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Teen wins $1K in diversity essay contest, writes about 'The Colors of Privilege'
There was no outrage; there was no controversy.
In the end, there were three Staples High School students sharing essays that grappled with the topic of white privilege.
When the topic was first announced, the fourth annual installment of TEAM Westport's Teen Diversity Essay Contest drew an unprecedented amount of backlash in the form of hate-filled emails and phone calls. The blowback was received in the days and weeks after a Jan. 31 Associated Press story ran on the essay topic, creating an international news frenzy.
But when the time came for the winning essayists to be announced and read their thoughts, they were supported and encouraged by overwhelming admiration and applause by their fellow Westporters Monday night.
"I saw what was happening and I, personally, really didn't want to write the essay," said 15-year-old Chet Ellis.
Ellis' parents, who moved the family from Manhattan to Westport when he was in the fifth grade, encouraged him to participate, however.
"My parents really pushed me to write it and they really, really forced me to get it out," said Ellis, who is black. "And once I got it out, I couldn't stop going."
His parents' urging paid off and Ellis took home first place for his essay "The Colors of Privilege."
In his winning essay, Ellis wrote he "never really thought much about white privilege" until his family left New York City.
While his classmates are aware of the plight African-Americans have endured and continue to encounter, Ellis said they do not see that struggle in Westport.
"Students get blinded by the thought that a student could get into college more easily because of their skin color, while not seeing that African-Americans are twice as likely to be unemployed, and once employed earn nearly 25 percent less than their white counterparts," the Staples High School sophomore wrote. "They don't see that despite making up 12 percent of the population, we are 35 percent of jail inmates and 24 percent of people shot by the police."
Ellis went on to explain the implicit bias he faces, even at his local Walgreens.
"But living in this place where almost everyone is white makes me question, when I'm in Walgreens and the manager follows me around the store, would this happen if I looked different?" he wrote.
Town government employees from the town clerk to the first selectman's office received unsettling reactions from across the country. The Occidental Observer, a white nationalist website, called TEAM Westport a "Case Study in anti-White Activism."
Harold Bailey, Jr., the chair of TEAM Westport, said in a February interview the topic of white privilege had been vetted with other members of the essay committee, local teachers and congregation leaders. It originated with the idea of implicit bias that came up during the 2016 presidential election, "the things that you don't have worry about when you're a certain race," Bailey said, adding that implicit bias was another term for white privilege.
Bailey, who attended high school in the South during the 1960s, is no stranger to the dark side of race relations.
Although he now lives in Westport, Bailey went to school in Knoxville, Tenn. when white privilege was law. One of 20 black students selected in 1963 to be the first sizable class to integrate into Fulton High School, Bailey, was bombarded daily with racial slurs, physical violence and threats of death. That year around one percent of black children in the South attended school with white children, according to ProPublica.
On Monday, Bailey commended Ellis, along with his fellow students, for their powerful essays.
Citing the range of responses from praise to vitriol surrounding the essay topic Bailey said, "It's clearly an indicator that this is the kind of subject that needs to be discussed if we're ever going to get any resolution to our relationships here in this country. And so I really applaud the three of them and I think we should give them all a hand."
Westport's first selectman, Jim Marpe, also spoke about the importance of addressing difficult topics head on.
"Westport has a long tradition of its residents engaging in open public discourse on difficult topics," said Marpe, who is white. "We regularly and passionately debate and defend points of view on challenging and sometimes uncomfortable topics, but we do so in a civilized and respectful manner."
"Unfortunately, some outside of our community chose to offer commentary related to this contest that has no place in civil discourse any place or anytime," added Marpe.
"Westport will continue to encourage and support open dialogue on difficult topics and issues conducted in a civil, respectful and thoughtful manner."
Civility and respect were evident on Monday, as the winning students read aloud their essays to applause from the community members gathered at the Westport Library.
Josiah Tarrant, a white 16-year-old, told the story of his family bringing home his adopted, younger brother from Ethiopia. Tarrant acknowledged the white privilege he has experienced in his life and challenges those who maintain that white privilege is a "liberal tactic that creates white guilt" to think further.
"I say explain to me the racial gaps in our country's education, healthcare, employment, wealth and incarceration. I invite you to sit down and assure me when my brother is a teen out in the world, he can walk with his black friends freely down Main Street as I did, and that clerks and customers alike will look upon him as the great future promise of Westport as they did on me," wrote Tarrant, a junior at Staples.
Tarrant's essay "White Privilege and Me" earned him second place, while third place went to Claire Dinshaw, an 18-year-old Staples senior who is white.
Her piece "The Privilege of Ignorance," explored disparities non-white students in Westport face.
"Whereas I can find skin care products easily, non-white Westport residents will find that stores mostly carry beauty products designed for white skin; whereas I can turn on the news to find countless white role models, non-white Westport residents will find that the majority of politicians, anchors, and corporate leaders resemble their white classmates," the 18-year-old wrote.
For their work, all three students earned prize money thanks to private contributions made to TEAM Westport. Dinshaw took home $500, Tarrant got $750 and Ellis won $1,000 for his first-place essay.


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FY07 Challenge America Reaching Every Community
Albany Symphony Orchestra, Georgia, $10,000
To support a series of concerts featuring a winner of the International Sphinx Competition, a competition that promotes the careers of African American and Latino string players. Concerts will be presented for students and community members located in a predominately rural area of Georgia.
Great Falls Symphony, $10,000
To support the Orchestra Residencies Program with violinist Midori. Residency activities include performances and workshops with both the Great Falls Symphony and the Great Falls Regional Youth Orchestra.
Greensboro Symphony Orchestra, $10,000
To support the Community Gospel Concert. Several hundred choristers will be led by composer, pianist Richard Smallwood in celebration of the anniversary of the International Civil Rights Center and Museum.
Hendersonville Symphony Orchestra, $10,000
To support the presentation of German Requiem by Brahms. Related activities include a panel discussion prior to the performance and a masterclass with guest soloists Erin Kelly and Joshua Copeland.
Illinois Philharmonic Orchestra, $10,000
To support the performance of Beethoven's Symphony No. 9. The Philharmonic will collaborate with regional civic choruses for the production.
Kalamazoo Symphony Orchestra, $10,000
To support the Orchesta s Rural Community Tour featuring a guest artist. The orchestra, with featured guest soprano Alfrelynn Roberts, will perform in southwest Michigan towns.
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Orchestra of Southern Utah, $10,000
To support the Global Music Suite Festival and related programming. Pianist Marshall McDonald and cellist Steven Nelson will create a composition for the festival and perform work at select local schools.
Richmond Philharmonic, $10,000
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St. Cloud Symphony Orchestra, $10,000
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Waukesha Symphony Orchestra, $10,000
To support the performances of a piano composition for the left hand titled Seven Last Words by Daron Hagen and performed by guest artists Joel Fan. The symphony will invite organizations that work with people with disabilities to the final dress performance.
