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Report: Grand jury investigating N.J. Sen. Menendez
- He is under investigation over advocating business interests of a wealthy donor
- Menendez%u2019s office did not confirm or deny reports of the grand jury investigation
- Menendez won re-election to another six-year term last fall
WASHINGTON — Democratic Sen. Robert Menendez of New Jersey is under investigation by a grand jury over his ties to a wealthy donor and friend in Florida, according to a newspaper report.
It's unclear what the confidential grand jury probe is examining, but the Washington Post reported that investigators are looking into several cases in which Menendez intervened in matters affecting the financial interests of Florida eye doctor Salomon Melgen.
In those cases, Menendez pressured officials in the Dominican Republic to honor a contract with Melgen's port security company, and intervened on Melgen's behalf in a dispute between Melgen and U.S. health care officials over Medicare payments.
Menendez's office did not confirm or deny reports of the grand jury investigation. According to the Post story, Menendez has not been contacted by federal officials.
"As we have said all along, we welcome any review because Sen. Menendez's actions have always been appropriate, and we believe the facts will confirm that," Menendez's office said in a written statement Friday.
Melgen contributed $700,000 last year to Menendez and other Democratic senators. He also provided Menendez with free airplane flights to the Dominican Republic in 2010.
In January, the FBI raided Melgen's offices in West Palm Beach, Fla., but agents have not released information on the reasons behind the raid.
Also in January, Menendez paid $58,500 of his own money to reimburse Melgen for two flights. Menendez said he didn't pay for or report the flights earlier due to an oversight. The Senate ethics committee is reportedly looking into the matter.
"There are rules and statues about not receiving personal gifts," said Jan Baran, a Washington lawyer who specializes in ethics cases. "That's a serious issue. It can actually be a criminal case."
Melanie Sloan, executive director of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), said that even if Menendez isn't indicted as a result of the grand jury probe, "that doesn't mean that he won't find himself facing some pretty serious ethics charges."
Past corruption cases against members of Congress include one involving the late Republican Sen. Ted Stevens of Alaska, who was indicted by a federal grand jury in 2008 on seven counts of failing to properly report gifts.
Stevens was convicted and lost his 2008 re-election bid, but a judge later dismissed the conviction after finding prosecutors had intentionally hidden evidence that could have helped Stevens.
Another senator, Democrat Robert Torricelli of New Jersey, resigned in 2003 amid allegations he had improperly accepted gifts from a campaign contributor, businessman David Chang. Torricelli was under investigation by a grand jury and the Senate ethics committee when he resigned.
Menendez aides downplayed reports of the grand jury investigation targeting him.
"Every day, more evidence emerges that the false smears against Sen. Menendez are nothing but an elaborate campaign orchestrated by Republican political operatives," the statement said.
Allegations targeting Menendez first surfaced when the Daily Caller, a conservative website, reported shortly before last year's election that Melgen had supplied Menendez with free trips to the Dominican Republic and prostitutes.
A Dominican lawyer last week released an affidavit from a 23-year-old woman who claimed she had been paid to say she had sex with Menendez.
Menendez won re-election to another six-year term last fall.
As of last week, he continued to have the support of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada, who called Menendez a friend and a "terrific senator." Reid has declined to remove Menendez as chairman of the powerful Foreign Relations Committee.


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New Harry Potter Notes blog has been launched …
Probably 20% of all visitors to my futuristguy blog viewed my Harry Potter page. In fact, for most of them, they found my blog from an internet search related to the Harry Potter series. I began that page as a way to collect information about various forms of media and the different kinds of processes involved in adapting a literary work like J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series into scripts, then scripts into films, then books and films into franchise, and franchise into other kinds of media and products. But I had much more material to post, and thought it needed to have its own space.
Thus, in October 2010, I began working behind the scenes on a separate blog where I could organize the material in ways that made more sense for the case studies in media that this particular collection became. And so, here's your notice:
I've just launched the site: Harry Potter Notes!
I wanted to accomplish this launch today, March 27, 2011, because it is – according to Ms. Rowling's series – the birthday of James Potter, the fictional father of Harry James Potter. Had James not been murdered by Lord Voldemort ["Fear of a name only increases fear of the thing itself."], he would have been 51 years old today. I relate in many ways to James Potter, and so I thought this was a day befitting something new.
So, below is a list of the pages on that site, and after that, an excerpt from it – the page on Social Impact of the Harry Potter Series. I spent a lot of time on this essay, as it represents a crossroads of my passions for culture, media, and studies of the future, and I think it says something relevant to the concepts of a triple or quadruple bottom line approach to social transformation.
So … Go! Explore! Enjoy!
- Home
- About
- Audiobooks
- Awards
- Books
- Candies and Treats
- Contact
- Documentaries
- Downloadables ~ Links
- Films, Scripts, and DVDs
- Fonts
- Harry Potter Exhibition
- Links
- Literary Art/Illustrations
- Marketing Case Study ~ Chamber of Secrets
- Press Kits: The Film Series
- Production and Special Effects
- Promotional Materials 0: Introduction
- Promotional Materials 1: Books and Audiobooks
- Promotional Materials 2: Theatrical Films
- Promotional Materials 3: DVD/VHS
- Resource Materials
- Social Impact of the Series
- Soundtracks and Fan Music
- Special promotions and Partnerships
- Toys, Trading Cards, Trivia
- Videogames
- Warner Brothers UK Studio Tour ~ The Making of Harry Potter
- Wizarding World of Harry Potter
The Harry Potter series has catalyzed some noteworthy social transformation. We may not see it in full bloom yet, as it has only been about 15 years since the first book in the series was published. But, as a student of "strategic foresight" (otherwise known as "futurist studies"), the knack contained in this perspective is to discern cultural patterns that are driving long-term social change. And, by "long-term," futurists generally mean trends that significantly change society for at least a 50-year period. This is a different perspective – it's kind of like being an "archaeologist of the present" … digging through the dust of today and trying to figure out what lies underneath it will look like to people 25, 50, 100, 1000 years from now …
Anyway, I'll start with some of my own observations and reflections on how the Harry Potter series creates an impact. After that, information about the Harry Potter Alliance – an association of US and international chapters "doing good" based on the constructive social values Ms. Rowling has woven throughout her books. I'll conclude with some resources that can help us all consider the social impact this series is having.
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Some Observations and Reflections
"In the long run, what counts is how the next generation thinks. How far new ideas permeate culture is not measured just by attitude change during one generation, but by what is taken for granted in the next." ~ Helen Haste, in The Sexual Metaphor: Men, Women, and the Thinking that Makes the Difference (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1994, ISBN 0-674-80282-9, page 149)
Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling has used her influences and finances to engage in many philanthropic activities. For instance, in 2001, she wrote two short books that are companion pieces to the world of Harry Potter: Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them and Quidditch Through the Ages. Proceeds from these books go to Comic Relief, an organization dedicated to "a just world free from poverty." This interview transcript shows some of what she finds most appealing about the efforts of Comic Relief. Also, Ms. Rowling also instigated The VOLANT Charitable Trust, a foundation for her philanthropic work in the UK. Her chief concerns include funding research into causes and cures for Multiple Sclerosis, and alleviating "social deprivation, with a particular emphasis on women's and children's issues."
I would argue that Ms. Rowling has shaped the course of development for an entire global generation – which means she has changed the course of the future through them. She has accomplished this through both her own consistent charitable work, and through writing her Harry Potter books and stewarding the films and other products to be true to the essence of those books. Further, I would argue that the values and worldview she personal presents and represents have become an integral part of driving the multi-generational shift we are seeing toward personal participation in social transformation. Whether we love it or hate it, think it's heavenly or devilish, we cannot deny social tolerance and justice have held a major influence in the developing global culture of the 1990s and 2000s. And if it has already shaped the future that we share, we would do well to consider its past.
The Harry Potter series is to today's 30-something-and-younger generations when they were in grade school and high school what The Lord of the Rings was to the Boomers as they hit high school and college age. Each presents a first-wave new-to-them universe where imagination could soar and the authors could implant amazing seeds for character development, both embedded in the plot and embodied in the characters. Each of them has introduced characters, concepts, and terms into the worldwide mindset that serve as cultural code words. (For instance: Frodo Lives! Gandalf for President. The world has changed. Middle-earth. Hogwarts. Muggles. House-elves. Dementors.)
