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Dickinson is remote for the fall. Prospective students may contact our admissions office and schedule a visit. Campus buildings are closed. Face coverings are required on campus.
by Tony Moore
The University of Pennsylvania came up with a great idea: It's called the Pennsylvania Collegiate Green Sports Consortium (PA CGSC), and it recently launched in collaboration with the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), the leading environmental advisory group to all professional sports leagues and the Ivy League athletics conference.
What the PA CGSC is doing is gathering Pennsylvania colleges and universities to push for more sustainable practices in collegiate sports through Athletics Eco-Reps, so it won't come as a huge surprise that Dickinson was one of the eight schools asked to join as a founding member.
"I volunteered to do it because of the importance of such a national movement as greening athletics," says Dina Henry, head women's basketball coach and advisor to Dickinson's program participants. "Athletics brings together people from all walks of life, so athletic events and teams have the power to bring about great change."
Patching a hole and merging bubbles
Also interested in bringing about that change is Megan Layman '16, one of Dickinson's new Athletics Eco-Reps, who played for Henry last year and who sees athletics as a small, patchable hole in Dickinson's sustainability picture.
"Athletics is sort of in its own world," she says, "and it really hit home for me, because I've been an athlete all my life and have always thought of the whole Dickinson campus as being sustainable, and then I started to realize that there needs to be some work done on the athletics facilities."
Of course, changes underway and recently implemented have already brought new athletics facilities in step with Dickinson's sustainability ethos.
"The lights at the soccer field are the most efficient on the market," says Ken Shultes, associate vice president for campus operations and director of facilities management, "and both the Durden Athletic Training Center and the Kline expansion are going for LEED Gold and therefore have a large list of sustainable attributes." (The Kline Center, in fact, was originally constructed with such sustainable elements as a stormwater-detention system and solar thermal panels on the roof.)
While these steps go a long way toward a sustainable athletics picture, senior Rachel Williams, who swims for the Red Devils squad, sees work to be done in creating an environment in which varying groups can work toward the same goals regularly.
"I'm on the Center for Sustainability Education steering panel," says Williams, "and it's apparent that there are bubbles on campus between interests, and they're kind of hard to merge. Athletics and sustainability are two great examples."
Simplicity itself
Part of merging those seemingly disparate bubbles is a top-down approach, getting coaches involved as continual voices of sustainability across the ever-changing faces of Dickinson's teams.
"The national movement on greening athletics was an opportunity for our student-athletes to be involved in something that is so meaningful," Henry says. "And our athletics venues and practices where sustainability is concerned can change for the better. I want our student-athletes to initiate that change."
When Williams and Layman talk about the Athletics Eco-Rep initiative, the word "simple" comes up again and again: "Very simple things that can make a big difference," says Layman, and Williams echoes, "A lot of these changes are just so simple."
One such simple change, adding recycling bins pretty much everywhere, has been an early initiative. But bigger moves are coming, such as making home games and meets zero-waste events.
"We'd like to see the paper programs go away," says Williams, citing a plan to create electronic versions of programs instead. "It would just make a lot of sense." Long-term, they'd also like to see the concession stands at each sporting venue—Biddle Field, the new soccer complex and Dickinson Park—become zero-waste and also have water-bottle-filling stations at each.
For everyone involved, though, it comes down to more of a shift in mindset than a checklist of goals.
"Taking that step and creating this ideology takes a lot of work," says Williams, "but, really, at Dickinson, it's already here."
Dickinson's Eco-Reps program
The founding members of the PA CGSC are the University of Pennsylvania, Dickinson, Franklin & Marshall College, Lehigh University, Shippensburg University, Swarthmore College, Temple University, Villanova University and Carnegie Mellon University. More information on the greening of college athletics nationwide can be found at the NRDC's Web site.
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Sociologists Paul Attewell and David Lavin of the Graduate Center, City University of New York, have been named co-recipients of the prestigious Grawemeyer Award for 2008 in the category of Education. Professors Attewell and Lavin will share the $200,000 prize that comes with the award, presented in recognition of a landmark study they co-authored showing the longterm benefits of providing disadvantaged women with access to higher education.
Given by the University of Louisville, the Grawemeyer Award honors accomplishments that "help make the world a better place" in the fields of education, political science, music composition, religion, and psychology. It was established in the 1984 by University of Louisville alumnus and philanthropist H. Charles Grawemeyer.
Professors Attewell and Lavin's study revealed that the benefits of providing disadvantaged students, particularly women, with wider access to higher education are startling when measured over the course of a lifetime, rather than just the traditional span of college attendance. The authors found that over a 30-year period, surveyed women admitted to City University of New York in the early 1970s ultimately achieved a 70% college graduation rate, earned an annual average of $7,525 more than they otherwise would have, and passed the benefits of their educational experience on to their children. The patterns were similar to a 20-year longitudinal study of students nationwide, to which the City University data were compared. The complete findings were reported as a book, Passing the Torch: Does Higher Education for the Disadvantaged Pay Off Across the Generations?, published by the Russell Sage Foundation in April 2007. The authors were assisted in the research by recent doctoral graduates Thurston Domina and Tania Levy.
Paul Attewell - Biography
Paul Attewell, a professor of sociology and urban education at the City University of New York's Graduate Center, has spent his career addressing public policy dilemmas in education.
Besides his work on Passing the Torch, he has researched the policy of requiring more advanced coursework from high school students and whether remedial education works for college students. His work has been supported by grants from the National Science, Ford, Andrew Mellon and Spencer foundations.
His current research projects include a qualitative evaluation of inner city public school students who are being paid incentives to do well on standardized tests, and a separate project that looks at college graduation, stopping out, and dropping out among working and commuter undergraduates.
Attewell earned his bachelor's degree in chemistry from University College at the University of London in 1971 and his doctorate in sociology from the University of California-San Diego in 1978. In 1978 and 1979, he was a National Institute of Mental Health post-doctoral fellow at the University of California-Berkeley.
From 1979 to 1983, he taught at the University of California-Santa Cruz and from 1983 to 1990, at the State University of New York, Stony Brook. The year before joining the Graduate Center faculty, he was a visiting professor at Stern Graduate School of Business at New York University.
David Lavin - Biography
David Lavin, a sociology professor at the City University of New York's Graduate Center and CUNY's Lehman College, has spent much of his career focusing on the impact that higher education has on disadvantaged families. Since 1971, he has completed 14 research grants and projects about open enrollment, mostly related to the procedures in place at City University of New York in the 1970s. He also has co-written three books and a half-dozen articles on the topic dating back to 1979. His research has been funded by the Spencer, Ford, Mellon and Exxon Education foundations.
He earned his bachelor's degree from Colby College in 1953, his master's degree in sociology and social psychology from New York University in 1955, and his doctorate in sociology from New York University in 1960.