Pier One Theatre, $10,000
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Lupita Nyong'o and Scarlett Johansson are on the verge of signing deals to become part of actor/director Jon Favreau's new "Jungle Book" movie.
Sources tell The Hollywood Reporter that Oscar winner Nyong'o, who was named People magazine's Most Beautiful star on Wednesday, is close to taking on the role of Rakcha, a mother wolf who adopts lead character Mowgli, in the live-action/computer-generated film.
Johansson is in talks to voice the character of python Kaa, who hypnotizes her prey.
Meanwhile, Idris Elba will voice the villainous tiger Shere Khan in the latest adaptation of Rudyard Kipling's adventure tale.
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text: At 01:24 PM 3/22/2006, David Mathog wrote: >Anybody know how many g's a typical disk can withstand before it fails? A lot more than 1g... You can take a (running) disk and move it through a variety of orientations without any problem. That would put a lot more load on the bearings, etc. than any sort of linear acceleration. But, since you want "real numbers" http://www.seagate.com/docs/pdf/datasheet/disc/ds_barracuda7200_9.pdf looks like 63 G shocks over 2msec, operating... 350 G over 1 msec, non-op. I found a datasheet for a Hitachi microdrive (intended for a personal music player) op Shock (half sine wave) 200 G/2ms Random Vibration (RMS) 0.67 G (5 - 500Hz) Vibration (swept sine) 1.0 G 0 - Peak non-op Shock (half sine wave) 2000 G/1ms Random Vibration (RMS) 3.01 G (5 - 500Hz) Vibration (swept sine) 5.0 G 0-Peak And a Maxtor Atlas drive specs Shock 2ms 63G read, 30G write Rotation shock 7000 rad/sec^2 Vibe 5-500 Hz, 1.5G Rot vibe 25 rad/sec^2 >My earthquake bolted rack might stay upright through the big 7.0 >and yet still be very much damaged afterwards due to head crashes >on the disks. > >Thanks, > >David Mathog >mathog at caltech.edu >Manager, Sequence Analysis Facility, Biology Division, Caltech >_______________________________________________ >Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf at beowulf.org >To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit >http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf James Lux, P.E. Spacecraft Radio Frequency Subsystems Group Flight Communications Systems Section Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Mail Stop 161-213 4800 Oak Grove Drive Pasadena CA 91109 tel: (818)354-2075 fax: (818)393-6875


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As a junior, Nick made 18 appearances, including 13 starts which was the third-most on the team ... Was 4-6 with a 7.09 ERA ... His 42 strike outs and 72.1 innings pitched were both also good for third on the team ... On March 27 against the University of San Francisco he threw a complete game, only giving up two runs while striking out three and walking none ... He repeated the feat one week later when he again threw a complete game, this time a shutout at Sacramento State ... Struck out six and walked just two in the 131-pitch effort, never allowing a runner past second base ... Was rewarded as Big West Co-Pitcher of the Week ... Capito's consecutive complete games marked the first by a Gaucho pitcher since James Garcia did it in his All-America season in 2001 ... In his first career start as a Gaucho, he allowed just one earned run in 7.1 innings at San Jose State, striking out three ... On April 24th at Long Beach State in the fourth inning of his start he was hit in the head by a line drive and was knocked out, but showing his true grit he returned a week later to start against UC Riverside and made eight more appearances on the year ... Prior to being hit at LBSU, had allowed just one run on two hits with four strikeouts in three full innings ... Against nationally-ranked UCLA on May 18, started and pitched three innings, allowing one run with three punchouts.
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Nick played in the North Woods League as a member of the Wisconsin Woodchucks ... In his 8 starts he had a team best record of 5-0 ... He threw 46 innings and posted a 2.94 ERA ... He struck out 30 while only walking 11 and allowed only 13 earned runs on the season.
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Fox Business Channel's David Asman asks, if the health coverage mandate included in the Affordable Care Act is unconstitutional, wouldn't Social Security also be? At first glance, perhaps.
But the drafters of the Social Security Act were more careful – or less ambitious – than those who wrote the Affordable Care Act. The Roosevelt administration was aware of potential constitutional issues, having been knocked down by the Supreme Court over previous attempts to expand federal powers as part of the New Deal.
As a result, Social Security was structured in two parts: a tax based upon your wages and a benefit based upon your wages, but not a benefit based upon your taxes. This separated out the question of whether the federal government could run, and citizens be compelled to participate in, what looked very much like a private insurance plan.
Moreover, the Supreme Court ruled on the constitutionality of Social Security during the period in which it was threatened with being "packed" with new members more amenable to the administration's views.
The downside for believers in limited government is that, even if the health coverage mandate is ruled unconstitutional, such a ruling doesn't say anything of great substance about the federal government's power to effectively mandate the purchase of health coverage or, for that matter, pretty much anything else. It merely says that future designers of a health coverage mandated will have to be more careful in how they structure and draft their legislation. From my perspective, that's a disappointment.Read more!


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Radio station to return to air
After nearly six months of radio silence, Brockton's WXBR-AM (1460) is poised to make a comeback and return to the airwaves within a matter of weeks, according to the station's owners.
"Our engineers are working to get the station on,'' said Jhonson Napoleon, president of Azure Media LLC, the Miami Gardens, Fla., company that bought the talk radio station from a Connecticut-based firm for $250,000 last year.
Many Brocktonians have wondered about the fate of WXBR since Napoleon's company acquired the station and took it off the air in August.
In addition to relocating WXBR's studios to 250 Belmont St., Napoleon said, Azure Media needed to update and replace the station's transmitter and equipment.
At WXBR's tower site in West Bridgewater, Napoleon said, company officials encountered something they were not prepared for: Approximately 100 feet of copper plates that ran between the tower and the transmitter went missing.
The copper "was all stolen,'' said Napoleon. "We discovered this December when we installed the new transmitter. . . . It's something you can't run the radio station without.''
In addition to the missing copper plates, they found other unexpected problems that needed to be fixed before WXBR could return to the air.
"Once we opened that conduit box, we had to look at building a brand-new radio station,'' said Napoleon.
Now that a new Nautel 6-kilowatt digital transmitter has been installed, he said, the station should be back on the air in February.
It's been a lengthy hiatus for WXBR, an AM station with a long history in Brockton. It first went on the air in 1946 as WBET and operated from the The Enterprise newspaper building at 60 Main St. In 2006 it went under new ownership and its call letters were changed to WXBR.
Although the radio station changed hands several times in recent years, it continued to identify itself as community-oriented, with grass-roots programming that included broadcasts of high school football games and locally-produced shows like "Real Estate Today,'' hosted by South Easton real estate agent Bernie Hassan, and "MetroSouth Morning News'' with Kevin Tocci.
