashes out to Capitol Hill, darting from office to office to introduce the client and to talk about the client's issues.
At 4 p.m., Berry, former Washington counsel to the AMA, has arranged for Erik Lindbergh, grandson of Charles, to talk to congressmen and staff members in a briefing room about early diagnosis and treatment of rheumatoid arthritis.
At dinner, she reconvenes with her morning client to assess how the meetings went and to discuss follow-up.
Such is a day in the life of one of 17,800 registered Washington lobbyists upon whom interest groups spent $1.56 billion last year to sway Congress and the executive branch — numbers that are grossly understated due to the narrow definition of "registered lobbyist," says Jeffrey Birnbaum, author of The Lobbyists: How Influence Peddlers Get Their Way in Washington.
An estimated 40 percent of those 17,800 lobbyists promote health care agendas, according to James Albertine, president of the Alexandria, Va.-based American League of Lobbyists. To put it another way, there are 13 health care lobbyists for each of the 535 members of Congress. Among their most passionate causes this year are Medicare reimbursements and tort reform.
Hundreds of medical groups have a lobbying presence in Washington. The AMA — the third-largest lobbying group (based on expenditures) — spent about $17 million in 2000, the latest year for which figures are available.
On the other hand, there's the American Association for Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Rehabilitation, which spent less than $10,000.
Collectively, health care groups spent $209 million in 2000 to gain passage of bills that benefit their members or to sideline legislation that might harm them. That places health care interests third in lobbying expenditures, behind power brokers for finance, insurance, and real estate, who spent $229 million, and manufacturers and retailers, who invested $224 million in their work.
In Washington, a vote in Congress, a presidential directive, or new regulation can positively or adversely affect the pocketbook of an entire industry.
For example, in 2000, just before he left office, President Clinton issued an executive order mandating, among other things, that doctors and hospitals that receive federal Medicare and Medicaid funding make translators available to patients who do not speak English.
One result of that: Physicians whose practices depend on federal reimbursement will have to endure huge expenses, or "sick taxes," to learn the languages of the communities in which they practice, or else hire translators or multilingual staff. The alternative is to refuse to accept Medicare and Medicaid patients. The AMA and the medical societies of all 50 states lobbied — to no avail — to force the federal government to find the cash somewhere other than physicians' pockets.
Despite this failure, the AMA has chalked up at least one sick-tax victory. The association averted a proposed $1-per-claim surcharge on Medicare claims that are not sent electronically. "Our most important role is to prevent things from happening to doctors," says Timothy Flaherty, MD, who chairs the AMA board of trustees.
In 1994, when the not-for-profit, nonpartisan Washington-based Center for Public Integrity tracked them, there were at least 660 medical organizations lobbying Congress. Besides the AMA, some of the physician groups include the American College of Physicians-American Society of Internal Medicine, which spent $2.1 million in 2000; the American Academy of Family Physicians, which spent $1.6 million; and the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, which funded $450,000 in lobbyist activity, according to the Washington-based Center for Responsive Politics (CRP), an organization that tracks such expenditures.
"A number of interests compete against doctors in Washington. Without the lobbyists, doctors and their patients would not have the same rights," says Christian Shalgian, senior government affairs associate at the American College of Surgeons in Washington.
Nonphysician health groups with sometimes similar interests are the American Hospital Association, the sixth-largest spender in 2000 at $12 million; Blue Cross, the 18th largest at $8 million; and the American Association of Health Plans, whose $4 million made it the 67th-largest spender. The reported numbers account only for what lobbyists spend on Congress and the executive branch, says Therese Foote, a CRP researcher. They do not include advertising, PR, state lobbying, or grass-roots efforts.
Member dues, some of which support lobbying, can add up to hundreds — or hundreds of thousands — of dollars annually per member. Membership is $420 for the AMA, up to $25,000 for the AHA, and from $2,500 to several hundred thousand dollars for the AAHP.
What are these lobbyists fighting for? Tort reform has been on the AMA's list for years, but it may never have bee/n so high as it is this year. Malpractice premiums have shot up at least 30 percent in eight states, including Texas and Illinois, according to the association's analysis of state insurance department and insurer records.
The association wants Congress to pass legislation that would put a $250,000 cap on noneconomic damages (pain and suffering), often seen as the key to holding down malpractice premiums. The thrust is similar to California's 1975 MICRA (Medical Injury Compensation Reform Act) legislation. Many other groups consider the cap a top priority too, including the American Association of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, the American Hospital Association, and the American Association of Health Plans.
On this issue, state medical groups and hospital associations are also putting some lobbying clout to work on Capitol Hill. Then there are the many coalitions, such as the Health Care Liability Alliance and the American Tort Reform Association — organizations that push professional liability insurance limits.
With the tremendous financial resources of these groups, why hasn't Congress passed a tort reform bill? Indeed, between 1995–2001, a tort reform measure that included a $250,000 cap on noneconomic damages passed in the House alone six times. Only once has a similar bill, one with a $500,000 cap, reached the Senate floor; it was defeated 56–44 in 1995.
"Trial lawyers have had more influence in the Senate and are pumping more money into Senate campaigns," says James Thurber, PhD, director of the Center for Congressional and Presidential Studies at American University in Washington.
Albertine of the American League of Lobbyists adds: "ATLA [Association of Trial Lawyers of America] is uniformly preventing any, even minor, revision in the tort reform laws because it is a bread-and-butter issue for them."
ATLA is No. 5 in Fortune magazine's 2001 "Power 25" list of Washington's most powerful lobbying groups, while the AMA is 12 and the AHA 13. ATLA's lobbying expenses were $3 million in 2000. But, then, ATLA doesn't need a big lobbying budget: It has power in numbers — of bodies. There are only nine physicians in Congress, but there are 218 representatives and senators with law degrees.
The AMA has tried a number of strategies over the years to combat the enormous power of the lawyers, one of which was the 1988 creation of a campaign school to encourage and train physicians to become legislators. "It would help the medical groups if there were more doctors in Congress," Albertine says.
Washington is a confusing place where groups can be buddies and enemies. Though ATLA and the AMA are diametrically opposed on the issue of physician tort reform, they cozy up to each other against the health plans regarding the Patients' Bill of Rights, united on the key issue of a patient's right to sue HMOs.
The lawyers want the right to sue health plans. The AMA thinks that it is OK to reduce liability for doctors but to expand liability for health plans, because doctors feel the plans are forcing them to deny care and therefore leave them holding the malpractice bag. Health plans argue that allowing patients to sue HMOs will drive up health costs and, as a result, force businesses to drop employee health insurance coverage.
"How can the AMA say it wants tort reform if it supports suing health plans?", AAHP spokesman Mohit Ghose asks rhetorically.
The AMA and AAHP also butt heads over antitrust legislation, called the Barr-Conyers bill. That bill would permit independent doctors to band together to bargain collectively with health plans for better rates. The AMA feels it would reduce the plans' disproportionate power; the AAHP sees it as price fixing.
While the AMA and AAHP duke it out over these two issues, they are bedfellows when it comes to tort reform for physicians. Both are members of the American Tort Reform Association, a lobbying coalition that supports a cap on pain-and-suffering awards.
