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Better play this quarter, gotta keep it up.
Better play this quarter, gotta keep it up.
Give the ball the Delmar and Lowry. Anyone catch that awesome yet effortless after whistle dunk? Dam.
DeMar is a BEAST
i dont think i have ever seen Andrea get up that high
i gotta give props to the raps for trying their best to get bargs into this game
It's costing them the game
Yeah you can't deny it. If he could nail some of them...
Tie the game, give up 7-0 run. Ugh.
Holy sh!t. This game is pissing me off. No rhythm at all
Feel like I'm watching last years raps. Gay=JJ tonight
Why is Andrea struggling with the one thing his known for! I just don't get it. His suppose to hit these shots in his sleep. His confidence has taken a huge hit. This might be the last contract he in the NBA.
Andrea with an offensive board!!! #Andreaforprez
Wow Ross shot is SO bad
Casey what IS this rotation right now??
Is this what the d-league looks like?
It has, his shots looked forced and he is hesitating on some them
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Cool Aid: Beating the Heat With Working Horses
- Jul 1, 1999
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Anyone who has worked or played in high heat knows how exhausting it can be. High, fluid-sapping desert heat can drain you in no time as you sweat away volumes of fluids and electrolytes. Then there's the suppressive, sweaty, heat-and-humidity combination where the air is so heavy you practically swim through it. Given how lethargic, uncomfortable, and sometimes a little ill we humans can feel in high heat when we only need to cool our relatively limited muscle mass, imagine how carrying around a 1,000 pounds of steaming muscle and body heat and hair coat feels to our equine partners.
Washing horses with cold water is an effective, safe say to cool the horse during hot weather or after competition.
Races and heats and rounds and shows are held in all kinds of weather, and if we want our horses to do their best while competing in the heat, then we have to do our best to condition and acclimate them to withstand high temperatures.
Spring Into Summer
As cool weather gradually gives way to hot weather, most horses acclimate naturally with little problem. Acclimation is more difficult, however, when temperatures change suddenly, such as when traveling from cooler to hotter climes. The abrupt change can stress body systems not used to the heat.
There is little one can do when spring temperatures spike 60 degrees in a 24-hour period. Reports Bruce Saunders, a veteran Standardbred trainer at The Meadowlands racetrack in New Jersey, "We don't train any horses on a day that goes from 30 degrees to 90 degrees, and we give the horses two or three days to get acclimated to the change. We'll back off on the exercise levels, get the work done before the heat and humidity come in, make sure they have plenty of cool water and their fluids stay up, and just use good common sense to not stress them out."
Those who ship their horses, especially performance horses, from temperate to hot climates can prepare their horses in advance for the new environment. Shelley Bridges, an endurance competitor/trainer with Trinity Training Barn, Aubry, Texas, used to live in California before moving to steamy Texas. She says, "When going from a cooler climate to compete in hotter weather, I'd train my horses about two weeks ahead of time with a light summer blanket on to make them get hotter and help their bodies change to the sweating conditions of the heat. Initially, I'd shorten their work periods, then work up as the horses got used to the heat. I also increased their electrolytes to accustom them to start drinking more before they left."
Upon arriving in the hotter area, Bridges would add fluids to the horse's feed—a half-gallon of water to the grain or a beet pulp mixture—to keep more fluids in the gut.
One also can arrive early at competition and allow the horse to acclimate naturally, says Catherine Kohn, VMD, Professor of Veterinary Clinical Sciences, The Ohio State University, and a researcher who participated in the 1996 Olympic studies on the effects of heat on horses. "We recommend they arrive about three weeks ahead of time: One week to get over the transport and a couple of weeks to acclimate to the heat." Kohn notes, "This assumes long transport—12 hours by road or plane; acclimation is not necessary for a three-hour trip. Also, this recommendation assumes top level competition in very hot weather."
Summer Savvy
But even acclimated horses can suffer from heat stress and heat stroke if pushed too hard. Fortunately, a handler can reduce the risk through conditioning and careful management.
A fit horse in good health and condition is better able to withstand the stress of heat. Conditioning builds the circulatory and respiratory systems so the horse can cope with the additional stresses of heat during exercise.
"Conditioning changes the horse's ability to utilize oxygen and blood flow in the muscles," explains Ann Swinker, PhD (physiology), Extension Horse Specialist, Colorado State University.
Adds Saunders, "Good conditioning is crucial. It takes a long time to get a horse finely turned and properly conditioned. But once they get like that, they have the capability to handle more stress both physically and mentally. You can gradually get them conditioned to where they're comfortable in handling the stress of the work level and the severe temperature levels."
In conditioning a horse, Bridges suggests you work slowly and consistently. "Slowly work them in the heat to get them used to it. Start out just walking them for four or five days, depending on the heat and the condition of the horse. For some backyard horses, walking a half hour in the heat is a really good work-out!"
Interval training--which is gradually increasing work/rest/work segments at the trot and canter--is considered a good way to increase fitness and conditioning.
Kohn cautions, "How hard you train the horse depends on what you're trying to do with it and how fit it is. You definitely want to work up the horse's fitness slowly if you're asking him to become both fit and heat-acclimated at the same time."
Adapt And Adjust
While exercise and work-outs can be maintained during periods of high heat, one might have to alter the time and intensity of the work program and keep a watchful eye on the horse to make sure that it's not overheating.
In the cool of the morning. Kohn says researchers found that in hot, humid areas, the best time to work a horse is early in the morning. "Unless you're in a desert situation, in most places the humidity is very high in the early morning and the temperature is lower. When the sun comes up, the humidity goes down and the temperature goes up. We found that horses handled high humidity with lower temperatures better."
Solar radiation and the effects of the sun beating down on horse and rider are less intense in the morning, as well.
"Horses can't take the continual stress of working out in the heat every day," says Saunders. During the winter, Saunders gets out on the track around 7:30 a.m., but when a summer forecast calls for hot, humid conditions, Saunders begins working the horses at 5:30-6:00 a.m., with all the serious work completed by 8:30 a.m.
Another choice, particularly for horses which have to compete during the heat of the day, says Swinker, is to alternate work-outs so the horse is worked during the morning on one day, then in the heat on another day. "See how the horse responds to working in the heat of the day," she says, "then gradually increase the amount of time working in the heat."
Cut back. Kohn's study also found that it's important to decrease the amount or intensity of work the horse does during hot, humid weather, as a shorter work-out in high heat and humidity is the stress equivalent of a longer work-out under gentler conditions. This is why the distance and efforts on the roads and tracks phases of the 1996 Olympics courses were reduced by 30%. "One needs to realize that asking a horse to go just as far and just as fast in the heat of the day may be asking a lot if it's a hot, humid day," Kohn says.
