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Tillman Thomas
Tillman Joseph Thomas (born June 13, 1947[1]) is a Grenadian politician who served as Prime Minister of Grenada from 2008 to 2013. He was the leader of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) from 2000 to 2014.
Tillman Thomas
|10th Prime Minister of Grenada
|In office
9 July 2008 – 20 February 2013
|Elizabeth II
|Governor General
|Daniel Williams
Carlyle Glean
|Preceded by
|Keith Mitchell
|Succeeded by
|Keith Mitchell
|Leader of the Opposition
|In office
27 November 2003 – 8 July 2008
|Succeeded by
|Keith Mitchell
|Member of Parliament for Saint Patrick East
|In office
27 November 2003 – 19 February 2013
|Succeeded by
|Clifton Paul
|Leader of the National Democratic Congress
|In office
October 2000 – 14 February 2014
|Preceded by
|George Brizan
|Succeeded by
|Nazim Burke
|Personal details
|13 June 1947
Hermitage, Grenada
|Political party
|National Democratic Congress
|Sandra Thomas
Thomas was born in Hermitage, St. Patrick, Grenada.[1] He was among those imprisoned under Prime Minister Maurice Bishop[1][2] for two years.[1]
Thomas is a graduate of New York's Fordham University, where he earnt a bachelor's degree in Economics, as well as the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus and the Hugh Wooding Law School where he completed a LL.B. and a Certificate of Legal Education respectively. His political career began in 1978, when he became involved in the Human Rights and Legal Aid Programme with the leader of the New Jewel Movement, Maurice Bishop.
In December 1984, Thomas was elected to the House of Representatives from St. Patrick East constituency, and from 1984 to 1990, he was a Junior Minister in the Ministry of Legal Affairs. In 1987, he was a founding member of the NDC, and from 1987 to 1990, he was the party's Assistant General Secretary. Thomas was defeated in St. Patrick East in the 1990 election, but he was, nevertheless, appointed as a Junior Minister in the Ministry of Labour. Subsequently, he was appointed as Minister in the Ministries of Works and Tourism.[1]
Following the NDC's defeat in the 1999 general election, in which it failed to win any seats, Thomas was elected as the party leader in October 2000. He won a House of Representatives seat in the November 2003 general election, along with six other members from his party; the NDC fell one seat short of a majority in the 15-seat House of Representatives. However, and the governing New National Party (NNP) won another term.[3] Thomas became Leader of the Opposition in early December 2003.[4]
After spending 13 years in opposition,[2] the NDC won the general election held on July 8, 2008, taking 11 out of 15 seats and defeating the NNP.[2][5] Thomas himself was elected from St. Patrick East constituency.[6][7] On July 9, Thomas was sworn in as Prime Minister[2][5][7] at the Grenada Trade Centre in Grand Anse, St. George's by Governor-General Daniel Williams.[5][7] Speaking on this occasion, he promised "openness and transparency" of government as well as " [the practice of] the politics of inclusion".[2]
Thomas's cabinet, composed of 17 members, was sworn in at the National Stadium on July 13, 2008. In addition to being Prime Minister, Thomas took the portfolios of Foreign Affairs, Legal Affairs, National Security, Information, and Public Administration. Two members of non-governmental organizations who were not affiliated with the NDC were included in the cabinet: Franka Bernadine as Minister of Education and Human Resources, and Jimmy Bristol as Attorney-General.[8]
After nearly five years in power, the NDC suffered a crushing defeat in the February 2013 general election, losing all of its seats, including the seat held by Thomas. The opposition NNP won all 15 seats, and Keith Mitchell returned to the office as Prime Minister. In the wake of the defeat, Thomas said at an interview that he was willing to stand aside as the party leader: "Once somebody comes forward, I am prepared to let that person take over the responsibility of leadership of the party".[9]
Thomas was succeeded as the NDC's political leader by Nazim Burke, former deputy political leader and Minister of Finance, in early 2014.
- ^ a b c d e "Grenada has a new Prime Minister" Archived 2008-10-15 at the Wayback Machine, GrenadianConnection.com, July 9, 2008.
- ^ a b c d e "New Grenada prime minister vows to boost economy, lower cost of living", Associated Press (International Herald Tribune), July 9, 2008.
- ^ Political Parties of the World (6th edition, 2005), ed. Bogdan Szajkowski, page 265.
- ^ "Grenada premier to name cabinet on 3 December", Caribbean Media Corporation news agency, December 1, 2003.
- ^ a b c George Worme, "Thomas wins by a landslide in Grenada", The Nation (Barbados), July 10, 2008.
- ^ "A decisive victory: Let there be no doubt" Archived 2008-08-03 at the Wayback Machine, GrenadaBroadcast.com.
- ^ a b c "New prime minister of Grenada sworn in" Archived 2008-07-31 at the Wayback Machine, Caribbean Net News, July 10, 2008.
- ^ Linda Straker, "Seventeen Member Cabinet Appointed in Grenada" Archived 2008-07-16 at the Wayback Machine, CaribWorldNews, July 14, 2008.
- ^ Richard Lord, "Ex-Grenada PM ready to step down as NDC leader", Trinidad & Tobago Guardian, 21 February 2013.
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In town for a wedding on Lake Geneva, I seized the opportunity to play some of the best golf courses that Wisconsin has to offer. A fantastic lineup of Erin Hills, Black Wolf Run, and both courses at Whistling Straits were on the agenda.
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It's the morning after the night before and we're back at Frankfurt's main train station. After the previous evening's race against time to get to the Commerzbank Arena following an S-bahn cancellation, we're hoping today will go according to plan. Standing on the platform, we watch the screen steadily counting down the minutes to our transport's arrival. Three minutes to go. Three minutes later it still reads three minutes. It turns out to be a very long three minutes, at the end of which we are presented, not with our train, but a blank screen, a foreboding announcement in German and a platform steadily emptying of our fellow travellers. Speaking to a local, the train has indeed been cancelled, our second in two days. So much for German efficiency! After a coffee and a grumble, we manage to locate an alternative train and, a little later than desired, we're on our way to Darmstadt.
