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A Life for Progressive Health Care Reform:
The Biography of Terence E. Carroll
5. Post-War Labor, Education and Student Activism: 1946-1950.
9. Employment in Auto, Credit Union and Insurance: 1950s.
11. Health Care Advocacy in Washington, DC: 1960-1973.
13. Back to Detroit: 1973-1991.
15. To Washington, DC and the Clinton Health Care Debate: 1990s.
20. Conclusion. This is a biography of Terence Evan Carroll, a lifelong political activist and public health advocate in Detroit, Michigan and Washington D.C. He died at age 84 on November 10, 2009 in Reston, Virginia.[1] From 1960 when he served as director of the National Institutes on Rehabilitation and Health Services (NIRHS) until the time of his death, when he was heading up the National Association for Public Health Policy (NAPHP), he supported every advance made in the difficult task of establishing and improving America's socialized health system.
Mr. Carroll was born on August 21, 1925 in the Detroit, Michigan suburb of Berkley, the son of Philip Joseph Carroll (1885-1939) and Effie Jeanette (Grubb) Carroll (1881-1977). His father, in addition to being a rubber worker in an auto factory in the 1920s and a house painter in the 1930s, was both a founding member of the Michigan Communist party and also what Mr. Carroll termed a "utilitarian Catholic."[2] The elder Carroll helped build St. Mary's Parish church in Royal Oak. The Catholics had requested the new church from the diocese in order to cut down on the travel distance to the nneighboring Our Lady of La Salette church. With the consent of the pastor, Fr. Martin, the St. Mary's church hall was used for communist meetings. According to the junior Carroll, within the parish, the main complaints against the pastor were that he wore his shoes without socks and that he was suspected of having an affair with his housekeeper. The elder Carroll took a liberal view, maintaining that since she was a Catholic, it was permissible.[3]
In growing up, young Carroll witnessed the political struggles that occurred in his neighborhood, such as that against racism. In this his family played a role. Mr. Carroll summarized:
I was raised in Berkeley, a northern suburb of Detroit, which during the twenties and early thirties was infested by the Klan. My father, who had been an organizer for the IWW and a left-socialist, was a founding member of the Communist Party in Michigan, but was also President of the local Parish Catholic Church and recruited Catholics into the Party, in part to counter the Klan. I recall the aftermath of one pitched battle to resist a Klan eviction of a black family, when my dad came home bloodied by a bat to the head with his boast that he had laid his opponent out cold with a haymaker. Another early memory was my presence at the funeral of a Black lawyer, Oliver Green, in Pontiac. Green was a militant defender of poor people, both Black and White, and was a close friend of my parents.[4]
Along with anti-racism, the elder Carroll taught his son about the militant history of the Irish, such as their role in Michigan's Fenian War in the 1860s. The younger Carroll himself later taught this history in classroom and trade union settings. Like his siblings he also absorbed from his father a culture in which alcohol played a role. The younger Carroll was not a drunk, but throughout his life, alcohol was c constant companion. In planning for his death, he asked that there be no memorial service but rather that his friends get together and drink a toast in the manner of the traditional wake.
Young Carroll's mother, Effie Jeanette, like her husband, was politically active. Mr. Carroll described her education and work, " She was born in 1881 on a farm in northwestern Ohio that had been settled by her family as a result of the Homestead Act. Her mother and siblings were Seventh Day Adventists. She [Effie] attended the Adventists' Kellogg Sanitarium Nursing School in Battle Creek, Michigan and after graduating worked at the Adventists' Haskell Home, an institution for developmentally disabled children. That experience led her to a life-long commitment to advocating services for handicapped persons. At that time she also discussed with Dr. John Harvey Kellogg, the Medical Director of the Sanitarium, her interest in becoming a physician, which he dismissed as an absurdity, advising her that because of the limitations of women's intelligence and temperament they were only able to assist the sick under the supervision of male physicians."[5]
Mr. Carroll related that Effie Jeanette's forbears had participated in the American Revolution, including the Battle of Saratoga Springs in 1777. A later generation had been in the movement for the abolition of slavery and the battles for the preservation of the Union. They came to Ohio along the Mohawk Trail from New York. These family traditions he stated were passed down by his mother, along with a sense of justice that led to her resisting expression of bigotry toward people of color, Native Americans, the foreign-born, homosexuals and adherents of minority religious views. He summarized, "Ultimately, my mother became an ardent advocate of trade unionism and socialism. She was very active with the International Labor Defense during the later twenties and early thirties."[6]
Effie Jeanette's socialism had a religious basis. Her grandson commented, "My grandmother believed in spiritualism, which was a powerful movement in this country from about the middle of the nineteenth century until perhaps the 1960s. She was almost certainly a Swedenborgian (Church of the New Jersualem), as were many prominent people. Helen Keller, I think was. When my father was about ten years old [in 1935] his parents went to an auditorium where Helen Keller gave a speech."[7]
Philip and Effie Jeanette Carroll had six children, with Terry, as he was called, being the youngest. During the early Depression, when Effie Jeanette went to Battle Creek to work, young Terry's sister, Gladys, who was 20 years his senior and already married, helped raise him.[8] Because of this, he always had a close relation to his Gladys. Terry had innate musical and artistic talent. He was offered admission to the prestigious Cranbrook School in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, but his father died in 1939 at the time the offer was being considered. Even with a scholarship for the tuition he could not afford the cost of the room and board which was not covered by the scholarship. Terry had a strong bond with his father. His death when Terry was only 14 years-old was something he regretted throughout his life.
Young Terry worked many jobs as a teenager, including that of caddy, gravedigger and apprentice butcher. He liked playing football, baseball and especially golf, at which he starred. At age 17 in 1943 he graduated from Berkley High School. At that time World War II was in progress. Young Carroll enlisted in the Army Air Corps. In boot camp he became a sharp shooter with the Browning carbine and an expert with the .45 automatic and with the 50-caliber Thompson sub-machine gun. His officers respected him for having enlisted, rather than for having waited to be drafted. They attempted to accommodate his wishes to be trained as a pilot. But, as his son summarized, he scored too high on the aptitude test. There was a greater need for engineers than for pilots. As a result he was sent to the University of Kansas to study engineering. At the end of the first semester he complained that he did not join the army to go to college for four or five years. He wanted to contribute to the war effort. So he was trained as a tail gunner on the B-25 and ended up in the Philippines.[9] He was in the 675th Bomb Squadron of the 417th Bomb Group. By the time he was honorably discharged from the military in the spring of 1946, he was a corporal.
Post-War Labor, Education and Student Activism: 1946-1950. After the war jobs were scarce. Mr. Carroll sold men's clothes for a short time. In 1949 he worked at Briggs designing engines.[10] As a beneficiary of the GI Bill of Rights he was also able to attend Central Michigan College and then Wayne State University in Detroit. At these schools he was politically active. While at Wayne State he became chair of the campus chapter of the American Veterans Committee and organizational secretary of the Michigan Student Veterans Association. The latter organization had affiliated organizations on nearly every Michigan campus with a total membership of over 100,000 student veterans.
One of the campaigns which Mr. Carroll helped lead as part of the Veterans Association was the successful effort in the spring of 1948 to re-authorize the GI Bill and to expand its educational benefits.[11] The lobbying campaign for this was intense. Two major veterans' organizations at the time, the American Legion and the Veterans of Foreign Wars, wanted to eliminate the educational benefits of the GI Bill and divert the funds to increased pensions for World War I veterans. They had experienced lobbyists and the ear of many members of Congress, and equally important, the friendship of Harry Truman, then the President and a Legionnaire whose political career had started with the support of the old-line veterans' organizations. The nations' colleges and universities of course had a stake in the continuation and expansion of the educational benefits and in a low-key manner supported the student veterans. Wayne State provided Mr. Carroll with an office, unlimited phone and postal expenses, access to a mimeograph machine and a part-time secretary.[12]
A highlight of the GI Bill campaign for Mr. Carroll was when he learned of a wholesaler in Christmas ornaments who had a freight-car load of plastic snowballs. The wholesaler agreed to sell the snowballs at a ridiculously low price. To these the veterans attached shipping tags to the snowballs with pipe cleaners and mailed them to members of congress with the message, "We don't have the chance of a snowball in Hell of finishing our education with the present level of assistance."[13] Their campaign "snowballed" with national publicity, including support from most of the nation's newspapers, especially those in Washington and New York.