Lavin began his career as a research fellow in social relations at Harvard University from 1960 to 1962. From 1962 to 1970, he taught at the University of Pennsylvania. In the year before coming to City University of New York, he was a visiting associate professor of sociology at Columbia University.
The Graduate Center
The Graduate Center is devoted primarily to doctoral studies and awards most of the City University of New York's Ph.D.s. An internationally recognized center for advanced studies and a national model for public doctoral education, the school offers more than thirty doctoral programs as well as a number of master's programs. Many of its faculty members are among the world's leading scholars in their respective fields, and its alumni hold major positions in industry and government, as well as in academia. The Graduate Center is also home to more than thirty interdisciplinary research centers and institutes focused on areas of compelling social, civic, cultural, and scientific concerns. Located in a landmark Fifth Avenue building, the Graduate Center has become a vital part of New York City's intellectual and cultural life with its extensive array of public lectures, exhibitions, concerts, and theatrical events. Further information on the Graduate Center and its programs can be found at www.gc.cuny.edu.
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Hi all!
I have a T-cell hybridoma cell line, that is supposed to recognize the OVA 323(327)-339 peptide bound to I-Ab . I would like to use it in order to assess changes in antigen presentation (so, to have them in co-culture with dendritic cells+ OVA or OVApeptide and measure IL-2 production at the supernatant by ELISA as a read-out).
The thing is, although they proliferate very well, the amount of IL-2 that I am getting is way too low (in the order of 2-10 pg/mL). I have been playing with different amount of cells per well (using U-bottom 96-well plates), different ratio of DC:T-hyb, and immature vs. matured DCs (by immature I mean 8-days old BMDCs right out of the plate, and by mature I first pre-stimmulated them for 4hrs with LPS, then washed and added to my co-cultures). Still, I am not able to get a decent IL-2 production. I am using the culture medium that my DCs like (RPMI +10%FCS+HEPES+mercaptoethanol+antibiotics).
I have just thawed a new frozen batch of these cell lines, and I am thinking on including some positive controls to see whether this cell line is really able to produce IL-2. I've thought about using some anti-CD3, but I don't know if it's better to use it soluble, or coating a plate.
Do you have any experience with T-cell hybridomas? What would you recommend me?
Thanks a lot in advance!
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soluble CD3 is good, in combination with DCs or splenocytes.
my experience with a CD4 T cell hybridoma (B5) is that it's very sensible and produce large amounts of IL2.
I stimulated the cells exactly as you did: DCs and peptide, the numbers where 50,000 DCs with 100,000 T cells....but 50,000 T worked as well....
my experience with a CD4 T cell hybridoma (B5) is that it's very sensible and produce large amounts of IL2.
I stimulated the cells exactly as you did: DCs and peptide, the numbers where 50,000 DCs with 100,000 T cells....but 50,000 T worked as well....
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Madurai Slab also features the glyphs to enable all Central, Eastern and Western European languages. In all, Madurai Slab supports around forty languages that utilize the prolonged Latin script, making it an excellent option for multi-lingual publications and packaging. This richness of options makes this the best slab serif family for websites as well as for print, motion graphics, logos, t-shirts and the like.
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Insigne Design was founded as DooleyType in 2004 with the release of the typeface Biortec. Since then, Insigne Design has released a wide variety of quality typefaces, including sans serifs, scripts, serifs and experimental forms. Insigne Design prides itself on its unique and affordable fonts. Insigne Design is the foundry of Jeremy Dooley. A world traveler, Jeremy has traveled extensively and lived in both Europe and the Middle East. In 2005, Jeremy graduated with a master's degree in graphic design from Savannah College of Art and Design. Jeremy currently resides in Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
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The Font-Software and any updates, upgrades, additions or modified versions are the intellectual property of Jeremy Dooley (dba insigne). Insigne Font-Software is protected under domestic (USA) and international copyright law. Licensee (you or your employer) is licensed to use the software on one computer, unless additional licenses are purchased for additional computers or a multi-license agreement is reached. Only for the purpose of outputting design work may Licensee create a copy of the Font-Software. Insigne Font-Software may not be made available to unlicensed third parties for any other purpose, unless additional licensees for computers are purchased. Examples include, but are not limited to making the Font-Software available for public download on the internet, emailing the Font-Software to others or distributing Font-Software on storage mediums or any other future file distribution method. Licensee is permitted to create backup copies of the Font-Software. Licensee must ensure copies are stored securely and are not accessible to non-licensed users.
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Why Social Learning Benefits Your Business
Classroom training isn't dead, but it also isn't the answer for every training need. Social tools are changing the game when it comes to employee learning. Organizations can create collaborative workplaces where employees can learn from each other instead of only learning in a formal setting or from the proverbial "company expert."
For training programs to be effective, companies must use the right methods and medium for their training sessions and their audience. Given the popularity of social media, it only seems logical to explore how social media tools can have a positive impact on the learning experience.
What It Means
Tony Bingham, president and CEO of the American Society for Training and Development (ASTD), defines social learning as "learning that happens outside a formal structure or classroom and is really the way people have always learned from each other. Social learning centers on information sharing, collaboration and co-creation."
While the practice of social learning has been around for ages, we need a better definition of it for today's workplace. Most of us have a vision for what formal classroom training looks like, so here's one way to view the basic difference between informal learning and social learning:
Informal learning is a term used to describe anything not learned in a formal program or class. It can take place within groups or alone using activities such as reading or search.
Social learning is learning with and from others. It happens at conferences, cafes or online — with or without social media tools.
In the book Social Media at Work, written by Arthur L. Jue, Jackie Alcalde Marr and Mary Ellen Kassotakis, the authors share case studies of companies using social and informal learning for business success. For example, Oracle uses a key tool called Connect to give employees the information they need at the moment they need it. The tool is about more than just answering questions -– it's teaching people how to make smart decisions about the business.
One thing is certain about social learning: It's not a replacement for traditional classroom training. "There will always be some kinds of training that must be done in a classroom setting because of the requirements of the training or skill mastery demands," Bingham explains. "Examples include certification, compliance, and deep learning -– this is happening in the classroom."
Social Learning Benefits
Surveys of CEOs continue to report that recruiting and developing talent are their top concerns. In addition, ASTD Research notes that by 2020, nearly half (46%) of all U.S. workers will be Millennials.
Organizations have to gain an understanding of how a new generation of workers likes to learn, how they use technology and their preferred means of communication. This will be essential in creating training curriculum, development programs and succession plans.
Bingham says it's possible to calculate the return on social learning, but it's not the traditional return-on-investment (ROI) formula: "It requires alignment to what's important to the organization, and often that includes retaining institutional knowledge, solving complex problems collaboratively and attracting people to your organization."
Maria Ogneva, director of community at Yammer, says, "If your goal is to increase customer satisfaction, perhaps the impact metric you are looking for is the increase of speed of a response to a customer, and how collaboration helps you do that. For any social effort to be successful, it has to tie to a business objective."
