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What is glomerulosclerosis?
Glomerulosclerosis is the term used to describe scarring that occurs within the kidneys in the collections of tiny blood vessels called the glomeruli. The glomeruli assist the kidneys in filtering urine from the blood.
What causes glomerulosclerosis?
Glomerulosclerosis may develop in children or adults, and may result from different types of kidney conditions as well as diabetes.
What are the symptoms of glomerulosclerosis?
Early stages of glomerulosclerosis may not cause any symptoms. The most important warning sign of glomerular disease is proteinuria--large amounts of protein in the urine--that is usually discovered during a routine medical examination. However, the loss of large amounts of protein could cause swelling in the ankles or accumulation of fluid in the abdomen, puffy eyes, or generalized fluid retention.
How is glomerulosclerosis diagnosed?
Scarring disrupts the filtering process of the kidneys allowing protein to leak from the blood into the urine, where it can be detected.
Because glomerulosclerosis is just one of many possible causes of proteinuria, a kidney biopsy may be needed to determine if the cause is actually glomerulosclerosis. About 7 to 15 percent of people with proteinuria are diagnosed with glomerulosclerosis.
What is the treatment for glomerulosclerosis?
Specific treatment for glomerulosclerosis will be determined by your doctor based on:
Your age, overall health, and medical history
Extent of the disease
Your tolerance for specific medications, procedures, or therapies
Expectations for the course of the disease
Your opinion or preference
Scarred glomeruli cannot be repaired. The goal of treatment is to prevent further damage and to avoid dialysis. The best treatment for glomerulosclerosis depends on what caused the scarring. The cause is determined by a kidney biopsy. Treatment may include:
Immunosuppressant drugs. Drugs used to block the body's immune system.
Dialysis. A medical treatment to remove wastes and additional fluid from the blood after the kidneys have stopped functioning.
Kidney transplantation. A procedure that places a healthy kidney from one person into a recipient's body.
Blood pressure medication
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Frank Whitworth went down to the local gay bar. It was the usual Hide & Seek drinking crowd, and Whitworth knew everyone. A couple of men, still in suits and ties from their work day, teased the bartender boisterously. One guy, his name stitched on the patch of his blue mechanic's jacket, smoked and nursed a beer in the corner. On the TV over the cash register, the election returns looked good. Everyone was ready to celebrate.
Except for Whitworth. He hadn't worked on this campaign, but he'd been politically active in the past, and he knew how to read the numbers. The early returns were out of Denver, and the margin wasn't big enough to overcome El Paso County, whose votes had yet to be counted. As the results began to change, the mood went dark. The men in the bar began to argue about what had gone wrong.
"Well," Whitworth finally asked, "who here voted?" Out of a dozen men, only two had gone to the polls. Only four were even registered.
"Fact or Friction"
"Slay It With a Smile,"
Previous Westword articles
The ex-gay movement has its straight man -- but ex-ex-gays may have the last laugh.
October 1, 1998
By Ward Harkavy
Paul Cameron's mission to stop homosexuality is hard to swallow.
October 3, 1996
By Ward Harkavy
"Fact or Friction"
"Slay It With a Smile,"
It was Tuesday, November 3, 1992. Bill Clinton slid easily into office, overwhelmingly supported by a bloc of gay voters who were more mobilized than ever before; he'd courted them with a pledge to repeal the ban on gays in the military. But the promise of the country's first gay-friendly president -- soon enough, that would be just another lie -- became a footnote to the nauseating news: Colorado for Family Values, a small organization of hardcore Christians in Whitworth's own town, had succeeded in passing Amendment 2, which banned all of Colorado's local governments from passing laws to protect gay people from discrimination.
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In the weeks after the election, as gays and their supporters tried to figure out how to respond to the disaster, Whitworth's anger at the results turned to more rational thought -- toward strategizing. He was between jobs, so he volunteered to sit in the office of a new organization called Ground Zero -- so named because Colorado Springs was obviously now dead center in a cultural war (especially since Oregon voters had rejected a similar, though more extremely worded, referendum). Gay people across the nation -- already physically, emotionally and financially exhausted by AIDS -- felt as if they were under siege. Whitworth became Ground Zero's executive director.
Five months later, in April 1993, he was parading down Pennsylvania Avenue at the National March on Washington for gay rights. Colorado had a place of honor, leading off the states, and Whitworth was right up front.
The National Park Service estimated a crowd of only 300,000, but marchers knew there were many, many more gays and gay supporters in D.C. that day. Hundreds of thousands of people lined the route. The AIDS organizations went first; then, when the crowd saw Colorado's "Ground Zero" banners, Whitworth heard a roar all the way down the street. Gay people from across the country screamed encouragement to their counterparts living in Colorado Springs. "We came to the Mall and they announced us, and then the roar was 500,000 people all at once," Whitworth remembers.
The threat of Colorado for Family Values had helped rally hundreds of thousands of gays to Washington. Whatever political and social gains they'd made throughout the red-ribbon Eighties were in serious danger after the passage of Amendment 2.
Over the next few years, gays would spend millions of dollars and hours forming political organizations, monitoring threats, electing sympathetic candidates, publishing books, newspapers and magazines, begging for acceptance from churches, fighting to be included on prime-time TV shows, educating whoever would listen, trying to win allies and making whatever private gestures might help them recover from the trauma of being told by voters -- their neighbors -- that they didn't deserve equal protection under the law. Then in 1996, ruling in Romer vs. Evans, the Supreme Court overturned Amendment 2.
"I often say at fundraisers and different events, 'Can we have a big round of applause and thanks to Colorado for Family Values!'" says Sue Anderson, who recently left the state after directing the gay-rights organization Equality Colorado for six years. "The silver lining to the whole Amendment 2 cloud is that there's a queer organizational infrastructure in this state." Anderson remembers the days of Amendment 2 as "an amazing time -- having gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender issues in the news for 94 days nonstop. We don't get that kind of coverage, or hadn't until that time. The American public didn't want to talk about those things -- that was brought on by Amendment 2. It changed history in many ways."
Colorado for Family Values may have changed history, but by this past August, it couldn't get a dozen protesters out for Colorado Springs' annual gay pride parade.
Frank Whitworth moved to Colorado Springs from Virginia in 1971, left for most of the Eighties and then came back in 1990 -- just in time to welcome James Dobson's Focus on the Family, which moved into town from Pomona, California, in 1991.
Focus joined more than fifty other religious organizations that already called Colorado Springs home, lured there by the Greater Colorado Springs Economic Development Corporation, which was courting the nonprofits as a way to diversify the local economy after the defense industry began to tank at the end of the Eighties. Since World War II, Colorado Springs had been home to Fort Carson Air Force Base, the Air Force Academy and the North American Air Defense Command, along with other military installations -- that made for a conservative climate perfectly suited to churches, religious publishing companies, missionary groups and, in the case of Focus on the Family, an international media conglomerate. When Focus moved to town, it added 1,200 employees and immediately poured $30 million into the local economy through construction of its campus north of town.
At the same time, the city's Human Relations Commission was calling on the Colorado Springs City Council to pass a gay-rights ordinance. Car dealer Will Perkins tried to go to a couple of public hearings on the topic, but he found the rooms so crowded that he couldn't get in. He did hear talk, however, of forming an organization to oppose the proposed ordinance, so he went to one of those meetings. "I came out chairman without really knowing what I was involved in," he says now. What he was involved in was Colorado for Family Values. That group spent the next year working to get Amendment 2 passed; Perkins, along with CFV co-founder Kevin Tebedo, would go on to become a highly visible and oft-quoted spokesman for an entire movement. CFV started out with a mailing list of 91,000 names -- all of the people who signed the petition that put Amendment 2 on the ballot -- and had close to 10,000 active supporters, according to Tebedo.
And as recently as July 1998, CFV was joining other religious organizations to sponsor national advertisements featuring Green Bay Packer Reggie White -- in his uniform -- calling homosexuality sinful. "I thought we'd have an election, somebody'd win and somebody'd lose, and that would be the end of it," Perkins says. "Here we are nine years later, and it still isn't over."
But if the events of the last year are any indication, the glory days of Colorado for Family Values could be over.
Take, for example, one of CFV's recent efforts. This past summer the group tried to censor the movie South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut. Because Comedy Central's South Park is set in Colorado -- it was created by Coloradans Trey Parker and Matt Stone -- CFV argued that "Colorado citizens should feel a keener sense of outrage and more responsibility to speak out louder against this movie than anyone else."
So CFV put out a South Park Action Kit, a notebook filled with tips on how to keep the movie from playing in local theaters. The kit also contained a Christian Family Network analysis of the TV show's content, sample transcripts, and reviews from the Webmaster of a South Park fan site. "Use extreme caution with this material and do not leave it where children may see or read it!" the kit warns. "Thousands of people, young and old, will have their minds poisoned by this atrociously cute and sinister movie unless we take action to stop it."