While the university administration supported Mr. Carroll's work to extend the GI Bill, it opposed many of his other activities which they considered "communist." Reflecting later on the attempts to silence him, he described one such confrontation. He was called to a meeting at the office of David D. Henry, the Wayne State president. Also at the meeting was the dean of the law school, the provost, the chair of the faculty senate and G. Flint Purdy, the university librarian and chair of the local chapter of the American Association of University Professors (AUUP). At the meeting, the president immediately launched into a speech, stating that he had been working long and hard with the governor, the legislature and the executives of the major banks and corporations to make sure the university was adequately funded for the expansion that was planned. He stressed that the adverse publicity which Carroll and his friends were generating, gave the university the reputation of being a haven for radicals and would jeopardize the success of his plans. He stated that he believed in freedom of speech but threatened to expel Mr. Carroll if the university name was again dragged in the mud and painted in the press as a "Communist" school.[14]
Mr. Carroll summarized his response to the tirade:
After a few minutes of absolute silence, I cleared my throat and said that I had no intention of addressing his threats other than to note that in enrolling as a student I had not given up my rights as a citizen. But, I said, I did want to correct his misconception of a university—that contrary to his impression, a university was not the embodiment of its president. I went on to say that a university had only three essential elements: the faculty, the students and the library. The functions of the administration was to see that the faculty was paid and that there were enough books in the library and that the classrooms were hearted and swept. I looked around at the group, took a deep breath, said "Think about it" and got up and left. After I had walked about a half-block I heard footsteps behind me and felt a slap on my back. Purdy said to me, "Nobody has ever told that stuffed shirt off any better than you did."[15]
During this time he was a student at Wayne State, Mr. Carroll met Selma E. Wineberg (1926-2004). Her parents were from Ontario but had moved to Detroit where she was born. Soon after their graduation from Wayne State, Selma and Terry were married on June 15, 1949. Their first child, David Sean was born the following year. In 1956 they had twins, Daniel and Julie.
In the same period that he was graduating from Wayne State, Mr. Carroll went to the dean of the law school and asked him about enrolling there. The dean told him, "You will get into this law school and into any other law school only over my dead body." As a result he enrolled in the graduate department of history at Columbia University. During his year in New York, he and Selma lived on Long Island. He earned a master's degree in spring of 1950 and also completed the requirements for a teaching certificate. His mentors at Columbia were the prominent scholars Richard Hofstadter (1916-1970) and Henry Steele Commager. His other teachers were Robert Lynd, Alan Nevins and Richard Morris. Among his fellow students and friends were Judith Mogil, Herbert Gutman and Irving Widaen.[16] Mr. Carroll's thesis, titled "A History of the Jehovah's Witnesses," studied the struggle of that working class community against the capitalist-economic system. While a student he also worked part-time jobs, including that of gravedigger. He hoped to continue on for a doctorate, but the financial constraints of paying for a family prevented this.
Employment in Auto, Credit Union and Insurance: 1950s. After graduating from Columbia University, Mr. Carroll was denied certification to teach by the Michigan state board of education because of his political activism and the repression of McCarthyism.[17] As a result he took a job as curator of industrial history at the Detroit Historical Museum. While organizing an exhibit on the city's experience with industrial medical care, he became aware of the importance of public health for working people. This was an interest to which he would later devote much of his political efforts.
As a curator Mr. Carroll also continued what was for him a life-long interest in the history of his Irish heritage.[18] It was noted above that he occasionally gave lectures to school and trade union groups on the role of Irish-Americans in Michigan unions and politics. He would escort the group to the site of the battery of cannons that were used by the Irish Republican Brotherhood for the bombardment of Canada during he Fenian War of the 1860s. This war included an invasion of Canada made from the Buffalo area and an attack on the British army in the Western Provinces.[19] While curator he was once called a "(expletive deleted)-Irish Druid commie" by what he called "a sick former employee" who tried to assassinate him and another employee.[20]
After his stint as a curator and with a growing family that needed a more lucrative income, Mr. Carroll in 1953 took a job at an automobile plant, where he joined the United Auto Workers union and was a shop steward.[21] He later alluded to the corrupt unionism and struggle that he and his fellow workers waged against it:
The role of the Reuther political machine in promoting the numbers racket and dope peddling in the auto industry and the efforts of Communists in the UAW to expose those activities has never been told, and probably never will be. (The alliance among the peddlers, the numbers operators, the Social Democratic Reuther Caucus, Schachtmanites and the management of the Briggs Corporation was beginning to come to light in the early 1950s and that is probably why Reuther got a warning shot in the arm at the time.) As a consequence of Reuther's alliances with Senator McCarthy and J. Edgar Hoover, Communists in the UAW were mostly deprived of any positions of influence in the Union, and for that matter, in the community at large.[22]
In 1955 Mr. Carroll moved his employment from the auto industry to become an assistant managing director of the Michigan Credit Union League (MCUL), which was allied to the trade union movement. When the MCUL acquired ownership of the League Life Insurance Company, he was named its executive vice president and ch ief operating officer. He also worked as treasurer of the Ferndale Cooperative, the nation's largest consumer coop, which is now known as Credit Union One.
Some of the organizations and causes which Mr. Carroll supported in the 1950s, as well as later in life were the American Civil Liberties Union, the People's World, the Irish Democrat (newspaper of the connolly Association) and the Irish People (New York, NY). In 1959 he was a precinct chairman for John Kennedy's nomination in the primary.[23]
Health Care Advocacy in Washington, DC: 1960-1973. With the electoral victory of the Democrats in 1960 Mr. Carroll was offered a trade union-backed, federally funded position in Washington, as director of the National Institutes on Rehabilitation and Health Services (NIRHS). The Carroll family moved to the Virginia suburbs in the summer of 1960 and later to Maryland.[24] The NIRHS embodied the labor movement's support of occupational health and safety measures, rehabilitation initiatives and prepaid group practice medical care programs. It contributed to legislation such as the Federal Coal Mine Health and Safety Act of 1969 and the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970.[25]
As director of the the National Institutes, Mr. Carroll led in founding and was the first editor of the journal, Rehabilitation & Health. In his advocacy Mr. Carroll authored scholarly articles on health care and worked with colleagues in the labor movement, especially Lorin Kerr of the United Mine Workers Department of Occupational Health. The NIRHS also collaborated with union leaders to help establish the New York City Labor-Rehabilitation Liaison Project and the Sidney Hillman Health Center in Rochester, New York.[26]
At the time that he went to work for the National Institutes in 1960, Mr. Carroll also joined the faculty at his alma mater as an adjunct associate professor in the Department of Community Medicine at the Wayne State University School of Medicine. He continued in this position for 20 years. As an educator and in his work at NIRHS Mr. Carroll advocated for "socialized" medicine. In this he took issue with what he maintained was America's "capitalist-dominated" system and its supporters in the US Public Health Service, the National Institutes of Health and the American Medical Association. Mr. Carroll maintained that a decent health care system began with a secure job, housing and educational security, as in the socialist countries. He summarized:
The principle element in a national health program is a full employment program that would provide socially useful, non-hazardous jobs at a living wage to every worker able to work. One of the first steps toward achieving such a program would be the repeal of the 1947 Taft-Hartley Act and its sequel, the Landrum-Griffin-Kennedy Act and an anti-union NLBR, which have impeded workers' efforts to unionize and obtain fair working conditions and wages. Instead of compounding the error of employer-based medical care insurance by promoting its extension, the nation should adopt a truly progressive medical care program, a single-payer federally funded, universal and comprehensive program, one patterned after the British National Health Service which provides comprehensive quality medical services to the entire population, including "the strangers within their gates" at a per capita cost of two-thirds of the fractured and error-prone US non-system. (It should be noted that the British program, unlike that of Medicare and Medicaid, has been remarkably free of the scams perpetrated by the Hospital Corporation of America, Tenet, and any number of for-profit medical labs and insurance companies.)[27]
In his family life, Mr. Carroll in the early 1960s served as the leader in his son's Boy Scout troop. He enjoyed the televison series that starred Phil Silvers and rank-and-file Army life. His son commented, "My father though the show was terrific because he said that's what the Army was really like. Sargent Bilko was constantly running some scam and the officers were being duped. It was like so much of big business and government, where the people with authority are mostly a bunch of clueless dumbells and the people doing the grunt work are the ones with the brains."[28]
In 1963 Mr. Carroll and his wife obtained a divorce. Mr. Carroll was sad but not bitter over the split. It resulted simply because he and his wife were not meant for each other. They had different temperaments. As they grew older they found those differences were becoming more pronounced.[29] After the divorce Selma did the bulk of the child rearing. In 1971 Mr. Carroll re-married to Sally Irene Aufrecht. That marriage lasted 39 years until his death.