Barriers to Social Learning
Business leaders need to realize that employees are already using social tools -– whether it's approved or not. Instead of prohibiting the use of social media, savvy business leaders should harness its power to drive business results. Bingham notes, "It's important to make the distinction between a management problem and a technology problem. Most often, problems that occur with the use of social media are management problems."
Bingham adds that he sees a concern that the use of social media tools may compromise proprietary informaion, or that issues related to intellectual property, company secrets or business strategy may be divulged by a workforce given social media tools. His recommendation?
"Organizations should have an intellectual property policy in place that outlines clear expectations -– and consequences for inappropriate activity. This policy should consider the multitude of possibilities for the use of an organization's intellectual property."
Once guidelines are in place, clearly communicate those throughout the entire organization. The goal isn't to create obstacles to learning but a respectful, effective means to using social tools.
Implementing Social Learning within Your Organization
Before rolling-out a social learning strategy, take a good look at your company culture. Determine if the company is ready to incorporate social learning into its training and development strategy. Adding social just because it sounds cool isn't productive for the workforce.
Any time a company is testing the new territory, it's beneficial to start small. Find a program or an initiative that would be well-served by employing social technologies and let the people involved with it experiment and find what works. "Social learning has an organic nature to it, it can't be forced," Bingham says.
After using a new technology, evaluate the success of the program. Get feedback on three levels:
From the participants who used the social tool. How did it help or hinder the learning experience?
From the administrators of the social tool. Was it easy or difficult to use, explain to others and get participant involvement?
From the management team. What was their perception of the results gained from using a social tool within their work teams?
This feedback will help refine the best social learning methods to incorporate for future activities.
Social media platforms will continue to develop and evolve. More and more individuals will start using them for their personal brands and professional lives. Employees will demand simplicity and expect workplace training to incorporate the tools they use on a regular basis.
Would you like to see more social in your training programs? Leave your thoughts in the comments.
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"Yet the act of desecrating an enemy's body is as old as war, perhaps most famously described by Homer in 'The Iliad,' when Achilles drags Hector's lifeless body behind his chariot before the eyes of a shocked and despairing Troy. Nancy Sherman, a professor of philosophy at Georgetown University who has written a book about the moral implications of war on troops, 'The Untold War,' said dehumanizing the enemy can be a psychological defense mechanism for the troops whose job is to kill that enemy…
"Mr. Exum said black humor is another coping mechanism for young troops trying to act tough beyond their years. 'I remember being a young officer in Afghanistan in 2002 and standing over the body of this partially decapitated Taliban and cracking jokes,' he said. 'Humor is how we cope with pretty horrific stuff. It's almost dangerous to be too sensitive.'
"Alex Lemons, a Marine scout sniper during the fierce fighting in the Iraqi city of Falluja in 2004, said that on several occasions he encountered American troops who either urinated on insurgent bodies or manipulated them for photographs, like putting them in ridiculous poses. While he called such behavior disgusting, he also said it could be cathartic.
"'I've never spat on a dead body or urinated on one, but I've certainly screamed at a dead body because they've taken a friend's life,' said Mr. Lemons, who left the Marine Corps in 2008."
"But what possible benefit does desecrating enemy corpses serve? — other than to radicalize other terrorists — and to provide our enemies with talking points and propaganda photos? (Oh yeah, it also fosters the notion that America is no different from the rest of the barbaric world — that we are simply about imposing our power, not liberating oppressed people or defending our citizens.)
"In a perfect world, our warriors would operate clinically. Like professionals, they would follow orders, dispassionately removing cancers, never allowing emotion to creep into their decisions. It is understandable, of course, that men — faced with the horrors of war (our enemies are evil people who do horrible things!) — sometimes fall far short of that high standard.
"But this was dancing in the end zone."
"There is a final context for this act in which we are all responsible, all guilty. A 19-year-old Marine has a very hard time reconciling the fact that it's okay to waterboard a live Taliban fighter but not okay to urinate on a dead one.
"When the war on terror started, the Marines in that video were probably 9 or 10 years old. As children they heard adults — and political leaders — talk about our enemies in the most inhuman terms. The Internet and the news media are filled with self-important men and women referring to our enemies as animals that deserve little legal or moral consideration. We have sent enemy fighters to countries like Syria and Libya to be tortured by the very regimes that we have recently condemned for engaging in war crimes and torture. They have been tortured into confessing their crimes and then locked up indefinitely without trial because their confessions — achieved through torture — will not stand up in court.
"For the past 10 years, American children have absorbed these moral contradictions, and now they are fighting our wars. The video doesn't surprise me, but it makes me incredibly sad — not just for them, but also for us. We may prosecute these men for desecrating the dead while maintaining that it is okay to torture the living.
"I hope someone else knows how to explain that to our soldiers, because I don't have the faintest idea."
"Initially there were concerns that outrage over the issue would spiral into a scandal like the one in 2004 over the release of photos showing a group of U.S. military police abusing prisoners at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq…
"But Afghan officials and others said the quick responses by all sides had helped contain the damage.
"'As all three sides — the U.S., the Afghan government and the Taliban — have all condemned this act, I'm hopeful that this will not have any effect on the peace process,' Abdul Hakim Mujahid, a member of the peace council and the Taliban's former envoy to the United Nations, said Saturday…
"'Reconciliation is a big change for the people of Afghanistan and it won't be affected by the actions of individuals like those in the video,' Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid told The Associated Press on Friday. 'We are focused on the bigger picture and for that, we have to avoid small things.'"
"'It's insane,' says an Afghan [Taliban] sub-commander in Helmand province where the urination incident allegedly took place last year. 'Why are we talking to those who hate us so much that they desecrate our martyrs' bodies?' he asks angrily in a phone conversation with The Daily Beast. His anger extends to the Taliban's negotiators in Qatar. 'To me those who claim to represent the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan in these talks are dishonoring the rivers of blood we have shed,' he says. 'This act is worse than that of animals,' adds the sub-commander who declines to be named for security reasons. 'They showed no shame.'
"Jan Mohammad Khan, a Taliban fighter in eastern Afghanistan, says the video affected him more than all the carnage that he's seen in his 10 years in the jihad. 'I have never hurt so much as I did when I saw this video,' he says. 'These Americans have crossed the borders of civilization and humanity by disrespecting the dead.'…
"The former translator who lives in Kabul with his family says the video has outraged even his normally calm and moderate father. 'This morning my father was so angry that he ordered me to burn any money I may still have from the Americans as it was a sin to keep it,' he says. 'If this action has so angered my father it will certainly anger other common Afghans.' If so the already difficult fledgling peace process has just become even more complicated."
Via the Daily Caller.


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It's absurd that our railways are now being run by state owned operators from other parts of Europe.
