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Budget reduction in the Navy
Workman, James C.
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This thesis attempts to document and analyze budget and program reductions made by the Navy for fiscal years 1990, 1991 and beyond. Current and historical budget data were obtained from the Office of the Secretary of Defense, the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations and the Comptroller of the Navy and organized to permit analysis of budget trends employing several models of cutback budgeting. The thesis examines the following budgetary issues: (1) the trends and impact of budget cuts on DODDON appropriation accounts; (2) projected DODDON budget alternatives for FY 1992 through FY 1997; (3) the effect budget reductions have on the DODDON budgeting relative to criteria developed from two theoretical models of fiscal reduction methodology.
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Kristy Meadows, a graduate of Tufts University’s Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine, has filed a $1 million lawsuit against the school. Meadows claimed in a legal complaint obtained by the Daily that she faced retaliation after she reported a member of her department, Professor of Biomedical Science Elizabeth Byrnes, for allegedly fabricating research, as well as alleged animal abuse.
The lawsuit’s title lists Tufts University, Byrnes and former Dean of the Cummings School ad interim Joyce Knoll as defendants.
Based in Grafton, Mass., Byrnes is a researcher within Tufts’ Sackler School of Biomedical Sciences, which has come under scrutiny by the Tufts community and Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey’s office for its relationship to Purdue Pharma and the Sackler family, according to a Daily investigation published last spring.
Byrnes‘ lab focuses on research in opioid use as well as neural changes that contribute to depression after a stroke.
According to the complaint, Byrnes‘ research was funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and supported by the U.S. Army; her published work corroborates this.
According to her lawsuit, Meadows knew she wanted to become a veterinarian at age 24, when her cat was diagnosed with a neurological disorder. She enrolled as a Doctor of Veterinary Medicine (DVM) student at the Cummings School in the fall of 2010 and began the masters program in Tufts University’s Comparative Biomedical Sciences program in 2012. She enrolled in the Ph.D program in 2013.
Meadows was awarded multiple scholarships, such as the Merck Animal Health Veterinary Student scholarship, which is an effort by American Veterinary Medical Foundation to support “exceptional veterinary students,” as well as the Henry L. Foster, DVM scholarship, which is given to students at the Cummings School who “excel academically and demonstrate leadership.”
She graduated fourth in her class with a cumulative grade point average of 3.86, according to the lawsuit. Meadows obtained a Ph.D from Tufts in biomedical sciences with a concentration in neuroscience in 2017, and her DVM in veterinary medicine in 2018.
Meadows solicited David A. Russcol and Rachel Stroup, with the firm Zalkind Duncan & Bernstein LLP in Boston, to represent her in court against Tufts.
Meadows‘ complaint places particular emphasis on the disparity between her academic achievement and her success entering the workforce after college.
“[Meadows] has not found a long-term position or any opportunities involving research or academia,” the lawsuit says.
The complaint goes on to list several instances in which Meadows believes she experienced retaliation, including accusations of theft and discontinuing a stipend Meadows had received.
“[Meadows] has suffered substantial damages as a direct and proximate result of Tufts’ actions and inactions, including reputational harm, delayed or lost career opportunities, lost earning potential, emotional distress, and other consequential damages,” the lawsuit says.
Meadows began working with Byrnes, her former advisor, in 2012. According to her lawsuit, Meadows worked in Byrnes’ lab.
“[Meadows] conducted research on animals and studied brain sexual dimorphism as it relates to hormones and stress, as well as sex differences and hormonal alterations in the brain as a result of ischemic stroke,” the lawsuit says.
In December 2013, Meadows and Byrnes organized their research into an article entitled “Sex- and age-specific differences in relaxin family peptide receptor expression within the hippocampus and amygdala in rats,” which was funded by the NIH. In August 2014, however, Meadows claimed that she discovered fabricated data from an experiment she said the lab never performed.
The lawsuit says that when Meadows asked Byrnes about her findings, Brynes allegedly told Meadows that the data would have reflected their findings if they had conducted the experiment.
“Dr. Byrnes did not deny fabricating the data for an experiment that had not been conducted,” the lawsuit says.
The article was published in the journal Neuroscience in October 2014.
Meadows’ lawsuit claims that she initially hoped to resolve the issue in an informal manner. By 2016, however, her lawsuit states it became apparent that Byrnes did not plan to correct any purported misinformation. Meadows voiced her concerns about the falsified data to multiple members of Tufts faculty.
The lawsuit says Meadows reported the fabrication to Kirby Johnson, director of research integrity with the office of the vice provost for research, on April 7, 2016. According to the lawsuit, by July 1, a fact-finder hired to investigate Meadows‘ claim found it was credible enough to warrant further investigation.
Following her meetings with Tufts administrators, the lawsuit says, Meadows alleges that she faced multiple retaliatory attacks from Byrnes, including the discontinuation of her stipend for her work in the lab and Byrnes telling other faculty that Meadows was a “bad student and not getting her work done.”
In addition, according to the lawsuit, Meadows was set to defend her thesis by July or August of 2016, but was notified on July 20 that her thesis defense would be delayed until the provost’s investigation was complete.
From her initial meetings with faculty in 2015 through 2019, Meadows claims she was subject to retaliation from Byrnes and other Tufts faculty, which harmed her reputation. Knoll allegedly exacerbated this harm.
“[Meadows] was punished for speaking up while the University failed to protect her … Her graduation was delayed, her research was impeded, her reputation severely damaged, and her career opportunities curtailed. Tufts swept her allegations under the rug and allowed this retaliation to occur for years,” Russcol, Meadows’ attorney, told the Daily in an email.
Meadows could not be reached for comment.
The lawsuit also accuses Knoll and the Cummings School of damaging Meadow’s reputation through an email. The lawsuit claims that the entire Cummings School and some alumni could have received an email that appears to have been sent to the wrong recipients, which references a person named Kristy in the neurology department who might “sue us.” The email also refers to Byrnes.
“I don’t know what the neurologists here thought of Kristy. I know at least one of our pathologist[s] thought she was antisocial and weird,” Knoll’s email said.