Bridges says that on extremely hot days, she opts to reduce the pace of the work-out. "My horses usually get out on two 10-mile rides and one 20-mile ride a week," she says. "In the heat, we go the same distance, but we'll go slower and take longer." Ditto for actual races. "A 50-mile endurance race in the winter could take four hours; that same race in the summer could take six."
Kohn says it's helpful to plan rest pauses in the work-out to help facilitate heat dissipation.
Warm-up and cool-down.Although it might be tempting to skip warming up a horse when the weather is hot, the horse's muscles still need to be stretched and warmed before starting a training session. "I don't want to push them too hard, too fast, and have the heat catch up with horse and cause overheating," says Bridges. "I start out slowly to let their bodies adjust to how hot it is. Normally, I might take a mile to warm up; in the summer, that could be 11¼2 miles."
Naturally, thorough cool-downs are very important for the horse's health. When the horse is trying to dissipate body heat and sweat into a hot and humid atmosphere, the cooling-off process takes much longer. Says Saunders, "We alter cool-downs significantly in the summer. In the heat, horses don't recover as quickly from stress. They'll blow much longer, drink more water (and the intake has to be moderated so they don't take too much fluid too quickly), and take longer to cool down their bodily functions and body temperatures. Sometimes it takes an hour to 11¼2 hours of cooling and watering before we're comfortable that the horse's body temperature has returned to normal and we can turn him lose in the stall."
Cooling techniques.When cooling down a horse during hot weather, forget about using a cooling sheet. Says Kohn, "Sheets just act as heat insulators. If you put a wet towel on the horse's back, very quickly that towel heats up to the temperature of the horse, and then it's actually making it harder for the horse to cool off. Instead, put the horse in a cool or shady area, let them stand in front of a fan or misting fan, or wash them down with cold water."
Kohn says studies have proven there are no adverse affects to treating hot horses with cold water. In fact, hosing a horse down with cold water might be one of the most effective ways of cooling the animal.
"In experimental studies we did, we found that if you poured 55-degree water from a hose on top of the horse, it comes off the bottom of the horse at 75 degrees. A tremendous amount of heat can be transferred in the water."
Putting ice in the rectum to cool a horse can help, says Kohn, "but the problem is then you can't get a correct temperature. So, for that reason, I don't recommend it."
Saunders uses a combination of techniques to cool his horses--walking, multiple cold baths, and taking the horse to where fans or a breeze will cool and circulate the air. Remember these cooling techniques are important for hot horses (rectal temperature 104 degrees) working hard in hot weather, and are not necessary when horses are cooler.
Monitoring. Generally, a horse which has adequately cooled off will breathe normally, won't be sweaty, and will look alert. However, a better way of knowing that the horse has cooled off sufficiently is by monitoring its vital signs.
The most important way is to monitor the horse's temperature. Know what your horse's normal temperature is at rest—a healthy, adult horse usually has a temperature around 99.5-100.5° F, Kohn says. "If you exercise your horse, even in the winter, the body temperature will go up because of the heat produced as a by-product of energy production. You need to determine how hot your horses get. Many horses' temperatures go up to 103° or 104°. That is not a dangerously high temperature, but put your horse in the shade and cool him off with some water to make him more comfortable. On the other hand, if his temperature goes up over 105°, you're talking about seriously wanting to cool the horse off."
Check the heart or pulse rate prior to and right after exercising to ascertain stress, and know what is normal for your horse and how long he usually takes to recover. You can feel the heartbeat against the left side of the chest immediately behind the left elbow. You can feel the pulse rate under the curve of the jawbone. The normal heart rate for a horse at rest is between 36 and 44 beats per minute. During exercise, a horse doing pleasure types of activities might have a heart rate of 120 to 150 beats a minute, while a racehorse might have a maximum heart rate of 220 to 240 beats a minute. Within a short period of time, the heart rate of 120 to 150 beats per minute should come down to a recovery heart rate of around 60 to 70 beats per minute. In less fit horses, the heart rate could remain elevated for as long as 30 to 60 minutes.
"If your horse normally recovers to a heart rate of 50 in 15 minutes, and the heart rate is 70 a half-hour to an hour later, then there may be a problem," warns Kohn.
Check the respiration rate by counting how many times the flank rises and falls in 15 seconds, then multiply that by four to get the respiratory rate per minute. A normal resting rate in temperate conditions is around 12 to 16 breaths per minute; after exercise on a hot day, it can rise to over 80, but should decrease to less than 40 within a half-hour.
"As horses lose some heat through the respiratory system, some may pant," says Kohn. "Sometimes people put too much of an emphasis on panting or rapid, shallow breathing. The respiratory rate should decrease as the horse cools off; if the horse is hot, heprobably going to keep panting."
Bridges uses a 60/40 respiration/heart rate standard for her horses. "If I'm doing a good work-out and it takes my horses more than 10 minutes to come back to a 60 heart rate and their respiration to come down to 40, then I'm working them too hard. I also don't like to see their body temperatures getting over 102 degrees."
Managing The Heat
Coping with high heat might call for changes in the barn, pasture, supplements, and water. Use your turn-out to acclimate the horse, but be sensible about it. "If it's very hot and humid and the horse is turned out, that's fine, as long as he has access to shade," says Kohn. "Most people around here turn their horses out at night, but what we recommend for acclimation to the heat is two or three hours during day. You don't need to keep your horse out for long periods of time to get the beneficial effects of heat acclimation. Take them out early in the morning to start with, and then maybe toward midday."
Notes Bridges, "When I do a 100-mile endurance race, I ride all day and half the night, so the horse has to be used to being out in the heat and sun. The turn-out is part of the acclimation."
Be sure the turn-out area has shade--a stand of trees, a shed, an awning, or the shady side of a building.
Try to make the barn a comfortable, airy respite from the heat by keeping the air circulating with good ventilation or stall fans. "Ventilation (even in cold weather) is really important for horses housed inside," says Swinker. "Don't put a fan directly on the horse; that puts them in drafts and makes them uncomfortable." Make sure stall fans are securely mounted and that electrical cords are out of the horse's reach.
When it's extremely hot, many horses don't eat as much. "In temperatures over 100, horses reduce consumption of feed and spend more time in comfort behavior searching for the coolest or breeziest place," Swinker says. Kohn indicates that horses love to stand in front of the fan and it doesn't hurt them.
As far as changing the diet, Kohn says there is debate but no definitive answers. "Some horses do better on higher fat diets in the heat, but some horses find high fat diets not very palatable," she says.
