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Study LeadershipChristopher P. Landrigan, MD, MPH
Dr. Landrigan is Research Director of the Inpatient Pediatrics Service at Boston Children's Hospital, Director of the Sleep and Patient Safety Program at Brigham and Women's Hospital, and Associate Professor of Medicine and Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School. He is a graduate of Haverford College (BA), the Mount Sinai School of Medicine (MD), and the Harvard School of Public Health (MPH). He completed pediatric residency training and a hospitalist / health services research fellowship at Boston Children's Hospital, and a fellowship in health policy at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Dr. Landrigan has been working at Boston Children's Hospital as a pediatric hospitalist and patient safety researcher for over 15 years. He has led numerous studies regarding: the effects of physician sleep deprivation on patient safety; quality and efficiency in pediatric hospitalist vs. traditional care systems; variation in the use of evidence-based therapies; the performance of adverse event surveillance systems in hospitals; statewide temporal trends in rates of adverse events; the effects of the ACGME duty hour standards on safety, education, and resident physician quality of life; the effects of computerized order entry systems on patient safety; the relationship between house staff depression, burnout, and patient safety; and the effects of handoff and communication improvements on patient safety. From this research, he has authored or co-authored over 100 articles in the medical literature, including publications in the New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA, BMJ, Pediatrics, JAMA Pediatrics, and other leading journals. In addition, Dr. Landrigan was the first chair and is currently an Executive Council Member of the Pediatric Research in Inpatient Settings (PRIS) Network, a collaboration of over 100 pediatric hospitals studying quality and variation in the care of hospitalized children, with the goal of developing and disseminating improvements. Dr. Landrigan has received numerous awards for research, teaching, and innovation, including Boston Children's Hospital's Charles A. Janeway Award for Excellence in Clinical Teaching; Mount Sinai Medical School's Saul Horowitz, Jr. Award for Outstanding Achievement in Medicine; the Sleep Research Society's Young Investigator Award; the Society for Hospital Medicine's Excellence in Research Award; and Academy Health's Nemours Child Health Services Research Award, as well as election into Alpha Omega Alpha, the Society for Pediatric Research, the American Society for Clinical Investigation, and the American Pediatric Society. Dr. Landrigan is the Principal Investigator of I-PASS.
Nancy D. Spector, MD
Dr. Spector is the Director of the Executive Leadership in Academic Medicine program, Associate Dean for Faculty Development, and Professor of Pediatrics at the Drexel University College of Medicine. Dr. Spector is a graduate of Brown University and the University of Massachusetts Medical School. She completed pediatric residency training, as well as chief residency and a fellowship in General Academic Pediatrics at St. Christopher's Hospital for Children. She received additional training in education and leadership at the Michigan State Primary Care Faculty Development Program, the Association of American Medical Colleges, the Harvard Macy Institute, and the Executive Leadership in Academic Medicine program. She worked in the Section of General Pediatrics at St. Christopher's from 1997 to 2015. She served as the Associate Residency Program Director at St. Christopher's Hospital for Children from 2002 to 2012 and as the Residency Program Director from 2012 to 2016. She also served as the Associate Chair of Education and Faculty Development in the Department of Pediatrics at Drexel University College of Medicine from 2007-2016. Her scholarly work focuses on the development and implementation of competency-based educational programs, faculty development, professional development, mentoring programs, and leadership skills. She is the past Chair of the Association of Pediatric Program Directors (APPD) Faculty and Professional Development Task Force, as well as past Co-Chair of the APPD Mentorship Program. She was a member of the Academic Pediatric Association's Mentoring Task Force and was the Co-Chair of the Federation of Pediatric Organization's (FOPO) Working Group on Gender and Generations. In 2010, she was recognized as a leader and mentor when she became the recipient of the Robert S. Holm Award from the Association of Pediatric Program Directors. In 2011, she received the Elias Abrutyn Mentoring Award from the Drexel University College of Medicine, and in 2014, she was awarded the Miller Sarkin Mentoring Award from the Academic Pediatric Association. Dr. Spector is a member of Alpha Omega Alpha as well as the American Pediatric Society. Dr. Spector is the Chair of the Executive Council of the I-PASS Study Group that seeks to improve patient safety by standardizing provider communication, with a specific focus on improving transitions of care. She is also on the Board of Directors of the I-PASS Patient Safety Institute, a company that seeks to train institutions in best handoff practices and aid in their implementation.
Theodore C. Sectish, MD
Dr. Theodore C. Sectish is the Program Director and Vice Chair for Education at Boston Children's Hospital of the Boston Combined Residency Program in Pediatrics and Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School. He graduated from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in 1977 and trained at Boston Children's Hospital from 1977 to 1980. Dr. Sectish then practiced as a general pediatrician in Salinas, California from 1980 to 1993. He was the Program Director at the Lucile Packard Children's Hospital from 1993-2007 and was an Associate Professor (Teaching) of Pediatrics at Stanford University School of Medicine when he left Stanford in 2007. His interest in educational innovation and improvement has spanned the continuum from undergraduate medical education to graduate medical education and the continuous professional development of practicing physicians. From January 1, 2007 to June 30, 2014, he was Executive Director of the Federation of Pediatric Organizations, an umbrella organization made up of the seven leading pediatric organizations. He is a member of the American Pediatric Society, the Association of Pediatric Program Directors (Past President), the Academic Pediatric Association, and the American Academy of Pediatrics. Dr. Sectish is a member of the I-PASS Executive Council, Co-Chair of the Patient and Family-Centered I-PASS Education Executive Committee, Co-Chair of the Patient and Family Centered I-PASS Dissemination Committee and Chair of the I-PASS Consultation Program.
Amy J. Starmer, MD, MPH
Dr. Starmer is the Director of Primary Care Quality Improvement and an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School. Dr. Starmer is a graduate of Haverford College and the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine. She completed pediatric residency training at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, a fellowship in General Academic Pediatrics and Health Services Research at Boston Children's Hospital, and received a Masters Degree from the Harvard School of Public Health in 2010. She joined Oregon Health and Science University as an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics in May of 2011 as a participant in the OHSU Comparative Effectiveness K12 program before rejoining the faculty at Boston Children's Hospital in February 2014. Dr. Starmer's academic focus lies in the development of curricula and interventions to improve patient safety and provider communication with a specific interest in the study and implementation of strategies to improve handoffs of care. She is a past chair of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) Section on Medical Students, Residents, and Fellowship Trainees and has held multiple committee, liaison, and leadership roles within the Academic Pediatric Association as well as the AAP. In 2011 Dr. Starmer received the Ray E. Helfer Award for Innovation in Medical Education Research. Dr. Starmer served as the Project Leader for the I-PASS Study and she currently serves as the Project Leader for the Society for Hospital Medicine I-PASS Mentored Implementation Project, as a member of the I-PASS Executive Council, as the chair of the Quality Improvement and Implementation Committee of the Patient and Family Centered I-PASS Study, and holds several additional leadership roles within the I-PASS Study Group.