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Good luck with the campaign.
The current system is run for the friends of politicians, not the people.
This should never have been privatised and, compared to other European countries, rail services in the UK are inefficient and overpriced.
Profits should be re-invested in the business and not frittered away to shareholders (whilst accepting taxpayer subsidy). Nationalise and improve the service from within.
Hear hear.
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I wonder if new train investments under privatisation have now proved to be a costly disaster with fall in passenger numbers in the wake of COVID 19 . If this is it, it might be a similar case with the Modernisation Plan, Beechingisation and National Traction Plan. A recent case could mean large number of under-utilised IEPs being stored after only around three years service.
i wonder just how much this totally unsuccessful privatisation has cost taxpayers over the years........
the infrastructure company is already dividing itself under the guise of putting passengers first splitting itself into what resembles the original BR regions - of course the chairman of said infrastructure company comes from a non railway background and will be doing the bidding of his masters at westminster - nobody from a truly railway background doesnt put passengers first no matter what company they work for.
What I am hoping for, at the very least, is something akin to ITA powers. That are right across, the nation. Here in Essex, all the towns. That are at end of branch lines, have more or less doubled in size. Therefore, the services need to be doubled in frequency.
Bailing out their chums with public money. Again.
Let's have a truly joined up system with all parts of the system under one organisation unless it's Serco
Let's have that lovely blue back. Seriously though, the privatised rail network and that dreadful Railtrack were an absolute failure.
The redundancies have already started . Anybody who thinks this is good news or some kind of victory is sadly deluded . The decsion take today is not a reaction to a failed venture it's purely down to the pandemic. As predicated they tried to bury It into todays news but unfortunately it will be all to obvious in a few weeks when the hatchet falls on many many jobs around the country there will little the unions can do to stop it as there will be a severe lack of public support and of course ot as much disruption can be caused with the new way of working and travel not recommended. So you got what you wanted but the outcome wont be what we needed . RIP the railway of 2020.
A single unified system even if there was private sector delivery is a compromise I would settle for if we have to keep privatisation.
It's been an unnecessarily complex mess from the start.
Why should public money fund their failure any more than it has!
And now get rid off South Western Failure and Abellio.
I cautiously welcome this news, let's see what they come up with. Bring Back BR!
Hopefully no compensation for shareholders
I'll be buying 'Private Eye' to find out the whole story. I don't trust the media to give us what is really happening, and in fact I don't really think we get the whole story for the railway press.
Keep fighting Ellie, because we're not really there yet.
Unfortunately, I don't quite believe it. I'm pretty sure they will carry on giving huge sums of taxpayers money to private firms. Which I wouldn't mind, except they never get a value for money, and they just license the firms to rip off me, the passenger . However I'm now getting my revenge as I work from home. And I have no intention of paying those people any of my hard earned money directly ever again.
Money spaffed on the line.
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Bringing back a monolith like BR is not realistic. But placing infrastructure; operations and rolling stock under one roof is vital. Incentives to renew and replace rolling stock in a 15 year rolling time frame, starting with the not-fit-for-purpose stock -Pacers etc. - keep open access services, to provide some competition and give the Train Companies incentives to reopen closed branches where possible.
Can't help but feel this is an exercise in bullshit. The tories and the Blairites are both obsessed with privatisations and will just change the name not the policy.
Without taking action against the spiv hedge fund and bank owned ROSCOS it will have little meaning.
Soon as they've used public money to patch it up they'll be flogging it off to their city mates - who will then have free rein to run it into the ground while lining their pockets for another 10-20 yrs before it needs "rescuing" by taxpayers again. We ARE the magic money tree for the 1%
The word is concession contracts in which HMG take all the risk or profit and the operator runs the service. It jerks the cost of capital (rolling stock) off the government's books as that remains the property of the train leasing companies. This is as near a nationalisation as you're going to get as Network Rail remains state owned.
Not a chance I'm afraid just imagine the big boys missing out of their big fat bonuses and the dividends
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"Ministers are ready to seize control of the railways after more than a quarter of a century of private ownership" reports today's The Telegraph. Look out for Grant Shapps' announcement this week. It's time to stop the bailouts and #TakeBackOurTrains 🚉 weownit.org.uk/take-back-our-trains ...
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somehow I am thinking this is too good tobe true. Usually the Tories only adopt the wording of Labour policies not the intent! e.g. community care sounds good so close all the special schools, etc. etc. but then don't fund the actual care in the community! So watch this space!
I hope ministers don't actually try to run the railways - with this bunch of incompetents that would lead to chaos.
If a Tory is doing it, you can be sure it will be to further one of their principles: they're making hay out of it one way or other at public expense.
jesus. When are people going to learn? The Tories NEVER govern in the national interest. A quick look at who funds the party should tell you everything. I'd stake the house that when the final details are published this move will prove to be nothing more than a revised way of loading their mates' pockets.
Seeing this government makes a big thing of patriotism, how about a suitably patriotic name for the new setup, such as...er.... British Railways?
They have control. It's just funded differently and allows them to start to make the cutbacks. Read it and weep.
Privatisation of BR has been a costly failure. I remember when Stagecoach was awarded the franchise for South West Trains and what a laugh, they choose to make surplus to requirements of 70 train drivers, it caused so many cancellations of services and other problems.
More likely franchisees are queuing up to hand back their franchises. And with no franchise agreements there are no performance targets to hit, so why even try and get the things functional? Commuting, in election terms, is somewhere near the bottom of the list and we can tell this because the discussion is always about whether it will be an "above inflation fare increase" or a "below inflation fare increase". Quality and value really don't feature.
The ultimate Tory U-Turn! 41 years of social lies. economic lies, lies about socialism and lies about the lies, they really are a shower of shit, but I fear the damage elsewhere is already done!
who will they get to run it all? The "government" have sacked or redeployed to brexit roles all the civil servants that knew how to run a railway......
The story about the whole network in England being nationalized in all but name isn't new - RAIL were talking about it in their 12-AUG-2020 edition. The DfT are getting fed up with carrying trains full of air, rather than people. Problem comes in that there will be loads of services and routes cut to make the whole thing pay, enough to making Beeching "look like an aperitif ". Be careful what you wish for in these crazy days.
Only so they can sell them off again to get an injection of cash once this is over.
just another selservative con job, bailed out by the taxpayer, and sold off later to their mates.
Notice BBBR just linked to the report . No usful comment as is the normal . I suspect they see this as some kind of victory but this couldnt be further from their vision of a BR of 1985
If so, does this not prove once and for all, that dogmatic privatisation and resultant fragmentation of what are "natural monopolies", will always ultimately fail.
Just wait till they start cutting duplicated services on routes where more than one operator compete against each other. I can see huge redundancies
That's the way to do it, when the money runs out, nationalise the railways. !947 revisited.