During the summer, when I'd set about planning this trip, I had never even heard of Darmstadt. Anxiously awaiting the DFB's decision on the actual dates of the Bundesliga's English week games, I was hoping to be able to catch two matches whilst in Frankfurt. The Rhein-Main derby, between Eintracht Frankfurt and Mainz, was a definite, but for the second game I had four others in mind; Hoffenheim v Freiburg, Kaiserslautern v Union Berlin, Sandhausen v 1860 Munich and SV Darmstadt v FSV Frankfurt. After the announcement of the dates, my list was whittled down to a straight choice between Kaiserslautern or Darmstadt. Kaiserslautern was a team I had heard of, having won the Bundesliga title in the late 90s with players such as Michael Ballack, Andreas Brehme and Ciriaco Sforza. Darmstadt, on the other hand, were completely new to me. With my travelling companions, Jeff and Chris, entirely happy to leave the decision in my hands and having noted it would take twice as long to get to Kaiserslautern, I chose convenience and the Hessen derby of SV Darmstadt and FSV Frankfurt.
Arriving in Darmstadt five hours before kick-off gives us the chance to have a good look around the city. First stop, the Waldspirale. A Hundertwasser-designed apartment complex that looks like it's straight out of a fairy tale. Perhaps the only thing stranger than the building itself is the fact that it's in the middle of a normal residential area surrounded by housing blocks, an area of allotments and an Aldi store. Then onto the artists's colony at Mathildehöhe, for a helping of art nouveau, before stumbling by chance onto the SV Darmstadt fan project. Inside we get talking to one of the organisers who, when he finds out we're from Manchester, tells us he has recently been over there with a group of young Darmstadt fans, not to see either United or City, but FC United of Manchester, the supporter owned club formed nearly ten years ago after the controversial takeover at Manchester United. We then head to the schlossplatz for a bite to eat and watch the football fans start to gather in front of the former town hall-turned brewery. Suitably fed, it's time to venture over to the newly titled Merck-Stadion am Böllenfaltor, pausing only for a drink at the Grohe brewery along the way. As we walk, we're passed by a great many bicycles. This is nothing out of the ordinary in Germany, where cycling is a far more prevalent form of transport than in the UK. What is out of the ordinary though is turning the corner to the ground and seeing bike after bike after bike after bike lined up at the side of the path. The idea of going to a football match on a bicycle would never have crossed my mind.
Going from the Commerzbank Arena to the Böllenfaltor, though, is a bit of a culture shock in itself. With only one actual stand and three sides of a bowl, it's minimal at best, but in an era of identikit stadiums, it has a certain vintage charm about it, which I can't help but like. Having been promoted to the second tier of German football in the summer (courtesy of an injury time goal which beat Arminia Bielefeld on away goals in the promotion/relegation playoff), the stadium needed renovating ahead of the start of the season in order to gain a licence, but you'd be hard pressed to spot any changes as, apart from adding some extra seats, most appeared to be behind the scenes, such as improving the media facilities and undersoil heating.
Taking our place with the mass of home fans on the gegengerade, I look around for the Ultras. With the bowl shape of the ground, the fans behind the goal are quite a distance behind the net. Add to that the presence of a large inflatable beer bottle getting in the way, and it's no surprise that the Ultra De Lis (Darmstadt are nick-named The Lilies) have housed themselves in the end block of the main stand, their flags already in the air. Throughout the match the crowd make a tremendous noise, singing about their beloved Lilies, doing call and response chants of SVD with various parts of the ground and bouncing up and down. Even on the gegengerade, there are pockets of fans bouncing along with the Ultras on the other side of the pitch.
The game kicks off and it's the away side who start the brighter, pinning Darmstadt in their own half, but in the 16th minute it's the home side who make the breakthrough. Kempe sends a corner into the box and Bregerie leaps the highest to head the ball into the net at the unguarded far post, giving the already noisy Darmstadt fans even more to sing about. From there, the home side take control and top scorer Stroh-Engel has two chances to double their lead, first denied by the FSV keeper and then by the post.
On 32 minutes, Darmstadt double their lead. Kempe's corner looks to be heading straight for Klandt, the Frankfurt keeper, but electing to punch when he really should catch, he completely misses the ball, allowing Aytac Sulu, the home team's captain, to smash it into the goal. Wearing a black mask, either because of a facial injury or a superhero complex, Sulu wheels away to celebrate leaving Klandt to kick his post in disgust. Only two minutes later, Darmstadt have a third and it's a case of another corner, another goal. Kempe, once again, floats the ball over for Sulu to attempt a volley. Despite missing his kick, he manages to direct the ball to Gondorf whose shot from outside the area deflects off a defender before nestling into the bottom corner.
Half-time comes and the home supporters are delighted. The FSV fans still wave their flags, but at 3-0 down in a local derby, it feels more like an act of surrender. After the break, Darmstadt sit back and allow the away side to have possession. Sadly for their fans in the crowd, Frankfurt struggle to create anything, with any decent chances still coming to the home side. The game livens up again in the last ten minutes, a rare FSV chance is put wide and Darmstadt respond immediately with a volley from Heller rattling the crossbar. In the 85th minute, from yet another corner, the home side have a fourth. This time Kempe's corner is flicked on at the near post and who should appear at the far post, charging in to head home? None other than Darmstadt's masked marvel, captain Aytac Sulu. With two goals and an assist to his credit, if Sulu didn't have a superhero complex before the game, he may well have one now.
The final whistle is blown and brings an end to the away side's torment. We stay and celebrate with the Darmstadt faithful, applauding the home side on a well-deserved derby victory. As we leave, another adventure coming to an end, we pass the inflatable beer bottle. Having started the game standing tall and defiant, it is now head bowed and deflated, much like the Frankfurt side and their travelling support.


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Bryant, Cristopher G. (2002), "George Soros's Theory of Reflexivity: A Comparision with the Theories of Giddens and Beck and a Consideration of its Practical Value", Economy and Society, Vol. 31, Issue. 1, pp.112-131.
Cross, R. and D. Strachan (1997), "On George Soros and Economic Analysis", Kyklos, Vol. 50, No. 4, pp.561-574, November.
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My Latest MAC Lipstick Purchase - Plumful
A few weeks ago a really close friend of mine came down from Chichester to spend the weekend with me and having found out she had never set foot in a MAC store, I knew that had to change pronto. We headed off on the train from Winchester to Southampton on an incredibly busy Saturday and spent aaaaaaaaages at the lipstick counter, in the end she was more decisive than me but after my hand had become a rainbow of pinks, reds and nudes I finally settled on Plumful - a really beautiful in between of pink, and inevitably plummy, tones
.I would almost describe it as an antique, deep rose but I know it is a colour that is well loved in the blogsphere but tends to sit differently on different people, which was definitely part of the appeal for me.
It was the first Lustre finish I tried and I have to say I think it is my favourite, it feels incredibly comfortable on the lips and lasts longer than your average lipstick, even through sandwiches and coffee, this little guy does not budge for a good four hours. I held of writing this review for a couple of weeks because I wanted to really road test it but now I have, I'm totally and utterly smitten.


