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At the end of the summer / beginning of the fall, I ordered some ammo from The Sportsman's Guide --- a large military surplus / outdoor store located in St. Paul Minnesota. They sent part of the order almost immediately and the other part went on backorder. No big deal. I can wait. Then the Sandy Hook thing happened in mid December. As the price of ammo began to skyrocket and supplies got scarce, a good friend warned me that I would never see that order. The Sportsman's Guide is doing their best to make sure his statement was prophetic.
When you have ammo backordered with Sportsman's Guide, you do not pay for it until they actually ship the order ---- although the price is locked in. They periodically send you an email with a list of your backordered items on it asking you if you want to stay on the backorder list. When you click on the provided link, it takes you to a page that says, "Thank you for accepting the revised expected ship date on your backordered item." Unfortunately, there is no kind of proof (no email) saying that you clicked on their button. Only a message on a screen. Needless to say, this can work to their advantage.
Since I had not received an email from The Sportsman's Guide for 6 weeks or so, I decided to contact them and find out the status of my ammo order (their last revised date was for mid March). I was shocked but not really surprised by the response I got back from them telling me that I had been dropped from their backorder list. After firing off a quick email, I got this reply the next day. "Hello Russell, Thank you for your email. I understand your frustration and we appreciate your business. We are required to cancel the order, according to FTC regulations, if no response from the customers within 10 days. We are unable to reinstate the back order. According to our records, you did respond to the FTC notices that were sent in January. However, our records indicate that you did not respond to the FTC notice we sent to you via email on 2-23 or to the letter we mailed on 2-28. Unfortunately we are not currently accepting orders for item XXXXXX, as we are unsure of an expected shipment from our supplier. At this time, we have set up a notification system so that you may be informed in the event that we do have the product available for purchase. I have set you up on our notification list, and once the item is available for order, you will receive an email. We do apologize for any inconvenience this has caused. If you have any further questions, please feel free to contact us. Enjoy the Outdoors! XXXX XXXXXX, Customer Service."
Not only have I responded to anything and everything I have ever received from The Sportsman's Guide, I never did get a letter from them (I do, however, get inundated by their small catalogs that always come loose --- never in an envelope). Needless to say, the price of this ammo has increased dramatically since I ordered with them (400 - 500%). I understand if they cannot get the ammo from their supplier. After all, the Obama Administration is in the process of pulling a fast one on the American People (HERE) by buying and stockpiling enough ammo to start WWIII and IV. However, I do have a problem with the way that the Sportsman's Guide is weaseling out of their obligation. If anyone else has had a similar experience being ripped off by The Sportsman's Guide Backordered Ammo Scam, drop me an email and let me know (HERE).


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When we start thinking about seeking certification from the Board for the Certification of Genealogists, one of the first things that comes up is our choices for the five items on which we choose to be evaluated: one document, one client report, one case study or complex-evidence proof argument, and one three-generation kinship determination project. What should we choose for each one? How can we even decide?
This intermediate level of thinking and worrying comes in between the decision to go for it or not and the level of generic tips and thoughts. And it's harder than it may look.
My thoughts here and elsewhere are unofficial, neither endorsed nor condemned by BCG as far as I know. And if you read anything here that contradicts the standards or the application guide or the judging rubrics, believe them and not me. (There is no surer guarantee of failure than to think you know more about what BCG wants than it does, or to think you're above following basic directions.)
In general, most of us want to choose the hardest problems that we can deal with well. Of course, that's tough to calibrate. If we already knew exactly what we could do well, we might feel less need to test ourselves against an objective standard!
There is an alternative
view, based on the fact that BCG evaluation is pass-fail. If we meet the standards and rubrics, we pass. So we could just submit our regular work, not something "special." I have no quarrel
with this, but I think it works better for those of us who are going through the process for the second time after having been turned down once. I had a much better grasp of the
meaning of the requirements the second time around! Trying to calibrate just what meets requirements could also be difficult. We could fail by trying only to pass.
Another way to think about it is that a certification portfolio does not just reveal how many record types we know about, or whether we know what to do with them once we've got them. It also shows our underlying mindset, or disposition, or orientation. Do we care as much about how we get there as what we find out? Can we remember, and do, the right
research thing at the end of a long day or a long project as surely as
at the beginning? Professionals are people who can.
Tomorrow: the document (requirement #4).
Harold Henderson, "Portfolio Choices for BCG Certification, Part 1 of 5," Midwestern Microhistory: A Genealogy Blog, posted 14 September 2012 (http://midwesternmicrohistory.blogspot.com : accessed [access date]). [Please feel free to link to the specific post if you prefer.]
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After an impressive win over Deccan Chargers in their previous match, Delhi Daredevils will now host Pune Warriors India in Match 27 of DLF IPL 2012.
Despite losing most of their formidable batting line-up for next to nothing, Delhi Daredevils powered home in the match against the Deccan Chargers thanks to Kevin Pietersen's brilliant century. Virender Sehwag's boys are on a roll now; they've won their last three matches and will want to keep their home record this season intact.
Pune Warriors India dominated most parts of their last two matches, only to be pipped at the post. An AB de Villiers special snatched away what was a match-in-the-kitty at Bangalore. In the away fixture against the Chennai Super Kings, Sourav Ganguly's men dominated for 36 overs, but were outsmarted by the defending champions in the last two overs of both innings.
Saturday, April 21, 2011, 08:00 p.m.
Feroz Shah Kotla Stadium, Delhi
The Protagonists
With a batting line-up that has names such as Virender Sehwag, Kevin Pietersen, Mahela Jayawardene and Ross Taylor, it would be very difficult to pick out just one or two stars. Each player is capable of winning a match single-handedly on his day. However, a lot of the focus will be on Pietersen after his outstanding century in the last match.
On the bowling front, while DD have experienced players like Morne Morkel and Irfan Pathan, the one who has impressed most is left-arm spinner Shahbaz Nadeem. Relatively unknown until this season, Nadeem has turned in four match-winning spells in five matches and has been the best spin bowler on show this season. Keep an eye on him as he will come up against attacking batsmen, including two left-handers, in the Pune Warriors India line-up.
For Pune Warriors India to succeed, they need their openers to fire. Robin Uthappa and Jesse Ryder have looked in good nick, but their lack of consistency has hurt their team badly.
Look out for a change in PWI's batting order too. Steve Smith and Angelo Mathews are under-utilised batting at Nos. 6 and 7. Their team would perhaps be better served if one of them were moved up the order.
Rahul Sharma recovered well from the mauling he received at the hands of RCB's Chris Gayle and turned in an economic spell against the Chennai Super Kings. It will be interesting to see if he can keep the likes of Pietersen, Jayawardene and Taylor at bay.
Previous Meetings
In a high-scoring match at the DY Patil Stadium in Navi Mumbai last season, Delhi Daredevils edged past the Pune Warriors India. Needing to score 188, Virender Sehwag's team got past the finish line in the last over losing seven wickets in the process.
The only other meeting between these two teams, in IPL 2011 – at the Feroz Shah Kotla – had to be abandoned midway through the first innings because of rain.
• Delhi Daredevils have lost the fewest wickets amongst all the teams in IPL 2012; they've only lost 19 wickets in five matches.
• Delhi Daredevils have the best economy rate of the nine teams in IPL 2012; their overall economy rate this season has been 6.71.
• Delhi Daredevils have so far run nine batsmen out this season – the most by any team in IPL 2012.
What next?
The two teams will be seen in action next when Pune Warriors India host Delhi Daredevils at the Subrata Roy Sahara Stadium in Pune on April 24.


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Yours Truly, John L. Sullivan
Taking on all comers, he had always dropped his man—but his supreme moment came in bare-knuckle boxing's last great fight
August 1959 | Volume 10, Issue 5
Matches were fought on a winner-take-all basis. Sometimes a hat was passed through the crowd and the beaten man got a few dollars, but only if he had made a good showing. The winner got a share of the side bet put up by his backers, but this did not generally amount to much even in championship bouts. Prize fighters made their money outside the ring, as saloon keepers and on exhibition tours with theatrical troupes. Most were heavy drinkers and died broke.