The kit's content analysis provided titillating reading for anyone who sent eight bucks to CFV for a copy. The "Language Issue Analysis" of the TV show reported that a single episode contained "dialogue with 13 sexual innuendoes, 10 incidents of violence, 7 depictions of passing gas, 5 vomiting scenes, and 3 graphically bloody scenes." Its "Violence Issue Analysis" noted that character Kenny had been "shot, run over, decapitated, mangled, eaten, crushed, impaled, nuked, cut in half with a chainsaw, dismembered, bludgeoned, etc."
The "Sexual Content Issue Analysis" revealed that the character Chef "is portrayed as a person who tries to help and relate to the children's problems. However, he is also portrayed as obsessed with sex and sings suggestive rhythm and blues songs to them." This section included several exchanges of dialogue: "Grandpa: Your mom was here earlier and I humped her like a little bitch. Cartman: What?! Grandpa: That's right. Stan: Grandpa! Grandpa: And then, I dug up your Great Grandma's skeleton and had my way with her."
And then there was the kit's "Homosexual Issue Analysis," which focused on a South Park episode in which "children are taught tolerance and acceptance of homosexuality through the perverse idea that Stan's dog, Sparky, is a homosexual dog." After Sparky runs away and "finds acceptance at Big Gay Al's Big Gay Animal Sanctuary," Stan has a hard time believing that Sparky is really happy. "Big Gay Al decides to lovingly teach Stan about 'gayness' by taking him on Big Gay Al's Big Gay Boat Ride 'to see the world of gayness through time.'...The scene moves to a shot of Hitler, a priest, and a guy beating up a homosexual. 'Uh oh, look out,' exclaims Al, 'It's the oppressors -- Christians and Republicans and...my!!'...'OK, let's steer our big gay boat out of danger and into a place where gays are allowed to live freely.' At this point, singers pop out à la 'It's a Small World' style singing, 'We're all gay and it's ok 'cause gay means happy and happy means gay.'" Later, "Stan and Sparky return to South Park where Stan tells all his friends and his community that being gay is o.k.'"
But it was not okay with CFV.
CFV's campaign against South Park might have made the group look ridiculous -- had anyone noticed its efforts. But Frank Whitworth believes CFV's descent into irrelevance began many years earlier.
"In '92 they were almost omnipotent -- they were unbeatable in this community," he remembers. "One attorney who supported us told us, 'There are a lot of people in this community who would support you, but they're afraid of what CFV would do to their businesses or lives.' They had a grip of fear on this community -- and because of the vilification they'd done of gays and lesbians, to support us was to support people who abused kids and drank urine. That's what was gripping us in '92, '93, '94...Up until that time, they'd won everything here and statewide."
But gay people in Colorado Springs had one secret weapon: CFV's own executive director, Kevin Tebedo. "We used to say that if there was one pile of dung in a field," Whitworth says, "he'd find it and step in it."
According to Whitworth, the biggest turning point was in August 1994, when the city of Manitou Springs was debating its Rainbow Vision Plan, a document that addressed traffic, transportation, land use, public services, parks and recreation, economic development, environmental resources, education and health needs.
Tipped off by the nefarious word "rainbow," which had appeared in New York City's gay-inclusive "rainbow curriculum" and by the fact that the rainbow flag was a symbol of gay liberation, Tebedo embarked on a loud campaign to thwart Manitou Springs's attempts to plan for its future.
"Although we knew the word 'rainbow'...did not automatically confirm that a homosexual special-rights ordinance was in the works, we felt the context suggested the possibility," CFV declared in its October 1994 newsletter.
"Colorado for Family Values charged into Manitou Springs looking for fairies in every sidewalk crack, and people thought they were crazy," Whitworth says. "Kevin just wouldn't back down. He kept writing letters to the editor about the homosexual agenda."
In response, Manitou Springs City Council members showed up for their meeting dressed in rainbow-colored clothes.
"It was very innocuous -- at least we thought it was -- to use the word 'rainbow.' There was no message there," says Manitou mayor Bill Koerner, who was on the council at the time. "But Kevin took it and ran with it, and it turned into this huge hoot, because he was deadly serious." (Here Koerner begins cracking up.) "The mayor at the time, Bill Ford, was a real Deadhead, and he wore a rainbow-colored Grateful Dead T-shirt. Those of us who didn't have Grateful Dead T-shirts had colorful ties." (Koerner can't stop laughing.) "It was just a reaction to the publicity that Kevin was treating us to, and we said, 'Hey, we're happy to be rainbow -- we're going to play it for all it's worth.' I think Kevin ended up with a huge black eye."
The CFV newsletter blamed Tebedo's humiliation on "a print-bashing of Colorado for Family Values, Executive Director Kevin Tebedo in particular," consisting of "tirade after vicious tirade [that] appeared in the papers from the self-appointed guardians of tolerance and acceptance. They accused CFV of 'paranoia,' of engaging in a 'witch-hunt,' of 'attacking' an innocent community, of the usual 'bigotry' and 'hatred.'"
"It made a laughingstock of Colorado for Family Values," Whitworth says. "This was the crack in the shell. They haven't really won any issue they've promoted since."
And it certainly didn't help their cause when, a year later, Tebedo was championing Colin Cook as an example of how God could change a person from gay to straight. Cook had been a Seventh-Day Adventist minister and founder of Homosexuals Anonymous, which claimed it could convert gays through a twelve-step program; he was an unlicensed "counselor" whose conversion technique included ten-minute hugs and mutual masturbation with the men who sought help from him. After the church pulled its funding from his counseling center in Pennsylvania, Cook moved to Colorado in 1993 and opened FaithQuest Counseling Center, Inc., in Arvada. He soon became a poster boy for CFV. Despite the public release of transcripts from Cook's Colorado counseling sessions that showed he was having phone sex with his male clients, Tebedo fervently defended him: "I've talked to seven of Colin's clients who think he does great work!" Tebedo told a Westword reporter ("Come to Jesus," November 22, 1995).
Tebedo left Colorado for Family Values shortly thereafter, ostensibly because his "personal desire and motivations have expanded beyond the scope of CFV's mission." (He reportedly joined the Patriot movement; his mother, state senator MaryAnne Tebedo, continues to represent Colorado Springs at the State Capitol, where she's been a legislator since 1982.) When Tebedo stepped aside, Perkins issued this statement from CFV: "We applaud Kevin's expanding concerns; however, we must, above all, keep this organization faithful to its roots."
CFV immediately launched a campaign urging local Colorado governments to pass "Community Standards" resolutions stating, among other things, that "It is understood that all citizens of America have equal rights by virtue of their American citizenship; the rights and privileges accorded citizenship do not extend to the behavior of homosexuality. Our community must unconditionally advocate heterosexuality only, through our institutions and policies."
"They couldn't get one government in the state to pass it," Whitworth says.
In May 1997, the Colorado Springs City Council unanimously resolved that "the council will have zero tolerance for any form of discrimination of a racial, ethnic, sexual or religious nature." Fearing that "sexual" might be construed to mean "sexual orientation," CFV wanted to add the parenthetical phrase "(meaning male and female)" to the resolution's wording -- but last December, the organization wasn't able to collect enough signatures to force the issue to a ballot.
The group "ran out of time," Perkins says. "We had some procedural problems that we didn't handle well. It looked like a failure, but that was due to poor administration rather than lack of interest in the issue."
But if there was significant "interest in the issue," it wasn't shared by the city council. This past January, it refused to put a charter amendment on the April ballot that would outlaw "protected or minority status, quota preference or other preferential treatment" for homosexuals. The action had been requested by councilman Dawson Hubert, a CFV torch-bearer who'd first been elected in 1997.
Four months later, Perkins, who had resigned his position at CFV to run against incumbent mayor Mary Lou Makepeace, lost in the April 6 election -- as did Hubert.
Perkins explains that he had decided to run for mayor after attempting -- unsuccessfully -- to recruit other candidates; by the time he decided to run himself, there was "less than a month to go against an incumbent -- that's not a politically astute move." His primary motivation, he says, was his lack of agreement with the council's fiscal policies, and he focused on privatizing Memorial Hospital as a way to increase city revenues. "It was not a particularly popular thing," he notes. "I didn't do a good job selling that. But in a short time, I had a good showing."
"There's all kinds of reasons people win and lose elections," adds Hubert. "I think we won and lost on the money we raised, the places we raised money from, the subjects that we talked about, the money that the opponents had and spent. In Perkins's case, it was a three-way race, not a two-way race." (The third candidate for mayor was neighborhood activist Sallie Clark.)
But Perkins and Hubert still claim victory on the "sexual" front, since just before the election, the city attorney's office issued a four-page document finally telling everyone what the word really meant: "In the context of the resolution, 'sexual' refers to one's gender, not sexual preference or orientation."
"As soon as Perkins announced his candidacy, the mayor defined it immediately, as I had asked her to do for the past year," Hubert says. "The mayor wrote it so that she would defuse the issue during the campaign. So in essence, if you don't think Colorado for Family Values has any power, it had a hell of a lot more power than a councilman trying to get clarification to the issue."
Perkins never intended to address homosexuality in his campaign, he says, since the city attorney's memo resolved the question. "Maybe if I had made it an issue, it might have made a difference," he adds, "but I did not run on that issue."