Back to Detroit: 1971-1991. Mr. Carroll believed that the NIRHS made remarkable progress in providing both rehabilitative programs and capitated group practice programs. Nevertheless, it was a federally funded program and the Nixon administration, following, as Mr. Carroll put it, the wishes of the Chamber of Commerce, terminated its support in 1971. Mr. Carroll then continued to subsidize the program from his consulting fees.[30] In this period he also became president of the District of Columbia Rehabilitation Association and the director of the District of Columbia Public Health Association. The latter organization suffered much from lack of sufficient funding.
Because of the need for a more secure income, Mr. Carroll returned to Detroit in 1971 to become the executive director of the Comprehensive Health Planning Council of Southeastern Michigan (CHPC-SEM). Like the NIRHS, this employment lasted for more than a decade, ending only when when the Reagen administration shut down the organization. Mr. Carroll commented on the demise of the CHPC-SEM:
Although the Health Planning Agency in Southeastern Michigan was the nation's second largest, with a complexity far exceeding that of the New York City Agency (the population covered more families with farm income than did any other Agency in the nation) the Board itself was dominated by big business and the financial industry. When the Reagan administration cut off the funding for health planning in 1986, the Board was only too eager to terminate the agency. I had been successful in raising funds from local government and individual contributions so we had a nest egg of a half-million dollars, which the bankers and the auto industry voted to give to the local United Way, to lessen their own contributions to that agency.[31]
With the demise of the CHPC-SEM, Mr. Carroll organized and for five years served as president of the Detroit-based Public Health Information Services (PHIS), a not-for-profit organization which published Public Health Comments, a semi-monthly periodical which received much attention and complements from public health people and animus from the insurance industry, but had to depend more on volunteer labor than subscription revenue for its survival. As Mr. Carroll put it, "We were seriously under-capitalized and the fact that we continued to publish for five or six yeaers is testimony to the value of labor for love rather than business acumen."[32]
To Washington, DC and the Clinton Health Care Debate: 1990s. In 1991 Mr. Carroll and his wife returned to Washington DC area in order to assist Mrs. Carroll's parents who were in failing health. At the same time Mr. Carroll succeeded Milton Terris as the president of the Reston Virginia-based National Association for Public Health Policy (NAPHP). He continued in this position until his death. During the Congressional debate in the early 1990s concerning the adoption of national health care, Mr. Carroll led the NAPHP in taking an active part in seeking a socialist system. Illustrative of his position was a letter he wrote in 1993 to the Washington Post:
Representative McDermott's assertion with reference to "uncontrolled free enterprise" in the delivery of medical care is absolutely correct. Apart from the relatively modest amounts of medical care provided by the Veterans Administration, the military's medical facilities and personnel, the Indian Health Service and local public health departments, medical care in the U.S. is provided in an entrepreneurial mode. One of the unfortunate consequences of the emphasis on "free enterprise" in the delivery of medical care has been the emphasis on specialty care, high technology medicine delivered in tertiary level facilities, because that is where the profits and excessive incomes are, and the neglect of primary care and prevention.[33]
In the letter quoted above, Mr. Carroll also pointed out the difference between health care and medical care, "Both Representatives Armey and McDermott can be faulted for using the terms 'health care' and 'medical care' as if they were synonymous. They are not: 'health care' is the entire panoply of services (including all of those factors that make up the 'Standard of Living') that determines the health status of the population. While medical care can be important and sometimes does include both prevention and rehabilitation, a full-employment economy that would provide the opportunity of a non-hazardous job at adequate wages to everyone able to work would do more for the health of the population than a 'Doc-in-the-Box' with free services on every street corner. As Ludwig Wittgenstein, one of the pioneers in symbolic logic noted, 'Our intelligence is often bewitched by our language.' The concern with 'health care reform' should not distract our political leaders from the tasks involved in improving the nation's economy."[34]
The National Association for Public Health Policy in viewing health care as an entire panoply of services, worked to advance militant trade unionism. Illustrative of its philosophy was Mr. Carroll's comments on political campaigning in May 2001:
The absence of a call for the repeal of Taft-Hartly and the Kennedy-Landrum-Griffin Acts troubles me, although I also recognize the futility of a repeal campaign at this time. But I think we should keep in mind that those laws are arguably the greatest hindrances to the successful organization of the unorganized. The escape clauses given empolyers in those laws can lead to interminable delays in obtaining union contracts and the firing of union activists. I recall for exsample that the SEIU won four elections over five years at the Mercy Hospital in Monroe, Michigan, and still was not certified as the collective bargaining agent, and as far as I know the hospital is still non-union, twenty-five years later. Paradoxically, the Sisters of Mercy, as a religious order, have been in the forefront of efforts by Catholic organizations to assist the unionization of farmworkers. Go figure.[35]
The focus of Mr. Carroll and the National Association for Public Health Policy's advocacy beginning in 2003 was the "United States National Health Care Act, or the Expanded and Improved Medicare for All Act."[36] This legislation was introduced by Mr. Carroll's long-time colleague and Detroit neighbor, John Conyers. Mr. Carroll had worked in the 1964 campaign that brought Conyers to Congress. He had continued to support and adivse the Congressman as he advanced in seniority. The legislation proposed by Conyers, which has been reintroduced in each session of congress since its initial introduction, calls for the creation of a universal single-payer health care system in the United States, in which the government would provide every resident health care free of charge. In order to eliminate disparate treatment between richer and poorer Americans, the Act would also prohibit private insurers from covering any treatment or procedure already covered by the Act. The rough equivalent of Canada's Medicare, the United Kingdom's National Health Service, and Taiwan's Bureau of National Health Insurance, under the policies this Act would enact, all medically-necessary medical care decided between doctor and patient would be paid for automatically and directly by the Government of the United States, ending the need for private insurance for such care. The system would be paid for through taxes, and these monies would replace insurance premiums.
Mr. Carroll died before the enactment of President Obama's "The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act" on March 23, 2010.[37] But in advocating to US Representative Jim McDermott in 1993 he gave his views on similar legislation that was based on public money for private "avarice." He commented, "When the administration's proposals for a national medical program (which I hope will also include some elements of a health program) are finally presented to the Congress, I hope you and others will consider the paradox presented by any proposed system which would be socially funded and privately delivered, with the mistaken assumption that avarice is a motivating factor that inevitaly leades to efficiency."[38] While he opposed the continued existence of the private insurance system, Obamacare did contain several elements for which Mr. Carroll had advocated., such as the philosophy that all should have guaranteed health care and the elimination of the "pre-existing ban" on coverage.
