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Read the full story here Web Link posted Friday, November 8, 2013, 12:00 AM
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A 'hidden population' in Palo Alto schools
Original post made on Nov 8, 2013
Read the full story here Web Link posted Friday, November 8, 2013, 12:00 AM
Comments (45)
a resident of Community Center
on Nov 10, 2013 at 9:55 am
How can I help?
a resident of Barron Park
on Nov 10, 2013 at 10:22 am
This is a shame. Palo Alto is doing a terrible job of providing homeless shelters that are safe and welcoming for families.
a resident of Adobe-Meadow
on Nov 10, 2013 at 12:31 pm
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a resident of Barron Park
on Nov 10, 2013 at 12:56 pm
Wouldn't it be nice to offer help and not blame?
Kids are a family's responsibility and responsible adults should be in charge, not the owners of Maybell property, Buena Vista, or the city hall. My heart is with families in need, especially for those kids. No kid should be homeless.
I echo Mac Clayton - how can I help?
a resident of Greene Middle School
on Nov 10, 2013 at 1:47 pm
Mr Kenrick....
It would have been a more complete article, and much more helpful to the families involved, if you had published an address or email or even a telephone number of who to contact in order to help with assistance for these families.
Won't you please do so here?
a resident of Palo Alto Hills
on Nov 10, 2013 at 3:15 pm
what is that burning oodor it is everywhere.thats harmful to children and thosew with health issues. can anyone contact the fire department...what is that odor? its everywhere. something is burning not being told what that is.
a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood
on Nov 10, 2013 at 3:18 pm
Hope some of these rich tech wizards can open wallet to help these poor kids. I read other day Facebook founder(who makes all his money from stealing other people's private data) purchased all the property around him for privacy...He can certainly help these poor kids.
a resident of Esther Clark Park
on Nov 10, 2013 at 5:07 pm
@Resident P.Alto - our local "tech wizards" are often very generous with their money and if you don't like FB (or Google or Yahoo or any other tech product with roots in Palo Alto) feel free not to use it. But the operative words in this article were "hidden population", this is an issue we were not aware of.
a resident of East Palo Alto
on Nov 11, 2013 at 10:16 am
How about those homes purchased by Mark Zuckerberg? a know, the homes adjacent to his property?
Wake up!
a resident of East Palo Alto
on Nov 11, 2013 at 10:28 am
Maybe residents from the Crescent neighborhood could open their homes and help these families. Big houses and empty streets. Maybe just maybe they'll have a heart this Christmas.
a resident of South of Midtown
on Nov 11, 2013 at 10:36 am
How did they even get into the school? PAUSD is so difficult and strict. I don't know how they proved their residence??? You have to show your lease, utilities in your name, birth records and immunizations. Where is the residence of a car? Who's name is on what utility statement?
I know people from outside area's that can't get in. I am very confused right now.
I know that this isn't the point of the story, but I have dealt with PAUSD.
a resident of Midtown
on Nov 11, 2013 at 11:02 am
Did you actually read the article? It clearly states that these kids who become homeless while enrolled in local schools are allowed by law to continue as students at their current schools.
Even in "perfect" Palo Alto people can become homeless. I does not just happen to "others".
a resident of Midtown
on Nov 11, 2013 at 11:04 am
If you read the article carefully, it states that children can legally continue in a district they were attending before becoming homeless.
a resident of Midtown
on Nov 11, 2013 at 11:05 am
Thank you KP.
One of my pet peeves, people who don't read carefully and then spout off.
a resident of Midtown
on Nov 11, 2013 at 11:07 am
Oh no. I did it myself. I meant to thank Midtowner. Okay I'm done now.
a resident of Community Center
on Nov 11, 2013 at 11:10 am
It would be nice if we opened our homes to the homeless. It's not likely to happen, though, for many reasons. I don't think we should be so quick to judge our financially successful neighbors. I'm sure they aid the causes they care about. If they do nothing, I doubt they are reading these posts and changing their ways. All we can do is ourselves do what we think should be done. For my part, I'd like to make a small (say $100) donation to someone who could help these children. Would that be PAUSD? The Opportunity Center? I'd appreciate suggestions. Maybe others would like to join me.
a resident of Duveneck School
on Nov 11, 2013 at 11:17 am
We are a new non-profit ministry in Palo Alto. Doing our part to help take care of the "stranger" - including people who we do not know are homeless - is part of our Christian responsibility. Please let us know if there is anything we can do. email@example.com
a resident of Embarcadero Oaks/Leland
on Nov 11, 2013 at 11:24 am
Ms. Kenrick - is there a way for people to donate to help these families? Maybe through one of the school PTA's. Most schools have some sort of "helping hands" programs that allow the recipients to remain anonymous if the wish.
@Raymond - as far as I know, the houses Mr. Zuckerberg purchased are being leased back to the former owners, he simply wanted to prevent a developer from building a house next door and marketing it as "next to Mark Zuckerberg". Steve Jobs also purchased the home next to his year ago and so has Larry Page (although he knocked them down and built a home there).
a resident of Old Palo Alto
on Nov 11, 2013 at 11:28 am
Mac and others,
I'm trying to find out ways people can help, either with cash donations or offers of temporary housing. If and when I learn anything I'll post it here and perhaps update the article as well.
a resident of Old Palo Alto
on Nov 11, 2013 at 12:56 pm
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a resident of Midtown
on Nov 11, 2013 at 1:49 pm
Dear Mac Clayton and others,
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a resident of Palo Verde
on Nov 11, 2013 at 1:52 pm
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a resident of Midtown
on Nov 11, 2013 at 1:53 pm
Sorry, guys, next rolled oats bagging event Thurs. Dec. 12th @ 2-4 pm.
a resident of Midtown
on Nov 12, 2013 at 1:01 pm
There are several houses in palo alto that have not had an actual person living in them for several months as they are being held as investments. Some have some furnishing and some do not but they have stayed empty of people for months and in some cases years.
Can't we think of a clever way to encourage the owners to allow these folks
to act as caretakers and / or pay some portion of rent to maintain these places ? Do you have an extra room or cottage in your home that you could
be generous and rent below market price (currently a astounding $2500 to $4500k see Web Link
One of the tough thing in Palo Alto is to find a place with reasonable rent and to have the money for security deposits.
Do not neglect these children, they are indeed part of all our futures.
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a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood
on Nov 12, 2013 at 5:31 pm
Palo Alto does not care. A handful, literally, do, but this community won't be making many top ten lists for caring cities. It's all about NIMBYism and property values.
a resident of Crescent Park
on Nov 12, 2013 at 5:57 pm
There seem to be a lot of Palo Alto haters reading Palo Alto Online. For the prices you are paying to live here perhaps your money would be better spent moving elsewhere. [Portion removed.]
a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood
on Nov 13, 2013 at 6:27 am
Thank you. Your tone says it way better than I ever could!
a resident of Old Palo Alto
on Nov 13, 2013 at 6:55 am
For those who have asked how they can help these families, the school district suggests that you send contributions to the Christmas Bureau of Palo Alto, PO Box 51874, Palo Alto, CA 94303 (www.christmasbureauofpaloalto.org). While it's not possible to restrict your donation to these particular families, the district's Tabitha Kappeler Hurley says the Christmas Bureau has been and continues to be strongly focused on Palo Alto school families in need, including homeless families.
a resident of Old Palo Alto
on Nov 13, 2013 at 1:09 pm
Wow- a lot of very good ideas here, I notice a few "recommendations" that all of the wealthy open up their wallets and homes to these people. Why stop there? Why not those with the great advice use it themselves? Open up YOUR house to the homeless, why recommend someone else do so? I don't live in PA, but sometimes have work there. I myself would actually have a hard time opening my home up to complete strangers, homeless or not.
Quote by commenter: "One of the tough thing in Palo Alto is to find a place with reasonable rent and to have the money for security deposits."
Yes, that is why I don't live in Palo Alto!! Can't afford it, don't buy it. From my experience, there is another "hidden population": those that claim residency so that their children can attend a certain school. There was even a Simpson's episode where Homer and Marge wanted Bart and Lisa to attend a pricey area school so they lied about their address, and when they feared getting caught they were forced to rent a tiny apartment in that zip code.
Sorry, but I am not about to subsidize someone's wishing to attend a school not in a zip code they can afford. I am sure the Palo Alto residents worked VERY hard to live in that area. Again, another apology, but the flavor I am getting here from the comments is a lot of hatred for those who studied hard and worked hard to get where they are today, as if they stole their way into their positions! There is a word for no rich nor poor, and equal income for all regardless of education or social position: it's called Communism.
a resident of Green Acres
on Nov 13, 2013 at 3:13 pm
I think Incogman said it very well. Instead of expecting others (like the so-called "wealthy") to do something about these problems, do something about it yourself if you care about the issue.