Experts do agree, though, when horses are sweating out fluids and electrolytes, they will need more of both. "Sweat contains salt, so when horses are working hard and are constantly training in hot weather, they will sweat a lot and lose a lot of salt," says Kohn.
Compensate for the salt loss by adding electrolytes to feed or water; if adding to water, make sure there is a second source of unalterated water. "Some horses won't drink salt water," Kohn warns.
Kohn suggests avoiding commercial electrolyte supplements that contain a lot of sugar. "That doesn't help," she says. She prefers supplements especially formulated for the replacement of electrolytes lost in sweat. "There are two I've used," says Kohn, "Summer Games, made by Kentucky Equine Research, and Perform & Win, distributed by Buckeye Feeds."
Besides commercial electrolyte formulas for her performance horses, Bridges makes up an old endurance recipe for use in the pasture: One part regular salt, one part light salt, and a half part dolomite. "It's not as good as the high-tech store-bought ones, but it's inexpensive."
Swinker cautions against overdosing electrolytes. "If the horses are stalled or corralled," she says, "and if they're not being stressed or worked hard, you don't need to provide them with as much as for a high-performance horse in training. Electrolytes are like minerals and vitamins—you can overdo it."
Obviously, access to plenty of clean, fresh, palatable water is important any time of the year. Swinker says that in normal circumstances, a horse will drink about eight to 10 gallons a day. But in hot weather, a horse--especially a working horse--can lose "to 13 quarts of sweat or 4% to 10% of its body weight per hour per performance. A lot of owners don't think about that, and only provide the minimum. In hot weather, horses may need 12, 16, even 20 gallons of water."
Saunders says his horses always have two buckets of water in their stalls year around. "The buckets are topped off a couple of times a day in the winter. In the summer, we have to top them off more frequently."
Even when water is available, some horses don't drink enough. As a result, says Kohn, "over time of training and showing in the heat, he may get a little dehydrated today, a little more dehydrated tomorrow, and a little more the next day until he has big problems."
To encourage a horse to drink, make sure the water is in a clean bucket (algae or scum in the water is not a flavor enchancer!) and that it's cool. "Studies show horses really like fresh, cool water," Kohn reports. "If you change the water frequently and it's cool, they'll drink more. They also drink more out of buckets than automatic waterers, and they don't like drinking with a bit in their mouth; they need to be taught to drink with a bridle on."
Salt or electrolytes added to feed will make them thirsty and encourage more water consumption. In some situations, where horses have become dehydrated and do not drink enough, rehydration must be accomplished via a nasal gastric tube or IV fluids. "For the majority of horse owners, that's never going to be an issue," says Kohn.
It's best to offer water immediately after exercise. Says Kohn, "Researchers from the University of Guelph found that if horses working very hard in hot, humid conditions were offered water right at the end of their bouts of exercise, there was a short window of time in which horses would voluntarily take a good slug of water." For horses which must continue working in the heat, drinking during pauses in the exercise program is important.
In extreme dry heat, horses can sweat off so much moisture that they become dehydrated due to loss of fluids and electrolytes. Where it's hot and humid, sweat doesn't evaporate because there's so much water already in the air. Therefore, the horse doesn't get any cooling effects from evaporation and continues to sweat, again resulting in loss of electrolytes and fluids.
The consequences of dehydration, high heat, and electrolytes losses are heat stress or the more serious heat exhaustion.
Competing Safely
Because horses are more stressed when competing in the heat of the day, encourage organizers to schedule events during cooler periods of the day or in shady areas, or to cut back on intensity or effort.
Teach endurance horses to drink along the way. "If the horse is in the middle of a long event, it's good if he takes in water, just like marathon runners have to drink as they go," says Kohn. "Encourage race and show horses to drink when they return to the barn."
Summer heat doesn't have to end summer sports: By working and competing sensibly and appropriately, your horse can remain healthy and competitive.
About the Author
Marcia King
Marcia King is an award-winning freelance writer based in Ohio who specializes in equine, canine, and feline veterinary topics. She's schooled in hunt seat, dressage, and Western pleasure.
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Discussion in 'Star Trek: Voyager' started by The Overlord, Oct 27, 2013.
Ignorance has a lot to answer for.
Yes well I can only stuff so many things into my brain. I'm finite.
My brain is finite, my belly is not.
I'm not too happy with those books.
You can have your life as is, + 10 million dollars... Or live in a cave with a replicator and a couple networked PADDs?
Or does she use her magic powers to supercharge a vegetable garden as her sole source of sustenance?
Bringing Kes back could have worked but not in a manner that involved going back in time to destroy Voyager.
If they'd handled it more like the way they handled bringing Daniel back in Stargate the year he was an ascended. They could have even made her a little crazy from isolation. But it definitely should have been more a 'There is a larger threat and I need your help for some reason!' theme.
What if she came back to frakk Neelix?
"Sorry, I ment to #### him before I left but things got crazy pretty fast when I was turning into a cloud... Where's Neelix?"
A guy does that, he's a pervert.
A woman does that, meh, whatever... Against the wall or should we look for a bed?
I'm not saying men are disgusting because I shouldn't have to.
"Lowest common denominator" when referring to an audience demographics is usually a buzzword for "men".
Women don't spend %90 of their free time passed out drunk in front of ESPN.
The only excuse they have not to be disgusting sexist pigs is laziness.
I didn't watch a whole heck of a lot of Voyager, but this episode is one I saw. I remembered Kes (too cute to forget ), and I remembered her hair changed, then Seven came aboard. Then Kes was gone.
This episode I didn't see the need for at all. If I were a fan of the character, this would not have been a fun watch. It'd be like bringing back Scotty in Relics, only to have him a homicidal, vengeful killer or something. What a slap to fans of the character!
Scotty was Jack the Ripper (IN SPACE!) for a little while.
He cut open a few girls for fun.
The truly disrespectful thing TNG did was insinuate that Montgomery couldn't hold his liquor.
That's true, Guy. They went a little far with that, especially to me, showing up late for the landing party. He drank, but he was as responsible as they come.
Considering how much he drank during TOS, I assumed that he would be more unreliable sober.
if it weren't for the pinwheel entity in TOS: Day of the Dove, we might interpret Scotty's hysterics on the bridge as an example of what happens when didn't have his morning Scotch. "Keep your Vulcan hands off me!"
No. We also think of the children.
Helen Lovejoy is a #####.
Eh being he guzzled that whole bottle of whiskey minus the drink or two Picard had, I'd say it's amazing he showed up at all the next morning.
I didn't think it was disrespectful. The guy realized his whole life had lost meaning and in self-pity got drunk. Not classy but understandable.