Raj Srivastava, MD, FRCP(C), MPH
Dr. Srivastava is the Assistant Vice President of Research at Intermountain Healthcare and a Tenured Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Utah in the Division of Inpatient Medicine. He is a practicing hospitalist in the Division of Pediatric Inpatient Medicine at Primary Children's Hospital (Intermountain Healthcare's children hospital) in Salt Lake City. Dr. Srivastava went to medical school at the University of Toronto (class of '94) and completed his housestaff training at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto where he went on to complete an Associate Chief Residency. Following this, he completed a Fellowship in Health Services Research at Children's Hospital, Boston, Harvard Medical School with a clinical focus in pediatric hospital medicine from 1998 – 2000. Dr. Srivastava has a system-wide role at Intermountain Healthcare that includes overseeing the Office of Research and working within the Institute for Health Care Deliver Research to design and conduct implementation studies within Intermountain Healthcare (across the spectrum of care). Dr. Srivastava was the 2013-2014 Australian-American Health Policy Fellow studying costs of hospital care as part of Australian Health Care Reform. Dr. Srivastava is the Chair of the only funded hospitalist network, Pediatric Research in Inpatient Settings (PRIS) www.prisnetwork.org. PRIS is a > 100 hospital research and implementation network conducting several large multi-center studies that are important to the field of Hospital Medicine – including prioritizing high priority pediatric conditions that are costly, prevalent and demonstrate high inter-hospital variation in cost per admission; building data infrastructure for Comparative Effectiveness Research (CER); performing pediatric CER studies (www.childrenshospitals.org/phisplus/index.html); and studying system-level interventions using quality improvement methods to improve patient safety (http://www.ipasshandoffstudy.com). Dr. Srivastava is a member of the I-PASS Executive Council, in addition to other leadership roles within the I-PASS Study Group.
Daniel C. West, MD
Dr. West is the Director of the Pediatric Residency Program, Vice-Chair for Education, and Professor in the Department of Pediatrics at the University of California, San Francisco. Dr. West completed undergraduate degree and medical school training at the University of Florida, Pediatric Residency training at the University of California, San Francisco, and fellowship at Children's Hospital, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, and Harvard Medical School in Boston. He has obtained additional research and education training at the Schools of Medicine and Public Health at Harvard and the School of Education at Stanford. In his clinical work, Dr. West is a pediatric hematologist/oncologist and has over two decades of experience treating children, adolescents and young adults with a wide variety of hematologic and oncologic conditions with a special interest in bone sarcomas. In over 17 years as a residency program director, Dr. West has worked to develop a number of educational innovations that span the continuum of medical education. With expertise in assessment and measurement, his current research interests focus on understanding the relationship between measures of physician/resident skills and clinically important patient care outcomes. He has held numerous national leadership positions in pediatric graduate medical education including the Association of Pediatric Program Directors and the Pediatric Review Committee of the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME). Dr. West has won numerous awards including election into Phi Beta Kappa, Alpha Omega Alpha, Parker J. Palmer Courage to Teach Award (ACGME), and election into the American Pediatric Society. Dr. West is a member of the I-PASS Study Group Executive Council, the Family-Centered I-PASS Coordinating Council, and Co-Chair of the Family-Centered I-PASS Scientific Oversight Committee.


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Youcef Nadarkhani Receives New Court Summons, Iran Evades Mention of Apostasy Charge
In his most recent court summons, Iranian Pastor Youcef Nadarkhani has once again been ordered to appear in court on Sept. 8 to face the "charges brought against him."
The evasive reference to Nadarkhani's internationally disputed apostasy charge comes as "no surprise" to Jordan Sekulow, executive council for the American Center for Law and Justice, who has been following Nadarkhani's case from the beginning.
"Iran has repeatedly attempted to confuse the international community by alleging that Pastor Youcef is nothing more than a common criminal. If Iran can succeed in painting Pastor Youcef as the common criminal, the world will stop crying out for his release," Sekulow told The Christian Post via emailed statement on Aug. 16.
"After we were able to expose, by publicly releasing the court's traditionally secretive verdicts, that Pastor Youcef was tried and convicted only of apostasy, Iran has had to back pedal its lies," he added.
In the court summons, Iran requests Nadarkhani to appear for his hearing on Sept. 8, 2012 at 9:00 a.m.
The pastor, who originally received an execution sentence for his apostasy charge, has remained in prison for 1,060 days, the length of which violates Iran's constitution, according to the ACLJ.
"Pastor Youcef's indefinite and arbitrary detention, which has continued for almost three years, violates Article 9 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, to which Iran is obliged to follow," Sekulow told CP.
"Iran's own laws required the judiciary to issue its written decision within ten days of the hearing held in September 2011. Its failure to do so signifies its total disregard for the rule of law," Sekulow continued.
"Iran also seems to ignore that Pastor Youcef's case has done great damage to the reputation of Islam and to relations between nations and between people of faith around the world," he concluded.
Nadarkhani, a house pastor, was arrested in Oct. 2009 and charged with apostasy and attempting to evangelize Muslims.
In Sept. 2011, Iran's semi-official news agency, Fars News, reported that Nadarkhani was on trial for charges of rape, extortion, and Zionism, The Christian Post previously reported.
Leaked court documents later clarified that Nadarkhani was in fact on trial for apostasy, and critics suspected the faulted Fars News report to be an attempt to alleviate international pressure regarding Nadarkhani's religion-based charges.
Sekulow suspects that Iranian court has continued to extend and change Nadarkhani's charges and trial in an attempt to alleviate the international pressure it has accumulated for arresting the pastor based on his Christian faith.
Countries including Great Britain, the United States, and Brazil have all spoken out demanding Nadarkhani be released from prison.
Although this most recent court summons implies that perhaps Nadarkhani's apostasy charge may have been dropped, Sekulow tells CP not to count on it.
"We have no information that the regime has acquitted Pastor Youcef of the apostasy charge for which he was sentenced to death. The Iranian regime has been dishonest repeatedly in the past. Until we see Pastor Youcef walk freely, we cannot trust anything the regime might say or do," Sekulow previously told CP.
Nadarkhani continues to await his Sept. 8 court date in prison, while his wife, Fatema Pasindedih, and his two sons, await further news.

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Order of Battle
Design and Operation of United States Combat Aircraft
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Preemptive Defense: Allied Air Power Versus Hitler's V-Weapons, 1943-1945
D-Day 1944: Air Power Over the Normandy Beaches and Beyond
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Weapon of Denial: Air Power and the Battle for New Guinea
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The High Road to Tokyo Bay
Conquering the Night: Army Air Forces Night Fighters at War
HAP: Henry H. Arnold, Military Aviator
Wings at War
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The AAF in Northwest Africa
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NYC breaks ground on 26-acre, $15 billion Hudson Yards project on Manhattan's west side
NEW YORK – Work to transform the largest undeveloped property in Manhattan from a railroad storage yard into a sleek new neighborhood of spiky high-rises and graceful parks got a formal start Tuesday, with developers and officials heralding it as the next big thing in a city known for them.
The $15 billion project, called Hudson Yards, calls for angular office skyscrapers and curvy apartment towers, a slate of shows and restaurants, an arts building and a public square in a 26-acre stretch of the island's far West Side off Midtown — eventually. Tuesday marked the ceremonial groundbreaking for the first office tower, a 48-story building scheduled to be finished by 2015.
"This is the future of New York," Mayor Michael Bloomberg declared. He has longed for years to make more of the area, which was a linchpin of his administration's unsuccessful bid for the 2012 Summer Olympics. Developer Stephen M. Ross, chairman of the Related Cos., envisioned Hudson Yards taking a place among the Empire State Building, Rockefeller Center, Lincoln Center and other structures that became New York icons.