The first Harry Potter novel, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, was published in 1997. Ms. Rowling spent five years from 1990-1995 plotting out the entire seven-book series and writing the first book. From there, it took two years to get published. And then the buzz grew and Mr. Potter became a worldwide phenomenon – literally a globalized literary scavenger hunt for clues in each successive novel for who exactly Harry is, what the meaning of his famous lightening-shaped scar is, and what choices he has in regard to his destiny. It took an entire decade for the denouement of those questions, where the final chapters and epilogue of book #7 transformed the series from seven serial episodes into one septological mega-epic. Meanwhile, Harry Potter books have been translated into over 60 languages and sold over 400 million copies worldwide. [The Lord of the Rings has been translated into about 40 languages, with a reported 200 million copies sold by 2007, when Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows was released.]
Overlapping with the craze about the books, the film adaptations began in 2001 and are scheduled to complete with the release of two films for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows in 2010 and 2011 depicting the action of the massive seventh volume. The first five films alone earned a reported $4.5 billion in theatrical release worldwide, making them the largest grossing film series in history thus far. (Compare that to next few in line: Star Wars six movies, $4.3 billion. The Lord of the Rings trilogy, $3.0 billion. Pirates of the Caribbean trilogy, $2.7 billion.)
The Harry Potter films give a relatively reasonable treatment of the material in the books. Films simply cannot be "documentaries of the books," because books and movies are very different media; they do not work the same way in our brains. But the films can at least provide a "dynamic equivalent" to translate print into visual. Also, Ms. Rowling gave up having a higher royalties percentage in order to retain more control/approval on the films. This was absolutely essential to maintaining a high level of continuity between books and films in the characters and overall details of the cultures and plotlines involved.
Beyond the books and films, a very selective range of official Harry Potter branded products was authorized. Licensed products include soundtracks, stickers, "potion kits" (i.e., chemistry sets), action figures, plush toys/dolls, photo and postcard books, board games, video games, DVD trivia games, picture puzzles, puzzle books, posters, flipbooks, prop replicas (e.g., wands, masks, Hogwarts clothing, maps), trading cards, casual clothing, lunchboxes, collectible card games, model trains, jewelry, banners, ornaments, bed linens, room decorations, party supplies, et cetera.
The diversity in kinds of digital and "concrete media" means there was something to appeal to the various interests and abilities in every kind of learning style preference. And, as with any story, the availability of such engaging products is part of what reinforces the broadest possible appeal of its characters and plot, and thereby its underlying value system. That's all a very long-winded way of saying this: Collecting and playing with, trading and imagining with, decorating and celebrating with the Harry Potter stuff is fun! When I teach on learning styles, I have a poem I wrote a decade ago that emphasizes the importance of fun in engaging us through things we play with to connect us with values and ideas we can become passionate about. Here's a version of it:
Fun-Learning For Our Futures
© 2002 Brad Sargent
It's hard to unlearn
the things we "fun-learn"
because in the process of play
ideas and valuables
impress us when maleable
and live in our heart and there stay.
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So wouldn't it be better
if we taught "beyond letters"
and used multiple forms from the start,
honor those who are "wired"
with others ways that inspire
so our message could lodge in their heart?
In the way I look at things, culture is how we live out a total internal system package that includes at the deepest levels how we connect things; what we value; how we see the world and what we choose to see as important in it; how we organize ourselves in groups of family and friends, and for work and play; and how we live out our life and our lifestyle. Harry Potter suggests all kinds of themes along these lines. For instance, Harry, Ron, and Hermione are not just connected relationally, they are interdependent on one another as deeply committed friends. Also, bullying is never validated and self-sacrifice is an important virtue.
So, with such global saturation of the storyline and products, Harry Potter becomes a "native culture" framework to those who read the books and/or see the movies during their formative years as children and teens. For instance, suppose you described to a Potter fan the employment practices of a business or organization this way: "They treat their workers like house-elves." The fan will know instantly that it is an unfair and abusive work situation which deserves to be resisted, boycotted, protested, etc. (Unfortunately, I know of organizations where this terrible reality applies, despite their charter and/or reputation for "doing good," and once the 20-/30-somethings of tomorrow discover that their leaders treat subordinates unjustly, I suspect they will be highly reluctant to get involved there!)
Finally, I would suggest that such values in Harry Potter as courage, tolerance, friendship, and perseverance are essential to creating sustainable social transformation. That potentially makes the Harry Potter universe a veritable playfield as a familiar-enough case study with parallels for training next generations of social entrepreneurs and social change agents. And, since I have been involved in social transformation enterprises since age 17, I can relate. Perhaps, ultimately, that's why it was important to me to create a page on social impact and Harry Potter. Maybe I'll come back to this page sometime to add more thoughts, but for now, it seems like that's all I need to say …
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The Harry Potter Alliance
In Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Hogwarts students organized themselves into "Dumbledore's Army," committing and training themselves to combat the forces of evil in their wizarding world. In that spirit, The Harry Potter Alliance "encourage[s] our members to hone the magic of their creativity in endeavoring to make the world a better place." It began in 2005 and has grown into an association of chapters – middle-school, high school, university, and community – primarily in the U.S., but with other chapters worldwide.
Besides empowering members as individuals, the Alliance has organized as a series of social change and philanthropy campaigns. Here is their official mission statement, found on their What We Do page:
The Harry Potter Alliance (HPA) is a 501c3 nonprofit that takes an outside-of-the-box approach to civic engagement by using parallels from the Harry Potter books to educate and mobilize young people across the world toward issues of literacy, equality, and human rights. Our mission is to empower our members to act like the heroes that they love by acting for a better world. By bringing together fans of blockbuster books, TV shows, movies, and YouTube celebrities we are harnessing the power of popular culture toward making our world a better place. Our goal is to make civic engagement exciting by channeling the entertainment-saturated facets of our culture toward mobilization for deep and lasting social change.
As a long-time social activist collaborator, project manager, and non-profit historian/archivist myself, there are several aspects of the Harry Potter Alliance that I find particularly intriguing when it comes to training next generations of social innovators.
They use the narrative of the Harry Potter series and the personal character of the people in Harry Potter's world as a framework for making social activism concepts and campaigns understandable. (We learn in part by relating new knowledge and experiences with what we already know. So, the storylines and character qualities in the Harry Potter series provide a valuable framework for growth. As another part of the What We Do page notes, "The Harry Potter Alliance fights the Dark Arts in the real world by using parallels from Harry Potter. We work for human rights, equality, and a better world just as Harry and his friends did throughout the books.")
They provide core resources that lay out the basic how-to's of social activism for making it accessible. (See the pages on resources to set up a chapter and surf the various campaigns to see just how practical the resources are for training in activism.)
They provide a network of relationships – such as chapters and inter-house competitions (i.e., Gryffindor, Hufflepuff, Ravenclaw, and Slytherin) – for making effective participation more fun and more achievable.
They work on a core cluster of issues – equality, literacy, and human rights – to focus energies while encouraging creativity, making the impact more sustainable. (The reality is, we need boundaries that set up a dynamic tension for our creativity to function at its best. For instance, if I say, "Design a house for me," that is too vague to spark relevant creativity … although a designer would surely come up with something. If I say, "Design an energy-efficient house for me, and I live where there are lots of rocks to work with," the design will likely turn out more relevant to my desires plus the place where the house will be built. A focused set of issues, a regularly instigated new and specific campaign … these are the kinds of constraints that can increase creativity as long as participants are given leeway to adapt.)
Don't mistake me as endorsing all the Harry Potter Alliance stands for or does. However, taken all together, the Harry Potter Alliance demonstrates aspects of a "quadruple bottom line approach" to social enterprises that can benefit people, planet, profits, and personal/social transformation simultaneously, while seeking to harm none. I am an advocate for that kind of overall approach. So, it is worth considering what they do and how they go about it, in order to reflect on the social impact of Ms. Rowling's values and the impact they are having on social change.
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Resources on Harry Potter and Social Transformation
There are probably far more resources available than I'm aware of for how Harry Potter is relevant to social innovation, but I want to suggest three items I think will be helpful. The first is a popular-level primary source about Ms. Rowling herself, the other two are intermediate- to academic-level secondary sources that analyze important psychological and social aspects of Harry Potter.
