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Thursday, September 06, 2012
Facundo the Great
Here's another Storycorps short animated by the Rauch Brothers. Storycorps is raising money through Kickstarter to do a half hour special. The goal is only $25,000, so I don't know if the money is to simply top up a budget or if they're going to do a slight amount of new animation to wrap around the work they've already done.
In any case, I'm a fan of their work and look forward to them doing more.
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- Karl Armen Boudjikanian said...
Great little anecdote told through animation. The scene where we see the silhouettes of the teachers talking behind the glass door as the narrator goes on is clever. Characters lip syncing to what a narrator is saying doesn't happen that often in film. But this one works without calling attention to itself. It almost feels natural.
- September 07, 2012 4:18 PM
There's nothing great or clever about any of that - this looks very "studenty." The timing, for one thing, is way off.
- September 10, 2012 2:04 PM
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When filmmaker David Palmer set out to make a documentary called Stripped: Greg Friedler's Naked Las Vegas, he was not a fan of Las Vegas. In fact, he set out to expose the place.
"I did go to Vegas with a preconceived notion," Palmer says. "I thought I was going to make a film that would probably not be very positive about the place."
In 2007, Palmer signed on to document a Vegas-centric art-book project by Greg Friedler, who had photographed everyday citizens, clothed and unclothed, for his previous books Naked New York, Naked London and Naked LA. Stripped, which goes on sale on DVD and premieres on Showtime March 18, will be screened at the Onyx Theatre at midnight on March 24 and 31.
It all started, as do so many things, naked or not, on Craigslist. Browsing the site one night, Palmer bumped into Friedler's ad seeking a filmmaker to follow his latest project in Las Vegas.
"When I agreed to take on the project, I was at the point in my life when I was not enchanted by Las Vegas," says Palmer, who has made music videos for the likes of Mary J. Blige and others. "I had the Vegas experience in my 20s and early 30s, bachelor parties and Hangover weekends. I remember driving there that first time in April, alone in my car, with all my gear, and just asking myself 'What am I doing? Why am I doing this?' Now I can see a parallel of how people go to Vegas seeking something, but not knowing what."
In August 2007, without confirmed subjects or even a shooting location, Friedler and Palmer began a 30-day search for Las Vegans who would be willing to bare body — and maybe soul.
- From the Archives
- Stories in our naked city (03/02/10)
- From the Calendar
- Stripped: Greg Fiedler's Naked Las Vegas
- Onyx Theatre, 953 E. Sahara Ave., #16 (Commercial Center)
- 732-7225, onyxtheatre.com
Friedler's project got a big boost from the First Friday arts festival in August. "The 40 or 50 people people we met there ran off and started talking about it, and that's when we started getting invited to people's houses, nudist parties and birthday parties, the Renaissance Fair scene ..."
At first, Palmer operated at a remove from the artist and his subjects, a fly on the wall, observing Friedler doing his thing.
And after the month-long book shoot, Palmer took a year off from the film, nearly abandoning it. "It didn't feel complete," he says. "Something was missing — I didn't know what the third act was."
When a pre-release copy of the completed book arrived in August 2008, and Palmer saw the portraits of the 75 subjects who made the editor's cut, he knew he had found his third act.
"I thought, I've gotta go find these people. We're gonna show this book to the people in the book. So we're meeting them a second time, going deeper into their worlds a year later. I'd seen them naked already, so there was that trust factor. It was as if I had been their shrink for 10 years."
A single year in Vegas was like 10 years in his own life in Santa Monica, Palmer found. "These people had been married, divorced, disappeared, kicked out of their houses …"
"You cannot not respect and see the beauty in those photos and those people," Palmer says of the UNLV professor who lost her boyfriend to the war in Iraq, the homeless gentleman, the unusually gendered couple. "The people who had the least had the most in a lot of ways, in this film. They had happiness, love, peace."
Palmer's camera also discovered the grotesque beauty of a mostly unseen and certainly uncelebrated Las Vegas. Treating the unique city as a character, the director/cinematographer purposely avoided any the traditional stock B-roll beauty shots of neon dazzle. He focused instead on the Double Down and its denizens, the ruined façade of the Moulin Rouge, an old Downtown theater, strip malls and motels.
"Vegas is a lot more than the Wynn and the Bellagio, that's for sure," Palmer says today. "The massive dichotomy is so staggering that you can go a block or two behind the apparent opulence and wealth of the Strip and see these blown-out motels and apartment buildings.
"That's why I called it Stripped — obviously it's a double entendre or triple, even, about stripping people of their clothes, stripping the Strip, stripping Las Vegas.
"There's nowhere else on the planet that's like it," he says. "It's such a struggle to live there, I think. Your mayor [Oscar Goodman] put it well in the film, when he says, 'You have to know your moral compass.' And there's that social worker who says, 'You will find yourself, you will find your weakness — Vegas will find it.'"


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Leslie H wrote:Thinking speedy recovery for Dru. And healthy remainder of her pregnancy and whelping for her and her pups.
Any chance she'll be able to nurse?
Malli wrote:good thoughts!
Honestly I almost think you don't count; you don't breed without homes or without thought.
I believe she has had a litter before? I think her experience will benefit her here. I know bitches get c-sections all the time and go on to nurse, so I bet she can do it. Cross our paws!
amazincc wrote:Ugh.
Can you put one of those "body pillows" in there (if you have one)? That might help make her a little more comfortable and take some of the pressure of her stomach... maybe???
Poor baby... give her some scritches from me.
call2arms wrote:Awwe... I hope she'll be ok to deliver. It's true, we see moms with fresh c-sections nurse often, so she might be ok? If the pups tend to paw the area maybe you can put an opsite bandage on the wound for a few days?
Sucks to be in pain like that, what is she getting being pregnant and all?
call2arms wrote:Mm, jagged. Is it going closely across some of her nipples? And I guess Torbugesic is the "strongest" painkiller she can get right now, poor girl...
I'd definitely try to cover the stitches up when she's nursing, I can just picture those little puppy claws getting caught in there.
I really hope for you, her and the puppies that everything will be fine and that she'll be ok to nurse.
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Eyeball Tattooing Video
Yesterday, Complex Art + Design blog posted this video of Polish rapper and mixed martial arts fighter Popek getting his eyeballs tattooed. The video, beautifully produced by Will Robson-Scott, is graphic. There are close-ups of the needle going into the eye. But if you can get beyond that, it's fascinating to watch Popek explain why he's doing it ["I will be complete"], how he handles the process [smoking], the result [lots of hugs] and the healing process [pain "like putting cigarettes in your eyes"].
Howie/LunaCobra is the one tattooing Popek as he has done many times before. Howie first experimented with eyeball tattooing in 2007 on BMEzine founder Shannon Larratt, Pauly Unstoppable, and Josh. It was all documented on Modblog starting at this post.
In BME's Wiki page on "eyeball tattooing," it is noted that corneal tattooing is "known and done now for over 2,000 years -- it became almost commonplace in the late 19th century and into the 20th century to correct defects such as corneal scarring and leucomas." The procedures on Shannon, Pauly and Josh were not to correct any defects, but as an experiment in body modification. For Popek, he says he felt compelled to do it but cannot really articulate why (beyond any language barrier).
It's easy to point and jeer, "Look at the freaks!" And it's easy to cheer "Bod Mod FTW!" Neither helps any discourse on the seriousness of this procedure. There's little argument that eyeball tattooing could leave people blind, among other complications, and it's difficult to understand why one would take that risk at all. I'd love to see a full length documentary that explores this in some depth.
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Mr. Colby wrote:I'd say yes because it allowed them to sign Liriano.
I also wouldn't be surprised at all of Melancon outperforms Hanrahan this season. Relievers are so volatile and the AL East and the NL Central are two different worlds.
While I like the Liriano signing, I'm not entirely sure how that makes them much better. He'd have to revert to Cy Young form which doesn't seem likely.
Second, there's no reason why they have to clear payroll to sign Liriano. Perhaps the transactions were related, but why? They could have had Liriano and gotten a better haul at the same time as well.
Melancon will be fine, agreed.


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Gerrard and Lampard train alone
Steven Gerrard and Frank Lampard missed an historic England training session at St George's Park on Tuesday morning.
Although the duo did take part in a warm-up, they were restricted to solo fitness duties during the first open training session at the Football Association's magnificent new £100m complex at Burton.
Both men are expected to be available for Friday's World Cup qualifier against San Marino at Wembley, as is striker Jermain Defoe, who did gym work while his team-mates trained.