But Perkins had name recognition among Colorado Springs voters precisely because of his long association with CFV, so many observers found it odd -- and not politically astute -- when he didn't try to capitalize on his base.
"We just knew that Will was saving something big for the last minute," says Christy Pitts, an organizer with the Colorado Springs office of Equality Colorado. "The other candidates were ready for it, and it never happened."
"In the forums, it was as if he wasn't really all there," adds Samantha Frazee, who works with Equality's anti-violence program.
Frank Whitworth has a theory about why it seemed that way. "We didn't let Perkins campaign on the gay issue. It was a purposeful strategy," he says. "They expected us to slam him, attack him, give him issues to bring up, and we didn't give him any meat. There were no demonstrations and rallies against him or letters to the editor attacking him. We didn't want to make him a victim, make him look like he was being maligned by militant homosexual activists."
Perkins's odd concentration on Memorial Hospital as a means of getting into office may be explained by a five-page internal memo outlining Colorado for Family Values' plans for 1999, which mysteriously showed up at a local coffee shop and was quickly distributed throughout the town's tight-knit community of liberal activists.
According to the memo: "Addressing politics prior to addressing issues -- when possible -- is actually key to achieving and keeping victories. To achieve and keep the 'quality of life' we all want in our communities can depend less on the actual issues themselves and more on the politics....We need to have in office officials with our ethical or moral standpoint."
According to the memo, one of CFV's primary goals for this year was to elect "our kind of candidates at local, state, and federal levels." CFV also planned on "distributing a voters' guide for the April election in [Colorado Springs] and impacting that election."
The strategy backfired.
"The voters had a real choice," says newly elected councilman Richard Skorman. "They could have elected Will Perkins as mayor, who was director of CFV, they could have elected Dawson Hubert, who really embraced their values when he was on council. They could have elected Ross Moon, who was a council at-large candidate who has ties with the Christian Coalition. All three lost. Instead, Mary Lou Makepeace won a second term -- and would have won by a much larger majority if it hadn't been a three-person race. I won, and I've certainly been outspoken against Amendment 2. [Councilmembers] Ted Eastburn and Joanne Colt all talked about their feelings openly during the election -- that everybody should be welcome in the community and that we should talk about more important things."
There was no organized campaign against Perkins, Whitworth says, just buttons with "Will" behind a red circle with a slash through it. "The truth is, we estimate between 10,000 and 13,000 gay voters came out in that campaign," he says. "It was successful! On the night that Mary Lou won and he lost so badly, people were coming up and offering us money for our buttons!"
That's a long way from the pathetic voter turnout Whitworth had noticed at the Hide & Seek back in 1992. Once again, Colorado for Family Values could take credit for significant political gains in Colorado Springs -- although this round went to the gays.
Ten days after the April election, CFV Executive Director Paul Jessen left the organization; he had held the position for a year and a half. (Jessen said his only plans were to tackle his wife's list of "honey do" projects.) Board president Nancy Sutton, who at one time had served as director of the Massachusetts-based Families First, took over as acting executive director, saying publicly that "the loss of Will Perkins and Paul Jessen has sorely taxed our ability to do things right at the moment."
Sutton did not return Westword's phone calls. In CFV's July newsletter, however, she admitted that "right now is a particularly tough time for us." She blamed this partly on the fact that during the summer, "people tend to get out of their regular routines and often forget to respond to our newsletters." Still, she wrote, "anything extra you could send would enable us to continue many of the projects we have slated for the fall. CFV is moving ahead, and we have some very important projects in the works."
But CFV was conspicuously absent again in August, during the fire and brimstone that erupted after Makepeace signed a proclamation recognizing August 21-29 as "Pridefest Week" in honor of the annual gay pride celebration. "There was a story in the newspaper. Dr. Dobson had a whole half an hour of his national show devoted to it," says councilman Skorman. "Local radio talk-show host Chuck Baker spent hours and hours talking about it, and during the pride parade, there were about eight people protesting. We on council maybe got a dozen or so letters and phone calls not appreciating our action, but there were very few letters to the editor.
"The fact is, the mayor signs all kinds of proclamations," Skorman adds. "She signed Shirley Dobson's National Prayer Week proclamation and [American Family Association] Tom Pedigo's proclamation against pornography. If she hadn't signed it, that would have sent a very wrong message to the gay and lesbian community. She just did it without hesitation."
When Colorado for Family Values finally sent out another newsletter this month, the publication consisted almost entirely of its August 26 press release regarding the Pridefest proclamation. "Colorado for Family Values responded to the Mayor's proclamation on homosexuality, but you didn't hear or read our response," wrote CFV. "This press release was not printed or spoken about in any of the news media. It's almost as if there was a concerted effort to ignore anything that might oppose what Mayor Makepeace did."
No matter what the reason for the silence, CFV promised to do better in the future: "Clearly, with the major advances which homosexual activists like Mayor Makepeace have made in Colorado Springs, CFV must dramatically step up its efforts to confront this dangerous movement head on. Because the need is so great, Colorado for Family Values is undergoing radical change. We are being re-engineered, restructured, and renewed. You have not heard from us through our regular channels because we have been spending all of our time and effort over the past few months deciding upon our direction and a process for achieving what we've all decided to do...We need your constant and consistent prayer support starting right now."
And prayer alone wouldn't get the job done: "Too, we need your financial help and involvement like never before...We are reducing our expenses to the least amount possible so that the absolute maximum number of dollars can be used in the cause of protecting our families and especially our children. As you have no doubt figured out by now, our children are the real targets of the militant homosexual agenda."
But as CFV has yet to figure out, voters in Colorado Springs have already said to hell with the militant homosexual agenda. What people in Colorado Springs really care about, says Skorman, is traffic and growth.
This past July, the University of Colorado at Denver released a study concluding that gays and lesbians in Colorado Springs were feeling that their town was a much happier place to be homosexual.
Allan Wallis, director of the local government program at UCD's Graduate School of Public Affairs, spent a year asking gays in the Springs whether they generally were treated fairly and with respect; more than half of them said the city had grown more accepting since earlier in the decade.
That's partly because nearly 55,000 people have moved to Colorado Springs since Amendment 2 passed. And while the population of Colorado Springs remains "generally conservative," most of the new folks seem more tolerant.
The study was done for the Gill Foundation's Gay and Lesbian Fund for Colorado -- and its biggest lesson may be that acceptance can be bought. Started by Tim Gill, the creator and president of Quark Software Inc., the foundation set up shop in Colorado Springs in 1994. Its Gay and Lesbian Fund was established in 1997; this year alone, it will hand out more than $700,000 in grants to nonprofit organizations all over the state -- but its beneficence in Colorado Springs has been an especially effective way of winning allies. The Gay and Lesbian Fund donates money not to gay groups, but to nonprofit organizations such as Chins Up Youth and Family Services ($30,000), the Colorado Springs Symphony ($11,250), the Housing Advocacy Coalition ($10,000) and the Chicano Unity Council ($2,500) -- and the recipients are required to publicly acknowledge that the money came from the Gay and Lesbian Fund. (The Fund also makes challenge grants, promising to match money that comes in to these organizations from other sources -- a technique that automatically scores publicity.)
"We just want people to realize that the gay and lesbian community cares about the same things other people care about," says Gill Foundation Executive Director Katherine Pease.
"I think Tim Gill had a big effect on this community," says Skorman. "They've invested throughout the whole community, from the Urban League to the Children's Museum to many, many broad-based causes and always under the name of the Gay and Lesbian Fund -- I think that certainly helped with acceptance."
Flooding Colorado Springs with gay money was only one approach. Whitworth's Ground Zero mounted a full-scale educational campaign, sponsoring forums and a speakers' bureau, leasing time on cable TV and responding to media requests from all over the world. At its peak, Ground Zero had 1,300 people on a mailing list, 600 of them paid members, as well as two paid staffers in the office.
"We testified when we had to testify, partied when we had to party," Whitworth says. "We largely encouraged visibility by gays and lesbians in the community. You could hardly go anywhere that we weren't there." And, he says, gays and lesbians involved themselves in non-gay organizations around town, "so they could see we'd always been there."
Just prior to the Supreme Court's ruling on Amendment 2 in 1996, Ground Zero had launched its "Time to Mend" campaign -- the graphic crossed out the "A" and the "ment" in "Amendment 2," emphasizing the mend. "We published a pledge that no matter which way the decision went, we would not seek to overturn Amendment 2, either by a vote or by introducing something else that would have that effect, for three years, because people were tired of it and wanted a time to rest," Whitworth says. "Colorado for Family Values absolutely refused to take a similar pledge. A lot of people noted this and made comments and wrote articles and letters, and Ground Zero gained a great deal of credibility. It was a huge part of reducing the reach of Colorado for Family Values and greasing the reach of those who wanted a more tolerant city."
Equality Colorado's Christy Pitts credits many of the changes in Colorado Springs to all of the "straight allies" who got "incredibly involved after Amendment 2 passed. All of the liberal organizations really grew -- the Citizens Project, the Unitarian Church, which grew so much they had to add a second service."