1. J.K. Rowling: A Year In The Life. This 2007 documentary feature is available on the 2-disc Special Edition version of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. It tracks Ms. Rowling's progress in completion of the final book in the series, and various events related to that achievement. As a writer, I found her creative and editing processes fascinating. But, as a "culturologist" and futurist, what I found particularly engaging were her interviews with director and narrator James Runcie, her off-the-cuff comments throughout the film, and the segments where she is working on her Volant Charitable Trust. These give tremendous insight into who Ms. Rowling is in her own formation and character, and what she is passionate about and values. (You may find especially enlightening one specific set of free-association type questions where Mr. Runcie asked her to say the first word that came to mind – I won't quote anything as you need to experience it yourself. You need to hear what she says, take in her facial expression and body language, and think about what these things tell about her!)
2. Prejudice in Harry Potter's World by Karen A. Brown. This book records the research and analysis Ms. Brown did into "A Social Critique of the Series, Using Allport's The Nature of Prejudice" (i.e., the subtitle of the book). I have given details on this on the Resource Materials page, in the section on "Issues of Social Justice and of Suffering." I found Ms. Brown's work engaging. She explores various characters and cultural situations in the series to create a vivid picture of the social hierarchy of the wizarding world, and suggests the personal and social values that drive both the prejudicial and welcoming sides of that society.
3. Phoenix Rising: Collected Papers on Harry Potter, edited by Sharon K. Goetz. This book provides the papers presented at the Phoenix Rising conference, held May 17-21, 2007. One especially valuable aspect of a "reader" like this is the variety in topics covered and perspectives used in the essays. As such, this volume has essays that address psychological aspects of characters, issues of evil, prejudice, social order in the wizarding world, politics, and ethics. Their collective effect creates broader insight into social situations which call for transformation – in Harry Potter's world and in our own.

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At this point in the race, and especially during this election cycle, as fashion bloggers and amateur Internet pundits and bona fide print-media critics, and voters, of course, have analyzed every sartorial move, the political clothing choices seem so carefully considered that you'd think Barack Obama and Mitt Romney got here merely on the strength of their tie racks. That's obviously not the case, but it was a foregone conclusion even before last night's bizarre take on theater that we'd see the following: dark suits, white shirts, flag pins, a red tie, a blue tie, hair that's going grey at the perimeter (almost purposely, it looks, to suggest these men are stressed, worn-down, to earn the electorate's respect), and two candidates forced to grin at each other — a smile that's as carefully considered as everything else, clothing-wise at least, that happened on TV from Denver.
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Mitt Romney came to work. That's what all the political folks are saying, but I saw something of a CEO the moment he stepped onto stage. It's too bad that his tie, which had golden threads woven through it, made the TV cameras dance with weird, Etch-a-Sketch-like distortion, because it was a smart choice. Dignified, even, and the correct width. It matched his lapels perfectly (though his lavalier microphone was too close to his neck, to the point of being distracting) and it was eye-catching. The proportions made sense, in other words, and the repp stripes added some personality — a clear emphasis of this campaign — without working too hard. Still, he could have knotted it tighter, as to add a dimple.
And Romney's flag pin, by contrast, was far too large. As if he was trying to prove he was the more American success story: that CEO we know, but also just a Midwestern guy who is proud of where he came from and where he's headed. More fundamentally, wearing a larger pin — which, in itself, is a piece of jewelry, though probably a pretty cheap one — just served, for me at least, to underline the wealth that's come from all his business success. It's a weird show of machismo.
(At this point is where I should probably say something about how excellent Mitt Romney's hair looked. Because it did. But this thought will forever be hidden in parentheticals as to avoid reiterating something that's as obvious as the fact that it's currently October.)
Obama, on the other hand, seemed to be lacking the swagger, the strength in presenting and dressing himself well, that got people excited not just about his politics, but about his star-like persona, back in 2007. The tie seemed too wide, and the lapels did, too, making his head appear smaller than it is, which wasn't helping when he couldn't even decide where he wanted to place his gaze. It also read on television as solid blue — on the massive HD screen I was watching, at least — though you can see in the photos there's some white in that silk. It looked plain, like there wasn't much forethought, even perhaps, like he was coasting: I got this.
On one hand, in our modern debate cycle, where everyone has an opinion — where reporters and regular citizens explain constantly that they can't watch the debates without constantly checking their Twitter feeds — it's hard to separate these clothes from the conventional wisdom about who "won" the debate. Still, confidence — or the very appearance of winning, even if you're not — plays pretty heavily into getting dressed and making people believe that you look fantastic. That's why last night was fascinating: Even as Obama looked the part (he always does), it was Romney that made us believe something new: He's got this, too.


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The American automaker's official Twitter account was the victim of a hacking attempt early Tuesday. Jeep's Twitter profile was updated with a description that said the Chrysler-owner brand was sold to Cadillac, a General Motors company, which is not true. The account was restored to its original state at around noon PT.
The temporary account holders also posted several disparaging updates saying the brand was sold to Cadillac because the CEO and staffers were caught doing drugs. Jeep's Twitter background image was even temporarily changed to a picture of a red and yellow car with McDonald's branding, as pictured in screenshots.
Dear media, re: @jeep. #BlameAnonymous— Anonymous (@YourAnonNews) February 19, 2013
Hacker collective Anonymous is taking credit for defacing the account. Jeep's usurped account included the #OpMadCow hashtag, the same hashtag hackers used yesterday when they took over Burger King's Twitter account and embarrassed the fast-food brand with messages saying that it had been sold to McDonald's.
When reached for comment, a Twitter representative said that because of privacy and security considerations, the information network does not comment on individual accounts.
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This fuzzy, red, next-generation Elmo doll is like Teddy Ruxpin on steroids. When you touch one of its three "tickle spots," the stuffed robot falls over, rolls on the floor laughing, pounds its fists on the ground and begs the tickler to "please stop it!" Afterward, the Sesame Street-inspired robot hops back onto its feet and asks for another tickle. Robo-Elmo is scarier than Chucky from the movie Child's Play—and more fun, too.
4. LEGO Mindstorms NXT kit, $250
Most of us are not robotics engineers; we're simply people who don't want to get up off the couch to run to the fridge. Thanks to modern science, you no longer need a pesky Ph.D. to build your dream gopher-robot—you just need some LEGOs. The LEGO Mindstorms kit uses a "smart brick," a 32-bit microprocessor "brain" that can be programmed from a personal computer to control robotic LEGO creations. The rest of the robot is built from conventional (albeit extra sturdy) LEGO bricks that are moved via three servo motors. Your little LEGO robot can sense the world around it (and your drink of choice) via touch, light, sound and ultrasonic sensors—all the more reason for PM to have given LEGO a 2006 Breakthrough Award for the NXT kit.
3. Kondo, KHR-1HV Humanoid Robot, $1200
While little kids in North America build model airplanes, little kids in Japan build radio-controlled humanoid robots. Arguably, the best on the market is the Kondo KHR-1HV—a two-foot -tall, muscle-bound cage-fighter with sturdy servo motors that allow 19 degrees of freedom for smooth moves including stair climbing, somersaults and back flips. Throw away the airplane glue and buy a soldering iron: Today's humanoid robotic van Dammes come complete with karate moves, acrobatic flips and those cute, pasted-on googly eyes—some reassembly may be required. 2. Cyberdyne Systems, HAL-5 Exoskeleton, $60,000
The HAL-5 (Hybrid Assisted Limb) from the Cyberdyne Corporation uses coin-sized electromyogram (EMG) sensors on the shoulders, hips, knees and elbows to eavesdrop on the signal sent from the brain to muscles. During its three-hour battery life, the thought-guided machine can help a paralyzed human walk, climb stairs or lift up to 175 pounds. The powered suit resembles a Star Wars-vintage storm trooper outfit and has been used to piggyback a paralyzed man to within 500 yards of the summit of Breithorn Mountain in Switzerland. Act fast: Only a few hundred units are available.
1. Autonomous Solutions Inc., Unmanned Ground Vehicle, $100,000
A Utah-based company called Autonomous Solutions will happily convert your family car into an unmanned ground vehicle complete with computer-controlled steering, acceleration, braking and gear-shifting. Ask for the "Proving Grounds Automation Package," drop your car off and pick up your new robo-vehicle a few weeks later. With the barebones package, your car can now be remote-controlled or programmed to run certain routes. Keep in mind, the price will rise steeply for smart behaviors like obstacle avoidance and route planning, which require additional sensors and computing power, but may one day let you hit "snooze" all the way to the office.
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As one my commenters noticed, I forgot to come back to the issue of Genesis 15:6 as it has been used in Paul and in James. So, let's deal with that here. First, a brief look at Genesis 15:6.
וְהֶאֱמִן בַּיהוָה וַיַּחְשְׁבֶהָ לּוֹ צְדָקָה׃
"And he believed in YHWH, and He credited it for him righteousness."