Brockton Ward 5 City Councilor Dennis DeNapoli used to produce a sports program and an oldies show on Friday nights, until the station went off the air last summer.
"I signed off on Aug. 3 at 7 p.m.,'' he said. "My voice was the last voice to say 1460 WXBR Brockton, Massachusetts. It was a sad day.''
DeNapoli said WXBR's aging studios were held together with "paper clips and bobby pins'' but the station managed to keep going.
The longer WXBR stays off the air, he said, the more he has grown concerned about its future.
He said he's also worried that WXBR's towers are on leased land, and wonders what that will mean for the future of the station long-term. When the lease expires, he said, "what happens to the station?''
DeNapoli said there is no other radio station that can take the place of WXBR. "It's missed,'' he said.
As local radio listeners are left waiting for WXBR's silence to be broken, many of the familiar voices of WXBR's on-air personalities have moved on to other parts of the dial.
Tocci, the former news director and host of "MetroSouth Morning News,'' can be heard on WATD-FM (95.9) in Marshfield. Jim Larkin, the longtime host of "Sounds of the Emerald Isle,'' broadcasts his Irish music show over the Internet and on WVBF-AM (1530) in Taunton.
DeNapoli said he would like to continue his shows on WXBR, but he has yet to hear anything from Azure Media. "They haven't been keeping anybody in the loop,'' he said.
Napoleon said he understands the frustration felt by members of the community since WXBR went off the air. He reiterated WXBR will be back on the air soon, and it will remain an English-speaking station with programs that focus on the community of Brockton."We built a brand-new studio,'' said Napoleon. "It's going to be a station that will last.''


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BigMcK wrote:Like you, I have zero desire to experiment with drugs. But how many people are willing if they knew it wasn't likely to end in criminal problems?
If the goal is to legalize drugs to gain sales tax revenue, where do the proceeds go? Education of the dangers? Other government run social programs?
I think it's funny how everyone I talk with who is against legalizing drugs, says that they have no desire to use drugs but think that if they were to suddenly to become legal, people would suddenly start to use drugs. They say this like everyone in this country is stupid, that the government should hold their hand from cradle to grave, and that people actually care about the laws and follow them. People who are dumb enough to use them, will use them. People who are smart enough not to use them, aren't going to use them no matter if there are laws or not. If I want to commit suicide I'm not going to say, oh look the law says that I can't take my own life, I don't want to break the law so I'm going to keep living on. People own their bodies, not the government.
I would have the revenue go towards rehab and education. The drug war has failed miserably and helping people with addictions instead of throwing them in jail is the way to go. If you want proof that education works, just look at how cigarette usage is way down among the youth. Since elementary school I've been brainwashed into thinking that tobacco was the devil.
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They've Arrived - Bags for Japan
Short, slightly over-excited note to say that I've now seen my Bags for Japan in real life!
They are brilliant (vain, I know), but they're also nice fabric and the print quality is great.
If you've ordered one, hopefully they'll arrive soon - and if you haven't got one yet, why ever not?
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MILLEDGEVILLE, Ga. – The No. 16 Georgia College golf squad seeks to improve their sixth spot performance at last year's Peach Belt Conference (PBC) Tournament, as they prepare to head to Callaway Gardens, Ga. April 18-19.
The PBC Tournament this year will be a challenging one as always for the Bobcats, with five PBC teams ranked in the top-25 in the Golfstat Relative Rankings. USC Aiken leads Peach Belt teams at No. 3, followed by Armstrong Atlantic State University at No. 8, Columbus State University No. 10, Flagler College No. 14 and the Bobcats at No. 16.
The Bobcats have won a total of two Peach Belt Championships in the past; the first coming in 2000 with a total score of 608 after two rounds, and the second in 2010 with a score of 881 after three.
The Bobcats will send five players to the tournament: Seniors Bryan Fox (Roswell, Ga.) with a team-best stroke average of 72.4 and Victor Monte (Chantilly, Va.) at 74.4, sophomore David Sullivan (Woodstock, Ga.) at 76.6, and freshmen Nicolas Falkinhoff (Buenos Aires, Argentina) 75.8 and Conner Albright (Macon, Ga.) at 75.3.
Fox led the team last year, finishing in fifth place out of the 55 golfers with a three-over par 219. He remained consistent throughout the three rounds, shooting a 73 to match his first pair. Monte finished at No. 22 after posting a 75 during the final round.
Action begins with two rounds Friday, the third and final round coming Saturday. Live scoring will be available here: http://www.golfstatresults.com/public/indexh.cfm?tournament_id=5307 .
The Georgia College Department of Athletics, two-time winners of the PBC Commissioner's Cup, sponsors 11 varsity athletic programs at the NCAA Division II level. As a Division II program, Bobcat Athletics prides itself on balancing the life of the student-athlete, evidenced by the teams' multiple appearances in post-season competition as well as documented academic success and community-service involvement. Sign up at @GCBobcats on Twitter and Facebook for up-to-the-minute reports, and visit GCBobcats.PhotoReflect.com to purchase photo prints from home athletic contests.


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WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Top Republicans investigating the botched "Fast and Furious" gun-running sting have demanded that the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives explain why an official at the center of the controversy remains a government employee while apparently working for a top financial firm.
Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, and Rep. Darrell Issa, R-California, wrote to Acting ATF Director Todd Jones complaining the arrangement for "double dipping" in the case of William McMahon is "not the culture of change that you promised to bring to ATF."
The letter from Grassley and Issa said that McMahon, the agency's former Deputy Assistant Director for Field Operations, has been allowed to take extended paid leave to enable him to reach retirement eligibility while working as head of global security for JP Morgan in the Philippines.
The lawmakers faulted McMahon for failing in his official post to properly supervise the activities of the agency's Phoenix office, which ran "Fast and Furious." They also blamed him for "his admitted failure to read important documents he was responsible for authorizing and his false testimony regarding his role in authorizing applications for wiretaps in the case".
The conclusions were included in their latest staff report on the case in July.
"Fast and Furious" attracted congressional scrutiny for allowing illegally purchased weapons to be smuggled into Mexico from Arizona. In the botched sting, more than a thousand weapons were lost and ended up with Mexican drug cartels. The controversy exploded when two of the lost weapons were found at the scene of the killing of U.S. Border Patrol agent Brian Terry in Arizona.
The ATF confirmed on Wednesday that it had received the correspondence.
"We are reviewing the letter, and will respond," said Drew Wade, an agency spokesman.
Wade said McMahon remains an ATF employee but is on leave. He declined to provide other details but the Grassley/Issa letter said that a senior ATF official confirmed McMahon's employment status last week.
The lawmakers called it an "unusual arrangement" that came about recently. They said McMahon's leave apparently would last about four or five months and allow him to begin his second career before officially separating from the government.
JP Morgan could not immediately be reached for comment.