The AMA runs afoul of drug makers over direct-to-consumer advertising, though drugmakers fund many educational programs for physicians. Doctors want the FDA to study the effects of the ads, because patients sometimes request medications that they have seen on television that may be inappropriate. PhRMA, the drug manufacturers trade association, is standing behind the First Amendment. The organization spent $7.5 million on lobbying in 2000.
Sometimes health care groups play as friends; other times, they argue like siblings. Nowhere is this truer than with Medicare. The AMA, AHA, and AAHP are asking Congress to rescind Medicare payment restraints included in the Balanced Budget Act of 1997. AAHP wants Medicare+Choice to be well funded. AMA and AHA want provider payment levels increased.
"Before the 1980s, there was plenty of money to go around, so doctors, hospitals, and health plans didn't fight with each other," says Robert Zinkham, a lawyer at Venable, Baetjer and Howard, a Washington firm that handles health care lobbying. "Now that money is tight, everyone is fighting for limited funds."
The AMA's Flaherty says the federal government unwittingly inspires conflict between the AMA, AHA, and AAHP by taking Medicare funds from doctors and giving them to hospitals or plans. Rarely are there turf wars between specialty societies, though there remain long-simmering power scuffles between groups representing nurse anesthetists and anesthesiologists, optometrists and ophthalmologists, psychologists and psychiatrists, and physicians and pharmacists. Sometimes these are pitched battles as one group seeks to gain more privileges by legislative decree.
More unusual are lobbying efforts that do not pay off by lining the pockets of group members. For instance, the AMA has taken positions against smoking, alcohol, and firearms. The AMA wants to boost funding for the Centers for Disease Control to study guns and children. It also supports a plan to have the U.S. Food and Drug Administration regulate tobacco products, because it holds that the FDA's objectivity regarding product safety would reduce or eliminate tobacco.
"Historically, we've been the umbrella organization for doctors. We take a broad view," says Flaherty.
But such actions may not be wholly altruistic.
"The AMA selects issues specifically to forge alliances that work to serve other bread-and-butter issues for its members," says Washington health care lobbyist Thomas Donnelly of Jefferson Government Relations. Some AMA lobbying has balanced the lobbying of other big spenders, such as the National Rifle Association and Philip Morris.
Few medical organizations had a lobbying presence in the capital before the mid-1970s. Some relied on the AMA or other groups to do their bidding. Some had public affairs directors who did the job on their own, and some hired lobbyists when they needed them, says Paul Herrnson, director of the Center for American Politics and Citizenship at the University of Maryland.
After Watergate, freshmen legislators bent on change entered Congress as the infamous "Class of 1974." The seniority system ended, the number of subcommittees increased substantially, committees became more democratized, and power became diffuse, writes Charles Lewis, in The Buying of Congress.
At the same time, instead of patients paying doctors, hospitals and pharmacies for services, patients paid third parties, and government stepped in to control how those payments were made.
"There was a confluence of events, and as government expanded, so did the number of lobbyists," says Lewis, who is also the founder of the Center for Public Integrity.
Adds Albertine, "There is a direct relationship between the size of government and increases in the number of Washington lobbyists."
What used to be the domain of a small group of people has become a free-for-all. Today, it's inconceivable that medical organizations would not have a lobbying presence for self-preservation. It's easy to spot their agenda on their web sites under such euphemisms as "advocacy" and "health policy."
What often goes unrecognized, however, is that while lobbyists bring home legislative gifts to hungry memberships, they also aid members of Congress in drafting complex medical legislation. Says Foote, the CRP researcher, "They are not just vultures. Their technical advice can be invaluable."
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text: Astronomy http://hdl.handle.net/2022/12958 2020-05-26T13:18:41Z 2020-05-26T13:18:41Z Galaxy-scale star formation on the red sequence: The continued growth of S0s and the quiescence of ellipticals Salim, S. Fang, J.J. Rich, R.M. Faber, S.M. Thilker, D.A. http://hdl.handle.net/2022/19110 2016-12-20T04:30:51Z 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Galaxy-scale star formation on the red sequence: The continued growth of S0s and the quiescence of ellipticals Salim, S.; Fang, J.J.; Rich, R.M.; Faber, S.M.; Thilker, D.A. This paper examines star formation (SF) in relatively massive, primarily early-type galaxies (ETGs) at $z \sim 0.1$. A sample is drawn from bulge-dominated Galaxy Evolution Explorer/Sloan Digital Sky Survey (GALEX/SDSS) galaxies on the optical red sequence with strong UV excess and yet quiescent SDSS spectra. High-resolution far-UV imaging of 27 such ETGs using Hubble Space Telescope Advanced Camera for Surveys/Solar Blind Channel (ACS/SBC) reveals structured UV morphology in 93% of the sample, consistent with low-level ongoing SF ($\sim0.5 M_{\odot} yr^{–1}$). In 3/4 of the sample the SF is extended on galaxy scales (25-75 kpc), while the rest contains smaller (5-15 kpc) SF patches in the vicinity of an ETG—presumably gas-rich satellites being disrupted. Optical imaging reveals that all ETGs with galaxy-scale SF in our sample have old stellar disks (mostly S0 type). None is classified as a true elliptical. In our sample, galaxy-scale SF takes the form of UV rings of varying sizes and morphologies. For the majority of such objects we conclude that the gas needed to fuel current SF has been accreted from the intergalactic medium, probably in a prolonged, quasi-static manner, leading in some cases to additional disk buildup. The remaining ETGs with galaxy-scale SF have UV and optical morphologies consistent with minor merger-driven SF or with the final stages of SF in fading spirals. Our analysis excludes that all recent SF on the red sequence resulted from gas-rich mergers. We find further evidence that galaxy-scale SF is almost exclusively an S0 phenomenon ($\sim$20% S0s have SF) by examining the overall optically red SDSS ETGs. Conclusion is that significant number of field S0s maintain or resume low-level SF because the preventive feedback is not in place or is intermittent. True ellipticals, on the other hand, stay entirely quiescent even in the field. 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z The dependence of quenching upon the inner structure of galaxies at 0.5 ≤ $z$ < 0.8 in the DEEP2/AEGIS survey Cheung, E. Faber, S.M. Koo, D.C. Dutton, A.A. Simard, L. McGrath, E.J. Huang, J.-S. Bell, E.F. Dekel, A. Fang, J.J. Salim, S. Barro, G. Bundy, K. Coil, A.L. Cooper, M.C. Conselice, C.J. Davis, M. Domínguez, A. Kassin, S.A. Kocevski, D.D. Koekemoer, A.M. Lin, L. Lotz, J.M. Newman, J.a. Phillips, A.C. Rosario, D.J. Weiner, B.J. Willmer, C.N.A. http://hdl.handle.net/2022/19109 2016-12-20T04:30:51Z 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z The dependence of quenching upon the inner structure of galaxies at 0.5 ≤ $z$ < 0.8 in the DEEP2/AEGIS survey Cheung, E.; Faber, S.M.; Koo, D.C.; Dutton, A.A.; Simard, L.; McGrath, E.J.; Huang, J.