There's definitely some class and race related resentment in some postings, but hating others who are better off won't get you very far. As an immigrant who studied/worked hard to live in this community, I'm particularly aware of how generous this community is to those who are less fortunate. No matter what we do there will always be negative people who will resent our community, and we'll just have to ignore them like anything else that is not worth spending time on.
a resident of Crescent Park
on Nov 13, 2013 at 9:18 pm
Amen! Well said Carlos and Incogman.
a resident of Palo Alto High School
on Nov 13, 2013 at 9:44 pm
I can't believe this story. Unreal, unbelievable.
a resident of Old Palo Alto
on Nov 13, 2013 at 10:34 pm
Thank you Chris Kenrick for providing the address. I will gladly contribute.
a resident of Duveneck/St. Francis
on Nov 14, 2013 at 1:14 am
There are a couple of empty houses in my neighborhood--one's been bought by a family who plan to tear it down and put up a new one. The other was overpriced even in this market and hasn't sold. I doubt the would-be sellers want to risk any damage--or signs of being lived in--to their property, while the would-be demolishers probably don't want anyone who would get in their way of demolishing the old house.
In other words, things are never that simple. The moment someone moves in, liability becomes an issue. Not everyone wants to be a landlord.
I admit, given just how insanely expensive it is here, that I'm puzzled by the homeless families. I'd think one would end up downsizing elsewhere before ending up in a car, given the extreme rents. But I suppose they may have been putting a large share of their income toward rent, then when the jobs went there was no savings to move out and pay a first-and-last elsewhere.
But, anyway, I don't think we need the local plutocrats to handle this. Lots of people actually do have extra room. There are lots of in-law units about. Maybe there's a way to help subsidize the rent for a few of those.
a resident of Duveneck/St. Francis
on Nov 14, 2013 at 11:47 am
Unfortunately, owing to the very litigious world we live in, I seriously doubt any educated homeowner would "open their house" to a random group of persons, family or not, whether the home is unoccupied and slated for renovations or an investment or lived in or whatnot. The fact is liability. I am NOT in the insurance business, but I pay a lot in insurance to even live in a home in Palo Alto (not just fire insurance), and I understand the risks of that, but the sad reality is that if someone twiddles their finger or twists their ankle on your property, they can sue you. Crazy California - crazy judges - crazy juries. Huge awards. SO - If you do decide to open your doors to random folks, have them sign a waiver of responsibility/liability (hire a lawyer to draft the appropriate language...)There have been huge problems with so-called squatters' rights in other places, what if the place burns down since a fire was lit or unattended it goes on and on.
Personally, I donate financially and with canned goods to Second Harvest Food Bank, a reputable nonprofit organization, as food is the most basic need of people anywhere in difficulty. I also suggest relocating to an area with a much lower cost of living - there are numerous choices. There are actions each of us can take to assist others in need, but throwing open the doors to random houses in Palo Alto is not a sensible suggestion.
a resident of Barron Park
on Nov 14, 2013 at 12:05 pm
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a resident of Duveneck/St. Francis
on Nov 14, 2013 at 1:31 pm
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I agree things are litigious, but people do rent in-law units and such--that's why I think some sort of rent subsidy program might work--that way there are still protections for landlords, but also homes for kids in the district.
a resident of Duveneck/St. Francis
on Nov 14, 2013 at 2:02 pm
Yep, I'm following myself here, but this is actually sort of a question for the Weekly since I didn't find a quick answer Googling.
Who are the poor of Palo Alto? And how is "poor" determined. The Pro-D supporters claim that 20 percent of Palo Alto seniors are poor, but the only definition of "poor" I saw in an admittedly quick Google search referred to income, not assets.
I'm sure there are plenty of seniors on fixed incomes, but if they own property in Palo Alto, they're sitting on a million-plus worth of assets. That's not poor, but those seniors can, nonetheless, be struggling.
Or, and this is another group I see, are they seniors living with their kids? More and more, you see homes built or expanded to have a second master suite--clearly in response to multigenerational families--families that *want* their homes to be multigenerational as it's part of their cultural traditions. I don't doubt that some of these seniors would qualify as "poor", but they're not in need of BMR housing.
Is it really BMR housing for seniors that's needed or *other* services, such as transportation, affordable food, translators, and support for seniors who need serious caretaking?
What does it mean to be a "poor" senior in Palo Alto? I'd like some real answers.
a resident of another community
on Nov 14, 2013 at 2:31 pm
What I find truly sad about this situation, is how many of those folks who come at the issue so cold heartedly (i.e. if you can't afford to live here, keep out), can themeselves only afford to live in Palo Alto due to massive tax breaks, and are themselves being subsidized my new home buyers.
a resident of Duveneck/St. Francis
on Nov 14, 2013 at 7:15 pm
Ah, not surprising that we had a sock-puppet problem.
Robert, you're making a lot of assumptions--i.e. that everyone posting here A)owns their home and B)has held it for so long that they're not paying high property taxes.
The vast majority of posts that aren't spewing anti-Palo Alto sentiments seemed to be concerned with how to help these families.
a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood
on Nov 14, 2013 at 7:25 pm
Palo Alto voters don't want riff-raff in this town. There are plenty of adults and children living from one motel to another, going at it day by day, and also trying to take advantage of a decent school system, if compared to school districts which have as a majority poor families, often families of color. Ask the voters if they will approve any local measure that resembles compassion for the less-fortunate residents, they'll tell you at the ballot box.
a resident of Old Palo Alto
on Nov 14, 2013 at 11:34 pm
It is hard to define "poor" in Palo Alto. My neighbors live in a dilapidated shack on a standard size lot in Old Palo Alto. They collect bottles and cans for extra cash, shop for cloths at Good Will, and don't buy the necessary medicine for type 2 diabetes since they can not afford a co-pay. The land value of their property is well over a million dollars, these people chose to be without funds, but they are not "poor". I would appreciate it if Chris K. would expand her story and include the elderly in our community, who are poor millionaires.
a resident of Palo Alto High School
on Nov 15, 2013 at 12:24 am
Great post by Incogman!
America is the land of opportunity and we have lazy Americans who take this country for granted and expect the wealthy and government to bail them out. Immigrants work hard and save their money for the future. Americans should be so smart. Credit debt is out of control here. People shouldn't spend what they don't have; but it's the American culture which is passed from one generation to the next. On top of it, Americans don't value their elderly, so they can't turn to their parents for help. The immigrants are going to take over this country. And rightly so - Americans are too spoiled - there is no excuse to be homeless unless a person is a disabled veteran or severely mentally ill (not just complacently mentally ill). Most of the Paly alums cannot afford to return to Palo Alto to live - it's not a right to live in Palo Alto. There are plenty of other nice places to live but people are spoiled and stubborn.
a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood
on Nov 15, 2013 at 4:16 am
Palo Alto, love or it or leave it! No, really, leave it if you're poor because you're lazy. I'm learning a lot.
a resident of Barron Park
on Nov 15, 2013 at 6:38 am
"Leave it if you can't afford it " should be taught as your basis
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Why the History Channel Had to Apologize for the Documentary that Blamed LBJ for JFK's MurderHistorians/History
tags: LBJ, JFK, JFK assassination, Kennedys
The History Channel recently observed the fortieth anniversary of John F. Kennedy's assassination with a series of films, "The Men who Killed Kennedy." The most widely-viewed hour, "The Guilty Men," cast Lyndon Baines Johnson in a starring role for ordering the assassination. The film was offered without fear, and without evidence.
LBJ's family and friends heatedly protested the program. Finally, after former President Gerald Ford weighed in with his objections, the History Channel engaged several of us to evaluate the program, and provided air time to discuss our findings and conclusions. Let us hope that is not the end of the matter.
The Kennedy assassination has been fertile, enduring territory for conspiracy theories. But if such elaborate notions are your cup of tea, put no hope in the scurrilous book by Barr McClellan, a onetime associate who worked in Johnson's personal attorney's office, and British film maker Nigel Turner's farcical film rendering of McClellan's musings, which the History Channel broadcast. Their work is a parody of assassination theories and beliefs; surely, this is history as a joke the living play on the dead. Such programs reflect our desperate desire to embrace a conspiracy rather than the crucial question of truth.
McClellan's wild charges involve characters across the political spectrum, from disgruntled Texas oilmen, to FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, the CIA, the military, Johnson's crooked Texas cronies, and Texas Governor John Connally -- forget he almost was killed himself. The Right has to be pleased with the mugging of LBJ, while the Left can pin more evil-doing on Hoover. A perfect storm. Such are our faded memories that McClellan can afford to omit a Communist plot.
McClellan's background is worth a mention. He is a convicted forger, who then resigned from the bar before disbarment proceedings ran their course. His certitude knows no bounds: "LBJ murdered John F.