Grassley and Issa gave Jones until September 4 to answer more than 20 questions about McMahon's employment status.
The Justice Department inspector general is believed to be close to completing an investigation of "Fast and Furious." Attorney General Eric Holder has been awaiting the report to determine what actions to take against individuals involved in the case.
Holder promised Congress that such "gun walking" of weapons into Mexico would never again be allowed. The House found Holder in contempt in June for refusing to fully comply with requests for information about "Fast and Furious" sought by Issa's committee.


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by Tom Utescher
A little more than five minutes before game time for a varsity summer league contest last Thursday, Pennridge High School had all seven of its players on hand, while out on the court taking some warm-up shots was a single representative from Mount St. Joseph Academy.
With little time to spare, various Mounties scurried into the gym until the Magic matched the Lady Rams' numbers. The way the contest played out, though, Mount St. Joe probably could've gotten the job done with fewer athletes, holding Pennridge scoreless in the first half while accumulating 38 points of its own. The Magic then coasted to a 64-11 victory.
Rising senior guard Bridget Higgins hit a 15-foot jumper less than 10 seconds into the game and her classmate Maddie Kohler connected from the three-point arc in the second minute, setting the Magic up with a lead that was never in jeopardy the rest of the way.
Known primarily as a ball-handler and a tenacious defender through much of her Mount career, Higgins has recently been stepping up her contributions as an outside shooter. A product of Lafayette Hill's St. Philip Neri School, she netted 14 of her game high 18 points during the first half of Thursday's bout, mixing in a pair of three-pointers.
The third senior on the team, small forward Cailin Schmeer, finished with 13 points, and helped fuel the Magic's fiery first-half with a "three," two shorter field goals, and a free throw. At 15-0 with 10:59 remaining in the opening half, the Rams called their first time-out, but to no avail.
Joining in on the scoring were Regan Gallagher and Carly Monzo, who were both brought up to the MSJ varsity squad as freshmen last winter. The other two contributors on Thursday were juniors Anne Burgoyne and Adrienne Cellucci. Burgoyne, a Norwood Fontbonne Academy graduate, was a starter on the 2010 Mount field hockey team that reached the final four of the state tournament. Cellucci keeps busy in a Mount uniform all year long, running cross country in the fall and track in the spring.
After Burgoyne opened the second half with a driving lay-up to make it 40-0, Penn Ridge penetrated to the hoop to finally get on the scoreboard.
The Magic had called off their fast break in the middle of the first half, and in the second period Pennridge gained a little confidence and at least was able to lift its total into double figures by the end.
Gallagher divided her 12 points evenly between the two periods, and Monzo was right behind with 11. Burgoyne finished with four points and Cellucci had three points on the night.


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The Wall Street Journal - November 05, 2012by MICHAEL CORKERY, SHARON TERLEP and SEAN GARDINER
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y.--As superstorm Sandy barreled toward New York City, Jack Paterno, who got around in a wheelchair, stayed put in the low-lying neighborhood of Midland Beach. Nearby family members assumed the storm wasn't going to be so bad. But when it hit, a wall of water submerged Mr. Paterno's one-story bungalow in a matter of minutes.
"There was this 5- to 6-foot wave of water just coming down the street, nonstop,'' said Mr. Paterno's next-door neighbor, Al Rami, 28 years old. Family members tried to get to the 65-year-old Mr. Paterno, but the storm surge held them back, a niece said. On Wednesday, police found his body inside his house.
Millions of lives have been upended by the storm, which left 110 reported dead, tens of thousands in the metropolitan area homeless and many more grappling with power outages and gas shortages. But nowhere was Sandy more deadly than in and around Midland Beach, a working-class enclave of families of Irish, Italian and Russian descent.
Ten of the 40 known to have died in New York City lived along a roughly one-and-a-half mile stretch of the Staten Island coastline. The dead were mostly older people, many of whom lived alone in homes that were no match for the storm surge neighbors said overtook the streets. All are believed to have drowned.
Several factors combined to turn the spot into a deathtrap: Many residents appeared to ignore evacuation orders; the low-lying maze of one-way streets and marshlands made it a catch basin for the surge; and aging one-story bungalows were quickly subsumed by water.
As residents dig through the rubble, many are pondering whether to rebuild in a place that suddenly feels vulnerable to natural catastrophe. It is a question being posed by many others in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut whose homes were ravaged by the storm.
"If I had the option, I would get the heck out of here,'' said Roman Bediner, who lives one block from where a 77-year-old woman died. "I know that this is just going to keep happening."
Mr. Bediner moved his family from a Brooklyn apartment to Staten Island in 2005 because he could afford a home near the beach. Soon after moving in, he noticed that every time it rained for a few days, his first floor would flood and the storm-sewer system would back up into his plumbing. On some rainy days, his toilet would overflow.
The neighborhood is bordered by Father Capodanno Blvd., a major thoroughfare running along Lower New York Bay that is higher than the streets behind it, and by Seaview Ave., also higher. Residents say that causes the streets in between to collect water in big storms. The nearby wetlands are supposed to act as a natural sponge for storm runoff, but development and road work has meant water regularly seeps into their homes, residents said.
Fearing a flood, Mr. Bediner drove his family out of Midland Beach at about noon on Monday. Many of his neighbors stayed.
As wind and rain intensified on Monday afternoon, the mood in the neighborhood was still upbeat. "We were out there joking, saying, 'They hyped Irene so much, and what'd we get? A little water,' " recalled Laura Gatti. About three-quarters of her immediate neighbors decided to weather the storm in their homes. Many recalled that Tropical Storm Irene in 2011 had turned out to be less fierce than predicted, and some worried about looting if they left.
Still, Ms. Gatti was a little worried about her 85-year-old neighbor, James Rossi. He lived alone and tended toward stubbornness and self-sufficiency. Earlier, Mr. Rossi had allowed Ms. Gatti's boyfriend to board up his front window.
The last time they saw him, Mr. Rossi, a military veteran, was returning to his house after moving his car to higher ground. By 6:20 p.m., Ms. Gatti said, water, a few feet deep, was flowing down her street. Within 20 minutes, she said, the water had risen well above her waist.
Ms. Gatti said there was no sign of Mr. Rossi as residents pried open windows and escaped, wading to higher ground.
Before leaving, she, her boyfriend and another friend collected necessities: her pocketbook, a trash bag full of clothes and dog food. Their 50-pound English bulldog can't swim and had to be carried. Water pushed at their backs as they waded up the hill where their car was parked.
Police said Mr. Rossi's body was found in his backyard. His dog, Shorty, was found dead atop the stove, neighbors said.
Eugene Contrubis, 62, also refused to leave his bungalow, despite his sister's entreaties to stay with her on higher ground. He told her he wasn't leaving and that his neighbors also were staying, she said. At 8:15 p.m., he left her a voice mail. "It was very calm, but he said the water was seeping into the house," Christina Contrubis recalled. That is the last she heard from him. He was found dead in his home.