Knoll’s reaction to the email, which was also sent to at least a portion of the Cummings student email list and was obtained by the Daily, seems to confirm this.
“I totally screwed up and sent a message to the Grafton campus and our students that I meant to go to our lawyer,” Knoll said in an email intended for Tufts Technology Services.
The lawsuit claims that this email, by being sent to many people, could damage Meadows‘ career path in the future.
In the second half of the email, Knoll questioned the legal implications of a potential lawsuit, asking if recommendations by professors could be used as legal evidence.
“[I]f she got bad recommendations from people at Tufts in the hospital, that are not linked to Liz Byrnes, can she hold that against us? Can she require that everyone here give her a good evaluation even if it’s not deserved?” the email said.
Meadows said that she received this email and several people contacted her to alert her about the email, according to the lawsuit. The lawsuit alleges that the distribution of this email “compounded and magnified the harm to Dr. Meadows’ reputation and career.”
The lawsuit also alleges that Knoll urged multiple professors to conduct research with someone other than Meadows, resulting in lost research opportunities.
“On information and belief, in or around May 2017, Dr. Knoll again suggested to Dr. Ayres that she choose a student other than Dr. Meadows to help her with her research, because Dr. Byrnes had advised Dr. Knoll that there was evidence that Dr. Meadows stole data from Dr. Byrnes’ lab,” the lawsuit says.
Executive Director of Public Relations Patrick Collins could not comment on the lawsuit.
“Tufts University does not comment on pending litigation. We look forward to responding to the lawsuit in court,” Collins told the Daily in an email. “The university is committed to research integrity and to providing a safe and supportive learning and work environment for all members of its community – values which it takes very seriously.”
According to Collins, the university has until late October to respond to the lawsuit, though could be granted extensions by the court.


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Background and aims
Studies on the interaction between acceptance and pain-related processes after neck trauma are to our knowledge sparse and such treatment strategies are rarely incorporated in management and treatment of posttraumatic neck pain. Thus, the aim of the present study is to investigate how acceptance relates to persistent pain in patients after neck trauma, when controlling for the influence of other psychological factors, trauma characteristics and demographic variables.
Consecutive patients with persistent pain and disability after neck trauma (n = 565) were assessed by a multi-professional team at a specialized pain rehabilitation clinic. Separate regression analyses were conducted with three outcomes: pain distribution, pain interference, and pain severity. Predictors were age, sex, education, time since trauma, type of trauma, anxiety, depression, and acceptance.
Acceptance was the only factor associated with all outcomes, and patients with lower acceptance displayed more widespread pain and greater interference and severity of pain. The results also showed that higher depression was associated with worse pain interference and severity, whilst anxiety only mattered significantly for pain severity and not for pain interference. Female sex was related to more widespread pain and greater pain interference.
Overall acceptance stood out as the most important factor for the different outcomes and lower acceptance was associated with more widespread pain distribution and greater pain interference and severity.
The findings of this study add to a growing body of literature confirming that the development of chronicity after neck trauma should be understood as a multidimensional process, best described by a biopsychosocial model. The results also suggest that psychological factors and especially acceptance might be important processes with implications for enhanced recovery after neck trauma.
We wish to thank registered nurse Nina Wätthammar for extracting data from the patient records.
Research funding: The study was supported by Skåne University Hospital, Lund, Sweden and the Swedish Association for Survivors of Accident and Injury (RTP-research fund), Stockholm, Sweden.
Conflict of interest: No conflicts of interest to declare.
Informed consent: Informed consent was obtained from all participants.
Ethical approval: The study design and protocol were reviewed and approved by the Regional Ethical Review Board in Lund, Sweden (ref: 2014/34 and 2016/484).
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To change the situation, the Dhaka South City Corporation and the Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) formulated a 15-year master plan with the inclusion of a coordinated waste management. Both city corporations approved the daft of the master plane two and a half year ago, followed by sending it to the local government division for final approval in 2019.
On 7 February this year, the local government division approved the draft with several instructions stating that the city corporations would follow the master plan, either full or parts of it, as per their necessity. Documents of the local government division states approval of the master plane would not hamper the on-going waste-to-energy project.
The DNCC had backtracked from the master plan because of such ‘strange’ instruction prior to the approval by the local government division.
An eco-town was to be built under the coordinated waste management of the both city corporations, where waste including biogas, compost and construction waste would be reused to produce electricity.
However, the DNCC has pulled back from the coordinated waste management and taken initiative to produce electricity in large scale. The DNCC says electricity would be produced by burning all types of waste.
The DNCC inked a deal with China Machinery Engineering Corporation (CMEC) to produce electricity. Under the agreement, the DNCC would supply 3,000 tonnes of waste daily for energy production and the Power Development Board would purchase this electricity at a fixed price.
The waste-to-energy project of Dhaka is very complex and difficult to implement. Waste in Dhaka contains more liquid so it is almost impossible to produce massive heat from such waste. A kilo of waste from Dhaka contains 600 kilocalories, calorific value of waste. And it is not possible to produce power from waste unless the same amount of waste releases 1,000 kilocalories or more.
Though the DNCC skipped the mater, the DSCC’s waste management has been progressing in light of the plan. Work on Matuail sanitary landfill extension project is underway at a cost of Tk 15.44 billion (1,455 crores). Eighty-one acres of land has been acquired under the project and waste would be treated as per its type.
The master plan of both city corporations is almost similar. The main objectives of the master plan include effective and hygienic waste-collection methods, extending the capacity of two landfills, mobilising public awareness, community-based waste management and developing the capacity of the stakeholders.
Since the DNCC has pulled back from the plan and the local government has allowed the city corporation to implement it in parts, question has aroused on the future of the master plan.
The waste-to-energy project of the DNCC has been taken without carrying out any environmental and economic feasibility. There are several limitations in waste-to-energy production around the world. How much of Dhaka’s waste management would change, depends on the success of the project that was taken bypassing the master plan.
According to the estimate of the master plan, 8,500 tonnes of waste would be produced a day in 2032.