In the original context, Abram believed God's promises, specifically concerning those of the (S)seed. Abram wondered about a few things (particularly concerning his heir, which at the time appeared to be Eliezer of Damascus). But finally the Lord told him that it would be an heir from his own body that would initialize the multiplication of the seed into a number too great to count, as great as the number of the stars. Therefore, we cannot separate the faith of Abram from the promise of the (S)seed. Abram not only believed the Lord's Word, but he also believed in the promised Seed, Jesus Christ, the ultimate fulfillment of the promise given to Abraham. Of course, there was a near fulfillment in the person of Isaac, and the multiplication of Israel. However, this is not the climactic fulfillment that Jesus Christ was. This will do for a basic understanding of the passage in its original context.
We need to raise the problem of Paul and James in its acutest sense so that we can get a feel for the issues involved. Paul and James seem to contradict each other right at this point. Paul quotes Genesis 15:6 in order to prove that justification is by faith and not by works of any kind (the relevant passage here is Romans 4:1-8). James quotes Genesis 15:6 in order to say that "a man is justified by works, and not by faith only." As many people have noted (somewhat gleefully, I might add), the phrase "by faith alone" technically appears only in here in James 2, and that to be denied! What are we to make of this?
The road that Shepherd takes us on is the Arminian interpretation of imputation with regard to Genesis 15:6, which is that it is faith itself that is reckoned to take the place of righteousness (see Way of Righteousness, p. 30). This is what Shepherd says: "What is credited or imputed to Abraham? The answer is his faith. The faith he had was reckoned to his account as righteousness. Faith and the obedience flowing from faith are of a piece with one another and together they constitute the righteousness of Abraham" (emphasis original). Notice here that it is not Christ's righteousness that is here imputed, according to Shepherd, but rather the believer's own faith plus the obedience that comes from faith. This misunderstands the nature of faith. Faith is not a thing in itself. It has no substance that could stand in for righteousness. Instead, we could call the expression a metonymy of the adjunct. Faith is an instrument that lays hold of Christ. Faith is an adjunct, or it lays hold of, Christ's righteousness. The only reason faith can be said to be imputed is that faith lays hold of what is technically imputed: Christ's righteousness. So faith's instrumental character is here put to the fore when it is said to be counted for (or towards) righteousness.
Now, let it be known here that Shepherd and I agree on one point at least: justifying faith always results in obedience. We can both say that. Where we disagree is on the place of that righteousness within the structure of justification. He argues most definitely that the obedience of faith lies within the structure of justification. I argue most vociferously that it lies outside the structure of justification. How is that shown from James?
The justification by works of which James speaks is Abraham's offering of his son Isaac in Genesis 22, NOT Abram's belief as recorded in Genesis 15:6. The way James quotes Genesis 15:6 is as fulfillment of promise. The fulfillment language (καὶ ἐπληρώθη ἡ γραφὴ) indicates that Genesis 22 is what we would expect from Genesis 15:6. Faith results in obedience. This is NOT saying that obedience (even Spirit-filled obedience) is part of the structure of salvific justification. When one combines this analysis with what I said previously, arguing that "justify" in James refers NOT to salvific justification, but to demonstration of true faith, then all becomes clear. When James in verse 24 says that a man is not justified by faith alone, he is saying that a man is not justified demonstrably (shown to be unhypocritical, shown to have a true faith, shown to be a true child of the King) by faith alone. His works prove that he is genuine.
The only way to get around this is to argue that Paul does not deny all works when it comes to salvific justification. This cannot be done. It would make no sense whatsoever for Paul to say that unbelieving works cannot be counted as part of justification. That is rather obvious, isn't it? In Romans 3, Paul has been concerned to prove that all alike are under sin. Every mouth must be stopped, and the whole world must become guilty (3:19). Therefore, the law here is concerned about morality, obedience to God. It is in that context that "deeds of the law" first makes its appearance in the passage about justification (3:20). Deeds of the law here cannot possibly refer exclusively or even primarily to those works that separate Jew from Gentile. Rather it has to refer to works that might give someone a ground upon which to boast before God.
Then, in verses 27-31, Paul proves his point by saying that since the law was the primary possession of the Jews, if justification were by these deeds of the law, then Gentiles would not be able to be justified ever. N.T. Wright makes a huge deal about verse 29 and the little word "or" that starts this verse. However, the verse does not say what he thinks it says. The sweep of the passage has to do with obedience to the whole law, and how all have fallen short. But the law as a whole has been specially revealed to the Jews. So, it is not just part of law-keeping that is excluded from Paul's structure of justification. Rather, all law-keeping is excluded. There can be no ground of boasting. See Simon Gathercole's outstanding treatment of this theme in Romans 1-5. Boasting would still be possible if any works of any kind (obedient or non-obedient) could form part of the structure of justification. They form the necessary result of justification and sanctification, and therefore cannot be separated from saving faith. But they are distinct from saving faith.
One of the main problems here is that all too often "living" has been equated with "obedient." Those who disagree with me will undoubtedly point to James again and say "well, living is equated with obedient there." No one is saying that we are justified (even in a Pauline sense!) by a dead faith. But the living aspect of faith with regard to justification is not obedience but the fact that it truly grasps hold of Christ. The living aspect of faith with regard to sanctification is that it will really result in good works. The second aspect of the aliveness of faith is the necessary result of the first aspect of the aliveness of faith. They are inseparable, yet distinct. The first aspect of the aliveness of faith is the sole province of the realm of justification. The second aspect is solely within sanctification. These things must be kept distinct, or all sorts of problems will result.


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What a rollercoaster of a birthday weekend!
First, the good. I had my kids with me, and even though we didn't have extra funds to go do a bunch of stuff, we had fun anyway. We have a local theater that shows after-run movies for $2, so we got to go do that on Saturday. We also rode bikes, decorated eggs, and all the other Easter-y fun stuff. Anna and David were on their best behavior, so I had minimal fighting to deal with between them on my special day.
The bad was I had a major allergy headache all weekend, and it was so bad on Sunday morning I just wanted to lay in bed and cry. Instead, I dragged myself up, medicated as best I could, and managed to hide two easter baskets and six dozen candy filled eggs all around the house and yard. I was handling all that OK, but it turned into a miserable, no good, very bad Autism day as well, and that made things really hard. Some of it was due to David's allergies - the medicine puts him in a serious "fog" and he can't focus. He was tantruming off and on all day, and poor Anna had nowhere else to go - her friends all had family over or they traveled for Easter, of course.
And now for the semi-catastrophic. My minivan finally came to a horrible, shuddering, grinding death on Friday night. Luckily, I was only a few blocks from my house, so my roadside assistance program (it comes with my insurance) towed it to the garage for free. Peter came through for me and loaned me his truck, so I'm not even having to shell out for a rental car. I'm now waiting to see how bad the damage is, if it's worth fixing or just donating somewhere. Either way, it isn't a total catastrophe because I'm due to get my tax refund in any minute now and I can put a down payment on a good used car, which was the plan for that money anyway.
I have to say, I was a bit more down than usual this birthday. Some of it was stress over the van, but I think mainly because it was tied in with Easter. I felt sorry for Anna yesterday, stuck with me and her brother all day, especially with the mood he was in. It made me miss having family around, so she and David could play with their uncles and aunts. I miss that for them. And for me. I wanted to be doing what everyone else was doing yesterday, cooking for or with Peter's family, laughing with all of them, and catching up on each other's lives. I still keep in touch with my former in-laws via Facebook, but it's not the same.
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Manzanita in the chaparral
Indigenous medicinal; mountain driftwood; landscape designer. Sun-bleached wood reaching in all directions. Symbol of rebirth and new beginnings. Nature sets the tone.
Oak Trees in Winter Storm
Yosemite Valley
Hillside, Merced River Canyon
Wintertime Glow
The glow from a cabin and the full moon provide both warm and cool colors to the night time in Yosemite Valley.
Larch Trees in Autumn Colors
The Blue Mountains stretch across over 4,000 square miles of northeastern Oregon and into Washington state. They are named for the color of the fir and pine trees, but it is the western larch that turns the hills glorious in October. The range for these deciduous conifers is supposedly between 2,000 and 5,500 feet up, but these were well above 6,000. They are found especially in fairly young or fire prone forests from Oregon to British Columbia and east into northwestern Montana.
Blue Mountains Panorama
Larch in autumn colors in "the Blues."