School-bus driver Lorreta Desio, 57, said when she ran out of her bungalow and tried to escape to a newer two-story house across the street, the water swiftly rose from her knees to her neck. She retreated back to her bungalow with her boyfriend, David Troise, 58. They brought their cat into the attic and punched a hole through the roof as the waters rose.
For three days after the storm, Mr. Troise didn't hear anything from a man and woman who lived in the bungalow directly behind them. Before the storm, the woman told Mr. Troise she didn't want to leave her parrot, cats and dogs behind, so she stayed along with her roommate, a 65-year-old man who used to collect cans around Midland Beach.
On Thursday, Mr. Troise discovered the woman's body hanging out her living-room window. He said he waved down the National Guard troops patrolling the streets, who found the man inside.
Neighbors of Mr. Paterno, the man who used the wheelchair, said they assumed he had been evacuated. One of his brothers had tried to reach him in his van on Monday night, but the floodwaters were too deep, his niece Jessica Paterno said. The brother waded down the street, but turned back to get other family members in the van out of danger.
At the height of the flood, neighbor Daniel Walsh looked across the street and saw water one foot from the top of the Mr. Paterno's roof.
On Tuesday, a nephew of Mr. Paterno's used his boat to go to the house.
He rescued his uncle's dog from atop a bird cage, the niece said. But he couldn't locate his uncle in the flooded home.
On Wednesday, rescue workers found Jack Paterno's body in his bungalow. His niece said he had cerebral palsy.
"It's the saddest thing,'' said Mr. Rami, his neighbor. "Imagine the water is rising and you can't do anything about it."
--Dana Mattioli contributed to this article.


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Windows Phone 7 has been talking about the Mango update and everything it promises to bring to the fledgling mobile OS nearly since its own launch. Finally, the update is on its way (although the rollout might not be as quick and easy as foretold) and Microsoft has reportedly packaged a few surprises in to boot.
Namely, WP7 will soon boast Wi-Fi tethering capabilities thanks to the Mango update. WP7 owners can use their handsets to share connectivity with their other 3G or 4G devices, and Microsoft says you should be able to share Wi-Fi for up to five computers.
But if you know anything about Wi-Fi tethering it's that it's not as easy as allowing your various devices to piggyback off of one—there are your carriers to consider. While networks haven't specifically addressed what the recourse for using the feature would be, there are likely to be extra charges.
Fees tacked on by your mobile provider? We know, that's slightly less than a revelation. But it's the technicalities of WP7's networking hardware that may also present a problem. Enabling Wi-FI tethering requires a specific chipset, one that not all WP7 handsets are currently using (though future ones will). So basically, a handful of WP7 units out there will be able to use this function and others won't. If you want to know if you're one of the lucky ones, you need to find out if your phone is running a Broadcom 4329 chipset. If it isn't, then you can at least be comforted by the thought that you're next handset upgrade surely will (or at least that's what Microsoft is heavily implying).
The other big surprise isn't so much of a surprise now, but Microsoft recently announced its App Marketplace for the Web. Now users will be able to remotely install new apps for their phones.


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Catching 'The View' in Dundee
Scotland's pride and joy, The View, tells us where to hit the pitch in their hometown.
The British music scene has been quite lively as of late, with hit bands popping up across the land. Among these, The View launched their debut album ("Hats Off to the Buskers") in February, and it promptly reached No. 1 on the U.K. charts. The tempo and solid guitars complement stylish melodies, with just a hint of agony, and not a throwaway song among them. If you're into the Libertines, this album should hit the spot.
I spoke with members Kyle (guitar/bass/vocals) and Pete (guitar). Both are from Dundee, Scotland, but Kyle kicked off saying, "Edinburgh is actually much larger than Dundee, it was the location for the movie 'Trainspotting' and might be more interesting."
Perhaps he's just being modest about his hometown, so I tried to pry out some local answers by asking about their recommendations for someone doing a three-day, two-night stay in Dundee.
"Hmm…three days, two nights, eh?" countered Pete.
"Well, there are two pro soccer teams in Dundee, Dundee United and Dundee FC. Their stadiums sit right next to each other, not even 100 meters apart. On weekends both sets of fans show up, and it turns into quite a spectacle. The game aside, this scene alone is worth the trip."
Two stadiums this close definitely makes for an unusual experience, but for three days we might need a bit more filler. Dundee United is in the same Scottish Premiere League as Celtics, the popular club where Shunsuke Nakamura hangs his cleats. Dundee FC is currently one league below, preventing fans from enjoying a "Dundee Derby" – sure to be a raucous occasion.
"In our hometown, when the weekend comes, fathers and sons usually head out for some soccer or golf," says Pete.
"The birthplace of golf, St. Andrews, is right around the corner, thus making golf a familiar pastime. In Dundee, when someone asks, 'You wanna head out?' it's usually to either the pitch or the greens. The prices are cheap and would be perfect for a trip to Dundee."
The View's debut wax and a few of their other picks:
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Today we shall present four additional members of the First Quorum of the Seventy to you for your votes.
In 1941, five high priests were called to assist the Twelve Apostles in their heavy workload, and to fill a role similar to that envisioned by the revelations for the First Quorum of the Seventy. The scope and demands of the work at that time did not justify the reconstitution of the First Quorum of the Seventy. In the intervening years, additional Assistants to the Twelve have been added and today we have twenty-one.
Commencing a year ago, brethren other than the First Council of the Seventy were called into the First Quorum of the Seventy, and at present there are fourteen in that quorum, including the First Council.
Since the functions and responsibilities of the Assistants to the Twelve and the Seventy are similar, and since the accelerated, worldwide growth of the Church requires a consolidation of its administrative functions at the general level, the First Presidency and the Quorum of the Twelve, with the concurrence of the Assistants to the Twelve and the First Quorum of the Seventy, have felt inspired to call all of the Assistants to the Twelve into the First Quorum of the Seventy, to call four new members into that quorum, and to restructure the First Council of the Seventy.
You will see that these changes, which are reflected in the list of General Authorities to be read by President N. Eldon Tanner, bring to thirty-nine the total number in the First Quorum of the Seventy thus providing a majority for the transaction of quorum business.
With this move, the three governing quorums of the Church defined by the revelations—the First Presidency, the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, and the First Quorum of the Seventy—have been set in their places as revealed by the Lord. This will make it possible to handle efficiently the present heavy workload and to prepare for the increasing expansion and acceleration of the work, anticipating the day when the Lord will return to take direct charge of His church and kingdom.
President N. Eldon Tanner, first counselor in the First Presidency of the Church, will now present the General Authorities, general officers, and general auxiliary officers of the Church for the sustaining vote of the conference.