The theme of the master plan was “Environmentally Advanced City with Integrated and Sustainable Solid Waste Management: towards Zero-Waste.” And zero waste includes 3R—reduce, reuse and recycling. The master plan was to implement the 3R strategy.
Since a city corporation has pulled back from the master plan, uncertainty looms large over implementing the 3R strategy.


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- This a hidden movement and programming game.
- The goal is to gather all kinds of fighter classes on "recruiting" cities (grey background disk) and defeat monsters threatening the towns (white background disk).
- To defeat a monster you need to have all classes of fighters shown at the bottom of the disk.
When a round (year) starts, each player programs their move board with six of:
- a colour of path to follow
- a white and green symbol to perform an action at the location
- a yellow x to wait at the location
- The order are then executed in clockwise order, one order at a time, always starting with the starting player.
- At the end of the round (year) the start player token moves one to the left.
- All orders must be followed if possible.
- If a player programs a move then they must move if that colour path leads into/out of the city they are in.
- If a player programs a white and green action on a grey disk city, they take the weakest unit left on the disk.
- orange < green < grey < white < purple.
- However, a player can only recruit one unit from each city in a round (year).
- Units are peasant militia (orange), archers (green), infantry (grey), clerics (white) and battle mages (purple).
- If a player programs a white and green action on a white disk (monsters) city, they must defeat the monster if they have the units necessary to fight it (shown at the bottom of the tile) and return those units to the barracks.
- They then take two of the three rewards on offer:
- Wealth (gold tokens)
- Reputation (placing bard tokens in neighbouring areas) or
- Influence (placing pieces on sorcerers' towers).
- If a player programs a yellow X to wait at the location they do nothing when that order is resolved.
- Empty grey recruiting disks and defeated white monster tiles are replaced immediately by the next in line, which can be seen to the right of the board, thus allowing players to plan ahead.
- At the end of Years 4, 8 and 12 there is a military census and players can reveal units that they currently have, with the player(s) who reveal the most of each type of unit gaining a reward.
- This is resolved one unit type at a time, from weakest to strongest (orange < green < grey < white < purple).
- The game ends after the military census at the end of game year 12.
- There are now three assessments carried out to determine the winner of the game.
- The order of these assessments is determined randomly at the start of the game and can be seen to the right of the board
- There are three tracks, each of which will have one of the blue, yellow or pink tokens at the bottom of it.
- The person with the least is eliminated from contention.
- Two players are eliminated in a 5-player game
Second & Third assessments
- The person with the least is eliminated from contention, meaning only one player will remain at the end of the third assessment and they have won the game.
Wealth assessment (yellow token)
- Add up gold tokens held in hand.
Influence assessment (blue token)
- Count the number of pieces for each player in the sorcerers' towers on the board.
Reputation assessment (pink token)
- Resolve each area of the board and the central bastion, awarding points to the player with the most and the second most bard tokens in that area.
- Add up all of the points that each player earns in this way.


BELGRADE — Every day for the past few weeks, a new load of freebies has appeared on a table in the teachers lounge at Ridge View Elementary.
The rulers, crayons, construction paper and other supplies — which disappear almost as fast as they are laid on the table — represent a tiny portion of the leftovers from three teaching careers that came to a close here Friday.
Long-time third-grade teachers Lynn Johnson, Jan Savko and Diane Thomas all retired last week, closing the textbook on 113 years of combined Belgrade teaching experience.
Johnson, Savko and Thomas had discussed retirement with each other over the last few years. Eventually they decided leaving at once would be best.
“We didn’t think it would be the same if one of us didn’t come back one year,” Johnson said.
Although it was a love of learning and kids that led the three of them to teaching, each of the retirees took a different path to their classrooms.
Johnson, who started teaching in Belgrade in 1972, said she became a teacher because she knew it would be something she’d be good at and because having summers off meant more time with her family.
Thomas studied to be a secretary at Montana State University until switching to teaching in her senior year, after many people told her she was a natural. She was hired in 1970.
Savko started teaching in Pennsylvania before moving to Belgrade in 1974. In need of a job, she walked into Heck-Quaw Elementary School and asked for a job. The next day, without papers, a resume or an interview, she was hired.
All three have taught at Ridge View since it opened 10 years ago.
The job has changed over the years. They’ve gone from ditto machines to photocopiers, from records to CDs and from pencils to computers.
But more than the technology has changed. Teachers and students now face more pressures from standardized tests and educational policies, they said.
“Sometimes we can’t let the kids be kids as much because they have to get ready for the next test,” Johnson said.
All of them said it was the kids that kept them at the chalkboard so long, and their love is reflected by the multiple generations of students and parent-students who have passed through their classrooms.
“‘Just one more year,'” the kids plead, Johnson said. “They ask, ‘What about my brother and sister?’ And some of their brothers and sisters are still in preschool.”
Debbie Berowski, whose twin girls Ashley and Lauren were in Savko and Thomas’ classes, said many parents are sad to see the three veteran teachers go.
“They are very friendly and outgoing, bubbly, funny, just somebody you could easily sit down and chat with,” Berowski said. “As a parent I just know my kids are in the best hands.”
“They’re not only excellent teachers but also lifelong learners and important people in the community,” said Principal Mark Halgren. “They’re really irreplaceable.”
In retirement, Thomas hopes to have time for fishing and camping, to take care of her mules and to do some sewing. Johnson hopes to have more time with her children and grandchildren.
Savko said she plans to continue on at Ridge View as a substitute teacher or, she joked, start a new career as a waitress — if she ever gets her classroom cleaned out.
Even though the school year is over, the reality of retirement will probably not hit home until the end of summer, when it would be time to get ready to come back.
“As a teacher, you’re always on the run, and now we won’t have to be,” Savko said.
For all the fond memories of all their years in the job, there is one thing that the women won’t miss about being a teacher — a question answered in unison and without hesitation: correcting papers.