After Morrissey beat Yankee Sullivan, and indeed until well after the Civil War, there was little boxing in this country. It was a long and dreary period that produced few boxers of ability and few honest matches. The ring seems to have shared in the widespread political corruption of the postwar period. If a fight wasn't fixed—and many were—the chances were that it would be won by whichever fighter had more thugs at the ringside to intimidate the referee or, as often happened, to break up the fight when it was obvious that their man was going to lose.
Ring fans turned away from the sport in disgust, and it might have gone the way of bearbaiting and dogfighting had it not been for the young gladiator from Boston, John L. Sullivan.
The "Boston Strong Boy" arrived on no white charger to save the game. He came on foot with fists swinging and with one purpose in mind—to destroy the man in front of him as quickly as possible. Here at last was a real fighter and an honest one who wanted only to fight—he did not care whom. "I am prepared to fight any man born of woman. Always on the level, yours truly, John L. Sullivan," growled John L., who liked to write his signature in the air this way at the conclusion of a speech.
John L. was America's first great sports hero, the first to be followed on the streets by such crowds that he needed guards to keep from being trampled. When he arrived in London in 1887, a waiting throng at Euston Station rushed his cab and shattered it to bits. In Dublin the horses drawing his carriage were set loose, and the mob drew him through the streets to his hotel. It was the same in Chicago, New Orleans, Detroit, or wherever he went. Everyone wanted to see the champ, get close to him, cheer his words, and shake his hand.
Yet this American god was certainly no model for the youth of the land. He was, in truth, a notorious drunkard, a bully, and a shameless adulterer. For years he lived openly with Ann Livingston, a busty burlesque queen, although he had a wife living in Boston. He was a drinker of amazing capacity (he once drank 56 gin fizzes in one hour, according to Professor William Lyon Phelps), and he would stay drunk for days at a time. In this state he would flatten anyone who happened to displease him. "He was an s.o.b. of the first water—if he ever drank any," said one non-admirer of the great John L., and there were many, even among the Boston Irish, who felt the same way. The humor magazines Life, Judge , and Puck often depicted him in cartoons as a booze-fighter and a lowbrow. The press usually held its nose when forced to mention his name. On the morning after his fight with Kilrain, for example, the New York Times headline read: "THE BIGGER BRUTE WON."
Nevertheless he was adored. He had his faults, to be sure, but in spite of them he was completely honest and straightforward. After all, what was a fighter supposed to be, Little Lord Fauntleroy? And what a fighter John L. was—with bare fists, skintight or padded gloves, under any rules, anywhere, against anybody.
He looked like a fighter, too, though his face was unmarked and his teeth were white and even. Deep-chested, well-proportioned, black-haired and scowling, he stood 5 feet 10½ inches and scaled 195 pounds in fighting trim. He was amazingly light on his feet and fast of hand.
John Lawrence Sullivan was born in Roxbury, Massachusetts, near Boston, on October 15, 1858, the son of Irish immigrants. His mother was an enormous woman, as tall as her son and almost as heavy. Mike Sullivan, his father, stood but 5 feet 3 inches and was a hod carrier, an occupation that John L. himself followed after a respectable amount of schooling. At nineteen he began boxing in Boston theaters on Saturday nights to pick up a few extra dollars. These were glove bouts conducted under the new Marquis of Queensberry rules—which called for gloves and three-minute rounds—that were even then gradually superseding the bare-knuckle code. The matches were limited to three or four rounds and were billed—to get around the Boston police—as sparring exhibitions.
John L. knew nothing about sparring or the niceties of the manly art. But he did know how to punch. "It was like being hit by a runaway horse," said Mike Donovan, one of the few who stayed three rounds with the Strong Boy on a Boston stage. "When Sullivan struck me," a knockout victim said, "I thought a telegraph pole had been shoved against me endwise."
John L.'s fame as a knockout artist spread. Hc acquired a manager—Billy Madden, one of the several he was to have—and they went on tour. In Cincinnati, Chicago, Philadelphia, and New York, Sullivan fought a series of glove and bare-fist bouts and bowled over everyone who faced him.


text: Practice basic sequencing skills with these 6 step color picture cards. Use the finished sequence to practice basic expository writing skills or working on temporal sequencing words such as "before" and "after". Included are instructions, 6 color pictures, and a blank sequencing page. These pages can also be found as part of the Kitchen Theme Basic Set.


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The Opposition on Thursday turned the heat up on the state-run Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA), alleging cost escalations to the tune of Rs 3,317 crore in its various projects, to the benefit of contractors. It also demanded a white paper from the state agency.
Raising the issue in the house, Vinod Tawde, Opposition leader of the legislative council, said, "Projects do not take off on time and then costs spiral. Cost escalations amount to Rs 3,317 crore and are done to benefit contractors. We need a white paper on why the projects did not take off and why costs escalated."
Tawde alleged the MMRDA was losing Rs 280 crore annually because of failure to recover delay charges from developers. He suggested a single-window clearance system for projects. He said the MMRDA's financial condition was deteriorating.
Member of the Legislative Council from the Shiv Sena, Deepar Sawant, also raised concern about delayed infrastructure projects. "Be it the Metro or Monorail or the Freeway, all are behind schedule," he said.
Ruling out a white paper, chief minister Prithviraj Chavan, who heads the MMRDA, said, "From January 2013 till now, projects worth Rs5,000 cr implemented by the MMRDA have been inaugurated and projects worth Rs 2,000 crore are in the pipeline. But I agree we need to devise a new [revenue] model to make MMRDA self-sufficient. This can be done by introducing a betterment charge or an improvement cess that people could pay," he said.
Tawde, however, said the Opposition would not agree to a plan which requires citizens to pay more for infrastructure.
Chavan said the state would stress on 'development with a human face.' He announced that the agency plans to devise an insurance scheme for people who die in dilapidated building collapses. "Every family that has lost a member will gets Rs5 lakh," Chavan announced in the council.


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When I first started this blog, I never anticipated that I would feature outfits of myself. Once I eased into it and realized it was something I wanted to do, I needed someone to snap these shots of me. Luckily, my fiance (then boyfriend) obliged and was willing to take a few minutes out of his day to snap a the photos. He still does the majority of them today (we're still learning to work my camera...slowly but surely) and although I thank him for doing it, I really am grateful that he helps me out so often and supports my little hobby. Also to thank is my sister, who recently moved to Chicago. She's always willing to take some pictures of me and ultimately, I benefit, because she has an eye for photography and always displays the utmost patience with me. Because she lives here now, I'll have to do another feature on her. They're really the best and just wanted to give you some insight on the great people behind the lens. Thus, I present to you: a few pictures I've taken of them recently.