-S.; Bell, E.F.; Dekel, A.; Fang, J.J.; Salim, S.; Barro, G.; Bundy, K.; Coil, A.L.; Cooper, M.C.; Conselice, C.J.; Davis, M.; Domínguez, A.; Kassin, S.A.; Kocevski, D.D.; Koekemoer, A.M.; Lin, L.; Lotz, J.M.; Newman, J.a.; Phillips, A.C.; Rosario, D.J.; Weiner, B.J.; Willmer, C.N.A. The shutdown of star formation in galaxies is generally termed "quenching." Quenching may occur through a variety of processes, e.g., active galactic nucleus (AGN) feedback, stellar feedback, or the shock heating of gas in the dark matter halo. However, which mechanism(s) is, in fact, responsible for quenching is still in question. This paper addresses quenching by searching for traces of possible quenching processes through their effects on galaxy structural parameters such as stellar mass ($M_{\ast }$), $M_{\ast }/r_{e}$, surface stellar mass density ($\sim M_{\ast }/r^{2}_{e}$), and Sérsic index ($n$). We analyze the rest-frame $U - B$ color correlations versus these structural parameters using a sample of galaxies in the redshift range $0.5 \lesssim z < 0.8$ from the DEEP2/AEGIS survey. In addition to global radii, stellar masses, and Sérsic parameters, we also use "bulge" and "disk" photometric measurements from GIM2D fits to $\textit{HST/ACS V}$ and $I$ images. We assess the tightness of the color relationships by measuring their "overlap regions," defined as the area in color-parameter space in which red and blue galaxies overlap; the parameter that minimizes these overlap regions is considered to be the most effective color discriminator. We find that Sérsic index ($n$) has the smallest overlap region among all tested parameters and resembles a step function with a threshold value of $n$ = 2.3. There exists, however, a significant population of outliers with blue colors yet high n values that seem to contradict this behavior; they make up $\approx$ 40% of $n$ > 2.3 galaxies. We hypothesize that their Sérsic values may be distorted by bursts of star formation, AGNs, and/or poor fits, leading us to consider central surface stellar mass density, $\sum^{\ast }_{1 \:\text{kpc}}$, as an alternative to Sérsic index. Not only does $\sum^{\ast }_{1 \:\text{kpc}}$ correct the outliers, but it also forms a tight relationship with color, suggesting that the $\textit{innermost structure of galaxies is most physically linked with quenching}$. Furthermore, at $z \sim 0.65$, the majority of the blue cloud galaxies cannot simply fade onto the red sequence since their GIM2D bulge masses are only half as large on average as the bulge masses of similar red sequence galaxies, thus demonstrating that stellar mass must absolutely increase at the centers of galaxies as they quench. We discuss a two-stage model for quenching in which galaxy star formation rates are controlled by their dark halos while they are still in the blue cloud and a second quenching process sets in later, associated with the central stellar mass buildup. The mass buildup is naturally explained by any non-axisymmetric features in the potential, such as those induced by mergers and/or disk instabilities. However, the identity of the second quenching agent is still unknown. We have placed our data catalog online 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Globular cluster systems of spiral and S0 galaxies: Results from WIYN imaging of NGC1023, NGC1055, NGC7332, and NGC7339 Young, M.D. Dowell, J.L. Rhode, K.L. http://hdl.handle.net/2022/19107 2016-12-20T04:30:51Z 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Globular cluster systems of spiral and S0 galaxies: Results from WIYN imaging of NGC1023, NGC1055, NGC7332, and NGC7339 Young, M.D.; Dowell, J.L.; Rhode, K.L. We present results from a study of the globular cluster (GC) systems of four spiral and S0 galaxies imaged as part of an ongoing wide-field survey of the GC systems of giant galaxies. The target galaxies - the SB0 galaxy NGC1023, the SBb galaxy NGC1055, and an isolated pair comprised of the Sbc galaxy NGC7339 and the S0 galaxy NGC7332 - were observed in BVR filters with the WIYN 3.5m telescope and Minimosaic camera. For two of the galaxies, we combined the WIYN imaging with previously published data from the $\textit{Hubble Space Telescope}$ and the Keck Observatory to help characterize the GC distribution in the central few kiloparsecs. We determine the radial distribution (surface density of GCs versus projected radius) of each galaxy's GC system and use it to calculate the total number of GCs ($N_{GC}$). We find $N_{GC}$ = 490 ± 30, 210 ± 40, 175 ± 15, and 75 ± 10 for NGC1023, NGC1055, NGC7332, and NGC7339, respectively. We also calculate the GC specific frequency (N GC normalized by host galaxy luminosity or mass) and find values typical of those of the other spiral and E/S0 galaxies in the survey. The two lenticular galaxies have sufficient numbers of GC candidates for us to perform statistical tests for bimodality in the GC color distributions. We find evidence at a high confidence level (>95%) for two populations in the $B - R$ distribution of the GC system of NGC1023. We find weaker evidence for bimodality (>81% confidence) in the GC color distribution of NGC7332. Finally, we identify eight GC candidates that may be associated with the Magellanic dwarf galaxy NGC1023A, which is a satellite of NGC1023. 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Direct oxygen abundances for low-luminosity LVL galaxies Berg, D.A. Skillman, E.D. Marble, A.R. Van Zee, L. Engelbracht, C.W. Lee, J.C. Kennicutt, R.C. Calzetti, D. Dale, D.A. Johnson, B.D. http://hdl.handle.net/2022/19103 2016-12-20T04:30:51Z 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Direct oxygen abundances for low-luminosity LVL galaxies Berg, D.A.; Skillman, E.D.; Marble, A.R.; Van Zee, L.; Engelbracht, C.W.; Lee, J.C.; Kennicutt, R.C.; Calzetti, D.; Dale, D.A.; Johnson, B.D. We present MMT spectroscopic observations of H II regions in 42 low luminosity galaxies in the Spitzer Local Volume Legacy survey. For 31 of the 42 galaxies in our sample, we were able to measure the temperature sensitive [O III] $\lambda$4363 line at a strength of $4\sigma$ or greater, and thus determine oxygen abundances using the "direct" method. Our results provide the first "direct" estimates of oxygen abundance for 19 of these galaxies. "Direct" oxygen abundances were compared to $B$-band luminosities, 4.5 $\mu$m luminosities, and stellar masses in order to characterize the luminosity-metallicity and mass-metallicity relationships at low luminosity. We present and analyze a "Combined Select" sample composed of 38 objects (drawn from a sub-set of our parent sample and the literature) with "direct" oxygen abundances and reliable distance determinations (based on the tip of the red giant branch or Cepheid variables). Consistent with previous studies, the $B$ band and 4.5 $\mu$m luminosity-metallicity relationships for the 38 objects were found to be$12 + log(O/H) = (6.27 \pm 0.21) + (- 0.11 \pm 0.01)M_{B}$and$12+log(O/H) = (6.10 \pm 0.21) + (- 0.10 \pm 0.01)M_{[4.5]}$with dispersions of $\sigma$ = 0.15 and 0.14, respectively. The slopes of the optical and near-IR L-Z relationships have been reported to be different for galaxies with luminosities greater than that of the LMC. However, the similarity of the slopes of the optical and near-IR L-Z relationships for our sample probably reflects little influence by dust extinction in the low luminosity galaxies. For this sample, we derive a mass-metallicity relationship of $12 + log\big(O/H\big) = \big(5.61 \pm 0.24\big) + \big(0.29 \pm 0.03\big)log \big(M_{\star}\big)$, which agrees with previous studies; however, the dispersion ($\sigma$ = 0.15) is not significantly lower than that of the L-Z relationships. Because of the low dispersions in these relationships, if an accurate distance is available, the luminosity of a low luminosity galaxy is often a better indicator of metallicity than that derived using certain "strong-line" methods, so significant departures from the L-Z relationships may indicate that caution is prudent in such cases. With these new "direct" metallicities we also revisit the 70/160 $\mu$m color metallicity relationship. Additionally, we examine N/O abundance trends with respect to oxygen abundance and B - V color. We find a positive correlation between N/O ratio and B - V color for $0.05 \lesssim B - V \lesssim 0.75: log (N/O) = (1.18 \pm 0.9\big) × (B - V) + (- 1.92 \pm 0.08)$, with a dispersion of $\sigma$ = 0.14, which is in agreement with previous studies. 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z


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Former Congressman Patrick Kennedy talks about his battle with addiction, the pain of losing his father to brain cancer, and his ambitious new project to ramp up research on the brain and brain disease. "Dr. Sanjay Gupta Reports: Patrick Kennedy: Coming Clean," Sunday on CNN, 7 p.m. ET.