Mr. Carroll and the NAPHP took a broad view of health care, tackling state and local as well as national problems. Charistically, he lobbied his Virginia state senator, Janet Howell in a campaign to abolish what he called "state homicide." He stated:
The killing of accused persons, in the majority people of color, is an inheritance of Virginia's practice of lynchings, an attempt to give the mask of the cover of law to a practice intended to terrorize a substantial portion of the population, to make them more docile in their economic exploitation. In the entire history of the state, a millionaire has never been executed. The failure of the Virginia legislatjure to call for the establishment of a special state prosecutor to indict and prosecute local police offiers, prosecutors and judges who have colluded in sentencing innocent persons to prison and even death puzzles me. Is it possible that there are some, maybe many, members of the legislature who might feel that they are subject to those accusations?[39]
In addition to his leadership at the NAPHP, Mr. Carroll was instrumental in establishing the "Discussion Group." This was a progressive political-social organization that met monthly for lunch and to discuss current events with an interest in making change. It continues to function to the present date. Mr. Carroll described the founding of this organization, "In the spring of 1991 my wife and I became concerned about the failing health of her parents and we decided to return to the Washington area to be of assistance to them. (They had moved to Reston in the late sixties.) I told Carl Winter, who was then the Chair of the Michigan District of the CPUSA of our plans to move to the Washington area, and he informed George Meyers of our impending move and gave me George's phone number. After we settled in I called George and arranged to meet him at the Post Tavern on L Street NW, near 15th Street, where I had often met with reporters for the Washington Post. (George had meetings scheduled with people at the AFL-CIO which was only a few blocks away.) George and I had lunch and exchanged lists of people in the area who might be interested in discussing current and future events and who would have an interest in changing the future. Both George and I were familiar with Marx's dicta: Our first task is to understand the world; the second task is to change it."[40]
Mr. Carroll remarked concerning the founding of the Discussion Group that it occurred in the context of the then recent split in the American Communist Party. He wrote:
The split in the CPUSA resulted in the defection of a number of comrades to form a "Committee of Correspondence," an alternative to the Party, which would stress class-collaboration rather than class struggle and would seek to form alliances with the more liberal elements of the ruling class. Both George and I felt that they were misguided and confused but that many of them remained sincerely committed to the welfare of the working class and that we should continue to try to involve them in struggles on behalf of the working class. George was a loyal participant in our discussions and attended meetings with a commute from Baltimore nearly up to the date of his death.[41]
At the Discussion Group meetings, Mr. Carroll's analysis of current political affairs was found by participants such as Ed Elkind to be insightful and humorous. Illustrative of Mr. Carroll's Discussion Group presentations was his analysis of the presidential race in 2007. He commented, "The Republicans are all caricatures of Elmer Gantry and, other than Ron Paul, war-mongers. (He strikes me as being a mostly well-intentioned nut.) The Democrats are not any better, speaking in glittering generalities, trying their best not to offend any one."[42] Not long before he died, Mr. Carroll remarked on the current political scene, "I think that Obama is a remarkably competent snake oil salesman and a political opportunist beyond compare. He promised 'change,' but is apt to deliver the same old, same old. I must concede that he will be an improvement over Bush."[43]
Conclusion. When living in Washington, D.C. and working for the AFL-CIO, Frank Goldsmith, was part of the Discussion Group. In his career Goldsmith was dean of the Harry Van Arsdale School of Labor Studies at Empire State College, SUNY and director of the Center for International Health at the State University of New York in Stony Brook. Upon learning of Mr. Carroll's death, he commented on the help which his friend's life had been to him, "Terry helped give me a 'World View' that has sustained me. This 'World View' was always on the side of the workers and those in poverty. He had a class consciousness that came out every time he spoke."[44]
A. L. Morton was an historian of the English Civil War whom Mr. Carroll liked to quote . What Morton said concerning the Levellers might also be said of Mr. Carroll's life as an advocate, "A Party that held the center of the stage for three of the most crucial years in our nation's history, voiced the aspirations of the unprivileged masses, and was able to express with such force ideas that have been behind every great social advance since their time, cannot be regarded as wholly a failure or deserve to be wholly forgotten."
Terence E. Carroll, "Workmen's Compensation and Comprehensive Health Services: Existing and Emerging Patterns," American Journal of Public Health and the Nations Health (February 1965), vol. 55, no. 2, pp. 215-224, accessed May 20, 2012 at http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1256180/pdf/amjphnation00154-0047.pdf.
______. "The Ideology of Work" Journal of Rehabilitation (July-August, 1965). vol. 31, p. 26.
______. "Book Review: Bargaining for Health: Labor Unions, Health Insurance and Medical Care," American Journal of Public Health and the Nations Health (December 1967), vol. 57, No. 12, pp. 2217-2218, accessed May 20, 2012 at http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1228017/pdf/amjphnation00080-0157.pdf
______. "Workmen's compensation: a senile form of social insurance," Journal of Rehabilitation (May-June 1969), vol. 35(3), pp. 15-8.
______. "Letters to the editor, " American Journal of Public Health and the Nations Health (January 1970), vol. 60(1), pp. 6-8; accessed May 20, 2012 at http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1349573/pdf/amjphnation00030-0008.pdf
______. "Book Review: Expanding Dimensions in Rehabilitation," American Journal of Public Health and the Nations Health (February 1970), vol. 60(1), pp. 412-413; accessed May 20, 2012 at http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1350044/pdf/amjphnation00031-0188.pdf
______. "Book Review of Health Systems Agencies by Sondra Z. Koff," in Journal of Public Health Policy, Vol. 10, No. 1 (Spring, 1989), pp. 129-131.
______. "Review of Forging Linkages: Modifying Disability Benefit Programs to Encourage Employment by Monroe Berkowitz," in Journal of Public Health Policy, Vol. 12, No. 1 (Spring, 1991), pp. 129-132.
______. "Review of No Benefit: Crisis in America's Health Insurance Industry by Lawrence D. Weiss," in Journal of Public Health Policy, Vol. 16, No. 3 (1995), pp. 370-372.
______. "Review of State Medical Boards and the Politics of Public Protection by Carl F. Ameringer," in Journal of Public Health Policy, Vol. 22, No. 1 (2001), pp. 114-117.
[1]The cause of death was bacterial infection secondary to a broken collarbone. There are several sometimes inconsistent chronologies of Mr. Carroll's life. These are Anonymous, Marquis Who's Who in America (Berkeley Heights, NJ: Marquis Who's Who, Inc., 2004); Anonymous, "Terence E. Carroll," Wikipedia at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terence_E._Carroll, accessed May 19, 2012; and David F. Duncan, "An Eveninhg with Terence Carroll: National Association for Public Health Policy Honours Its Long Time President at APHA National Meeting," at http://www.naphp.org/index.php/fuseaction/magazine.article/articleid/11/, accessed May 19, 2012.
[2]Terence Carroll, "Letter," manuscript, October 2, 1993 in possession of Toby Terrar.
[3]_____, "Letter," manuscript, December 15, 1993 in possession of Toby Terrar.
[4]_____, "Letter to Mark Solomon," manuscript, January 14, 2000 in possession of Toby Terrar.
[5]_____, "Letter to Claire E. Morrison," manuscript, June 9, 2002, within letter to Will Moody, manuscript, November 16, 2002, in possession of Toby Terrar.
[7]David Carroll, "Letter to Toby Terrar," manuscript, May 26, 2012, in possession of Toby Terrar.
[9]David Carroll, "Letter to Toby Terrar," manuscript, May 24, 2012, in possession of Toby Terrar.
[10]_____. "Letter to Toby Terrar," manuscript, May 26, 2012, in possession of Toby Terrar.
[11]Terence Carroll, "Academic Freedom and the Basic Components of a University," typewritten manuscript, July 1996, included in "Letter to Suzanne," April 4, 2005, in possession of Toby Terrar.
[16]Terrence Carroll, "Letter to Columbia Magazine" at http://www.columbia.edu/cu/alumni/Magazine/Spring2006/letters.html accessed May 19, 2012; David Carroll, "Letter to Toby Terrar," manuscript, May 26, 2012, in possession of Toby Terrar.
[17]Terence Carroll, "Letter," manuscript, April 4, 2005 in possession of Toby Terrar.
[18]_____, "Letter to Claire Morrison," manuscript, June 9, 2002, in possession of Toby Terrar.
[19]_____, "Letter to Toby Terrar," manuscript, February 28, 2006, in possession of Toby Terrar.
[20]_____, "Letter to Toby Terrar," manuscript, December 2007, in possession of Toby Terrar.
[21]Terence Carroll, "Letter to Toby Terrar," manuscript, December 28, 2008, in possession of Toby Terrar.
[23]David Carroll, "Letter to Toby Terrar," manuscript, May 26, 2012, in possession of Toby Terrar.
[24]Carl Esco Obermann, A History of Vocational Rehabilitation in America (Minneapolis: T.S. Denison, 1967), p. 131.
[25]Anonymous, "Terence E. Carroll," Wikipedia, accessed March 5, 2012 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terence_E._Carroll.
[26]David Duncan, "An Evening with Terence Carroll," National Association of Public Health Policy (NAPHP), Reston, VA, January 3, 2003, accessed March 5, 2012, http://www.naphp.org/index.php/fuseaction/magazine.article/articleid/11/.
[27]Terence Carroll, "Memorandum to DC Discussion Group: Meeting Notice," manuscript, September 5, 2003, in possession of Toby Terrar.
[28]David Carroll, "Letter to Toby Terrar," manuscript, May 26, 2012, in possession of Toby Terrar.
[29]David Carroll, "Letter to Toby Terrar," manuscript, June 7, 2012, in possession of Toby Terrar.
[30]Terence Carroll, "Letter to David Gillespie," manuscript, April 7, 2003 in possession of Toby Terrar.
[33]Terence Carroll, "Letter to the Editor, Washington Post," manuscript, June 11, 1993, within "Letter," October 2, 1993, in possession of Toby Terrar. The letter was never published.
[35]Terence Carroll, "Memorandum to DC Discussion Group: Meeting Notice," manuscript, May 5, 2001, in possession of Toby Terrar.
[36]Anonymous, 'United States National Health Care Act, or the Expanded and Improved Medicare for All Act" (HR 676) at http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/111/hr676/text, accessed May 19, 2012; Anonymous, "John Conyers for Congress," at http://www.johnconyers.com/healthcare, accessed May 19, 2012; John Geyman, Hijacked: the road to single payer in the aftermath of stolen health care reform (Monroe, Me.: Common Courage Press, 2010).