The only other missing player was Chelsea's Ryan Bertrand. The full-back was only called up on Monday but has a sore throat and was confined to his room.
Also present, and taking up the left-back position in what appeared to be Roy Hodgson's first-choice defence, was Ashley Cole.
The Chelsea defender was yesterday charged by the Football Association over his offensive Tweet last Friday.
Cole seems certain to receive a heavy fine for his reaction to the FA questioning the evidence he gave to John Terry's racism case.
However, FA chairman David Bernstein has revealed that Cole apologised to him personally last night and stressed that Hodgson will decide whether the Chelsea full-back plays against San Marino at Wembley, which would be his 99th cap.
After training the England players were involved in a meet and greet with the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and the Duke, president of the FA, shook hands with Cole.


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Rose:A nice piece. There are quite a number of Czech pieces around antique/junk/collectible stores in Canada, and often at a real bargain price. Somebody imported them in the 50's early 60's and then they were forgotten. They're often sold as Chalet or Murano. They're more fluid, less pointy, and usually more muted colours than Chalet That's a good start to a grouping.David
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The American Antinuclear Movement
Paul Rubinson
Spanning countries across the globe, the antinuclear movement was the combined effort of millions of people to challenge the superpowers' reliance on nuclear weapons during the Cold War. Encompassing an array of tactics, from radical dissent to public protest to opposition within the government, this movement succeeded in constraining the arms race and helping to make the use of nuclear weapons politically unacceptable. Antinuclear activists were critical to the establishment of arms control treaties, although they failed to achieve the abolition of nuclear weapons, as anticommunists, national security officials, and proponents of nuclear deterrence within the United States and Soviet Union actively opposed the movement. Opposition to nuclear weapons evolved in tandem with the Cold War and the arms race, leading to a rapid decline in antinuclear activism after the Cold War ended.
The American Experience during World War II
Michael C. C. Adams
On the eve of World War II many Americans were reluctant to see the United States embark on overseas involvements. Yet the Japanese attack on the U.S. Pacific fleet at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, seemingly united the nation in determination to achieve total victory in Asia and Europe. Underutilized industrial plants expanded to full capacity producing war materials for the United States and its allies. Unemployment was sucked up by the armed services and war work. Many Americans' standard of living improved, and the United States became the wealthiest nation in world history.
Over time, this proud record became magnified into the "Good War" myth that has distorted America's very real achievement. As the era of total victories receded and the United States went from leading creditor to debtor nation, the 1940s appeared as a golden age when everything worked better, people were united, and the United States saved the world for democracy (an exaggeration that ignored the huge contributions of America's allies, including the British Empire, the Soviet Union, and China). In fact, during World War II the United States experienced marked class, sex and gender, and racial tensions. Groups such as gays made some social progress, but the poor, especially many African Americans, were left behind. After being welcomed into the work force, women were pressured to go home when veterans returned looking for jobs in late 1945–1946, losing many of the gains they had made during the conflict. Wartime prosperity stunted the development of a welfare state; universal medical care and social security were cast as unnecessary. Combat had been a horrific experience, leaving many casualties with major physical or emotional wounds that took years to heal. Like all major global events, World War II was complex and nuanced, and it requires careful interpretation.
Asian International Adoptions
Allison Varzally
Although Americans have adopted and continue to adopt children from all over the world, Asian minors have immigrated and joined American families in the greatest numbers and most shaped our collective understanding of the process and experiences of adoption. The movement and integration of infants and youths from Japan, the Philippines, India, Vietnam, Korea, and China (the most common sending nations in the region) since the 1940s have not only altered the composition and conception of the American family but also reflected and reinforced the complexities of U.S. relations with and actions in Asia. In tracing the history of Asian international adoption, we can undercover shifting ideas of race and national belonging. The subject enriches the fields of Asian American and immigration history.
LGBTQ Issues and U.S. Foreign Relations
Phil Tiemeyer
The impact of LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer) issues on U.S. foreign relations is an understudied area, and only a handful of historians have addressed these issues in articles and books. Encounters with unexpected and condemnable (to European eyes) sexual behaviors and gender comportment arose from the first European forays into North America. As such, subduing heterodox sexual and gender expression has always been part of the colonizing endeavor in the so-called New World, tied in with the mission of civilizing and Christianizing the indigenous peoples that was so central to the forging of the United States and pressing its territorial expansion across the continent. These same impulses accompanied the further U.S. accumulation of territory across the Pacific and the Caribbean in the late 19th century, and they persisted even longer and further afield in its citizens' missionary endeavors across the globe. During the 20th century, as the state's foreign policy apparatus grew in size and scope, so too did the notions of homosexuality and transgender identity solidify as widely recognizable identity categories in the United States. Thus, it is during the 20th and 21st centuries, with ever greater intensity as the decades progressed, that one finds important influences of homosexuality and gender diversity on U.S. foreign policy: in immigration policies dating back to the late 19th century, in the Lavender Scare that plagued the State Department during the Truman and Eisenhower presidencies, in more contemporary battles between religious conservatives and queer rights activists that have at times been exported to other countries, and in the increasing intersections of LGBTQ rights issues and the War on Terror that has been waged primarily in the Middle East since September 11, 2001.
Popular Culture and U.S. Foreign Relations
Andrew J. Falk
Americans in and out of government have relied on media and popular culture to construct the national identity, frame debates on military interventions, communicate core values abroad, and motivate citizens around the world to act in prescribed ways. During the late 19th century, as the United States emerged as a world power and expanded overseas, Americans adopted an ethos of worldliness in their everyday lives, even as some expressed worry about the nation's position on war and peace. During the interwar period of the 1920s and 1930s, though America failed to join the League of Nations and retreated from foreign engagements, the nation also increased cultural interactions with the rest of the world through the export of motion pictures, music, consumer products, food, fashion, and sports. The policies and character of the Second World War were in part shaped by propaganda that evolved from earlier information campaigns. As the United States confronted communism during the Cold War, the government sanitized its cultural weapons to win the hearts and minds of Americans, allies, enemies, and nonaligned nations. But some cultural producers dissented from America's "containment policy," refashioned popular media for global audiences, and sparked a change in Washington's cultural-diplomacy programs. An examination of popular culture also shows how people in the "Third World" deftly used the media to encourage superpower action. In the 21st century, activists and revolutionaries can be considered the inheritors of this tradition because they use social media to promote their political agendas. In short, understanding the roles popular culture played as America engaged the world greatly expands our understanding of modern American foreign relations.
The 1960s
Robert O. Self
Few decades in American history reverberate with as much historical reach or glow as brightly in living mythology as the 1960s. During those years Americans reanimated and reinvented the core political principles of equality and liberty but, in a primal clash that resonates more than half a century later, fiercely contested what those principles meant, and for whom. For years afterward, the decade's appreciators considered the era to have its own "spirit," defined by greater freedoms and a deeper, more authentic personhood, and given breath by a youthful generation's agitation for change in nearly every dimension of national life. To its detractors in subsequent decades, the era was marked by immature radical fantasies and dangerous destabilizations of the social order, behind which lay misguided youthful enthusiasms and an overweening, indulgent federal government. We need not share either conviction to appreciate the long historical shadow cast by the decade's clashing of left, right, and center and its profound influence over the political debates, cultural logics, and social practices of the many years that followed.
The decade's political and ideological clashes registered with such force because post–World War II American life was characterized by a society-wide embrace of antiradicalism and a prescribed normalcy. Having emerged from the war as the lone undamaged capitalist industrial power, the United States exerted enormous influence throughout the globe after 1945—so much that some historians have called the postwar years a "pax Americana." In its own interest and in the interest of its Western allies, the United States engaged in a Cold War standoff with the Soviet Union over the fate of Europe and no less over the fate of developing countries on every continent. Fiercely anticommunist abroad and at home, U.S. elites stoked fears of the damage communism could do, whether in Eastern Europe or in a public school textbook. Americans of all sorts in the postwar years embraced potent ideologies justifying the prevailing order, whether that order was capitalist, patriarchal, racial, or heterosexual. They pursued a postwar "normalcy" defined by nuclear family domesticity and consumer capitalism in the shadow cast by the threat of communism and, after 1949, global thermonuclear war with the Soviet Union. This prevailing order was stultifying and its rupture in the 1960s is the origin point of the decade's great dramas.