The Citizens Project was started in May 1992 -- before Amendment 2 passed -- by Amy Divine and her huband, Doug Triggs. They were concerned about movements toward school prayer and the teaching of evolution in Colorado Springs schools. "It just seemed like the one far-right voice was becoming dominant," Divine says, "so we very naively got together with some friends and put the word out and started the Citizens Project. We expected it to be something small, and the response to it was huge. The first general meeting we had, 800 people came. It just took off. When we first started, people would call and say, 'I thought I was alone.' There was a sense of people waiting for somebody to say something."
Today the Citizens Project puts out 40,000 copies of its monthly newsletter, sponsors educational activities, publishes a voters' guide and recruits candidates for local boards and commissions. (Director Megan Day reports that this month's school-board race was "the first time we didn't have real wackos. Yes, they were conservatives, but more pro-vouchers and anti-public education than hardline, Colorado for Family Values-type candidates. They're perhaps even more dangerous because they're more articulate and don't come off as extremist. They're not talking about the same old issues that CFV was, but their impact will be just as bad -- if not worse -- because they'll get elected.")
Out of the Citizens Project grew Food for Thought, a now-independent organization that has brought together a thousand people to discuss their disagreements over dinner. "It could be faith, race, density versus suburban sprawl, gay and lesbian and multi-racial adoption, public education," explains Jan Noble, an elementary school teacher who is the organization's president. "The night of the first Broncos game, we had 56 people -- males, females, young and old, four young adults from Focus on the Family, black, white. My group has been together for five years -- and these are people I would never have invited in my home or thought I could have a civil conversation with."
Eleven new Food for Thought groups are starting this year -- seven years after the passage of Amendment 2. And clearly, the town still needs them. After an article about the Gill Foundation's study appeared in the Colorado Springs Gazette, "the letters to the editor were of the tone that how dare we think of Colorado Springs as more tolerant," Pitts says.
In fact, as gays have made progress in Colorado Springs, the Christian presence has continued to grow as well -- and no one doubts the potential political power that can be raised out of a captive audience on a Sunday morning. The International Bible Society lists 79 evangelical Christian ministries headquartered in Colorado Springs, supplemented by six Christian radio stations and 31 Christian ministries with a "presence" there. Focus on the Family just spent $15.6 million adding a new, 135,000-square-foot building to its 81-acre campus; its workforce has grown to 1,396 people with a payroll of $36 million, making it one of the largest employers in town. Focus on the Family weighed in very publicly on the local gay-rights situation at the end of August, when national, gay-friendly religious leaders held a roundtable in Colorado Springs and invited Focus representatives to attend. But when they showed up with a contingent of "ex-gays," the response was less than Christian. Focus then ran a full-page ad in the Gazette, featuring a photograph of ten "ex-gays" and their children, along with this message: "Our sincerest desire is to offer the message of hope that's being silenced today: there is freedom from homosexuality through the unconditional love and grace of Jesus Christ. You can change into a new creation -- the one God intended."
In case gays don't convert quickly enough, last month Chuck Gosnell, president of the Christian Coalition of Colorado, announced that since Makepeace had "come out of the closet to promote her radical homosexual agenda," the CCC was launching a campaign to "mobilize citizens to stand against what our mayor is doing." The CCC is the state affiliate of the national Christian Coalition and is "dedicated to giving Christians a voice in government again." In his announcement, Gosnell wrote that CCC "is prepared to...create a ballot initiative for passage in 2000 to decisively stop the pro-homosexual agenda in our city. Unlike Amendment 2, the US Supreme Court has already approved the wording we will use, and close to 80% have said they would vote for such a measure."
Gosnell was referring to Issue 3, an Amendment 2-like initiative passed by Cincinnati voters in 1993. Gay activists challenged the issue in court and, after a series of reversals at the circuit and federal levels, the Supreme Court last year declined to issue a ruling -- thereby letting stand a 1997 federal appeals court's decision upholding the city's ban on "minority or protected status, quota preference or other preferential treatment" for gays. Members of Colorado for Family Values reportedly sent their brothers and sisters in Cincinnati $390,000 to help get the initiative passed.
Only those members of CFV who are busy secretly "restructuring" their organization know whether they'll ever be able to raise that kind of cash again. But even Kevin Tebedo concedes that as far as Colorado for Family Values goes, "they don't have the impact they used to." Colorado Springs, he tells Westword, is "much more liberal, much, much more liberal. The homosexual political lobby most definitely has a stronger foothold than it did five years ago. Colorado Springs is becoming a big liberal city, in my book. The homosexual political lobby targeted Colorado Springs as ground zero, and they moved in here. They followed Focus on the Family because Focus is the major nemesis of the homosexual political lobby. This is where they came to set up shop.
"There isn't much organized opposition," he adds. "See, that's what Colorado for Family Values was, but that's pretty much faded away. In many ways Romer vs. Evans was to the homosexual political lobby what Roe vs. Wade is to abortion. And Colorado for Family Values fought hard. We felt like giving homosexuality a protected status is wrong; we would still believe it was wrong. But it went to highest court in the land, which said it was unconstitutional. We thought that was ludicrous, but that's what they said. That took a lot of the wind out of the sails of a lot of folks.
"CFV had a hard time after that trying to get its feet back beneath it, trying to grasp a solid hold onto a cause or find something else, and they didn't make it very good," he continues. "They're not dead in the water -- they're still there, they have money and donors that are working with them. Who knows what can happen -- there's still plenty of need for good strong conservative leaders, an organization that will stand up and not let the homosexual political lobby turn this into another Seattle or Miami or Denver." (Tebedo is still politically active; a member of the state Republican Party and a precinct committeeman, he serves on a county-appointed Department of Human Services committee, and it's rumored that he plans to run for Ray Powers's Senate seat. But Tebedo says that for now, he just wants to spend some time running his roofing business and raising his kids.)
And although he is no longer involved with Colorado for Family Values, Will Perkins promises that "within the next two or three months or sooner," CFV's restructuring will make the organization "even more effective than it was in the past."
Just this month, People for the American Way released its annual report on anti-gay activity, which reported almost 300 incidents in 47 states -- more than twice as many as in last year's report (there's a lengthy section on Colorado). This past April, a bill that would have added sexual orientation to the state's anti-discrimination protections died on the floor of the Colorado House of Representatives; this month voters in Greeley defeated a local ordinance that would have protected gays. And last week, Gary Rogers, the Fort Collins-based president of the Colorado Pro-Life Alliance, announced his plans to try to get a same-sex marriage ban on a statewide ballot in 2000, which could provoke a fight as nasty as the one over Amendment 2.
But things have changed. One fall night, Frank Whitworth leaves his job as a development director for the Colorado Springs Urban League and goes down to the Hide & Seek. He's greeted affectionately by a white-haired man who is occupying the corner barstool where Whitworth watched the 1992 election returns.
Over a beer, Whitworth laughs loudly as he looks over a copy of the South Park Action Kit. "It's all they have!" he says of his former adversaries' recent cause.
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The South Park kit gets passed around the bar. "That's too funny," says Jerry Morris, a local businessman. "At least they're on someone else's case!" Morris adds that he's prepared for "at least one more throe" before Colorado for Family Values really dies.
"A wounded animal, they say, is the most dangerous, and Colorado for Family Values is seriously wounded," Whitworth says. "I hope its wounds are terminal, but it's not gone yet.
"There certainly are people out there who hate us -- they're as bigoted and prejudiced against gays as they are against everybody else, and Colorado Springs has more than our share. But there's a huge community here that was sold a package by Colorado for Family Values, who have come to realize that's just what it was: a package, representative of no truth. They've come to know us, and knowing us they've come to realize that gays and lesbians are no threat to this community. When the mayor made her now infamous gay pride proclamation, she mentioned the contributions gays and lesbians made to the community. In 1993, the mayor at the time, when told he was going to meet with gay attorneys about whether the bar association was going to have its state meeting here, said, 'You mean I have to meet with the queers?' That change is a big deal."
Back in 1993, Whitworth adds, he "couldn't have imagined we'd be where we are today -- even in 2020."


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Just in time for a kitten to come in and cause mayhem...and had I known I may not have decided that I absolutely needed a creativity corner in the kitchen, in the vacant space left by the £8 Poang chair which the Gamekeeper had poached within minutes of its arrival with us. Actually its more of a Plague Your Conscience corner as you will see.
But I didn't know that Magnus was out there waiting and I had spent a happy weekend 'making things' because Port Eliot Festival is on the horizon, I have a great line-up of authors coming to the tent so we have knitsuke and quiltsuke to prepare, which has all involved the customary takeover of the kitchen table.
Please don't ask what any of it is...it's supposed to be a secret and a surprise so I know you won't tell anyone and all will be revealed soon.
But in the process I had walked miles finding the right ingredients all scattered far and wide around the house, in cupboards and drawers and boxes so I decided it was time to gather everything into one place again... my mum's treasured Singer sewing machine cabinet, the Bernina, the books, the cutting mats, the rulers, the threads, and there with the kitchen table at my right hand what more could I need for this lovely summer of creativity I have planned.