If that happens, it will take some time. Hudson Yards isn't expected to be complete for about a dozen years, and it entails the construction challenge of building an $800 million platform covering the rail tracks. The first tower doesn't require the platform.
A few blocks from Pennsylvania Station and about half a mile from the Empire State Building, the rail yards near the Hudson River have long been surrounded by an unprepossessing neighborhood of warehouses, low-rent brownstones, the Javits Center convention facility and office buildings. One of them houses the global headquarters of The Associated Press.
But the area has gained some momentum in the last several years. The High Line, a park on a former elevated rail line, has become a magnet for residents and tourists alike. More than a dozen apartment towers and several hotels have been built near it.
The idea of making Hudson Yards into an Olympic venue — the idea centered on a proposed professional football stadium for the New York Jets — spurred an outcry from residents. It ultimately foundered on concerns about traffic and financing.
Some residents also have concerns about the current Hudson Yards plan. Kathleen Treat of the Hell's Kitchen Neighborhood Association, a residents' group, has misgivings about seeing a cluster of towers rise near a riverfront that residents appreciate, plain as it may be.
"We want complete access to our river, which is beginning to look like Related's river," she said.
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Hudson Yards has been seen as offering the prospect of good deals on new, high-end space near Manhattan's central business district, said Michael Slattery, a vice president of the Real Estate Board of New York, a trade association.
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New budget projections from the Kansas Legislature's nonpartisan research staff show a state budget shortfall developing by July 2016.
The projections released Friday by the Legislative Research Department also show a lower figure for the state's cash reserves on June 30 than Gov. Sam Brownback's administration reported last month.
The department provided the figures to The Associated Press exclusively after releasing them to legislators.
The department first said the state would face a $262 million shortfall by July 2016. A short time later, it revised the figure to $238 million.
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Research for a new work of fiction* commissioned for publication in 2012 to accompany forthcoming exhibitions by the artists Jane and Louise Wilson took me back to Leeds in September. I lived there for a couple of years in the mid-1980s, so it was good to have an excuse to visit now, even for a day. The nature of the research in question was consulting the archives of Leeds Other Paper, or LOP for short, an independent journal that was published in the city (first monthly, then fortnightly and finally weekly), by an evolving collective that itself took several forms, from 1974 until — after a final name-change — it closed down in 1994.
Former 'Lopper' Tony Harcup's short but fascinating and comprehensive book, A Northern Star: Leeds Other Paper and the Alternative Press 1974-1994, quotes an introductory editorial from the first issue:
Leeds Other Paper exists to provide an alternative newspaper in Leeds, i.e. a newspaper not controlled by big business and other vested interests. It is our intention to support all groups active in industry and elsewhere for greater control of their own lives.
LOP is classified as a 'serial/periodical' by the British Library, so is not held in Colindale with the national newspaper archive proper, nor according to the British Library's Integrated Catalogue do they hold any issues from the period that I wanted to look at. Hence my visit, and the pile of bound issues (right) that awaited my attention in Leeds Central Library's local and family history section.
This scan of a photocopy from the original (above right) is a detail of a typical Leeds Other Paper cover and gives a good flavour of the design although it doesn't quite do justice to the print quality that was achieved on very limited means. Another reason for reproducing this particular cover here is that having heard Ted Chippington on the John Peel show, a couple of us went along to the LOP benefit concert advertised. After Chippington's set I bought a copy of the record that he's holding in the photo and asked him to sign it. 'Cheers Tony,' he wrote in felt-tipped pen on the label of side one. 'Ted.'
A short piece in the following week's LOP thanks 'top performer' Chippington, as well as artists including Ginger John, Olulu Olulu, The Shee Hees and others. None of whom, apart from Ted, I'm sorry to say, I have any recollection of at all. Sixty pounds was raised on the night after costs had been covered, so the benefit was deemed 'a success'. I may have misremembered, since he is not thanked here, but I'm pretty sure Seething Wells made a brief appearance on stage at the Trades Club that night, too. I could be wrong or maybe it was another time, and just because I remember it doesn't mean it happened, but I would swear that I saw Swells doing his 'Tetley Bittermen' routine on stage there.
If you're unfamiliar with Ted Chippington's relatively small body of work, there's a nice film about the influence of his contrarian stand-up routines that was made by comedian Stewart Lee for BBC TV's The Culture Show a few years ago.
(Coincidentally, Stewart Lee is hosting and headlining a benefit for London community radio station Resonance 104.4fm at the Bloomsbury Theatre on 1st November 2011. I was going to give the benefit a late plug here, but it is now sold out!)
It is not quite the period that I went to Leeds to research, but these few editions of the Leeds Other Paper are a reminder that the spring and summer of 1985 was an eventful time in the UK, and not just in the north of England. The miners' strike had only finished a month or two earlier in March of the same year, and the Conservative government of the time already seemed to be looking for another 'enemy within'. It didn't take them long to find one; another load of heads to crack. The same issue of LOP that reported on the takings at the Trades Club benefit carried an anonymous and eloquent 'eye-witness account' of what would later become known as the Battle of the Beanfield but here is referred to simply as 'The Battle of Stonehenge June 1st 1985' (click on the image for a larger version).
The riot police were unleashed on sleepy Wiltshire on Saturday 1st June, in a co-ordinated attempt to prevent the Stonehenge Free Festival from taking place. Bearing the brunt of the police assault was The Convoy — a travelling community who are frequently pilloried in the media.
Right into this interregnum between the Miners' Strike and the Battle of the Beanfield, and either blithely missing the point or maybe kind of nailing it, or both, limped some other — unlikely — travellers in the form of the final, indeed terminal line-up of The Clash. There was no Mick Jones or Topper Headon. Instead Joe Strummer and Paul Simonon were joined by drummer Pete Howard, ex-Cortina Nick Sheppard and Vince White.
If this is referred to at all it is usually called 'The Clash busking tour', although that seems like a bit of an overstatement because even by the media standards of the time this 'tour' was a low-key affair. There were no ads in the music press or the broadsheets, no announcements, no press releases or friendly music journalists tagging along with their photographers. There were no publicity campaigns or photo-ops and no daytime TV coverage. Neither were there tour T-shirts, posters or merchandise of any kind. On May 3 1985, the band set off from London to Nottingham on modes of transport that vary according to who is telling the story, and didn't go back home for a fortnight. During this time they played up to about thirty-four more or less impromptu and almost all undocumented gigs of varying length in locations around Nottingham, Leeds, York, Sunderland, Newcastle, Gateshead, Edinburgh, Glasgow and possibly Manchester.
I saw two of their Leeds gigs; one by chance, the other not. The first was a short set they played for a couple of dozen people in the garden of the Royal Park Pub on 6 May. My own story of that afternoon — which involves me and a couple of friends, a late night watching Eek-A-Mouse at the Cosmo Club and a hair of the dog in the May sunshine the next day while The Clash play 'La Bamba' a few feet away — is no better or worse than any other of the handful of accounts posted on the Black Market Clash site. But I have been amazed, recently, to see this really great colour photo of the gig, [UPDATE: image archived here] and not least because it must have been taken from just a couple of feet to the right of where we were sitting.
There are a few other pictures of the tour on the Black Market Clash site, including this one (left) which is supposedly of their gig at The Station, Gateshead, but something about it looks naggingly familiar and I'm sure that this, too, is the garden of the Royal Park.