[37]Anonymous, "The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act," (PPACA, Obamacare, Pub.L. 111-148, 124 Stat. 119, March 23, 2010).
[38]Terry Carroll, "Letter to Congressman Jim McDermott," manuscript, June 11, 1993 in possession of Toby Terrar.
[39]Terry Carroll, "Letter to Senator Howell," manuscript, November 28, 2001 in possession of Toby Terrar.
[40]Terence Carroll, "Letter to David Gillespie," manuscript, April 7, 2003 in possession of Toby Terrar.
[42]Terence Carroll, "Letter to Toby Terrar," manuscript, December 2007, in possession of Toby Terrar.
[43]Terence Carroll, "Letter to Toby Terrar," manuscript, December 28, 2008, in possession of Toby Terrar.
[44]Frank Goldsmith, "Letter," manuscript, March 23, 2012, in possession of Toby Terrar.


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About halfway through, Julian decided he'd had his fill of vintage, miniature horses, the burgeoning sun, and crowds. And melted down. Even a fresh croissant, our normal bribe currency, wasn't enough to distract him. I made one last stop to pick up a vintage dark green, chevron-emblazoned leather handbag I'd seen on the way in, only to find it already gone.
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And then, then I got home and realized I hadn't even taken my lens cap off. Once. I felt lazy, too easily overwhelmed, and like I'd failed my one big goal for the autumn- capture my favorite event in images.
With a growing (and inappropriately disproportionate) feeling of despair over my dashed plans, I poutingly packed up my microwave cobbler, scowled once more at my defunct oven, and made off for a barbecue with company that considerably brightened my day, and mood. Plus, Tony got to kick back and socialize with the other misters a bit, which always makes me feel less guilty for eating cakes and playing with babies and gossiping every day and getting to call it work.
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FINISHED!! Bestway 1491
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WooHoo indeed! Wow, it looks so fabulous!!! And YOU...you look so perfectly 40s, like a time traveller ;) The cardigan is really lovely and the colorway is very nice. Can't believe you did all that ribbing on a 2mm needle. I would keel over and die. Very well done!ReplyDelete
Hij is super mooi! Wat mij betreft een geluk bij een ongeluk dat je de mouwen moest plooien, ik vind het leuk! En je ziet er goed uit!ReplyDelete
Aaaaw, you look wonderful! :) Great Job!ReplyDelete
What a lovely cardigan ! I like the skirt as well, did you make that one yourself ?ReplyDelete
Wow! You knitted that?! That is beautiful, beautiful work! The detail is extraordinary and shape turned out lovely, especially the sleeves. Fabulous job. I can't knit worth a hoot (I made a scarf once, and decided that was it) but I have been crocheting since I was 10, so I have somewhat of a basis to gauge the work that went into this!! Great job- it looks so very nice on you. Congratulations!ReplyDelete
You know this is rare to say but I like yours even better than the illustration:) Even though your color combination is the same, there is more of a richness of colors. It really is a job well done. I'd want to wear it everyday too! I can imagine how you must feel to finally complete this project. I know that it can be quite frustrating to have to restart certain parts of it. A very lovely knitted project!ReplyDelete
This is one of the most lovely cardigans I have ever seen. So glad you think you're going to get lots of wear out of it. Curious about the skirt as well!ReplyDelete
Well done on finishing such a lovely cardigan. You are really skilled at colourwork. It looks great on.ReplyDelete
Holy moly, this is amazing! I can totally believe you started this in June- it looks like you've put an incredible amount of work into it, not just because of the detailed pattern, but also because, well, it just looks so PERFECT!! Thank goodness this will be such a versatile cardi for your closet, because you really wouldn't want this one going unworn after all your hard work!ReplyDelete
Absolutely beautiful! Truly, it's just exquisite. And I think the way you've done the sleeves is even lovelier than the original version! I'm sure you'll have many happy years of wear from this; in fact it looks like the kind of garment that could be handed down and treasured through generations. Simply amazing work - well done!ReplyDelete
Nice job! The cardigan looks great on you.ReplyDelete
I'm dreaming of someday making my own fair isle knit, but I'm treading the amount of work it'd require D:
WOW!!! This is absolutely amazing and beautiful. Congratulations on finishing it, it really is a work of art. May you have many happy years of wearing it.ReplyDelete
Your cardigan is completely gorgeous! Really, nicely done!ReplyDelete
Amazing, Anthea! I wish I could knit, but alas, that is something I really can't do. I envy you. I just LOVE fair isle knitted items, and the cardigan is absolutely gorgeous with your vintage wardrobe.ReplyDelete
Congratulations! Both it, and you sporting it, look absolutely fantastic! I love the peaceful (but in no way boring), classic colours you called into play here. Fantastic job, dear Anthea!ReplyDelete
♥ Jessica
the cardigan is so darling. i would wear it right way!!!ReplyDelete
That cardi looks stunning - it sounds like such hard work but deffinately looks worth it. Well done you. I can't knit so I am in awe.ReplyDelete
It looks fantastic :) So lovely, and I bet you get lots of compliments when wearing it :)ReplyDelete
Your cardigan looks fantastic, well done! I have been admiring this pattern for a while, so it's lovely to see it knitted up. Your choice of colour is great, I'm sure you'll have lots of wear out of it.ReplyDelete
Thank you! It's a lovely pattern and the size is not tiny like most patterns are. So it's easier to convert to your own size.ReplyDelete
Well done! The cardigan is lovely, and it suits you really well. Did you use the colours the pattern called for, or did you make any changes? I just think that your cardigan looks better than the original :)ReplyDelete


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Front pages from Britain's leading newspapers today show the British press at its "partisan worst", a leading BBC presenter has claimed.
A day before the General Election the country's two biggest tabloids have ferociously attacked Ed Miliband while other papers have also flown their partisan colours.
The Sun, which famously took credit for turning the 1992 election in the Tories' favour, told its readers to "Save Our Bacon" by voting against Miliband.
Referring to Miliband's disastrously unphotogenic efforts to eat a bacon sandwich, the paper thundered: "This is the pig's ear Ed Made of a helpless sarnie. In 48 hours, he could be doing the same to Britain."
The Daily Mail also attacked Miliband. It gave half its front page to say: "For sanity's sake don't let a class-war zealot and the SNP destroy our economy - and our very nation."
Daily Politics presenter Andrew Neil, who was editor of The Sunday Times for 11 years, was appalled by today's headlines and angrily claimed no editor would agree to appear on his show to justify their stance.
He said "all pretence of separation between news and opinion" was gone.
Tomorrow's front pages show British press at partisan worst. All pretence of separation between news and opinion gone, even in "qualities".
— Andrew Neil (@afneil) May 5, 2015
Editors/owners determine the sort of partisan front pages you will see tomorrow yet not one will appear on @daily_politics to defend actions— Andrew Neil (@afneil) May 5, 2015
Peter Jukes, who has published books on the phone hacking scandal and is a loud voice for press reform, said he "felt sorry for the journalists who have to put their names to their proprietor's BS".
Just caught up with #tomorrowspaperstoday Genuinely feel sorry for the journalists who have to put their names to their proprietor's BS— Peter Jukes (@peterjukes) May 6, 2015
BREAKING: #tomorrowspaperstoday reveal Fleet St is broken. Not fit for purpose as a source of news. Not persuasive. Or even funny anyome— Peter Jukes (@peterjukes) May 6, 2015
People tweeted about the Daily Mail's contradiction in championing the incumbent party while condemning the state of the NHS.
STOP RED ED, BUT BY THE WAY THE NHS IS PRETTY AWFUL RIGHT NOW FOR UNRELATED REASONS, OR SOMETHING pic.twitter.com/OLkdNJdApx— James Ball (@jamesrbuk) May 5, 2015
An impressive lack of cognitive dissonance on the Daily Mail front page today. pic.twitter.com/2j71dBgPw0— Eliot Higgins (@EliotHiggins) May 6, 2015
Interesting frontpage from the Daily Mail. "Keep Labour out. Oh, and the current coalition have screwed up the NHS". pic.twitter.com/LHJJhHD7ii— Prad Patel (@pradip) May 6, 2015
Daily Mail's front page warns of 1 month wait to see GP yet begs people to still vote for the party thats destroying NHS #hypocrisy #GE2015— Ross Forgan (@forganross) May 6, 2015
Labour candidate and Murdoch gadfly Tom Watson was among those tweeting their responses to the The Sun headline.