That's a good point.
I shit you not, this is how I remember the scene from the Tholian Web...
Scotty: "och, ney, that's a fair tickle.. Wotch it called when it's ah home now boyo?"
Bones "Liquidized Klingon nerve gas."
Scotty "Smooth stuff, act as a dandy mixer for some scotch dawn;'t chu think?"
Hey, I often use nerve gas as a mixer!
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It may mean that for 10 years there will be no streaming coverage of Canadian Nationals.
I think skate Canada is out of their f*c*ing minds if they think skating will be more popular.
What more if they sell right to Canadian NATIONALS they should do a tender. Did they do it? I am sure that perhaps other TV (say SUN TV) would pay not only better but get a better coverage.


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Technology Credit Union said it has expanded its SBA loan program with the goal of helping more members grow their businesses within Silicon Valley and the greater Bay Area in California.
With SBA loans ranging from $25,000 to $5 million, the $1.7 billion credit union in San Jose, Calif., said it hopes to serve many of the region's businesses that are seeking financing but may not qualify for traditional business loans.
As a preferred SBA lender, Tech CU said it is also able to streamline the application process for a qualified applicant and reduce the time between a loan request and funding.
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The business may be less than two years old and not have the kind of credit history that's required for conventional financing, Evans said, adding, in these instances, SBA loans are a good option.
Niki Wong, senior vice president of commercial lending and program manager of SBA lending for Tech CU, will focus on expanding the credit union's SBA, commercial/industrial and commercial real estate lending business.
"We recognize that the needs of businesses in the Bay Area are as diverse as the dollar amounts they're asking for," said Joe Anzalone, chief banking officer for Tech CU. "We've pulled together an experienced team of people who understand how to make financing work for businesses on many different levels."
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"The key difference is that after 9 hours of doing lines, I just go home instead of getting to have sex with someone," adult-star-turned-indie-actor James Deen tells ANIMAL about working on the set of Paul Schrader's The Canyons. Otherwise, most everything "hasn't been much different that any of the bigger budget feature style adult films" he has worked on in the past. He did however enjoy "building a character." He was so about to "build a character" for a Bret Easton Ellis film-script of 50 Shades of Grey.
As Deen tweeted recently: "I'm down!!! RT
@BretEastonEllis Fifty Shades of Grey: JAMES DEEN as Christian… "
Anyone who follows Bret Easton Ellis's Twitter is familiar with his rampant insomnia/Ambien/…-induced middle-of-the-night crit, his updates about his Schrader collab The Canyons and with his giddy enthusiasm about being on the list of possible screenwriters for the film adaptation for that BDSM-y book that incredulously everyone and their mom is reading on the train with their legs crossed.
Let's just ignore BEE's Matt Bomer rant today because it's just really, really off. Meanwhile, the Internet wanted Deen to play some billionaire dom playboy (Uh, haven't read the "book"…) because he looks like the character. And does BDMS porn. And he really could have, since Bret Easton Ellis tweeted about it (Uh, which would mean I'd have to read the "book"…)
"At the moment just Twitter talk," Deen told us, but it was all Twitter talk that got him to pretend bang Lindsay Lohan last time. So, it almost happened. That would have been a little to "real" though, wouldn't it (link NSFW)? "I think, it would be a fun project to work on and I hope whoever end up playing the part has a good time," Deen says.
It's not going to be Bret Easton Ellis though, because "It's a very major disappointment to announce that I've somehow been taken off the list of possible screenwriters for Fifty Shades of Grey…" he says. Well, there's always the porn parody? Or would that be too meta?


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The Chevrolet Volt has been the talk of the town at General Motors for the past two years. The vehicle was first unveiled as a concept two years ago at the Detroit Auto Show. After over a year and a half of development, GM finally unveiled the production Volt to an anxious public.
The Volt, which is likely to be priced north of $40,000 before applicable government tax credits, can travel forty miles on battery power alone. After the initial 40-mile battery range is depleted, the car turns on its gasoline engine/generator to boost the total driving range to 360 miles.
GM is now looking to spread the wealth by giving one of its more upscale brands a vehicle based on the already impressive Volt platform. The lucky recipient this time around is Cadillac and the car is called the Converj. The Converj uses the same powertrain as the Volt, so the performance and economy ratings of the vehicles should be identical -- the Converj, however, does have a much more attractive exterior design.
Whereas the production Volt is considered by most to be rather plebian in design, the Converj is definitely more dynamic with its low-slung shape. The two-door, four-seat coupe seems to borrow from both the Cadillac Cien Concept from seven years ago and the Cadillac CTS Coupe Concept which was unveiled last year.
This is how Cadillac describes the design of the Converj:
Cadillac's extended-range electric vehicle (E-REV) concept has a new body style that is an evolution of the brand's traditional Art and Science design theme. An aggressive, forward-leaning arc profile is the foundation for the sporting stance. And more than a Cadillac in form, Converj is also intended to be a Cadillac in substance, with the premium materials, technology and driving dynamics that are hallmarks of the brand.
In keeping with the concept nature of the vehicle, the Converj features large 21" wheels in the front and slightly larger 22" wheels in the back. An all-glass roof is littered with solar panels which help to power the vehicle's many accessories, while OLEDs are used to light the Converj's instrument panel. The Converj also makes use of LED headlights.
"Vertical lamps are Cadillac signatures and the Converj builds on the brand's light pipe technology with bolder light emitting diode (LED) and high-intensity discharge elements front and rear," adds Cadillac global design director Clay Dean. "There is also a unique daylight light 'spear' at the top of the headlamps."
"It's a logical extension of our plan to reinvent the automobile," said GM's Bob Lutz. "It clearly shows what a Cadillac electric vehicle could look like, and clearly indicates that global luxury customers can have a car that has both strong design and electric propulsion with a total range of hundreds of anxiety-free miles."
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May 1 (Reuters) - Time Warner Inc posted a higher first-quarter profit on Wednesday, as growth in its cable networks offset declines in the film, TV entertainment and publishing units.
The company also stood by its earnings growth outlook for the year, although that forecast does not include the planned spin-off of the publishing business.
Net income for the media company, which owns the CNN cable network, premium TV service HBO and a movie studio, rose to $720 million, or 75 cents per share, from $583 million, or 59 cents a share, a year ago.
Adjusted earnings of 82 cents per share easily beat the consensus Wall Street forecast of 75 cents, according to Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S. Earnings exceeded even the highest of the 28 estimates that made up the consensus.
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Is the U.S. Being Unfair in China Rare Earth Complaint? Debate Rages
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Is China playing a clever capitalist or malicious miscreant?