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I have found no proof, but according to some other trees online it appears that both Joseph and Mary Potts died sometime between 1857 and 1859. Those years must have been difficult for the children, coupled with the coming Civil War. The Potts sons were very involved with the Civil War in Johnson County, Missouri. I have found record of at least four of the five brothers fighting in the Civil War. Harriett's brother, James, was killed in 1862 while fighting with Co. G, 7th Regiment Missouri State Militia Cavalry.
Harriett married Thomas Jefferson Burnett in Johnson County, Missouri on March 24, 1858. The couple had eight children, two dying in infancy.
The Burnett family moved around west Missouri for several years and finally settled in Kingsville, Missouri by 1880. Thomas was a farmer and served as Justice of the Peace for several years and Harriett stayed at home with the family. Thomas died in 1905 and was buried in Kingsville Cemetery, Johnson County, Missouri. Harriett died February 19, 1919, in Pleasant Hill, Cass County, Missouri, I am assuming she was living with her daughter at the time. She was laid to rest next to her husband in Kingsville.
As is true with many of my ancestors I know little of what Harriett was actually like. Based on her husband's obituary I believe that they attended the Christian church in Kingsville, but that is the extent of my knowledge. Sadly, the only thing I can think of to locate more on Harriett is the following:
1. Find her obituary.
This post is part of my on-going goal of 2013 to research each of my 32 3rd great-grandparents more in-depth. Harriett is #10 on my list.


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Human caused climate change is an agreed upon scientific fact. Every major scientific association in the world that deals with some aspect of climate change agree that human activity has increased the levels of carbon dioxide [CO2] in our atmosphere, and subsequently, the temperature of the planet. As a result, polar and glacial ice is melting at phenomenal rates, threatening to destabilize the salinity of the oceans, destroy whole ecosystems, and submerge thousands of miles of coastline around the world. In recent years we've seen record temperatures, extreme weather, and changes in animal migratory and breeding patterns. If we continue down the path we are on, seasons will be permanently altered, ecosystems and food systems will fail all over the world, species will slide into extinction at a rate unseen in millions of years, and human beings will face their most uncertain future since the last ice age. If we continue to conduct business as usual and don't do something to reduce the 90 million tons of CO2 we are putting into the atmosphere every day this is the legacy we will leave our children.
According to most demographers I am a member of Generation X. I was born in 1972 and my lifespan includes a time when the cell phones and the internet didn't exist to a time when you could get, do, see or say almost anything online. I am also the father of two wonderful daughters, one is about to be a sophomore in high school, and the other is entering the second grade. Both are brilliant, beautiful and full of wonder about the natural world. It is largely because of them that I chose to fly to San Francisco in August, 2012 to take part in the Climate Reality Project's Climate Leader Corps Training. Despite their obvious similarities as sisters and in life experiences, according to demographers, my two daughters are members of different generations. According to those experts my older daughter [born in 1998] is a member of Generation Y, while my younger daughter [born in 2005] is a member of Generation Z. While I understand the reasons behind putting my daughters into different generations, I respectfully disagree. I have started to classify everyone born in 1992 or after as part of one generation, the Climate Generation.
Much like the Greatest Generation and the Baby Boomers, the Climate Generation is defined by the single most important impact on their lives, and that without a doubt, is and will be climate change. The Climate Generation begins in 1992, coinciding with the Rio Earth Summit, the first of its kind and an unprecedented effort by the United Nations to bring together heads of state to establish a responsible roadmap for environmental stewardship and sustainable development. Regardless of the successes and failures of the first Earth Summit, it marks an important juncture in human history, and marks the beginning of the Climate Generation.
The Rio Earth Summit was important for establishing a worldwide awareness and expectation about the environment, but it is what we as the parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles and mentors of the Climate Generation do about climate change will determine in large part what kind of global environment they inherit. Never before have older generations had so much responsibility heaped onto their shoulders. Not even the Greatest Generation, who defeated fascism preserving the promise of democracy during World War II, faced this kind of challenge. For no matter how great a threat fascism was to free people all over the world, it hadn't been building for hundreds of years, infiltrating every dimension of the global ecosystem, until it reached a critical point and immediately threatened our survival as a species. Climate change has done just that. Over hundreds of years of intensive resource extraction and fossil fuel use, we have saturated our global atmosphere with CO2, methane and the other greenhouse gases to the point where the entire system is infected. We have started to see the effects of this infection, in extreme weather, resulting in severe drought, intense flooding and uncontrollable wildfires. How we, as a global community, respond to this crisis, will determine if our children, the Climate Generation, have the better future we all hope for them, or if they face catastrophic fallout and a threat to their very survival.
On June 29, 2012 a "derecho" traveled across the Midwest of the United States. A derecho is an extreme weather event that produces massive winds and often, intense downpours and can affect huge areas. The derecho arrived with little warning, and devastated huge areas of the country, including the area outside Athens, Ohio, where I live with my family. It destroyed homes and crops and left millions without power during a time of record heat and humidity. In fact, the days that followed the derecho were part of the hottest July in Ohio and other parts of the midwest since the 1930's. The week that followed the derecho was one of great challenge and distress for many, filled with more extreme storms. The rains that came with the storms provided little respite from the heat or the catastrophic drought that continues to grip over 65% of the country. The derecho, however, was just the tip of the extreme weather iceberg. The first part of the main body struck four months later on October 29th when Superstorm Sandy made landfall in the Northeastern part of the U.S. Sandy was responsible for the deaths of over 100 people and billions of dollars in destruction. The devastation of Superstorm Sandy was beyond anything most people in this U.S. had seen in a single storm, and it served as a wake-up call for much of the country. Since Sandy we have seen more extreme weather, more often and in more areas of the country.
The extreme weather conditions are not isolated to the United States, though. Drought has struck much of the developing world, leaving those reliant on growing their own food facing starvation. Drought is not the only danger facing other nations around the world. Widespread flooding has destroyed entire communities across Asia, leaving thousands without homes, to face uncertain futures as climate refugees.
In South America, drought, followed by intensive flooding has washed away the livelihoods of millions, leaving them without food, or worse. All the while, record temperatures around the world continue to dry up fresh water sources that millions rely on, killing crops, animals and people. With the wildfires in the west, the drought in the plains, the extreme wind and rain in the east and our propensity to focus on all things American, it's easy to see these weather events as being U.S. in origin and scope, but that's not the case. The extreme weather patterns and their fallout we are observing in the U.S. are part of a global phenomenon. People all over the world, from every walk of life, are dealing with the impacts of climate change everyday, and it promises to get worse, unless we take action.