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The Longhorn football team is full of big names this year, a few of whom you might see playing on Sundays in the near future. But off the gridiron, there are several other Longhorn athletes who, although you may not hear of them as often, are just as capable at their own respective sports. Here is our look at the top non-football players to watch in burnt orange this season:
Myles Turner: Men’s Basketball, Forward, Freshman
Incoming freshman forward Myles Turner has yet to step on the court for Texas, but the hype surrounding him is comparable to that of Kevin Durant when he first arrived on campus. While he may not play the same position as the former Longhorn legend, the expectations for Turner, who was a five-star recruit coming out of Bedford, are just as high as they were for Durant when he played for Rick Barnes.
Haley Eckerman: Volleyball, Outside Hitter, Senior
The Longhorns’ volleyball team will look to make it back to the Final Four yet again in 2014. In doing so, the team will rely heavily on its experienced seniors, including senior outside hitter Haley Eckerman.
Eckerman is a two-time All-American and was named 2013 Volleyball Magazine Player of the Year. She was also named Big 12 Player of the Year for the second consecutive year in 2013 and was a finalist for the 2013 Honda Sports Award for Volleyball.
Cameron Ridley: Men’s Basketball, Center, Junior
Junior center Cameron Ridley had a breakout year as a sophomore, highlighted by his put-back to beat the buzzer against Arizona State and push Texas into the Round of 32 in the NCAA Tournament.
Ridley averaged 11.2 points per game and 8.2 rebounds last season. Given the potential for this year’s team to make a tournament run, Ridley will be expected to lead Texas as one of the few upperclassmen on the roster.
Isaiah Taylor: Men’s Basketball, Point Guard, Sophomore
Sophomore point guard Isaiah Taylor had a tremendous freshman season, averaging 12.7 points and four assists per game last season. The wily point guard will be expected to produce at a similar level this season as the leader of Texas’ offensive attack.
Craig Lutz: Cross Country/Track and Field, Senior
Senior runner Craig Lutz enters his last year on the team and is looking to improve after his individual 15th place finish and the cross country team’s 14th place finish at the NCAA Championships last season.
Lutz has been recognized four times as an all-Big 12 runner in both cross country and track and field.
Nneka Enemkpali: Women’s Basketball, Forward, Senior
As the Longhorn women’s basketball team looks to build on the success of last season’s NCAA tournament run, it will rely on upperclassmen like senior forward Nneka Enemkpali for leadership. Enemkpali, a Pflugerville native, has continued to improve throughout her career at Texas, as she was named to the all-Big 12 first team for the first time this past season. Enemkpali averaged 12 points and 8.6 rebounds per game last year.
Jonathan Holmes: Men’s Basketball, Forward, Senior
As the only senior playing for Rick Barnes this year, forward Jonathan Holmes has seen Texas at its worst and was also part of the surprisingly successful season the Longhorns enjoyed last year. During the 2013-2014 season, Holmes averaged 12.8 points and 7.2 rebounds per game. As the only senior four year guy on the team, Holmes will have a major leadership role for the young Longhorns this season.


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Anyone can be at risk of getting infected with HIV, however certain groups are more at risk to get infected.
“Communities. When you live in a community where many people have HIV infection, the chance of being exposed to HIV by having sex or sharing needles or other injection equipment with someone who has HIV is higher. You can use CDC’s HIV, STD, hepatitis, and tuberculosis Atlas Plus to see the percentage of people with HIV (“prevalence”) in different U.S. counties and states, as well as other data. Within any community, the prevalence of HIV can vary among different subpopulations.
Subpopulations. In the United States, gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men are the population most affected by HIV. According to CDC, in 2018, gay and bisexual men accounted for 69% of new HIV diagnoses. By race/ethnicity, Blacks/African Americans and Hispanics/Latinos are disproportionately affected by HIV compared to other racial and ethnic groups. Also, transgender women who have sex with men are among the groups at highest risk for HIV infection, and injection drug users remain at significant risk for getting HIV.
Risk behaviors. In the United States, HIV is spread mainly through having anal or vaginal sex or sharing needles or syringes with an HIV-positive partner. Anal sex is the highest-risk behavior. Fortunately, there are more HIV prevention tools available today than ever before. These include using condoms correctly, every time you have sex; pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), a prevention method in which the HIV-negative partner takes daily HIV medicine to prevent HIV; and treatment as prevention, a method in which the HIV-positive partner takes daily HIV medicine to achieve and maintain an undetectable viral load. If a person with HIV takes HIV treatment every day exactly as prescribed and gets and keeps an undetectable viral load, they have effectively no risk of transmitting HIV to their partners through sex.
Visit the CDC’s U.S. Statistics page for more information on how HIV affects different populations.”

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First fully sanctioned same-sex marriages in the U.S.
Boston--The United States became the fourth nation to allow same-sex couples to get married on May 17 when a Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruling from last November took effect.
Cambridge City Hall began handing out marriage licenses at 12:01 a.m. as some 10,000 gays and lesbians rallied outside.
Marcia Hams and Susan Shepherd received the first license.
�I feel overwhelmed,� Hams told reporters. �I feel ready to collapse. I�m shaking so much, I�m really ready to faint.�
Shepherd added: �There�s some kid somewhere that�s watching this and it�s going to change his whole life . . .� This is about so much more than us. But it�s about us, too.�
Weddings began around the state several hours later when other government offices opened and judges began granting waivers of Massachusetts� mandatory three-day waiting period between issuing a license and the marriage ceremony.
Gov. Mitt Romney has said same-sex couples from other states cannot get married in Massachusetts unless their home state recognizes gay marriages or the couple is planning to move to Massachusetts. He cites a 1913 state law that was designed to appease states that banned interracial marriage after Massachusetts allowed it.
But several Massachusetts cities have said they never applied that law to straight people and have no intention of applying it to gay people. Those cities include Somerville, Springfield, Worcester and Provincetown, which began issuing licenses to out-of-state couples immediately.
The attorneys general of Rhode Island and New York announced that their states likely will recognize the marriages of residents who marry in Massachusetts.
With weddings taking place across the state, it was impossible to keep a running count, but at the least, hundreds of marriage licenses were handed out by clerks before the day�s end.
In Provincetown, the chair of the city Board of Selectmen, Cheryl Andrews, married her longtime partner Jennifer Germack.
Andrews called it �one of the greatest things that has ever happened to me . . . This is the most memorable day of my life,� she said.