When I saw tomorrow's Sun front page I thought it appropriate to tweet this. RT if you agree with the poster. pic.twitter.com/kt2msewG12— tom_watson (@tom_watson) May 5, 2015
Struggling to eat a bacon sandwich? Front page of today's Sun. Struggling to feed your children? No room for you in @rupertmurdoch's papers.— James O'Brien (@mrjamesob) May 6, 2015
The Sun's front page appears to be saying: look how Ed eats a sandwich, therefore vote Tory.
Am I still asleep?— Dan Howdle (@DanHowdle) May 6, 2015
Sun spokesman Dylan Sharpe defended the paper and pointed to headlines in "Left establishment" papers The Mirror and The Guardian that, he implied, reflected their own partisanship.
.@SimonNRicketts @matthewchampion and what smell is it that emanates from the Left establishment then...?! pic.twitter.com/IqZxrS8Psn— Dylan Sharpe (@dylsharpe) May 5, 2015
I'm glad we're all agreed that newspapers don't have the influence they used t...OH MY GOD HAVE YOU SEEN WHAT'S ON THE FRONT OF THE SUN?!— Dylan Sharpe (@dylsharpe) May 5, 2015
Compared with The Sun and The Daily Mail, The Telegraph's front was sober but its headline still boomed: "Nightmare On Downing Street" for its report on Sir John Major claiming that the Labour/SNP government would "tear our nation apart.
Jay Stoll tweeted a photo of three of the front pages alongside each other.
Plague on all your houses. pic.twitter.com/WRHQEL7Jox— Jay Stoll (@jaystoll) May 6, 2015
On the day Major backed his party in The Telegraph, the Labour-supporting Daily Mirror splashed on a recording it had obtained of the former prime minister claiming the Tories had not done enough to tackle inequality and Britain still had a "substantial underclass".
It ran the headline 'Major Fail' next to a picture of David Cameron holding his face in his hands. The article's intro began: "The Tory election campaign has suffered a hammer blow..."
The Express, which has previously splashed on the fact its owner has donated to Ukip, splashed on Nigel Farage pleading for people to vote for his party.
Of all the front pages, its political stance was the most direct:
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Wednesday, November 25, 2009
Taps, tiles and gifts!
15 comments:
Love love love your mini kitchen so far. That sink is lovely. Happy Thanksgiving Mercedes! Hugs~ KimReplyDelete
You are so creative! I love the "tiles".ReplyDelete
God bless the printing machine!ReplyDelete
Everything is wonderful, love the sink!
Thank you for all the tips.ReplyDelete
It is all wonderful Mercedes, but you mustn't give away all your 'secrets'.....half the fun is trying to work-out how you made different things!ReplyDelete
Linda x
Lovely little gifts Mercedes. Love your sink unit. Brilliant idea for the tiles..xxReplyDelete
Linda is right about your secrets! Although I am very grateful that you do share!ReplyDelete
I for one stared long and hard at that cute little hot plate... I can now make one that looks exactly like that one... IN MY MIND that is! It will take a little bit more staring before I'll actually attempt it!!!
Don't you sometimes find the words you get for verification hilariously funny? Mine this time is 'MINGSHEM', sounds like it could actually be a word..., somewhere...!
Lovely kitchen, Mercedes. Clever girl with the faux tiles.ReplyDelete
One of the nicest things about miniaturists is that they (most of them, anyway) are seldom reluctant to share the methods and madness. I am not sure why some are secretive about their techniques. We are all in this for the fun of it, after all.
Even those who sell their things must realize that items made using their method will only be similar to but never the same as what they produce.
I, personally, am delighted when some asks "how did you do that??" and am pleased to show and tell.
Thanks, Mercedes.
How clever! I love the tiles, they make such a difference to the kitchen. I also wondered about your taps, they are lovely! Can't wait to see the handles, are they the ones that have taken so long to get to you?!ReplyDelete
It is lovely and I am glad you are happy with them!ReplyDelete
Love Sylvia
Sailing for the net, encontre your blog, which seems to be to me brilliant(genial).ReplyDelete
I live in españa, and it(he) makes small that descubri the world of the miniatures for houses of wrists(dolls).
Your works are brilliant(genial), and it(he,she) can not resist make me a follower of your blog.
Though I do not understand very much English(groin) and, this that you escrivo I do with a translator. This way that you do not surprise at the rare(strange) expressions that you find, jajajaja
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The kitchen looks lovely.ReplyDelete
I have a tiny sugardish (with lid) in that same series as the dish.
I love it :)
Great Mercedes!!!ReplyDelete
Happy Thanksgiving!!
Sylvia's gifts are gorgeous, esp the coffee grinder. But I do love those taps.ReplyDelete
I love the tiles. If someday I make a mini kitchen, I will use them. Absolutely great!!ReplyDelete


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To increase the fan base game developers are trying new concepts. One of the best and oldest concept is fusing two game genres. Best example is fusing and FPS (First person shooter) with Real time strategy. This is a unique work because FPS and RTS are two of the best genres of gaming also they are two different end points of the gaming line. Raven Squad: Operation Hidden Dagger is an upcoming game of this fused genre. The game is under the development of Atomic Motion, an independent Hungarian company. Publishing job for Raven Squad is assigned to Evolved Games along with SouthPeak Interactive. Some of the best game from all genres and on all consoles are allocated to SouthPeak Interactive for publishing, like Velvet Assassin, Edge of Twilight, X-Blades and many more. Raven Squad: Operation Hidden Dagger will be released on Xbox 360 and Microsoft Windows. Release date as confirmed by the developers is September 1, 2009. Another game with such fusion is Nuclear Dawn, under the development of Valve Corporation. One major difference between the two games is that Nuclear Dawn also fuse Survival horror with FPS and RTS.
The game starts with a devastating plane crash in the Amazon rain forest. The plane is said to be carrying top secret data. The top secret is dangerous and if it is captured by the enemies millions of lives will be in danger. A group of mercenaries are called for this dangerous job of rescuing any survivors and retrieving the top secret. This team is expert in these kind of missions. They set out to the field but the fate is against the team and their pane is shot down on route. After the smoke clears the team learns that there are only eight members left and rest of all dead in the crash. Now the team has three targets, rescue, retrieve and survive. The plot of the game follows there search for the targets and the adventures through the most dangerous jungle of the world with most dangerous enemies. First they try to complete the assigned mission as planned and later they switch to survival as an civil war breaks out between two factions in the jungle.
Gameplay as told is a fusion of RTS and FPS, you will be free to use any of them. You can play the game in zoomed in classic RTS overhead view or in typical First person view. RTS overhead view is a provided through a group of satellites positioned overhead (Geo-stationary orbit). You can get an 3D view of your surroundings with the help of the satellites. When you zoomed out the view you will be able to control two squads individually with four members each. Two squads will be expert in two distinct combats. One is an in infiltrator and members of the group prefers long range attacks. Other group is an assault squad and they are perfect for close combat. In the infiltrator mode you will have an advantage of far view. This will help you to get an advance view of what lies ahead and using this you can jump on enemies camped out behind buildings or around the corners. Playing in both the views is not compulsory and one can play the whole game ion FPS. At any point of time you can switch to and from the two views. Best option of switch is between the eight players with each one of unique style and qualities.
According to SouthPeak Raven Squad will concentrate more on tactics. The game is said to be difficult as it will be very simple to end the game. Environment of the game is of highly detailed and you will experience lush jungle visuals, dynamic weather, haunting ambient sounds. An co-operative multiplayer mode is also available for the game which can be played friendly online or locally. Players are given with campy dialogues making the game like 80's classic movies. Featuring the best of both genres, Raven Squad combines both FPS and RTS gameplay for a blazing action experience. Visuals effects of the game are awesome and a matter of discussion all over. All over Raven Squad will be fun to play with best points of fused gameplay, choice between eight players, and beautiful jungle environments. You have to rescue, retrieve and survive.


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"Watch this, dude... Bill and I have a fun game we like
to play when we go out"
"Okay, what's that?" I asked.
"Basically, we like walking up to random women, usually when
there's a group of them, and *INTENTIONALLY* try to get them to
make us go away."
I laughed
So then he walks off and starts talking to a group of women,
obviously saying some of the most messed up stuff they've ever
heard by the shear *SHOCK* that was on their faces.
Needless to say, even though he *TRIED* to get them to make
him go away, somehow... they became curious and infatuated with
And when I looked at my watch 20 minutes later, he was still
talking to them, halfway keeping up the charade, halfway engaging
them on a deeper level.