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Blue Mountains, Oregon
Artistry of Differentiated Form
Bainbridge Island, Washington
In summer, this pond in the middle of a forest is covered in a mat of green water plants. On a winter morning, the water's surface is a mirror for the trees.
Forest Floor
Big Leaf Maple Leaves, Bainbridge Island, Washington
When the sky forgets to put on a show, the best scenery is often right at your feet.
Dwarf Cypress Forest
Big Cypress National Wildlife Preserve
Autumn Glow
These golden trees stand out like an oasis among the dry grasses of the Badlands. Not far away, the Black Hills were alive with golden color.
Fagus Tree in Autumn Color
Twisted Lakes, Cradle Mountain National National Park, Tasmania
Delicate Restraint
Frosted Maple Leaves, Elwha River Valley, Olympic National Park
God's First Cathedral
Aspen and Beaver Pond, Lundy Canyon, Eastern Sierra
The beavers seem to love this area and have made several dams here on Mill Creek. Although the aspen had lost their peak color, I loved the way their trunks reflected in the beaver pond. And there's that one tree still holding its leaves up high.
River of Perceptions
Dry Fork, Two Medicine Creek, Glacier National Park
Willows in fall color on the bank of Dry Fork, just before it joins Two Medicine Creek. The flowing water turns the mudstone rocks in the creek bed into a painter's palette in the background.
Touch Of Silence
Larch Trees at Gnome Tarn, Alpine Lakes Wilderness, Enchantment Lakes
Though we missed the peak fall color of the larch lower down, they were in dramatic display here at the base of Prussik Peak. The early sunlight perfectly illuminates the far shore on a freezing cold morning.
Autumn Glory
Aspen in Lundy Canyon, Eastern Sierra
What a show the aspen put on in Lundy and several other eastern Sierra canyons. They are trees to warm the heart.
Taken in the first week of October.
The Forest Is My Cathedral
Lundy Canyon, Eastern Sierra
The mingling of yellow aspen leaves, white bark, and the red of the forest floor create quite an artist's palette.
Grace Itself
Ashen in Lundy Canyon, Eastern Sierra
Aspen Along Lee Vining Creek
Lee Vining Canyon, California
This creek runs for 16 miles starting above 10,000 feet near Tioga Pass. It flows into Mono Lake, but is one of the streams that has been partially diverted into the Los Angeles viaduct not far from where this photo was taken.
The Secret Rhythm Of The Forest
Aspen, Lee Vining Canyon, Eastern Sierra
Some artist must have designed these forest scenes along Lee Vining Creek. What a palette, with some of the leaves still showing green and others fully yellow, plus the red of the underbrush. The show is one of the most glorious scenes I have ever seen.
In The Glorious Forest
Aspen Panorama, Lundy Canyon, Eastern Sierra
I combined ten exposures to make this panorama. We have an eight foot wide print of it that enlivens our living room.
Cottonwoods in Zion Canyon
Zion National Park, Utah
The cottonwoods line the Virgin River and in early April, were already sporting their new leaves. The light green color is nicely set off by the red canyon walls.
Court of the Patriarchs, Zion National Park
I loved how the silhouettes of the cottonwood trees matched the line of the sandstone cliffs that are named for Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. Taken just after sunrise in early April. There is an Ansel Adams photo of the Patriarchs taken from near here in 1933.


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Lexus did not hold an official press conference for the LF-Gh Concept at this year's New York Auto Show. The unveiling came the night before the first media day, during a posh soiree complete with appetizers prepared by famed "Iron Chef" Morimoto.
The move seemed especially strange, considering that the LF-Gh is billed as the Japanese automaker's new step into bolder design. Long known for its high quality ratings and dependability, many Lexus vehicles have maintained a safe and solid approach when it comes to design.
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More than a few journalists could be heard comparing the rear of the LF-Gh to the previous-generation BMW 5 Series. The Japanese sedan definitely has hints of the Bavarian machine in its chunky C-pillar treatment and taillights. Yet by far the most controversial aspect is the Lexus' new nose.
Remember the furor caused when Audi introduced its over-size front grille? Over time, the fuss died down and people (generally) accepted the new look. Perhaps Lexus is trying something similar? Looking like an Audi grille that has been pinched in the middle, the snout of the LF-Gh is an attention-grabber—although probably not for the reasons Lexus would prefer.
At 192.5 in. long and 73.6 in. wide, the LF-Gh is roughly 2.5 in. longer and about 2 in. wider than the current 2011 GS 450h hybrid sedan. With roughly the same dimensions, we expected this concept car to use an updated version of the 292-bhp 3.5-liter V-6 engine and CVT automatic transmission found in the GS 450h.
Forget it. Lexus only alluded to some sort of high-performance hybrid powertrain. No engine or performance specs were provided.


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pmtools is a set of little utilities for dealing with your installed modules. (Unfortunately, if you want to install these using CPAN.pm or CPANPLUS, you need to tell them to install "Devel::Loaded".)
The ones that I use on a daily basis are pmpath, pmvers, and pminst.
I use pminst and pmvers to maintain a couple of DarkPANs, a.k.a. internal CPANs. I want to manage the versions of modules we use so that we don't get surprises, like they won't compile in our environment or they make changes that we can't deal with right away. So, we have repositories in the standard CPAN layout and point CPAN(PLUS)? to those instead of the public CPAN.
Since the install tools are pointed at an internal repository, when I want to use a module that we haven't used before, I need to download the distribution myself. It's not as simple as just grabbing the distribution archive. I need to get the module's dependencencies. In order to find out which of those I've already gets installed, I use pminst.
If I run into a problem with a module, I need to figure out which version I've got in order to look at whether there's an updated version or to properly report a bug. Thus, pmvers.
I regularly need to figure out what path I'm getting a module from, for example whether it's in the core perl install or in my installed modules path. (In order to avoid cross-project module version entanglements, we don't use sitelibs; we use separate install directories. The core perl installation is readonly and nothing ever gets added to it.) pmpath probably gets the most usage of the three.
The most common of my use of pmpath isn't actually direct. When I get an exception in some module, I want to bring it up in the editor to see the code. I've created a script that I call pmedit:
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Joe Jonas Finds Out He's Being 'Punk'd' After Spotting Hidden Camera
Justin Bieber isn't the only "unpunkable" teen star. Joe Jonas failed to fall for Heather Morris' scheme to frame him for a botched robbery, and he let the cameras know it!
The 'Glee' starlet set Jonas up to take the fall for helping a man steal a TV on MTV's 'Punk'd.' Jonas, being a sweetie, indeed helped the man lift the flat screen into his van … and that's where the prank fell apart. Jonas spotted one of the hidden cameras! We guess it wasn't hidden so well, was it?
Jonas didn't play along with the prank, either. When the fake cops arrived, he knew exactly what was up. When one of the 'Punk'd' castmembers, dressed as a police officer, asked for Jonas' name, he told them he was Tom Cruise. When the cop tried to bully him into telling his real identity and giving his email address, Jonas said he'd type it in himself — and wrote "Nice try, homeboy." Dang!
He was still a decent sport about it, though. "I came to this house to get punked," Jonas told the faux po-po, "and you guys did a pretty good job."
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Eagles interviewing Seattle defensive coordinator Bradley
PHILADELPHIA — Gus Bradley, meet the Philadelphia Eagles.
The Eagles are interviewing Seahawks defensive coordinator Gus Bradley in Atlanta, two people familiar with the meeting told The Associated Press on Saturday.
Bradley is the eighth candidate interviewed since the Eagles fired Andy Reid on Dec. 31 following a 4-12 finish. The people spoke on condition of anonymity because the teams aren't commenting on the interview.
Seattle plays the Falcons in a NFC divisional playoff game on Sunday. If Bradley is their guy, the Eagles can't officially hire him until the Seahawks are eliminated.
"Well, it's flattering. And I know people talk about our entire focus is on Atlanta and it really is," Bradley said after Thursday's practice. "It's so important to us. We worked so hard to get to this point and our whole message to the team is to keep raising the bar and getting better and better every week. They're talking that and we're talking that, so it's easy to stay focused on it. It's flattering as you've all heard before. But our entire focus is on Atlanta and trying to get one step closer."
Bradley is in his fourth season in Seattle. His defense finished first in the NFL in points allowed (15.3), fourth in yards (306.2) and tied for fourth in takeaways (31).
"He's got a brilliant football mind," Seahawks coach Peter Carroll said this week. "He's got a way of reaching people and touching people and getting the best out of them, coaches and players alike. He's got everything that you're looking for."