The challenge presented by climate change is great, and the scope of the problem could hardly be larger, but this is a challenge we must to rise to face. This is a battle we have to win. If we don't, we will pay a price during our lifetime, but it will be our children and their children who suffer from our failure. It will be our children, and their children who face a world where temperatures have made massive areas of the globe inhospitable. They will face a world where sea level rise has consumed thousands of miles of coastline, creating millions of climate refugees. They will live in a time where species die off at a rate unseen since the extinction of the dinosaurs. If we do not rise to face the challenge of climate change, our children will live in a world where the crops we all rely on will not grow, and the animals we utilize for food will die of disease, starvation and dehydration. In short, if we do not win the battle against climate change, our children and grandchildren will be trying to win the battle against extinction.
Despite this grim prospect, there is reason to have hope. Over the past ten years the global community has made great strides to reduce our collective carbon footprint. We have decreased our dependence on fossil fuels, by increasing our production of renewable energy. We have increased energy efficiency standards across the globe, and developers are now incorporating smart energy use and greening of areas into their designs. The Climate Reality Project continues to train thousands of presenters who go out in their communities and together share the reality of climate change with millions around the world, from South Korea to San Francisco. Groups like 350.org and the Climate Citizens Lobby continue to empower citizens around the U.S. and across the world to demand that our leaders take action on climate change. The National Center for Science Education, along with its allies continues to defend the teaching of sound climate science in public schools. There is no controversy, only consensus, and teaching anything else is a disservice to the Climate Generation. Independent researchers and scientists from groups like NASA continue to work on ways to reduce the amount of CO2 we put into the atmosphere and ways to remove the CO2 that is there already. Then, there is the Climate Generation itself. Our children care about Earth and they want to protect and help heal their home.
I remember while packing for my trip to the Climate Leadership Training in 2012 my younger daughter asked me why I had to go to San Francisco to learn to present about climate change. Without hesitation I looked at her and said simply, "So you don't have to." Like most kids her age, she's intensely curious and she wasn't totally satisfied. So, in her typical take charge manner she replied, "What if I want to work on the climate problem?" After stopping to admire her can-do attitude and her genuine desire to care for "Mother Earth" as she calls our planet, I smiled and told her that if she wants to work on the climate problem when she grows up, I will help her in any way that I can, but I'm going to work on it now so it's a choice for her and not something she has to do. After hearing this, she simply said, "Thanks Daddy, I love you." In that moment my daughter, who was about to turn seven, understood what everyone should about climate change. The problem is real and poses a great threat and the "grown-ups" have to do something about it, or it will be worse for the kids of today when they grow up. She also helped me understand what we all need to about her generation. If we, as the "grown-ups", set the example and lead, she and the rest of the Climate Generation are eager to follow and carry on our work.
We, as a global community, need courage. We need leaders who accept the reality of climate change, the threat it poses to our survival as a species and who will put the needs of humanity above their own selfish interests. We need leaders who will follow the advice of every major science organization in the world and put into place policies that will combat the causes of climate change. We need individuals who will demand that their elected officials act in such a way and who refuse to support leaders who do not. We need communities that will commit themselves to reducing their collective carbon footprint and to battling climate change at every turn. We need nations to end their addictions to fossil fuels and develop viable renewable energy sources and alternatives. This will take some sacrifice, but more than anything, it will take the courage to stand up for the future of our children.
One day the Climate Generation will tell their children, and grandchildren about the great battle of the early part of the 21st century. Their story won't focus on the "War on Terror". It won't focus on countries fighting against each other over resources, territory or ideology. Their story will focus, instead, on the global community, working together to combat the causes and impacts of climate change. Their story will focus on how their parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles and mentors faced a threat greater than any generation before them, and what they did about it. One day the Climate Generation will tell their children and grandchildren why the world they live in is the way it is. It is up to all of us to decide what kind of world they will be describing. Will it be a world where our species is struggling to survive, or will it be a world where humanity faced the threat of climate change and won? It is time for us to ask ourselves, as a global community, what will be the legacy we leave to the Climate Generation?


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DEVENS -- Concrete trucks come and go at Lot 13 on Givry Street at Devens, as construction continues on New England Studios, a project spearheaded by MJM Development.
After much planning, promotion and permitting, earth has moved and the foundation is being laid for what's being billed as Massachusetts' first major production studio.
MJM's namesake and Managing Director Michael J. Meyers was joined by Chris Byers, the studio's operations and marketing director, as headliners for the Nashoba Valley Chamber of Commerce Breakfast Series on Thursday, sponsored by Fidelity Bank. Every seat was filled to hear the two talk about their vision for a 28-acre, world-class movie and television studio for hire.
Meyers said MJM closed on the land on June 22, broke ground on June 26, and began clearing trees June 27.
"And here we are, almost the first of November," he said.
A swath of land -- 480 feet wide by 150 deep -- was cleared and graded. Forty workers are on site daily, building frames for the massive poured footings for the $30 million "Phase 1" which includes four 18,000-square-foot sound stages, a 30,000-square-foot office building, and a 20,000-square-foot shop/mill area for set construction.
Meyers projects 175 workers on site during peak periods. Phase 1 should wrap next summer. The contractors are Hutter and Seppala.
Byers, born and raised in Lowell, said he moved to California to work in the film industry.
A glaring omission, he said, was the lack of infrastructure in Massachusetts despite the "booming" business following the 2007 institution of the Massachusetts Film Tax Credit incentives.
Byers said he sensed that a South Boston studio project, touted at the time, didn't make sense. "It economically didn't seem feasible." The project failed to materialize.
"Why don't you build a stage?" Byers was asked by industry friends.
That seed, and Byers' desire to return home to Massachusetts, fueled him through "footwork and due diligence." Byers networked with Lowell architect Jack Sullivan who is now signed onto the project.
Lowell seemed to fit the bill, and Meyers came aboard. But while investigating a Lowell site, the team threw Byers a "curve ball" deciding they needed a larger lot to develop a "world-class facility."
Byers, Meyers, Sullivan met with George Ramirez over coffee. Ramirez, a Lowell resident and former Lowell city councilor, is the executive vice president for Devens Operations for MassDevelopment -- the state agency charged with redeveloping the former Army base.
"It just became the perfect opportunity," said Byers. "A fit made in Heaven."
Byers worked with MassDevelopment and the Devens Enterprise Commission on land-use issues, and the project is proceeding.
Where a production gets shot depends on pre-production choices by producers. Some projects are driven by the plot line.
"If you have a Western, you're not coming to Massachusetts. You're going to Santa Fe," said Byers.
Byers asserted "every production company I've talked to loves filming in Massachusetts."
Many in the audience murmured "Why?"
"Have you ever been to California?" said Byers. "A lot of it is the people and the history that you're in the middle of while you're here. There's so much to shoot here, it's almost virgin territory. Massachusetts can double for so many areas."
Byers said he has letters of intent from two studios to reserve studio space.
"That's somewhat unheard of. We're 10 months away from opening our doors. They usually come 6-12 weeks prior to shooting... you're usually one of the last to make a deal."