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Russian takes the Play of the Day last Saturday for extending high with one hand and palming an interception, then juking across the field for a score.
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20 Things No One Tells You About London
Monday, 15 of May of 2017
London is such a fascinating city with so much to offer! It is hard not to fall in love with London. But it also has some secrets that you might not know about. Here 20 things no one tells you about London:
1. There's a secret library bar at the BFI.
The only way to enter the bar is through a cool hidden bookcase passage.
2. You can take a London tour that lies to you on purpose.
Just for the sake of laughing, Bullshit London gives intentionally inaccurate tours.
3. You can hit the pub and the park in one go at the People's Park Tavern.
The beer garden at People's Park Tavern in east London is so spacious and green it's practically its own private park. During the summer you can play table tennis, and in the winter you can cozy up to a romantic bonfire.
4. One of the best views of London is from a toilet.
The Aqua Shard is worth a visit only for the view from the loo.
5. There's a 60-acre sand beach in Ruislip.
No need to go to Brighton when you can take a shorter and cheaper train to Ruislip Woods.
6. You can take a water bus into the centre of the London Zoo.
You can spend a relaxed day on the river for just £8.90, or pay £25 to float right up to the heart of the London Zoo.
7. You can get a cheap and magnificent afternoon tea at the Fan Museum in Greenwich.
The Ritz serves afternoon tea for £50 per person, but you can get museum entry and a lovely full-service tea at the Fan Museum's Orangery for just £11.
8. You can tour and taste at the Fuller's Brewery for a tenner.
You can tour the historic Chiswick brewery for £7, and add a four beer tasting for just £3 more.
9. There are secret gardens all over London.
10. There are preserved ruins throughout the city.
11. There are grottos, vineyards, and castles at Painshill Park.
12. Often, the cool stuff is happening on the roof rather than at street level.
For example at Kensington Roof Gardens.
13. You can visit the Southbank Book Market every day of the week.
The well-priced and well-stocked second-hand book fair runs daily, rainy or sunny.
14. The Walkie Talkie building has a Sky Garden.
This public garden is free to access (but you'll have to book) and offers unique and stunning views of the capital.
15. You can pee in a pod at Sketch.
There are a lot of great toilets in this city, but the Gallery at Sketch wins with its cute and futuristic podloos.
16. Hyde Park has its own pet cemetery.
You can pay homage to dogs passed in the central London park.
17. There are seven disembodied noses in Soho.
An artist installed 35 plaster noses across London, and you can find seven of them still adhered to walls in Soho. There's also some ears in Covent Garden.
18. Bars can be entered through fridge doors…
The Mayor of Scaredy Cat Town is one of many speak-easy themed bars that will make you feel all disoriented.
19. There's a rooftop cafe on the top of Alfie's Antique Market.
Alfie's is the largest indoor antique market in London and the tiny little cafe on the rooftop offers panoramic views of London – great for Saturday breakfast.
20. There's a whole shop dedicated to Dr. Who.
We bet you didn't know some of these! Now you know a bit more of this marvelous city! ;)


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The Counseling, Health, and Wellness Center at SUNY Oneonta was constructed in 1966 as an infirmary with many hospital-type rooms and had not been significantly renovated since. The renovated facility provides a variety of health services including nutrition, wellness, and counseling programs.
The facility has ten exam rooms with one dedicated to triage and one dedicated as a quarantine/short term observation area. Each has a client bathroom to provide a private, residential feel. The Center also houses a laboratory that offers services such as phlebotomy and urinalysis, and a pharmacy that stocks a limited number of prescription and over the counter medications for students. We designed a new and enlarged nurse's station with semi-flexible work stations for staff, as well as a traditional check-in and reception area and electronic check-in stations, a new waiting area, and offices for staff. Nutrition and healthy lifestyle assessments are provided to students in a dedicated Health Educator office in the building.
The counseling program provides wellness, mental health, and substance abuse counseling. To support this program, a separate reception area and waiting room have been provided as well as eight private offices, a new break room, records storage, and medical storage room. A conference room with enhanced media and presentation capabilities will be cross purposed for staff continuing education and to facilitate wellness programs.
The building was designed to achieve LEED Silver Certification and incorporated many sustainable practices. All hazardous materials were removed from the existing building and construction debris was recycled to the greatest extent possible. The building envelope was improved by adding spray foam insulation to the existing brick veneer exterior walls, new energy efficient windows with high performance glazing, and a new roofing system with increased insulation. Water use was reduced with efficient plumbing fixtures and irrigation was not included on-site. Materials were selected to reduce indoor air pollutants and provide the greatest indoor air quality possible. All attempts were made to incorporate design features to reduce the overall energy consumption of the building, from energy efficient LED light fixtures, to mechanical equipment that has variable speed drives to match required needs, and is monitored and controlled through the campus Building Management System to reduce consumption when the building is not occupied. A commissioning agent was retained to verify that all of the new systems are performing as per the energy efficient design.
In addition, architecture+ provided full interior design services including the selection and procurement of furniture, fixtures, and equipment. Careful consideration was made in the use of more contemporary design techniques and color schemes to better represent the demographic of the patient population. Vibrant pops of color located throughout the corridor and exam rooms highlight design features and patient points of interest. Counseling offices and staff respite spaces have a calming color pallet to encourage a more tranquil atmosphere. The comprehensive furniture package for these spaces complete and enhance the overall interior design of the building.
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Effects of Glucose Levels on Glucose Consumption and Viability of Chondrocytes and Intervertebral Disc Cells
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Chun-Yuh Charles Huang
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Alicia R. Jackson
Third Committee Member
Weiyong Gu
Lower back pain (LBP) and cartilage-related diseases such as osteoarthritis (OA) have a tremendous financial impact on the world today. It is well-understood that the provision of glucose to these avascular regions of the body plays a large role in the sustenance of health and the prevention of pathogenic processes. In order to undertake innovative approaches to allow for glucose-involved cell therapeutics and to enhance a wide range of stem cell therapies, we need to better understand avascular cell metabolism. In this study, annulus fibrosus (AF), nucleus pulposus (NP), and cartilage cells were placed in agarose gel constructs and incubated in varying concentrations of glucose for up to 12 days. Live cell density was quantified using a viability staining technique at varying time points. The stained samples were imaged and cropped using a standard area, and the cells in each image were counted using ImageJ. Cell density results indicated that cell viability can be maintained at 0.5 mM glucose for all cell types. NP cells appeared to lose viability when incubated in high concentrations of glucose medium. There was a statistically significant drop in cell density of NP cells incubated in 3.2 g/L vs. those in 0.1 g/L glucose medium. Glucose consumption was analyzed using a glucose assay kit in conjunction with absorbance readings from a spectrophotometer. AF cells consumed the most glucose in the first 24 hours of culture, followed by NP cells and then chondrocytes. The amount of glucose consumed increased for all cell types when cultured in higher concentrations of glucose.
glucose; chondrocytes; ivd; Intervertebral disc degeneration; avascular; cell metabolism
Recommended Citation
Waggoner, Garrett R., "Effects of Glucose Levels on Glucose Consumption and Viability of Chondrocytes and Intervertebral Disc Cells" (2013). Open Access Theses. 429.