I wonder whether that will include Manchester Metrolink, the pilot scheme for railway privatisation
Where's the money coming from? Watch it be fare increases leading to lower demand, service cuts, less staff and more unemployment. Far better to scrap HS2 and admit demand isn't there as the way things are going we won't be travelling in vast numbers for a long while yet. Tories all about ruining the UK whilst watching their bank balance grow!
should never hav been privatised , nor the us industry
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Fabulous news, let's get back to running an integrated network that is ran for passengers not profit.
Pay wall. Imagine having to pay for the privilege of knowing how the Tories are going to wreck us....again..... Apparently, only people with money are to be educated. #GTTO of all ilks
It still won't be proper public ownership the services will still be operated by private companies but hey it is a step in the right direction
A quick Google of the phrase "rail franchises to be scrapped" shows headlines saying almost exactly the same thing about an announcement "in days" in Feb 2020, Dec 2019, October 2019, April 2019, May 2018...
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Shocking to see FirstGroup awarded this massive bailout to run Great Western Railway. Why should we subsidise their profits until at least 26 June 2021? 💰💸 Grant Shapps & Rishi Sunak must #TakeBackOurTrains to save money and improve services in the long-term 👉 bringbackbritishrail.org/takebackourtrains ...
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I think the DoT have more pressing matters to deal with than taking over GWR. Must be considering nationalising BA, Easyjet and BAA at least.
Tory owned, tory bastards!
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I do not agree with Nationalisation as a whole BUT national infrastructure, obviously including the railways, should not have been privatised. The railways should be bought into public ownership especially given the amount of taxpayers money given to them.
Similar situation on the - unnecessarily - new South Western Railways, and absolutely no policing of masks!
More bailouts for the ailing privatised rail structures ? It now reminds me of the 1970s when the car industry's British Leyland and Chrysler Europe was being bailed out too.
It what i call the Tories looking after their own.
There useless, when other TOC's have been brought back in to government control, why should they be made a special case
expropriate. No compensation. Why buy what you already own......
Brown envelopes all round?
It's hardly privately run if it needs bailouts. Ridiculous concept.
The tories will do anything to prevent it being re-nationialised, after all they created this mess in the first place back in 1997.
Its not a bail out as such, the government will pay the bills and take the revenue, Worst will get a small fee for managing thectrain services on the governments behalf, its effectively nationalised as are all the other franchises. If the Joris and his chums hadnt have stepped in the trains would have stopped running months ago.
need a unified system that talks to each other
Left wing whining about the Tories again.just like the moaning unions. If only that prick Corbyn would have won eh. We would all be ok then. And Dianne Abbott in charge of national security. The railway would have been shut months ago if the government hadn't stepped in
Private rail companies stand to make £500 million from coronavirus bailouts 💰💸 Today we joined our friends at RMT, We Own It & the Association of British Commuters in writing to every MP in the country to demand they act to bring railways back into public ownership now. Read our #TakeBackOurTrains letter 📝👉 bit.ly/3eNgshqResearch reveals that private rail companies stand to make £500 Million from Coronavirus bailouts while passengers and rail unions call for nationalisation.
Britain's private rail companies stand to make almost £500 million in profits over the next 12 months according to new research by rail union RMT, amid widespread speculation that the government is about to extend its Emergency Measures Agreements.
Analysis of ministerial answers to questions in Parliament indicate that the government's Emergency Measures Agreements (EMAs) will see the government hand over around £231 million in operating profits to the train operating companies over a 12 month period. The train operating companies are currently lobbying the government to extend the agreements for a further 18 months. These same agreements also entail the government 'picking up the tab' in full for the lease charges that would be paid by the train operating companies to the rolling stock companies, the 'ROSCOs'. Analysis of the ROSCOs' accounts shows that in the last year, they made profits of £241 million. If the government renews the EMAs and continues to bail out the train operating companies, we could see around £500 million in desperately needed public funds leaking out of the railways into private profit.
Groups representing passengers and rail workers have written to MPs from across the political spectrum calling on them to demand proper scrutiny of any government decision on the EMAs and urging them to support nationalisation of the network to stop the scandalous profiteering at public expense. The letter, sent on behalf of rail unions and passenger groups, says that Britain needs a safe, affordable and accessible railway to support public transport and decarbonisation and that every penny of public money should be used to invest in a recovery plan that will get badly needed rail services back on track rather than leaking out into private profit.
RMT Senior Assistant General Secretary Mick Lynch said;
"We desperately need a properly funded rail network to play its crucial role in fighting climate change and to keep the lifeblood of our economy flowing. Now more than ever we need every penny of public money invested in building a safe, affordable, accessible railway, not leeched out of the system by a small group of big businesses with a consistent record of failure."
Ellen Lees, campaigns officer at We Own It said:
"If the government continues to pursue bailouts of the rail industry, they'll once again be ignoring the reality that's staring them straight in the face. No matter how many times they try to prop up a failing system, the private rail companies will always come crawling back cap in hand for more cash.
"It's time we ended this farce. Instead of funnelling millions into the pockets of private companies, we should bring our railways into public hands – so they can work for people and the planet, not for private profit."
Emily Yates, Co-Founder of the Association of British Commuters said;
"Passenger trust is more important than ever, but it has been severely damaged by years of crisis on the railways. Public ownership is now the only way to restore this trust, and start building the integrated, efficient and accountable system we deserve."
Ellie Harrison, Founder, Bring Back British Rail said;
"Privatised rail has never worked. 'Natural monopolies' like our railways need to be centrally co-ordinated and run for the public good. Now the coronavirus crisis has laid bare this simple truth. Public transport is an essential public service to get our key workers to their jobs. We must stop the bailouts to failing private rail companies, and seize this opportunity to 'take back our trains' for good." ...
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Making a profit out of illness and death is just plain sick and uncaring greed. As usual, Profit before People, money matters, people don't. Tory mantra.
Parasites. 🤬
They are on their way to be renationalised. But keep the pressure on.
Is this Ellie Harrison the TV :Presenter?. Ask her how much better the Rail Service is from her local station in the Cotswolds to London since de-nationalisation.
RMT are too busy worrying about black lives matter and whining about tories to worry about the railway
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Who remembers John Major and John MacGregor with those promises by telling us that rail privatisation will deliver vast improvements and fares will be lower? In fact, I remember it well and it never delivered anything.
I had the misfortune to work for the company in a senior leadership role a decade ago. It was hell on earth, everything was about the bottom line, Aberdeen micromanaging the day job and being obsessed with protecting the brand. Profit before people for sure.
Of all the bus groups which emerged from de-regulation in 1986, First Group have always seemed to be bottom of the pile, a situation which has been entirely of their own making. I saw their share price last week, they were trading at 35 pence!
Have to say seeing the back of First would be a source of great rejoicing. Unfortunately the consequences for bus/rail passengers will probably not be good.