Under Bradley, Seattle's defense has improved each of the last three years and finished in the top 10 in points and yards the last two. The Eagles ranked in the top 10 in both categories in 2011 when they went 8-8. But they were 29th in points and 15th in yards this year. The defense declined after Todd Bowles replaced Juan Castillo as defensive coordinator in October.
The 46-year-old Bradley has emerged as a favorite among fans in Philadelphia based mainly on an old video clip in which he goes off on the Seahawks' defense during a game.
Bradley began his NFL coaching career with Tampa Bay as a defensive quality control coach in 2006. He was the Buccaneers' linebackers coach the next two seasons before going to Seattle. Bradley coached in college from 1990-2005, including two stints at North Dakota State and four years at Fort Lewis College.
The Eagles have an interview scheduled with Bengals offensive coordinator Jay Gruden on Monday.
Owner Jeffrey Lurie, general manager Howie Roseman and president Don Smolenski interviewed former Chicago Bears Lovie Smith on Thursday. They previously met with Atlanta assistants Mike Nolan and Keith Armstrong and Denver offensive coordinator Mike McCoy.
Notre Dame's Brian Kelly met with the Eagles on Tuesday, a day after the Fighting Irish lost 42-14 to Alabama BCS national championship game. He's reportedly going to meet them again this weekend.
Penn State's Bill O'Brien and Oregon's Chip Kelly interviewed with Philadelphia last week, but chose to stay at their schools.


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Most of the 50 local governments with the largest pension debt have worker retirement liabilities that are greater than their annual tax revenue, according to a new report from the credit-rating firm Moody's.
The pension burden posed by current and future municipal retirees is significant and apparently troublesome for many local governments, the report said. Others, including the District of Columbia, have liabilities that appear manageable.
The report was issued the same day that Detroit's emergency manager, Kevyn Orr, indicated that he wanted to freeze the city's pension plans and move workers into 401(k)-type accounts.
Under the freeze, retirees would still collect pensions but current employees could not accrue further benefits, and some cost-of-living adjustments would end, according to news reports. The freeze must be approved by Michigan's treasurer and could come under legal challenge because of prohibitions in that state's constitution against trimming pension payments.
The move in Detroit, which filed for bankruptcy in July, came after an auditor's report found that the city's pension system made questionable bonus payments to retirees.
The Moody's report found that other than Detroit, the most severely underfunded local government entities were in the Chicago area, which is also in the state that has the nation's most severely underfunded pension system.
The city of Chicago, whose credit rating was downgraded in recent months, has pension liabilities that are 678 percent of its annual revenue, Moody's said. Cook County, which includes Chicago, has the second-worst pension liability burden, at 382 percent of revenue. Meanwhile, the metropolitan water system had the sixth-worst ratio at 323 percent.
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, a Democrat, has warned that the city's required pension contributions will nearly triple, to $1.2 billion, between 2014 and 2015 – about one out of every five dollars spent to run the city. He has called for the state to restructure the pension system, saying essential city services would otherwise suffer otherwise.
But any deep cuts would also hurt retirees and future retirees. Many of the city's nearly 72,000 retirees are not eligible for Social Security and have pensions that average a little more than $41,000 a year, according to the city.
The Moody's report said four other local governments carried overall pension liabilities that were at least four times their annual revenue: Denver County School District; Los Angeles; Jacksonville, Fla.; and Houston. Overall, 30 of the top 50 local governments examined in the report have pension liabilities that exceed the revenue collected in a year.
The degree of pension burden varies widely across the government entities included in the Moody's report. Some had very low pension burdens. Among them were Washington, where the pension liability is only 11 percent of annual revenue, and Wake County, N.C. where pension liabilities add up to 15 percent of annual revenue.
The District of Columbia's old pensions were taken over by the federal government as a result of the city's budget crisis in the mid-1990s. Meanwhile, the city has not run into any financial problems with its newer pensions.
Since pension liabilities are estimates projected over decades, the financial pressure they place on local budgets varies widely. In prosperous places with growing tax bases, the pension costs are easily managed. Strong investment gains also can relieve the fiscal pressure.
In other cities, the liabilities pose more of a burden, which Moody's says is a reality confronting a growing number of municipalities.
'Keeping up with pension contributions will be a pervasive negative pressure,' Moody's analyst Tom Aaron said in a statement.
Moody's report comes as investors are paying closer attention to the debt burden of municipalities since Detroit became the largest city in U.S. history to file for bankruptcy. That city is more than $18 billion in debt, and about half of that is for pension and health-care obligations owed to workers and retirees.
Detroit was in a uniquely precarious place because the city's population and tax base have plunged for decades, a situation that has grown more extreme over the past decade.


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Konstantin Ustinovich Chernenko (24 September 1911 – 10 March 1985) was a Soviet politician, who served as the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from February 1984 (after the death of Yuri Andropov) until his death in March 1985. He was succeeded by Mikhail Gorbachev.
- Those who try to give us advice on matters of human rights do nothing but provoke an ironic smile among us. We will not permit anyone to interfere in our affairs.
- Quoted in "Simpson's contemporary quotations" - by James Beasley Simpson - Page 2
- If Soviet society is to move forward with confidence toward our great goals, each new generation must rise to an ever-higher level of learning and general cultivation, occupational skill and civic activism. One might say that such is the law of societal progress. In the context of the scientific and technological revolution, under a virtual avalanche of information, this law imposes unwontedly high demands on both those who study and those who teach—from rank-and-file classroom teachers to government ministers.
- Quoted in "Soviet Education" - Page 109 - by International Arts and Sciences Press, M.E. Sharpe, Inc - Education - 1958
- The Soviet Union has long been proposing to outlaw chemical weapons, to remove them from the arsenals of states. We are prepared for resolution of this problem either on a global basis or piece by piece. As one of the first steps the USSR and the other socialist countries proposed in January 1984 that agreement be reached on ridding Europe of all types of chemical weapons.
- Quoted in "World Peace and the Developing Countries" - Page 126 - by Joseph Rotblat, Ubiratan D'Ambrosio - 1986
- Washington's adventuristic policy, whipping up international tension to the utmost, is pushing mankind towards nuclear catastrophe.
- Quoted in "Speeches and Writings: Leaders of the World" - Page 186 - by Konstantin Ustinovich Chernenko - Political Science - 1984
- As a great socialist power the Soviet Union is fully aware of its responsibility to the peoples for preserving and strengthening peace. We are open to peaceful, mutually beneficial cooperation with states on all continents. We are for the peaceful settlement of all disputable international problems through serious, equal, and constructive talks.
- Quoted in "The Struggle of the USSR for Peace and Security" - Page 6 - History - 1984
- All this is forcing the USSR to fortify the nation's defences. The Soviet people want no arms build-up. What they want is arms reduction on both sides. But we are compelled to see to our country's essential security and also to that of our friends and allies. That is exactly what is being done. And we want everybody to remember that no adventure-seekers will ever succeed in catching us unawares, that no potential aggressor has the slightest chance of escaping a devastating retaliatory strike.
- Quoted in "Problems of Common Security" - Page 60 - by V. S. Shaposhnikov - 1984
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- Sverdlov Hall was already nearly full...The provincial elite were all there. And it was all the usual things: people kissing each other and shouting greetings across the rows of seats, chattering about the snow and the harvest prospects and generally feeling themselves to be masters of their fate. In all the cacophony I didn't hear the name of Andropov mentioned once, not anything said about his death. At twenty minutes to eleven the hall hushed. The waiting began. With each minute the tension rose and the atmosphere felt charged with electricity...The tension reached a climax. All eyes turned towards the door...Who would come through it first? At precisely eleven, Chernenko's head appeared in the doorway. He was followed by Tikhonov, Gromyko, Ustinov, Gorbachev and the rest. The delegates' reaction was silence.
- Anatoly Chernyayev, who was to become an aide to Gorbachev, has described the appointment of Chernenko at the special plenum of the Central Committee on February 13, 1984.