To the victor go the spoils, they say. But the U.S. isn't happy with China's control of over 95 percent of rare earth metal production. It's
lodged a formal complaint
with the
World Trade Organization
, with President Barack Obama accusing the Asian economic giant of playing dirty.
I. Once the U.S. Was a Rare Earth Leader
The earliest mining of rare earth elements came from placer sands in India and Brazil. Then in the 1950s, South Africa took the lead with its rare earth containing monazite deposits. Between the 1960s and 1980s, Mountain Pass mine in California was a leading producer.
Then came the red giant. China, which owns an estimated third of the world's rare earth deposits, pumped up production in Inner Mongolia in the 1990s, putting price pressure on American and other producers. It worked. The Mountain Pass mine was shuttered in 2002, and with it the majority of American rare earth mineral mining.
Slowly China came to dominate rare earth metal production, a realm once dominated by the U.S. (neodymium magnets pictured) [Image Source: Doug Kanter/Bloomberg]
But in their quest for ever more-efficient power electronics, electric vehicle makers, flat-panel television makers, wind turbine makers, and solar panel makers all turned to this category of scarce resources. In short, rare earth minerals suddenly became a prized commodity, just as the U.S. exited the market and China cornered it.
China responded by imposing a
2010 cap on exports
, which continued into 2011. The artificial ceiling limited exports and sent prices soaring,
adversely affecting
the electronics, alternative energy, and automotive industries.
That pain finally boiled over in the form of the trade complaint filed by the EU, U.S. and Japan last week.
II. Tough Talk
"We met at least a half a dozen times with the other countries that joined us. And I'm not talking about 'howdy dowdy' kind of meetings. These were three and four day-long sessions of going through legal issues," a U.S. official is
as saying. "Literally thousands of pages of Chinese language documents needed to be found, translated and analyzed."
Fertile sands: a laborer moves earth at a Chinese company's Inner Mongolia rare earth metal mining facility [Image Source: Stringer Shanghai/Reuters]
U.S. Trade Representative
Ron Kirk views this as a case of a fresh player not wanting to play by the rules. He states:
In fact China adds a small fraction of value to such a product - as reflected in the final price - usually at the assembly stage. China's share is well below 10 percent. Our businesses, as a general rule, really do believe, and maybe it's that American spirit, let me go compete in the global market and I'll accept that if (my friend) has got a better idea she wins and sometimes I'll win. But you've got to promise me that the deck's not going to be stacked.
I'm not saying you can't have state-owned enterprises. But how do we determine to give my businesses and competitors the sense that they truly are operating as independent market-driven entities?
Ironically the U.S. effort received a boost from a WTO
to the EU in a complaint about subsidies the U.S. government paid to The Boeing Comp. (
), a Seattle, Wash. based firm and top aircraft contractor. The U.S. has an almost identical counter-complaint about EU subsidies to Airbus, a subsidiary of the European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company N.V. (
In the WTO complaint, judges set in place new guidelines. Under these rules, if a nation refuses to reveal information on subsidies (as the U.S. did with Boeing) it will "draw negative inferences" -- assume the worse. This could be a fatal policy for China who reportedly hasn't published information on
any of its subsidy efforts
in five years.
III. Is the U.S. Being Unfair?
But some say the U.S. and Europe are being unfair to China. While China doesn't necessarily have
the best environmental track record
, expanding rare earth production could damage the Mongolian wilds, as well as put miners' lives at risk. Also, there is some irony that the U.S. and European authorities are irate at China for playing skillful entrepeneur at driving a hard bargain when it comes to rare earth resources.
Jonathan Fenby, head of China research at
Trusted Sources
, says that China is a convenient whipping boy for American politicians, stating, "I think that in this electoral season (in France and the United States), China-bashing is on the rise. Hence the action. China is an obvious easy candidate and it is interesting that in the U.S. the Republicans, normally free traders, have gone for China."
But he warns that the WTO complaints and tough rhetoric may backfire, commenting, "If China hits back, how important is the Chinese market to Western firms, and what is the impact on foreign companies that rely on China for assembly such as Apple?"
Pushing China too hard could backfire, particularly for U.S. companies like Apple who rely on the nation to produce their products. [Image Source: PocketLint]
China isn't above such petty retaliation. It recently sunk a $12B USD Airbus deal after the EU moved to enforce carbon taxes on it. With the manufacturing futures of virtually every American devicemaker --
including Apple
, Inc. (
) -- on the line, Mr. Fenby argues that America may have more to lose than the Chinese.
"We don't know how to make a $500 computer that's not a piece of junk." -- Apple CEO Steve Jobs
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Routledge Companion to Remix Studies Now Available
I just received in the mail a hardbound copy of The Routledge Companion to Remix Studies. It's been such a long process. Editing 41 chapters has been quite an endeavor, but a good one. I would like to thank my co-editors, xtine Burrough and Owen Gallagher, who are just amazing collaborators. This book could not have been published on time had it not been for our mutual diligence in meeting deadlines. I also want to thank the contributors who were just amazing during the long editing process (for a full list of authors see the dedicated site for the book: Remix Studies).
I really hope that researchers, academics and remixers find the anthology worth perusing.
More information on the book:
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A blog dedicated to the examination of communications in election campaigns, with a focus on posters
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Some of the posters promoting Democratic candidate Barack Obama are vaguely familiar in their "revolutionary" design. Most are unauthorized by his campaign, in that they have been produced and disseminated by artists who support Obama, but are posting and/or selling these posters independently.
Some have termed the imagery devised for Obama as indicative of a "personality cult," similar to what artists developed for Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Che, and other authoritarian leaders. Peggy Shapiro, for instance, referring to Shepard Fairey's idealized portraits of Obama (as well as those by Russian artists of Soviet dictators), wrote that they depicted "the leader, face illuminated by 'holy' light, look[ing] off to the horizon and see[ing] the truth that is not available to his mere mortal followers, who must look up to his image." The image that Fairey created of Obama (shown previously in another post in this blog) may be "revolutionary," but it is much more subtle than the Cuban posters showing raised rifles and fists. It is a simplified portrait of the candidate with light and patriotic colors enveloping him, with the blue a lot lighter and softer than on the flag.
While there are those on the right who insist that the Democratic candidate is himself a "radical"—associating with such as William Ayers and Jeremiah Wright—there is little evidence to substantiate this allegation. What does seem to be the case is that artists such as Fairey and Ray Noland have incorporated radical imagery into their designs to promote Obama's election. Noland, for example, in his poster "The Dream," shows Obama—bathed in light—gazing into the distance, with a sun and rays as a backdrop. The iconography is religious, but similar to some Mao posters.