Anyone who had the misfortune to live in North Manchester and be 'served' by First knows only.too well.how appalling their services were
Oh god I SOOO hope first go bust, they are the Britain's WORST EVER company. They recently lost the contract to provide most of the buses in Cornwall, I guess because they were totally incapable of being able to run the buses ontime and that's when they could be bothered to actually send one in the first place. Much less run an integrated transport system where by a train pulls up at a station and there is a bus waiting at the bus stop right outside. Often first would timetable the trains and buses so there was a 30-45 minute gap. Sheer incompetence would be a massive understatement when describing first group.
First Group has always been more focussed on its money-making ability than its commitment to its customers. The mess that it's in is of its own making and I have no sympathy for it whatsoever.
Avanti is the Italian state railway company, isn't it?
they also run the buses in Leeds
Hull Trains are also backed by this lot and get nothing from the Government
When you see the state of the Armed Forces, NHS and anything else the government runs be very, very careful what you wish for.
And why will that be a good thing .
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Cartel suspect blamed for jailbreaks, massacre
The Mexican navy nabbed a suspected Zetas cartel leader accused of involvement in some of the country's most notorious crimes in recent years, authorities said Monday.
Navy spokesman Jose Luis Vergara announced that Salvador Alfonso Martinez Escobedo was arrested Saturday and is believed to have masterminded the massacre of 72 migrants in the northern state of Tamaulipas in 2010.
The man known as "Squirrel" also has been linked to the escape of 151 prisoners in 2010 from a jail in the city of Nuevo Laredo, the recent flight of 131 prisoners in the city of Piedras Negras and the killing of U.S. citizen David Hartley in 2010 on Falcon Lake, which straddles the U.S.-Mexico border.
The death of Hartley drew wide attention as it appeared Hartley and his wife, Tiffany, were on a personal trip when he was shot by Mexican criminals on Sept. 30, 2010. The Hartleys were using personal watercraft on Falcon Lake when David Hartley was shot in the head and fell into the water.
Asked if she had confidence that Mexican authorities had arrested the man responsible for her husband's killing, Tiffany Hartley said, "It's really hard to really feel like this is going to be the final, but at the same time we're very hopeful that it will because we want some closure as a family."
She said she was hoping for more details on how Martinez might be linked to her husband's death and also for information on where her husband's remains are so the family can move forward.
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The navy is also blaming Martinez for the killing of the Tamaulipas state police commander and chief investigator on the case, an attack that hampered the investigation.
Vergara said Martinez was captured in Nuevo Laredo, across from Laredo, Texas. He was shown to the news media Monday.
The navy said Martinez is also a suspect in dozens of killings of people who were buried in mass graves at the same site of the 2010 massacre of migrants. Nearly 200 bodies were discovered in April 2011 in the town of San Fernando, close to the U.S. border. Those two crimes have been the most fatalities since Mexico's federal government launched an armed offensive against drug traffickers in December 2006.
The mass prison escapes that authorities believe the 31-year-old Martinez is behind have been the largest in recent history. The most recent escape of 131 inmates was considered to be orchestrated by the Zetas to replenish its forces in northern Mexico, where is in a war with the powerful Sinaloa Cartel.
Vergara did not offer evidence on Martinez's specific involvement in any of the alleged crimes.
Martinez is considered to be the Zetas' regional chief for the northern states of Tamaulipas, Nuevo Leon and Coahuila, the more important areas for the brutal cartel.
He was "a trusted man and direct assistant" to Miguel Angel Trevino, one of the two feared alleged top leaders of the Zetas, Vergara said.
Mexican authorities had posed a $1 million reward for Martinez. They say he headed the battle that erupted in 2010 between the Zetas and its previous ally, the Gulf Cartel. The Gulf gang has suffered major blows this year with the capture of its two main bosses.
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Here are all of the goodies that I got from NYCC. This post was half done a month ago but life has been kinda crazy so better late than never as they say!
The Divine
"The Divine is a fast-paced, brutal, and breathlessly beautiful portrait of a world where ancient powers vie with modern warfare and nobody escapes unscathed. (via Amazon)" This is a perfect example of why you should judge a book by its cover. (I bought this from the Kinokuniya booth along with Virgil.)
Eliza Frye
Her art made me stop in my tracks!
"Betrayed, beaten, and banished by his own, an outed cop fights his way across Jamaica for revenge! (via Image)" Virgil was a thrill ride. Buy this!
Jordie Bellaire is GREAT & They're Not Like Us
Jordie Bellaire is my favorite colorist. If you read (good) comics, chances are Bellaire is the colorist on one of them. She's crazy talented, hardworking and to top it all off she's a super nice person.
About two years ago I was tweeting sweet nothings to @whoajordie about her coloring and she said she was going to the upcoming New York Comic Con and she'd give me a little something. I promptly melted. Sadly, she couldn't make it to NYCC that year. But she didn't forget that convo. This year she tweeted at me that she wasn't going, but Declan Shalvey (another talented artist) was going and she would give him something for me to pick up. I was just beside myself. I didn't think she remembered a few tweets she exchanged with a fan two years ago, let alone decide to give little old me something.
Fast-forward to the con and I pick up my gift from Bellaire via Shalvey and it's volume one of They're Not Like Us written by Eric Stephenson art by Simon Gane and colors by Jordie Bellaire. Now I'm already reading this comic because duh, why wouldn't I be? But I didn't have the first volume which I was excited to get. And then to have it blessed by Jordie Bellaire herself was one of the highlights of New York Comic Con. She did a cute little sketch and wrote, "Thanks Jamila". Thank YOU, Jordie. For real. Thank you. It never gets old when you realize someone you're a fan of is a really nice person.
Tephlon Funk
Tephlon Funk is an anime/manga and hip hop inspired comic with plans to come out as an anime as well. TF is one of those projects that I could just throw my money at without knowing much about the story because the art is so dope. This post was supposed to go out when the Tephlon Funk Kickstarter was live so y'all could fund it. But alas, life did its thing, and now the Kickstarter has ended but thankfully it was funded!
Alitha Martinez
Alitha Martinez is a talented artist who has worked for DC and Marvel and we've been on two panels together about Women of Color in Comics. Martinez had a booth in artist alley and I HAD to cop her art. I picked up two postcards and a beautiful erotic comic called Foreign: Gifts and Curses: Pillow Book.
My friend Roshi is reading Wayward and told me she loved it and I should read it, too, so I stopped by writer Jim Zub's booth in artist alley and picked it up. The cover is filled with cats so I'm already a fan.
Markus Prime
I've been a fan of Markus Prime for a while now. I love his creative, race swapped characters. He was at NYCC supporting Amandla Stenberg and Ashley A. Woods' new comic Niobe (see below). He also did a variant cover for the series. He didn't have a booth but he was nice enough to bring two prints for me to buy from him the next day!