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She recorded 45s for Rojac, Sureshot, Gar, Castro and Pathfinder plus 2 albums - Passing Clouds for Fantasy and the wonderful Chess album Come And Get Me I'm Ready as well as her best moment on vinyl - Where Were You a 12" for Rojac. Most of her work was produced or written by her husband Freddie Briggs.
I was first turned on to her music back in '75 when her classic Northern side I Don't Know What Foot To Dance On burned up the dancefloors as a virtual new release. I would have posted that song but my copy refuses to play on my new deck because it is worn out with plays!
Kim Tolliver RIP


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Texans will finish brutal race — or die trying
The participants set to compete in the Spartan Death Race in the Vermont woods this weekend don't know the obstacles they'll face during the 40-mile endurance event. They just know the obstacles are going to be tough. Really tough.
In previous years, participants have had to carry tractor tires up and down a mountain; hike upstream in 45-degree, waist-deep water; chop down trees; and crawl through a maze of barbed wire amid mud. Last year's event lasted 67 hours.
Some of the obstacles seem just plain mean — such as eating a bag of raw onions.
The website for the event? www.YouMayDie.com.
"They try everything they can do to get you to quit," says Brandon Bonser, 44, a health-care consultant in Spring Branch and one of 30 Texans signed up for the grueling race. "This is about who's left standing in the end. It's a mental toughness challenge as much as it is a physical challenge. They want you to get frustrated and mentally explode and walk off the course."
The Spartan Death Race, which begins Friday in the Vermont town of Pittsfield, is one of the most brutal adventure races in the country, aimed at amateur athletes who have tackled marathons, triathlons and mud runs and are always looking for the next big challenge.
A couple of hard-core endurance athletes founded the race in 2005. Aspiring competitors can get a taste of the challenge by participating in the Reebok Spartan Race Series, a worldwide 60-event series of challenging obstacle races developed by the creators of the Death Race. The next Texas race in the series takes place in Glen Rose on Dec. 14-15 (www.spartanrace.com).
The annual Spartan Death Race requires endurance, strength, survival skills, navigation skills, a sense of adventure and a healthy dose of tenacity — not to mention a strange idea of fun.
Only 15 percent of the 300 athletes who started last year's event eventually crossed the finish line. Unlike most adventure races, there's no map to study in advance, no list of obstacles. And if that weren't masochistic enough, competitors pay several hundred dollars for the adventure.
"It's a challenge and it's not your ordinary get-out-and-run-a-marathon thing," says Marc Miller, 42, a geologist in Canyon Lake. "This is something totally different. It takes intelligence. It takes physical fitness. It takes stamina. It's everything wrapped into one."
So how do you train for an event like this?
Many competitors are avid practitioners of CrossFit — an intense strength and conditioning regimen of ever-changing workouts that combines Olympic weight-lifting, challenging cardiovascular exercise such as running or rowing, and gymnastics.
They'll also spend a Saturday tackling a workout that consists, of, say, running with backpacks filled with survival gear, swimming in the Guadalupe River and chopping down a tree."You've got to mix it up," Miller says. "We've been flipping some big tractor tires because it's miserable. Anything we can figure out to do that's just absolutely miserable, that's what we do."
Since last year's race involved a math test, Miller's wife has been quizzing him on basic algebra.
Miller and Bonser completed the Mountain Man Memorial March in April, a marathon in the Smoky Mountains which they ran wearing backpacks filled with bricks. In early June they completed a 35-mile ultra marathon in San Diego alsowearing weighted backpacks."Any of these things that we've done, you get to a point where you're fatigued and it's tough and you don't want to go on, and that's when you have to find something somewhere inside you just to block everything out and do it," Miller says. "Don't think. Just do."
Darrell Wurzbach, 55, an electrical contractor, signed up for the race last year because his son-in-law, a Marine serving in Afghanistan, asked him to brave the event with him.
Wurzbach feels prepared for the event after doing "insanely intense" workouts at the no-frills gym he owns, Wurz-Boxx, on West Blanco Road. Although he moved from San Antonio to Dallas in mid-April, he kept up his workouts in his home gym. He also added more running, including running while wearing weighted vests, to his routine.
"I think the race is just about surviving," Wurzbach says. "You've got to just tell yourself, 'Here's what's facing you, and what are you going to do? Are you going to finish it or cut it short?' It's all up to you. I really hope to finish. That's my only goal."
Bonser says he's worried more about the mental challenge than the physical challenge. One year, he says, contestants hiked 10 miles up a mountain to translate a Greek phrase, then hiked down, only to find they had to turn back to obtain a claim check.
"The water up there is sub-50 degrees, and they'll put you in that water for hours and have you flirt with hypothermia," Bonser says. "I wonder, am I tough enough to be able to handle that? Where's my breaking point? The only person who can take me off that mountain is me. But I wouldn't be doing it if I didn't think I can finish it."
The participants receive a list of mandatory gear to bring, which this year includes a life jacket, ax, saw, hand shovel, safety goggles and, for reasons left unexplained, 5 pounds of hay. The participants carry the packs of gear, but they have a support crew — often their spouses — to supply them with dry socks, food and other essentials.
Finishers walk away with bragging rights and a trophy shaped like a skull. Miller and Bonser are already thinking about the next challenge.
"Climbing Mount Everest, how about that?" Miller says.
The next Spartan Death Race is scheduled for Jan. 31. Registration costs $400. Go to www.YouMayDie.com.
An earlier version of this story misspelled Darrell Wurzbach's first name.


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text: It was the first warm day of spring and everything seemed to be bursting into life around us. Larissa and Abe hadn't seen Kelowna covered in blossoms before, and we were spoiled for choice. The smell of magnolias filled Kasugai gardens and we could've spent hours there, but were lucky enough to catch just the last few minutes they were open. So we raced from orchard to orchard as the warm Okanagan sun set into a crisp spring night. They could only describe it as magical.