It's odd to see these pictures. I don't even remember one person among the handful of us at the Royal Park taking photos, let alone two. But there must have been, because just visible over Paul Simonon's shoulder in the colour photo I've linked to above there is a man or woman (see detail, right) who is looking through their own single lens reflex camera. And this is where it gets complicated, uncanny even, because not only is she/he (let's say) pointing the camera almost directly at the man taking the colour photo and therefore looking out at us who are looking at the photograph now, but she/he is also looking directly at us then.
I also saw The Clash play on the steps of the Leeds University Student Union the following day (photo on Vincent White's site here). I don't know where Black Market Clash got this set list from though. According to them: 'The band played Cool Under Heat, Movers and Shakers, White Riot and Clash City Rockers to more than 500 fans.' I would say five hundred to a thousand people, but that set list is wrong.
Blimey, what's that saying about old punks becoming postmen? Perhaps it should be that the scantness of the archive forces them to become pedants: arguing the toss over ephemeral scraps, contesting the uncontested. More 'slight return' than 'total war', and frankly who cares? Today there would be no disputing something as simple as a set list, because a dozen videos of a gig like that would be tweeted in close to real time, or posted on Youtube within the hour, but in that almost unrecognisable media landscape of the mid-1980s all that's left are a couple of photos and the stories that some of the people who were there have told and retold; my own version of events probably no less contingent than any other. If you asked me, though, I would tell you that they opened with a blinding version of Toots and the Maytals' 'Pressure Drop', then went into 'Garageland'. They might well have done 'White Riot', but I'm pretty certain they also did 'Police on my Back' and a cover of 'Johnny Too Bad' by The Slickers. The gig was broken up after just a few songs, and most people trudged around the corner to the Faversham pub, where they played a longer set. We thought about it, but figured that the Royal Park gig — a handful of us chancing upon The Clash in our local and then following them outside to watch them play live on a balmy May afternoon — would be a hard one to beat and we went home.
Here (right) is how the gig on the Union steps was reported in the Leeds Other Paper a week or so later.
No-one seems to have posted a set list for the Royal Park gig. I could be wrong, but the way I always told it is that they played around half a dozen songs which included 'Stepping Stone', 'Jimmy Jazz', 'Brand New Cadillac', 'La Bamba' and — most memorably — 'Straight to Hell'.
There are a couple of recordings of 'Straight to Hell' from the busking tour, but this one (click on the player above) from Gateshead on 11 May seems to pick up Pete Howard's fantastic drumstick work better than the more guitar-heavy York bootleg. One thing: I'm sticking to my guns here, but the fact that 'La Bamba' doesn't appear on any other set lists nor the two live bootlegs from the tour does make me wonder if I completely imagined that. I'm sure they played a couple of crowd pleasers, too — 'Bank Robber'? 'I fought the Law'? — but just because it happened doesn't mean I remember it.
I was right about the photo though.
That is definitely the garden of the Royal Park pub.
In the background of the picture between Nick Sheppard and Joe Strummer — as a quick cut-n-paste from Googlemaps Street View which matches perfectly shows — is the familiar, two-windowed gable-end of a Leeds back-to-back terrace, in this case the southern end of Elizabeth and John Streets, which is visible beyond a minicab parking lot that (unlike the garden, which has been built over) is there to this day; cars still parked on a triangle of wasteland on the opposite side of Royal Park Road.
UPDATE April 2019
* In fact this body of research contributed to two works of fiction. First the novella Dicky Star and the Garden Rule (Forma, 2012), which is set in Leeds during April and May 1986 and was commissioned to mark the 25th anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster of that year, and published to accompany Jane and Louise Wilson's touring exhibition Nature Ahbors a Vacuum. 'Dicky Star…' (for short) which was written using an Oulipo-inspired 'mandated vocabulary' turned out to be a test piece for my latest novel The Fountain in the Forest (Faber and Faber, 2018), the first in a trilogy of novels that explore the legacy of that 90-day interregnum between the end of the Miners' Strike and the Battle of the Beanfield on 1 June 1985.
The Fountain in the Forest by Tony White, out now in Faber paperback
When a brutally murdered man is found hanging in a Covent Garden theatre, Detective Sergeant Rex King becomes obsessed with the case. Who is this anonymous corpse, and why has he been ritually mutilated? But as Rex explores the crime scene further, the mystery deepens, and he finds himself confronting his own secret history instead. Who, more importantly, is Rex King?
Shifting between Holborn Police Station, an abandoned village in rural 1980s France, and the Battle of the Beanfield at Stonehenge, The Fountain in the Forest transforms the traditional crime narrative into something dizzyingly unique. At once an avant-garde linguistic experiment, thrilling police procedural, philosophical meditation on liberty, and counter-culture bildungsroman, this is an iconoclastic novel of unparalleled ambition.
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Down-N-Dirty Dishes Up The Cherry Crystal Turkey Call
Lewisburg, KY –-(Ammoland.com)- Just when you thought Down-N-Dirty Outdoors, the maker of high-quality, hand-made turkey calls, had perfected the friction turkey call with its ultra-realistic Soul Crusher Slate and Glass calls, the company has one-upped itself with the launch of the new Signature Series Cherry Crystal call—just in time for the Spring 2011 season.
Starting with DND's unique cherry pot, the Cherry Crystal boasts a laser-engraved cherry soundboard with a crystal striking surface.
Combine it with DND's Purple Heart Striker, and you have a call that is not only easy on the eyes, but happens to be one of the deadliest calls to ever hit the turkey woods.
"Fire it up for unbelievable long-range prospecting power, and then tone it down for finishing finesse that brings them tight into range," said Mark Coin, DND president.
"Hand this call to your hunting buddy and close your eyes—I assure you that a couple strokes across the Cherry Crystal will make you just about jump out of your skin. Imagine what that'll do to that long-bearded Tom out there searching for a hen.
"Just when we thought it couldn't get better, we did it again," Coin said.
The Signature Series Cherry Crystal is hand-made and hand-tuned, and it comes complete with a Purple Heart Striker. The suggested retail price is $59.99.
Through experience and determination, Down-N-Dirty Outdoors has come to offer hunters the most advanced line of game calls available today. From the unique-looking diaphragms to the exceptionally designed pot calls, the entire line is built by hand with one goal in mind: to provide the finest quality, affordable game calls that absolutely mimic your prey.
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Diamond, Ortiz lift spirits in Boston after bombing, manhunt
A defiant David Ortiz stood on the Fenway Park infield and told the crowd to "stay strong," bringing a rousing cheer from Bostonians weary from a week of bombings, stay-at-home orders and a manhunt that locked down the city for a day.
Playing at home for the first time since two explosions at the Boston Marathon finish line killed three people and wounded more than 180 others, the Red Sox honored the victims and the survivors with a pregame ceremony and an emotional video of scenes from Monday's race.
"This past week, I don't think there's one human being who wasn't affected by what was going on down here," Ortiz said after the Red Sox beat the Kansas City Royals. "I was emotional, very angry about the whole situation. ... Everybody was hurting. I know it's going to take some time to heal up, but the one thing everybody's got to remember is that everybody supports each other."