Ego Rehab by Dave Crosland
While in artist alley, I did my usual "scan for artists of color and women to buy from" and came across Dave Crosland's booth. I bought his comic Ego Rehab, which is an autobiographical story where Crosland is rescued from lack of inspiration by his adventurous inner child. It sounded like fun so I picked it up!
Niobe: She is Life Print & The Untamed
I stopped by the Stranger Comics booth to support the new series, Niobe: She is Life. It's written by Sebastian A. Jones, and Hunger Games star and activist Amandla Stenberg with art by Ashley A. Woods based on layouts by Stranger's Art Director Darrell May. Unfortunately, issue one was sold out but I managed to snag a gorgeous print and and the hardcover of The Untamed. Niobe seems to be sold out pretty much everywhere so lucky you if you managed to get a copy!
Nowhere Men
My love for Nowhere Men runs deep, y'all. Very rarely do I fall in love with every bit of a comic but I did with NM. It was young love, but just as we were getting to know one another, my heart was broken when it went on a hiatus with no mention of a return. I felt like I was left at the alter. Despite its abrupt stop, I continued to tell anyone who would listen to read Nowhere Men. But as they say it's always darkest before the dawn and it was announced that Nowhere Men was returning.
When is it returning? Not sure exactly, sometime next year. But just like Nana, I'll wait forever for its return. This announcement, however, came with upsetting news. The original artist, Nate Bellegarde, won't be returning with it. I'm really sad about this and will probably never get over it, but I understand. For a minute or two, I tried to figure out how to describe the way Bellegarde's art made me feel, but I can't. I'm speechless… Or rather wordless. I wish him all the best. He is talented beyond words. I'm looking forward to Dave Taylor joining the Nowhere Men team as the new artist. (Oh, and shout out to David Brothers for being awesome!)


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Ah, The Dungeon of Doom.
Few other stables in wrestling have produced as many fail-tastic gimmicks, and absolutely horrid matches as The Dungeon of Doom.
Created in the pre-NWO era, The Dungeon was WCW gaggle of supervillain-esque heels that feuded with Hulk Hogan on and off for about 2 years.
While I'm guessing they were supposed to be a legitimate threat, they really came across as the Cobra to Hogan's G.I. Joe.
Well actually, given the kind of magical/supernatural bent that they had for a lot of the characters, it'd probably be more accurate to call them the Skeletor to Hogan's He-Man.
Despite this, it's funny to look back on The Dungeon and think of some of the (decent) name wrestlers that passed through it's toxic halls.
For example, Lex Luger, Jimmy Hart, The Giant and Meng the Merciless all did a tour with The Dungeon and look how they turned out.
Well, at least The Big Show went on to to greener pastures…
The point is, The Dungeon could've been better had their matches and storylines been booked better.
And if they didn't let Brutus Beefcake do his whole "Zodiac" thing:
Jesus fuck that was some stupid-ass shit…
Anyway, let's talk about the clip at the top of this post:
I can't recall the actual context of it, but from what I can tell, The Giant had Hogan in a bearhug, and then "The Yeti" arrived and decided to join in and help out…
Oh boy, you know it's bad when they have a guy clearly dressed as a mummy, that they decide to name The Yeti.
Or is that "Yeh-Tay?"
I honestly couldn't tell based on how the announcer kept FUCKING UP the pronunciation.
Either due to his lack of in-ring ability, or due to his love for insta-tanned man-butt, The Yet then proceeded to embrace Hogan from behind, thereby sandwiching him between himself and The Giant; and then vigorously gyrate and thrust his hips in a suggestive manner.
To their credit, the announcing team continually make claims that "This could be the end of Hulkamania" to reassure the audience of the urgency of the situation, but even so; we all know what was goin' on…
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The Department of Workforce Services announced Thursday Arkansas received a $1.2 million grant from the U.S. Department of Labor, to provide employment, training and supportive services to veterans around the state.
The program, titled the Arkansas Veterans Education and Training Partnership, will assist veterans over a three-year period to train jobs in heath care, energy efficiency and renewable energy.
Each veteran who qualifies for the program can receive money to help with training costs.
"We are excited to partner with these organizations to train veterans for jobs in today's economy," said DWS Director Artee Williams. "The DWS veterans representatives at the Arkansas Workforce Centers stand ready to assist veterans who return from deployment and find themselves unemployed.
"This grant will help us train and assist these men and women who have given their time, effort and heart to serving our country," said Williams.
DWS veterans staff will assist with job placement after completing the training program. The two-year colleges and apprenticeship programs also will assist with job placement upon graduation.
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On Friday, Representative Mike Rogers said that he would not be seeking re-election to Congress in the fall. The Michigan Republican is also the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee and has been harshly critical of former NSA contractor Edward Snowden, as well as Glenn Greenwald, the Guardian reporter who disseminated Snowden's leaked documents. Rogers' resignation would mark the end of a 14-year tenure in the House of Representatives.
Despite reports on Thursday evening (since retracted) saying that the congressman would resign from his position on the House Intelligence Committee, Rogers' spokeswoman said that he had no plans to step down. Instead, Rogers announced on Friday morning that he would not seek re-election and would instead join Cumulus, a talk radio company.
"I have always believed in our founder's idea of a citizen legislature," Rogers said in a statement, according to The Detroit News. "I had a career before politics and always planned to have one after. The genius of our institutions is they are not dependent on the individual temporary occupants privileged to serve. That is why I have decided not to seek re-election to Congress in 2014."
Rogers notably called Glenn Greenwald a thief in February, and in a recent House Intelligence Committee hearing, Rogers pressed FBI Director James Comey to classify Greenwald's writing and publishing as criminal. But Comey shied away from such a stark description.
In recent days, Rogers introduced an NSA reform bill with fellow House Intelligence Committee member Dutch Ruppersberger (D-MI). Both men have been staunch supporters of NSA surveillance programs, and although their reform bill would restrict bulk phone data collection by the NSA, it could allow for greater searches of such data.
Rogers was also a chief sponsor of the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA), which he introduced in 2011 and then reintroduced in 2013. CISPA was widely opposed by Internet activists, although it was considered slightly more moderate than similar legislation at the time. As Ars wrote in 2013, CISPA encouraged "private companies to share security-related information with each other and the government" and then limited the liability of companies that shared such information as an incentive.
Rogers notoriously defended CISPA in 2013, saying that the bill's typical opponent was a "14-year-old tweeter in the basement."


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And wouldn't you know it, the day I'm gone there is a dust-up in 107. Fortunately, Denise Nix had stopped by the courtroom that morning to check on the status of the trial and was either an observer to what happened or she got an update from counsel on what happened.
Here is her entire story on that incident in The Daily Breeze:
While on the 9th Floor of the Clara Shortridge Foltz Criminal Justice Center downtown today for closing arguments in the Miguel Magallon death penalty trial, I popped into the Cameron Brown murder retrial to see what's been going on.