text: OFL Convention: Power On or On Standby? PV Staff Bureaus, Labour News, Ontario November 16, 2017 There's an important growth in militancy and political radicalism for Ontario labour. But is this growth emanating from the OFL's leadership, or in spite of it? Sadly, the answer seems to be the latter.


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2014 Political Resolutions for Obama, the Republicans, the 2016 Candidates, and You
My most recent post at US News & World report lays out political resolutions for various actors in 2014. Here is a sample:
For President Obama: Lead Us.
Take the nation to a place that it would otherwise not go, or at least try. Otherwise, what's the point? Start with the State of the Union Address by articulating the need for entitlement reform.
For the Republicans: Be a More Effective and Intellectually Honest Opposition Party.
Stop trying to make the Democrats look bad, and start trying to accomplish things that make you look good. Isn't the political martyr routine getting old? Let's make 2014 a year for getting things done that are feasible and consistent with the conservative agenda: corporate tax reform, a responsible long-term budget deal, education reforms that promote competition, pro-business immigration reform.
For the Aspiring 2016 Presidential Candidates: Do Not Say Anything Now That Will Make It Harder for You to Govern Later.
Yes, we all know that campaigns are about vague promises and maddening generalities. And yes, we know that voters don't like to hear bad news. Still, the point of this whole campaign endeavor is not to become president. That is a means to an end. The point is to do good things as president. So don't close that door before you even move into the White House.
For the American Voters: Do Something to Improve the American Political Situation.
What did you do in 2013 to improve America's governance? How about doing more than that in 2014?
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there are also several GB players for $50 new.
there are also several GB players for $50 new.


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Larry Creshkoff's personal papers are fascinating as they document his professional career from his days at Harvard, onto LICBC and WGBH, to his time after he left WGBH in 1957.
WGBH Pioneers: Michael Ambrosino – Part 1 (1998)
Michael Ambrosino — the creator of NOVA — describes his early years at WGBH, an era of live and live-on-tape TV productions at the 84 Massachusetts Avenue studio in Cambridge.
This series presents authorized interviews with early producers and directors for Boston's innovative public television and radio stations. He was interviewed on June 19, 1998 by Fred Barzyk.
WGBH Timeline (1946-1978)
From "The first 24 years: A somewhat random compendium of milestones along the way"
John Lowell Jr., leaves a bequest creating free "public lectures for the benefit of the citizens of Boston."
The Lowell Council Ditty (1949)
From Larry Creshkoff
[This is] a song from the past. It's sung to the tune of "There is nothing like a dame" (from South Pacific) and was performed for the first (and only) time at the Christmas party of the Lowell Institute Cooperative Broadcasting Council staff in the library of the building at 28 Newbury Street where LICBC was housed before the move to Symphony Hall in '51. (At the time, 28 Newbury Street was headquarters of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. The last time I remember looking, it was the Boston location of Elizabeth Arden!)
The Lowell Institute Cooperative Broadcasting Council (LICBC) was the forerunner of WGBH. Established in 1946 by Boston College, Boston University, Harvard, MIT, Northeastern, and Tufts — with the venerable Lowell Institute as the "spearhead" entity — its mission was to create educational programs using faculty and content from the member institutions.
Quo vadis WGBH (1946-2000)
From Don Hallock: It may surprise you to know how many places the station has called home. WGBH's origins were in a converted skating rink on the second floor of 84 Mass. Ave. and the office spaces on the third, were the first home of WGBH from 1955 to 1961.
A viable alternative to the vast wasteland
From Larry Creshkoff — 2000
In his piece, [intlink id="1050″ type="post"]One Way to Run a Railroad[/intlink], Ray Wilding-White observes that WGBH "…was made a reality with hairpins and bailing-wire by the heroic efforts of a bunch of dedicated, overworked and underpaid young maniacs who hardly knew a microphone from a zebra when they started on radio and positively did not know a camera from a Greyhound bus when they went into TV."
I was one of that bunch of maniacs, having come to work at the Lowell Institute Cooperative Broadcasting Council (LICBC) in July 1947, just out of college, at $50 per week. (Not bad, considering that I was paying only $48 a month for a basement apartment on Commonwealth Avenue.) My first assignment was to prepare a five-minute summary of news from the Middle East and read it on air (live) at the close of Crossroads of the Future, a weekly round-table discussion program broadcast over WEEI, the CBS O&O station in Boston.
One way to run a railroad (1946-59)
From Ray Wilding-White: The station was made reality by a bunch of dedicated, overworked and underpaid young maniacs who hardly knew a microphone from a zebra when they started on radio. I know. I was there.


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Our state nickname is the Grand Canyon State. That makes sense and is sure to attract people. In fact 4.4 million people will tour the Canyon this year. But, there's plenty of room. The Canyon is immense and no one can do it justice in a day. You can say you "went" but you can't really say you "saw it." How big is it? About 2,000 square miles and home to 277 miles of rivers. At some overlooks it's more than a mile deep. Be there at sunset!
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Lots of famous people are or were Arizonans. Cochise, Geronimo, Wyatt Earp, Stuart Udall, Cesar Chavez, Sandra Day O'Connor, Linda Ronstadt, Zane Grey and Steven Spielberg are just a few. And lots of other people who just came to visit Cave Creek have stayed on permanently.
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Lawmakers raised big money for ballot measures – but didn't spend much of it
For anyone who wanted to get involved in statewide or local ballot measure campaigns during the recently concluded 2015-16 election cycle, they could take their pick of issues.
The June and November ballots featured 18 statewide ballot measures on subjects ranging from plastic bag bans to legalizing recreational pot. Local ballots, meanwhile, included dozens of measures on issues such as fire services funding and football stadiums.
State filings, though, show that most of the more than three-dozen current or former California lawmakers with ballot measure committees took minor, if any, roles in actual ballot measure campaigns during the last election cycle.
Even as the committees took in millions of dollars, most of the accounts reported relatively small donations to ballot measure campaigns or clearly identified spending on their behalf, according to end-of-year campaign disclosures due last month.
The exceptions were Gov. Jerry Brown and Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom. Brown's ballot measure committee reported giving $4.1 million to the campaign to pass Proposition 57, a measure changing state parole policies. Newsom's ballot measure committee led and funded the $4.5 million effort to pass Proposition 63, which imposes new gun control rules.
Businesses, unions, and others could give no more than $8,400 to legislative candidates and officeholders during the last election cycle. Those officials, though, also can have ballot measure committees with no restrictions.