While Georgia, New York, Louisiana and New Mexico have lots, a lingering issue for Massachusetts productions is the lack of movie-making infrastructure.
"If successful as our business plan calls for and if demand warrants, we'd quickly start working on Phase 2," Meyers said, with four added sound stages in an abutting lot located closer to Jackson Road.
"That's sort of the big picture," said Meyers. In the future, a film school could locate on campus. The students would "feed the work base," said Byers. Byers projects 20 to 30 studio employees, with others arriving and needed for productions.
"We may see more pilots landing here and that's what leads to a (television) series," said Byers. Byers said there are three pilots in pre-production in Massachusetts, with speculation that four others may "change direction" and head to the Bay State.
Like a movie trailer promising high thrills and adventures, Meyers told the Chamber audience that the studio will have a "tremendous impact on your businesses" and that the studio will be a "huge dynamo of economic activity."
Meyers said as the number of productions ramp up at New England Studios, the upshot "means more business for everybody in this room."
Byers said his team is trying to woo a special-effects company to work off the lot. "That one thing is now driving the industry," said Byers. "It's becoming more evident every day that you shoot... I'm not sure if you'll see MacGyver explosions."
Though someone suggested that the Fort Devens reserve training facility on South Post could fill that billing.
Byers laughed.
What happens if the state tax credit for movie and television productions evaporates, asked another audience member. In general terms and with many exceptions, movie studios can be reimbursed 25 percent of their costs for filming in Massachusetts.
"There's never been a tax credit that's just 'gone away," asserted Byers. "They're usually diminished over time."
But the studio hopes to benefit from them -- as a magnet for producers -- to establish a local use and need for the Devens facility.
"Studios are going to need what we have to offer whether we have a tax credit or not. Some have said -- with or without the credit -- we'd still use you."
There used to be 38 (television) channels. We have over 600 channels now," said Byers. "How do you think we'll fill these channels with content? I think there's enough work to go around everywhere."
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Body Image in Youth With HIV
|The safety and scientific validity of this study is the responsibility of the study sponsor and investigators. Listing a study does not mean it has been evaluated by the U.S. Federal Government. Read our disclaimer for details.
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT01673750
Recruitment Status : Completed
First Posted : August 28, 2012
Last Update Posted : April 14, 2014
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This is an observational study that seeks to gather information about perceptions of body image through the use of a one-time questionnaire completed by participants at the time of study enrollment.
Effective management of Human Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) caused by the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) has become possible through the use of Highly Active Antiretroviral Treatment (HAART). As a result of more successful treatment options, HIV/AIDS has transitioned from a terminal illness to one which is treated as a chronic condition. One particular group that has been impacted tremendously by HIV in the United States is the adolescent population. As youth are living longer with HIV/AIDS, clinicians and researchers are beginning to examine ways in which the disease can affect one's physical health, mental health, and other psychosocial factors. Research emerging involving adults with HIV/AIDS has suggested that increased attention to and negative views of one's body image may be found at a higher rate in this group. To our knowledge, very few studies have examined this relationship in adolescents with HIV.
|Condition or disease
|Human Immunodeficiency Virus HIV
|Other: Questionnaire
The purpose of this exploratory study is to characterize body image perceptions among youth with perinatally and behaviorally acquired HIV. In a cross-sectional design, adolescents will be asked to complete an ACASI questionnaire that will assess body image, medication adherence, depressive symptoms, medical, and other sociodemographic variables which may relate to adolescents with HIV. Information regarding the adolescents' medical history, medications, and physical functioning also will be abstracted from his or her medical record. Guided by the Intervention Mapping (IM) approach, findings from this study will inform future intervention studies designed to enhance HIV disease management among adolescents.
To characterize body image perceptions among youth with HIV.
|Study Type :
|Actual Enrollment :
|146 participants
|Observational Model:
|Time Perspective:
|Official Title:
|Body Image in Youth With HIV
|Study Start Date :
|October 2012
|Actual Primary Completion Date :
|December 2013
|Actual Study Completion Date :
|December 2013
Participants will have documented HIV infection and are aware of their diagnosis. They will complete a one-time questionnaire.
Other: Questionnaire
The primary outcome, characterizing body image among HIV infected adolescents, will be measured using a questionnaire administered to study participants through Audio Computer Assisted Self-Interview (ACASI) technology.
Other Names:
- Reported level of normative body image and discrepancy between perceived body image and preferred body image [ Time Frame: Once at time of participant enrollment ]
The MBSRQ-AS is a well-validated self-report inventory for the assessment of body image (BI). It has five subscales: Appearance Evaluation, Appearance Orientation, Overweight Preoccupation, Self-Classified Weight, Body Areas Satisfaction Scale. Descriptive analyses (means and standard deviations of overall scores and means for each subscale) will be reported.
The Figure Rating Scale is a culturally relevant measure modeled after Stunkard's widely used nine-figure scale of schematic figures of varying size. Participants will be asked to identify which BI they find most similar to their current body type and which BI would be ideal or preferred. A BI discrepancy (BID) score will be calculated for each subject based on their responses on the Figure Rating Scale: negative BID score indicates the subject's ideal BI is larger than perceived; positive BID score indicates the subject wants to be smaller/thinner than perceived; score of zero indicates the subject prefers his/her perceived BI.
Choosing to participate in a study is an important personal decision. Talk with your doctor and family members or friends about deciding to join a study. To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contacts provided below. For general information, Learn About Clinical Studies.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|16 Years to 23 Years (Child, Adult)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
|Sampling Method:
|Non-Probability Sample
Inclusion Criteria:
- Diagnosis of HIV infection as documented in adolescent's medical record
- Adolescent is aware of his/her HIV diagnosis
- The adolescent/caregiver's primary language in English
- Adolescent is ≥ 16 and < 24 years old
- Adolescent is willing and able to provide consent per institutional guidelines
Exclusion Criteria:
- Adolescent has documented diagnosis of mental retardation or a significant motor or sensory impairment that would preclude participation in the study survey.
- Adolescent has known acute psychiatric illness, including suicidal ideation, homicidal ideation or active psychosis.
- Adolescent is a pregnant female.
To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contact information provided by the sponsor.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT01673750
|United States, Tennessee
|St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
|Memphis, Tennessee, United States, 38105
|Principal Investigator:
|Megan Wilkins, PhD
|St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
Additional Information:
|Responsible Party:
|St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT01673750 History of Changes
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|First Posted:
|August 28, 2012 Key Record Dates
|Last Update Posted:
|April 14, 2014
|Last Verified:
|April 2014
Keywords provided by St. Jude Children's Research Hospital:
Body Image
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome
HIV Infections
Immunologic Deficiency Syndromes
Immune System Diseases
Lentivirus Infections
Retroviridae Infections
RNA Virus Infections
Virus Diseases
Slow Virus Diseases