Well actually I needed a design wall, that's what. So two hours and one trip into town later I had sourced two meters of cream fleece in Tavistock Market and between us Bookhound and I then figured a way of hanging it without too much bother.
'I think I need an old curtain pole...'
'They are up in the shed and it's pouring with rain...'
Fifteen minutes later I have stitched a hanging hem on the fleece...
'Yes...a curtain pole would be just perfect...'
'That wall is solid granite and the drills are up in the shed too and it's raining even more now...'
'We wouldn't need to drill the wall or anything...'
Eventually using said curtain pole and a Heath-Robinson system of cup hooks and screws and string we have avoided drilling the wall and the fleece is up behind the sewing machine, and I start unearthing ancient unfinished bits alongside new things and pressing them on the wall. This bit always reminds me of Fuzzy Felt and those felt story boards at Sunday School.
Perfect because now I have all Works in Progress staring me in the face rather than tucked away in cupboards, so no excuses not to finally do something with that Mariner's Compass or those black and white blocks made for a wall hanging to be entitled Multi-Media, supposedly a sample of different types of patchwork.
It was all started as a gift to congratulate Offspringette on her graduation with a First in Film & Media from Stirling University, and if I tell you that was ...er nine years ago and since then she's been through a traineeship with and worked for the BBC, done half a Maritime Studies degree, a PGCE, half a Masters Degree which she is about to complete, spent a year in Christchurch, New Zealand living with earthquakes, done six months of gruelling supply teaching around just about every secondary school in Plymouth City and now starts her first proper teaching job on Monday at the school she has loved the most (hooray) ... well I am a few congratulations behind the times. She will actually be teaching English and History as well as taking on responsibility for implementing the innovative use of media in the classroom across the whole school, and I'm sure won't mind me saying that she is brilliant in the classroom, has found her niche and we are all very proud of everything she continues to achieve.... so good luck for Monday Offspringette x
And the minute that kitten scales that design wall he's in very big trouble...saint or not.


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Information Sharing and Collaboration in the United States Intelligence Community: An Ethnographic Study of the National Counterterrorism Center by Bridget Rose Nolan, PhD dissertation, University of Pennsylvania, 2013. [via FAS/Secrecy News]
"The National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC) was established to serve as the primary organization in the U.S. Government for the integration, sharing, and analysis of all terrorism and counterterrorism intelligence. To date, no study has sought to illustrate whether and how NCTC overcomes the barriers to information sharing among agencies and the people that comprise them. The purpose of this dissertation is to explore the micro-level ways in which intelligence work is conducted in a post-9/11 world and to examine the circumstances that both facilitate and discourage collaboration. By presenting detailed ethnographic evidence and the in-depth interview perspectives of the people who actually do this work daily, this study provides a sociological analysis and discussion of best practices to help identify ways in which NCTC can move closer to fulfilling its mission."


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Prime Minister of Mali Resigns
Mali's Prime Minister Cheik Modibo Diarra resigned on state television early Tuesday -- just hours after soldiers who led a coup earlier this year burst into his house and arrested him. Photo: Getty Images.
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By DAVID GREEN
It's a lifesaver.
The little device shown above has proven its value over and over in house fires across the country.
Its absence, on the other hand, has led to death—right here in Morenci.
Morenci Fire Department members continue to feel frustration in their attempts to emphasize the importance of smoke detectors.
It's not only the family and friends of fire victims who suffer when a house fire results in fatalities. Firefighters also feel the grief in their inability to save lives.
After a fatal house fire in 2008, the Morenci Firemen's Association used funding from the Morenci Kiwanis Club to offer 50 free smoke detectors.
"Have we given out some? Yes," said department member Kim Valentine. "Have we given out as many as we want? No."
Even the gift of a free smoke detector wasn't enough.
A year later another fatal fire occurred in the city—one house without detectors, the other with inoperable detectors—and firefighters are ready to act again.
"Since that last fire, a few people have called us," Valentine said. "After what's happened, we want to take action. We're trying to encourage everyone to have at least one. For people who need help, we'll come in and install them."
Valentine's committee is even considering going door to door once a month with the free offer, but it will take some fund-raising and donations to make that work.
Fire safety experts recommend a hard-wired detector system which is built in with new construction, and they push for a detector in every bedroom.
"We'll do whatever people allow us to do," Valentine said.
Getting detectors into a house is the first step, but that's where the efforts mostly end. Some people will take the detector but never install it. Others won't replace weak batteries.
Firefighters in some communities have been shocked to learn that the smoke detector battery was removed to replace a dead battery in the TV remote.
Valentine heard a statistic that estimated there are more inoperable detectors than working ones.
"It really bothers me," he said. "It's the matter of a battery that could save a life—or more than one."
Morenci fire chief Chad Schisler recommends changing batteries twice a year, with each time change. Put the old one in a flashlight or remote, he said, but give a smoke detector a fresh battery.
STUDENTS—Department member Jeff Ort spoke with elementary school students last week during Fire Prevention Week, emphasizing the need for families to develop exit plans—and to practice them. According to surveys, most families don't have a rehearsed plan.
Parents often think they'll have several minutes to gather everyone together and leave the house, but that often isn't the case.
Families often awaken to heavy smoke, when the first impulse is to jump up and find out the problem.
Ort emphasized the need to stay near the floor to avoid being overcome by smoke. Many lives could be saved simply by crawling to safety rather than walking upright.
This year Valentine spoke with seniors at Morenci Area High School.
"I wanted one more shot before they leave us," he said.
He and police chief Larry Weeks reviewed general fire safety rules, but put the message into the context of dormitories, fraternity houses and apartments.
A working smoke detector can increase the chance for survival in a fire by two-thirds, Weeks said.
"Take responsibility for your safety," Weeks said, "rather than expecting someone to save you."
Firefighters will always do their best, but they could use a little help from citizens.


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Summer School in the WACPosted by Brian Goodman on August 12th, 2010
Sam Wasson of bleedCrimson.net is the RTC correspondent for the WAC.
Around The WAC:
- Ch-Ch-Changes: Change is the only constant in the WAC and this year is no different. New coaches, new players, a new tournament format and a farewell tour for one WAC school all headline the offseason ticker.
- Realignment: The WAC wasn't the biggest story in this summer's conference realignment, but it was more of an unwilling participant as Boise State announced its intention to join the Mountain West Conference beginning in 2011. The decision led to the WAC's announcement that they will play as an eight-team league during the 2011-12 season. Unlike on the football side, Boise State is not one of the perennial powers in the WAC, despite their co-co-co-co regular season title and conference tournament title in the 2007-08 season. The 2010-11 year will not be a "one final shot at the bully" tour for Boise State basketball opponents, as it will be for Boise State football opponents.
- Out With The Old, In With The New: Two programs, Hawai'i and Boise State, find themselves with new head men after saying adios to a pair of longtime associates. Hawai'i hired USC assistant Gib Arnold after three lackluster seasons (34-56 record) from Bob Nash. Nash had been associated with the Hawai'i program as a player, longtime assistant and then head coach. Boise State got rid of one of the WAC's elder statesmen in Greg Graham and brought in Gonzaga's top assistant, Leon Rice. Graham had served as the Bronco head man for the past eight seasons, compiling a 142-112 record.
- Protecting The Top Seeds: The WAC announced a change to the conference tournament format which will put more emphasis and reward on the regular season standings. The format is identical to the one used by the West Coast Conference, in which the top two seeds get byes through the semifinal round. Day one of the tournament will see the 5-seed vs. the 8-seed and the 6-seed vs. the 7-seed. Day two of the tournament will see the winners of the 5-seed vs. 8-seed and 6-seed vs. 7-seed take on the 4-seed and 3-seeds, respectively. Day three of the tournament will then see the top two seeds finally get some tournament action as they'll take on the winner of the quarterfinal games. As was the case last season, only the top eight teams advance to the conference tournament.
- The Association: The WAC boasted two first-round NBA draft picks, plus a second-round draft pick this year as Fresno State's Paul George went tenth to Indiana, Nevada's Luke Babbitt went 16th to Minnesota (and was subsequently traded to Portland) and Armon Johnson landed in Portland with his college teammate Babbitt with the 34th pick, signing a contract with the Blazers on August 2.
Power Rankings:
- Utah State – If the WAC power rankings had been published immediately after the season ended, the northern Aggies might have been ranked third. Instead, they find themselves at the top of the heap and it's a ranking that has almost as much to do with defections from two other teams (New Mexico State and Nevada) as it does with Utah State. The Aggies return four seniors from last year's NCAA Tournament team and are stockpiling junior college talent for the 2011 season, one in which they'll have to replace half their roster due to graduations.
- New Mexico State: The southern Aggies would have likely landed in the top spot in the power rankings but the unexpected loss of would-be senior guard Jahmar Young means New Mexico State will have to replace two 20-point scorers instead of just one. The Aggies have added Cristian Kabongo (Canada) and Tshilidzi Nephew (South Africa) to an already internationally flavored roster. New Mexico State is also taking a preseason trip to Canada and as a result, had 10 extra practice days, something that will certainly help as the staff looks to build early chemistry with the squad.