Loyola Law School professor Jessica A. Levinson, president of the the Los Angeles City Ethics Commission, called the rule "an end run around contribution limits."
"It's just another way for candidates and officeholders to legally raise money" above voter-approved candidate limits, she said.
Spending reports by the committees often lack an obvious link to a ballot measure purpose. Many expenses are categorized broadly, such as fundraising, consulting or travel – the same types of expenses reported by candidates' main campaign committee.
The rules, Levinson said, "are very broad and forgiving. They give an incredible amount of discretion" to lawmakers.
Valley Solutions, the ballot measure committee of Assemblyman Adam Gray, D-Merced, reported the third-most total spending in 2015-16, $454,000, behind Brown and Newsom's committees.
Committee filings detail $10,000 in contributions to state and local ballot measure committees. In addition, the account reported spending tens of thousands of dollars to poll on local and statewide measures.
Mike Lynch, a Gray spokesman, said the committee also paid more than $100,000 to produce digital ads urging people to support transportation tax measures in Stanislaus and Merced counties. Both passed.
"One of the reasons they're through is we had that ballot committee," Lynch said of Valley Solutions. "He has no qualms about doing that."
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Jim Miller: 916-326-5521, @jimmiller2
Ballot committee spending on ballot measures
More than three-dozen current or former California constitutional officers and legislators had ballot measure committees during the 2015-16 campaign season. They raised and spent significant sums into the accounts, which are not covered by contribution limits. Ballot measure committees that spent the most during 2015-16:
Committee name
How much of it had clear links to 2015-16 ballot measures?
Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom
Safety for All, Yes on 63
All of it to pass Proposition 63 (gun control)
Gov. Jerry Brown
Gov. Brown's Ballot Measure Committee
$4.1 million for yes-on-Proposition 57 (criminal justice system)
Assemblyman Adam Gray, D-Merced
Valley Solutions
$10,000 in donations to local and state ballot measures; more than $100,000 in spending to help pass local ballot measures; polling
State Sen. Toni Atkins, D-San Diego
California Works
$83,000 in donations to San Diego-area ballot measures and county Democratic Party
State Sen. Ricardo Lara, D-Bell Gardens
Californians for 21st Century Economy
$49,500 donation to pass Proposition 58 (bilingual education)
Senate President Pro Tem Kevin de León, D-L.A.
Believing in a Better California
$208,000 in independent expenditures to help propositions 55 (tax increase) and 63
State Sen. Ed Hernandez, D-Azusa
San Gabriel Valley Public Services
None listed
Assemblyman Sebastian Ridley Thomas, D-L.A.
Californians for Full Employment and Balanced Growth
$65,000 in donations to state and local measures
State Sen. Bob Hertzberg, D-L.A.
Californians for Fair Tax Policy
None listed
Former Assemblyman Das Williams, D-Santa Barbara
Das Williams for Isla Vista Self Governance
Supported Measure E, Nov. 8 measure to create an Isla Vista community services district
Assemblyman Evan Low, D-Campbell
California to Innovate for California's Future
$28,000 in donations to local and state ballot measure campaigns
Assemblyman Ian Calderon, D-Whittier
Californians for Strong Communities
$64,000 in independent expenditures to help pass Proposition 50 (suspending lawmakers)
Assemblyman Rob Bonta, D-Alameda
Advancing California
$34,500 in donations to local ballot measures
Assemblyman Rudy Salas, D-Bakersfield
Salas for a Strong California
None listed
Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon, D-Paramount
Keep California Competitive
$5,000 to local parks ballot measure
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Betty Ong
Betty Ong
|Native name
Betty Ann Ong
February 5, 1956
San Francisco, California, U.S.
|September 11, 2001 (aged 45)
World Trade Center, New York
|Cause of death
|Terrorist plane crash
|Flight attendant
|Known for
|Notifying American Airlines staff of Flight 11's hijacking
Betty Ann Ong[1] (traditional Chinese: 鄧月薇; simplified Chinese: 邓月薇; pinyin: Dèng Yuèwēi; February 5, 1956 – September 11, 2001) was an American flight attendant aboard American Airlines Flight 11, the first airplane to become hijacked during the September 11 attacks.[2] Shortly after the hijacking, Ong notified the American Airlines ground crew of the hijacking, staying on the telephone for 25 minutes and relaying vital information that eventually led to the closing of airspace by the FAA for the first time in United States history.[1]
Betty Ann Ong[3] was born on February 5, 1956 in San Francisco, and she was of Cantonese descent.[4][5]
At the time of her death, Ong lived in Andover, Massachusetts.[5] On September 11, 2001, Ong assigned herself to Flight 11, so she could return to Los Angeles and go on vacation to Hawaii with her sister. During the hijacking, she used a telephone card to call in to American Airlines' operations/Raleigh reservations center, from the plane's rear galley; identified herself and alerted the supervisor that the aircraft had been hijacked. Along with fellow flight attendant Madeline Amy Sweeney, she relayed a report of the seat numbers of three hijackers. During her Airfone call, she reported that none of the crew could contact the cockpit nor open its door, a passenger (Daniel M. Lewin) and two (Karen Martin and Bobbi Arestegui) flight attendants had been stabbed, and that she thought someone had sprayed Mace in the business class cabin.[6][7][8]
On September 21, 2001, some 200 members of the Chinese American community in San Francisco gathered in a small park to pay tribute to Ong. Mayor of San Francisco Willie Brown, who was present, gave a proclamation honoring the people who died in the tragedy and called September 21 "Betty Ong Day".[9]
In 2002, the first recipients of the annual Madeline Amy Sweeney Award for Civilian Bravery were Sweeney and Ong.
In 2011, the recreation center in San Francisco's Chinatown where she had played as a child was renamed in her honor, as the Betty Ann Ong Chinese Recreation Center.[10][11][12]
Betty Ong's name is included in the 9/11 Memorial, which was dedicated on September 11, 2011.[13]
Ong is also memorialized on Gold Mountain, a mural dedicated to Chinese contributions to American history on Romolo Place in North Beach, a street where she used to skateboard and play as a child.[14]
The Betty Ann Ong Foundation is a non-profit public charity, which "serves to educate children to the positive benefits of lifelong physical activity and healthy eating habits and to provide opportunities for children to experience the great outdoors so that they can grow to become healthy, strong and productive individuals."[13]
Betty Ong was played by Jean Yoon in the miniseries The Path to 9/11, and she is portrayed in a prominent role in Zero Hour S1 E2.