The social movements of that decade drew Americans from the margins of citizenship—African Americans, Latina/o, Native Americans, women, and gay men and lesbians, among others—into epochal struggles over the withheld promise of equality. For the first time since 1861, an American war deeply split the nation, nearly destroying a major political party and intensifying a generational revolt already under way. Violence, including political assassinations at the highest level, bombings and assassinations of African Americans, bombings by left-wing groups like the Weathermen, and major urban uprisings by African Americans against police and property bathed the country in more blood. The New Deal liberalism of Presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman reached its postwar peak in 1965 under President Lyndon Johnson's Great Society and then retreated amid acrimony and backlash, as a new conservative politics gained traction. All this took place in the context of a "global 1960s," in which societies in Western and Eastern Europe, Latin America, Africa, and elsewhere experienced similar generational rebellions, quests for meaningful democracy, and disillusionment with American global hegemony. From the first year of the decade to the last, the 1960s were a watershed era that marked the definitive end of a "postwar America" defined by easy Cold War dualities, presumptions of national innocence, and political calcification.
To explain the foregoing, this essay is organized in five sections. First comes a broad overview of the decade, highlighting some of its indelible moments and seminal political events. The next four sections correspond to the four signature historical developments of the 1960s. Discussed first is the collapse of the political consensus that predominated in national life following World War II. We can call this consensus "Vital Center liberalism," after the title of a 1949 book by Arthur Schlesinger Jr., or "Cold War liberalism." Its assault from both the New Left and the New Right is one of the defining stories of the 1960s. Second is the resurgence, after a decades-long interregnum dating to Reconstruction, of African American political agency. The black freedom struggle of the 1960s was far more than a social movement for civil rights. To shape the conditions of national life and the content of public debate in ways impossible under Jim Crow, black American called for nothing less than a spiritual and political renewal of the country. Third, and following from the latter, is the emergence within the American liberal tradition of a new emphasis on expanding individual rights and ending invidious discrimination. Forged in conjunction with the black freedom movement by women, Latino/as, Asian Americans, Native Americans, and homophiles (as early gay rights activists were called) and gay liberationists, this new emphasis profoundly changed American law and set the terms of political debate for the next half century. Fourth and lastly, the 1960s witnessed the flourishing of a broad and diverse culture of anti-authoritarianism. In art, politics, and social behavior, this anti-authoritarianism took many forms, but at its heart lay two distinct historical phenomena: an ecstatic celebration of youth, manifest in the tension between the World War II generation and the baby boom generation, and an intensification of the long-standing conflict in American life between individualism and hierarchical order.
Despite the disruptions, rebellions, and challenges to authority in the decade, the political and economic elite proved remarkably resilient and preserved much of the prevailing order. This is not to discount the foregoing account of challenges to that order or to suggest that social change in the 1960s made little difference in American life. However, in grappling with this fascinating decade we are confronted with the paradox of outsized events and enormous transformations in law, ideology, and politics alongside a continuation, even an entrenchment, of traditional economic and political structures and practices.


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Welcome to "democracy," new world order style
Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet.com
Thursday, March 10, 2011
So soon we'll find out who is the real revolutionaries;
And I don't want my people to be tricked by mercenaries.
Bob Marley
Globalist stooge Mohamed ElBaradei is being groomed by the elite to successfully hijack the revolution in Egypt and fend off presidential rival Amr Moussa, who himself is a favored candidate for the US military-industrial complex, meaning that the globalists will own both horses in a two horse race – welcome to "democracy," new world order style.
"When the door of presidential nominations opens, I intend to nominate myself," ElBaradei said on a live talk show on ONTV channel," reports Haaretz.com.
As we have painstakingly documented, ElBaradei is a pied piper working for the very same globalists and NGO's that autocrat leader Hosni Mubarak dutifully served for nearly 30 years before his ouster.
ElBaradei serves on the Board of Trustees of the International Crisis Group, a shadowy NGO (non-governmental organization) that enjoys an annual budget of over $15 million and is bankrolled by the likes of Carnegie, the Ford Foundation, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, as well as George Soros' Open Society Institute. Soros himself serves as a member of the organization's Executive Committee.
In other words, this is a major geopolitical steering group for the global elite.
Another powerful globalist who sits on the board of International Crisis Group, Zbigniew Brzezinski, warned last year that the international hierarchy, of which he is a key component, was under threat from a "global awakening" that would be led by young radicals in third world countries. Having accurately predicted the wave of revolt now spreading like wildfire across the globe, Brzezinski and his fellow globalists are preparing to pick up the pieces in order to continue business as usual, while the people who risked their lives for real change will be the victims of a monumental deception. Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.
ElBaradei's rival, Amr Mohammed Moussa, who is currently ahead of ElBaradei in the polls, is seen as a more independent candidate, having forcefully scorned Israel in the past for its treatment of Palestinians as well as their actions in the Gaza flotilla raid.
However, many see Moussa as little more than a continuation of the Mubarak regime, with Moussa serving as Mubarak's foreign minister for a decade before becoming chief of the Arab League in 2001. Moussa was heckled on Tuesday night by audience members at his first campaign speech, as participants accused him of being subservient to Mubarak having supported the ousted dictator's bid for a sixth term in office.
Indeed, according to veteran journalist Seymour Hersh, Moussa was the US military-industrial complex's chosen one to replace Mubarak from the very beginning, so in Moussa and ElBaradei, the globalists own both horses in a two horse race.
During a February 8 interview with Al Jazeera, Hersh said that Moussa was considered America's favored "Plan B" should Mubarak resign, "whether he knows it or not."
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As Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya writes, there is now a "counter-revolution" unfolding in Egypt, and Moussa is one of its agitators.
"Unqualified figures are emerging, which claim to be speaking or leading the Arab people. This includes the so-called committee of "Wise Men" in Egypt. These unelected figures are supposedly negotiating with the Mubarak regime on behalf of the Egyptian population, but they have no legitimacy as representatives of the people. The Secretary-General of the Arab League, Amr Moussa, is amongst them. Secretary-General Moussa has also said that he is interested in becoming a future cabinet minister in Cairo. All of these figures are either regime insiders or agents of the status quo," writes Nazemroaya.
The power vacuum in Egypt has caused violence to flare up again in recent days as the army previously loyal to Mubarak resorts to violence in a bid to clear protesters, the kind of brutality that the mass media was obsessively reporting when Mubarak was still in power but now couldn't seem to care less about.
It seems as though Egyptians are about to get a taste of how "democracy" works in the western world, with the population being offered a choice of two equally compromised candidates and being forced to choose the lesser of two evils, instead of having the ability to elect a real leader who will legitimately represent the people and offer a genuine alternative to the corrupt regime that was removed last month.
Our warning in January that the stage was being set for "Sham Afghanistan-style rigged elections….where the Egyptian people are given the false decision of choosing between two globalist-controlled puppets," is now coming to fruition.
While the revolution in Egypt was driven by people with genuine grievances who rightfully removed a despot, the aftermath is beginning to resemble the all too familiar playbook of the likes of Brzezinski and Soros, and we are once again witnessing the globalists' trick of hijacking circumstances to seize power and ensure governments in the region are subservient to their vision of a new world order, to the detriment of their own populations.
Paul Joseph Watson is the editor and writer for Prison Planet.com. He is the author of Order Out Of Chaos. Watson is also a fill-in host for The Alex Jones Show. Watson has been interviewed by many publications and radio shows, including Vanity Fair and Coast to Coast AM, America's most listened to late night talk show.
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Did Clifford Hardin Help Fuel the Passion for Nebraskas International Heroes?
To "Respond to Randy" click on the link below and choose "Randy York's N-Sider" under "Area of Interest" on the new screen. Please include your name and city/town/state and share your thoughts on the late Clifford Hardin's decision to hire Bob Devaney or your thoughts on Warren Buffett's, Clay Anderson's and Curtis Tomasevicz's passion for Nebraska football.
This has been quite a week for Nebraska.
Astronaut and Ashland native Clay Anderson is 236 miles above the earth, holding a red cap with a white N on it, not to mention a pair of gloves used by Olympic gold medal bobsledder Curtis Tomasevicz.
A former Husker linebacker and special teams player, Tomasevicz did something that only a walk-on player with high character would do. On Wednesday, in a special ceremony in his hometown, Tomasevicz shared his Olympic gold ring with all 690 residents of Shelby, Neb., giving them a piece of something special because they all gave him something special growing up.
Then there was Warren Buffett. On Tuesday, his Berkshire Hathaway company emerged from a national Harris interactive poll owning "the best reputation" of America's 60 most visible businesses.