Kennedy"; Johnson "knew of the assassination"; and he was involved "beyond a reasonable doubt." His "evidence" rests entirely on the alleged utterances of dead people, with the sole exception of that poster child for a con artist, Billie Sol Estes. A McClellan supporter wrote to me, urging that I call Estes to "get the truth." He said "Billie Sol Estes was there when LBJ ordered the killings, 18 of them in all. This includes JFK. Don't take my word for it, get it from the man who was there at the time the killings were ordered. Call Billie Sol Estes, . . ." The FBI has investigated Estes's accusations, and they found his credibility "non-existent." A further cover-up? Then consider how this pitiful figure admitted to his sentencing judge in 1979: "I have a problem. I live in a dream world." In a rare sensible moment, the film maker wisely did without his services -- but not without his fabrications.
Assassination conspiracy theories and books expounding them proliferate. But film is special. A conjurer's sleight-of-hand and verbal misdirection are ready ingredients for manipulating a mass audience. Richard Condon, who wrote The Manchurian Candidate, and who managed to spoof every recent American president, gave his own comic twist in Winter Kills, a novel (later a film) naming the perp as Patriarch Joseph Kennedy, distressed because his son had become too liberal. A comic genius, Condon never labeled his work as anything other than fiction. But Oliver Stone, in the new tradition of "docu-dramas,"gave us JFK, which lent an aura of authenticity to Jim Garrison's outlandish, gothic tale. Sadly, many of those under 25 believed him.
The History Channel film takes historical revisionism to unimagined depths. It seems everyone wanted Kennedy dead: he was going to withdraw from Vietnam in December 1963, so the CIA and the military wanted him out of the way; Texans wanted to preserve their oil-depletion allowance; J. Edgar Hoover believed Kennedy was about to replace him; and driving it all, of course, was Lyndon Johnson's insatiable appetite for power. Increasing the improbability of the thesis, it seems, heightens its appeal.
History is essential to our understanding of ourselves. Interpretations inevitably will vary. We will tinker with its meaning, but there are bounds to the truth of essential facts. Our profit-driven world drives such blatant exploitation of the past. Several years ago, a journalist, using John Mitchell and Gordon Liddy as his principal sources, peddled a "new, different" explanation for Watergate: John Dean organized the break-in, allegedly to protect his wife's reputation. Dean successfully sued for libel, but the truly appalling event was the media's uncritical reception and praise for the work. After all, we already had tapes in which Nixon acknowledged his criminal action. The damage to the Deans was calculable; for history, that may be another matter.
The History Channel is a brand name. The network has a responsibility to produce history, not fiction, or what McClellan brazenly labels, "faction." Did anyone at the company watch this film and invoke the elementary rules for historical writing: is it true, and what is the evidence? McClellan's forgery conviction is not a very useful credential for writing history.
History is our treasure, under assault from plagiarists and trivializers. Hearsay, gossip, and innuendo are not the stuff of history. History should be informative, entertaining, and above all, it must rest on a foundation of credible and verifiable evidence. We must not deliberately falsify it. We have Hollywood for that.
What is at stake here is the public rendering of our history. The commercial exploitation of the past predictably raises the bottom line. For the History Channel, as with any other such venture, ratings and the broadest possible appeal are the surest way to swelling profits. Inevitably, truth is the first casualty. Imagine, we speak of an entertainment or arts "industry." Our homogenized culture is reduced to as simple formula: does it entertain and will it sell?
But we are talking history now. Certainly, we can strive to make it as broadly appealing and interesting as possible. But does that mean we cloak it with unsubstantiated rumors and imagining, or invented sources? History is not created and rendered with the props of falsehood, innuendo, or manipulation. History is bordered by the wall of facts; without them, we are in the realm of fiction.
The History Channel has made a start in the right direction as it has totally disavowed the program and publicly promised it never will be shown again. It always is free to sell it as a hitherto-unknown episode of"The Twilight Zone."
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ray valent - 9/24/2009
If you've seriously done any research into this crime, you are a fool to believe there was no govt conspiracy. Compare the autopsy photos of JFK's head. One has long scraggly hair, the other has a military crew cut. Ford admitted in a new york times article in 1992 that he moved the shot from the back to the neck to facilitate it coming out the throat.
LBJ's first presidential acts were to destroy evidence, the limo and Connaly's shirt. How much do you need?
Peter R McGuire - 11/4/2005
The doctors stated the wounds were from the front , and you can see the head shot is from the front on the Zapruder film. Yet , supposedly, Mr. Oswald did it. That simply couldnt be the case. The autopsy photos are fake. So we know we have been lied to. There is no need to go further. Someone hit him from the front. Sixteen Parkland Hospital Doctors say so!!!
Jim R. Feliciano - 6/3/2004
May 28, 2004
*** BARR McCLELLAN RELEASES ERRORS BY THC PANEL
In a 25 page filing with the HISTORY CHANNEL, HANNOVER HOUSE author BARR McCLELLAN proposed arbitration instead of litigation over issues raised by a historians' panel on April 7, 2004. The proposal includes a list of fact errors by the three historians ranging from wrong dates for the Warren Report, to representations that a sniper acting alone killed President Kennedy. In addition, McClellan listed standards proposed by the panel that the three men promptly broke. The failure to follow ethical rules for fairness was also protested.
Last November the HISTORY CHANNEL aired "The Guilty Men," a documentary showing LBJ's involvement in the assassination of JFK. The episode was number NINE in "THe Men Who Killed Kennedy" series by award-winning producer Nigel Turner. JACK VALENTI, BILL MOYERS, and others acting on behalf of the JOHNSON FOUNDATION, promptly protested but were rejected. The HISTORY CHANNEL said the documentary was "meticulously researched" and continued its broadcast.
The documentary became the bestseller for the HISTORY CHANNEL so, this past January, VALENTI and his team tried again, bringing heavy pressure on the owners of the company and forcing its management to name a review panel of historians. Three men were chosen: ROBERT DALLEK, STANLEY KUTLER and THOMAS SUGRUE. At the same time, the HISTORY CHANNEL ceased broadcasting the documentary and halted all sales.
By letters in early February, McClellan offered full cooperation with the panel and proposed sharing of evidence and full discussion of the issues presented. He emphasised the true service the HISTORY CHANNEL could do for history with an open and fair review. According to press reports, VALENTI submitted extensive documentation and alleged all evidence had been released. McClellan was not granted any access to the secret materials, and he stated extensive LBJ records were still concealed.
In early April, the HISTORY CHANNEL apologized to LBJ's widow for presenting the documentary.
Several days later, the panel conducted a discussion of the issues, concluded the documentary was not credible, and recommended it not be shown again. In their April 7, 2004 discussion, the panel reviewed some of the issues and facts, but largely ignored the facts in the documentary and the documents in McClellan's book.
After some preliminary letters on defamation issues, in which there was agreement the parties took separate positions on key facts that are ideal for arbitration, McClellan completed his proposal and today filed it with the HISTORY CHANNEL.
The proposal alleges five [5] violations of applicable laws: FALSE STATEMENTS, DEFAMATION, COVER-UP, CENSORSHIP, and VIOLATION OF PUBLISHER ETHICS. Stating that arbitration is preferable to litigation and that arbitration would be required by a court in any event, McClellan proposed agreeing to a procedure to review the issues surrounding the assassination of President Kennedy.
History does not readily lend itself to litigation, arbitration by mutually agreed arbitrators would be a preferred approach, and the review would not so much decide history as to determine where questions of evidence remained. McClellan emphasized many key sources of documents still kept secret, including LBJ's legal files, JACKIE KENNEDY's sealed documents, and many more.
McClellan reviewed the numerous misleading statements by the panel, listing 46 ERRORS OF FACT (including ommisions and half-truths) and CITING 16 STANDARDS OF REVIEW VIOLATED by the panel in an incredulous disregard of the ehtics they themselves proposed. The panel's main finding of a lack of credibility meant they disregarded 12 members of a Texas grand jury, the presentation of a United States Marshall and District Attorney, signed statements by LBJ and the only man he trusted, several other key letters between LBJ and his superlawyer, and the conclusions of a highly respected and fully qualified latent print examiner. McClellan stated there was no way the panel could conclude these witnesses and many more in the documentary, along with 68 exhibits admisible in court were not credible. For another key example of errors by the panel, the three men stated the Warren Report was accurate disregarding the fact that LBJ himself had stated there was a conspiracy. Based on these many errors and violations of their own ethics, the panel was simply not credible.
McClellan's proposal also objects to the secret evidence provided by VALENTI's group that included, based on press reports, another 53 ERRORS OF FACT. The main error by the VALENTI group was to disregard the statements of fact regarding LBJ that were made by the interviewees in the documentary and by the facts in the book. This failure to answer is deemed an admission both in law and by history research standards.
McClellan proposed setting up an arbitration panel of several mutually acceptable experts in several areas to review the issues and make recommendations. Their review would include finding some issues unquestionable (such as the year the Warren Report was issued), subject to further documentation (such as release of still closed records), and needing further discussion (such as the role played by the alleged lone sniper).
McClellan has already requested a full apology and equeal time to present a response to the errors by the panel.