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text: All-Star Superman's Christina Hendricks reveals the comics she craves... and her Wonder Woman futureMeredith Woerner2/15/11 6:38pmFiled to: ExclusiveAll-Star Supermanchristina hendricksAnimationInterviewCartoonClipsVideoMovieSupermanLois lane'ComicBooksSuperheroesGeoffreyarendFirefly80EditPromoteShare to KinjaToggle Conversation toolsGo to permalink We spoke to Mrs. Mal Reynolds herself — Christina Hendricks, about comics and other-worldly heroes. Advertisement What sort of comics has the Mad Men star picked up since taking on the role of Lois Lane in the animated version of All-Star Superman? We also chatted with Hendricks and her husband Geoffrey Arend (Devil, Super Troopers) about Manga, The Wonder Woman rumors, and her last run-in with Joss Whedon. Is there an Avengers role in her future? Watch the video of our exclusive interview:Do you guys read comics? Advertisement Arend: Yes, well I do.Hendricks: I'm a newcomer! Advertisement Sponsored Arend: I've gotten Christina into reading comics. We've been reading a lot of Japanese comics — early Manga like Lone Wolf and Cub, the Push Man Chronicles, things like that. Cool stuff.Did you pick up the original All-Star Superman? Hendricks: No, this was an introduction for me, actually. It was all new to me. Jeffrey was familiar with it, but it was new to me.When people watch the film are people going to hear your voice or a variation of your voice (as Lois Lane)?Hendricks: They'll hear my voice. I think I naturally change my voice a little bit with each character. So I'm sure I'll even be surprised when I hear it. But I was just trying to take her on an adventure and be true to her. Advertisement What's the craziest rumor you've heard with comic book movie and your name attached to it?Hendricks: I keep hearing the rumor about Wonder Woman, which is flattering and awesome, and I'm not sure where it got started. It's a fun rumor to hear about. No one has approached me to play Wonder Woman at all. But I like that people would think of me as her. Advertisement Arend: I think of you as Wonder Woman, you'd kill that part.But you'd definitely be open to it, because there's a TV show in the works? Advertisement Hendricks: Yeah, the thing is I'm already on a TV show. Right now my first love is Mad Men.So has doing this movie inspired you to pick up any other comics?Hendricks: Yes actually, Jeffery has brought a few to me, I was saying that I just read something called Mother... It was gorgoues, I reall Advertisement Arend: I can't remember who the author is either, but it was really beautiful, one shot graphic novel.Hendricks: Yeah, and he got me into Sandman. Advertisement Arend: We're working our way up to the true tights and capes superhero stuff.Did you ever get an offer for a spin-off or comic for your Firefly [EDIT I know I said Serenity I meant Firefly apologies] character? Advertisement No I never did. But I saw Joss Whedon the other day and said hello. He seems well.He's not panicked over The Avengers?He seemed very calm and cool, he seemed good. But no — by the time Firefly ended, I think everyone had moved on to other projects. But we were all sad about it, it was really fun. And I would have loved to gone back. Advertisement After that tantalizing Joss Whedon mention, we followed up with Hendricks in the press room and asked her if she would be interested in pursuing a role in The Avengers, and while she said she would love to work with Joss again (because he's fantastic and easy to work with) she didn't think there was a role for her in The Avengers. But on a more adorable note, she got sent a Saffron Barbie by one awesome fan a long time ago (so now she has a Mad Men Barbie and a Saffron Barbie). All-Star Superman Trailer Lex Luthor All-Star Superman Clip All-Star Superman Clip Advertisement All-Star Superman hits stores February 22.Reply80 repliesLeave a reply


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You can see all of Mon Cheri's collections here (with gowns not just for you, but for the MOB/MOG, your flower girl, and b-maids too). But we know you want the wedding dress eye candy, so that's our focus today! We chose 15 of our favorite dresses from Mon Cheri's 2012 bridal collections, and can't wait to share them with you!
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November 9, 2003
Museum of Tolerance
Gottfried Helnwein
Catalogue, (page 50-79)
"Anyone who sees and paints the sky green and pastures blue ought to be sterilized." Adolf Hitler . This single sentence sums up the essence of the totalitarian mindset. The world must adhere to an order of which no variation or independence is acceptable. "Epiphany I", 1996 is from an important series of three paintings created over a three-year period. This seamless stapling of a version of the Adoration of the Magi into a scenario out of the Third Reich is in keeping with Helnwein's desire to press the limits. Helnwein wrote, "In the Epiphany trilogy, I refer directly to my (our) own historical background. The most significant issue on the time track of the occident is Christianity and the male dominated world of conquering and oppression. The constant slaughter of the 'weak': women, children, the Jews, and other ethnic minorities, through holy wars, crusades and the constant extermination of the inferior." . by Robert Flynn Johnson Curator in charge, Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
Neunter November Nacht (Ninth November Night)
scanachrome on vinyl, 1988, Installation between Ludwig Museum and Cologne Cathedral, Cologne, each panel 370 x 250 cm, 146 x 98"
(page 50)
At nights my room was plunged into a deep, red light - my toys, the furniture, my bed, my hands - everything had the same color and seemed to be made of the same soft material. As though the natural laws were suddenly suspended, all matter seemed to glow from the inside out. The explanation for this red magic was the large illuminated star of the Red Army on the roof of the factory across the street, which poured its fire nightly into my room.
The days, in comparison, were gray, sticky like slime and filled with unlimited boredom - everything seemed ugly and unreal to me. I grew up in Vienna, after the war. I lived with my parents in Favoriten, a traditional Viennese working-class district, that then belonged to the Soviet occupied zone. The building we lived in endured a miserable existence between an old foundry from the turn of the century and a gray monster of a factory from the Nazi era, which now bore the sign of its new masters on its roof - that very same enormous red star.
In my memories everything is rusty and covered in dust. The streets looked like they were dead, nothing moved, nobody talked. The few people that I saw were bulky, misshapen and bent. I can't remember ever having heard someone sing or laugh. A world that stood still, without sounds, without colors, without movement - only sometimes interrupted by a chattering cumbersome truck, filled with Soviet soldiers, blaring through the streets. And then it was silent again.
I had the feeling that people around me tried to be overlooked - not to be perceived. The only thing they seemed to fear was to be visible - to be discovered. A city that played dead-man.
I was a stranger, whose spaceship had crashed on an unknown planet and so was stranded with no possibilities of ever leaving again. Not only did I seem to have lost my orientation through the impact of the crash, but my memory as well, because I had forgotten who I was and where I came from. There was only one thing I was certain of: that this was an alien world in whose merciless embrace I was now caught. It was like the aftermath of a sloppy end of the world, where the few people that had survived, now continued cautiously to vegetate amongst the ruins, hoping to remain unnoticed by the Eternal Judge.
What I didn't know then was that I had been born shortly after my stupid ancestors had lost the second of the two world-wars that they had caused within the last 30 years – which had turned 1000 years of culture into ashes and annihilated the lives of more than 50 million people
And when I found the photographs of my father, my grandfathers and my uncles all in uniforms of Hitler's army, I started to ask questions.
Unfortunately, I was speaking either in the wrong tongue or they also suffered amnesia, because I never got any answers. But I was a very insistent child and I never gave up asking, despite the fact that it didn't get me anywhere.
And then there was this one miraculous moment when I turned 18, this instance of revelation - suddenly I knew there was a way out: I had to become an artist. And I started to paint. I didn't know much about the art-world and other artists, and I didn't care about styles and techniques. I just began to formulate my old questions now as images, and step by step I developed my own visual language.
And I was not prepared for the avalanche of emotional reactions that my little watercolor-paintings triggered, I was quite surprised to realize that suddenly I seemed to be in possession of a superior magic language, capable of cutting through everything and reaching deep into the hearts of people and moving and touching them. And to my amazement this nation of mutes started to talk, to respond, to shout, to cry and to whisper. And I found myself in a very emotional and powerful dialogue with a growing number of people, that never stopped and became the momentum and destiny of my life.
When I started to paint I didn't feel I had any message, my art was not an answer – it was a question.
By painting my first painting, at the end of 1969, I started an expedition into unknown territory and 30 years later I'm still on this staggering voyage of discovery, and I'm still asking my questions.
Gottfried Helnwein
(page 56)
by Peter Zawrel
Chief Curator, Museum of Lower Austria
Apokalypse, one man show and installation by Gottfried Helnwein at the Dominican Church in Krems
Helnwein's work is perfectly executed proof of the mastery of all the available means to outdo the reality in depiction.
Only in this way was Helnwein able to trigger the shock that he intended, a shock with a possible healing effect whose first target was the repression of the greatest trauma of our century.
The repression of National Socialism, the complicity and its consequences had been declared an official policy in Austria. In this way the generations born after 1945 had no chance to deal with the barbaric, neither with its outbreak a few years earlier nor with its lingering latent presence.
Everything had become harmless again. The revelation occurred only in 1986 when Kurt Waldheim became President of Austria and a "case" that was discussed world-wide. Out of this specifically Austrian situation, Helnwein developed a visual language depicting apocalyptic visions that can be understood all over the world. The beautiful and the ugly, the fear of the terrible and the power of its fascination, the clearly recognisable and that which cannot be interpreted but lurks outside the painting as well as outside the nursery door, and more closely intertwined in these pictures than those of any other living artist.
Helnwein chose the exhibition title Apocalypse not because this is what he paints or because the apocalyptic in the broadest sense of the word is the theme of these paintings. Instead these paintings themselves want to be an apocalypse, a revelation. The biblical text is called "The Book of Revelation". The mysterious is an integral part of any apocalyptic vision. Helnwein's paintings contain a recognisable mystery. That does not mean, however, that they cannot be understood. Quite the opposite is true. At the end of this century a considerable proportion of contemporary art has become unintelligible to most people. Is it not as though the works had become so hermetic that their enigma can only be solved with relevant training and connoisseurship - this has always been the case- but rather because the mysteries have disappeared from art. In this way it had often become harmless.