�It�s like a madhouse here, darling,� Board of Selectmen secretary Vernon Porter told the Los Angeles Times. �Everyone�s giving flowers. It�s just gorgeous.�
In Cambridge, Marcia Kadish and Tanya McCloskey were believed to be the very first couple to tie the knot, at 9:15 a.m.
Kadish told reporters she felt �all tingly and wonderful� with �so much love . . . bursting out of me.�
The seven couples who filed the lawsuit that led to the Supreme Judicial Court ruling--the case was named Goodridge v. Department of Public Health--all were married Monday.
�Next to the birth of our daughter Annie, this is the happiest day of our lives,� said Julie Goodridge.
In Boston, Mayor Tom Menino escorted three of the plaintiff couples into City Hall.
�I am very proud to be mayor of the city on this particular day,� Menino said. �We have broken down another barrier. That is what life is all about--breaking down barriers and making this an open society for everyone to live in, to cherish each other and to have a great life.�
Earlier this year, the Massachusetts legislature narrowly passed a draft constitutional amendment that would ban same-sex marriage and establish civil unions that grant all state-level marriage rights. The amendment cannot take effect until 2006 at the earliest, after being passed again by the legislature and ratified by voters.
Some observers predict that now that the weddings have begun, support for the amendment will drop off when legislators and citizens realize �the sky hasn�t fallen,� as one put it, and see all the happy gay married couples.
A proposal to amend the U.S. Constitution to ban same-sex marriage nationwide is unlikely to clear the hurdles it faces--a two-thirds vote in the House of Representatives and the Senate, and ratification of three-fourth of the states, political observers believe--especially now that same-sex marriage is a reality.
Same-sex marriage also is allowed in the Netherlands (beginning in 2001), Belgium (2002), and the Canadian provinces of Ontario (2003), British Columbia (2003) and Quebec (2004).
Several other nations grant some, most or all of the rights and obligations of marriage to same-sex couples under registered-partnership and civil-union laws.
President George W. Bush denounced the weddings taking place in Massachusetts.
�The sacred institution of marriage should not be redefined by a few activist judges,� he said en route to Topeka, Kan., where, ironically, he was commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Supreme Court decision that ended racial segregation in schools.
�All Americans have a right to be heard in this debate,� Bush said. �I called on the Congress to pass, and to send to the states for ratification, an amendment to our Constitution defining and protecting marriage as a union of a man and a woman as husband and wife. The need for that amendment is still urgent, and I repeat that call today.�
Gov. Romney said: �An issue as fundamental to society as the definition of marriage should be decided by the people. Until then, I intend to follow the law and expect others to do the same.�
Fred �God Hates Fags� Phelps and his family stood outside Boston City Hall with their colorful placards.
In general, however, antigay protest was muted if not invisible throughout much of the state, and the media focus was squarely on the beaming same-sex couples who repeatedly said they couldn�t believe this day actually had arrived.
�I never even fantasized about marriage,� Paul McMahon, 71, told Newsweek. �Going to other people�s weddings, I always thought they were so beautiful, and I never thought about having one of my own.�
McMahon and Ralph Hogdon, 69, have been together for 49 years.
Cleveland--A group working to defeat a proposed Ohio constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage, domestic partnerships and civil unions wants to hire a campaign manager by June 15.
The campaign, led by Ohioans for Growth and Equality with several allied groups and individuals, is being assisted in that search by the Human Rights Campaign and National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, which have expertise organizing statewide campaigns.
�I don�t know how many have applied, but there has been some interest,� said John Farina of Lakewood.
Farina is a member of the of the search committee for the position, which also includes John Corlett of Cleveland, Mary Jo Hudson of Columbus and Chad Foust of Columbus.
The search is being conducted nationally, and hopes to yield a director with extensive experience in fundraising, field organization and person-to-person persuasion.
HRC national field director Seth Kilborn said the search is made more difficult because �it�s late in the campaign season to find talent,� though he is confident that a good candidate will be found.
A new coalition of anti-gay groups called the Ohio Campaign to Protect Marriage filed the amendment April 20 and will circulate petitions to put it on the November ballot. The group, led by Citizens for Community Values of Cincinnati, needs 322,900 signatures by August 4. It is widely believed they will get them.
NGLTF organization and training director David Fleischer said the drive to pass the amendment will also serve the Bush re-election effort as a way to raise money that the official campaign cannot legally accept due to federal campaign contribution limits.
�It�s a way to raise unregulated campaign money for the Bush campaign,� said Fleischer. �If someone gives the maximum legal amount to Bush, they can then give more for the purpose of boosting conservative votes through the amendment campaign.�
Kilborn said HRC is presently deciding how its resources will be spent. He noted that there are at least six states that will have anti-marriage constitutional amendments on their ballots for certain, and others like Ohio which are likely to.
He also said that HRC will allocate its money based on polling, the strength of the state campaign and strategies, and the strength of the coalition of gay and non-gay groups brought together to run it.
Kilborn and Fleischer say that OGE needs to begin to raise money immediately and recruit volunteers as soon as possible, even before it is certain that the amendment will qualify for the ballot.
OGE has already sent out a letter asking for donations.
A Cleveland couple has filed suit to block signature-gathering for the amendment, saying its summary on the petitions is misleading. A Franklin County judge allowed petitions to be circulated, but not turned in until he rules on the matter.
Fleischer said that attempts to pre-empt the amendment through court challenges are necessary, but seldom work.
�Laws are construed in a way to make it easy to get measures on the ballot,� said Fleischer, �so getting it stopped over technical concerns is not likely to work.�
�There are things in a campaign that only money buys, and things that money can�t buy,� Fleischer added. �Both will be needed here.�
Fleischer said campaigns that contact voters door-to-door outperform polls by as much as 20 percent on election day.
The campaign that created the domestic partner registry in Cleveland Heights last year was nearly all door-to-door campaigning. So is the Cincinnati campaign to remove the anti-gay Article 12 from the city�s charter.
That campaign is run by Citizens to Restore Fairness, a political action committee formed in January, 2003.