For further information contact:
ERIC PARKINSON, Publisher
BARR McCLELLAN, Author
[End of press release; May 28, 2004]
Jim R. Feliciano - 5/9/2004
Mr. Kutler,
As you are well aware, on April 7, 2004, the History Channel had broadcast a televised special, "The Guilty Men: A Historical Overview", a program in which you appeared with two other noted historians, Dallek and Sugrue, a program moderated in forum (by THC) to counter, and to respond, to the various controversial allegations presented (last November) in "The Guilty Men, a History Channel presentation that had alleged (then) vice President Lyndon B. Johnson, had been directly responsible for Kennedy's assassination on November 22, 1963.
As a concerned American, I was outraged of that particular "rebuttal" presentation, and in turn, of the final end result The History Channel had set forth.
Just the same, it was noted the majority of THC respondents were much DISMAYED with The History Channel (their discussion forums reflects highly of that), of actions taken to "buckle" and to concede to the desired whims of those who gained in having suppressed [The Guilty Men] for good, and that of any further consideration of this documented program, by certain individuals who had profited (inmensly) from the Johnson White House, and, from Kennedy's murder in 1963.
In the recent ensuing THC controversy, it had been noted the 'controlled' press proliferated much on what (ultimatedly) had been decided of THC rebuttal, as opposed to, not drawing of any reference whatsoever of what not had been presented, in 'counter', of the compelling evidence (found in the public domain) which pointed to LBJ's complicity in "multiple" murders, including that, of the 1963 assassination.
Naturally, the History Channel's "appointed" panel would simply come to dismiss the glaring evidence they (and you) would choose not to get into, that of the same evidence they (and you) would choose not to discuss, nor even attempt to refute of, again, based on certain overwhelming facts they (and you) decided to so ignore, and this despite, the opportunity had been presented you were to do so.
We are also well aware, that the History Channel's (now) retraction of "The Guilty Men", would only serve well with the (so-called) panel's "investigation" and of their verdict they so rendered: in that Lyndon Baines Johnson was "not involved" in any way, shape, or form... hence, all they while the "panel" had condemned the History Channel, and used this very forum... to attack Barr McClellan's book, a book the panel so readily dismissed as "nonsense", and as... "crap."
Of course, in the anticipated moment, we had expected nothing less nothing less of what had been presented of this (supposedly) "historical overview" and that of it's shallow efforts the panel vigorously had sought, in presenting counter.
In the final analysis, the History Channel succeeded of doing further damage in reversing the public trust, when THC stated, in the AP wires, last November 18, that they had presented... "a point of view that was meticulously researched... (and)... by presenting different viewpoints we enable our viewers to decide to agree or disagree with them and arrive at their own conclusions."
Unfortunately now, to THC's own credit, this "overview" served only as a redeeming opportunity to attack the very message that was released, given that, of the very message it so implied, and of course, that of the messenger himself... Barr McClellan.
Barr McClellan's book, "Blood, Money, and Power: How LBJ Killed JFK", comes at a juncture in our lifetime, and probably more that ever before, we may be so close in opening the lid off this pandora's box" which has been guarded under veiled secrecy, for many, many years, by those same vested "interests" who are still protecting this old crime, and at whatever the cost.
But in the end, sadly, the History Channel panel's own conclusions can only be viewed, at least from my perspective, an obvious farce they so demonstrated of their own inept "academical" findings, and to which they had presented-- absolutely nothing-- to that regard.
To the majority of Americans who knows well of the truth, it was a wasted effort to which they had failed.
But I would remind you, Mr. Kutler, there was this one passage that was heard in "The Guilty Men", which had concluded, and I quote:
"Undaunted, across the nation, the questioning voice of the American people will not be silenced. An overwhelming majority refuse to accept their government's version of what happened in Dallas, on November the 22nd, 1963."
But the "questioning voice of the American people" has been "silenced", this time, by The History Channel. And to that end, for their part, the History Channel is now "guilty" in having done precisely just that.
Jim Feliciano
Wim Dankbaar - 4/21/2004
Special announcement for immediate and unrestricted release:
Gerald Ford's motto: Attack is Best Defense.
Gerald Ford, former President and last surviving member of the Warren Commission, has demonstrated his strategy again: Disguise your crimes by attacking the attacker. I am increasingly flabbergasted about what is possible in America. Why is the world and the History Channel swallowing his attack on the documentary "The guilty men"? For those who missed this headline news, it is the last episode of "The men who killed Kennedy" series, aired last November and originally scheduled for re-runs over the next nine years, which makes a case for Lyndon Johnson as a main conspirator in JFK's murder. Ford's coordinated protest with former Johnson cronies like Bill Moyers, Jack Valenti and Johnson's widow, has now even resulted in complete cancellation of all three new episodes, including those which were not attacked, like "The Love Affair" with Judyth Vary Baker, who makes a credible case for having been Lee Harvey Oswald's girlfriend, exonerating him from the Government's THEORY that he was the lone assassin. To my knowledge, this is an unprecedented form of censorship in the United States.
In all the heated discussions and controversy about the History Channel's documentary, whether LBJ had a role in the JFK assassination or not, it seems that one thing is overlooked : In this case, Lyndon Baines Johnson and his next door neighbor and close buddy J. Edgar Hoover are guilty of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, not because we can prove they ordered it or because we can prove they had any direct connection to the killing, but because we can prove beyond any reasonable doubt that those two men took steps and took actions that covered up the truth of the crime. Washing out and refurbishing the President's limousine is just one of many examples of destroying crucial evidence. This makes them AT LEAST accessories after the fact. And was it not to Bill Moyers that Deputy Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach sent the infamous memo: "The public should be satisfied that Oswald was the lone assassin"?
But what's more, Ford himself is guilty! Not only was it learned that he was secretly reporting on the Commission to FBI Director Hoover, but also, forced by declassified files, he has admitted that he instructed the Warren Commission to move Kennedy's backwound up by several inches !!! The significance of this cannot be overstated! For with a wound in the original location, there cannot be a single bullet theory and without a single bullet theory there cannot be a lone gunman. Last time I looked, this was called "tampering with evidence", which is a federal crime and in such an important case as the death of a president, it is also TREASON. Raised with my naive and Dutch set of values on freedom and democracy, I believe the man should be in jail, despite his rehearsed repetitions that the Commission "found no evidence of a conspiracy, foreign or domestic". Instead, he is allowed to bury essentially good documentaries. What is happening to America?
All three men, Johnson, Hoover AND Ford, took steps that altered, destroyed and hid evidence, ...... and this, by the way, is what changes what otherwise would have been a Texas homicide, to a national coup d'etat!
In order to provide a contra-weight to these outrageous proceedings of the on-going cover-up, I have made available for the public the first ever camera-interview with former special FBI agent James W. Sibert. This interview will be part of an upcoming film/documentary "Second Look, FBI agents re-examine the JFK assassination" (wanted: uncontrolled broadcasters). James Sibert, 84 years young, a former World War II hero and B-52 pilot, 21 year career FBI agent and American patriot, was present at Kennedy's autopsy in Bethesda. Like every other retired FBI agent featured in Second Look, he is also PISSED with his government for covering up such a major crime.
See and hear what he has to say about Gerald Ford and senator Arlen Specter, architect of the notorious single bullet theory that was (and still is) pushed down our throat.
Right here: http://www.jfkmurdersolved.com/sibert.htm
This is age of the Internet, the new revolutionary and independent medium that can spread the truth. Recent studies show that the web has surpassed conventional media as a news source. If you share my amazement, SPREAD THIS! Email to friends and/or your favorite news-outlets. This message is also posted there, thus forwarding the link is enough. The videoclip may be downloaded and used for any website.
Wim Dankbaar (Netherlands)
"During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act."
George Orwell
Tim Wright - 4/13/2004
So, then, you believe that LBJ ordered the killings?
Vince Michael Palamara - 4/8/2004
I think it is laughable and ludicrous to thinking people everywhere they you did not address the Mac Wallace part of the story, nor interview any of the people involved...did you even READ McClellan's book? You guys make me ashamed to be an American. I tihnk you "historians" are incapable of looking at the truth. You have served your masters (Valenti & Co.) well.
Total Information - 4/8/2004
'History' Channel memory-holes LBJ connection to JFK-kill
ACTION: Call History Channel parent A&E Television and tell them you want fewer bloviating lying eggheads and more investigative work like Nigel Turner's The Men Who Killed Kennedy.
Phone: 212-210-1400
Fax: 212-850-9370
REVIEW: The court historians made total jackasses of themselves.
When host Sesno asked if Edgar Hoover's FBI should prima facie be trusted in the matter of the JFK-kill, each in turn windbaggedly evinced incredulity that such a question could even be raised. The fat one absentmindedly volunteered that "Hoover and Johnson were friends."
Madeline Brown's eyewitness story (corroborating witnesses ignored) of the Murchison party on King-Kill Eve was challenged with unspecified "Secret Service logs," as though some holy writ, its pure and perfect provenance a given.