Starting with a video, alternating between celebratory and somber and accompanied by Jeff Buckley's "Hallelujah," the tributes continued with a first-pitch ceremony that honored a first responder, a victim of the blast, and a marathon institution: Dick and Rick Hoyt, who have participated in the race for more than 20 years.
Then Ortiz took the microphone and, in what he later said was an unplanned outburst, let loose with an expletive that drew a huge cheer from the 35,152 who managed to make it through the beefed-up security and into their seats on time.
"This is our (expletive) city, and nobody is going to dictate our freedom," he said. "Stay strong."
Neil Diamond, who flew into town on his own and asked if he could sing, gave a live performance in the eighth inning of "Sweet Caroline," the Fenway staple that has been adopted by opposing ballclubs to show their support for the city.
As Diamond, a New York native who wore a Red Sox cap, left the field, fans chanted "U.S.A.! U.S.A.!" In the bottom half of the inning, Daniel Nava hit a three-run homer to give the Red Sox the lead, and they held on to win 4-3.
"You give people hope," Ortiz said. "We wanted to let them know we're here for them."
Across town, the Bruins also returned to the ice after postponing their game against the Pittsburgh Penguins on Friday night, when a manhunt for the bombing suspects led to a "shelter-in-place" order that locked down the city. One suspect died and the other was captured, hiding in a dry-docked boat in a Watertown backyard.
"At least we could all breathe a little easier and sleep a little easier," coach Claude Julien said after the Bruins lost 3-2. "And now it's, hopefully, time to work ourselves into trying to get things back to normal again. But it will always leave a scar somewhere."
Penguins coach Dan Bylsma met with reporters before the game wearing a black T-shirt with words "Boston Strong" over his shirt and tie.
"I feel like we're playing with the Bruins today, not against them," Bylsma said before the game. "I know I share their pride yesterday in their city and their people and certainly their law enforcement yesterday. I'm certainly not a Bostonian, but I certainly share in that pride and hope to today with them as well."
The Bruins took the ice for their pregame warmup wearing baseball caps for the Boston and state police, along with one for the police in Watertown featuring the Bruins' "Spoked B" logo and the word "Strong" on the back.
Security was tight at both games, as it was when the Bruins made their emotional return after the bombing on Thursday night.
A SWAT team member with a German shepherd stood guard at the doorway to the tunnel leading to Royals dugout about 2½ hours before game time. A man in military fatigues checked all of the players' lockers and the many cracks in the ceiling tiles with a flashlight.
Outside, fans milled around, waiting for the gates to open. Several of them were wearing Boston Marathon jackets dating back as long as a decade. Long lines of fans waited to be scanned by metal-detecting wands; many were still waiting to get in when the Red Sox and Royals lined up along the base-lines for the pregame ceremony.
With Boston Athletic Association volunteers in their yellow and blue jackets lined up in front of the Green Monster and police and public officials encircling the mound, ballpark organist Josh Kantor played The Star-Spangled Banner, with the crowd singing along. A giant U.S. flag was draped over the 37-foot-high Green Monster left-field wall, temporarily covering the "B Strong" logo newly painted in left-center field.
Pictures of the victims, including Massachusetts Institute of Technology police officer Sean Collier, were shown on the scoreboard, along with pictures from the marathon and the aftermath. Some of the biggest cheers were for the police who tracked down the suspects.
Gov. Deval Patrick and Boston Police Commissioner Ed Davis, along with other law enforcement officials and rank-and-file, circled the mound for the ceremonial first pitches from firefighter Matt Patterson, who rushed to the site of the bombings; from Steven Byrne, who was injured in the explosions, and from Dick Hoyt, accompanied by his son Rick, who has cerebral palsy.
Ortiz, who had been on the disabled list all season, took the microphone and showed fans the specially designed uniforms saying "Boston" on the front instead of the "Red Sox" they have worn for decades. Both teams wore patches with the "B Strong" logo.
The Red Sox said their uniforms would be autographed and auctioned off to raise money for the One Fund Boston, the charity established to help the victims. The Boston Celtics, who opened their playoff series against the Knicks with a loss in New York on Saturday, said they would donate $100,000 to the charity, with another $100,000 to come from fundraisers.
The team said fans would be given the option to donate their refund from the canceled April 16 game against Indiana to One Fund Boston.


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Teachers Teaching Teachers #254 – What happens when a brewer becomes a teacher? Meet Tommy Buteau (plus Chad Sansing) 07.06.11
On this episode of Teachers Teaching Teachers, meet Tommy Buteau and learn more about Chad Sansing and the Cooperative Catalyst. Tommy recently wrote Paul Allison.
I read about the Youth Voices project at the Digital Is site, and I think it sounds very interesting, like something I would use with my 9th and 11th grade English classes here in Windsor, CO. So, I visited the site and signed up, but it seems like I do not have access to everything. I can only see three of the guides that you use, and the directions for most of the activities seem limited. I enjoyed the free-writing article by Peter Elbow, and I also like the 10 questions activity. I am wondering if there is a description of how teachers use this site somewhere.
Tommy Buteau
That's not all, a couple of days later Tommy wrote:
Have you ever used your site for cross-campus peer reviews before? I found that when students from another school did a peer review, the results were great. We used google docs for it. You can see what I did with a creative writing class at https://sites.google.com/site/101wright1/creative-writing-2010-2. Then, we did a similar process with speech podcasts athttp://schoolweb.psdschools.org/frhs/LangArts/SP/Buteau/index.html. I think the key is that it was completely anonymous.
We couldn't wait to welcome Tommy into our community and to learn more about his work. We were also delighted to welcome Chad Sansing back to TTT. You can see the results of the challenge we threw to him on TTT #256 – Cooperative Catalyst.


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A couple of Sundays ago, my Women-Who-Bike and Brunch group met up for a lovely picnic at the Logan Square Farmer's Market. Summer picnics are the best – I love sampling all the delicious food everyone brings.
My friend Ash, who writes about some of her bike adventures at One Less Minivan, was there with her two daughters and badass bike set up. She has a Joe Bike bakfiets fitted with a baby carseat in the front and a child's seat in the back.
Baby is strapped in and ready to go!
A happy flower smiles at following drivers.
P is serious about her helmet. :-)
Getting ready…
And they're off!
You can read the details about Ash's set-up at her cheekily titled, "And it's not even a death trap."
Thanks to all the cool women who came out! See you in August. :-)


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Jouhaux, Léon
Jouhaux, Léon lāôN´ zho͞o-ō´ [key], 1879–1954, French Socialist labor leader. He headed the Confédération Générale du Travail from 1909 to 1947, when he resigned in protest against its alliance with Communist interests. In 1949 he helped found the anti-Communist International Confederation of Free Trade Unions. Long prominent in the International Labor Organization and active in the service of peace, Jouhaux received the 1951 Nobel Peace Prize. His works include studies on labor and on disarmament.
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Government says GM recall information site was faulty
DETROIT – The government and General Motors are warning vehicle owners that GM's recall Web site may not be listing all the cars that need recall repairs.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said Friday that GM's vehicle identification number, or VIN, look-up system has been incorrectly telling some owners that their cars aren't involved in recalls if parts for the repairs aren't ready. The system should say which cars are under active recalls even if the parts aren't ready.
The agency said it asked GM to fix the problem.
GM said Friday evening that it is making the necessary changes to the site so customers can identify which vehicles need to be repaired. Until the update is complete, customers should call the phone numbers listed on GM's customer-service website if they want to confirm that their vehicles are being recalled, the company said.