CRF has identified 13,000 of the 60,000 voters it will need to win. Although they could put the initiative on the ballot any time, this November 2 was chosen before the statewide amendment became a possibility.
�CRF is going to have choices to make,� said Fleischer, �The statewide campaign has a huge impact on what they are doing in Cincinnati.�
Fleischer believes that the two issues are linked and fears that CRF will lose if it ignores the state issue.
He said CRF has four options.
�They could take their matter to the voters sooner than November, or later than November,� said Fleischer. �Or they can make their campaign into a vote yes to repeal Article 12, and vote no to defeat the amendment, or they can just focus on their measure in November, which is the most problematic option.�
CRF co-chair Gary Wright said his group will concentrate on repealing Article 12 in November.
�We need two victories in Ohio,� said Wright. �We are going to go in November. These are two distinct campaigns to be run and won.�
�CRF was only established to repeal Article 12,� said Wright, �and it will remain true to its purpose.�
Wright pointed out that some of CRF�s supporters favor same-sex marriage and some don�t.
The Ohio marriage ban amendment campaign and a similar one in Kentucky are �factors in our environment,� according to Wright, �and the environment is going to be crowded this fall.�
�The voters are going to have to make up their minds about two different things,� said Wright. �Our opponents are going to try to make them the same issue, but they are not.�
Wright said that CRF has no plans to change its campaign message or timing. �There�s no question that the city and country have moved [on the issue of workplace and housing discrimination] and this is our best time to go.�
�There are other groups here like Stonewall to work on the amendment,� said Wright.
Cleveland--�No justice of the peace, no peace,� chanted picketers in front of the old federal courthouse in downtown Cleveland on May 17.
The demonstration was one of many organized throughout the nation to celebrate the same-sex marriages beginning that day in Massachusetts, and to protest Ohio�s attempts to deny marriage rights.
Other cities with actions organized by equalmarriagesolidarity.org included Boston, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, Portland, Chicago, New York, and Charlotte, N.C.
The number of picketers grew to 21 at the Cleveland event. Some were participants in a United Church of Christ program to educate members about same-sex marriage and how it will affect the 2004 election.
The United Church of Christ, which is headquartered in Cleveland, is long affirming of GLBT rights and supports same-sex marriage.
�This is not a theocracy or a dictatorship,� said Barb Kenan of Cleveland. She added that gays and lesbians are losing civil rights in Ohio to religious fanatics.
Kenan noted the coincidence that same-sex couples achieved marriage equality in Massachusetts on the 50th anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court�s Brown v. Board of Education decision, which declared that separate is not equal.
The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court cited Brown and its progeny in ruling that civil unions would not be an acceptable substitute for marriage in that state.
Other demonstrations in support of marriage were held at the West Shore Unitarian Universalist Church in the Cleveland suburb of Rocky River during morning and evening rush hours.
An interfaith solidarity celebration service was also held at the First Unitarian Universalist Church in Columbus.�
Cop cant sue because there is no gay civil
Columbus--A federal judge ruled that anti-gay harassment of a Lancaster police officer by colleagues is �crude, offensive, and wholly pathetic� but it does not violate U.S. civil rights law.
U.S. District Court Judge Gregory L. Frost based his May 5 decision on an earlier Sixth Circuit ruling that Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act does not protect gays and lesbians.
The $10 million suit was brought last fall by former Fairfield Medical Center police officer Christopher Vickers against the hospital and some of its employees.
Vickers said the hospital conspired to fire him after he complained of harassment by his chief and some fellow officers, all named as co-defendants in the suit.
Vickers complained that Chief Steve Anderson and officers Kory Dixon and John Mueller, and others, tampered with his firearm, impressed the word �fag� on his report forms, and interfered with phone calls after Vickers befriended a gay medic.
Vickers described an incident during a training exercise where Dixon handcuffed Vickers� hands behind his back and pretended to have anal sex with him while Anderson photographed the act with the hospital�s digital camera.
Vickers said the photo was distributed around the hospital.
Other complaints Dixon putting the anesthetic Benzocaine in Vickers� beverage, causing his mouth and throat to become numb, Mueller rubbing a sanitary napkin in Vickers� face, and Dixon simulating anal sex with a Barney doll before forcing it in Vickers� crotch.
Vickers made five federal claims under Title VII and 21 claims under Ohio law.
While sexual orientation was not included in the original 1964 law, the U.S. Supreme Court has extended that protection to gays, lesbians, and transexxuals if the harassment results from sex stereotyping.
Vickers attempted to bring his claim under that line of cases beginning with the 1989 U.S. Supreme Court decision in Price Waterhouse v. Hopkins and its offspring, the 1998 U.S. Supreme Court decision in Oncale v. Sundowner, which held that �sex discrimination consisting of same-sex sexual harassment is actionable under Title VII.�
Frost wrote that Vickers �correctly asserts that Title VII �bars all forms of discrimination because of sex� and that �same-sex sexual harassment is actionable under Title VII.� But he also extrapolates from that rule that discrimination against him for his real or perceived homosexuality is actionable as discrimination based on noncomformity with gender norms or stereotypes.�
�This court is cognizant of post-Price Waterhouse jurisprudence that would lend some support to Vickers� contention,� wrote Frost, who then wrote that case law in the Sixth Circuit, which includes all of Ohio, does not support Vickers, even though case law from other circuits does.
�The court finds the alleged misconduct Vickers describes crude, offensive, and wholly pathetic,� wrote Frost, �But in light of the foregoing Sixth Circuit precedent, this court is bound to hold that Title VII does not cover Vickers� claims of sex discrimination and sexual harassment. Vickers� arguments to the contrary and his citation to conflicting jurisprudence from outside this circuit are best addressed to the appellate court and perhaps to the United States Supreme Court.�
In ending the case, Frost granted a motion for Judgement on the Pleadings filed by Fairfield Medical Center�s attorney William Case, which argued that the Title VII claim lacked merit in the Sixth Circuit.
Vickers is represented by Stow attorney Thomas Watkins and Macedonia attorney Randi Barnabee.