(CNN) -- Patrick Kennedy is sprawled in a too-small chair in a tiny courtyard in Atlanta, talking to a reporter and trying to catch the early spring sunlight.
The 43-year-old Kennedy left Congress in January, after spending more than half his life in public office. Now he's outside the Carter Center, taking a break after talking up his latest plan to a group of mental health advocates, including former first lady Rosalynn Carter.
One thing Kennedy enjoys is talking, and these days, he can say whatever he wants. He shouts when he gets excited. He laughs a lot. He curses when he brings up frustrations.
What he's talking about now is "Moonshot." If Kennedy has his way, 50 years from now the world will remember next week as the first step on one of the great triumphant journeys -- like the call by Patrick's uncle, President John F. Kennedy, that sent men to the moon.
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That call, as Kennedy likes to point out, came May 25, 1961 -- a half-century ago. Today, says Kennedy, the race is to inner space, the goal to create a detailed map of the brain in 10 years, with advances toward curing "every kind of brain disease."
The role Kennedy plays now would have been hard to imagine back in May of 2006, when he made his woozy emergence from a green Mustang convertible with an old Kerry-Gephardt bumper sticker on the back, which he'd just crashed into a concrete barrier near the U.S. Capitol shortly after 2:30 in the morning. A day later, head bowed, Kennedy blamed sleeping pills for the crash and announced he was checking into rehab at the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota.
We didn't know the whole story then, that the congressman had already been to rehab a half-dozen times. As is often the case, there had been hints. Shoving a security guard at the Los Angeles International Airport. A fight on a yacht, that brought a visit from the Coast Guard. Another boat, and another fight, this time with the rental company.
Kennedy has acknowledged a trip to rehab for cocaine abuse way back in 1985, as a 17-year-old high school senior in Andover, Massachusetts. Along the way he also got a diagnosis of bipolar illness, although he now says recent testing suggests he is not bipolar but has a different, unspecified disorder.
At the time of the infamous Capitol Hill crash, Jim Ramstad was a Republican congressman from Minnesota. He was also a recovering alcoholic, who had his last drink in 1981, shortly before an unpleasant encounter with some Sioux Falls, South Dakota, police officers. "I called Patrick that morning, and told him I knew exactly what he was going through. And if he wanted me to come to him and talk, I would."
Ramstad had worked with Kennedy on mental health legislation but was not a close confidant. That changed over the next few weeks, as he paid repeated visits to the Mayo Clinic. "We really formed a bond of friendship, and got to be close friends," says Ramstad.
The former congressman, who became Kennedy's sponsor at Alcoholics Anonymous, says he's proud his friend was so open about the public crackup. "Patrick got up there and told the truth. He let it all hang out, so to speak. And that's why he has been able to recover."
After getting home from the Mayo Clinic, most politicians -- heck, pretty much any politician you can think of -- would have run from the attention. Kennedy seemed to embrace it.
By 2008, he was leading the drive for "parity," the requirement that mental ailments -- addiction included -- must be covered by insurance companies, along with other kinds of illness. President Bush signed the bill into law that year. Says Ramstad, one of the bill's original sponsors a decade earlier: "Without Patrick and his father (Sen. Ted Kennedy) as catalysts, we never would have passed the legislation."
In a Boston hotel suite in early April, Kennedy explained his vision of parity. "If you have diabetes and have a chemical imbalance so you need more insulin, you don't get any questions about it. But if you need a neurotransmitter -- more serotonin, or dopamine -- then (people) look at that as something askew, as if the brain isn't part of the body," says Kennedy, his voice rising. "I mean, we're in modern times and people are still treating this illness, mental illness, as if it's back in the Dark Ages."
If 2008 was a year of professional triumph, it also brought devastating personal news: that Patrick's father was fighting a brain tumor. "He gave me an implicit message when he asked me to be around him at the end of his life," says Kennedy, who calls the final time with his father "the most important year of my life."
As Kennedy recalls it now, "The only thing that mattered to (my dad) when he was alone at the end of his life was not being alone and being surrounded by the people he loved the most, who he knew loved him the most."
The strain took a toll on Patrick. Two months before his father's death, he checked into rehab again. When Ted Kennedy died in August 2009, Patrick took it hard. Six months later, he announced he would not run for re-election.
He seems to have walked away on his own terms. "He would have won re-election easily," according to Darrell West, a political scientist who has followed Kennedy's career closely since the early 1990s. Incidentally, Kennedy's departure in January marked the first time in 58 years that there is no Kennedy in the national government -- no congressman, senator or president.
Kennedy says he was tired of struggling with the stress of public office. "I have put certain days together, and managed effectively to live and fight for another day legislatively," says Kennedy. But, "I'm looking to live more than just surviving. I'm looking to live a life that's fuller in sobriety. I could function (while still in office), but that's not all I want to do. I want to live."
He's seized the opportunity. Come July, Kennedy will be married, to Amy Petitgout, a sixth-grade history teacher he met after, yes, another talk. It was about special education, the cause championed by his aunts Eunice Kennedy Shriver, who founded the special Olympics, and Jean Kennedy Smith, who received the Presidential Medal of Freedom for promoting the artistic talents of people with disabilities. Petitgout's father, a special education teacher, had a ticket to the event but couldn't go. As Kennedy says, "The rest is history."
Ramstad, his AA sponsor, says his old friend is happier than ever. "He was so close to his dad. They used to talk five or six times a day. Losing him left a huge void in his life. And now here comes Amy."
Kennedy glows when he talks about his fiancée, or about reading bedtime stories to her 3-year-old daughter. But he's all impatient enthusiasm when talk comes back around to Moonshot, or as next week's conference is officially called, "One Mind for Brain Research."
The surroundings will be modest, an academic-style conference in Boston. Then again, President Kennedy's original 1961 call for a space race was prosaic too, the last of several budget requests in a businesslike address to Congress four months after taking office.
What we remember better is the stirring speech he gave at Rice University the following year. "We choose to go to the moon in this decade and to do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard," the president famously declared.
His nephew, Patrick, grins at the challenge ahead. "This is a thousand moon shots in order of complexity, and that makes it all the more challenging. For our generation, this is our chance to make the difference."


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Imus' Nappy Headed Hos
I was just as shocked by the comments of MSNBC commentator Don Imus when referring to the Rutgers University women's basketball team as anyone else.