GM has issued 60 recalls covering 29 million vehicles this year. The company disclosed in February that it took more than a decade to recall small cars with faulty ignition switches. Since then, it has conducted a safety review that has resulted in dozens of recalls.
Starting Aug. 20, all automakers must have systems that allow owners to search recall information by VIN, NHTSA said.


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Oct 08, 2013
Frasers Hospitality Pte Ltd (Frasers) has been voted the Best Serviced Residence Operator at the prestigious 24th Annual TTG Travel Awards 2013, for its Gold-Standard product offerings and service excellence. Frasers has been awarded based on votes cast by the readers of TTG Asia, TTG China, TTG India, TTGmice, TTG-BTmice China and TTG Asia Luxury, which was announced at a gala ceremony in Bangkok.
The TTG Travel Awards is reputed as the most coveted and influential awards to be won in the region's travel industry and celebrated by the presence of the industry's most renowned personalities. The awards represent exemplary achievement, which recognises Frasers' commitment to excellence and consistent delivery of products and services in meeting the unique needs of every resident.
"Receiving international recognition from the prestigious TTG Travel Awards is not only a great honour but also reaffirms that we are on track in our focus on meeting the different lifestyle needs of travellers around the world," said Mr Choe Peng Sum, Chief Executive Officer of Frasers Hospitality Pte Ltd. "It is a vote of confidence of our depth of experience and commitment to delivering service excellence through continuous innovation and I am delighted in accepting this esteemed accolade on behalf of our team."
Frasers offers its residents a range of properties across three distinct brands – Gold Standard Fraser serviced residences, Modena second-tier serviced residences and Capri by Fraser hotel residences – to cater to the diverse needs of international travellers. Signature to the Fraser brand is 'The Fraser Difference', which is ensuring all Frasers' properties are ideally located for convenience, thoughtfully furnished for utmost comfort, well equipped with the facilities necessary for effective work-life balance and constantly connected with unlimited free high-speed Internet access. This standard is consistent across all properties.
Frasers Hospitality Pte Ltd's current portfolio, including those in the pipeline, stands at 86 properties in 44 key gateway cities, and more than 15,000 apartments worldwide.


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Over more than a decade, the editors of Wine Enthusiast Magazine have honored individuals who have contributed to the success of the wine and spirits industry with the Wine Star Awards. The winners are noted for their energy and groundbreaking vision, but this year, another theme is apparent: family. Because of the long-term nature of the industry, family-owned concerns have always been the bedrock that the wine business rests on.
"It is with great pride that we award this prestigious recognition to the leaders of an industry driving a great passion we all have—wine," stated Publisher and Editor Adam Strum. "We are thrilled to add these individuals and businesses to our family of Wine Star Awards winners."
This year, Wine Enthusiast Magazine is also pleased to reveal a new category for 2012—the Sommelier of the Year Award. This award acknowledges the great contributions members of that profession make to our enjoyment of wine and spirits. A great sommelier bridges the realms of consumer and producer, bringing them together to serve both equally well.
The 2012 Wine Star Awards Winners:
Wine Person of the Year: Joseph E. Gallo, E. & J. Gallo
President and CEO of the world's largest family-owned winery, Joseph E. Gallo has reinvented the company his father and uncle founded, creating the largest exporter of California wine, overseeing robust development of an expansive import business, expanding into Washington State, creating a powerful spirits business and nurturing the world's top-selling wine brand, Barefoot, among many others.
Lifetime Achievement: Miguel A. Torres, Torres Group
Miguel Agustín Torres, a pioneer in employing modern winemaking techniques in multiple countries and a leader in the globalization of wine, joined his family's wine business 50 years ago, Under his leadership, Miguel Torres S.A. has grown into one of the largest wineries in Spain, while the Torres Group of wineries, which includes properties in Chile and California in addition to Priorat, Rioja, Ribera del Duero and other regions within Spain, is world renowned. Across the globe, Torres wines are sold in 140 countries.
A man of the people as well as the boardroom, Torres recently stepped down as general manager of the Torres Group but is continuing as group president, a position that allows him to oversee and grow budding import and distribution businesses in China and India, emerging markets.
A lifelong visionary who, early on, grasped the importance of exporting his family's wines along with the "culture of wine," Torres spearheaded the purchase of 250 acres of vineyard land in Chile's Curicó Valley in 1979, thereby setting up the company's original overseas winery. He immediately imported and installed that country's first stainless steel fermentation tanks and also brought in the first new oak barrels Chile had seen since the 1940s. In 1996, the Chilean government named Torres a Grand Official of the Order of Bernardo O'Higgins in recognition of his contributions to developing Chile's fledgling wine sector.
Since the dawning of the new millennium, Torres has largely concentrated his efforts in three key areas: domestic expansion; importing and distributing Torres wines in China and India; and speaking about climate change and its impact on global viticulture.
"Miguel Torres has changed the world of wine by not only setting an example for the modernization of the Spanish wine industry, but on a global scale," says Wine Enthusiast editor and publisher Adam Strum.
Winemaker of the Year: Jorge Riccitelli, Bodega Norton
Chief winemaker for Mendoza, Argentina's Bodega Norton since 1992, Jorge Riccitelli is the force behind this established Argentine brand that's highly respected for its price-quality relationship.
American Winery of the Year, Raymond Vineyards, Jean-Charles Boisset, CEO
Acquired by Boisset Family Estates in 2009, Raymond has been considered a hallmark of the Napa Valley since its inception in the early 1970s. Today, with Stephanie Putnam as director of winemaking, the winery continues to prove its Cabernet Sauvignon-making prowess.
European Winery of the Year, Arnaldo Caprai, Marco Caprai
The innovative Arnaldo Caprai has helped revive Umbria's indigenous grapes, bringing the wine region into the international spotlight for its production of Sagrantino di Montefalco.
New World Winery of the Year, Golan Heights Winery, Anat Levi
Golan Heights Winery is at the top of its game, using state-of-the-art equipment like vineyard meteorological stations and electro-conductivity soil scanning to aid in its viticultural success.
Wine Region of the Year, Ribera del Duero, Spain
Famed for its massive, age-worthy expressions of Tempranillo, Ribera del Duero has seen huge advances in both quality and consumer accessibility. The "Drink Ribera. Drink Spain." campaign has heightened awareness of this region's wines, making them a contemporary favorite.
Importer of the Year, Kobrand Corporation, Robert DeRoose, President and CEO
Founded by Rudolph Kopf in 1944, Kobrand's portfolio has grown to include over 40 of the world's finest wineries, including such notables as Taittinger (Champagne), Tenuta San Guido (Tuscany) and Maison Louis Jadot (Burgundy).
Retailer of the Year, Binny's Beverage Depot, Michael Binstein, CEO
With 28 storefronts in Illinois, this beverage emporium offers an impressive spread of everyday value wines and high-end collectibles. The extensive online catalogue makes shopping a breeze.
Distiller of the Year, Michter's Distillery, Joe Magliocco, President Chatham Imports
America's first whiskey-distilling company, Michter's continues to expand, including the opening of a new distillery in Louisville, Kentucky's historic Fort Nelson Building in 2013.