Yes, it was something to see three Nebraska natives embellish their reputations as international heroes.
Who else could claim an astronaut, an Olympic gold medalist and America's best known businessman making national headlines in the same week?
Is Nebraska a great state or what?
Before we answer that question, let's mention another Nebraskan who commanded national headlines this week - Clifford Hardin, a former University of Nebraska chancellor and U.S. secretary of agriculture. He died last Sunday at his home in Lincoln, and his funeral was Friday. He was 94.
Hardin Brought Devaney to Lincoln, and He Stayed
You could argue that Hardin may have been one of the most important historical figures in Nebraska state history. Without question, he made one of the most popular decisions, if not the most popular decision in state history when he convinced Bob Devaney to leave Wyoming and resurrect Nebraska football.
University of Nebraska Chancellor Harvey Perlman called Hardin "the founder of the modern University of Nebraska," and NU President James B. Milliken said the Indiana native "was a wise transformational leader, and more than any other person shaped the modern, multi-campus University of Nebraska."
Hardin helped Nebraska quadruple its enrollment in his years as chancellor (1954-68). He also led a bipartisan effort to pass the historic 1970 farm aid bill as secretary of agriculture.
Those achievements were incredible, but they are not what forever endeared Hardin to Nebraskans.
It was his behind-the-scenes troubleshooting to hire a head football coach that could transform the way the world looked at the University of Nebraska and the way the university looked at itself.
Hardin was able to make that happen because he shared the same values as Nebraskans, and he had a fundamental goal to create something great in a state not exactly known for its greatness.
He was your classic dreamer whose devout belief fueled his enthusiasm, and that, in turn, exploded into a passion that fired people's souls and lifted their spirits.
Duffy Was the Link between Hardin, Devaney
That was the almost immediate outcome of Hardin's aggressive pursuit of a relatively unknown football coach. Owning three degrees, including a Ph.D. from Purdue, Hardin became a professor of agriculture at Michigan State, where he met Duffy Daugherty, Devaney's mentor and confidant.
When Bill Jennings was fired as head football coach at Nebraska, Chancellor Hardin contacted Daugherty about his interest in taking the job. Daugherty said no because he wanted to stay at Michigan State, but he told Hardin that he should consider hiring Devaney from Wyoming,
Daugherty's word then was like Tom Osborne's word now. You could pretty much take it to the bank, so Hardin pursued a perfectly content Devaney with vigor.
The two shared a history of growing up in hard times. They both knew what it was like to experience the Depression and learned the value of hard work at an early age. To supplement the family income, Hardin's father worked on agricultural ventures in Florida for half the year, leaving Clifford, then a teenager, to manage the family farm during his absences.
In The New York Times' obituary of Hardin, the newspaper quoted from an interview it did with him in 1983 - the same year Nebraska set the NCAA football record for scoring.
Hardin explained his effort to hire Devaney and to seek national football prominence this way: "The (Nebraska) people came through the Depression. They came through the drought years. I felt the state needed something to rally around. If we could pull this off, it could be the difference. I think, in retrospect, it probably helped us get more money to build the university."
In there somewhere is a certain "a-ha" moment - Hardin's vision to hire a football coach who could galvanize the university, fire up the state and create at least some kind of national impact.
You know the rest of the story. Devaney arrived with a bit of fanfare and remolded an amazing amount of returning talent. He and his staff, which came almost intact from Wyoming, couldn't believe the athletes who were mired in the depths of one losing season after another. They shortened practices, strengthened relationships, used a rare unbalanced line on offense and became ferocious on defense.
In his First Year, Devaney Kick-Started the Program
The Huskers won their first bowl game ever in Devaney's first year as head coach. They filled the stadium against Missouri that same season and have filled it for every game since. A year later, they were in the Orange Bowl.
It was unbelievable, but true. Hardin's decision to hire a future Hall of Fame coach transformed Nebraska from chronic loser to national prominence. And sure enough, almost as quick as an overnight delivery, an entire state started looking at itself differently than it ever had in the past.
Players and fans alike couldn't help but marvel at what happened when vision met venture. They were amazed at how different everything looks when you actually step up the stairs instead of stare up at the steps. The Huskers did something no one else in the country was doing. They skipped "good" and went from "mediocre" to "very good". You better believe they started dreaming about that next step called "great".
It makes you wonder, though, doesn't it? Did one Hardin telephone call really influence the likes of Buffett, Anderson and Tomasevicz?
I don't think it's far-fetched at all to say that the greatness of Nebraska football fired the souls and lifted the spirits of Anderson and Tomasevicz, but we'll wait to present the case for Buffett later.
Watch Anderson Meet Osborne for First Time
Hit the play arrow above and check out Anderson meeting Osborne, his childhood hero, for the first time. Watch the short highlight from a beautifully crafted Nebraska Educational Television documentary, Hometown Astronaut: The Clay Anderson Story. You'll see why an inspired Anderson had no problem taking apart the ammonia lines on a 1,700-pound tank outside the International Space Station on Friday and got a new one ready to put in its place.
The tank got hung up a bit when Anderson had to remove the tank out of space shuttle Discovery's payload bay. But with the help of his spacewalking partner, he got it done.
Interestingly, at last year's Governor's Premiere for his television documentary at the Strategic Air and Space Museum near his hometown of Ashland, Anderson unabashedly admitted that one of his favorite possessions ever is a football signed by Osborne and Nebraska Coach Bo Pelini.
We've written three columns on Curtis Tomasevicz this year, so you know how Nebraska football influenced his pursuit of gold in Vancouver's Olympic Winter Games. After his record-breaking run at Whistler, Canada, Tomasevicz now goes where everyone knows his name.
Anderson and Tomasevicz share the bond of perseverance. For 14 straight years, Anderson applied to NASA for a chance to be an astronaut. He decided his 15th time would be his last, and, lo and behold, he was finally accepted. Tomasevicz, similarly, waited patiently for five years to get his chance in football. Even though he never started, he finally lettered as a senior linebacker in 2003.
Buffett, of course, is in a league of his own. And America's most famous investor, as well as one of the world's most notable philanthropists, makes no bones about his favorite thing to do besides buy railroads and create value.
In an MSNBC documentary three years ago, Buffett was asked what he enjoyed most, and here's what the Oracle of Omaha said: Put on my sweats, pop some popcorn and sit down and watch my beloved Cornhuskers play football on television.
You should have seen Buffett on Nebraska's sidelines last November as a guest coach for the NU-OU game. He was celebrating like the Dow hit 11,000 that weekend instead of on Friday for the first time in a year-and-a-half.
Like Everyone Else, Buffett Loves a Winner
Okay, it's a bit of a stretch to say Hardin's decision to hire Devaney in 1962 helped fuel the passion of Buffett, who grew up sitting in the customers' lounge of a regional stock brokerage near his father's own brokerage company. At age 10, on a trip to New York, Buffett made it a point to visit the New York Stock Exchange. According to his bio, about the same time, he purchased shares of Cities Service for his sister and himself.
While in high school, Buffett invested in a business owned by his father, and he bought a farm worked by a tenant farmer. By the time he finished college, Buffett had accumulated more than $90,000 in savings, if you measure that number in 2009 dollars.
Buffett's passion was well documented early on in life, and he didn't need five national football championships to make him more passionate.
But I ask you this: If Hardin didn't hire Devaney, and Devaney didn't hire Osborne, and Osborne didn't hire Pelini, would Buffett have camped out in Memorial Stadium all these years? Better yet, if Nebraska wasn't one of the top five programs in college football history, would the world's third richest man still put on his sweats, pop his popcorn and watch his beloved Huskers like he has for the last 48 years?
I think not, and I rest my case.