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I'll throw this route out for those that make it too my area sometime. Yesterday being one of those rare gems in November that hit the 70's here!!! This is an ~ 125k route as I rode it back to home.
I took off from the vicinity of Natural Bridge State Pk in E.KY & rode S on Rt11 to Levi,then right/SW on Rt30 to Tyner, turn right/N on US421 to McKee,then right/N on RT89 to Irvine,then right/E on RT52, then left/N on RT213 to the Bert T. Combs Mtn Pwy & ride whichever direction you like. The RT89 part of this trip offers some of the most beautiful mountain scenery in KY! Stop @ Anna's for a killer sandwich. That particular road is well paved and very twisty & hilly with some Daniel Boone campgrounds,trails & streams there. It may lack a centerline at times and definitely not a place to ride over prudent speeds but a joy to ride never the less!


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The world will be seeing more and more of Mrs. Carter as H&M roll out a new summer campaign for their H&M for Water collection. The first ad featuring superstar Beyoncé has been revealed, with more on the way. She will be seen all summer long in swimwear and beachwear, including a tie-dye bikini, according to a press release from the company. Print and outdoor campaigns will present the artist as "Beyoncé as Mrs. Carter for H&M" to tie into her Mrs. Carter Show world tour. A statement from Beyoncé confirms we'll see more than just print art in the course of campaign.
"I've always liked H&M's focus on fun and affordable fashion," Beyoncé said. "I really loved the concept we collaborated on to explore the different emotions of women represented by the four elements – fire, water, earth and wind. It was a beautiful shoot on a tropical island. It felt more like making a video than a commercial."
This summer look was shot in Nassau in the Bahamas and the forthcoming commercial, from the same location, was directed by Jonas Åkerlund. The director is best known for his music video work with Lady Gaga and Madonna. The video campaign will feature a new song from Beyoncé titled "Standing On The Sun," to will be made available worldwide in May.
25% of the the H&M for Water collection will be donated to H&M for WaterAid.


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"The period between FY07 and FY11 has been buoyant at times for outward FDI, but there has been a slowdown since then. Investments declined in FY12 and FY13, but there has been a recovery in FY14 so far," Care Ratings said in a report.
Total FDI investments made by domestic companies in April-January of FY14 stood at $29.34 billion, the report said.
The declining trend in outward FDI started from FY11, when it stood at $19.25 billion. It fell to $11.18 billion in FY12, and to $7.13 billion in FY13.
The rating agency said after moderate FDI between FY03 and FY04, investments started gradually increasing because of relaxations in the overseas investment policy in 2004.
Outward investments by domestic companies picked up significantly in FY07 and peaked in FY09 with investment at $19.45 billion abroad, it said.
FDI is divided into three categories equity, loans and guarantee-issued. Most of the investments are made in the form of guarantee-issued, followed by equity and, lastly, loans.
Out of the total investments made in the April-January period of FY14, $19.12 billion were guarantee issued, which accounted for 65.1%, Care said.
During the period, investment in equity and loans stood at $7.1 billion and $3.21 billion with a share of 23.9% and 11%, respectively.
On a sectoral basis, the highest investment of $8.91 billion was in the transport, storage and communication services space while $7.56 billion were invested in manufacturing-related activities, the report said.
Activities such as wholesale, retail trade, restaurant and hotels have attracted $2.91 billion from domestic companies in FY14 so far.
Significantly, only $32 million were invested in electricity, gas and water and miscellaneous activities.
Geographically, the Netherlands and Singapore were the favourite destinations of domestic companies, with a share of 28.85 and 15.2% in total investments, respectively.
This was followed by the British Virgin Islands andMauritius with 10.3% and 7%, respectively, with the value $3.69 billion and $3.13 billion, respectively.
The US accounted for 7% of investments amounting to $2.13 million.
Domestic companies made smaller investments in countries such as Azerbaijan, the Cayman Islands, Hong Kong, Cyprus, Saudi Arabia, Belgium and Oman, the report said.


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Evidence Doesn't Fade from Colorful Fossils
by Brian Thomas, M.S. *
Generations of onlookers have appreciated the long-lasting luster of "Egyptian blue," an ancient dye still brilliant thousands of years after it was painted onto various murals and artifacts. But a new study found colors that apparently blow Egypt's puny pigment longevity out of the water.1 Researchers discovered colorful organic chemicals embedded in fossils supposedly 340 million years old. Did the stories they concocted to explain this anomaly depart from scientific sense?
The fossils were those of crinoids, also known as sea lilies in today's oceans. But being classified as echinoderms, a group that includes sea stars, these crinoids certainly aren't flowers. Sea lilies creep across the ocean floor and use a feather-like corona, often on the end of a long stalk, to filter nutrients from water. Today's sea lilies come in blue, green, red, purple, pink, orange and yellow varieties. One is colored so brightly orange it's named the Moulin Rouge sea lily.2 Apparently, crinoids covered by sediments ages ago were arrayed in similar vivid hues.
Paleontologists have known for years that separate species of fossil crinoids kept their unique colors even though they had been buried for so long, but until recently few have sought to understand how those bright colors might have persisted intact.
Publishing in Geology, a team from The Ohio State University tested the hypothesis that the colors come from the original pigment molecules that have somehow lasted for hundreds of millions of years. The researchers used several lab techniques to help isolate and identify some general characteristics of the green, purple, orange, and yellow chemicals they extracted from the fossils.
They concluded that "organic molecules are preserved in and can be extracted from Mississippian crinoid fossils…" The fossil "molecules are a form of aromatic and/or polyaromatic quinones similar to modern echinoderm pigments."1 But how could these molecules have retained their color integrity through the ravages of so long a time?
The study authors attempted an answer. They used repeatable scientific tactics to identify the fossil's pigment chemistry, but relied on unlikely guesses to explain how those pigments lasted.
First, they asserted that these fossils must have remained dry since they were initially deposited. Nearby water flow would have dissolved, washed away, or reacted with the pigments. But how feasible is this story when considering 300 million years' worth of crustal plate collisions, catastrophic impacts, floods, earthquakes and constant weathering and erosion?3
Maybe the fossils could be protected from natural disasters and erosion if they were buried deep beneath earth's crust. But the study authors wrote that the crinoid-containing Mississippian beds from Indiana "have never been buried deeply," and therefore were not exposed to the temperatures and pressures that would metamorphose rocks and would have certainly fried the crinoid's quinones.1 In other words, the biomolecules' colors were doomed to fade if buried too deep, but doomed to spoil if held closer to the surface. The study authors did not address this dilemma.