�We agree with the court�s reasoning in every respect,� said Case, �Even if the conduct were true, it would not allow for a suit to be filed.�
Watkins said the decision was �not any better than what we could want.�
�We knew this case would be settled at the appellate level,� said Watkins, �so it was better to get a decision to get it there now rather than later.�
�This circuit has not recognized protection for gays, but others have, which makes this case ripe for the Supreme Court,� said Watkins.
�And if it gets to the U.S. Supreme Court, the court will be hard pressed not to grant Vickers equal protection under the law established in the Lawrence v. Texas case,� said Watkins.
Watkins said the hospital and the individual defendants have said all along that it was okay for them to do what they did to Vickers because he is not protected by law.
Watkins and Barnabee also said that the egregiousness of the harassment in Vickers� case cannot be ignored by a higher court.
�This is no less severe than what happened in Oncale,� said Barnabee, �and the Supreme Court found that it could not ignore what happened there.�
Watkins said a notice of appeal will be filed within 30 days.
Singing in a range usually limited to women,
Cleveland--Northeast Ohio�s gay community is in for a special treat this week. David Daniels, the internationally renowned countertenor whose CDs are high on the Billboard charts, is appearing Tuesday, May 25, at the Cleveland Institute of Music in University Circle.
In addition to his regular program of songs, with which he just finished touring Europe, he will perform settings of James Joyce�s Chamber Music that he commissioned from University of Michigan choral conductor Theodore Morrison and popular American folk songs arranged by Steven Mark Kohn.
A native of South Carolina who can drawl with the best of them, Daniels, though still young, has already experienced a meteoric rise to the very top in the last few years. He is the first countertenor to draw general audiences here in the United States and the first to give a solo performance at Carnegie Hall. His remarkable artistry has won over legions who had always shunned countertenors in the past.
In winning over these general audiences, Daniels has played an important role both as a countertenor and as a gay man.
Countertenors sing in the soprano or mezzo range but with a full voice, not a falsetto. This takes special training.
Because our Western culture traditionally associates high voices in men with effeminacy, homosexuality, and abnormality, general audiences used to avoid countertenors, even though the countertenor sound is different from a woman�s.
Since he is an out gay man, Daniels does not worry about audiences imagining that he is gay. (He and his partner have been together for 18 years.) He does, however, want to win them over to the sound of something challengingly different, to get them to free themselves from the stereotypes and associations in which Western culture still imprisons ideas about gender and sexuality for too many so that they can sit back and enjoy the music.
To this end, he concentrates on singing with the greatest possible artistry, but also as naturally as possible. The result is that after initial discomfort at the challenge to traditional gender stereotypes that the countertenor voice evokes, Daniels� music-making dissipates that culturally conditioned discomfort by the very beauty and sincerity of his singing. Of course, his traditionally masculine good looks don�t hurt any, either.
In this respect, he said, he realizes that educating audiences will always be part of his career as a countertenor. Since this education focuses on teaching a general public to abandon their assumptions about personality and behavior based on outward effects, it is very much in line with what gay advocacy has been doing ever since the Oscar Wilde trials over a century ago.
David Daniels is appearing as part of the Cleveland Institute of Music�s Art Song Festival, which runs from May 24 to 29. To experience his artistry and enjoy a different way of undermining conventional links between effect and gender, reserve tickets weekdays between 10 a.m. and 3:00 p.m. at 216-7915000 ext. 411. Daniels will delight you with much more than just his Southern charm and good looks.
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“Never again!” was the answer of international society to the Nazi genocides and, indeed, it gave birth to several crucial initiatives: the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Geneva Conventions, as well as hundreds of UN resolutions against war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocides. “Never again” must be a universal guideline, never again genocide, against any human group, by any human group, and under any circumstances… Many will claim that the colonial wars conducted by Israel, from 1947 to the aggression against Gaza in 2013, were not aimed at eradicating the Palestinian people, but “just” to cleanse territorial areas from their presence. In that sense, they will add, these were not genocidal wars. However, if one reads the UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide, it will be clear that Israel very well may have committed blatant crimes of genocide as defined in the Convention, including most recently in Gaza.
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PARIS Britain’s antitrust regulator said Thursday that it would oppose the planned merger of Ticketmaster and Live Nation, saying that the consolidation of two major players in entertainment in the United States and Europe could lead to higher concert ticket prices.
The ticketing agent and the concert promoter, both based in California, announced in February that they aimed to unite.
Together, they would have even greater global reach and estimated annual revenue of about $6 billion. Ticketmaster distributes tickets online and through retail outlets all over the world. Live Nation, the world’s largest concert producer, says it sells 45 million tickets a year.
Britain’s Competition Commission, an independent public agency, said in a statement on Thursday that “the merger could severely inhibit the entry of a major new competitor” and result in higher prices for consumers.
The agency said that the proposed merger would also jeopardize an agreement between Live Nation and CTS Eventim, a ticketing and live entertainment company based in Germany.
The commission said it expected to issue a decision on Nov. 24.
John Park, a spokesman for the agency, said a number of potential remedies might allow a deal to proceed. “One option would require Live Nation to use CTS for a portion of its business,” he said. Another is a potential divestment of all or part of Live Nation’s or Ticketmaster’s operations in Britain, he said.
Ticketmaster and Live Nation said that they would cooperate with the commission and that they remained committed to the merger. The proposed merger is being reviewed by the Justice Department in the United States.


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Dropped assignment raises questions about book banning
A principal's ad-hoc decision to pull a summer reading assignment after a handful of parents slammed the book's content and language is calling into question Leon County Schools' censorship bylaws.
The book – an award-winning and critically acclaimed 2003 British novel, "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time," by Mark Haddon – is narrated by a 15-year-old mathematical whiz with cognitive disabilities, similar to autism and Asperger's Syndrome, who relays what he sees and hears in an almost emotionless way, including when adults around him curse or doubt the existence of God.
Critics of the decision say that dropping the assignment without going through a committee review process violates district bylaws and sets a troubling precedent.
"This case is very startling. A handful of parents are making choices for every other parent in that school," said Sarah Hoffman, a National Coalition Against Censorship program manager. "There is a reason policies are in place – to protect educators and the decisions they make.