This is how I finally met Christian Hudson when I was in Austin,
Sure, we've talked before
... but seeing someone in person walk up to a group of women
with blistering confidence and calmly but seriously rip off
the most perverted and cheesy lines you've ever heard *ON
... was a sight to see.
But does this make sense?
Yes, it does.
I've often said that it doesn't matter *WHAT* you say that
counts, it's how you confidently you say it. And this was proof.
Of course, I had a sneaky feeling that he wasn't going to
get told to scram, or that the women were going to call security
on him. After all, when you have a system of teaching men how
to have "Unbreakable Confidence" - you'd assume that he'd be
able to deliver in person.
And he did.
So here's the deal. Christian is reopening his breakthrough course
on confidence and inner game NOW at
===> http://www.seductiontuition.com/becomeunbreakablenow
If this is an area of your life that you want to get handled,
I'd pick it up. And, at the ridiculous rate he's offering it at,
all the copies are surely going to be gobbled up very soon, so
don't wait.
Look, I witnessed with my own eyes how powerful this is
and not only that, Christian is a *GOOD DUDE*.
Fun, funny, confident, and solid.
You couldn't ask for a better person to teach you this.
And you can take that to the bank.
===> http://www.seductiontuition.com/becomeunbreakablenow
All the best,
p.s. I haven't had a chance to look at how many copies of
this system are available, but seriously, he's asking
you to trade him "chump change" for access. A bargain in my
book for sure.
==> Go here to claim your copy before they are gone


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The Photographers are:
Neil Simmons, Labrador City, NL - Check his gallery HERE
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Gary Gibbs, Wabush, NL
John Kennedy, Labrador City, NL
All of these photos are listed as for sale by the Photographers above. For information on each Photographer, please check each one's gallery.
Gateway Labrador would like to thank these Photographers for allowing us to showcase their work which displays the beauty of Labrador West.
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2014 Fogstone Vineyard Chardonnay
Fogstone Vineyard is on the northern end of the Santa Lucia Highlands Appellation. It sits at 250-400 feet in elevation with an eastern exposure and consists of rocky, well-draining loam soils. Testarossa has a longstanding relationship with Bret Sisney and Gary Filizetti, the owners of Fogstone Vineyards. Director of Winemaking, Bill Brosseau, works closely with vineyard management to champion excellence in farming in the Santa Lucia Highlands. Currently, Testarossa gets about two-thirds of the 36 acres of Chardonnay, which consists of 5 different clones. 2014 is our fifth vintage of both the Fogstone Chardonnay and Pinot Noir.
Fogstone Vineyard boasts numerous pinot noir clones on various root stocks and in the middle of the vineyard there are 16 rows of the La Tache clone that are currently being dry farmed. Fogstone has been instrumental in transforming farming practices in the Santa Lucia Highlands.
"Bright straw hue. Ripe fig, orange, cloves, and brioche notes leap out of this wine and are matched by elements of honey, banana, ripe apricot, and peach. Flavors of honey, grapefruit, and brioche are infused seamlessly by layers of apricot, fig, peach, and cloves. With careful use of French oak, this wine exhibits wonderful concentration and depth of character, while tamed by vibrant acidity. This Chardonnay finishes smooth, focused, and persistent. Enjoy now through 2026."
~ Bill Brosseau, Director of Winemaking
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- Unlike the Flame Trap, Geysers do not inflict the "On Fire!" debuff.
- Placing Geysers on top of Platforms below a Trap Door then opening and closing it will make the Geysers drop copies. It is a great way to farm for money, making an average of 67 gold per minute.
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Pray for Mankind...
I had a dream
that made me cry.
It was too horrible to
describe to you,
a dream of buildings on fire,
of spirits roaming the land,
a dream of war, death
and destruction
all over the world.
I saw the United States
and I saw Egypt.
And I knew that God
was unhappy with mankind.
I could feel his deep
sense of sorrow.
But as I gazed at the rubble
through clouds of smoke,
I also knew that
there's hope, a way
to prevent this dream from
becoming a reality.
We must all pray to God!
not only for ourselves,
but for all mankind.
We must ask for his forgiveness.
God told us that we need
only ask to be forgiven,
to be saved.
Pray to him.
Praise him.
Ask that peace
prevail in the world.
And never
lose your faith in God!
Your faith is your salvation.
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Now that we've made it halfway through 2017 let's take a quick look back, and spell out a couple of hunches going forward.
The first half of 2017 continued to see more hesitation; small deals went through, a few large corporate acquisitions but by and large buyouts continued to be on a downward trend. On the flip side, IPOs and corporate sales (cash outs) have been few and far between. "Dry Powder" continues to grow and has stayed dry and in barrels. What's causing the fizzle? Well, there is a lot of confusion about the U.S. government as agenda items have failed to be completed. Interest rates have risen, albeit slowly and have yet to exert pressure for sales, equities have continued to increase providing for corp acquisitions. There's also pricing, over the last few years with more funds circling fewer targets, and plentiful supplies of cheap money deals have been priced "to perfection." Perfect being defined not as without error, but without money left on the table.
Where are things going? There are going to have to be IPOs and sales because interest rates are rising and it will put pressure on the indebted portfolio companies — however, they have likely locked in a lot of $ at very low rates, so this will play out over the next couple of years. It's impossible to say what the government is going to be able to get done regarding regulation, taxes or health care, but each is a large lever that will change the playing field. Tax reductions should enable more corporate acquisitions as should deregulation. Health care, depending on where it ends up would have more of an impact on individuals or small companies.
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7. I'm being pedicured at a Vietnamese-owned nail salon in a downtown Prague shopping arcade.
8. Just the feet of the gigantic Reclining Buddha at the magnificent Wat Pho temple in Bangkok, Thailand.
9. Flumin' da ditch on Kauai in Hawaii.
10. Society of American Travel Writers colleagues and friends enjoy the soothing mineral waters of the Laugarvatn Fontana Steam Baths in Iceland.
11. I could see baby sharks in the water below my balcony at the Pacific Edge Hotel in Laguna Beach, California.
12. These boots are on the banks of the Big Qualium river on Vancouver Island, Canada.
13. On the beach at Paia Bay on Maui, Hawaii.
14. Don't ask me why I like taking picture of my toes. I guess it is just because it shows I am so relaxed, and the contrast between my skin, my nail polish and the sand. Here, my toes are in the sand of Baracoa, Cuba.
15. Chillin' under late afternoon skies in the private pool at Summer Lake Hot Springs, Oregon.
16. This is me touring the historic Boston City in a day! And there is no better way to start the tour than stepping ahead on The Freedom Trail. A 2.5 miles long, red brick path passing through downtown Boston, lead me through the 16 most significant historic sites, vital to the true making of America. From churches to traditional buildings, one can easily see it all in a few hours without even missing the directions as you follow the well laid trail. Unconventionally loud, with a series of events and performances engaging the tourists on the streets, the walk is travelers paradise – a true introduction to the multicultural vibe of the Boston city.
17. Gliding along the smooth waters near Waikiki Beach, in a double-hulled canoe was a highlight of my stay in Honolulu, Hawaii. Ready to paddle away from shore with my 6 crewmates, I was compelled to take this photo to capture the moment. Being at the front of the canoe added to my sense of adventure.
18. It was Easter Sunday and my toes took me to the seat of Christianity in the UK: Lindisfarne --also known as Holy Island--Northumberland. After a tour around the island's incredible castle, my toes and I sat on a grassy slope overlooking the north sea. In front of us, seals bobbed in the ocean, whilst in the distance the misty shadow of Bamburgh Castle stood proud. It was one of the most sweetly serene moments of my life. Heaven on earth. And I'd walk a thousand miles to experience it all again.
19. This was taken at Uligamu Island, at the northern tip of the Maldives. We live on our sailboat and travel full time, after leaving the USA in 2008. The way we live- on a boat, in the tropics-- shoes are redundant most of the time. I took this picture to highlight the incredible clarity of the water, as you can see the reef--individual corals, and fish even--in the water next to the boat (it's about 15-20' deep).
20. After a day scuba diving in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, we hit the beach. Our relaxation was captured on a camera phone.
21. I travel full time with my family, and I'm always looking for a good hike--especially one that leads to a view. This one involved an all-fours scramble that had mountain goats climbing nearby, literally, but the view from the top to the south end of Waya Island in Fiji made it all worthwhile. Toes belong to me, my six year old, and my eleven year old.
22. This is me relaxing in a park while watching a sunset in Tuscany. We stayed in the small town of Certaldo in Italy and enjoyed every moment of it.