Mixologist/Brand Ambassador of the Year, Angus Winchester, Tanqueray Gin
In 2012, Angus Winchesterlaunched a nationwide U.S. Bartenders' Guild challenge, testing bartenders across the nation on their mixology prowess and promoting effective cocktail making.
Sommelier of the Year, Michael Madrigale, Bar Boulud, Épicierie Boulud, Boulud Sud
Madrigale makes wine for diners approachable and fun. A proponent of the use of social media, he tweets pictures and tasting notes of the bottlings he tastes daily.
Innovator of the Year, David Biggar, Vintage Point
A partner of the wine company Vintage Point and a 20-year veteran of the industry, Biggar provides brand- and market-development services to ultrapremium wineries including California's Hundred Acre and Moone-Tsai.
American Wine Legend Hubert Opici, Opici Wine Group
With a wine career spanning more than 75 years at his family-owned Opici Wine Group, the vivacious, 96-year-old chairman, Hubert Opici, is a legend of the United States wine industry.
Opici's start in the trade came after graduating from high school in 1934, when he began working as a delivery boy at his father's wine business, the American Beverage Distribution Company of New Jersey. The company developed and expanded, and in 1945, the Opici's forayed into new markets and purchased the Cazanove Wine Company in New York, which came to be renamed the Cazanove-Opici Wine Corporation.
As the demand for the Opici's imported wines progressively increased, the family relocated to more commodious facilities in Hawthorne, New Jersey, where they ultimately shaped their business into the Opici Import Company. Today, the Opici Wine Group is an umbrella company comprised of Opici Wines, which boasts a portfolio containing more than 50 international brands, as well as Opici Distribution, which services restaurants and retailers in Connecticut, New Jersey, New York, Florida and most recently Washington, D.C. And although the fourth-generation Opici's have now taken over most of the company's reins, Hubert continues to be an icon, a well of knowledge and an inspiration for the trade.
To read in-depth profiles of the Wine Star Award winners, pick up the Best of Year issue of Wine Enthusiast Magazine available on newsstands and digitally at WineMag.com on December 13th, 2012. The winners will be honored at the Wine Star Awards Dinner on Monday, January 28th in New York City.
Wine Star Awards Dinner: The New York Public Library, The Celeste Bartos Forum
Monday, January 28th 2013
Fifth Avenue at 41st Street, New York City
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Reception: 6:30–7:30 pm
Dinner & Awards: 7:30–11:00 pm
$1,000 per person • Table of 10–$9,000
Table of 12 available. Please inquire. Space is very limited.
Wine Enthusiast Companies donates the net proceeds from this event to benefit research in the wine and spirits industry with The Wine Market Council, a non-profit organization.
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Auto Bits: MIT survey wants to know how comfortable you are autonomous car technology
Tip of the Week
BestRide.com is working with Car Talk, MIT and the New England Motor Press Association to extend the research done in understanding how comfortable American drivers are with autonomous technology.
The MIT AgeLab is again presenting a survey that asks pointed questions about your experience, interest and knowledge of autonomous technologies. To entice you a bit, if you take it before April 27, you'll be entered into a drawing for one of 10 $50 Amazon Gift Cards.
The last survey results were the basis for a white paper produced by MIT's AgeLab last year. The AgeLab will use this year's data to understand how opinions are changing as this technology becomes more widespread.
"As the framework for mobility in the United States begins to shift from one of personally-owned, manually-driven vehicles to one of a shared and perhaps partially automated fleet, established driver perceptions about their trust and comfort in various vehicle technologies is critical to our understanding as to how one needs to facilitate behavior change," says Bryan Reimer, Ph.D., a Research Scientist in the MIT AgeLab and the Associate Director of The New England University Transportation Center at MIT.
The survey not only delves into our comfort level with the technology, but our level of trust in the suppliers of that technology. "It is clear that the powerhouses of Silicon Valley may be key players in the future of the automotive industry," says Reimer. "The degree to which we will trust these technology companies to produce automated vehicles over traditional legacy manufactures is not clear."
What will the self-driving vehicles of the future look like?
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How will autonomous technology begin to influence the design of our automobiles?
These are the questions that panelists will be answering, and the information provided in the survey will set the stage for the discussion.
The survey is posted at Qualtrics, the world's leading research and insights platform, and should take 10 minutes to complete. The survey asks a few questions about your current car, and a series of questions that gauge your experience and comfort with the technology. Your zip code is required to gauge any regional trends, but it's completely anonymous and asks for no personal information.
"The myth about automation is that as the level of human responsibility decreases so do the need for education," says Reimer. "Given that we are rapidly increasing the level of automated vehicle technology it is an open question as to where people are going to learn how to appropriately use it."
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Ed Gillespie, a senior adviser to Mitt Romney's campaign, went on CNN yesterday to explain the circumstances surrounding the former governor's departure from his position at Bain Capital. Gillespie settled the controversy by saying that Romney left Bain and went to work at the Salt Lake City Olympics in 1999 and then "retired retroactively" from Bain in 2002. This explanation has met with criticism and ridicule.
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The concept of "retroactive retirement" is well-established. Ben Affleck retroactively retired from the cast of "Gigli," thus restoring his bankability as a movie star. As the journalist Matt Yglesias recalled, Michael Jordan retroactively retired from his two seasons playing for the Washington Wizards, and thereby preserved his basketball legacy. The director Julie Taymor retroactively retired as director of "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark," when it was an infamous Broadway flop; she then retroactively _un_retired when the show became a hit. (The matter is now in litigation.)
The criticism of Romney is especially unjust because, after all, he has retroactively retired from other jobs besides the one he held at Bain Capital—Governor of Massachusetts, for instance. During his term in office, Romney sponsored a health-care law with an individual mandate. As Romney said when he signed the law, on April 13, 2006, "Today, Massachusetts is leading the way with health insurance for everyone." Later, when he began running for the Republican nomination for President, he retroactively retired from that position and said, "what works in one state may not be the answer for another." Romney thus has a record of consistency in his commitment to retroactive retirement. (Ryan Lizza has written about his mastery of the technique.) Retroactive retirement should not be confused with retrofitted retirement, which is currently being considered by Anthony Weiner, the former congressman who left office amid certain Internet unpleasantness.
The principle of retroactive retirement is also different from that of prospective retirement. Prospective retirement was pioneered by the columnist and conservative legend William F. Buckley, when he ran for mayor of New York, in 1965. When asked what he would do if he won, Buckley replied, "Demand a recount." Buckley's prospective retirement from the mayoralty is a variation on a sentiment best expressed by Groucho Marx: "I don't want to belong to any club that would accept me as a member."
Then there is introspective retirement (Greta Garbo); consecutive retirement (Brett Favre); hyperactive retirement (Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton); and hypoactive retirement (George W. Bush).
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Last Saturday night many of the Irish blogging community got together in The Cork International Airport Hotel for the Irish Blog Awards. I was there with my wife Jacinta, it was a great night and I was delighted to see so many WordPress powered blogs. Both WordPress.org and WordPress.com blogs were represented again and again among the top bloggers in Ireland.
I had planned on writing a post analysing the breakdown of WordPress vs Blogspot vs MT vs everyone else but lucky for me, Cathal Garvey already did the hard work!
He has some very interesting stats on version numbers, and I'm shocked that "Best Technology Blog" (sponsored by Bitbuzz) has the worst record for upgrading WordPress. Hopefully this attention will encourage those bloggers to upgrade.