- Nevada: With Luke Babbitt and Armon Johnson off to the NBA, Brandon Fields, Joey Shaw and Ray Kraemer gone after graduation, Nevada welcomes eight new players to the roster. Those eight newbies, plus the returning Wolf Pack players must figure out a way to replace the departed 84% of the team's scoring. Junior college transfer Illiwa Baldwin and Olek Czyz (eligible in December after transferring from Duke) should have an immediate impact on the Wolf Pack squad. Read the rest of this entry »


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Chiropractor in Santa Clara Offers Hope
Many of our Santa Clara chiropractic patients begin their treatment as a "last resort" when all other treatment options have failed, and they are resigned to either living with their chronic condition or undergoing surgery. At New Hope Chiropractic, we offer these patients hope for their health, life and future!
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That's because the biggest contributing factor to patients getting the best results is consistency of treatments and actively engaging in their own care and recovery."
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EM&V Annual Public Meeting: Advancing EM&V in the Region and the Industry
Welcome and Introduction
Level setting: 2018 Avoided Cost Study
Presentation: EM&V 2018 May 8 Meeting_Introduction.pdf
EM&V in the integrated DER environment: Current and Future
This panel explored how EM&V is evolving to meet the relevant needs of the future including non-wire alternatives, storage, and demand reduction strategies.
Presentation: EM&V 2018 May 8 Meeting_Session 1.pdf
Moderator: Elizabeth Titus, NEEP
Controls as an Efficiency Measure: Opportunities and Challenges
This panel explored the new complex measures presenting new challenges towards evaluating savings.
Presentation: EM&V 2018 May 8 Meeting_Session 2.pdf
Moderator: Dave Jacobson, Dave Jacobson Consulting
Cost-effectiveness and Non-Energy Impacts of Efficiency
Our panelists presented new resources and research in NEIs to present perspectives from the Northeast and beyond.
Presentation: EM&V 2018 May 8 Meeting_Session 3.pdf
Panel Discussion - Evolving TRMs for the Future: Outlook 2025
Technical Reference Manuals serve evaluation and program roles, but are changing to meet newer efficiency needs. Our panelists shared their thoughts, experiences and ideas for the evolution of TRMs.
Moderator: Elizabeth Titus, NEEP
Presentation: EM&V 2018 May 8 Meeting_Conclusion.pdf


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The Art of French cheese
Though exact figures vary, France boasts between 300-400 different cheeses. Did you know that cheeses are made from the milk of cow, goat and sheep? Or that cheese-crafting started in the Middle age as a way to store milk? Or that most French cheeses are still artisanally produced? Would you like to learn more?
Join Anne and Vincent Arlet at the Speak! Language Center to taste and learn about 8-10 French cheeses, including: Roquefort, Reblochon, Crottin de Chavignol, Bucheron, Ementhal, Comt©, and Camembert–- and the Ambassador of Stinky Cheeses, Epoisse. Trivia quiz and language games, too.
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A collection of scholarly works about individual liberty and free markets. A project of Liberty Fund, Inc.
1835 - 1882
Historical Period:
The 19th Century
Jevons was born in Liverpool, England and studied chemistry and botany at University College, London before taking up the position of assayer at the Mint in Sydney, Australia. He was later appointed to the post of chair in political economy at his alma mater and retired from there in 1880. He is one of three economists (along with Walras and Menger) who came up with a theory of marginal utility in 1871, thus transforming our understanding the theory of value.


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Indian shipping companies have said they will continue to carry Iranian crude oil despite sanctions that will leave them with potential risk exposure due to limited insurance coverage.
Reuters reported Tuesday that as of July, tighter sanctions from the European Union intended to halt the transport of Iranian oil to Europe will also prevent E.U. insurers and reinsurers from providing coverage to tankers that move the crude anywhere in the world.
Since approximately 90% of such insurance is based in the West, that means greater exposure to risk even for companies that ship Iranian crude to buyers in Asia: China, India, Japan and South Korea. The sanctions are aimed at discouraging Iran from pursuing its nuclear program, which it says is peaceful but which the West believes is designed to produce weapons.
In response, Indian shipping companies have asked state insurers to at least partially fill the gap left by Western companies. Shipping Corp. of India, Great Eastern and additional firms have sought coverage up to $50 million in third-party liability coverage per tanker voyage, even though that falls considerably short of usual coverage for such trips.
Industry sources said that the companies would risk the shipments despite the lack of coverage and increased liability, which could amount to billions should there be a major spill.
However, "To the best of our knowledge, over the last 10 years, none of the Indian shipping companies carrying Iranian crude oil into India has had any major incident relating to pollution or anything," S. Hajara, chairman of Shipping Corp., said in the report. "Since there have been no claims in 10 years, we felt if we have cover of $50 million as a commercial organization it would be worthwhile for us to continue in that business."
India, which is the world's fourth-largest oil importer, is also one of Iran's largest customers, accepting an average of 10 crude shipments a month to its west coast refineries out of the 2.2 million barrels per day Iran exports.
Hajara went on to say, "Exxon Valdez happens once in decades. If you think all your risk must be covered, then you should not be in business." He added that oil spil liability limits have exceeded $1 billion, while other incidents have exceeded $3 billion. "We have been very clear that Indian insurance companies will have a tough task, if not impossible, to get reinsurance if the sanctions really set in. We know if we ask for a huge amount of cover we will never get it."


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Ind. Panel OKs 'Right To Work' in Party-Line Vote
A committee of Indiana lawmakers is recommending their colleagues approve "right-to-work'' legislation when they return in January for their 2012 session.
The Legislature's Interim Study Committee on Employment voted 5-4 along party lines Wednesday to advance the proposal. Senate and House Republicans have already announced plans to introduce bills for consideration during the upcoming session.
The divisive issue sparked a five-week walkout by House Democrats during this year's session. New fines put in place by the Republican-led Legislature make another walkout much less likely.
"Right-to-work'' would prohibit workers from being required to pay union representation fees. Indiana's unions spent much of the summer protesting the measure at the study committee's hearings and packed its final hearing Wednesday.


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Hello there and welcome to my A2 media blog The brief for the A2 course is: to form a group of two/three and produce a music video as the main product along with two ancillary texts: a digipak cover for the music video and a magazine advert for the digipak. We will also need to do research for the band we choose to do along with music videos from the same genre. We also need to research the typical codes and conventions for a music video. Feel free to leave any feedback on any of my posts Thanks
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ASICS World Series of Beach Volleyball | 22 - 27 juillet 2014
Long Beach, USA, July 26, 2014 - For Phil Collin, this week's US$1-million FIVB World Tour event might be "just another event†to cover as he has been reporting on sporting activities in southern California for more than four decades.
But ASICS World Series of Beach Volleyball is more than "another event†for Collin where big crowds enjoyed international competition at Alamitos Beach, as action continues through Sunday when the winning teams in both the men's and women's brackets will share the $70,000 first-place prizes.
Collin, who is covering the ASICS World Series of Beach Volleyball for the second-straight year for the Los Angeles News Group, said the "success of the 2013 event was stunning. The size and scope was a breakthrough not only for U.S. volleyball, but for international volleyball. They went bigger this year.â€
For a sportswriter that has covered just about everything, including the Dodgers, Angels, Lakers, Clippers, USC football and college basketball, Collin said that the constant thread has been his reporting on Beach Volleyball every summer where he said the "sport sells itself. It can be played by anyone.â€
One of the appealing aspects for Collin this week, as compared to a domestic event, is the "country-vs.-country competition to draw fans. And there is no doubt, considering the atmosphere at Olympiads where the party revolves around the beach, that Southern California culture is pervasive. And persuasive.â€
With the ASICS World Series of Beach Volleyball featuring 91 men's and women's teams, Collin cites that the "depth of the field on both the men's and women's side is amazing. The Olympics should be a tournament like this? Why cut down on entries (currently only 48 teams for the Summer Games) when you can put an event on like this?â€
With this week's FIVB World Tour stop being the third international event that he has covered, Collin was asked about the changes in the sport he has seen since starting his coverage in 1981 as a 19-year old reporter for the Daily Breeze in Hermosa Beach.
"Absolutely yes and sometimes, no,†said Collin about the changes. "The training and nutrition now is off the charts compared to then, of course. That has enabled the athletes of today to compete at the highest level deep into what we consider old age for athletes, like Emanuel (Rego, 41 years old), Ricardo (Santos, 39), Hyden (John, 41), and Rogers (Todd, 40). Then again, in the 1996 Olympics you had veterans like Kiraly (Karch), Dodd (Mike), Whitmarsh (Mike) still dominant. I believe that spurred the next generation and the training regimen of Dain Blanton and Eric Fonoimoana, the 2000 gold medalists, also set a standard.â€
His coverage at the 2003 FIVB World Tour stop in near-by Carson was also an "eye-opening experience†for Collin.