So far, a better explanation for original chemistry remaining in these colorful fossils is that their rock layers were deposited thousands, not millions, of years ago.
- O'Malley, C.E., Ausich, W.I., and Y-P Chin. 2013. Isolation and characterization of the earliest taxon-specific organic molecules (Mississippian, Crinoidea). Geology. 41 (3): 347-350.
- Proisocrinus ruberrimus (Moulin Rouge). Natural History Museum fact sheet. Posted on nhm.ac.uk, accessed February 21, 2013.
- Thomas, B. Continents Should Have Eroded Long Ago. Creation Science Update. Posted on icr.org August 22, 2011, accessed February 21, 2013.
* Mr. Thomas is Science Writer at the Institute for Creation Research.
Article posted on March 11, 2013.
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SAN FRANCISCO, CA – San Ramon Police Department in San Ramon, CA selects the Presynct Report Network. Presynct Technologies is installing the Presynct Report Network incident reporting application in the San Ramon Police Department. The department selected Presynct's state-of-the-art digital incident reporting software as a way of improving efficiency in police report writing, and record keeping.
Captain Joe Gorton expects the transition to the new system to be quite smooth, due to the fact that the electronic incident forms included in Presynct's system are designed to look exactly like what officers are accustomed to seeing on paper. "It takes no effort. It looks like a regular report that he or she is used to writing," said Gorton.
In addition to greatly reducing the amount of paper generated by the department, Gorton is looking forward to integrating the Presynct Report Network with the department's existing record keeping system, which will result in fewer staff hours spent on archiving. "We can store the reports electronically," he said. "It will ultimately be way less paper and less manual input into the record system, which is always nice," said Gorton. Presynct's electronic distribution is another way in which time and money will be saved.
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More than a dozen women who have accused Bill Cosby of sexually assaulting or molesting them shared their stories in a television program that aired Thursday night, describing the alleged assaults in sometimes graphic terms, NBC News reported.
In an hour-long special on A&E, "Cosby: The Women Speak," some of the stories had similarities. Some said they were offered acting coaching or mentoring, persuaded to take a drink, and then felt dizzy and woozy minutes later — and believe they were drugged.
Heidi Thomas, who is one of several women suing Cosby, said the comedian invited her to Reno, Nevada, in 1984 when she was 24 years old, ostensibly for acting coaching. She said she was asked to read a script in which her character was intoxicated.


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Your Holiday Jukebox
Looking for holiday music to help warm the hearth, chill the eggnog or ring in the new year? Yes, there's the traditional ("Silent Night"), and there's the contemporary traditional (José Feliciano's "Feliz Navidad"). But we can also look no further than GRAMMY winners for some joyful tidings. While they may not be standards just yet, don't bet against them when St. Nick's hitting the chimneys in 2025.
GRAMMY Winner: Alison Krauss (27 GRAMMYs)
Holiday Cheer: "Only You Can Bring Me Cheer (Gentleman's Lady)" (iTunes>)
Included on A Very Special Acoustic Christmas, part of the charitable A Very Special Christmas series, and written with brother Viktor Krauss. Other GRAMMY winners featured on the album are Norah Jones, Willie Nelson, Ricky Skaggs, Wynnona, and more.
GRAMMY Winner: Stevie Wonder (25 GRAMMYs)
Holiday Cheer: Someday At Christmas (iTunes>)
Released in 1967 when Wonder was in his mid-teens, this collection includes the jaunty "What Christmas Means To Me" and traditional songs such as "Silver Bells," "Ave Maria" and "The Little Drummer Boy."
GRAMMY Winner: U2 (22 GRAMMYs)
Holiday Cheer: "Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)" (iTunes>)
From the very first A Very Special Christmas in 1987 comes this U2 cover of the Darlene Love song from Phil Spector's groundbreaking A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector album.
Other GRAMMY winners featured on the album are Bon Jovi, Madonna, Stevie Nicks, and Bruce Springsteen.
GRAMMY Winner: Aretha Franklin (18 GRAMMYs)
Holiday Cheer: This Christmas (iTunes>)
Interject a bit of soul into your holiday proceedings with this collection, which includes "Ave Maria," "Hark! The Herald Angels Sing," "Angels We Have Heard On High," and a personalized reading of "'Twas The Night Before Christmas" from the Queen of Soul herself.
GRAMMY Winner: Ray Charles (17 GRAMMYs)
Holiday Cheer: The Spirit Of Christmas (iTunes>)
The album cover for this holiday classic features Charles with a sleigh full of gifts, and the album is packed with a sleigh full of merry tunes, including "Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer," "Santa Claus Is Comin To Town" and "Winter Wonderland."
GRAMMY Winner: Eric Clapton (17 GRAMMYs)
Holiday Cheer: "Christmas Tears" (iTunes>)
Looking for a live Christmas? Try A Very Special Christmas — Live From Washington, D.C., which features five tracks from Clapton, including teamings with Blues Traveler's John Popper, Mary J. Blige and Sheryl Crow.
GRAMMY Winner: Chet Atkins (14 GRAMMYs)
Holiday Cheer: Christmas With Chet Atkins (iTunes>)
AllMusic.com calls it "one of the most underrated holiday platters of all time." Certainly it beats the cold-cut platter. Atkins was the king of country guitar and one of the architects of the countrypolitan sound, and he turns those forces into a Christmas present for you.
GRAMMY Winner: Tony Bennett (16 GRAMMYs)
Holiday Cheer: Snowfall — The Tony Bennett Christmas Album (iTunes>)
This 1968 collection of holiday music features Bennett swinging through a selection of holiday numbers, including "White Christmas" and "Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas." Also included is "My Favorite Things" from The Sound Of Music, offering a pleasant serving of doorbells and sleigh bells and schnitzel with noodle.
GRAMMY Winner: Paul McCartney (15 GRAMMYs)
Holiday Cheer: "Wonderful Christmastime" (iTunes>)
As was always the way with former Beatlemates McCartney and John Lennon, "Wonderful Christmastime" was the sweet, celebratory counterpoint to Lennon's angrier, cautionary "Happy Xmas (War Is Over)." While Lennon railed, "And so this is Christmas/For weak and for strong/For rich and the poor ones/The world is so wrong," McCartney sang, "The moon is right/The spirit's up/We're here tonight/And that's enough." Both are becoming holiday standards. And the spirit is definitely up for McCartney as he'll be honored as the 2012 MusiCares Person of the Year in January.