I mean, it doesn't get much worse than being referred to as a "nappy-headed ho" on national television. The team, which includes eight Black women, had lost the day before in the NCAA women's championship game. Imus was speaking with producer Bernard McGuirk about the game when the exchange began on the show, which is broadcast to millions of people on more than 70 stations and the MSNBC television network.
And while I am joining the chorus of Blacks calling for the immediate firing of Imus from MSNBC, I am also turning a critical eye on us. On any given day of week, million of Blacks condone the use of the word ho being used to refer to the Black woman.
Rappers commonly refer to the women in their songs and videos as hos and bitches. In fact, it's celebrated in rap music. The reality is that what Imus said was despicable and downright deplorable and yes he should be fired for it.
But the door was opened a long time ago for the degrading of Black women, and it was opened by us. When Black men began to make a living, and a good one at that, off of calling us hos, bitches and other derogatory terms, sooner or later it was going to become ok for others to do it.
And I am not blaming us for Imus' racism and stupidity, but I am pointing out the fact that many Blacks, including Black women support rap artists who degrade them and in fact refer to themselves as "hos" and "bitches" much in the way that a large number of Blacks refer to themselves as "nigga."
So, at the end of the day, while we can and should be demand for Imus to fired, we should also be turning to ourselves and reexamining why in 2007, people still think it's ok to degrade and disrespect us.
I mean if 50 Cents can call you a ho and you bounce your hips to it, then what's to say some white male television commentator can't do the same? What's the difference?
Exactly. It's kind of hard to demand respect from others, when you can't even get it from your own. And as would be expected, because it's an attack on Black women, cooler heads must prevail and the network must review the Imus situation.
All the while, you and I both know that had Imus replaced the word nappy with frizzy, not only would he be out of a job and probably in protective custody, but the MSNBC building would probably be burnt to crisp. And if he had replaced the word hos with dykes or "carpet munchers," you better believe there would be no reviewing the matter coming out of MSNBC, he'd have been fired the same day. Only when it comes to Black people does it require this careful thought process about what the appropriate punishment should be. Â
At the end of the day, if we're going to call for Imus to be fired, and we should, we should also turn attention to the rappers that also call Black women hos and turn a profit off of it. I don't know what's worse, being called a ho by some white man or being called a ho by a Black man.
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Lester Donahue Performing Arts Collection
Lester Donahue Performing Arts Collection
Collection number: 011William H. Hannon Library
Loyola Marymount University
Los Angeles, California
- Processed by:
- Unknown Librarian
- Date Completed:
- perhaps 1995
- Encoded by:
- Alvaro González
NOTE: These books, shelved by call number, are part of the Lester Donahue Collection.
- 1995.18.15 Robida, A. The City of Carcassonne. [192-?]. DC801 .C24 R6313 1920
- 1995.18.16 Ford. DuBarry. c. 1902. DC135 .D8 F6 1902
- 1995.18.17 Drew. Autobiographical Sketch of Mrs. John Drew. 1899. PN2287 .D63 A3 1899
- 1995.18.18 Amiens La Cathédrale. 1918. NA5551 .A45 L4 1918
- 1995.18.19 Lee. A Life of William Shakespeare. PR2894 .L4 1899
- 1995.18.20 Brown. Joint Owners in Spain. PS1127 .J6 1925
- 1995.18.21 Agard. The Glory that Was Greece. DF 77 .A5 1930
- 1995.18.22 Patterson. Maude Adams. c1907. PN2287 .A4 P38 1907
The collection is arranged in the following series and subseries based on subject and format of materials. This may be the original order that Lester Donahue conceived.
- Series One Clippings
- Subseries A: People
- Subseries B: Miscellaneous
- Series Two Programs
- Series Three Serials
- Series Four Book Jackets
- Series Five Portraits
- Subseries A: General
- Subseries B: Helena Modjeska
- Series Six Lester Donahue Papers
- Series Seven Music
- Series Eight Scrapbooks
- Series Nine Artifacts
Series 1, Subseries A: People undated
Adams, Maude
Alda, Frances
Anderson, Mary
Anglin, Margaret
Antheil, George
Arditi, Luigi
Arliss, George
Armsby, Leonora Wood
Arnold, Edward
Arthur, Julia
Auer, Leopold
Bailey, Frankie
Baring, Maurice
Barry, Philip
Barrymore, Diana
Barrymore, Ethel
Barrymore, John
Barthelmess, Richard
Basil, Wassily de
Bauer, Harold
Beecham, Sir Thomas
Beerbohm, Max
Belasco, David
Berlioz, Hector
Bernhardt, Sarah
Boardman, Eleanor
Bond, Carrie Jacobs
Booth, Edwin
Bordoni, Irene
Bori, Lucrezia
Bos, C.V.
Boulanger, Nadia
Brady, William A.
Brian, Donald
Buhlig, Richard
Burke, Billie
Calvé, Emma
Campbell, Mrs. Patrick
Carpenter, John
Carreno, Teresa
Caruso, Enrico
Casals, Pablo
Castle, Irene
Cather, Willa
Cavallieri, Lina
Chaliapin, Feodor
Chaplin, Charlie
Chatfield, Taylor, Hobart
Chatterton, Ruth
Chenal, Marthe
Cochran, Charles B.
Cohan, George M.
Collier, Constance
Colton, John
Cornell, Katherine
Cortot, Alfred
Coward, Noel
Cowles, Eugene
Craig, Edward Gordon
Crane, William H.
Cuevas, Marquis de
Damrosch, Walter
Danilova, Alexander
Debussy, Claude
DeFalla, Manuel
DeMille, Agnes
Donahue, Lester
Draper, Muriel
Dressler, Marie
Drew, John
Duchin, Eddy
Duncan, Isadora
Duse, Eleonora
Eagles, Jeanne
Eames, Emma
Elliott, Maxine
Fairbanks, Douglas
Farrar, Geraldine
Fiske, Harrison Grey
Fiske, Minnie Maddern
Fitch, Clyde
Flagstad, Kirsten
Fokine, Michel
Forbes-Robertson, Sir Johnston
Forrest, Edwin
Forrester, Izola
Fowler, Gene
Frank, Herman W.
Fremstad, Olive
Friedman, Ignaz
Fry, Christopher
Galli-Curci, Amelita
Garden, Mary
Gentle, Alice
Gershwin, George
Godowsky, Leopold
Golden, John
Goldwyn, Samuel
Grainger, Percy
Granville-Barter, Harley
Greene, Patterson
Guilbert, Yvette
Guitry, Sacha
Hammond, John Hays, Jr.
Hampden, Walter
Hart, William S.
Hayes, Helen
Henschel, George
Herbert, Victor
Herne, Chrystal
Heyman, K. H.
Hofmann, Josef
Honegger, Arthur
Hopper, Edna Wallace
Hopper, Hedda
Howard, Kathleen
Howard, Leslie
Huberman, Bronislaw
Huneker, James Gibbons
Hurok, S.