The enigma of Helnwein's paintings always has to do with guilt and atonement, perpetrators and victims, accusation and remorse. He has never left the Christian world of ideas and images of his childhood, but instead has used it for his own artistic purposes. Nevertheless he has not become a John of painting like the John of the biblical Revelation, who depicted his compelling visions. Instead Helnwein uses his entire oeuvre as a weapon in the apocalypse of this world.
For this alone can be the revelation of his art - that salvation has to occur in reality rather than in art.
(page 62)
"I made a promise to myself to remember everything I saw; if someone should pluck out my eyes, then I would retain the memory of all that I had seen for as long as I lived."
Jerzy Kosinski, The Painted Bird
(page 64)
Epiphany I, (Adoration of the Magi)(X) (1996) depicts a beautiful contemporary Madonna and Child, as Himmler's elite SS officers examine them as though encircling a precious art object or eugenic creation. One officer closely inspects the fingers and genitalia of the Child, while two more appear to check out the Madonna's attributes from the rear. Another handsome young officer stands in nervous awe of her, as though about to deliver some official proclamation on the little Messiah who, if we look closely, is slightly "cross-eyed."
Gottfried Helnwein has collaged his Madonna into what was once a photograph of Hitler surrounded by SS men, taken in the last days in the Berlin bunker before the Russians raped the city. The young officer was one Mr. Wünsche who survived the war, and went on to work in Siemens. When Helnwein showed this work in Germany in 1996, Wünsche's widow demanded that Helnwein remove him from the painting and threatened to sue for defamation, claiming that her late husband was being depicted as a racist. But Helnwein stood firm. "It would have been a very interesting case, and I was ready for it" - but the Wünsche lawyers backed off.
by Mic Moroney, Kilkenny Arts Festival, Ireland, 2001
(page 68)
"Anyone who sees and paints the sky green and pastures blue ought to be sterilized." Adolf Hitler
This single sentence sums up the essence of the totalitarian mindset. The world must adhere to an order of which no variation or independence is acceptable. "Epiphany I", 1996 is from an important series of three paintings created over a three-year period. This seamless stapling of a version of the Adoration of the Magi into a scenario out of the Third Reich is in keeping with Helnwein's desire to press the limits. Helnwein wrote, "In the Epiphany trilogy, I refer directly to my (our) own historical background. The most significant issue on the time track of the occident is Christianity and the male dominated world of conquering and oppression. The constant slaughter of the 'weak': women, children, the Jews, and other ethnic minorities, through holy wars, crusades and the constant extermination of the inferior."
by Robert Flynn Johnson
Curator in charge, Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
Most of the city pictures emerge from a deceptively simple strand of Helnwein's work, the frank photography of children's faces. He photographed over ninety children in Kilkenny. Now these kids are immortalised, larger than life in their extreme youth, and dotted around the gable-ends and walls of their native town; their eyes closed in beautiful, breathless meditation. Mounted in a manner which is normally the preserve of billboard advertising, these are quietly awesome images of the city's youngest inhabitants.
... but who, one wonders, could have a problem with pictures of children; their slumbering faces murmuring telepathically from somewhere far beyond us - even on such a monumental scale? What could be simpler or more inoffensive than a child's face?
However, such images evidently irritated somebody in Köln in 1988, when Gottfried Helnwein himself funded a public art installation - after he failed to raise sponsorship - to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Kristallnacht, November 9th 1938. That was the night that Nazis ran riot across Germany, looting and burning Jewish homes and businesses, and setting alight the touchpaper of the Holocaust.
In the context of the muted, conceptualist Holocaust art-memorials in Germany and Austrian, the City of Köln refused Helnwein permission to exhibit on its property. But Helnwein got his hands on a little strip of land which belonged to the railways, suitably enough.
Facing onto a pedestrian walk-way along a railway bridge, he mounted a long line of four-metre high children's faces, powdered white, many with their eyes closed, after the huge word "SELEKTION" - as though these kids were to be weeded out for concentration camps. Despite CCTV video cameras, somebody - probably a neo-Nazi - came along one night, and painstakingly sliced the throats of every single child-portrait.
by Mic Moroney
Kilkenny Arts Festival, Ireland, 2001
Police is investigating attacks on two images by the controversial Austrian artist, Gottfried Helnwein, displayed as part of the Kilkenny Arts Festival.
A spokesman for the festival said they were "disappointed and saddened" that the images had been attacked. He said Mr.Helnwein's work had provoked a strong reaction throughout the festival. "There have been a lot of positive comments but there has been negative reaction as well."
The images have been a major talking point since before the festival began. A former mayor of the city, Mr.Paul Cuddihy, initially objected to a painting being hung on the City Hall for fear it might be misinterpreted as lending support to Nazism. After meeting Mr.Helnwein at his studio however, Mr.Cuddihy said the artist's work was "astonishingly good".
Kilkenny Arts Festival said the artist had a long and acknowledged record of taking a firm stand against Nazism and fascism.
by Chris Dooley,
The Irish Times, 18. August 2001
(page 69)
Much like Joseph Beuys, who opened new, unexpected, and far-reaching spheres for art, Gottfried Helnwein has made works that extend beyond the art scene into the social and political realm. Like his predecessor, he has moved beyond the realm of pure aesthetics, engaging his art into the everyday world. Furthermore his principal interest is not to express personal feelings and emotions, but to make statements that go beyond the individual. He wants to see his work not trapped on the walls of museums and galleries, but revealed in the public domain. He expects his work to intervene in the social sphere and to have a direct impact on the life of his time.
by Peter Selz
Professor Emeritus, Department of Art History, University of California, Berkeley.
Former Curator at the Museum of Modern Art in New York and founding director of the Berkeley Art Museum.
(page 73)
Black Mirror
A story by Stephen King. An American schoolboy, twelve or thirteen years old, fascinated in his small-town boredom by documents on the German concentration camps - the way his classmates are by Superman - the formula of his fascination: THEY JUST DID THOSE THINGS...
At his daily bus stop, he recognises a face he has seen in photographs, under a black cap with skull insignia and above a black SS uniform. The boy blackmails the unidentified murderer to tell HOW DID YOU DO THOSE THINGS. The murderer tells to save his life. Curiosity becomes the urge for real experience: the two of them found Murder Inc. and rid the small town of dogs, tramps, and other "unworthy life"...
How does a friendly person like Helnwein stand making his - excellent - painting into a mirror of the terrors of this century? Or is it that he can't stand not doing it? Does his mirror just reflect the attitude of the century? TERROR WITHOUT END IS BETTER THAN AN ENDING IN TERROR. It comes from the over-evaluation of death, a consequence of "statistics" making it taboo. Perseus guillotines the Gorgon in the mirror, and when the head falls, it is his own. How many heads does a person/man have in our age of mirrors?
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Can you hear it? The three heavy weight contenders in the rock 'em sock 'em world of video gaming are duking it out in the center ring. And the crowds are going wild!
That's right folks, with the launch of Kinect earlier this month, Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo have found themselves gripped in a three-way prize fight for your motion-controlled gaming hearts and dollars.
Each of these companies has gaming gadgetry to offer you — gadgetry that will read your body movements and translate those movements onto the TV screen and into the game world before you. Nintendo has its Wii and its new MotionPlus-enhanced controller. Sony has its new Move motion control system for the PlayStation 3. And Microsoft is now offering its controller-free gaming device known as Kinect for the Xbox 360.
The question is: Which one of these devices should win a place in your living room this holiday season?
Here's a look at the three devices — their pros, their cons and a few games to consider. May the best device (for you) win.
Xbox price: $200 for 4 GB hard drive version, $300 for 250 GB hard drive version
Kinect Price: $150
Bundle price: $300, $400 — includes Xbox, Kinect sensor and "Kinect Adventures" game
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Pros: If you really want to wow your friends, your family or that person you're buying a gift for this holiday, Kinect is the device for you. It's the newest of the three motion-gaming products and one that lets you control your games, movies and music with hand gestures, body movements and voice commands. You hold no controller in your hand whatsoever.