GRAMMY Winner: Michael Jackson (13 GRAMMYs)
Holiday Cheer: The Jackson 5 Christmas Album (iTunes>)
This 1970 disc was the second official album release for the Jacksons. It contains mostly classic Christmas tunes, and may have been the last opportunity Michael had to be a kid.
GRAMMY Winner: Carole King (4 GRAMMYs)
Holiday Cheer: A Holiday Carole (iTunes>)
This 55th GRAMMY nominated album is a family affair as three original songs were co-written by King's daughter Louise Goffin, including "Christmas Paradise" and "New Year's Day." A Holiday Carole features three generations of vocals as King sings with her grandson and Goffin on "Chanukah Prayer."
GRAMMY Winner: Cee Lo Green (4 GRAMMYs)
Holiday Cheer: Cee Lo's Magic Moment (iTunes>)
From the man who crooned "F*** You," Cee Lo's Magic Moment is surprisingly joyful. Green chides those who aren't in the holiday spirit on "You're A Mean One, Mr. Grinch," which features a cappella group Straight No Chaser, and is one of several collaborations with artists such as the Muppets, Christina Aguilera and Rod Stewart.
GRAMMY Winner: Michael Bublé (3 GRAMMYs)
Holiday Cheer: Christmas (iTunes>)
Bublé garnered a 55th GRAMMY nomination for this 2011 release, which features definitive holiday favorites as well as duets with GRAMMY winner Shania Twain ("White Christmas") and Thalia ("Mis Deseos/Feliz Navidad"). As 2011's second best-selling album, Christmas is bound to be stuffed in tons of stockings this holiday season.
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Rally To Save Lovinsky Pierre-Antoine!
Rally at Market & Montgomery, September 18, 2007. Three-minute QT movie. 42MB.
On Tuesday, September 18, the Bay Area-based Haiti Action Committee
(HAC) held a rally in downtown San Francisco to call attention to the
unresolved kidnapping of veteran Haitian human rights activist
Lovinsky Pierre-Antoine.
East Bay drummers Ustadi, Tacuma, Rondo and Lanier kicked things off
by playing West African percussion near the intersection of Market and
Montgomery, a public transit hub in the city's financial district.
Drums are the traditional lifeblood of political demonstrations in
Haiti, and the music resonated for the many among those congregating
who had witnessed Haitian protests first-hand. The drumming also
emphasized the deep African roots of the Haitian people and their
struggles against slavery and U.S.-backed colonialism.
MC Dave Welsh of the SF Labor Council, thanked the drummers and called
Robert Roth to the microphone. Roth took part in a delegation to
Haiti in late July that this reporter also joined in Port-au-Prince.
Roth, a San Francisco high school teacher and long-time HAC activist,
explained, "It's been over a month since Lovinsky Pierre-Antoine has
disappeared. He is a human rights worker, he's a psychologist, he's
worked with victims of torture from the coup of 1991-1994. He's
continued his human rights advocacy in Haiti during this recent coup
in 2004, a coup organized and created by the United States
Roth continued, "When we were there in Haiti, we met with Lovinsky at
his house, he talked to us about the current situation in Haiti and
how the human rights violations continue against the people. He
talked to us about political prisoners, and how they continue to be
held in Haiti under the UN occupation, and how they continue to be
held under the Preval government. We then went to a demonstration on
the anniversary of the US occupation of Haiti, which took place in
1915^ the US stayed until 1934. This was the anniversary of that
occupation, and we went right in front of the UN headquarters in
Port-au-Prince, to observe a protest of this occupation, which has not
been for the people of Haiti, but has been for the rich of Haiti. It
has not been for the poor, it has been for the elite, it has kept the
elite in power and it is attempting to destroy democracy in Haiti. And
Lovinsky was in the front of that demonstration, not only speaking
directly to the UN, but then leading the demonstrators in a dance
which was beautiful to watch."
Roth concluded, "I want to just say that he is a deep thinker, and he
is a very, very important leader of the people's movement in Haiti.
And he has disappeared for over a month, and that's a crime against
the people of Haiti, it's a crime against anyone who believes in
freedom and justice. It's a crime against anyone who believes in peace
and dignity and human rights and all the things that we cherish. And
so our hearts are with him wherever he is. And we will not give up. We
will not give up our solidarity with Lovinsky. We will not give up
hope for his safe return, we will not give up our demand that the
authorities in Haiti account for his disappearance, and bring him
safely back to his family, his people. And we don't see this as just
about Lovinsky. It's about the people of Haiti, it's about the people
of Iraq, it's about the people of Palestine, it's about the people of
the Philippines, wherever people are fighting for justice. And so we
take a moment here to honor him, and we take a moment to let people
all over the world now that Lovinsky is with us, we're with him, and
we'll continue to be out here until he returns home safely."
HAC co-founder Pierre Labossiere echoed that internationalist
perspective in his comments about "this beautiful brother,
psychologist, human rights worker, someone who's at the forefront of
the movement for justice, for economic and social justice for the
people of Haiti, and for people throughout the world." Labossiere
described how when a member of the July delegation who was helping
organize a Human Rights Tribunal on crimes committed during Katrina
told Lovinsky of that New Orleans-based solidarity initiative,
"Lovinsky said 'how do I support it? Let me sign up.' [...] As a matter
of fact he was supposed to attend the tribunal when he disappeared
three weeks before, the actual tribunal took place. So Lovinsky is
one of those brothers who care for people world-wide, he's just...not
limited to Haiti. He sees the struggle for justice, and human rights,
and equality as a world-wide struggle, and that people need to rally
around from wherever you are from and link arms with each other, so we
can have a world of peace, a world of justice, where human rights are
Labossiere concluded that there was one message to deliver "to the US
embassy in Haiti, to the Brazilian authorities, who are in charge of
the UN mission in Haiti, to the Haitian authorities." That message:
"we need them to exert all their influence...they are very powerful,
very influential ^ with all sectors of Haitian society, from the very
top politicians to the underworld, to demand one thing: that brother
Lovinsky be returned to his family safely. We can do that, it's
important, it's necessary that we do that."
A letter that local Dominican Sister Stella Goodpasture recently sent
to the Brazilian government includes an important point about any
investigation to gain the safe return of Lovinsky: "I must emphasize
most emphatically that the Haiti Action Committee and other concerned
friends and family of Lovinsky Pierre-Antoine are NOT asking for the
Brazilian mission in Port-au-Prince to crack down militarily as they
have in the past. What we are asking for is that Brazilian officials
express their concern through any and all channels that the kidnappers
should negotiate with Lovinsky Pierre-Antoine's family and that
Lovinsky needs to be released unharmed."
--Ben Terrall
Lovinsky photo at beginning of QT movie by Darren Ell:
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