Voices from Husker Nation
Thank you so much for your wonderful article. I just now received it via email from one of my high school coaches. I am so proud to be a Nebraskan and represent the outstanding people of this state. Some of my fondest memories center around the ups and downs (mostly "ups") of Nebraska football and the legacy left by Coach Devaney and Coach Osborne. To be able to meet men like Coach Osborne only drives me to be more successful. I look forward to meeting Mr. Buffett one day! Best wishes always and GO BIG RED! Clayton C. Anderson, NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, Texas
Chancellor Hardin's decision to pursue Coach Devaney was huge, and you can't help but wonder what we would have been if Coach Devaney didn't accept Hardin's and (AD) Tippy Dye's challenge to turn everything around. Frankly, I ask the same question about where Nebraska would be right now if Tom Osborne hadn't come back. I really do believe that his losing the governor's race may have been the biggest win Nebraska's ever had. Fred Duda, Chicago, Illinois
There is no Nebraska State. There is no professional football team in Omaha. All we have are our beloved Cornhuskers, and yes, Chancellor Hardin had a vision that has set the tone for this state for the past 47 years. People plan their vacations around Nebraska bowl games. Nebraska football is the common bond between white-collar workers in Omaha and the ranchers in Western Nebraska, between 21-year-old college students in Lincoln and 83-year-old grandmothers in Fairbury, and between 15-year-old Nebraska walk-on hopefuls in Elkhorn to scholarship athletes from Texas, and beyond. "There is no place like Nebraska", and that is why we still love the state, even when we leave it and move elsewhere. Our loyalty still runs deep and true. As always, great article, and the pride swells deep from within once again! Tom Gunlicks, Sioux Falls, South Dakota
Wow, we've been great for so long, you almost forget what we were before Bob Devaney came to town. Thanks for the history lesson, Randy. We should appreciate what Clifford Hardin did for this university and this state, and his family deserves to be in the hearts and minds of all Nebraskans, whether they're football fans or not. Chancellor Hardin's decision to influence the hiring of a championship-caliber coach really did change the mindset of Nebraska. Devaney was a miracle worker. He built the program and people came, and they haven't quit coming to fill the stadium since 1962. Who knows what we would have been if Devaney had not arrived at the right time under the right administration? Thanks again for putting it all in perspective. Jim Gillespie, Chicago, Illinois
Chancellor Hardin was a man of character. Any administrator who wouldn't let an athletic team leave Lincoln until a certain community in our conference assured him that black players would have equal rights to dining and lodging gets my respect. He was a great leader because he represented all the values that are important to this state. Steve Harris, Overland Park, Kansas
When Bobby Bowden came to Lincoln to speak, he talked about how great Nebraska is and how great our fans are. Thanks for getting to the heart of when that greatness started. I had forgotten that a chancellor was the one who wanted to hire Devaney and get this train on a different track. As a retired railroader, I'm sure glad he did. Lonnie Irvine, Cheyenne, Wyoming
I really enjoyed reading this N-sider and loved watching the video of Astronaut Anderson meeting Tom Osborne for the first time. You could see what it meant for him to meet his idol and his role model. When I read that Clay Anderson had been turned down 15 straight times by NASA, I understood why he identified with a man who loved walk-ons and developed a system to make sure they got their chance to be part of something great. Susan Henderson, Des Moines, Iowa
I remember meeting Hardin when I was a boy. He was a good friend of my grandfather and came out to see their ranch in Cherry County and talk about the things Nebraskans seem to love most: removing unnecessary administration, improving the general working conditions for regular people, and Nebraska football. I remember that he did not brush us kids aside as did many "important grown-ups", but took a genuine interest in what we said. That speaks volumes about his respect for all people. I hope that parents of today can take the same time and genuine interest in their kids to keep Nebraska built on the same respectful foundation. Charles Hughes


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Road Trip: New York's Catskills
Photo: Whitney Lawson
Day 2: Cochecton to Roxbury (82 miles)
Fuel up with the inns hearty breakfast frittatas and omelettes made with eggs from Millers own free-range chickens, but dont linger too long: an early start on NY-52 may reward you with sightings of black bears and glimpses of morning mist over the hills. Turn onto NY-55, which passes through mountainous Ulster County and by the Neversink and Rondout reservoirs, two of six protected basins that provide New York City with drinking water. Two dozen villages were deserted and then flooded between 1910 and 1928 to create them, and you can still see stone foundations and old orchards protruding from the waters glassy surface.
At Rondout, continue 13 miles on County Road 42 to West Shokan and coast 15 minutes east on Route 28 to Shokan. Pair some Swedish pastry with coffee from micro-roaster Monkey Joe at the Scandinavian Grace Kafe (2866 Rte. 28, Shokan; 845/657-2759; snacks for two $10). The cafés adjacent showroom is filled with Danish teak desks, Hans Wegner Wishbone chairs, and Swedish-designed (but locally made) cabinetry. Double back on Route 28 and take a tour of Kates Lazy Meadow (doubles from $195), a kitschy motel owned by B-52s singer Kate Pierson. On the grounds, youll find 10 wood cabin suites and seven Airstream trailers with psychedelic-colored walls, vintage cabinets, and, outside, hammocks. The Hanover Farm Stand (5200 Rte. 28; 845/688-5667) across the street sells blueberry pie and wedges of local Tonjes Farm cheese around the clock. Save room in your lunch sack for a visit to Grandmère Yvonnes Kitchen (6285 Rte. 28, Phoenicia; 845/688-7340), six miles north on Route 28. Run by 82-year-old Yvonne Taule, a French former model, the charming roadside cabin stocks crusty potpies and wild-boar pâtés. Pretty picnicking sites abound, the best of which is Ashley Falls, 20 minutes north on Route 214. Take your provisions up the easy, quarter-mile hiking trail, spread a blanket, and tune in to the sound of cascading water.
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Welcome to my blog and the place where I will post my photos and musings from my life as an ultrarunner. My nickname "Shining" was given to me by a group of very special students after I finished my first 100-miler, the Massanutten Mountain Trails 100. They were the inspiration that enabled me to finish this awesome race, and I try to live each day with a "shining" attitude!
Sunday, February 3, 2008
A fine winter's run at Uwharrie
A number of VHTRCers and WVMTRers traveled to the Uwharrie 40 yesterday. We had spectacular weather (low of 32 at the start, high of 60 at the finish with clear skies), the challenging single track trail was relatively dry despite recent storms, and the event was, as usual, first-class. A special treat at the pre-race dinner was hearing a short history of the event from race founder Bob Boeder, whose books on his 1997 Grand Slam and Hardrock adventures were very inspirational to this newbie back in 2002.
I broke the elusive 8-hour mark in 2005 (7:47) and in 2007 (7:53), and was again shooting for that goal this year. I came into the race well-rested, and was feeling relaxed and comfortable with my pace, yet I found myself consistently 10 minutes behind last year's splits at each aid station. There were about 6 or 7 women ahead of me the entire race, and despite my best efforts on the climbs in the second half, I couldn't catch any of them. In addition, I found myself "scratching leaves" at least 4 times with GI distress...was it the heat? the Hammergel? The Nuun? Am I just getting too old to run fast? One thing is for sure: something was bugging my stomach and I think I will mix up my nutrition at Holiday Lake in two weeks.
Despite all the time I wasted making pit stops, I was very happy with my time (8:08) and I feel great today. The VHTRC men and women fared very well--Sean Andrish was first male, Brian Schmidt was second, and Jen Ragone, an accomplished Ironman, was third in her first 40 miler! I was very impressed with the number of women who broke 8 hours (5). Clearly, more fast women are taking up the sport, and it was fun to talk to and share the VHTRC team spirit with Jen and new member Alyssa Godesky (who almost broke 8:00 with just seconds to spare). Team and overall results are here.
Here I am chilling with Dan Lehmann after the race. Dan is the founder of the WVMTR and the race director of Highland Sky 40, as well as being my trail buddy...we always run near one another in races. Bill Potts, another WVMTR elite, took these photos and crewed for us after he ran the Uwharrie 20 in some sick fast time. Thanks, Bill!
Now, onto recovery for Holiday Lake on February 16!
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- annette bednosky said...
Hi Sophie!
Thanks for sharing about Uwharrie1 I thought of you all yesterday many times and searched the internet for some results several times today!
Sorry about all your pit stops...I know that can be monsterously frustrating! Yet congrats for finishing up well despite the unwelcomed challenges!
I am psyched that I ran 7.6 miles today and walked another 2...seems so petty compared to what you did yesterday-yet I am ELATED to be able to sweat again! I am going to wait another day or so before sending in my HL registration just to be sure I will be ready to plod through it...George doesn't think I can run back of the pack-so I am more determined than ever to do so!
Again congrats for another strong day on a tough trail!
- February 3, 2008 at 8:44 PM
- Bedrock said...
Congrats on a great race and good luck at HL. I am easing back into things after taking most of December off. I hae a marathon in two weeks and then Bel Monte in March. Also will be attending the "rock concert" in Front Royal in mid-May. Hopefully, less whining and more running this year.
- February 4, 2008 at 4:23 PM
- TrackMan06 said...