Controlling your games with your entire body opens up some truly unique, fun and funny gaming experiences. Meanwhile, Kinect will make your Xbox 360 much easier for the younger, more casual or non-gamers in your house to use. They don't have to fumble with an unfamiliar controller, for example, when they want to play a movie with your Xbox. Instead, using voice commands, they can simply say "play," "pause," or "fast-forward."
Cons: Kinect requires more space in your living room than the PlayStation Move and the Wii to function properly (the recommended distance from sensor to player is at least 6 to 8 feet). Meanwhile, Kinect games available so far are largely casual games, fitness games and party games. And, so far, we haven't seen how Kinect's controller-free system might work in a game like, say, "Halo." Only time will tell whether developers and publishers come up with a wider array of Kinect-enabled games. Also, depending on the game, there can be something of a lag at times between your movements in the real world and when they're displayed on the screen or in the game.
Recommended games: "Dance Central," "Your Shape: Fitness Evolved," "EA SPORTS Active 2," "Kinectimals" (Check out our Kinect game reviews here.)
Games to look forward to: "Child of Eden," "Michael Jackson The Experience," "Rise of Nightmares"
PS3 Price: $300 for 160 GB hard drive version,$350 for 320 GB hard drive version
Move Price: $100 for a bundle with a motion controller and PlayStation Eye camera, $30 for a navigation controller
Bundle Price: $400 — includes 320 GB PS3, Move motion controller, PlayStation eye camera and "Sports Champions" game
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Pros: While the Wii has been criticized for having frustratingly innacurate motion controls, the Move motion-control system has quite the opposite reputation, and for good reason. Sony's motion control system combines the PlayStation Eye camera with a wand-like motion-sensing controller (the one with the lighted ball on the end of it) and a navigation controller. With the camera and the motion-controller working together, the system tracks the controller's movements and replicates them on screen with a high degree of accuracy.
Meanwhile, unlike Microsoft's Kinect, Move has already shown that it's not only a great device for casual gamers but can also play nicely with hardcore gamers as well. I've given the forthcoming game "Killzone 3" an advance test drive using Move controls and they both made sense in the context of the gameplay and worked superbly. What that means is, Move is a winner for everyone in the household.
Cons: Sony has been accused of playing copy cat. After all, the Move's wand-shaped motion controller and navigation controller do look an awful lot like the Wii's controllers. And it's true, Sony is certainly following more closely in Nintendo's footsteps than Microsoft is. That being the case, Move may suffer from something of a Johnny Come Lately reputation. What that means is, Move just ain't as innovative-seeming or awe-inspiring as, say, Kinect. But you have to ask yourself: Is that what you're really looking for?
Recommended Games: "The Shoot," "EyePet,""Heavy Rain: Move Edition"
Games to look forward to: "LittleBigPlanet 2," "Sorcery,""Killzone 3"
Wii Price: (sold in bundle only) $200 — includes Wii, Wii Remote Plus and Nunchuk controller with two games: "Wii Sports" and "Wii Sports Resort" or "New Super Mario Bros. Wii" and "Wii Sports"
MotionPlus Price: $20 for a MotionPlus add-on to a standard controller, $40 for a Wii Remote Plus controller with built-in MotionPlus
See this site for more details
Pros: Show some respect. Nintendo's Wii game machine brought this whole motion-controlled gaming craze to the masses in the first place. When the console launched in 2006 with its motion-sensing controllers, many people were skeptical (some even scoffed). And yet, the Wii has turned out to be one of the best things to happen to gaming, driving sales through tough economic times and pulling in people who would have never otherwise played video games.
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Cons: The Wii is an aging console and it's had something of a "waggle" problem. That is, the Wii has taken a lot of heat thanks to the fact that its standard Remote controller isn't the most accurate device in the world. You can swing that thing and, really, who knows how that movement might be translated on screen. But like I said, the MotionPlus device has helped correct this issue.
More importantly, the Wii has struggled with a reputation for being home to far too many truly lame motion-controlled games: too many party games or half-assed kids games. And Nintendo has weathered no small bit of anger from core gamers who have felt like the Wii doesn't have enough to offer them. Microsoft would be wise to make sure it doesn't make some of these same mistakes with Kinect.
Recommended Games: " Wii Sports Resort," "Red Steel 2," "Tiger Woods PGA Tour 11," "FlingSmash" (which comes bundled with a Wii MotionPlus controller)
Games to look forward to: "The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword," "Conduit 2"
For a list of great holiday gaming buys, check out this roundup from our partners at Kotaku.com.
For more video game gift ideas, be sure to read:
Five great PS3 games for the holidays
Five great Xbox 360 games for the holidays
Five great Wii games for the holidays
Kinect's five most ridiculous moments
Kinect games will wow you ... mostly
No poop to scoop when your kid's first pet is digital
Winda Benedetti writes the Citizen Gamer column for msnbc.com. You can follow her tweets about games and other things right here on Twitter.
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MONTICELLO - Sullivan County property owners who received a foreclosure notice in October have until Jan. 31 to pay their taxes, Treasurer Ira Cohen announced.
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Takeaways from Patriots' offseason workouts – Ben Volin: Volin has his thoughts on what transpired this week, with some terrific observations and thoughts in this piece.
Darrelle Revis happy to be on Bill Belichick's side now – Rob Harms: Harms has an article on Revis, who likes being on this side of things now that he's a New England Patriots.
Alfonzo Dennard recovering from shoulder surgery – Ben Volin: Volin reports that Dennard is recovering from offseason shoulder surgery and won't be back on the field until at least training camp.
Bill Belichick, Rex Ryan, Nick Saban gang up on Mike Pettine's stolen playbook allegations – Jeff Howe: Howe has an article with the overall reaction following some comments in Cleveland by coach Mike Pettine on the fact he felt the Patriots may have been in possession of some of the Jets defensive playbooks.
Darrelle Revis says "sky's the limit" for Patriots secondary – Karen Guregian: Guregian has an article on Revis, who believes this team has potential, and this also includes additional comments from him.
Patriots Notebook: Rookie Dominique Easley goes all out – Jeff Howe: Howe files his notebook this morning, which leads off with Easley's return to the field yesterday.
Momentum builders in offseason camps – Mike Reiss: Reiss has a list of players he believes built some momentum during this week's minicamp.
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Patriots waive receiver Dunn – Mike Reiss: Reiss has a quick note on the release of Dunn, who was waived on Thursday.
Revis calls Belichick a 'player' coach – Mike Reiss: Reiss has quotes from Revis, who has a different perspective of things when it comes to Belichick now that he's a Patriot.
Vince Wilfork focused on future – Mike Reiss: Reiss has an article on Wilfork, who never had any doubt he'd back after suffering his injury last season.
Top pick Easley takes field for first time – Mike Reiss: Reiss has a brief practice rundown from Thursday, and notes that Easley took part in drills for the first time this offseason.
5 picked up pieces from the end of Patriots' minicamp – Christopher Price: Price has some good notes and observations from minicamp in this entry.
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A Debacle That Could Have Been Avoided
Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America's Vietnam
On September 3 of this year, an alarming headline ran across six columns of the "World" section of The Times of London: "US Suspends Police Training After Big Rise in Green-on-Blue Attacks." The dateline was Afghanistan and the peg was that forty-five coalition troops had been killed by Afghan soldiers and police already this year, compared with thirty-five for all of 2011. The number has since risen to fifty-one and joint US–Afghan patrols have been canceled.
I remembered American soldiers in Vietnam wishing that either the Vietcong or Hanoi's regulars were on their side rather than the Army of the Republic of [South] Vietnam (ARVN). They were notorious for knowing about upcoming ambushes and melting away just before they were sprung, or standing back on sentry duty to allow enemy soldiers to infiltrate American camps where they caused havoc before disappearing into the night. Already in 1954, early in the Eisenhower administration, Walter Robertson, the hard-line assistant secretary of state for Far Eastern affairs, admitted to C.L. Sulzberger of The New York Times, "If only Ho Chi Minh were on our side we could do something about the situation. But unfortunately he is the enemy."
From the early 1960s, American soldiers in Vietnam knew the truth about the situation in which over 58,000 of them were to die. Apart from a few who deserted or shot themselves badly enough to be invalided home, they had little choice. As Fredrik Logevall's book Embers of War makes admirably clear, the choices were made by American presidents from Truman to Nixon who knew that Washington had determined, often for domestic American reasons, to back a corrupt and incompetent Vietnamese side, after having paid most of the bills for the French until their collapse in the mid-1950s. By that time, most Vietnamese despised the French.