An extensive clip from Ong's call to headquarters was used for the beginning of the 2012 film Zero Dark Thirty. The clip was used without attribution, and without the consent of Ong's family. They requested that Warner Brothers, the film's U.S. distributor, make a charitable donation in her name, credit her onscreen, state the Ong family doesn't endorse torture (which the film depicts being used in the manhunt for Osama bin Laden) on its website and in home entertainment versions of the film, and acknowledge these things during the 85th Academy Awards ceremony.[15]
Phone call[edit]
The following is a transcript of the eight-minute and 26-second conversation between Ong, American Airlines' operations/Raleigh reservations, Nydia Gonzalez (Operations Specialist on duty on September 11) and American Airlines' emergency line.[16] It begins with Ong in mid-sentence, her voice audible during only its first four minutes.[17]
Betty Ong: [I'm] Number 3 in the back. The cockpit's not answering. Somebody's stabbed in business class and—I think there's mace—that we can't breathe. I don't know, I think we're getting hijacked.
Male Voice: Which flight are you on?
Betty Ong: Flight 12. [Note: This is incorrect. The correct number is Flight 11.]
Operator: And what seat are you in? Ma'am, are you there?
Betty Ong: Yes.
Male Voice: What seat are you in?
Female Voice: Ma'am, what seat are you in?
Betty Ong: We're—just left Boston, we're up in the air.
Female Voice: I know, what—
Betty Ong: We're supposed to go to LA and the cockpit's not answering their phone.
Female Voice: Okay, but what seat are you sitting in? What's the number of your seat?
Betty Ong: Okay, I'm in my jump seat right now.
Female Voice: Okay.
Betty Ong: At 3R.
Female Voice: Okay.
Male Voice: Okay, you're the flight attendant? I'm sorry, did you say you're the flight attendant?
Betty Ong: Hello?
Female Voice: Yes, hello.
Male Voice: What is your name?
Betty Ong: Hi, you're going to have to speak up, I can't hear you.
Male Voice: Sure. What is your name?
Betty Ong: Okay, my name is Betty Ong. I'm number 3 on Flight 11.
Male Voice: Okay.
Betty Ong: And the cockpit is not answering their phone, and there's somebody stabbed in business class, and there's—we can't breathe in business class. Some-body's got mace or something.
Winston Sadler: Can you describe the person that you said—someone is what in business class?
Betty Ong: I'm sitting in the back. Somebody's coming back from business. If you can hold on for one second, they're coming back.
Winston Sadler: Certainly.
(At this point, Betty is heard speaking to another flight attendant.)
Betty Ong (Speaking to a flight attendant): They want to know who's being stabbed who. You know?
Unidentified flight attendant: I don't know, but Karen and Bobbi got stabbed.
(Betty's conversation continues)
Betty Ong: Okay. Our number 1 got stabbed. Our purser is stabbed. Nobody knows who stabbed who, and we can't even get up to business class right now 'cause nobody can breathe. Our number 1 is stabbed right now. And who else is?
Winston Sadler: Okay, and do we—
Betty Ong: And our number 5—our first class passengers are—galley flight attendant and our purser has been stabbed. And we can't get into the cockpit, the door won't open. Hello?
Winston Sadler: Yeah, I'm taking it down. All the information. We're also, you know, of course, recording this. At this point—
Nydia Gonzalez: This is Operations. What flight number are we talking about?
Winston Sadler: Flight 12.
Nydia Gonzalez: Flight 12? Okay. I'm getting—
Betty Ong: No. We're on Flight 11 right now. This is Flight 11.
Male Voice: It's Flight 11, I'm sorry Nydia.
Betty Ong: Boston to Los Angeles.
Male Voice: Yes.
Betty Ong: Our number 1 has been stabbed and our 5 has been stabbed. Can anybody get up to the cockpit? Can anybody get up to the cockpit? Okay. We can't even get into the cockpit. We don't know who's up there.
Male Voice: Well, if they were shrewd they would keep the door closed and—
Betty Ong: I'm sorry?
Male Voice: Would they not maintain a sterile cockpit?
Betty Ong: I think the guys are up there. They might have gone there—jammed the way up there, or something. Nobody can call the cockpit. We can't even get inside. Is anybody still there?
Male Voice: Yes, we're still here.
Female Voice: Okay.
Betty Ong: I'm staying on the line as well.
Male Voice: Okay.
Nydia Gonzalez: Hi, who is calling reservations? Is this one of the flight attendants, or who? Who are you, hon?
Male Voice: She gave her name as Betty Ong.
Betty Ong: Yeah, I'm number 3. I'm number 3 on this flight, and we're the first—
Nydia Gonzalez: You're number 3 on this flight?
Betty Ong: Yes and I have—
Nydia Gonzalez: And this is Flight 11? From where to where?
Betty Ong: Flight 11.
Nydia Gonzalez: Have you guys called anyone else?
Betty Ong: No. Somebody's calling medical and we can't get a doc—
With that, the portion of the tape played at the commission hearing ended. Then, the commission heard a recording of a second phone call, the call Nydia Gonzales placed to American Airlines' emergency line. Gonzales was still on the phone with Betty Ong as well. She relayed what Ong was telling her to the emergency operator.
Male Voice: American Airlines emergency line, please state your emergency.
Nydia Gonzalez: Hey, this is Nydia at American Airlines calling. I am monitoring a call in which Flight 11—the flight attendant is advising our reps that the pilot, everyone's been stabbed.
Male Voice: Flight 11?
Nydia Gonzalez: Yep. They can't get into the cockpit is what I'm hearing.
Male Voice: Okay. Who is this I'm talking to?
Nydia Gonzalez: Excuse me. This is Nydia, American Airlines at the Raleigh Reservation Center. I'm the operations specialist on duty.
Male Voice: And I'm sorry, what was your name again?
Nydia Gonzalez: Nydia.
Male Voice: Nydia. And what's your last name?
Nydia Gonzalez: Gonzalez— G-o-n-z-a-l-e-z.
Male Voice: (Inaudible)—Raleigh Reservations. Okay, now when you—
Nydia Gonzalez: I've got the flight attendant on the line with one of our agents.
Male Voice: Okay. And she's calling how?
Nydia Gonzalez: Through reservations. I can go in on the line and ask the flight attendant questions.
Male Voice: Okay. I'm assuming they've declared an emergency. Let me get ATC on here. Stand by.
Nydia Gonzalez: Have you guys gotten any contact with anybody? Okay, I'm still on with security, okay, Betty? You're doing a great job, just stay calm. Okay? We are, absolutely.
Male Voice: Okay, we're contacting the flight crew now and we're, we're also contacting ATC.
Nydia Gonzalez: Okay. It seems like the passengers in coach might not be aware of what's going on right now.