Great job Saturday Sophie. I am Jeff Dufour an am a member of MTC. You past me flying on your way back from the 40. Congrats. I Pr'd with a 10:17, fast for me. I didn't get in last year and ran almost 90 min faster this year. Good luck to you and your VHRTC companions the rest of the year. Jeff
- February 5, 2008 at 9:25 PM
- meredith said...
Congrats on toughing it out, and have a great race even if not sub-8! Email me when you get a chance firstname.lastname@example.com so we can talk about your GI stuff and recovery...I would love to help!
Talk to you soon!
- February 7, 2008 at 6:05 PM


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Air pollution may double the risk that an elderly person will be hospitalized for pneumonia, according to a new study.
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About 600,000 people are hospitalized for pneumonia in the United States each year. Pneumonia is the leading cause of death in the elderly.
The study -- led by researchers at McMaster University in Canada and reported in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine -- looked at health data from 345 people who had been hospitalized for pneumonia within a two-year period. All of them were 65 or older and lived in Hamilton, Ontario.
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Little is known about how air pollution contributes to an increased risk of pneumonia. Animal studies have shown that pollutants such as nitrogen dioxide impair the oxygen exchange areas of the lung. This increases the risk of lung infections such as influenza and pneumonia.
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I did something to my back at Karate the other day. Nothing serious, but a painful lumbar muscle strain. I took enough ibuprofen to kill the proverbial horse, but it was still really hurting when I went in to the swing shift, 7pm-3am, and it was with the grumpy thought that "nobody gets narcotics tonight unless they're in more pain than the doctor," that I began my shift.
The department was absolutely out of control on my arrival. The PAs were doing well keeping the "Greens" taken care of, but there were probably 20 "Yellow" and "Orange" patients
in beds and in the hallways waiting to be seen, some of whom had been waiting four hours or more.* And that's not even to mention the waiting room. Ugly.
So I put my head down and got to work. What else can you do? The nice thing was that according to the day's assignment, I had my own eight-bed area, which for once was fully staffed with nurses and a tech, and I had some of the best nurses on my team. And it was amazing. Things just happened like they are supposed to -- meds were given, beds were emptied, every patient I touched just got dispositioned as soon as I walked out of the room. Truly, I was in The Zone. And some of the folks were sick. One dude with a hemoglobin of 2.5 (which is about 15% of the normal red blood cell count), another with a severe pneumonia, a couple of septic octogenerians, a ruptured ectopic (diagnosed, I might add, on bedside ultrasound), etc. My partners in their areas were doing the Lord's work, as well. Six hours into the shift, I finally looked up. All patients had been seen, and the waiting room was empty. At that point, I had seen twenty-four patients, of which eight were admitted.
Now, I don't mean to brag. Well, yes, I do mean to brag a bit, but I should supply a little perspective. At our facility, the acuity is high, operations are not too efficient, and if you can see two patients an hour, you are doing well. I had seen four patients an hour. It was, as far I can recall, my all-time personal best. And even better, all my patients were done, the documentation was done, and I walked out the door an hour early. Unheard of -- all the stars aligned for me. I had also been able to do this without short-changing the patients in terms of face time. I got to sit down and talk to each at the beginning, and check in once or twice each. I can't credit the nurses enough. I ran them hard, to be sure, but they rose to the challenge. I wish I could work with that group every night.
And as I got into the car to drive home, it occurred to me that I had not thought about my back in hours.
You know, one of the interesting thing about my job is that it is always challenging. The medicine is challenging -- sometimes. But honestly, after a while, you can tell the diagnosis even before you walk into the room. You just know, somehow. The mental gymnastics in figuring out the diagnosis on 90% of the patients becomes reflex. But the real challenge -- to be efficient, to Move the Meat, to manage the limited resources in your department in the most effective manner -- that is always different and never gets old and, strangely, sometimes offers more satisfaction than does the actual patient care.
I can't wait to see what tomorrow is like.
*We use a "Five Tier Triage System"
Red -- About to die
Orange -- Very serious complaint/problem; should not wait
Yellow -- Potentially serious problem; wait should be short
Green -- Stable, minor problem; not urgent
Blue -- Not urgent at all (med refill, etc)
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I did something to my back at Karate the other day. Nothing serious, but a painful lumbar muscle strain. I took enough ibuprofen to kill the proverbial horse, but it was still really hurting when I went in to the swing shift, 7pm-3am, and it was with the grumpy thought that "nobody gets narcotics tonight unless they're in more pain than the doctor," that I began my shift.
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how anti-climactic. i thought you were gonna get done with your perfect shift, you were gonna get into your car early with a huge smile on your face, and a nurse was gonna run out to your car, get in your way, and tell you a bus full of hemophiliacs was just hit by a bus full of narcotic pain medication addicts and they were all on their way to your ER.ReplyDelete
"But the real challenge -- to be efficient, to Move the Meat, to manage the limited resources in your department in the most effective manner -- that is always different and never gets old and, strangely, sometimes offers more satisfaction than does the actual patient care."ReplyDelete
Even that is a satisfaction that is often taken for granted. Thanks for the reminder.
Well, last night absolutely sucked for me, however. I saw 41 patients from midnight on until 7AM by my lonesome self. And all needed to be in the ED, too. Not the BS toothache, sorethroat crap either. I stayed afterward to dispo my own patients because it's my policy never to turn over to anyone. I didn't get out of there until 10:20 this morning. Let's see...stab wound to flank, got the liver, stab wound to chest (these two dudes stabbed each other) PTX, ventricular lac with tamponade, aortic dissection all the way from the ascending, involving brachiocephalic, bilateral common carotid, arch, descending aorta, all the way down to the iliacs. Renal arteries were involved, too. The motherload of all dissection! Acute anterior MI, thank goodness no cardiogenic shock, Pulmonary Embolus, 1 appy (what's a shift without at least 1 appy?), 2 SBO's, dialysis pt. with flash pulmonary edema, 2 pnemonia cases, a 4 wk'er with pyloric stenosis, a GHB overdose who got intubated then extubated, Tylenol PM overdose, post op wound infection and dehis in a lady 4 days s/p incisional hernia repair....Pancytopenic pt with lung ca receiving chemo, he was in septic shock...my head is completely numb at this point. I'm gonna go to bed now. There were too many sick people to remember them all. I left 2 charts undictated and will have to dictate them later this evening when I return.ReplyDelete
Charity, I'd say that roster of pathology defies credulity, but I've seen the photos of your trauma bay and the CT scans you post. However, I have said this before -- that sort of volume plus that sort of acuity is unsafe. It's just wrong, on so many levels. Five patients an hour? With 20% or more critical care cases? Come on. I'm impressed that you are able to do it, but I am angry on your behalf that you have to. Where is your medical director? ER docs aren't that hard to come by -- get another doc for the overnights. If you don't, it's only a matter of time before the volume overwhelms you and you kill someone -- and then you'll have a malpractice case that you *can't* defend. I'm no wimp -- I'll see 2+pph at a shop where we admit 30-40% with 10-15% critical care, but that's busting my ass, with a lot of nursing help. 5 pph -- that's dangerous.ReplyDelete
Let me know if you want me to come out as a "consultant" and tell your administration how badly they need more help. :)
I'm not shietin' you about the volume, I'm really not. Last night was just one of those bat shit crazy night. I went straight home and dropped into my bed and slept without breakfast. I just woke up after 6 straight hours of uninterrupted sleep, which I rarely ever get. Ah, that reminds me to thank my lovely wife for taking the kids out of the house and occupying them for that long so I can sleep in total silence. I'll post the dissection patient's CT when I get a chance tomorrow. Yes, it's completely unsafe and dangerous. No one is more keenly aware of the situation than I. We're down 2 docs at this time and have already interviewed several candidates. Since our census have jumped up dramatically this past year, the hospital have agreed to shell out the bucks so we can hire 2 more docs. So in total, we're interviewing for 4 positions. To be honest though, the area leaves little desire for anyone to move here and raise a family. There is absolutely nothing here to attract any decent candidate to come and live.
I've actually met with our state representative (he's a high school classmate of mine) as well as our state senator. They're both interested in turning our medical center into an academic institution because it's state chartered hospital since the 1930's, which means that they can actually offer sovereign immunity to all the staffs. Our volume and diversity of pathology can certainly accomodate for medical students and residents from the state universities to rotate through. I'm negotiating with the new CEO of the hospital to extend sovereign immunity to our group since it's certainly within his power to do so. But the asshole wants us to be hospital employees first and not an independent contracting group. Bullshit, because there should be no problem for a state chartered institution to extend sovereign immunity to it's independent contractors. The wheels are turning.