23. There is nothing quite like relaxing on a lounge chair and listening to a soft wind blow through the tall pines, like I'm doing here at the Benbow Historic Inn in Garberville, California, a stone's throw from the majestic Avenue of the Giants.
24. In Bali, it is best not to step on offerings such as this one at Taman Nusa cultural park. They are placed on the ground to keep away the evil spirit.
25. This shot was taken in Siem Reap's night market in Cambodia. It's called a Doctor fish 'massage.' Tiny fish nibble dead skin off a person's feet. It tickles like mad. $2 US gets you a can of beer and 20 minutes with the fish in a 'foot bath' tank.
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A few weeks back a US House of Representatives intelligence panel report basically accused two Chinese technology companies – ZTE and Huawei – as being threats to the US' security. The allegations were made because of these two companies' ties with the Chinese government. The report further stated that US companies should refrain from doing business with these two firms. [Read more…]
House Report Alleges Huawei, ZTE Collaborating with Chinese Gov't, Pose a Security Threat
Is paranoia starting to set in the American political landscape?
According to a report made by the House of Representatives' intelligence panel that is reportedly going to be released this coming Friday, concern has been raised regarding the Huawei and ZTE, two of the largest telecommunications manufacturers in the world. The concern is with regards to the two companies' alleged ties to the Chinese military and government. The report states that China can use telecommunication companies for "malicious purposes." [Read more…]
New York Payphones To Be Replaced With Touchscreens
When was the last time you called someone from a phone booth? If it takes you more than five seconds to remember it's been THAT LONG. Payphones and phone booths are holdovers from a time when mobile phones were not yet widely available (yes, there was such a time, kids). But despite phone booths and payphones being practically obsolete, you still find them in many places all over cities around the world. [Read more…]
T-Mobile sends "Presidential Alert" message to select customers
After the terrorist attack that happened in September 11, 2001, The United sStates has become more conscious about what would happen in case a scenario similar that day occurs. It has led to a concerted effort to put in place measures to make sure that it never happens again or if it does, it is more prepared to handle the situation. One immediate result of this was the creation of the Department of Homeland Security. And now another step has been taken to further protect the American people – the Personal Localized Alert Network. [Read more…]
Google, Facebook Crying Foul Over California Bill?
Despite being bitter enemies, it looks like the search engine giant and the social networking king may have to form a temporary alliance in order to squash a California bill that can hinder both their businesses.
Web giants Facebook, Google, Twitter and Skype have banded together to oppose an online social networking privacy bill in California that would require users' permission to display personal information such as home addresses and phone numbers. […]
The bill would also allow parents to request any personal identifying information about their children under the age of 18 be removed within 48 hours of asking. Violations of the bill would result in fines of up to $10,000 for each violation. (Washington Post)
While the bill seems like a great idea in theory, it would probably not help parents govern the digital lives of their kids (who would respond by simply lying about their age in order to avoid having their posts removed).
Even though I can not speak from personal experience, many of my friends who are parents with kids on Facebook, Google, etc. already have the ability to remove their children's content due to the fact that they know their kids password (which they use as a prerequisite in order to use the internet).
Although the California government has good intentions, they should let the parents be parents in the lives of their kids, instead of trying to force companies to bend over backwards when simpler solutions are available.
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Google Vs DOJ: Who's Lying About Google Apps?
The rhetoric between Google and the Department of Justice is heating up after the DOJ accused the search engine giant publicaly lying about Google Apps receiving FISMA (or Federal Information Security Management Act) certification.
Not surprisingly, Microsoft has joined the fray by declaring that their nemesis is evil, and portraying their foe as untrustworthy by linking to documents (from the DOJ) proving that Google did not in fact receive FISMA certification.
Google has not yet responded to the accusations via press release or their corporate blogs, but they are maintaining the fact that they did receive FISMA certification and its the DOJ who's in error.
So who is right? Not surprisingly the truth lies somewhere in the middle.
According to the GSA, Google's Google Apps Premier received FISMA certification on July 21, 2010. However, Google intends to offer Google Apps for Government as a more restrictive version of its product and, Google is currently in the process of finishing its application for FISMA certification for itsGoogle Apps for Government. See Attachment 3. To be clear, in the view of GSA, the agencythat certified Google"s Google Apps Premier, Google does not have FISMA certification for its Google Apps for Government. (DOJ Brief, pg. 13, note: PDF document)
Apparently Google did receive FISMA certification for a Google Apps Premier, then decided to create a more secure version which is not FISMA certified.
Although I do sympathize with Google here (who has become the Feds favorite whipping boy as of late), the DOJ and Microsoft is (for now) correct that Google is misleading the public by claiming something it doesn't have.
Google needs to either pull all references regarding FISMA or offer more evidence, as the last thing the company wants is to be seen as "evil" in the public eye.


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Monday, May 22, 2017
Introducing bluZ (the band)..a musical collaboration with an interesting story
bluZ is a musical collaboration with a super cool origin story. Daniel Levanti is originally from Connecticut and growing up was fortunate to be always surrounded by music and musicians. Most of his family were musical in some way and every celebration was an excuse to pull out the guitars.
Eventually attending Berklee in Boston, he studied jazz and songwriting, while taking every chance he could to travel abroad, inclining him toward a definite desire to live in a culture that was unknown and unpredictable.
After spending three nights in Prague on a trip from Germany, the stark difference in appearance of the Czech countryside in contrast to the orderliness of its neighbors to the West was immediately attractive. There was a free mindedness in the landscape itself, and the silver chord of the Bohemian spirit stretched a refreshingly safe distance above any strictness of tradition or expectation.
Two years later he found himself with a guitar, a backpack, and a room in a shared house. After only a few months he would meet his first long time collaborator, Jeffrey Marshall, who like himself had just landed on Prague's shores from America, not knowing a soul and ready to begin anew.
Together they formed the band, "Supercool" (see, we told you this bio is super cool). At Supercool's first concert there was one extraordinary woman in the audience. A painter of rare talent, but also a linguist and an actress. Katia and Daniel married two years later, and she introduced Daniel and Jeffrey to many of the luminaries of the Czech art world.
Through their artistic network, they met Vašek Polansky. Supercool needed a drummer and Vašek was the perfect man. Though he spoke little English at the time, he faked it so well that Jeffrey and Daniel thought he was just incredibly Zen. When the conversation went to the extremes, Vašek's expression remained calm and unchanged.
They quickly recorded their first album together, then took it to Nashville and released it on Dave Pomeroy's label, "Earwave Records". At this point Daniel, Katia and Jeffrey began spending more time in the USA, and Vašek had begun playing with Iva Frůlingova. As circumstances dictated, Jeffrey and Daniel drifted apart geographically for several years, eventually regrouping in 2008 to record their second album back in Prague, this time with David Koller on drums, and produced by Tapani Rauha from Finland. That album took 3 years to finish, but was finally released on Championship Music in 2011.
The years that followed saw Daniel play in a number of different bands, but most importantly was "Sidestreets", which he and Vašek formed together, releasing an album in 2013, "Conversations". Meanwhile Vašek formed his band "On Air", releasing an album of their own, and Daniel still regularly appears as a guest with them when he's in Prague.
In late 2015 Daniel and Katia drove to Washington D.C. to celebrate the release of Daniel's book of poetry, "Where No Wind Can Move the Sand". They stayed a few nights with Katia's cousin Anastasia Rurikov Simes (http://www.rurikov-simes.com/) and her husband Dmitri. One evening they were introduced to Jay Z. (not THAT Jay Z., a different person who is WAY less famous).
After dinner Jay asked Daniel if he would be able to write some music to a lyric he'd written. Jay sent it immediately after, and Daniel agreed to give it a shot. This was November and Daniel and Katia were heading back to Prague soon for the next six months, so he asked Vašek if he would be interested in recording the song "Blue Blue Ruin", which had still not been written, once he got there. Luckily Vašek had the time, and after two days of working it out, they had the music for the song finished. By April they sent the recorded song off to Jay. He liked what he heard so he continued sending them lyrics.
One year later the bluZ debut album was a reality.
Listen to snippets of the album HERE: http://www.bluzmusic.com/music/
Stream and download the first single Blue Blue Ruin on iTunes HERE
Marty's review: I have listened to 2 tracks from their debut album where bluZ have captured the essence of blues music and show the influence it has on their music. Club Blue is a laid back style traditional Mississippi blues number with some nice acoustic and electric guitar work and Blue Blue Ruin is in a more contemporary style blues-rock with a very bluesy saxophone touch towards the end.