Male Voice: These two passengers were from first class?
Nydia Gonzalez: Okay, hold on. Hey Betty, do you know any information as far as the gents—the men that are in the cockpit with the pilots, were they from first class? They were sitting in 2A and B.
Male Voice: Okay.
Nydia Gonzalez: They are in the cockpit with the pilots.
Male Voice: Who's helping them, is there a doctor on board?
Nydia Gonzalez: Is there a doctor on board, Betty, that's assisting you guys? You don't have any doctors on board. Okay. So you've gotten all the first class passengers out of first class?
Male Voice: Have they taken anyone out of first class?
Nydia Gonzalez: Yeah, she's just saying that they have. They're in coach. What's going on, honey? Okay, the aircraft is erratic again. Flying very erratically. She did say that all the first class passengers have been moved back to coach, so the first class cabin is empty. What's going on your end?
Male Voice: We contacted Air Traffic Control, they are going to handle this as a confirmed hijacking, so they're moving all the traffic out of this aircraft's way.
Nydia Gonzalez: Okay.
Male Voice: He turned his transponder off, so we don't have a definitive altitude for him. We're just going by—they seem to think that they have him on a primary radar. They seem to think that he is descending.
Nydia Gonzalez: Okay.
Male Voice: Okay, Nydia?
Nydia Gonzalez: Yes dear, I'm here.
Male Voice: Okay, I have a dispatcher currently taking the current fuel on board.
Nydia Gonzalez: Uh, huh.
Male Voice: And we're going to run some profiles.
Nydia Gonzalez: Okay.
Male Voice: To see exactly what his endurance is.
Nydia Gonzalez: Okay.
Male Voice: Did she—
Nydia Gonzalez: She doesn't have any idea who the other passenger might be in first. Apparently they might have sprayed something so it's—they're having a hard time breathing or getting in that area.
(Plane struck World Trade Center)
Nydia Gonzalez: What's going on, Betty? Betty, talk to me. Betty, are you there? Betty? (Inaudible.)
Nydia Gonzalez: Okay, so we'll like—we'll stay open. We—I think we might have lost her.
See also[edit]
- ^ a b "Betty Ann Ong Foundation". bettyong.org.
- ^ "Betty Ong: Unsung Hero of Sept. 11". National Public Radio. September 10, 2004. Retrieved 2009-12-06.
Betty Ong, a Chinese-American flight attendant for American Airlines, may have saved untold numbers of lives by telling emergency personnel on the ground what was happening aboard flight 11 on Sept. 11, 2001. Her call led to air traffic controllers landing every plane flying over U.S. airspace. ...
- ^ "以鄧命名康樂中心 意義非凡". Sing Tao Daily. 2013-11-26. Archived from the original on 2017-07-22. Retrieved 2018-06-13.
在三藩市華埠出生長大的鄧月薇(Betty Ann Ong)[...]
- ^ "Pelosi: In Recognition of the Heroism of Betty Ong". 10 October 2010. Archived from the original on 10 October 2010.
- ^ a b "North Pool: Panel N-74 - Betty Ann Ong". National September 11 Memorial & Museum. Archived from the original on July 27, 2013. Retrieved October 29, 2011.
- ^ Richard Sisk & Monique el-Faizy (July 24, 2004). "Ex-Israeli commando tried to halt unfolding hijacking". NY Daily News. Archived from the original on August 19, 2013. Retrieved December 3, 2015.
- ^ "Betty Ong's Call from 9/11 Flight 11". 9/11 Commission. Archived from the original on 2009-11-08. Retrieved 2009-12-06.
- ^ "9/11 commission hears flight attendant's phone call". CNN. January 27, 2004. Retrieved 2009-12-06.
'The cockpit's not answering,' flight attendant Betty Ong said. 'Somebody's stabbed in business class, and, um, I think there's Mace that we can't breathe. I don't know; I think we are getting hijacked.' Ong, 45, was on board American Airlines Flight 11, the Boeing 767 en route from Boston, Massachusetts, to Los Angeles, California, that was flown into the north tower of the World Trade Center.
- ^ Nancy Pelosi (September 22, 2004). "In Recognition of the Heroism of Betty Ong". United States House of Representatives. Archived from the original on October 10, 2010. Retrieved 2009-12-06.
Mr. Speaker, I rise today to pay tribute to Betty Ong, a native daughter of San Francisco's Chinatown and a hero for our Nation on September 11, 2001. ...
- ^ AsianWeek (2001-09-11). "Betty Ann Ong Chinese Recreation Center Opens in Chinatown". AsianWeek. Archived from the original on 2015-07-22. Retrieved 2015-07-22.
- ^ "The 9/11 Tapes: The Story in the Air". The New York Times. September 7, 2011.
- ^ "Betty Ann Ong: 9/11 hero gets lasting tribute". San Francisco Chronicle. October 21, 2011.
- ^ a b "Betty Ann Ong Foundation". Bettyong.org. Retrieved 2015-07-22.
- ^ Jim Herron Zamora (2007-09-12). "S.F. mural depicting 9/11 flight attendant scarred by taggers". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved 2007-09-12.
- ^ Cieply, Michael (2013-02-23). "9-11 victim's family raises objection to Zero Dark Thirty". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 2013-02-24.
The Ong family is also asking that the filmmakers donate to a charitable foundation that was set up in Ms. Ong's name. Further, they want Sony Pictures Entertainment, which is distributing "Zero Dark Thirty" in the United States, to include a credit for Ms. Ong and a statement on both its Web site and on home entertainment versions of the film making clear that the Ong family does not endorse torture, which is depicted in the film, an account of the search for Osama bin Laden.
- ^ "The 9/11 Tapes: The Story in the Air". The New York Times. September 7, 2011. Retrieved 2013-09-10.
- ^ "Transcript of Flight Attendant Betty Ong". Gale Global Issues. Reprinted from Terrorism: Essential Primary Sources by K. Lee Lerner (2006); retrieved September 9, 2013.[dead link]
External links[edit]
|Wikimedia Commons has media related to Betty Ong.
- Betty Ong on IMDb
- "Final 8 Minutes Of Phone Call From Flight 11 On 9/11 " on YouTube. June 23, 2007
- Betty Ong at Find a Grave
- 1956 births
- 2001 deaths
- American women of Chinese descent
- People from Andover, Massachusetts
- People from San Francisco
- Victims of the September 11 attacks
- Victims of aviation accidents or incidents in the United States
- Flight attendants
- American terrorism victims
- Terrorism deaths in New York (state)
- People murdered in New York (state)


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