- You know, comrades, that Konstantin Ustinovich has been gravely ill for a long time, and has been in the hospital in recent months. On the part of the Fourth Main Department, all necessary measures were taken in order to treat Konstantin Ustinovich. But the illness did not submit to the cure, it started to weaken his systems first slowly, and then faster and faster. It became especially aggravated as a result of pneumonia in both lungs, which Konstantin Ustinovich developed during his vacation in Kislovodsk. There were periods when we succeeded in alleviating the lung and heart insufficiencies, and during those periods Konstantin Ustinovich found enough strength to come to work. Several times he conducted Politburo sessions, and put in work days, although shortened ones. Emphysema of the lungs and the aggravated lung and heart insufficiency had worsened significantly in the last two or three weeks. Another, accompanying illness had developed—chronic hepatitis, i.e. liver failure with its transformation into cirrhosis. The cirrhosis of the liver and the worsening dystrophic changes in the organs and tissues led to the situation where not with standing intensive therapy, which was administered actively on a daily basis, the state of his health gradually deteriorated. On March 10 at 3:00 p.m., Konstantin Ustinovich lost consciousness, and at 19:20 death occurred as a result of heart failure.
- Yevgeni Chazov, spoken in a special session of the Central Committee one day after Chernenko died.


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May Britt Profile
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|(Maybritt Wilkens)
|22 March 34
|is born in Lidinga, Sweden. Her father, Hugo Brigg-Wilkens, is a postal clerk; her mother, a housewife.
|c. 40
|her sister Margot is born
|works as a photographer's laboratory assistant in the Stockholm suburb where she was born
|is discovered by producer Carlo Ponti at a retouching studio in Italy
|is one of 50 actresses auditioned by Ponti for Yolanda, Daughter of the Black Pirate
|chaperoned by her mother, she's off to Rome for the filming of Yolanda, Daughter of the Black Pirate
|5 - 7 March 54
|takes part in the most glamorous auto race in the history of San Remo, Italy. Drivers include Valentina Cortese and Richard Basehart, Silvana Pampanini and Moriz Ergas, Marina Berti and Claudio Gora, Elena Varzi and Raf Vallone, and Bruce Cabot. Other starlets attending are Miriam Bru, Antonella Lualdi, Milly Vitale, and Lea Padovani.
|c. 57
|goes to the States after 5 years of contract to Carlo Ponti in Italy
|is squired around town by Montgomery Clift. He escorts her to the Hollywood premiere of Raintree Country.
|August 57
|she and fellow Swedish starlet Ingrid Goude are visitors on TV's "Panorama Pacific"
|is reported to have dated the Earl of Suffolk, publisher Bob Peterson and Spanish banker Antonio Munoz
|January 58
|dates George Gregson, a distinguished widower and Southern California real estate millionaire
|at a dinner party given by Gregson, she meets his son Edwin, who is returning from Panama. Edwin left Stanford University in 1957 to follow an acting career, getting a small part in The Naked and the Dead.
|spends a lot of time with young Gregson on the Strip and in Malibu
|22 February 58
|marries Edwin "Eddie" Janas Gregson in Tijuana, Mexico. He's 19; she's 23.
|she and Gregson rent a little house way up in the Canyon
|March 58
|columnist Harrison Carroll tells: "Dick Powell is playing cupid. He has arranged it so that May Britt won't have to go to The Hunters location in Arizona, so she can complete her honeymoon with Eddie Gregson..."
|is among the visitors on the set during the filming of The Fly at 20th Century-Fox
|she and Gregson part for the first time when she returns to Sweden alone and he's off to a movie assignment
|June 58
|returns to the States. Her sister Margot will follow her on July 1.
|Fall 58
|she and Gregson look for a house in Palo Alto. Gregson is reported leaving the film business to embark upon a law career.
|Late October 58
|is sent to New York for publicity appearances for The Hunters. There she resumes photography courses.
|for two months, Gregson serves with the Air National Guard in San Antonio, Texas
|wins the part in The Blue Angel over Marilyn Monroe
|January 59
|home again, Gregson enrolls at Stanford. She and her husband rent a little cottage by the sea.
|Gregson's parents insist they move into a fashionable Bel Air mansion while she's filming The Blue Angel
|Summer 59
|plans to visit Sweden with her husband, who surprises her with his upcoming summer classes at Stanford
|asks her husband not to visit the set when she's singing for The Blue Angel
|she and Gregson announce a separation
|refuses to do The Seven Thieves. Her part goes to Joan Collins.
|Early August 59
|Greta Garbo gives her a big bow at New York's Sherry-Netherlands
|August 59
|columnist Dorothy Kilgallen reports: "May Britt's split with her husband Ed Gregson wasn't much of a surprise to local cafe-goers, who observed her cocktailing and handholding with a famed flicker actor..."
|Late August 59
|Kilgallen notes her dating Gregson again
|8 September 59
|she and Gregson separate for good
|10 September 59
|files for divorce from Gregson in Santa Monica after a 19-month marriage. She charges she found it impossible to continue both her marriage and her career while her husband was attending Stanford University at Palo Alto.
|29 September 59
|wins an interlocutory divorce decree from Gregson in Santa Monica
|October 59
|says she has an offer to do a Bob Hope TV show but doesn't know whether the studio will allow her to accept
|November 59
|Kilgallen tells: "May Britt may be linked with any number of beaus for publicity reasons but her chief adorer, a Hollywood VIP, is likely to remain far, far in the background..."
|January 60
|attends Dinah Shore's last night performance at the Cloisters with George Englund
|Kilgallen knows: "George Englund, former swain of British cutie Joan Collins, now seems twice as gone over May Britt - an that is extremely gone..."
|March 60
|tells columnist Earl Carroll at the Sherry-Netherlands: "My name is My! I hate to be called May!" After finishing Murders, Inc. at Filmways Studio, 127th Street and 2nd Avenue, she is expected to return to Hollywood and afterwards to Hawaii "to board a surf at Waikiki."
|16 April 60
|in New York, she declines to confirm or to deny reports that she and Sammy Davis, Jr., are planning marriage. Davis' name is linked romantically with her since shortly after he and a 21-year-old Canadian white singer, Joan Stewart / Stuart, broke off an engagement.
|May 60
|her ex, Gregson, is seen around with actress Cara Williams
|heads for London, where Davis is making his first appearance as an entertainer. "She's still telling friends she'll probably become Mrs. D."
|columnist Walter Winchell tells: "May Britt flies to Sweden soon to visit her kin. Then she will take her father to London to meet Sammy Davis, Jr., her next groom, in November..."
|2 June 60
|after his $12,000-a-week nightclub act at the Pigalle in London, Davis has to face insults from British fascists. About 30 followers of Sir Oswald Mosley wave banners saying "Go home, Nigger" and "Get divorced first, Slag," heaping abuse on him for his plans to marry her in London in September after her divorce is final.
|3 June 60
|Davis suggests she go to Paris for a few days. Before leaving London, she tells the press that her love for Davis cannot be destroyed by fascist hate attacks against their marriage plans.
|6 June 60
|at a news conference in London she and Davis announce plans to marry after her divorce becomes final. He's 5-foot-6-inches tall; she's 5-foot-7. He's 34; she's 24. He's a convert to the Jewish faith, but she says she will remain a Protestant.
|her father arrives in London to meet Davis
|she and Davis are booed publicly in London during his stage show act
|20 June 60
|a 20th Century-Fox spokesman says in Hollywood that her contract won't be renewed when the option falls due this summer. The studio refuses to say if the action is a result of her plans to marry Davis. "Let's put it this way," the spokesman says, "Her picture, The Blue Angel, didn't set any records at the box office. We don't believe we have any further properties that would suit her."
|21 June 60
|20th Century-Fox denies plans to drop her. Production chief Buddy Adler assures that "May Britt is under long-term contract to 20th Century-Fox and there is no factual basis for any story the studio is terminating her contract."
|28 September 60
|her divorce from Gregson becomes final. Gregson will commit suicide at age 61 in June 2000 in South Pasadena, California.
|Early October 60
|is with Davis in Las Vegas but goes to Los Angeles four days a week to take religious instruction from Sammy's rabbi
|16 October 60
|her scheduled Hollywood wedding has to be postponed until November 13 due to technicalities involving her divorce from Gregson
|17 October 60
|a spokesman for Hollywood's Temple Israel announces that she was accepted into the faith of Judaism
|25 October 60
|three youths wearing swastika arm bands parade outside the Huntington Hartford Theater where Davis is appearing. Officers take them into protective custody and then release them.