In 1963, now no longer president, Dwight Eisenhower would write:
I have never talked or corresponded with a person knowledgeable in Indochinese affairs, who did not agree that had an election been held as of the time of the fighting, possibly 80 percent of the population would have voted for the Communist Ho Chi Minh as their leader rather than [the French- appointed ex-emperor] Chief of State Bao Dai.
Since it was Eisenhower and his secretary of state, John Foster Dulles, who ensured that no free elections took place in Vietnam, they bear a heavy responsibility for the American deaths, and for the millions of Vietnamese who died in the American–Vietnamese war before it ended.
Fredrik Logevall teaches history at Cornell and his earlier book, Choosing War: The Lost Chance for Peace and the Escalation of War in Vietnam,1 showed him to be a considerable authority on Vietnam. Now…
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Behavioral Health
Almeida J, Subramanian SV, Kawachi I, Molnar BE. Is blood thicker than water? Social support, depression and the modifying role of ethnicity/nativity status. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health 2011; Vol. 65: 51-56.
Meléndez, M., Cortés, D.E., and Amaro, H. (2012). Acceptability and cultural fit of Spiritual Self-Schema Therapy for Puerto Rican women with addiction disorders: Qualitative Findings. Women and Therapy, 35, 106-119.
Osypuk, T.L., Schmidt, N.M., Bates, L.M., Tchetgen Tchetgen, E.J., Earls, F.J., & Glymour, M.M. (2012). Gender and crime victimization modify neighborhood effects on mental health. Pediatrics, 130(3), 472-481.
Osypuk, T.L., Tchetgen Tchetgen, E., Acevedo-Garcia, D., Earls, F.J., Lincoln, A., Schmidt, N.M., & Glymour, M.M. (2012). Differential mental health effects of neighborhood relocation among youth in vulnerable families: Results from a randomized trial. JAMA Psychiatry (formerly known as Archives of General Psychiatry), 69(12), 1284-1294.
Schmidt, N.M., Tchetgen Tchetgen, E., Ehntholt, A., Almeida, J., Nguyen, Q.C., Molnar, B., Azrael, D., & Osypuk, T.L. (in press, 2014). Does neighborhood social capital change over time? The Boston Neighborhood Survey. Journal of Community Psychology, 42(1), 61-79.
Nguyen, Q.C., Schmidt, N.M., Glymour, M.M., Rehkopf, D., & Ospyuk, T.L. (in press). Were the mental health benefits of a housing mobility intervention larger for adolescents in higher socioeconomic status families? Health & Place. Available online 24 May 2013, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.healthplace.2013.05.002
Lizotte, A.J., Phillips, M.D., Krohn, M.D., Thornberry, T.P., Bushway, S.D., & Schmidt, N.M. (2013). Like parent like child? Parental trajectories of offending as predictors of children's antisocial behavior. Justice Quarterly. Available online 13 March 2013, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07418825.2013.771206.
Healthcare and Payment Reform
Auerbach, John. "Lessons From the Front Line: The Massachusetts Experience of the Role of Public Health in Health Care Reform." Journal of Public Health Management and Practice (2013).
Auerbach, J., D. I. Chang, J. Hester, and S. Magnan. 2013. Opportunity knocks: Population health in State Innovation Models. Discussion Paper, Institute of Medicine, Washington, DC.
Madison, K. Donabedian's Legacy: The Future of Health Care Quality Law & Policy, 10 Ind. Health L. Rev. 325 (2013).
Madison, K. From HCQIA to the ACA: The Evolution of Reporting as a Quality Improvement Tool, 33 J. Legal Med. 63 (2012).
Madison, K., Schmidt, H. & Volpp, K. G. Smoking, Obesity, Health Insurance, and Health Incentives in the Affordable Care Act, 310 JAMA 143 (2013).
Madison, K., Volpp, K. G. & Halpern, S. D., The Law, Policy, and Ethics of Employers' Use of Financial Incentives to Improve Health, 39 J.L. Med. & Ethics 450 (2011).
Montgomery, A., Todorova, I. Adriana Baban, A. & Panagopoulou, E. (In Press) Improving quality and safety in the hospital: The link between organizational culture, burnout, and quality of care. Special Series of the British Journal of Health Psychology.
Siddiqi A, Ornelas IJ, Quinn K, Zuberi, D, Nguyen, QC. (In press) Societal Context and the Production of Immigrant Status Based Health Inequalities: A Comparative Study of the United States and Canada. Journal of Public Health Policy.
Todorova, I., Alexandrova-Karamanova, A., Panayotova, Y., Mimitravoa, E. (Published on-line first). Organizational hierarchies in Bulgarian hospitals and perceptions of justice. Special Series of the British Journal of Health Psychology.
Todorova, I., Tucker, K.L., Jimenez, M. P., Lincoln, A. K., Arevalo, S., Falcon, L. M. (Published on-line first). Determinants of self-rated health and the role of acculturation: Implications for health inequalities. Ethnicity and Health.
HIV and STIs
Jones, R. (2012). Handheld computers to run ACASI to assess HIV risk and deliver tailored soap opera video feedback: Acceptability among young adult urban women. DOI: 10.1016/j.jana.2011.04.001 Journal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care, 23 (3).260-267
Jones, Rachel, Donald R. Hoover, and Lorraine J. Lacroix. "A randomized controlled trial of soap opera videos streamed to smartphones to reduce risk of sexually transmitted human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) in young urban African American women." Nursing outlook (2013).
Jones, R. & Lacroix, L.J. (2012). Streaming weekly soap opera video episodes to smartphones in a randomization controled trial to reduce HIV Risk in Young Urban African American/Black Women. AIDS and Behavior. 16; 1341 – 1358.
Obesity/Chronic Disease Prevention
Agrawal T, Hoffman J, Ahl M, Bhaumik U, Healey C, Carter S, Joyce D, Dickerson D, Nethersole S, Castaneda-Sceppa C. Collaborating for impact: Partnership and programming model of a multi-level early childhood obesity prevention initiative. Journal of Family and Community Health 2012;35(3):192–202.
Binder EF, He J, Bhasin S, Castaneda-Sceppa C, Schroeder ET, Roubenoff R, Yarasheski KE, Azen SP, Sattler, FR. Effects of Testosterone with and without Growth Hormone Supplementation on Bone Markers and Bone Mineral Density in Healthy Older Men.Osteoporosis International: in review.
Castaneda-Sceppa C, Hoffman JA, Thomas J, DuBois M, Agrawal T, Griffin D, Bhaumik U, Healey CL, Dickerson D, Nethersole S, Wirth C. Open Gym: A Model for Community-Academia Partnership to Promote Physical Activity among Families with Young Children. Journal of Family and Community Health: in review.
Cortés, D.E., Millán-Ferro, A., Schneider, K., Vega, R.R., and Caballero, A.E. (2013). Improving food purchasing selection among low-income, Spanish-speaking Latinos. American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 44(3S3), S267-S273.
Dimitrova, E., Panayotova, Y., Anna Alexandrova-Karamanova, Todorova, I. (In press) Doctors' and parents' perspectives on communication regarding HPV vaccination in Bulgaria. Chapter in: Health, Culture and the Human Body: Epidemiology, ethics and history of medicine, perspectives from Turkey and Central Europe
He J, Bhasin S, Binder EF, Yarasheski KE, Castaneda-Sceppa C, Schroeder ET, Roubenoff R, Chou C-P, Azen SP, Sattler FR. Cardiometabolic Risks During Anabolic Hormone Supplementation in Older Men. Obesity 2012; doi: 10.1002/oby.20081.
Hoffman J, Agrawal T, Carter S, Grinder A, Castaneda-Sceppa C. Cultural/Favorite Recipe Day: Strengthening Approaches to Increase Culturally Diverse Foods Served in Head Start Meals. NHSA Dialog 2012;15(3):266–271.