Hutcheson, Ernest
Irving, Henry
Janis, Elsie
Jefferson, Joseph
Jeritza, Maria
Jones, Isabel
Joseffy, Rafael
Joyce, Peggy Hopkins
Kaufman, George
Korngold, Erich
Kreisler, Fritz
Kubelik, Jan
Lamond, Frederic
Landowska, Wanda
Langtry, Lillie
Lasky, Jesse
Lauder, Harry
Lawrence, Gertrude
LeGallienne, Eva
Lehar, Franz
Lehmann, Lilli
Leichtentritt, Hugo
Levant, Oscar
Lhevinne, Josef
Lind, Jenny
Lindgren, Lydia
Lunt, Alfred
McArthur, Charles
McCarthy, Lillah
McCormack, John
MacDowell, Marian
Maeterlinck, Maurice
Mansfield, Richard
Mantle, Burns
Marbury, Elisabeth
Marlowe, Julia
Martin-Harvey, John
Martinelli, Giovanni
Matthay, Tobias
Maude, Cryil
Maugham, W. Somerset
Maxwell, Elsa
May, Edna
Melba, Nellie
Mendl, Elsie de Wolfe
Mengelberg, Willem
Miura, Tamaki
Modjeska, Helena
Moiseiwitsche, Benno
Molnar, Ferenc
Montez, Lola
Moore, Grace
Mordkin, Mikail
Mowett, Anna Cora
Nathan, George Jean
Nazimonva, Alla
Nielson, Alice
Nijinsky, Vaclav
Nordica, Lillian
Novello, Ivor
Odets, Clifford
O'Neill, Eugene
Ortero, La Belle
Pachmann, Vladimir de
Paderewski, Ignace Jan
Painter, Eleanor
Parker, Louise N.
Patti, Adelina
Payne, Theodore
Pemberton, Brock
Pickford, Mary
Pinza, Ezio
Power, Tyrone
Prokofieff, Sergei
Rachmaninoff, Sergei
Raisa, Rosa
Rambova, Natacha
Reinhardt, Max
Renard, Rosita
Reszke, Jean de
Richardson, Henry Handel
Ristori, Adelaide
Robertson, W. Graham
Robeson, Paul
Rogers, Will
Romberg, Sigmund
Rosenthal, Moriz
Russell, Lillian
Scheff, Fritzi
Schmitz, E. Robert
Schnabel Artur
Schoenberg, Arnold
Schumann-Heink, Ernestine
Shattuck, Arthur
Sheldon, Edward
Sherwood, Robert
Skinner, Cornelia Otis
Skinner, Otis
Sothern, E. H.
Sousa, John Philip
Spalding, Albert
St. Denis, Ruth
Stanislavsky, Kinstantin
Stevens, Ashton
Stock, F. A.
Stojowski, Sigismond
Stokowski, Leopold
Stokowski, Olga S.
Strange, Michael
Strauss, Richard
Stravinsky, Igor
Sullivan, Arthur
Sylva, Marguerita
Talmadge, Norma
Taylor, Deems
Taylor, Laurette
Terry, Ellen
Tetrazzini, Luisa
Teyte, Maggie
Thibaud, Jacques
Tibbet, Lawrence
Tree, Iris
Toscanini, Arturo
Tyler, George C.
Ulanova, Galina
Van Druten, John
Vanbrugh, Irene
Veiller, Bayard
Verne, Adela
Victoria, Vesta
Wadsworth, Mary Mannering
Wagner, Charles
Wagner, Friedelind
Warde, Frederick
Warren, Leonard
Watters, Gordon W.
Whitty, Dame May
Wood, Peggy
Woods, A. H.
Woollcott, Alexander
Wright, Cobina
Yurka, Blanche
Series 1, Subseries B: Miscellaneous. 1926-1963
Mass, Color, Life: The Russians Make Brilliant Beginning, [re: Russian Ballet], Boston Transcript January 18, 1926
Testing Memories of Music Lovers, [re: music memory contests sponsored by women's clubs], Chicago Sunday Tribune February 21, 1926
Ancient Town to Celebrate:Carcassonne, in France, Now 2000 Years of Age..., ; Carcassone to Celebrate 2000th Birthday, Los Angeles Times; Los Angeles School Journal [1928?]
The Theatre, New Yorker January 19, 1929
Ballet Theater Includes this City in Tour by Isabel Morse Jones, Los Angeles Times September 6, 1942
[Newspaper picture of La Scala Theatre in Milan after allied attack], New York Times Sept. 11, 1943
Britten's New Opera Potent, by Patterson Greene [ re: the Metropolitan Opera Production of Peter Grimes], Los Angeles Examiner April 16, 1948
Di Stefano Artistry Hailed, by Patterson Greene [re: Manon at the Shrine Auditorium], Los Angeles Examiner April 21, 1948
The Book Report, by Robert Kirsch [re: All the King's Ladies by John Harold Wilson], September 18, 1958
Historic Chords Cover Keyboard, by Albert Goldberg. (Book review: The Great Pianists: From Mozart to the Present) Los Angeles Times December 22, 1963
Abbey's Theatre. The Chieftain; MacBeth beginning October 21, 1895; beginning Oct. 29, 1895
Aida. Opera in four acts by Giusepe Verde. 2 copies October 26, 1955
Anderson, Dame Judith, in the Major Scenes from MacBeth, Tower Beyond Tragedy, Medea. Huntington Hartford Theatre, opening Nov. 13, 1961.
Ariadne auf Naxos. Opera in one act with prologue by Richard Strauss. 3 copies. Nov. 1 1957
Auditorium [Los Angeles theater]. Program for La Tosca, Otello, Rigoletto, and Barber of Seville. Undated
Auntie Mame. A new comedy by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee. Biltmore Theatre 1958
Ben-Hur. By General Lew Wallace. Produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer 1926
Blithe Spirit by Noel Coward. Biltmore Theatre. Undated
Bolshoi Ballet. Shrine Auditorium May 19 through 30, 1959 and October 5 through October 16, 1962
Boris Godounoff. Music drama in four acts...by Modeste Moussorgsky. n.y. Monday, Nov. 5
British American War Relief Fund. Century Theatre. February 1st, 1916
Callas, Maria Meneghini with symphony orchestra, Nicola Rescigno conductor. Shrine Auditorium. November 29, 1958
The Carmelites. Opera in three acts...by Francis Foulenc. 3 copies. Oct. 29 1957
Community Civic Music Association of Los Angeles. February 1961
The Corn is Green by Emlyn Williams. National Theatre, New York; Biltmore Theatre. May 4, 1941; Undated
Cosi' Fan Tutte. Opera in two acts by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. 3 copies Wed. Nov. 6, 1957
La Danse. Adeline Genee World-Famed Danseuse Assisted by M. Volinin and Corps de Ballet. (Souvenir program) Undated
Dear Liar. A comedy of letters by Mrs. Patrick Campbell and Bernard Shaw. Huntington Hartford Theatre. (2 copies) Opening Nov. 16, 1959.