The name of gunman Mack White was not even mentioned, much less the forensic fingerprint evidence putting him in the Depository.
McClellan and producer Nigel Turner each came in for ad hominem.
The one with an overbite concluded the presentation with an appeal that everything on THE HISTORY CHANNEL henceforth and forever be vetted by the Bones-founded AHA.
UPDATE: Reuters April 7 6:10 PM ET:
Book author McClellan, interviewed on the documentary program, said he tried to cooperate with the reviewing panel by sending them material but never heard back from them.
"It doesn't seem as if they treated the subject fairly at all," McClellan said in a telephone interview on Wednesday from his home in Gulfport, Mississippi.
Associated Press 04-02
In response to an uproar caused by a History Channel documentary that claimed President Lyndon Johnson was involved in the Kennedy assassination, the network will air a challenge to that program . . .
The special, airing 8 p.m. Wednesday, is called "The Guilty Men: An Historical Review."
The one-hour program is meant to rebut last November's broadcast of "The Guilty Men," which was based in part on a book published in 2003 by Barr McClellan, who claims the law firm he quit a quarter-century ago was involved in convoluted plots that link Johnson to at least 11 deaths, including President Kennedy's.
Former aides to Johnson, along with former Presidents Ford and Carter and Johnson's widow, Lady Bird Johnson, sought an independent probe of the claims.
The network apologized on Friday to its viewers as well as Mrs. Johnson and her family for the program, which it said will no longer be aired or made available on home video.
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How nanotechnology may revolutionize the detection of traumatic brain injury using a sensor that changes color
The highlight of the recent Association of Health Care Journalists (AHCJ) annual meeting in Philadelphia (Health Journalism 2011) for me was the presentation by Kacy Cullen from the Center for Brain Injury and Repair in the Department of Neurosurgery at the University of Pennsylvania.
Dr Cullen presented his research on blast-induced traumatic brain injury (bTBI) and the development of a nanomaterial containing photonic crystals that change color upon exposure to blast pressure.
In the same way that a radiation dosimeter badge records exposure to cumulative radiation for a hospital worker, so a helmet-mounted color badge would change color based on a soldier's exposure to blast pressure; a common occurrence with improvised explosive devices (IED).
In a paper published in NeuroImage, Cullen and colleagues describe in detail a blast-injury dosimeter (BID) made from photosensitive polymers that is like a colored sticker. This nanomaterial contains microscopic, diamond-like photonic crystals, whose ability to refract light is damaged in a precise way by the pressure from explosive blasts.
The result is a change in color that is related to the degree of pressure and blast intensity. What's more because the photonic crystals are structurally damaged by the blast, further exposure leads to more widespread microstructural alterations and a further change in color. In essence, the crystals have a memory for cumulative blast exposure.
Why is this important?
Many soldiers are exposed to blasts, but show no overt symptoms of traumatic brain injury. Research has shown that repeated hits to the helmet of a football player can lead to brain injury without the obvious signs of a concussion. Traumatic brain injury as a result of repeated exposure to blasts may also lead to mild cognitive impairment and the possibility of increased risk for dementia, Alzheimer's disease later in life. This has been seen in NFL players.
The research by Cullen and colleagues is still in the early stages of development. In their paper they acknowledge some of the next steps such as calibrating the color changes to levels of blast exposure, and correlating these with traumatic brain injury. Any blast injury dosimeter will also need to be field tested.
However, this work is promising and an example of how nanotechnology may impact the detection and diagnosis of those soldiers at risk of traumatic brain injury.
War related scientific research often leads to civilian applications. In the future, I could see nanotechnology stickers that change color with cumulative impact on the helmets of NFL, college or high school football players.
You can read more about this innovative research on how color changing photonic crystals detect blast exposure in the journal NeuroImage.
Update June 30, 2011
If you are interested in the exciting and innovative research being undertaken by Kacy Cullen and his team, there is now a website for The Cullen Laboratory and their work on Neural Engineering in Neurotrauma.
Cullen, D., Xu, Y., Reneer, D., Browne, K., Geddes, J., Yang, S., & Smith, D. (2011). Color changing photonic crystals detect blast exposure NeuroImage, 54 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2010.10.076


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Seth Otto, a senior planner with Maul Foster Alongi, brownfields.
The Velomor is the first of the three mixed-use buildings at the Hassalo on Eighth development in the Lloyd District to open to tenants.
Crews with Teufel Landscape work in the courtyard of the 177-unit Velomor building in the Lloyd District.
Ernest Rady, executive chairman of the board of American Assets Trust, tours a unit at the San Diego-based firm's Velomor apartment building.
The building features a rooftop terrace with outdoor cooking fixtures. Other amenities include a fitness center, dog wash, and community kitchen and lounge space.
Andrew Hornocker, a mason with D&R Masonry Restoration, caulks an expansion joint on an ADA ramp at the Cedar Hills Apartments in Southwest Portland. (Sam Tenney/DJC)
Crews work on landscaping and finishing work on the pool to get it permitted before the holiday weekend. (Sam Tenney/DJC)
A new community center features a kitchen and lounge space and an excercise room. (Sam Tenney/DJC)
A canopy is being constructed over the main entrance of one of the buildings, which was also outfitted with concrete stairs and an ADA ramp. (Sam Tenney/DJC)
Lowell Patton owns 240 acres of land in Clackamas County that he's been trying to develop since purchasing it in 1971.
Part of a 240-acre piece of land in Clackamas County has been leased to an organic farm as land owner Lowell Patton, who wants to develop the property, struggles with conflicting land-use laws. (Sam Tenney/DJC)
Rod Ashley is board president of the Oregon chapter of the American Institute of Architects, which supports a national recommendation to reduce the number of work experience hours required to become a registered architect.
Ross Schunk, a painter with the Rodriguez Coroporation, paints gold trim on a new decorative streetlight in the Lloyd District.
Crews are putting the finishing touches on the renovation of the Erickson building in Portland's Old Town Chinatown. An unveiling party will be held this month for the 62-unit apartment building.
Substantial work is complete on the Portland Water Bureau's undated Interstate Operations and Maintenance Center, a $50 million project that includes a 44,000-square-foot maintenance office and a 30,500-square-foot warehouse. (Sam Tenney/DJC)
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Dararath Thang, a carpenter with Wood Mechanix, takes a measurement while framing a unit on the building's sixth floor.
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A deceitful balance is an abomination before the Lord: and a just weight is his will. Great Lent, the Third Week, Friday, Vespers – Proverbs 11:1, from the selection: Proverbs 10:31-11:12
The Proverbs are excellent texts for checking ourselves. We must read the scriptures with the intent of finding personal correction and guidance.
When we observe good or bad behavior, do we resemble it? When there is a rebuke, would we deserve the same? When a prayer is uttered or a promise made, would we be truth tellers or liars if we said the same thing?
Here we are told something about honesty. In old times, product was weighed on a balance, and sold by weight. An unscrupulous merchant could add weight to the side on which he weighed the product, so that a small amount would seem heavier, or he could label the weights that he added to the other side incorrectly, by overstating their weight. In either case, the result was (for instance) that a customer would think he was buying a pound, but in reality the weight would only be twelve ounces.
The way we judge things, and present ourselves to others may be considered a "balance".
Our balance is deceitful, if we prefer one person over another because of their wealth, or position or notoriety, as the Holy Brother of the Lord tells us:
My brethren, have not the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory, with respect of persons. (2) For if there come unto your assembly a man with a gold ring, in goodly apparel, and there come in also a poor man in vile raiment; (3) And ye have respect to him that weareth the gay clothing, and say unto him, Sit thou here in a good place; and say to the poor, Stand thou there, or sit here under my footstool: (4) Are ye not then partial in yourselves, and are become judges of evil thoughts? (James 2:1-4 KJV)
We have a deceitful balance if we speak ill of another behind their back.
Our balance is false if we are more likely to talk or listen to someone if they are pretty, or interesting.
Is not our balance deceitful, when we promise to do something, and do not do it?
Anytime that we hide dark thoughts in our hearts regarding our brethren, regardless of whether we think that we act upon them, we carry within us a deceitful balance.
Priest Seraphim Holland 2009. St Nicholas Russian Orthodox Church, McKinney, Texas
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On Friday March 6th, I shall be putting myself through a challenge – and thanks to the wonders of social media, I am fully expecting this to be recorded, broadcast live and commented upon for some time to come.
If you still need an additional reason to watch, I have had to admit that I have not ever really eaten oysters… Watch me live – you never know what might happen.
Galvin at Windows has decided to put on a "showcase event", the kind that happens all the time in restaurants for those lucky enough to be considered "influential" enough to be invited – and by this I usually mean the traditional restaurant review Press and also key clients. However, for one of the first times in my experience, this will be done for the benefit of bloggers and other Social Media users AND shared with everyone via video streams and live blogging/tweeting.
Once again, I take my hat off to Fred at Galvin (@galvinatwindows) for his confidence in this medium.