Hoffman JA, Agrawal T, Thompson D, Ferguson T, Grinder AM, Carter S, Healey C, Bhaumik U,Castaneda-Sceppa C. Increasing Culturally Diverse Foods in Head Start Meals Using a Collaborative Approach: Lessons Learned for School Food Service Modifications. NHSA Dialog 2012; 15(3):246–259.
Hoffman J, Agrawal R, Wirth C, Watts C, Adeduntun G, Myles L, Castaneda-Sceppa C. Farm to Family: Increasing Access to Affordable Fruits and Vegetables among Head Start Families. Journal of Hunger and Environmental Nutrition 2012; 7:165-177.
Munshi, M., Segal, A., Suhl, E., Ryan, C., Sternthal, A., Giusti, J., Lee, Y., Fitzgerald, S., Staum, E., Bonsignor, P., Desrochers, L., McCartney, R., Weigner, K. Assessment of Barriers to Improve Diabetes Management in Older Adults: A randomized controlled study. Diabetes Care, 2013; 36(3): 543-9. doi: 10.2337/dc12-1303
Todorova I, Tejada S, Castaneda-Sceppa C. "Let's Stretch Life a Bit": Perspectives of Puerto Rican Adults about Heart Health and a Community Based Intervention. American Journal of Health Education: in review.
Van Rompay MI, McKeown NM, Castaneda-Sceppa C, Carbohydrate Nutrition, Dyslipidemia, and Type 2 Diabetes in Puerto Rican Adults in Massachusetts. Journal of Nutrition: in press.
Van Rompay MI, McKeown NM, Castaneda-Sceppa C, Falcon, LM, Ordovas, JM, & Tucker, KL. Acculturation and sociocultural influences on dietary intake and health status among Puerto Rican adults in Massachusetts. Journal of the American Dietetic Association 2012;112:64-74.
Violence Prevention
Borges G, Azrael D, Almeida J, Johnson RM, Molnar BE, Hemenway D, Miller MJ. Immigration, suicide ideation and deliberate self-injury in the Boston Youth Survey. Suicide and Life Threatening Behavior 2011; Vol. 41(2): 193-202
Duncan DT, Piras G, Dunn EC, Johnson RM, Melly SJ, Molnar BE. The built environment and depressive symptoms among urban youth: A spatial regression study. Spatial and Spatio-temporal Epidemiology (in press).
Dunn EC, Gilman SE, Willett JB, Slopen NB, Molnar BE. The impact of exposure to interpersonal violence on gender differences in adolescent-onset major depression: Results from the National Comorbidity Survey Replication (NCS-R). Depression and Anxiety 2012; Vol. 29: 392-399.
Green JG, Dunn EC, Johnson RM, Molnar BE. A multilevel investigation of the association between school context and adolescent non-physical bullying. Journal of School Violence 2011; Vol. 10(2): 133-149.
Hepburn L, Azrael D, Molnar BE, Miller M. Bullying and suicidal behaviors among urban high school youth. Journal of Adolescent Health 2012; Vol. 51: 93-95.
Jain S, Buka SL, Subramanian SV, Molnar BE. Neighborhood predictors of dating violence victimization and perpetration in young adulthood: A multi-level study. American Journal of Public Health 2010; Vol. 100(9): 1737-1744.
Jain S, Buka SL, Subramanian SV, Molnar BE. Protective factors for youth exposed to violence: Role of developmental assets for building emotional resilience. Youth Violence and Juvenile Justice 2012; Vol. 10(1): 107-129.
Lopes, G., Krohn, M.D., Lizotte, A.J., Schmidt, N.M., Vásquez, B.E., & Bernburg, J.G. (2012). Labeling and cumulative disadvantage: The impact of official intervention on life chances and crime in emerging adulthood. Crime & Delinquency, 58(3), 456-488.
Molnar BE, Scaramella G. Making the Link: Rape Crisis Centers and the Impact on Adolescent Health Outcomes: A Research Report (2013). Prepared for the Massachusetts Executive Office of Public Safety and the Boston Area Rape Crisis Center.
Molnar BE, Winning A, Scott D. Building and Improving Child Protection Systems: A Resource Guide for Child Maltreatment Data Collection, Part II (2012). Report prepared for the International Society for the Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect (ISPCAN).
Nguyen QC, Villaveces A, Marshall SW, Hussey JM, Carolyn CT, Poole C. (2012). Adolescent Expectations of Early Death Predict Adult Risk Behaviors. PLOS ONE.
Nguyen QC, Hussey JM, Carolyn CT, Villaveces A, Marshall SW, Siddiqi A, Poole C (2012). Adolescent Expectations of Early Death Predict Socioeconomic Status. Social Science & Medicine, May; 74(9): 1452-1460.
Pabayo R, Kawachi I, Molnar BE. Witnessing a violent death and smoking, alcohol consumption, and marijuana use among adolescents. Journal of Urban Health (in press).
Rothman E, Johnson RM, Young R, Weinberg J, Azrael D, Molnar BE. Neighborhood factors predict physical teen dating violence perpetration: Results from a representative survey of Boston public high school-attending youth. Journal of Urban Health 2011; Vol. 88(2): 201-213.
Schmidt, N.M., Lopes, G., Krohn, M.D., & Lizotte, A.J. (2014). Getting caught and getting hitched: An assessment of the relationship between police intervention, life chances, and romantic unions. Justice Quarterly, Published online 03 January 2014, DOI: 10.1080/07418825.2013.865777.
Schmidt NM, Tchetgen EJ, Ehntholt A, Almeida J, Nguyen QC, Molnar BE, Azrael D, Osypuk TL. Does neighborhood collective efficacy for families change over time? The Boston Neighborhood Survey. Journal of Community Psychology (in press).
Additional Topics
Candilis, P. J., Lidz, C. W., Appelbaum, P. S., Arnold, R. M., Gardner, W. P., Myers, S., … & Simon, L. J. (2012). The silent majority: Who speaks at IRB meetings. IRB, 34(4).
Cortés, D.E., Réategui-Sharpe, L. Spiro, A., and García, R.I. (2012). Factors affecting children's oral health: Perceptions among Latino parents. Journal of Public Health Dentistry, 72(1), 82-89.
Felsen CB, Shaw EK, Ferrante JM, Lacroix LJ, Crabtree BF. Strategies for in-person recruitment: lessons learned from a New Jersey Family Medicine Research Network (NJFMRN) study. Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine. 2010. 23(4); 523-33
Joffe Falmagne, R., Iselin, M.G., Todorova, I. and Arner, J. (In Press) Reasoning and Personal Epistemology: A critical reconstruction. Theory and Psychology
Lidz, C. W., Appelbaum, P. S., Arnold, R., Candilis, P., Gardner, W., Myers, S., & Simon, L. (2012). How Closely Do Institutional Review Boards Follow the Common Rule?. Academic Medicine, 87(7), 969-974.
Lidz, C. W., Simon, L. J., Seligowski, A. V., Myers, S., Gardner, W., Candilis, P. J., … & Appelbaum, P. S. (2012). The participation of community members on medical institutional review boards. Journal of empirical research on human research ethics: JERHRE, 7(1), 1.
Schmidt, N.M., Lincoln, A., Nguyen, Q.C., Acevedo-Garcia, D., & Osypuk, T.L. (in press). Examining mediators of housing mobility on adolescent asthma: Results from a Housing Voucher Experiment. Social Science & Medicine.
Schroeder ET, He J, Yarasheski KE, Binder EF, Castaneda-Sceppa C, Bhasin S, Dieli-Conwright C, Kawakubo M, Roubenoff R, Azen SP, Sattler FR. Value of measuring muscle performance to assess changes in lean mass with testosterone and growth hormone supplementation. European Journal of Applied Physiology 2012;112(3):1123–1131.
Todorova, I., Suarez-Orozco, C., & Singh, S. (2012) Evolving narratives of immigrant Latino youth, In: Nagata, D., Kohn-Wood, L., Suzuki, L. (Eds) Qualitative Strategies for Ethnocultural Research. American Psyhcological Association Press
Warren, L.E., Medlinger, S., Corso, K.A., & Greenberg, C.C. (2012). A Model of Knowledge Acquisition in Early Stage Breast Cancer Patients. The Breast Journal, 18(1), 69-72.


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TUPELO – After more than two weeks of uncertainty, the Microtel Inn & Suites has reopened with a new owner and staff.