Die Frau ohne Schatten. Opera in three acts by Richard Strauss. November 16 , 1960
Die Walkure. Opera in three acts. Music and text by Richard Wagner. November 2, 1949
Don Giovanni. Opera in two acts by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Metropolitan Opera House. Jan. 13, 1899
Don Giovanni. Opera in two acts by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. 2 copies. November 5, 1955 and October 28, 1962
Donna Diana. A Spanish comedy of Moreto, adapted by Westland Marston. Globe Theatre Boston. Featuring Modjeska. March 1st to 6th, 1886
Elektra. Opera in one act by Richard Strauss. 1958 1958
Faust by Goethe. Pilgrimage Outdoor Theatre, Los Angeles. Also clippings from the Los Angles Times and Los Angeles Examiner. 1938
Garden District. [By] Tennessee Williams. Nov. 1958
Hamlet. Chicago Opera House. Edwin Booth as Hamlet and [Helena] Modjeska as Ophelia March 17, 1890 March 17, 1890
Hamlet. 1958
Heifetz-Piatigorsky Concerts with Leonard Pennario and guests. Scottish Rite-Masonic Temple September 14, 22, 29, No Year
Henschel, Mr. and Mrs. Georg vocal recital January 10. 1901
Henry V by William Shakespeare Oct. 1958
I Know My Love. A new play by S. N. Behrman...Biltmore Theatre beginning March 28, No Year
Junior Patriots of America. Hippodrome 8 April 1917
Leningrad Kirov Ballet. Shrine Auditorium. November 21 through December 3, 1961.
Long Day's Journey into Night. [By] Eugene O'Neill. Biltmore Theatre April 28, 1958
Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra. Symphonies Under the Stars. July 30, 1958
MacBeth. Opera in three acts by Giuseppe Verdi. [By] William Shakespeare, February 24; Wednesday Oct. 30 1957; Tuesday Nov. 1
A Man for All Seasons by Robert Bolt. Greek Theatre Association, July 22 through August 3, 1963
The Man Who Came to Dinner. A new comedy by Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman. Biltmore Theatre Feb. 12, 1940
Manon. Opera in five acts. Book by Henri Meilhac and Philippe Gille. Music by Jules Massenet. April 20, 1948
Mary Stuart [by] Friedrich Schiller. Biltmore Theatre, beginning Oct. 19, 1959
Measure for Measure. Hollis St. Theatre. Modjeska accompanied by Mr. Eben Plympton and Her Own Company. March 26th to March 31st, 1888
Medea. Opera in three acts by Luigi Chrubini. Freely adapted from "Medea" of Euripides by Robinson Jeffers Nov. 7 1958
The Miracle. Book by Karl Vollmoeller, score by Engelbert Humperdinck, The Theatre International Seasons 1926-1927
Das Mirakel von Carl Vollmoeller, mufic von Engelbert Humperdinck. Undated
Modjeska, Helena. Performances at the Garrick Theater, two weeks beginning. Camille and Measure for Measure. October 7, 1895
Moiseyev Dance Company. Shrine Auditorium. May 24-29 1958
Moscow State Symphony. Shrine Auditorium. February 17 and 18, 1960
Music Hall, Founded by William Carnegie. Sixteenth Season. 1893-1894
My Fair Lady. Adapted from Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion. Books and Lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner. Music by Frederick Loewe. Los Angeles Civic Light Opera Association. Philharmonic Auditorium.
Il Nerone de Arrigo Boito. 1924.
Nude with Violin by Noel Coward. Belasco Theatre, premiere performance; Huntington Hartford Theatre. (2 copies); Also a menu from the Hotel Algonquin: "The Algonquin warmly welcomes Noel Coward[,] the Company and Friends on the opening of `Nude with Violin'" Nov. 14, 1957; two 1957 newspaper clippings; letter from Peggy Wood to Lester [Donahue] Nov. 14, 1957; March 11, 1958; Npv.14, 1957; 1957; Undated
The Old Vic Company in a repertory of plays by William Shakespeare and George Bernard Shaw. Orpheum Theatre. April 17 through May 5, 1962.
Paderewski. Twentieth American tour. Souvenir Program. Shrine Auditorium, April 2, 1939 and April 9, 1939. April 2, 1939 and April 9, 1939
Paris '90. Music and lyrics by Kay Swift. (Cornelia Otis Skinner in Her New Solo Production) Undated
Peter Grimes. Opera in three acts and prologue. From the poem of George Crabbe. Words by Montagu Slater. Music by Benjamin Britten. 2 copies. April 15, 1948
The Pleasure of His Company. A comedy by Samuel Taylor with Cornelia Otis Skinner with John Napier, Carolyn Groves. Biltmore Theatre Feb. 29, 1960
Reinhardt, Max. Gilbert Miller presents Max Reinhardt New York Repertory Season, Signed by Reinhardt. 1927-1928
Der Ring des Nibelungen by Richard Wagner. Jan. 12th - Feb. 16th, No Year
Romeo et Juliette. Metropolitan Opera House. Supplementary season of Grand Opera. April 1, No Year
Friday Oct. 28 [1955?] 2 copies
Sunday Oct. 27 [1957?] 3 copies
Rubinstein, Artur. Undated
Russian Ballet, Royal Opera Covent Garden. July 2-10, 1920.
San Francisco Opera. Shrine Auditorium. Southern California Symphony presents the San Francisco Opera; Shrine Auditorium. Southern California Symphony Association presents the San Francisco Opera. October 23 through November 10, 1959.; October 27 through November 19, 1961.
San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, Pierre Monteus, conductor. War Memorial Opera House. Tenth Program. February 20-22, 1947
Scherzo. By Henry Cruse. Burbank Stage. Undated
Sonfín und der Haupttreffer. Theater in der Josefstadt. 1924
Testimonial Tendered by Her Friends to Madame Modjeska. Metropolitan Opera House. May 2, 1905
Tosca. Opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini. November 18, 1962
Tphigenie. Theater in der Josefstadt . 1928
Tristan und Isolde. Opera in three acts. Music and text by Richard Wagner. October 18, 1949
Trouilus and Cressida. Opera in three acts by William Walton. Nov. 4, 1955
Turandot. Opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini. Nov. 5, 1957
Twelfth Night. Globe Theatre (Boston), Featuring Modjeska. March 1-6, 1886
Under Two Flags by Paul M. Potter. [A collections of photographic scenes from the play] Cover signed by Blanch Bates. Clippings about Bates are glued to inside front and back covers. 1901
The Visit. A play by Friedrich Duerrenmatt. Adapted by Maurice Valency. Biltmore Theatre, beginning (2 copies); Also three newspaper clippings about the performance. Nov. 17, 1959; Nov. 18-19, 1959
Wozzeck. Opera in three acts by Alban Berg. Undated
Comoedia, anno 6, no. 9 . May 10, 1924
Eikones. Undated
The Marie Burroughs Art Portfolio of Stage Celebrities, parts 1-14. 1894
Paris Comet, vol. 2, no. 4 . [There is a picture of Lester Donahue on p. 47] September 1928
The Philharmonic Review, vol. 9, no. 2 . November 1911
Social Service Review. 1937-1939
vol. 1, no. 1 (October 1937). See p. 12: "Stokowski" by Lester Donahue
vol. 1, no. 4 (May 1938). See p. 10: "Artur Rubinstein" by Lester Donahue
vol. 2, no. 1 (October 1938). See p. 11: "Little Old Los Angeles" by Lester Donahue
vol. 2, no. 2 (December 1938). See p. 7: "Little Old Los Angeles" by Lester Donahue (continued from October issue)
vol. 2, no. 3 (March 1939). See p. 7: "Little Old Los Angeles" by Lester Donahue (continued from December issue).