"In 2003, it was eye-opening for us in Southern California to see not only how good the rest of the world had become but also how physical the sport had become,†said Collin. "The sight of 6-foot-8 Sascha Heyer (Switzerland) walking onto a court was mind-boggling to us at the time. He might as well have been Ivan Drago from Rocky IV. As a writer, though, the first thing you noticed about the foreign players is how receptive they were to the media. Emanuel was the class act he always has displayed. Ana Paula (Connolly then, Henkel now from Brazil) was an incredible ambassador. It was a great women's final with Misty and Kerri (May-Treanor and Walsh Jennings) defeating Ana Paula and Sandra Pires.â€
Listing Kiraly as the best-ever on his list of Volleyball/Beach Volleyball players, Collin tabs Brazilian standout Emanuel as another player that standouts in the sport. "He was one of the first foreign players to play on the AVP tour and then went on to dominate around the world. Unfortunately, we have not seen the Europeans enough through the years.â€
When asked if an event like the ASICS World Series of Beach Volleyball can stand alone without other events like music to attract crowds, Collin said "yes, but not in Southern California, and perhaps not in the U.S. For all of its success, this is success on a volleyball level in a country that has all of its other sports and interests. I believe that Europeans, for instance, can hold a tournament for the sport's sake. Here, we can't just rely on the volleyball crowd. The people have to be drawn to the events first to grow their interest. Americans, bless their attention-deficit-addled hearts, need to be entertained first before latching onto to the love of sports for their own sake.â€
With the ASICS World Series of Beach Volleyball winding down, Collin was asked about the top players competing in the FIVB World Tour stop where competition returns to Europe for a stop in Klagenfurt, Austria.
"On the men's side and in no particular order, Dalhausser (Phil), Fijalek (Grzegorz) Prudel (Mariusz). Quietly, the Poles (Fijalek and Prudel) have a 12-match win streak after ending the 20-match streak of Rosie (Sean Rosenthal) and Dalhausser last week in The Netherlands. The most amazing performance of the tournament, however, belongs to Todd Rogers. Qualifier. 40 years old. Semifinals. Wow. On the women's side, Kerri (Walsh Jennings), April (Ross), Laura Ludwig. An extra nod to Agatha (Bednarczuk) and Barbara (Seixas) of Brazil.â€
For final thoughts, Collin said there "needs to be more than one FIVB event in the U.S. every year. Hey, we' make a good meeting point between South America and Asia. If you're going to have a layover, why not hit the beach and play some volleyball?â€
Collin also feels that there "needs to be a rivalry. With the depth and parity, I realize that's going to be hard to come by. But the growth in Beach Volleyball in the U. S. surged in the 1980s with two factions fighting for supremacy, namely Sinjin Smith and Randy Stoklos from the Westside against Mike Dodd and Tim Hovland from the South Bay. Each summer, the season built to a crescendo that absorbed the fans, especially leading up to the Manhattan Open. Hmmm, the FIVB Manhattan Open!â€
For a sportswriter that has covered the top sporting attractions in one of the United States' largest city, Collin is not just reporting on "just another event†this week. When he started covering Beach Volleyball on the Pacific Ocean courts, the prize was a handshake and a tee-shirt from the promoter.
Now, Collin is witnessing competition for the biggest purse for a Beach Volleyball event in the United States where 182 international athletes from 31 countries started play Tuesday vying for podium spots Sunday in southern California where the sport was developed and established some four decades ago when a young sportswriter began reporting.
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|Agency overview
|July 29, 1958
|Preceding agency
|US Federal Government
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|US$22.629 billion (2020)
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NASA or the National Aeronautics and Space Administration is the part of the United States government that deals with space exploration and aeronautics, the operating and designing of planes. NASA has had many successful missions including the ISS and Apollo 11 which put the first man on the Moon in 1969. NASA started on July 29, 1958. NASA's motto is: "For the benefit of all".
Founding and the Sputnik crisis
NASA was preceded by the "National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics" (NACA). NACA was a U.S. federal agency founded on March 3, 1915 to undertake, promote, and institutionalize aeronautical research. On October 1, 1958 the agency was dissolved, and its assets and personnel transferred to the newly created National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).
NASA was founded to compete with the Soviet Union in the space race. In the 1950s and 1960s there was a space race between the USA and the Soviet Union - now called Russia. The Soviets started first launching Sputnik 1, the first object made by people to go into orbit, in October 1957. The Americans were worried by this. It caused a crisis known as the Sputnik Crisis as the Americans feared the Russians might start building weapons in space. This all happened at a time called the Cold War when the USA and the Soviet Union were always very close to war.
The Mercury Project
Originally NASA was very small with only four laboratories and around eighty people working there. German engineers and scientists led by Wernher von Braun helped them build rockets. They had helped build the V-2 missile in Germany during World War II and the Redstone missile for the US Arny afterwards.
In 1960 they set up the Mercury project. The Mercury Project space missions were designed by NASA, mostly to test if humans could survive in space. After they proved it was possible for people to live in space they moved on.
On May 15th 1961 astronaut Alan Shepard became the first American in space. Less than a year later, John Glenn became the first American to orbit or circle the Earth. He did so in a spacecraft called Friendship 7. Once the Mercury Project proved that humans could live in space, the Gemini Project was started. Less than a year after it began, the Apollo Program also began.
Project Gemini
After the success of Mercury, NASA realized it had to start planning for its missions to the Moon. The Gemini spacecraft was built for two men. It was still small and cramped like the Mercury capsule, but allowed for more freedom of movement. Project Gemini proved that two spacecraft could meet and dock in space. Neil Armstrong, the first man on the Moon, was also on the first Gemini flight to dock with another spacecraft in outer space. The Gemini spaceship did not dock with another spaceship with people in it. Instead, it docked with a rocket called "Agena target vehicle". The last few Gemini missions were science experiments and spacewalks designed to prepare for the Apollo Program, which would land human beings on the Moon.
The Apollo Program
The Apollo program was started by President John F Kennedy in the 1960s. The program was made of 16 missions designed to send a man to the Moon and return him safely back to Earth. The first Apollo mission, Apollo 1, ended in disaster when a fire in the command module killed all the astronauts onboard. The Apollo 8 and 10 missions went to the moon. They tested equipment and took photos but did not land. The project's main success came in 1969 when Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed on the Moon as part of Apollo 11. The mission was a big success for NASA and over six million people watched it worldwide. After Apollo 11, six more Apollo flights went to the moon. Five of them landed. The one that did not land, Apollo 13, had to abort its mission when an oxygen tank exploded in the spaceship. Apollo 17 was the last mission to land on the Moon.
The Apollo spaceship was made up of two parts. There was a space capsule and the Lunar Lander. These two spacecraft docked on the way to the Moon. Mercury and Gemini spaceships were very small and cramped, but Apollo spaceships were much bigger. Astronauts could move around and not have to stay in their seats. The Lunar Lander was also very big on the inside. The only part of the Apollo spaceship to come back to Earth was the capsule, the Lunar Lander was left behind.
After Congress stopped the Moon landings, NASA needed a new direction. Using a leftover Saturn V rocket, the giant rocket that sent men to the Moon, they created a space station that orbited above the Earth. This space station was called Skylab. Skylab was very big on the inside, even bigger than a small house. Skylab was visited by Apollo spaceships. There were three missions to Skylab. Each of them carried important experiments. Skylab was eventually abandoned. It had served its purpose. It broke up in the atmosphere in 1979.
During the Space Race, the Russians had designed their own spaceship to fly to the Moon. Their spaceship was called Soyuz. The Russians never landed on the Moon, they had too many problems. Instead, they started creating small space stations. The Soyuz spaceship is what they used to go to these space stations. America and Russia were part of the Cold War. In order to make peace between Russia and America, they decided they would dock an Apollo spaceship to a Soyuz spaceship in space. After docking, the crews performed experiments and learned about each others' cultures. Apollo-Soyuz was the last flight of the Apollo spaceship. It has never been used since, and never will be.
The Space Shuttle era
In the 1980s and 1990s NASA began to concentrate on building Space Shuttles. Four Shuttles were built by 1985. The first to launch was the space shuttle Columbia in October 1981. At this time the public began to lose interest in the space program and NASA faced budget cuts. They had planned for the space shuttles to cost less as they could be used more than once. But eventually it turned out the Space Shuttles were more expensive as building them in the first place cost more money than normal. There was further problems for NASA after the Space Shuttle Challenger disintegrated while in mid-air over the Atlantic Ocean, near Florida. All seven astronauts on board died in the disaster. The incident is known as the Challenger Disaster.
The Challenger Disaster forced NASA to think about the way they worked. The entire Space Shuttle fleet was suspended for a year after the disaster. It was also around this time that NASA launched the Hubble Space Telescope into orbit. Hubble became one of NASA's greatest achievements when it took a photo known as the Hubble Deep Field. The HDF is sometimes called by scientists 'the most important image ever taken'
NASA also now works with the Russian Space Agency quite often. When the Space Shuttle fleet was grounded after the Columbia disaster in 2003, Russian rockets continued to take up parts to the International Space Station. The Soyuz spaceship also helped take Americans to the station. The International Space Station, along with most of NASA, lost a lot of public interest. But it has been gaining it back recently, with its big plans for the future.