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As Quonset Business Park continues to establish itself as one of the Ocean State's most successful centers of job creation, we need to consider how to get 9,100 people to work every day in the most efficient way possible. And while we continue to invest in programs to preserve open space, to enhance our bicycle path, and to make miles of shoreline more accessible to the public, we also realize that public transportation initiatives will play an increasingly important role in moving people in and out of the park as employment continues to grow here.
For us, increased transportation alternatives are an important benefit to our existing businesses, prospective tenants, and are environmentally sound. We recognize that the majority of the 9,100 full-time and part-time employees who work at Quonset Business Park commute each day in their own vehicles. And as time goes on, we recognize that improved public transportation will be an asset in recruiting new businesses here and to assist existing businesses to expand.
We have consistently worked to build and maintain a modern infrastructure, including: a multi-modal transportation system that features an airport, as well as highway, seaport and railway access. We also offer full-service utilities, including high-speed broadband, a water supply and wastewater treatment facility, and two on-site substations that provide electrical power. The amenities within the park include a hotel, the TownePlace Suites by Marriott, on-site retail, including Dave's Marketplace, high-speed ferry access to Martha's Vineyard, a daycare facility, a public golf course and banquet facility, a 2.3-mile-long bike path along the waterfront, beaches, marinas and the nationally acclaimed Seabee Museum.
It only makes sense that we make it as convenient as possible for people to get here. And so we support efforts to take what we consider to be one of our existing strengths – public transportation – and make it even stronger. For example, the Rhode Island Public Transit Authority (RIPTA) continues to finetune its routes. Bus #14, for example, stops at the Gateway – the retail section of the park, adjacent to Post Road – 33 times each day. The roundabout we constructed in the park provides a convenient turnaround for buses. Gate Road was constructed with a bus pull-off area, which also includes a bus shelter.
On top of the RIPTA routes, TownePlace Suites by Marriott has a shuttle service, and Electric Boat has vanpools – two initiatives that take additional cars off the road. The Quonset Bike Path is primarily a recreational facility, but was also designed to be an option for our neighbors commuting from Quidnesett or Potowomut. Lastly, QDC has proposed that the State Rail Plan place a commuter rail station at West Davisville, and perhaps even within the Business Park itself.
In addition to a commuter rail station on the Amtrak line in West Davisville, we also support construction of Route 95 South ramps from Route 4, which will alleviate congestion on Division Road/Route 2 in East Greenwich. We also believe the establishment of the Marine Highway system, which puts containers and other cargo on barges arriving or departing at the Port of Davisville, will reduce truck traffic on our highways.
We are committed to improving and enhancing public transportation options at Quonset Business Park. We support these initiatives because we know it is good for those who work here, for our state, and for the environment.
Steven J. King, PE, is the managing director of the Quonset Development Corp., in North Kingstown. The Quonset Business Park is home to more than 175 companies, employing approximately over 9,100 people in full- and part-time positions.
Too bad that isn't where the state airport was. It has rail, sea, and air all right there. It will never happen now of course. But years ago politicians screwed RI. That would have been the ideal place. Most flights could be over the bay and not over homes and businesses. Oh well, people will instead have to deal with a quasi-shipping port.
First, The Navy did not relinquish the airfield forsome time. Also Quonset has only one runway suitable for commercial traffic and it's just a little longer than at Green. Approach lights would have to be erected in the bay like LaGuardia and Logan to the howls and cries of protesters. A second runway would have to be extended as the alternate is only about 4000'. Looing at a map, it would certainly necessitate filling in the bay. Do you think that would happen? Please, lay Quonset to rest. We would still be kicking and scraping all these years later like we do at T. F. Green. All the while we polish our anti business, anti progress reputation and industry and commerce walk away.


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What Might '00s Nostalgia Look Like? An Exercise in Future-Retroism
There's no way to confirm this empirically, but it feels to me like '90s nostalgia has exploded in just the last year or so. Nickelodeon announced an upcoming '90s nostalgia programming block, NBA jerseys of the era are all the rage, and amazingly excellent blog posts that you should read are being devoted to its cultural relics.
Of course, this should not have surprised me. As I mentioned in the kids' sports movies post and as others have pointed out, nostalgia for a decade begins two decades after it like the clockwork of this watch (see? '90s nostalgia is inescapable all of a sudden!).
So we know '90s nostalgia is big right now and will likely only get bigger as the '10s go on. Trust me when I say I approve of that. But for this post, I want to try to travel into the future. To 2020, to be exact, when according to the aforementioned ancient Mayan nostalgia calendar that hasn't been wrong yet, nostalgia for the '00s will kick into gear.
You might find it hard to imagine, today, what anyone could be nostalgic about, and I'm right there with you. But I have no doubt that no one in 2001 really knew what kind of form '90s nostalgia would take at the time either. While acknowledging that difficulty, I'm going to attempt to predict, at this very early time, what '00s nostalgia might look like.
How will I do this? Not very well, is likely to be one answer. But as for my methods, I think there's enough to be learned from the common themes in the well established '70s, '80s and now '90s nostalgia movements/industries to develop certain nostalgia indicators, if you will.
I think a key thing that characterizes objects of nostalgia is that they are often not the cultural items that are considered actually great. I don't think anyone says "I love '70s movies, like, 'The Godfather.'" That's not to say they necessarily have no actual merit, it just means they might be things that don't immediately ensure cultural endurance.
In that way nostalgia is a concept that shares a lot with the tenets of pop art. It's as much about resurrecting what's been discarded as it is about determining what had merit. Something from the past that satisfies both these conditions will quite likely be deemed nostalgic. Something discarded that wasn't all that good has a decent chance too. And even a few things that endured because they had merit might, but only if they are extremely indicative of their time.
So based on those ideas and what I know of contemporary nostalgia, I will attempt to figure out what from several different areas of culture in the '00s will be viewed as such. You might have heard of retro-futurism, the artistic concept of utilizing motifs based on what the future was thought to possibly be like in the past. This is going to be the opposite. Join me now, as I take a future-retroistic journey to 2020…
The first thing I'd like to discuss is the Internet. I think the few years after 1995 when the Internet was truly a wild frontier, the "Netscape Era" if you will, is pretty fascinating. But I feel sure that in the future the '00s will be seen as the golden age of the Internet.
The Internet is becoming more and more the media norm every day. If the 2012 presidential election is not the last one to be covered in newsprint, I think the 2016 one definitely will be. Every facet of Internet media has gotten more corporate and slickly produced, from digital editions of newspapers to YouTube to the way music is downloaded.
The '00s will end up looking like a pretty special time in Internet-land: a time when blogs were vibrant and mostly noncommercial but still well read and commented upon, when social networking became an exciting new youth-driven thing, when a whole new culture that would eventually take over the worldwide mainstream really began to take root.
I imagine this shirt could be a prime example of '00s Internet nostalgia. So could lolcats or any other meme that seems indicative of the time before the Internet really "grew up." Hell, I think computers themselves could be items of nostalgia by 2020. I don't want to give any support to Apple's suggestion that the iPad is "magical and revolutionary." But I do think the combination of tablet PCs, ever more powerful smartphones, and the fact that the Internet will probably be ingrained into almost every product might make the concept of hunkering down with your laptop a thing of the past.
I wanted to mention the Internet first also because I think its presence will affect future nostalgic views of many other things too. Which brings me to TV. Similarly to what I mentioned about computers, I feel certain the idea of watching a show at a specific time because that's when it airs will be extinct pretty soon. You can already see this happening everywhere, what with Hulu and Netflix streaming and so on, and of course we have the Internet to thank for those wonderful things.
As for the actual content of nostalgic '00s TV, I could imagine reality shows that are starting to taper off in popularity a bit like Survivor (currently in its 22nd season, by the way) being a big part of it, especially if reality shows are not the networks' bread and butter anymore by 2020.
But the most fervent nostalgia comes from those were young during the decade in question. There's moderate '90s nostalgia for Friends or The X-Files, but extreme nostalgia for everything Nickelodeon did in the decade. And what is the equivalent in the '00s? I think the answer is the Disney Channel. That's So Raven and Phineas and Ferb will be seen then the way Clarissa Explains It All and Doug are now. Of course, future Nickelodeon-style nostalgic shows could also be from…Nickelodeon itself, which has still been the most-watched basic cable channel for years.