vol. 2, no. 4 (May 1939). See p. 9: "Little Old Los Angeles" by Lester Donahue (the fourth and concluding article by Mr. Donahue on the theater in early days of Los Angeles)
Le Theatré et Comoedia Illustré, 27 anneé, no. 33 . May 1, 1924
Costain, Thomas B. The Silver Chalice. Undated
Falk, Bernard. Rachel The Immortal. Undated
Fisher, Anne B. Cathedral in the Sun. Undated
Nijinsky, Romola. The Diary of Vaslav Nijinsky. Undated
Sheean, Vincent. Oscar Hammerstein 1: The Life an Exploits of an Impresario. Undated
Sichel, Pierre. The Jersey Lily: The Story of the Fabulous Mrs. Langtry. Undated
Thomas, Augustus. The Print of My Remembrance. Undated
Woon, Basil. The Real Sarah Bernhardt Whom Her Audiences Never Knew. Undated
Series 5, Subseries A: General 1841-1948
Alvares, Margarite d' [?], photograph, 21 x 15 cm. Inscribed "To Lester...." Undated
Bernhardt, Sarah, (printed picture), framed 17 x 11 cm. "Sarah Bernhardt 1891" written under picture. 1891
Campbell, Mrs. Patrick, photograph, framed 22 x 15 cm. "When I was young!" above picture. "Ophelia" and an inscription to Donahue written below picture. On back of frame: "Mrs. Patrick Campbell. Her Christmas card." 1932
Duse, Eleanora (printed picture), framed 37 x 17 cm. On verso: "Eleanora Duse looks out over the dead city, in the play La Citta Morta." Undated
Duse, Eleanora, photograph, framed 16 x 11 cm. Undated
Hammond, John Hays, photograph, framed 23 x 15 cm. Undated
Hofmann [?], Josef, printed photograph?, 16 x 11 cm. Written on image: "To Lester Donahue with best greetings and wishes. Josef Hofmann [?]. Los Angeles 1948." 1948
Mossell, Herndon, 18 x 26 cm. Inscription under photograph: "Madame Helena Modjeska as a small token of respect and friendship for her ardent admirer Herdon Mossell. On Verso: "To my dear and kind friend. Helena Modjeska from hers my truly Herndon Mossell. London, Eng. July 20th 1880." Undated
Paderewski, I. J., print of sketch?, framed 34 x 29 cm. Written under picture: "To Lester Donahue with every good wish from I. J. Paderewski...1939. 1939
Series 5, Subseries B: Helena Modjeska 1883-1901
Print of sketch, 26 x 20 cm. "Helena Modjeska" printed under image. Mounting board Undated
Photograph, framed 23 x 12 cm. "Helena Modjeska" written under photograph. Undated
Printed picture, framed 23 x 17 cm. On verso: "Madame Modjeska as `Mary Stuart' Undated
Printed picture, framed 20 x 15 cm. On verso: "Madame Modjeska as `Ophelia' Undated
Printed picture (lithograph?) Undated
Photograph, mounted 31 x 26 cm. "Home of Madame Modjeska, Bay Island" Undated
Photograph [?] of sketch, in oval frame, 35 x 30 cm. Written on verso: "Modjeska in private life--artist Wyatt Eaton, 1883 Century Mag." 1883
Photograph, framed, 49 x 43 cm. Written on verso: Mme. Helena Modjeska…as Constance in Shakespeare's "King John" produced in 1901." 1901
Photograph, framed, 48 x 43 cm. Undated
Lester Donahue's First Holy Communion certificate. St Vincent's Church 7 June 1903.
Certificate appointing Lester Donahue as a member of the Los Angeles Board of Municipal Arts Commissioners. 24 July 1945.
Certificate appointing Lester Donahue as a member of the Los Angeles Board of Municipal Arts Commissioners. 24 July 1950.
Letter, George Arliss to Donahue. April 17, 1933.
Letter, Charles L. Wagner to Donahue. February 11, 1939
Letter, Elsie Mendl to Donahue. Undated
"Letters to my grandmother from her parents in Ireland": Oct. 1, 1883; Sept. 29, 1852; March 12, 1854; Oct. 25, 1909.
"Modjeska Memoir" by Lester Donahue (4 copies)
"Poland's Noblest Daughter" by Lester Donahue
Sheet music in leather folder. Most of the pieces have Helena Modjeska's name written and/or stamped on the cover. Includes works by John Alden Carpenter, Chopin, Dvorak, and Schubert. Undated.
Sheet music: Slavische Danze von Anton Dvorak, 1887. "Helena Modjeska" written on cover. Undated
George Migot, Suite Pour Piano et Orchestre. Handwritten and bound in leather cover. "Lester Donahue" embossed on lower right of cover. Undated.
Songs. Tom Dobson. Original Mss. [Bound] Undated.
Modjeska Scrapbook. Contains articles and photographs pertaining to the unveiling of the Modjeska statue in Anaheim Park (1935); many printed portraits of Modjeska and her home; various postcards addressed to Lester Donahue; a letter from Helena Modjeska to Mrs. Donahue (Lester Donahue's mother); two letters from Modjeska to Anna Feld Heinrich (1907); one letter from Charles Modjeska (grandson of Helena Modjeska) to Lester Donahue (1940); articles about Helena Modjeska's funeral (April 12, 1909). 1907-1940
Scrapbook of Lester Donahue's 1928 European concert tour. The scrapbook contains snapshots and postcards of Paris and cities in Italy that Donahue visited on this tour. Purchased in 2001. Accession # 2002.50. 1928
Ribbon: Remembrance of First Holy Communion, St. Vincent's Church Undated
Ribbon: Boys Sodality of the Blessed Virgin, St. Vincent's Church, Los Angeles, Undated
Medal: Municipal Art Commission, City of Los Angeles (in small hinged case) Undated
Small metal curved container with loose metal sculpture in the shape of a flower inside. Undated
Round photograph of an unidentified man made into a pin. Undated
Small metal figure of an angel slaying a dragon. Undated
Small wooden carved crucifixes Undated
Small gold pin with moon ("L.A.H.S.") and star ("10") Undated
Straight gold pin with three small round metals attached Undated
8 glass table place holders (?) Undated
Two bronze Lincoln bookends. "Lincoln, 1809-1865." Undated
Pin cushion decorated with beads "From Niagara Falls 1893" 1893
Helena Modjeska's carved wooden music box. "Mont Pelerin" carved on cover. Note in box says "Music box (Helena's) from Father and Virge in 1938. (Mount Pellerin) [sic] engraved on box front--not sure where box was purchased--in Poland or Amerika. Anelka [?]" Note also refers to the handkerchief (see next item): "Madame Helena Modjeska. Helena's Handkerchief--I carried it when I was married. (From Poland.) Ralph and I married 1938--Witnesses[:] Virginia G. Modjeska[,] Lorena Weis. 1938
Helena Modjeska's handkerchief. (See note above, following music box.) Undated
Helena Modjeska's palette Undated
Helena Modjeska's candle holder. Note taped to bottom: "Candle holder belonged to Madame Helena Modjeska--Polish Shakespearean actress. Mother of Ralph Modjeska, Engineer on San Francisco Bridge, 1936-1937. 1936-1937
This box contains oversized materials from Series Two (Programs) and Series Three (Serials). The materials are itemized above, under the lists for the two series. Undated
This box contains a scrapbook of Donahue's 1928 European tour from Series Eight. 1928