In 2010 NASA shut down the Space Shuttle program. They had done their job, but were too dangerous and expensive to keep flying.
NASA is now creating Orion (spacecraft). It will launch on a gigantic rocket called the Space Launch System. NASA is building this rocket as well.
NASA's future
NASA's continuing operations include missions to the planets Mars, Saturn and Pluto. Missions to Jupiter are also planned for the near future. The New Horizons spacecraft flew past Jupiter in February 2007, studying some of the planet's moons. On July 14, 2015 the craft will fly by Pluto, take high resolution pictures of the planet's surface and analyse the chemical properties of its atmosphere or air.
NASA announced in 2004 that they plan to have a permanent Moon base by 2020. A senior NASA administrator also stated in 2007 that NASA aims "to put a man on Mars by 2037".
However in early 2010, President Barack Obama cancelled the Constellation project that was aiming to have humans return to the moon's surface by 2020. He said the project was 'behind schedule and lacking in innovation' At the same time he cut back the amount of money NASA will be getting from the government in 2011.
When President Barack Obama did this, he also worked with NASA to create the Space Launch System. This will take humans to an asteroid and then to Mars. The reason we are not going back to the Moon is because there is nothing there for NASA. We learned this with the Apollo missions. There are metals and other things worth mining on the Moon, but NASA is not allowed to do that. Private businesses will have to. In 2012, the company Planetary Resources said they would be mining asteroids. It is reasonable to assume they might also want to mine the Moon.
NASA Missions
NASA has launched over 500 missions in its 50-year history. Over 150 missions had humans onboard. Such manned missions are the most expensive and make the most news but the majority of launches are for space exploration, science, and other purposes that do not need people. NASA spacecraft such as Cassini-Huygens and the Voyager program have visited every planet in the Solar System. Four NASA spacecraft have left the Solar System, Voyager 1, Voyager 2, Pioneer 10 and Pioneer 11. As of 2010 Voyager 2 is 113.46 AU or around 17,000,000,000 kilometers away from Earth.
In May 2018 NASA's InSight lander was launched, along with the twin MarCO CubeSats that will fly by Mars and provide a telemetry relay for the landing. The mission arrived at Mars in November 2018.
NASA plans to launch its Mars 2020 astrobiology rover in July or August 2020.
Images for kids
William H. Pickering, (center) JPL Director, President John F. Kennedy, (right). NASA Administrator James E. Webb (background) discussing the Mariner program, with a model presented.
At launch control for the May 28, 1964, Saturn I SA-6 launch. Wernher von Braun is at center.
Ed White on Gemini 4: first US spacewalk, 1965
Apollo 17: LRV-003, 1972.
Mae Jemison working in Spacelab in 1992. Spacelab was a major NASA collaboration with Europe's space agencies
Curiosity's wheel on Mars, 2012


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Last year at the Cannes Film Festival, Alec Baldwin and director James Toback ran around for 11 days making a movie about two guys (themselves; it's a documentary) scrambling to line up financing for a different movie, a sex-soaked tale of a right-wing government operative trysting with a left-wing journalist in a hotel room in Iraq.
They pitched it, over and over, to various potential backers, as "Last Tango in Tikrit."
So far that movie, which may one day star Baldwin, remains a thing of pitch meetings, fairy dust and maybe-next-year. This year, however, Baldwin and Toback are back in Cannes with the documentary they made about the movie they haven't made yet. "Seduced and Abandoned" screens out of competition this week during the 66th festival.
The official Cannes festival program describes Toback's film as an "exploration" of "several interconnected subjects": the festival and "cinema art, money, glamour and death." Toback and Baldwin grab interview time with some world-class directors (Bernardo Bertolucci, Roman Polanski, Martin Scorsese, Francis Coppola) and a passel of actors, notably the It Man, the Abs of the Moment, Ryan Gosling, who recounts in "Seduced and Abandoned" what life was like as a struggling LA performer.
"Would you like some fruit?" says Baldwin, sitting on the side terrace of the grand old Carlton Hotel on the Croisette, the main drag, a few blocks east of the Palais des Festivals, where most of the action in Cannes is concentrated. I say no, thank you, though like every plate of fruit I've seen during the festival this one looks impossibly nummy. But I've just downed one of the stronger cups of espresso of my life and I'm having trouble holding my pen.
There's a scene in "Seduced and Abandoned" where Baldwin and Toback board the private yacht of controversial Greek writer Taki Theodoracopulos. They seek financing for their sexy clash-of-ideologues romance. The meal of which they partake on the yacht looks scrumptious.
"Every time I see that scene in the movie," Toback says with a sigh, "I'm nostalgic for that day." Baldwin jumps in: "You're sitting there with Taki on his yacht, and you think: 'I would sanction the immoral invasion of oil-rich countries to enrich myself, if this is what it led to. To be this man, on a ship, with his staff, smoking, drinking fine wine, the boat gently lolling. So what if a few generations of Middle Eastern people have to be subjugated to poverty and terror? It's worth it." Toback's cracking up; Baldwin's on a roll.
In "Seduced and Abandoned" Bertolucci speaks lovingly of filmmaking as "an ocean of pleasure." Baldwin admits he failed to take much pleasure in his own career during its first couple of decades. "I don't want to say it's warfare, exactly, but...for example. I don't know him well, but whenever I'm around Steven Spielberg" — he's heading the main competition jury at this year's festival — "he never ceases to amaze me. He's having a wonderful time. He's happy. There's no base line of tension within him. Most people in this business, they don't have enough of what they want, or they're worried about losing some of what they've accrued."
Baldwin is the king of all media: He serves as the voice of the Metropolitan Opera broadcasts on National Public Radio; he runs a podcast on WNYC radio; he was Robert Osborne's co-host on "The Essentials" on Turner Classic Movies prior to Drew Barrymore; he tweets like a fiend; and for several years he rode the wave of a little TV show called "30 Rock." Now he's eager to re-establish himself as a viable, bankable movie commodity. "Seduced and Abandoned" deals with that quest, in addition to everything else.
Talking to Gosling for the movie, Baldwin tells me, made him realize "how much savvier the new generation of actors is about the business and the media. They know how to keep the media at a certain distance. Gosling knows you throw the press a little chunk of meat every now and then, and that's it. Better to keep your political opinions to yourself, and keep the canvas rather bland and diffuse, so that the public can project onto it whatever they want." Baldwin shakes his head, smiling, knowing he has done it all somewhat differently. And with that, hands are shook, fruit plates are disappeared, and Baldwin and Toback share another laugh about how distant those 11 blurry days of filming seem a year later.
"Seduced and Abandoned" is scheduled for a fall premiere on HBO.


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Rays hitters take hacks vs. Price in batting practice
PORT CHARLOTTE, Fla. -- Saturday's morning workout featured the Rays' first live batting practice this spring.
Among those on the bump was David Price, who looked ready to start the season.
"It went really good," Price said. "I felt great. I kind of surprised myself how good I felt, being at 9 in the morning. Even at Spring Training, that's kind of early to be out there facing hitters. Everything felt really good, that's good."
Hitters are definitely behind the pitchers at this point.
"Yeah, this is probably their first time of seeing actual pitching from somebody on the mound after living up in the Northeast, or whatever their circumstances are -- it's tough to face Major League pitching in the offseason, because a lot of Major League pitchers aren't throwing," Price said. "So this is their first time seeing live pitching probably in four or five months. So it feels good going out there and trying to hurt their confidence a little bit."
Price smiled when asked if he felt sorry for the hitters.
"No," he said. "It's timing for them. It's good for both of us. That's the first time I've had a real hitter standing in the box, with a helmet and a bat, stuff like that. So it definitely works both ways."
Matt Joyce was among the hitters Price faced.
"He looked great," Joyce said of Price. "It's nice to have him on our team, that's for sure. … You guys know how it goes. First time seeing live pitching, guy looks like he's throwing 110 mph. I was just trying to make contact. Sometimes it's a good thing, because it simplifies everything. You're not trying to do too much. You're just trying to make contact. At the same time, we've got a great pitching staff."
Joyce said it doesn't take that long for the hitters to catch up to the pitchers.
"Everybody's different, but you take a lot of swings in the cage and hit on the field a bunch, for the most part, hitters are hitting before they come here -- after that, it's just getting into game-type simulation, so it will probably take like four or five days," Joyce said.


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The guide includes practical plan review and inspection resources, including the U.S. Department of Energy Building Energy Codes Program's REScheck™ and COMcheck™ quick reference guides, case studies, and sample inspection checklists; as well as excerpts from International Code Council's commentaries, workbooks, and code companion materials.
This collection also includes many other helpful items and points to further resources available on the web. Residential and commercial building officials can easily add state and local guidance in order to use this binder as a one-stop resource to support compliance in the field.
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