I will be amongst a select group of wine & food bloggers, along with representatives from TrustedPlaces, to meet the suppliers of Galvin at Windows Oysters (Wright Brothers) and their Champagnes (Bibendum). The idea is to have a fun event, matching and rating different oysters, champagnes and the best combination of these, and do so in a way that lets others learn more about the subjects as well as about the restaurant.
Inspired PR! Even if I hadn't been invited to take part I probably would have watched.
For those interested in the experience that, to be honest, most of us cannot afford, this type of event is a great way to learn about both both oysters and champagne, and matching them, through a medium that is so much more interactive and relevant than television. Hopefully we will ALL learn a lot from this event.
This will all take place between 16:00 and 18:00 (London time) via Twitter (follow #galvinw), via live blogging (although I'm not sure on what blogs yet) and also on the World TV channel Ustream.tv – to watch, click here.
If you still need an additional reason to watch, I have had to admit that I have not ever really eaten oysters. I believe I may have tried them as a child, but not since. I think that making this event my first proper experience is both wonderful (might as well start with the best), and terrifying. Watch me live – you never know what might happen.
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Numeric Values
Integer-Based Data Types
Introduction to Numeric Fields
A number is a digit (0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, or 9), a combination of digits, or a combination of one or more digits, a separator, and one or more digits. Microsoft Access supports three categories of numbers and there are various ways you can apply one to a field. You can work in either the Datasheet View or the Design View of a Table.
To create a field that supports numbers:
Introduction to Natural Numeric Fields
A natural number is one that contains either only one digit or a combination of digits and no other character, except those added to make it easier to read. Examples of natural numbers are 122, 8, and 2864347. When a natural number is too long, such as 3253754343, to make it easier to read, the thousands are separated by a special character. This character depends on the language or group of languages and it is called the thousands separator. For US English, this character is the comma. The thousands separator symbol is mainly used only to make the number easier to read. You should be careful to use it in your database.
Microsoft Access suppports different types of natural numbers.
Practical Learning: Using a Number
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A byte is a small positive natural number that is between 0 and 255. This type of number is applied to such items as a person's age, the number of students in an elementary classroom, the number of rooms in a regular house, the number of pages of a magazine or newspaper, etc.
To create a field that will need this range of values, display the table in the Design View. Specify the Data Type of a field as Number. Then, in the lower section of the table, set its Field Size to Byte.
If you have a value that you want to convert to a Byte, you can use the CByte() function. Its syntax is:
CByte(Expression) As Byte
This function takes one argument as the value that needs to be converted. It then converts it to a Byte.
Practical Learning: Using a Byte Type
An integer is a natural number larger than the Byte. It can hold a value between -32,768 and 32,767. Examples of such ranges are: the number of pages of a book. Because an integer can hold as much value as the Byte, you can apply the integer type wherever you would use a byte type. Microsoft Access supports the integer type through a data type called Integer. Like the byte, you can specify an Integer data type only in the Design View of a table.
To apply the Integer data type to a field, in the Design View of the table, after specifying the field's Data Type as Number, in the bottom section of the table, set its Field Size to Integer.
To convert a value to an integer, you can call the CInt() function whose syntax is:
CInt(Expression) As Integer
The function takes a value or expression as argument. It then converts that value or expression to an integer.
Practical Learning: Applying the Integer Type
A long integer is a natural number whose value is between –2,147,483,648 and 2,147,483,642. Examples are the population of a city, the distance between places of different countries, the number of words of a book. Microsoft Access supports the long integer type through a data type called Long Integer (in reality the data type is called Long). You can apply the long integer type in either the Datasheet View or the Design View of a table. Normally, when you set the data type of a field to Number, it is automatically converted into Long Integer. If that's the data type you want, there is nothing more to do.
If you have a value or expression to convert to a long integer, you can call the CLng() function. Its syntax is:
CLng(Expression) As Long
This function takes one argument that is a value or an expression. It converts it to a long integer.
Practical Learning: Using a Long Integer Type
Decimal Types
A real number is a number that displays a decimal part. This means that the number can be made of two sections separated by a symbol that is referred to as the Decimal Separator or Decimal Symbol. This symbol is different by language or group of languages. In US English, this symbol is the period. You can check this by opening the Regional (and Language) Settings of the Control Panel:
On both sides of the Decimal Symbol, digits are used to specify the value of the number. The number of digits on the right side of the symbol determines how much precision the number offers.
Microsoft Access supports various types of decimal numbers.
When using a decimal number, you may or may not be interested in a high level of precision for that value. If precision is of lesser importance, Microsoft Access provides the Single data type. A single is a decimal number whose value can range from -3.402823e38 and -1.401298e–45 if the number is negative, or 1.401298e–45 and 3.402823e38 if the number is positive.
To apply the Single data type to a field, you must open the table in Design View. After specifying the field's type as Number, in the bottom section of the table, set the Field Size to Single.
If you have a value that you want to convert to a Single type, call the CSng() function whose syntax is:
CSng(Expression) As Single
This function takes one argument as the value or the expression that needs to be converted. It then converts it to a Single value.
Practical Learning: Using a Single Data Type
As stated above, the Single data type can allow large numbers but it offers less precision. If you want to use a large number with a higher level of precision, Microsoft Access provides the Double data type. This is used for numbers that range from 1.79769313486231e308 to –4.94065645841247e–324 if the number is negative or from 1.79769313486231E308 to 4.94065645841247E–324 if the number is positive. Besides supporting large values and this high level of precision, the Double data type provides various other options. To apply these options, you can use either the Datasheet View or the Design View of the table.
To apply the Double data type to a field, open its table in Design View and set the field's Data Type to Number. Then, in the bottom section of the table, set its Field Size to Double.
To convert an expression or a value to a double type, you can call the CDbl() function. Its syntax is:
CDbl(Expression) As Double
This function takes one argument as a value or an expression to be converted. It then converts it to a Double type of value.
Practical Learning: Using a Double Data Type
Currency refers to monetary values. To show that a number represents a currency, there is a special character used on either the left or the right side of the number. The character used and its position depends on the language. The rules of a monetary values are specified in the Currency property page of the Customize Regional Options property sheet of the Regional and Language Options available from Control Panel:
To support currency values, Microsoft Access provides the Currency data type. You can apply it to a field in either the Datasheet View or the Design View.
To apply the Currency data type to a field:
To convert a value or an expression to a currency value, you can use the CCur() function. Its syntax is:
CCur(Expression) As Currency
This function takes one argument as the value or the expression that needs to be converted. It then converts it to a currency value.
Practical Learning: Using Currency Types
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Percentage Values
A number is referred to as percentage if it represents a fraction of a 100. Examples of percentage values are the density of a population or the interest rate of a loan. In most cases, a percentage value is written with the percent symbol, which is %.
To create a field that supports percent value, in either view, set the data type to Number. Then:
Practical Learning: Using Percentage Values
Scientific Notations
Besides the regular format we are used to using to represent a number, another technique consists of writing the number as an exponent. Using this technique, instead of using 1000 to represent a thousand, you can use 1.00e3. This is referred to as scientific notation.
To apply the scientific notation to a field:
Arithmetic Functions
The decimal numeric system counts from minus infinity (-∞) to infinity (+∞). This means that a number can be usually negative or positive, depending on its position from 0, which is considered as neutral. In some operations, the number considered will need to be only positive even if it is provided in a negative format.
The absolute value of a number x is x if the number is
(already) positive. If the number is negative, then its absolute value is
its positive equivalent. For example, the absolute value of 12 is 12, while
the absolute value of -12 is 12.
To get the absolute value of a number, you can use one of the Abs() function. Its syntax is:
The Exponential
The Exp() function is used to calculate the exponential value of a number. Its syntax is:
The argument, number, a double-precision value, represents the number to be evaluated. If the value of number is less than -708.395996093 (approximately), the result is reset to 0 and qualifies as underflow. If the value of the argument x is greater than 709.78222656 (approximately), the result is infinity and qualified as overflow.
The Square Root
The Sqr() function is used to calculate the square root of a double-precision number. Its syntax is:
This function takes one argument as a positive floating number. After the calculation, the function returns the square root of x.
Series-Based Functions
A series or collection-based function is one that considers a particular column and performs an operation on all of its cells. For example, if you have a particular column in which users enter a string, you may want to count the number of strings that have been entered in the cells under that column. In the same way, suppose you have a column under whose cells users must enter numbers. Using a series-based function, you can get the total of the values entered in the cells of that column.
The general syntax of series-based functions is:
The FunctionName is one of those we will see shortly. Each of these functions takes one argument, which is usually the name of the column whose cells you want to consider the operation.
The Series-Based Functions
Sum: To perform the addition on various values of a column, you can use the Sum() function. This function is highly valuable as it helps to perform the sum of values in various transactions.
Count: The Count() function is used to count the number of values entered in the cells of a column.
Average: The Avg() function calculates the sum of values of a series and divides it by the count to get an average.