I had apparently just missed a bit of drama. According to Deputy District Attorney Craig Hum, proceedings were postponed for about an hour because Brown, 47, refused to come out of his jail cell. Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Michael Pastor was set to sign an extraction order that would give deputies permission to physically extract him when Brown came out on his own.
Then, defense attorney Pat Harris asked that 4-year-old victim Lauren Sarene Key's mother, Sarah Key-Marer, who has watched the entire trial, be excluded from the courtroom because her presence was jeopardizing his client's right to a fair trial. Hum argued against it, and Key-Marer addressed the judge, asking that she be allowed to remain - as she's been looking for answers for nine years. In the end, Pastor allowed her to stay.
In the two weeks since the trial began, jurors have heard from Key-Marer, witnesses who were around Inspiration Point on Nov. 8, 2000, the first emergency responders to the scene, Lauren's pre-school teachers, a pediatrician and direct questioning of the investigating officer, Jeff Leslie, who is expected to undergo cross examination for much of the remainder of the week.
I still need to get with the prosecution to inquire if there were other, out of town witnesses that testified on this day so I can ensure I'm reporting the correct number of witnesses. I believe Detective Leslie was the only witness on the stand this day undergoing cross, but I'm not positive.


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(CNN) -- If you're overweight, slimming down will make you feel great, right? For John Janetzko, embracing his own body took more than just weight loss.
The 24-year-old chemistry Ph.D. candidate at Harvard is just under 6 feet tall, and struggled with his body image for years. Even after losing 125 pounds, he still felt fat, and pushed himself in unhealthy ways in terms of diet and fitness.
These days, at a lean 165 pounds, Janetzko feels more confident and generally better about himself.
"I feel more generically attractive in terms of what society's views are," he said. "But I guess I also feel like that was something I thought would be very quick, and would sort of happen right away."
Getting motivated
In childhood, Janetzko heard from his pediatrician that his weight wasn't healthy so many times that he became desensitized to it. But as his father remembers it, he wasn't ever really fat.
Intense studying and bad eating habits piled on pounds during college. By the fall of junior year, Janetzko weighed about 290 pounds.
"I would always be sort of afraid of how I thought people would think of me," he said. "I always expected my girlfriend at the time would find someone better."
The first stage of Janetzko's weight loss came when he lived at home in Toronto during college. A friend encouraged Janetzko to go to the gym with him, even offering to buy him running shoes. Janetzko started going to the gym often, focusing on jogging and light weights.
Instead of greasy takeout meals from food stands, Janetzko started picking up leaner options such as grilled chicken and broccoli, and cooked more on weekends. His father helped cook when Janetzko was busy.
"I started with the idea that being very strict with my diet was the solution," he said.
During his senior year, with graduate school applications and his father becoming ill, Janetzko slipped, forgoing the gym because there weren't enough hours in the day. His weight fluctuated, never quite bouncing back as high as it was, but still reversing some of the progress he had made.
The move from Toronto to Cambridge, Massachusetts, and a breakup from a long relationship also distracted him from healthy eating. He was about 240 pounds when he entered Harvard.
Graduate school jump-started his motivation again. He told himself: "I've had so many changes, and it's really time to have an absolute fresh start."
How he did it
During the summer of 2011, Janetzko went to the gym consistently and cooked at least four nights a week. He had in his head a "running clock" of calorie and protein limits for meal times, aiming for about 2,000 calories a day.
Breakfast was usually a protein shake. Lunch would be salad, sandwich or burrito. Dinner would be around 1,000 calories.
By the end of autumn of his first year at Harvard, he was closer to 200 pounds. On a visit home to Toronto, he ran his first 5K race, which motivated him to keep working on his fitness.
Janetzko also encouraged his roommates to go with him to exercise, and helped friends with their workouts and stretches.
"I guess that was a point where I was sort of feeling happy," he said.
Focused on fitness, he competed in volleyball leagues, swam, and played squash and soccer.
By mid-2012, he was down to 170 pounds. Losing those last 60 to 70 pounds in Massachusetts brought about the most substantial physical changes in his fitness journey.
"I said, 'What happened to you? Are they not feeding you?' " his father, Rainer Janetzko, remembers telling his son when he first visited after the weight loss.
Generally, though, Janetzko's new physique looks good, his father said. "Now when he puts a suit on, he looks better."
Going too far
Slim and athletic as he was, Janetzko still didn't feel good about how he looked in May 2012. It was an awkward time he calls the "transition" -- when he had lost a lot of weight, but his new body didn't register in his mind as a positive image.
"I would wake up in the morning, look in the mirror and feel like 'Oh God, I'm fat and ugly and this is terrible,' " he said.
At the same time, others told him he had gotten too skinny and didn't need to get thinner. Objectively, he had reached his goal -- but he couldn't see that in his reflection. He thought his mirror image still needed to lose 10 or 20 more pounds.
Focused on weight loss and fitness, Janetzko didn't pay close attention to his body's signals that it was being pushed too hard. As he ate less and started running farther and faster, Janetzko noticed he would start to get dizzy or even fall. Last semester he collapsed outside of a laboratory.
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His aversion to overeating had gone too far -- his appetite for some foods had diminished. Friends even wondered if he had an eating disorder.
"There were days when I could barely finish half a sandwich," he said. "I felt full but I clearly had not taken in all of the calories I need as a functioning person."
He has since gone to nutritionists for help. He isn't as rigid about what he eats anymore, and is more flexible about his workouts. He still minimizes fried foods but tries to be more varied with meals.
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Embracing a new self
Body image disturbance isn't unusual when people lose weight, said Emily Sandoz, assistant professor of psychology at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. Often people have huge expectations about the life changes that will result from a weight loss that don't actually happen.
"Their experience of themselves as fat extends far beyond their actual body," she said. "People have to learn how to be in their skin in a new way."
Sandoz's approach to helping people with body image problems is to shift the focus to other areas of their lives that they care about, such as work or parenting. Mindfulness -- the idea of being present and in the moment -- is incorporated in her approach to helping clients be more accepting of their bodies.
Can mindfulness help manage pain and mental illness?
Over time, Janetzko has been able to reconcile his weight with his body image -- but there was no one moment where it suddenly clicked. Positive reinforcement from others and self-assurance have helped him feel better about himself.
His message to others
Many of Janetzko's old friends who see his recent photos on Facebook have contacted him to ask: "How did you do it?"
Janetzko's bottom line is that he was intensely motivated.
"If you count your calories and you're like, 'I want to lose weight,' you're going to be stuck in that forever," he said. "But I think if you can make changes in your lifestyle that you actually want to be doing, and then you'll do those no matter what -- you enjoy them -- then you never have to feel like you're trapped in a routine."