The hotel closed on Friday, the second time in a little more than two weeks.
No explanation was given, but the earlier closure was due to the hotel not paying its electric bill.
The hotel has been given a lifeline by Bruce Patel, who confirmed Tuesday he bought the hotel from former owner David Graham.
Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
Patel, who owns several hotels, including the Comfort Suites, Howard Johnson and the soon-to-open Best Western Plus in Tupelo, said he's hired a new staff to run the Microtel.
Other changes are on the way as well.
"We're going to overhaul the entire property," he said. "We're putting in an elevator and making other improvements to bring it into the 21st century."
The hotel was built in 1997, Patel said, and is in desperate need of an update.
Patel said he plans to begin major renovations in about six weeks, and the work that will close the hotel for about three months.
"When it reopens, you won't recognize the place," he said.
It will remain a Microtel, he added.


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I'm still crawling out of my vacation cocoon, so I've been thinking all day about which aspects of the incredible Eastern and Western Conference Finals series that I most wanted to talk about today. Right off the bat, there was last night's incredible finish in San Antonio, as the Oklahoma City Thunder barely held off the Spurs in what was one of the most amazing and intense 3-minute stretches in recent memory.
Or we could discuss LeBron James and his whole "I don't foul out" attitude as people heaped blame on him and Dwyane Wade for the Boston Celtics tying their series at 2 each with the Miami Heat the other night.
But I'd rather talk about my favorite thing about the entire playoffs so far – Rajon Rondo. Normally, I'm not much of a Rondo fan, because he seems like a dick. And from what I can tell from interviews and highlights, he is definitely a dick. Without that dick, though, the Celtics are already done and the Heat have their feet up, waiting for the Thunder and Spurs to kill each other.
So instead of going back and recapping everything that has happened, I just wanted to pay a little respect to Rondo with my favorite highlights of him through this ECF thus far, because he's the only reason this series has been so entertaining.
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Live review: Barbra Streisand stunning at the Bowl
November 10th, 2012, 1:30 pm by BEN WENER, THE ORANGE COUNTY REGISTERHigh on the list of Barbra Streisand's signature characteristics – singular vocalist, screen icon, Democrat activist, funny girl – is a trait that has been the Achilles' heel of many an aging legend: consummate perfectionist. She's the sort of micromanaging star, so driven by details, that wouldn't think twice about telling a 60 Minutes crew what lighting and camera angles best capture her, as she did during a famously combative 1991 interview with Mike Wallace.
Such fierce determination, so accepted from men but not always so from women, has long been Streisand's prime motivator; that plus virtuosic talent is what has set her apart from the moment she arrived on Broadway in 1962. It's also what has ensured that her late-career touring productions – starting in 1994 (her first outing in 27 years) and followed by "farewell" arena runs in the '00s and her just-ending American crisscrossing – have all been as immaculate as her studio recordings and directorial efforts.
So, no matter how finger-numbing chilly it got Friday night, it was still marvelously refreshing to witness Streisand not only in full command of her instrument but also out of her element, braving frosty air and gripping winds at the Hollywood Bowl.
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GW Women's Basketball Participates in Title IX Anniversary Event
Players, Coaches Celebrate 40th Anniversary of Landmark Legislation at Department of Interior
June 22, 2012
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WASHINGTON - Members of the George Washington women's basketball team celebrated the 40th anniversary of Title IX - the first comprehensive federal law to prohibit sex discrimination in schools - Thursday evening by playing pickup basketball at the U.S. Department of Interior with U.S. government officials and other student-athletes from area high schools and colleges.
Title IX, a portion of the Education Amendments of 1972, states that "No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity." One of its greatest impacts of was its requirement of equal treatment and opportunity for women in high school and collegiate athletics.
Title IX became law on June 23, 1972. To commemorate the 40th anniversary of the landmark legislation, Secretary of Education Arne Duncan invited female basketball players from local high schools and colleges for an evening of pickup basketball.
"This is one of the unbelievable triumphs in the Civil Rights era and for educational equity," Secretary Duncan said before the event. "That small, small, small change in the law has had this absolutely profound impact on young women - and young men - across the country. To see young girls playing high school sports now 10 times as much, six times as many young women playing at the collegiate level - it's just absolutely staggering the progress we've made."
GW rising senior guard Megan Nipe and graduate student forwards Tara Booker and Brooke Wilson joined women's basketball student-athletes from Georgetown and Howard universities, as well as Woodrow Wilson and Calvin Coolidge high schools.
Also in attendance were U.S. government officials, including Secretary of Interior Ken Salazar, Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius and Assistant Secretary of Civil Rights Russlyn Ali, as well as Kaya Henderson, the chancellor of D.C. Public Schools; Tina Chen, the executive director of the President's Council for Women and Girls in Sports; Gene Sperling, the director of the National Economic Council whose father tried and won one of the first constitutional cases for the right of a girl to play on a boys' team; and Chamique Holdsclaw, a four-time All-American at Tennessee and a former Washington Mystic.
"This is a great opportunity to bring together a lot of different people who have really benefitted from Title IX," said GW head coach Jonathan Tsipis. "It's a sense of pride; I come from a family where my mom played basketball and didn't have the option of Title IX, but then the next generation, my sister was able to go to college to play because of it. It's just a special situation being here in our nation's capital to be able to be a part of this celebration."
The participants were divided into five teams and played a series of four-minute half-court games. When one player scored, he or she subbed out to give everyone a chance to play.
"This was a great event," Booker said. "It really gave an opportunity for a lot of different generations of women to come together and celebrate 40 years of equality."
"It was an awesome event for GW to be a part of," said assistant coach Megan Duffy, who served as the referee. "We were thrilled to be invited to be around our nation's leaders, past athletes, current athletes who have been affected by Title IX."
After the event, the players and coaches took time to reflect on how their lives have been impacted by Title IX.
"Title IX affected me in so many ways," said Duffy, a former Notre Dame standout. "Just the opportunity to go to school on a full athletic and academic scholarship was tremendous, and the opportunity to play after college, to play professionally - no way if Title IX wasn't passed 40 years ago would I be sitting here today."
Booker echoed her coach's sentiments. "Without Title IX, I wouldn't be here in D.C. playing basketball, the sport that I love, and going to a great college," she said.
"Title IX means an opportunity for success," Wilson added.
"I think that with people my age, we didn't have to experience the struggles pre-Title IX, what they went through in order to achieve this goal," Nipe said. "But we definitely know that we would not have the opportunities that we have or be where we are if Title IX didn't exist."


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The Fox Metro Water Reclamation District has been selected to receive a Silver Peak Performance Award.
The Peak Performance Awards program, presented by the National Association of Clean Water Agencies, recognizes public wastewater treatment facilities for their outstanding compliance records in the 2013 calendar year, states a news release.Ā
The association recognized 450 Peak Performance Award facilities during the association's 2014 Summer Conference and 44th annual meeting that took place July 13 through July 16, in Portland, Oregon.Ā
The Fox Metro Water Reclamation District is located on Route 31 in Oswego, and serves a population of almost 300,000 in the communities of Aurora, North Aurora, Oswego, Montgomery, Sugar Grove and parts of Batavia and Yorkville.
In the release, Ken Kirk, NACWA's executive director said: "The Fox Metro Water Reclamation District is an outstanding example of environmental efforts. NACWA is honored to showcase the achievements of the Fox Metro WRD and our nation's public wastewater utilities through the Peak Performance Awards Program."
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After what happened earlier in the week, with tough-luck losses in Milwaukee, Cleveland and Chicago, Utah Jazz fans might not have been able to handle another late-game heartbreaker.
Luckily, that didn't happen.
Then again, that was about the only merciful thing that happened Saturday night.
If there's one bright side to Utah's ugly and lackluster 113-84 dud against the New York Knicks at Madison Square Garden, it's that the Jazz didn't squeeze their loyal supporters through an emotional ringer at the end of the game.
Unlike those first three setbacks in this road trip from L-L-L-L, however, the Jazz didn't blow another late-game lead.
This one was over before the halftime performers even warmed up.
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- McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
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1961 chorus seated in chairs in front of the stage in the auditorium attached to Edmunds where Burlington High School was held. Photo #8.
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