Minimum: Once a series of values have been entered in cells of a column, to get the lowest value in those cells, you can call the Min() function.
Maximum: As opposed to the Min() function, the Max() function gets the highest value of a series.
Business Functions
An asset is an object of value. It could be a person, a car, a piece of jewelry, a refrigerator. Anything that has a value is an asset. In the accounting world, an asset is a piece of/or property whose life's span can be projected, estimated, or evaluated. As days, months or years go by, the value of such an asset degrades.
When an item is acquired for the first time as "brand new", the value of the asset is referred to as its cost. The declining value of an asset is referred to as its depreciation. At one time, the item will completely lose its worth or productive value. Nevertheless, the value that an asset has after it has lost all of its value is referred to its salvage value. At any time, between the purchase value and the salvage value, accountants estimate the value of an item based on various factors including its original value, its lifetime, its usefulness (how the item is being used), etc.
The Double Declining Balance
The Double Declining Balance is a method used to calculate the depreciating value of an asset. To get it, you can use the DDB function whose syntax is:
DDB(cost, salvage, life, period)
The first argument, cost, represents the initial value of the item.
The salvage argument is the estimated value of the asset when it will have lost all its productive value. The cost and the salvage values must be given in their monetary values.
The value of life is the length of the lifetime of the item; this could be the number of months for a car or the number of years for a house, for example.
The period is a factor for which the depreciation is calculated. It must be in the same unit as the life argument. For the Double Declining Balance, this period argument is usually 2.
The Straight Line Method
Another method used to calculate the depreciation of an item is through a concept referred to as the Straight Line Method. This time, the depreciation is considered on one period of the life of the item. The function used is SLN and its syntax is:
SLN(cost, salvage, life);
The cost argument is the original amount paid for an item (refrigerator, mechanics toolbox, high-volume printer, etc).
The salvage, also called the scrap value, is the value that the item will have (or is having) at the end of Life.
The life argument represents the period during which the asset is (or was) useful; it is usually measured in years.
The Sum of the Years' Digits
The Sum-Of-The-Years-Digits provides another method for calculating the depreciation of an item. Imagine that a restaurant bought a commercial refrigerator ("cold chamber") for $18,000 and wants to estimate its depreciation after 5 years using the Sum-Of-Years-Digits method. Each year is assigned a number, also called a tag, using a consecutive count; this means that the first year is appended 1, the second is 2, etc. This way, the depreciation is not uniformly applied to all years.
Year => 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5
The total count is made for these tags. For our refrigerator example, this would be
Sum = 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5 = 15
Each year is divided by this sum, also called the sum of years, used as the common denominator:
This is equivalent to 1. As you can see, the first year
would have the lowest divident (1/15 ≈ 0.0067) and the last year would have
the highest (5/15 ≈ 0.33).
To calculate the depreciation for each year, the fractions (1/15 + 2/15 + 3/15 + 4/15 + 5/15) are reversed so that the depreciation of the first year is calculated based on the last fraction (the last year divided by the common denominator). Then the new fraction for each year is multiplied by the original price of the asset. This would produce (this table assumes that the refrigerator will have a value of $0.00 after 5 years):
|Total Depreciation
The function used to calculate the depreciation of an asset using the sum of the years' digits is called SYD and its syntax is:
SYD(cost, salvage, life, period)
The cost argument is the original value of the item; in our example, this would be $18,000.
The salvage parameter is the value the asset would have (or has) at the end of its useful life.
The life is the number of years the asset would have a useful life (because assets are usually evaluated in terms of years instead of months).
The period parameter is the particular period or rank of a Life portion. For example, if the life of the depreciation is set to 5 (years), the period could be any number between 1 and 5. If set to 1, the depreciation would be calculated for the first year. If the Period is set to 4, the depreciation would calculated for the 4th year. You can also set the period to a value higher than life. For example, if life is set to 5 but you pass 8 for the period, the depreciation would be calculated for the 8th year. If the asset is worthless in the 8th year, the depreciation would be 0.
Finance Functions
Microsoft Access provides a series of functions destined to perform various types of financially related operations. These functions use common factors depending on the value that is being calculated. Many of these functions deal with investments or loan financing.
The Present Value is the current value of an investment or a loan. For a savings account, a customer could pledge to make a set amount of deposit on a bank account every month. The initial value that the customer deposits or has in the account is the Present Value. The sign of the variable, when passed to a function, depends on the position of the customer. If the customer is making deposits (car loan, boat financing, etc), this value must be negative. If the customer is receiving money (lottery installment, family inheritance, etc), this value should be positive.
The Future Value is the value the loan or investment will have when the loan is paid off or when the investment is over. For a car loan, a musical instrument loan, a financed refrigerator, a boat, etc, this is usually 0 because the company that is lending the money will not take that item back (they didn't give it to the customer in the first place, they only lend him or her some money to buy the item). This means that at the end of the loan, the item (such as a car, boat, guitar, etc) belongs to the customer and it is most likely still worth something.
As described above and in reality, the Future Value is the amount the item would be worth at the end. In most, if not all, loans, it would be 0. On the other hand, if a customer is borrowing money to buy something like a car, a boat, a piano, etc, the salesperson would ask if the customer wants to put a "down payment", which is an advance of money. Then, the salesperson or loan officer can either use that down payment as the Future Value parameter or simply subtract it from the Present Value and then apply the calculation to the difference. Therefore, you can apply some type of down payment to your functions as the Future Value.
The Number Of Periods is the number of payments that make up a full cycle of a loan or an investment.
The Interest Rate is a fixed percent value applied during the life of the loan or the investment. The rate does not change during the length of the Periods.
For deposits made in a savings account, because their
payments are made monthly, the rate is divided by the number of periods (the
Periods) of a year, which is 12. If an investment has an interest
rate set at 14.50%, the Rate would be 14.50/12 = 1.208. Because the
Rate is a percentage value, its actual value must be divided by 100
before passing it to the function. For a loan of 14.50% interest rate, this
would be 14.50/12 = 1.208/100 = 0.012.
The Payment is the amount the customer will be paying. For a savings account where a customer has pledged to pay a certain amount in order to save a set (goal) amount, this would be the amount the customer would pay every month. If the customer is making payments (car loan, mortgage, deposits to a savings account, etc), this value must be negative. If the customer is receiving money (lottery installment or annuity, family inheritance, etc), this value must be positive.
The Payment Time specifies whether the payment is made at the beginning or the end of the period. For a monthly payment, this could be the beginning or end of every month.
The Future Value of an Investment
To calculate the future value of an investment, you can use the FV() function. The syntax of this function is:
FV(Rate, Periods, Payment, PresentValue, PaymentType)
The Number of Periods of an Investment
To calculate the number of periods of an investment or a loan, you can use the NPer() function. Its syntax is:
NPer(Rate, Payment, PresentValue, FutureValue, PaymentType);
Investment or Loan Payment
The Pmt() function is used to calculate the regular payment of loan or an investment. Its syntax is:
Pmt(Rate, NPeriods, PresentValue, FutureValue, PaymentType)
In the following example, a customer is applying for a car loan. The cost of the car will be entered in cell C4. It will be financed at a rate entered in cell C6 for a period set in cell C7. The dealer estimates that the car will have a value of $0.00 when it is paid off.
The Amount Paid As Interest During a Period
When a customer is applying for a loan, an investment company must be very interested to know how much money it would collect as interest. This allows the company to know whether the loan is worth giving. Because the interest earned is related to the interest rate, a company can play with the rate (and also the length) of the loan to get a fair (?) amount.
The IPmt() function is used to calculate the amount paid as interest on a loan during a period of the lifetime of a loan or an investment. It is important to understand what this function calculates. Suppose a customer is applying for a car loan and the salesperson decides (or agrees with the customer) that the loan will be spread over 5 years (5 years * 12 months each = 60 months). The salesperson then applies a certain interest rate. The IPMT() function can help you calculate the amount of interest that the lending institution would earn during a certain period. For example, you can use it to know how much money the company would earn in the 3rd year, or in the 4th year, or in the 1st year. Based on this, this function has an argument called Period, which specifies the year you want to find out the interest earned in.
The syntax of the IPmt() function is:
IPmt(Rate, Period, NPeriods, PresentValue, FutureValue, PaymentType)
The Rate argument is a fixed percent value applied during the life of the loan.
The PresentValue is the current value of the loan or investment. It could be the marked value of the car, the current mortgage value of a house, or the cash amount that a bank is lending.
The FutureValue is the value the loan or investment will have when the loan is paid off.
The NPeriods is the number of periods that occur during the lifetime of the loan. For example, if a car is financed in 5 years, this value would be (5 years * 12 months each =) 60 months. When passing this argument, you must remember to pass the right amount.
The Period argument represents the payment period. For example, it could be 3 to represent the 3rd year of a 5 year loan. In this case, the IPmt() function would calculate the interest earned in the 3rd year only.