And I have to disclose that the inspiration for this post came from when I was thinking up a trivia question about The O.C. and was amazed at how evocative of a different time it felt, despite the fact that it only debuted eight years ago. I couldn't quite place my finger on exactly why that was, but it probably had something to do with the endless stream of indie rock that was on display.
"Indie" music (I put that in quotes because "indie" became just a genre, not really a reflection on the type of label one was signed to) will, I imagine, become a large part of '00s music nostalgia. And while a lot of it doesn't really rock that hard, the truth is that by 2020 we might be long past hearing anything that could be considered "rock" at all in the mainstream.
As for '00s pop, if you ask me which pop stars will be objects of nostalgia and which won't, I can't say confidently except that I feel certain Britney Spears is going to have a huge revival at some point. She has every element of future nostalgia written all over her: enormous initial success, a long descent into being tabloid fodder and not particularly culturally relevant, but a past repertoire of sugary pop gems waiting to be re-appreciated in the future.
To return to indie rock for a second: While Death Cab for Cutie and the Shins may have been featured in the preppy world of The O.C., the indie movement they represented was inextricably linked to hipsterism. Love them or (as almost everyone seems to profess, even if they seem to be one) hate them, I think in the '20s they could very well be seen as the definitive fashion trend-setters of the '00s.
A common criticism of hipsterism is that it is a regressive culture, concerned only with recycling stuff from the past, and while that might be true, I don't think it means it hasn't produced distinctive fashion elements. Enormous glasses, skinny jeans, beards—I suspect all these will be revived as '00s style in the future.
Another hipster-begun trend is the aforementioned wearing of '90s NBA jerseys. I am not immune. And while thinking about this post, I decided to purchase, on eBay for $1.25, what I thought will be a future item of '00s nostalgia. Although recent events make the Sacramento Kings' imminent relocation look less likely, the point remains: defunct teams ALWAYS become objects of nostalgia, with a fervor that certainly outstrips people's feelings toward those teams when they were around. (If you don't believe me, check out the winning bid for this item.) So expect teams that are likely to be moved soon, like the Kings or the Phoenix Coyotes, to be treated the way the Vancouver Grizzlies or the Montreal Expos are now.
I think it's interesting that the hipster jersey trend focuses mostly on basketball rather than other pro sports; I'm guessing this is because the '90s were when the NBA really settled in as a global presence after its big gain in popularity in the '80s. (Space Jam, whose sublimely '90s website is still online, couldn't have hurt either.) Will one particular sport dominate '00s nostalgia?
I don't think it will be hockey, despite it having an interesting journey this decade from positioning itself as the game of the future to almost going extinct after the devastating cancellation an entire season. I also don't think it will be baseball, which seems like it can survive and thrive through anything, including steroid scandals.
I think if there is one sport that might attract nostalgia in the '20s it could be football. And the reason I say that is because football might be poised for a decline in popularity over the next 10 years. The brutal toll the game takes on its players in the form of concussions and other injuries, all too often leading to serious problems later on in life, has been coming to light recently. As this column points out, it would not be surprising for football to go the way of boxing, going from dominant to fringe as the sport's dangers become more and more well known. I suspect that if that happens, vintage NFL jerseys will gain a certain nostalgic quality as totems of a cultural element that was once dominant before a fall from grace.
And speaking of people who fell from grace (even if they didn't deserve that grace in the first place), let's talk about the defining political figure of the '00s, George W. Bush. No, I don't think in the future Bush will become thought of warmly by the general public, but conservatives will surely try to Reaganize him. And in a way that will be appropriate, because I think the political culture of the '00s will be seen very much the way the '80s are now.
That is to say, as a nation gripped by a moderately irrational fear of a less-powerful-than-they-seem enemy. Just swap out the Soviet Union with terrorists. I think we'll look back and laugh at ourselves for having to take our shoes off at the airport and that this will be reflected in lighthearted movies taking place in the decade. That being said, I think compared to the '80s this element of '00s nostalgia will be a little less pronounced, mostly because the terrible events that did transpire were realer than the Cold War was. This shirt and this album cover/band name might be possible today, but I doubt there will ever be a band called "Alan Qaeda and his Qaedets" or something.
Before I finish this post, I want to add a brief coda about one thing. I seriously think there is a possibility that '00s nostalgia could be less profound than that of the '70s, '80s or '90s, but not because anything about the decade lends itself to being anti-nostalgic, because I don't think that's possible. No, I think that could happen—I know it sounds silly, but I am being serious here—because there is no agreed upon way to say "'00s" in speech.
"Aughts," "Naughts," "Ohs," "Zeroes"—all are logical in their own way, but none have the inescapably understood meaning that "nineties" does. Without this universal shorthand, might someone not bother trying to describe something to someone else as being very "'00s"? Of course, that assumes everyone will not come to agreement on a term at some point, which seems unlikely given that none was reached during the decade itself, but not impossible.
Personally, I vote for "two-thousands." It makes the most sense to me since you begin the spoken form of each year in the decade with those words, and I don't think ultimately it would be confused with the term for 2000-2099, since if precedent holds the century will be known as the "twenty-hundreds" anyway.
The '10s don't have an obvious way to say them either ("teens," I guess) so write down these three things to look forward to in the '20s: a clear and obvious way to say the decade (roaring "twenties"!), '00s nostalgia, and being able to look back on this post to see how wrong I was about it. I can't wait!
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That ending made me alol~!
This is just a random thought, but I wonder if in the 2020s there might also be trends that are nostalgic for the 1920s, since that decade had pretty distinctive fashion and such?
Well anyway, maybe I should buy a Hannah Montana t-shirt, save it for the future…!
Oh my god, and that O.C. intro, gahhh I didn't even like or watch The O.C. and it makes me nostalgic!
Wait, I would be 30 and wearing a Hannah Montana t-shirt…
The only thing I want to add is that I feel a central figure of the 2000s was Jessica Simpson.
This post assumes you will live to see the 2020s.
hannah montana ftw
hannah montana rox! cyrus virus


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SALEM — The State Employment Department says Oregon's jobless rate is now at 7 percent after dropping for more than four years. The unemployment rate was 7.1 percent in December and 7 percent in January.
The agency said today that employment gains in January were modest, with small increases in the construction and leisure and hospitality sectors, and a small decrease in government payrolls.
But, the Employment Department says, job growth in the past year has approached the 3 percent rate of the Oregon economy before the Great Recession.
Job numbers since January 2013 rose by 44,000, or 2.6 percent. The numbers are for seasonally adjusted nonfarm employment.
The Employment Department says job growth in the boom years 1993 to 1997 was close to 4 percent.
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Ag is bright spot in slowly growing economy
Terry Barr, an economist who heads CoBank's Knowledge Exchange, isn't one of the analysts who's looking for a double dip recession.
Barr expects the U.S. economy to continue growing at a rate of 2% to 3% a year. That won't be enough to create many jobs and unemployment will likely stay above 9% through the end of the year, he said during an interview at the Ag Media Summit in St. Paul, Minnesota, Monday.
"We're creating an environment of so many uncertainties that it's difficult to see companies making the investments to create jobs," he said.
But he thinks it's unlikely that the economy will slip into a so-called double dip recession, either.
What does it mean for agriculture?
Unlike last year, when farmland values fell by about 4%, he expects them to remain stable this year.
And the troubled hog and dairy industries are recovering, though not fast enough for highly leveraged operations. Midwest dairy farms generally have fared better than those in California and the Southwest.
Unlike the dairy industry, which hasn't cut milk production, the hog industry has scaled back, cutting production by about 3%..
"It's a much better outlook for hogs than a year ago," he said.
"Agriculture is one of the stronger sectors in the economy, in part because it's export led to some degree," Barr said.
Strong growth in China's economy is helping keep U.S. crop agriculture strong. So is continuing domestic demand in the restaurant industry.
"People are still eating out. It doesn't seem that we're going to go back to more food preparation in the home," he said.
Barr also expects corn prices to remain strong, even with some of the political uncertainty about federal support for ethanol. Tighter supplies of corn from last year's crop and smaller 2010 corn acreage will help support prices, he said. And the ethanol industry is stronger than a year ago after some plants restructured and reopened.
If ethanol loses its tax credit, which expires at the end of this year, "that may be significant for some ethanol plants in some regions," he said. But the industry would still have a mandate for blenders to use ethanol under the renewable fuel standard, he said.
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