|9 November 60
|she and Davis take out their marriage license in Los Angeles
|13 November 60
|marries Sammy Davis, Jr., at his Hollywood home above Sunset Strip. He's 34; she's 26; the press gives her age as 24. The Jewish rites are performed by Rabbi William M. Kramer of Hollywood's Temple Israel. Frank Sinatra is best man, and Mrs. George Rhodes, wife of Davis' musical manager, is matron of honor. She almost misses her wedding when a severe attack of intestinal flu with a 103-degree fever beds her hours before the ceremony. After the rites she returns to bed, and Davis goes solo to a reception at the Beverly Hills Hotel. Among the 200 guests are Peter Lawford and his wife, sister of President-elect Kennedy; Diana Dors; Barbara Rush; Jack Kelly; Mrs. Dean Martin; Peter Brown; Louis Quinn; Janet Leigh; Leo Durocher; Shirley MacLaine; Milton Berle; and Edward G. Robinson, Jr.
|Mid-December 60
|Dorothy Kilgallen ponders: "Scuttlebutt from the Clan indicates Frank Sinatra and chums will take over a whole floor of Washington's best hotels for the inauguration ceremonies in January. Big question: Since the nation's capital isn't very integrated will Sammy Davis, Jr., be allowed to share a suite with his bride, May Britt?"
|December 60
|is reported expecting
|January 61
|returns to Los Angeles from New York due to illness
|5 July 61
|gives birth to her daughter, Tracey Hillivi, at the Cedars of Lebanon Hospital. She will become a producer and write a book in 1996 describing Davis as an absentee father.
|10 July 61
|she and Davis are noted bringing their baby home from the hospital in his Rolls Royce
|Early August 61
|she and Davis are among Sinatra's Clan leaving for a 10-day vacation at the French Riviera home of President Kennedy's father, Boston multi-millionaire Joseph P. Kennedy. The party consists of Sinatra, the Dean Martins, the Peter Lawfords and Janet Leigh.
|25 November 61
|is off to Sweden with her four-month-old daughter to visit her parents
|Late January 62
|is noted doing the Twist at her husband's closing at the Copa and is reported expecting again
|January 62
|she and Davis are among the guests at the rainy Hollywood premiere of West Side Story
|April 62
|columnist Hedda Hopper talks with Davis at the Sands in Las Vegas to check a rumor that he and May are separating. "Nothing could be further from the truth," Davis says. "I'm closing here and the next day we leave for Seattle for our first honeymoon."
|May 62
|she and Davis are off to Rome for a week's vacation
|November 62
|she and Davis adopt two-and-a-half-year-old Mark Sidney in Los Angeles. He will become a film editor. Davis says that he and his wife plan to adopt two or three more Afro-American children in the future.
|May 63
|she and Davis attend a mass civil rights rally at Los Angeles' Wrigley Field and are greeted by Integration leader Martin Luther King
|June 63
|Davis buys her some Balmain dresses during his solo stay in Paris
|21 June 63
|is attending a movie premiere when three men posing as policemen force their way into the Davis' home. They tie up a nurse and take a $15,000 diamond necklace and at least seven jeweled watches. Davis is working in Las Vegas.
|23 December 63
|she and her husband entertain Bing Crosby and his wife, actress Kathryn Grant
|May 64
|is reported joining Davis at their plush off-5th Avenue apartment in New York City
|Mid-February 65
|she and Davis adopt 4-month-old Jeff, secured through a Los Angeles adoption service. He will become a librarian.
|attends a New York City costume party as Vampira; Davis shows up as the Hunchback of Notre Dame
|June 65
|she and Davis are pictured at El Morocco running into Ann-Margret and Roger Smith
|July 65
|columnist Earl Wilson knows: "Sammy Davis' wife May Britt returned home to Sammy from a 3-weeks Lake Tahoe vacation - squelching silly rumors that started when she left..."
|November 65
|is off to Sweden to "show the latest baby to her parents"
|December 65
|Wilson tells that Benay Venuta teaches her the fine art of painting
|Early July 66
|she and the children are off to Lake Tahoe "for her annual vacation and painting safari..."
|August 66
|her husband's recording company MBD is named after her, May Britt Davis
|September 66
|is back in New York after Lake Tahoe to enter Mark and Tracy in school
|May 67
|returns to acting for an NBC Danny Thomas anthology drama. Davis gives his approval.
|Late summer 67
|flies to London to discuss their problems with Davis
|1 November 67
|separates from Davis. He moves out; she stays at their $320,000 Bel Air home.
|24 November 67
|she and Davis announce in Las Vegas that they will do a trial separation after seven years of marriage. "May told me she wanted a trial separation," Davis says. "And I must admit it comes as a big blow to me."
|December 67
|Wilson tells that friends of hers hope she and Davis will reconcile over the holidays
|June 68
|Wilson knows that she and "the Nevada doctor she met while on a painting vacation at Lake Tahoe are keeping their plans a secret pending their legal termination of their own marriages..."
|August 68
|sues Davis for divorce in Santa Monica saying Davis "inflicted great anguish and mental suffering" upon her causing illness and unhappiness. The action comes four days after Frank Sinatra was divorced by Mia Farrow at Juarez, Mexico.
|19 December 68
|receives an uncontested divorce from Sammy Davis, Jr., in Santa Monica Superior Court after a three-minute-hearing. He's 43; she's 31. "I asked him to stay home but he never did," she tells Judge Laurence J. Ritterband. "There was no family life to speak of." She adds he also made her "terribly upset." She is awarded custody of their three children, Tracey, 7; Mark, 8; and Jeff, 4.
|June 71
|columnist Marilyn Beck knows: "It's nice to report that May's personal life is looking rosy again these days. She still lives in the Lake Tahoe home she shared with Sammy before their divorce, but her lonesome days seem over, maybe permanently. Rancher and Sahara-Tahoe executive Ron Erickson is the special guy."
|October 77
|resides in Lake Tahoe
|marries Len L. Ringquist. He's 4 years her senior.
|the Ringquists reside in Encino
|becomes a painter
|December 00
|as May Britt Ringquist, she lives in Los Angeles, California
|March 13
|declines to be interviewed about her marriage to Sammy Davis, Jr.
|20 January 17
|becomes the widow of Lennart Ringquist
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Two bouts that mark the beginning of World Victory Road's 2010 welterweight grand prix are now set for Sengoku Raiden Championships 13, which takes place June 20 at Ryogoku Kokugikan in Tokyo, Japan.
Opening-round matchups for the eight-man tourney include Keita Nakamura (18-4-2 MMA, 0-0 SRC) vs. Omar de la Cruz (6-2 MMA, 0-0 BFC) and Takuya Wada (19-8-10 MMA, 0-0 SRC) vs. Jae Sun Lee (5-5 MMA, 0-1 SRC).
Additional bouts take place at Sengoku Raiden Championships 14 in August, and tourney participants include Kenta Takagi (6-2 MMA, 0-0 SRC) and Taisuke Okuno (9-4-2 MMA, 0-0 SRC).
One of the two remaining tourney spots goes to the winner of a June 5 welterweight Pancrase title fight between Kengo Ura (8-5-1 MMA, 0-0 SRC) and Keiichiro Yamamiya (37-25-9 MMA, 0-1 SRC). The eighth and final spot hasn't been filled.
Two fighters will punch their tickets to the semifinals next month at the upcoming Sengoku Raiden Championships 13 event, which airs on HDNet.
Nakamura, a UFC and DREAM veteran, fights for the first time in a year. The Japanese fighter has alternated between wins and losses in his past six fights, which included part of a 0-3 stretch in the UFC (with decision losses to Brock Larson, Drew Fickett and Rob Emerson).
His opponent, de la Cruz, may be best known to North American fans at Bellator's season-one welterweight tournament runner-up. The Dominican fighter topped Victor Meza and former UFC champ Dave Menne before suffering a TKO loss to now-champ Lyman Good in the finale. He's since rebounded for a win over "The Ultimate Fighter 7" fighter Prince Mclean at an April C3 event in Oklahoma.
In other action, Wada, a longtime Pancrase fighter, looks to extend his undefeated streak (6-0-2) to nine fights when he meets Lee, a veteran of the South Korean-based SpiritMC organization. Lee, though, recently made his Sengoku debut and suffered a decision loss to Makoto Takimoto in September.
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- Champ Masanori Kanehara vs. Marlon Sandro (for Sengoku featherweight title)
- Hiroshi Izumi vs. Chang Seob Lee
- Maximo "Maxi" Blanco vs. Rodrigo Damm
- Shigeki Osawa vs. Katsuya Toida
- Kyung Ho Kang vs. Ikuo Usuda
- Omar de la Cruz vs. Keita Nakamura (welterweight grand prix opening
- Jae Sun Lee vs. Takuya Wada (welterweight grand prix opening round)
- Yasubey Enomoto vs. Sanae Kikuta
- Hidetada Irie vs. Ryo Kawamura
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