The PaymentType specifies whether the periodic (such as monthly) payment of the loan is made at the beginning (1) or at the end (1) of the period.
The FutureValue and the PaymentType arguments are not required.
The Amount Paid as Principal
While the IPmt() function calculates the amount paid as interest for a period of a loan or an investment, the PPmt() function calculates the actual amount that applies to the balance of the loan. This is referred to as the principal. Its syntax is:
PPMT(Rate, Period, NPeriods, PresentValue, FutureValue, PaymentType)
The argument are the same as described in the previous sections
The Present Value of a Loan or an Investment
The PV() function calculates the total amount that future investments are worth currently. Its syntax is:
PV(Rate, NPeriods, Payment, FutureValue, PaymentType)
The arguments are the same as described earlier.
The Interest Rate
Suppose a customer comes to your car dealer and wants to buy a car. The salesperson would first present the available cars to the customer so the customer can decide what car he likes. After this process and during the evaluation, the sales person may tell the customer that the monthly payments would be $384.48. The customer may then say, "Wooooh, I can't afford that, man". Then the salesperson would ask, "What type of monthly payment suits you". From now on, both would continue the discussion. Since the salesperson still wants to make some money but without losing the customer because of a high monthly payment, the salesperson would need to find a reasonable rate that can accommodate an affordable monthly payment for the customer.
The Rate() function is used to calculate the interest applied on a loan or an investment. Its syntax is:
RateE(NPeriods, Payment, PresentValue, FutureValue, PaymentType, Guess)
All of the arguments are the same as described for the other functions, except for the Guess. This argument allows you to give some type of guess for a rate. This argument is not required. If you omit it, its value is assumed to be 10.
The Internal Rate of Return
The IRR() function is used to calculate an internal rate of return based on a series of investments. Its syntax is:
IRR(Values, Guess)
The Values argument is a series (also called an array or a collection) of cash amounts that a customer has made on an investment. For example, a customer could make monthly deposits in a savings or credit union account. Another customer could be running a business and receiving different amounts of money as the business is flowing (or losing money). The cash flows don't have to be the same at different intervals but they should (or must) occur at regular intervals such as weekly (amount cut from a paycheck), bi-weekly (401k directly cut from paycheck, monthly (regular investment), or yearly (income). The Values argument must be passed as a collection of values, such as a range of selected cells, and not an amount. Otherwise you would receive an error.
The Guess parameter is an estimate interest rate of return of the investment.
The Net Present Value
The NPV() function uses a series of cash flows to calculate the present value of an investment. Its syntax is:
NPV(Rate, Value1, Value2, ...)
The Rate parameter is the rate of discount in during one period of the investment.
As the NPV() function doesn't take a fixed number of arguments, you can add a series of values as Value1, Value2, etc. These are regularly made payments for each period involved. Because this function uses a series of payments, any payment made in the past should have a positive value (because it was made already). Any future payment should have a negative value (because it has not been made yet).
Lesson Summary
MCAS: Using Microsoft Office Access 2007 Topics
|Create fields and modify field properties
Yugo National Bank
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|Employee ID
|Employee #
|First Name
|Last Name
|Work Phone
|ZIP Code
|Hourly Salary
Watts A Loan
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|Field Size
|Loan Type ID
|Loan Type
|Loan Type ID
|Loan Type
|This is loan given as a cashier check to a customer who wants a cash loan
|This loan will be processed by our partners as car dealers
|Musical Instrument
|We have some partnerships in musical instruments stores. This is the type of loan we will make available to the customers they find for us
US Senate
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|Senator ID
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|Seating Status
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|Year Elected
|DC Address
|Office Phone #
|Web Site
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|Local Address 2
|Local Address 3
|Local Address 4


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(RNS) A new film about Jackie Robinson, titled "42″ — the number he wore during his historic career — tells the triumphant story of how the Civil Rights icon integrated professional baseball by playing for the Brooklyn Dodgers. But there's a mysterious hole at the center of this otherwise worthy film.
The man who chose Robinson for his role, and masterminded the whole affair, was Dodgers General Manager Branch Rickey, played by Harrison Ford. In their initial meeting, the cigar-chomping Rickey makes it clear that whoever will be the first African American in major league baseball will be viciously attacked, verbally and physically. So Rickey famously says he's looking for a man "with guts enough not to fight back." He needs someone who will resist the temptation to retaliate. Robinson agrees to go along with it.
But where did Rickey get that crazy idea and why did Robinson agree? The film doesn't tell us, but the answers to these questions lie in the devout Christian faith of both men.
Why Robinson was chosen
For starters, Rickey himself was a "Bible-thumping Methodist" who refused to attend games on Sunday. He sincerely believed it was God's will that he integrate baseball and saw it as an opportunity to intervene in the moral history of the nation, as Lincoln had done.
And Rickey chose Robinson because of the young man's faith and moral character. There were numerous other Negro Leagues players to consider, but Rickey knew integrating the racist world of professional sports would take more than athletic ability. The attacks would be ugly, and the press would fuel the fire. If the player chosen were goaded into retaliating, the grand experiment would be set back a decade or more.
Rickey knew he must find someone whose behavior on and off the field would be exemplary, and who believed "turning the other cheek" was not just the practical thing to do but the right thing. In their historic meeting, to underscore the spiritual dimension of the undertaking, Rickey pulled out a book by Giovanni Papini, titled Life of Christ. He opened to the passage about the Sermon on the Mount and read it aloud.
We know that Robinson's passionate sense of justice had gotten him into trouble earlier in life. But the patient mentoring of pastor Karl Downs convinced him that Christ's command to "resist not evil" wasn't a cowardly way out but a profoundly heroic stance.
When he met Rickey, Robinson was prepared for what lay ahead and agreed. But it was a brutally difficult undertaking. Robinson got down on his knees many nights during those first two years, asking God for the strength to continue resisting the temptation to fight back, or to say something he would regret.
Will Hollywood learn?
But the filmmakers of "42″ were evidently uncomfortable with all this and simply avoided it. To put it in baseball terms, they decided to pitch around it.
Of course, Hollywood has been skittish about faith and religion since at least the late 1960s. Even when it's almost impossible to avoid, filmmakers find a way. The Johnny Cash biopic "Walk the Line" omitted the central role Christian faith played in how Cash overcame drug addiction. Even in 2007's "Amazing Grace," about British abolitionist William Wilberforce, the story of his conversion and the huge role faith played in his political efforts is essentially left out.
And now in 42, Hollywood's done it again, check-swinging a bloop single past the infield when a fence-clearing clout — or at least extra bases — was easily possible.
Omitting the role of faith in this story does a serious disservice to history — and to the memories of Robinson and Rickey. But it's also financially foolish. The recent megasuccess of "The Bible" miniseries and the cool $600 million earned by Mel Gibson's "The Passion of the Christ" in 2004 are just two reasons why. The audience for faith-friendly films is huge and growing.
Which brings us back to another reason Rickey did what he did. He believed bringing African Americans onto the baseball field would bring them into the stands, too, and ticket sales would increase. Which is precisely what happened.
So isn't it time Hollywood integrated faith into stories where it rightfully belongs? Why should such stories be excluded from the mainstream in a nation that's filled with people of faith? If filmmakers do the right thing — and break the "God line"— they'll find there are countless millions who'd cheer stories like that. And who'd pay to see them too.
(Eric Metaxas is the author of Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy. He writes about Jackie Robinson in his new book "Seven Men and the Secret of their Greatness." This column originally appeared in USA Today.)


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NEW YORK (JTA) — Rupert Murdoch, whose News Corp. owns the Sunday Times of London through a subsidiary, said the paper should apologize for printing what he called a "grotesque" cartoon of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Murdoch, the founder and CEO of News Corp., made his remarks Monday on Twitter about the cartoon that appeared the previous day. Netanyahu is depicted as building a brick wall with the blood of Palestinians as mortar.
"Gerald Scarfe has never reflected the opinions of the Sunday Times," Murdoch tweeted, referring to the cartoon's illustrator. "Nevertheless, we owe major apology for grotesque, offensive cartoon."
Murdoch's statement was made in response to criticism from leaders of the Jewish community in the U.K. who said the drawing was reminiscent of anti-Semitic blood libels.
The Sunday Times defended the cartoon on Monday, saying it was "aimed squarely at Mr. Netanyahu and his policies, not at Israel, let alone at Jewish people."
Also Monday, the Board of Deputies of British Jews, an umbrella organization, filed a complaint with the independent Press Complaints Commission, the Guardian reported, and incoming Sunday Times editor Martin Ivens told The Jerusalem Post that he would meet with leaders of the British Jewish community this week over reaction to the cartoon.
Jon Benjamin, the head of the Board of Deputies, called the cartoon "appalling" and said it was similar to the offensive images of Jews "more usually found in parts of the virulently anti-Semitic Arab press." Benjamin said its appearance in the broadsheet on International Holocaust Remembrance Day added insult to injury.