WordPress is the most popular blogging software among the Blog Awards nominees and Blacknight is by far the most popular hosting service. I don't think you can get a better recommendation than that for either WordPress or Blacknight.
BTW – That's Grandad in the photo above. Go read his blog, Head Rambles. You'll love it!
PS. Here are the results of the Awards, read more by Red Mum, Robert, Niall and Jason who reminds us we should vote for the excellent Cork International Airport Hotel. TheChrisD has a massive post listing everyone in his feedreader who posted about the Awards, a few pics, and some of the videos shown on the night.
I'll be uploading photos from the night in a post here and to Pixie later.
PPS. Alan Burke got in touch and asked me to give Drupalcamp Galway a plug. He added, "Maybe we could convert a few WordPress users ;-)" but of course that'll never happen!
On Saturday 4th and Sunday 5th of April 2009 in Galway, 2 groups of Drupal developers will work on building 2 real working Drupal sites for 2 good causes. They will have 24 hours to complete their website. We are calling organizations, charities and NGOs from Ireland to submit their site proposal. Any organisation can register as long as they are not-for-profit and do not have a Drupal site already running. (A few static HTML pages is the limit for being accepted).
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Thursday, December 6, 2012
My body is AMAZING (even when it hurts).
This post was written as a part of the Body: AMAZING Carnival co-hosted by Jennifer of True Confessions of a Real Mommy and Amy of Anktangle. Carnival participants were invited to write about how we learn to appreciate the ways our bodies grow and change. Our posts explain some incredible ways our bodies impress and amaze us.
Please read to the bottom to find a list of submissions from all of today's carnival participants.
Spending the majority of my time in pain has given me plenty of opportunities to think about all the things I don't like about my body and all the things I wish I could change. (No pain? Yes, please!) I really value the places and people with whom I feel welcome and able to experience the grief I feel about this aspect of my life.
The other side of that coin, though, is that if I spend too much time focusing on the things I wish were different about the way my body works (or doesn't), I can get discouraged and lose perspective. When I focus on what I can do, however, it's easier for me to realize again that my body is pretty darn amazing.
One of the strategies I use to refocus my attention on what I can do is to think back to one of my favorite subjects to study in nursing school: physiology.
It can be easy to focus on outward signs of discomfort or malfunction when I forget what's going on inside me: there are so many systems at work, so many incredible processes working perfectly, constantly, beautifully inside me in any given second. And—even in my hurting body!—they go on largely without any conscious effort on my part.
When I think about what's going on inside me, I feel connected to my body on a whole different level from where I usually operate, and that gives me a new and deeper appreciation for how awesome my body truly is.
It can feel almost meditative for me to think about everything that's happening underneath my skin.
Take a moment to think about breathing: When you breathe in, your intercostal (between-the-rib) muscles and your diaphragm all contract to increase the size of your chest cavity, and the resulting lower pressure in the lungs causes you to breathe in. The air travels through your nose where it is filtered, warmed, and moistened. It moves through your pharynx and trachea, then into the large branches (bronchi) of the lungs. The air continues to travel through the complex network of smaller and smaller tubes (secondary and tertiary bronchi) until it reaches the tiniest of all the tubes (bronchioles) which end in grape-like clusters of hundreds of millions of alveoli, where all the important gas-exchange begins.
Now past the relatively simple mechanical act of inhalation, respiration begins: Oxygen and carbon dioxide are exchanged from your alveoli to your pulmonary capillaries through simple diffusion (due to a perfect balance of pressures and a lubricating substance called surfactant). The oxygen moves from the alveoli into the blood vessels, just as the carbon dioxide moves from the vessels to the alveoli. (Here's where I'm going to skip over the most technical parts.) Oxygen is then distributed to all the cells in the body, where it is reacted with glucose to produce ATP, the energy all the cells in our bodies need to do what they do best. One of the byproducts of the ATP-making process is carbon dioxide, which now has to go!
While your millions of tiny alveoli fill up with carbon dioxide, the muscles in your ribs and belly relax, shortening the space in your chest and forcing the carbon dioxide and other waste products out. As you exhale, the gasses and vapor passes through your bronchioles, then bronchi, then your trachea, pharynx, and finally out through your nose again.
This happens an average of 12 to 20 times each and every minute, and over 23,000 breaths per day. That's about 4 seconds per breath, and so many important things happen inside your body in that short time.
Take a deep breath.
Now just try and tell me that your body isn't amazing.
I know mine is!
More to read and love about honoring our bodies at these other blogs. Please visit them all and leave some comment love!
Jennifer from True Confessions of a Real Mommy is moved to trust her body, even the fuzzy parts. You can also find Jennifer on Facebook and Twitter.
Amy of Anktangle writes about living with chronic pain and how she appreciates the ways her body functions in spite of its challenges. You can also find Amy on Facebook and Twitter.
Mari from Honey on the Bum talks a little bit about how her body has changed and how she loves it and what it does for her. You can also find Mari on Twitter.
Shannon at Pineapples & Artichokes talks about why she's not worried about how her body looks, because it has a much more important job right now.
Joella from Fine and Fair discusses her love and respect for her body as it grows and changes during pregnancy over. Hear more from Joella on Twitter and Facebook.
Issa Waters at LoveLiveGrow on how Paganism taught her to accept reality and by extension herself and her body. Find her on Twitter and Facebook.
Amy W. at Me, Mothering, and Making it All Work shares about her love/hate relationship with a nose that she saw as ugly . . . until she started to learn to love it. Amy W. can also be followed on Twitter and Facebook.
Destany at They Are All of Me writes about releasing the negative notions she was taught about her period, and embracing it instead.
Mandy at Living Peacefully with Children talks about how she had to push through her pre-conditioned comfort level and found herself in a position to naturally be open and honest with her children. More great stuff from Mandy on Facebook.
Lauren at Hobo Mama is not a runner . . . but she proved herself wrong by completing a race. Keep up with Lauren's adventures on Twitter and Facebook.
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You have amazing perspective!ReplyDelete
Focusing on breath is truly grounding, and amazing! I love how while it is an autonomic body function, it is also one we can exert some control over, with incredible results.ReplyDelete
It is wonderful you can look past the pain to see something so glorious in something most of us take for granted until we can't do it anymore.ReplyDelete
I am constantly amazed at my breath. I'm glad thinking about the inner workings of your body is helping you come to peace with your pain.ReplyDelete
What a great perspective! The more I learn about my body, the more I'm astounded by how complex and brilliant it is. I'm sorry about your pain — thanks for sharing one of the lessons it's taught you. I hope it can be further mitigated or eradicated at some point for you!ReplyDelete
This is such a GREAT post! I'm glad that thinking about and appreciating the inner-workings of your body have helped you cope with your pain. I think envisioning my body at work when I breathe and how amazing that is may help me in relaxing and learning to meditate. Thanks for this post!ReplyDelete
I often remind myself to focus on my breathing as a way to calm down. I think it's great that your post focuses on the internal workings of our bodies rather than the external. Our bodies are so much more than outward appearance.ReplyDeleteReplies
This is so true, Mandy! Our culture focuses so much on how our bodies look instead of what they can do and how incredibly functional they are, and that can have a huge a detrimental effect on self-esteem and self-image. I hope to teach Daniel that his body is always amazing just the way it is—regardless of what it looks like in the mirror on any given day.Delete
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