"This seems like a knee-jerk reaction," she added.
According to LCS bylaws, when someone has an issue regarding instructional materials, including library books, a complaint is to be filed formally. Administrators and principals determine the validity of the complaint, and if they find that the allegations are warranted, the material goes to a committee that evaluates its "pedagogical and educational merits as a whole," Hoffman said.
After receiving "concerns over the delivery of the text" through emails and telephone calls, Lincoln High School Principal Allen Burch said he wanted to "give the opportunity for the parents to parent" and canceled the assignment. Students who already did the work could receive extra credit.
While the move was made to accommodate offended parents, others are displeased with the decision.
"I was stunned," said Valerie Mindlin, whose children went to Lincoln. "I feel like it is second-guessing teachers. I never thought that the school would participate in an act of censorship.
"At what point do you let parents decide the curriculum for an entire school?" she asked.
In "Curious Incident," which can be read online at the Internet Archive, the f-word is written 28 times, the s-word 18 times, and the c-word makes one appearance – in Britain that word is less charged than it is in the U.S. A few characters also express atheistic beliefs, taking God's name in vain on nine occasions.
The foul language and the religious skepticism alarmed Sue Gee, former teacher and a mother of an incoming Lincoln eleventh-grader, who emailed Burch on July 20.
"I am not interested in having books banned," Gee said. "But to have that language and to take the name of Christ in vain – I don't go for that. As a Christian, and as a female, I was offended. Kids don't have to be reading that type of thing and that's why I was asking for an alternative assignment.
"I know it's not realistic to pretend bad words don't exist, but it is my responsibility as a parent to make sure that my daughter knows what is right or wrong," she added.
When asked about the dropped reading, Assistant Superintendent Scotty Crowe said the summer assignment was not part of the syllabus and can bypass review channels.
"We take censorship very seriously," Crowe said, after affirming that LCS officials were not a part of the decision. "But it wasn't a part of the true curriculum. We use summer reading as a way to keep kids engaged over the summer. The book will remain on the media center shelves and is not being banned."
"Curious Incident" was assigned to all Lincoln High School students during the summer break. Students were expected to complete projects, tiered by grade-level, based on the book. The novel was to be discussed during the school year, and the assignments, which were posted on the school's website until Friday, were due after school began.
Burch was not the only one contacted by a concerned parent. In her email, Gee copied School Board member Alva Striplin, who is now recommending the removal of "Curious Incident" from the district's approved reading list.
"We are simply listening to parents' concerns," Striplin said. "We've got a million books to choose from and this one should not be on the district approval list."
"Curious Incident" has been banned before.
Lake Fenton Middle School in Michigan pulled it from its approved reading list in 2010, according to the Michigan Live Media Group. The American Library Association also reported that the Wilson County School Board in Tennessee, near the buckle of the Bible Belt, banned it last year as well. That decision was overturned less than a week later because review procedures were not followed.
Despite the two reported challenges, schools have welcomed the book more often than not.
Many Florida schools – in Bay, Broward, Collier, Duval, Highlands, Lake, Manatee, Marion, Miami-Dade, Orange, Pinellas, Okaloosa, Osceola and Seminole counties, for instance – "Curious Incident" has already been assigned. In Leon County, FAMU Developmental Research and Mclay schools also assigned the novel.
While the book has already been dropped, parents and students can still advocate for censorship policies to be followed, Hoffman said. She suggests petitioning the School Board or voicing concerns in writing.
"People have a right to their opinion," she said. "But they should also be very concerned that this happened without reviewing it properly beforehand."

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Dadaism 999 & Edward Ka-Spel
The Misery Book
LP | 2015 | EU | Original (Norton North)
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Genre:Electronic / Dance
The Misery Book' is the debut album by Dadaism 999 featuring Edward Ka-Spel (Legendary Pink Dots) with several guest musicians (Tony Wakeford of Sol Invictus, Stefano Rossello of Bahntier, Elena Fossi of Kirlian Camera, Albin Julius of Der Blutharsch) together with the band's official members Dave Weels and Joey Imbalance. The album combines electronic and dark-psychedelic sounds, in a very strange collage of different styles. It's a melodic and fresh album with abstract lyrics that totally represents the absolutely original form of art of Dadaism 999. The LP is presented in a gatefold sleeve with a gold and black cover.


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‘Weird’ and wonderful Al
He didn’t perform at Michael Jackson’s funeral. He’s more likely to play the Orange County Fair than the Staples Center. And he’s commonly viewed as a quirky pop music footnote. No matter. At a Holiday Inn in Costa Mesa, more than 100 of his most ardent fans will gather to pay tribute to “Weird Al” Yankovic.
Although it doesn’t attract Comic-Con-size crowds, the day-long Al Fest offers immersion into the not-so-weird world of “Weird Al” fandom. There are performances by members of Yankovic’s band; a variety show staged by fans; a memorabilia auction; a 20th anniversary screening of the movie “UHF” with participants acting out the film a la “The Rocky Horror Picture Show”; and opening remarks by comedy music DJ Dr. Demento, who will preview clips from his new online show “The Real UHF.”
It was Demento who gave the comedy musician his first break, playing Yankovic’s homemade demos of “My Bologna” (riffing on the Knack’s “My Sharona”) and “Another One Rides the Bus” (parodying Queen’s “Another One Bites the Dust”) on his radio show.
In 1984, Yankovic hit the big time with “Eat It,” a parody of Michael Jackson’s “Beat It” that reached No. 12 on the Billboard Hot 100 music chart. Like many fans older than 30, that was when Vikki DeVries, one of the organizers of Al Fest, first heard “Weird Al.” “I just thought he was the best parody artist I’d ever heard,” she says.
Since then, Yankovic has steadily churned out material, releasing 12 albums, winning three Grammys and touring aggressively. From his first studio album in 1983 to his latest album, “Straight Outta Lynwood,” the seemingly ageless Yankovic has turned his laser-sharp satire on all music genres. In 2006, he had his biggest hit yet with “White and Nerdy,” a parody of Chamillionaire’s “Ridin’.” The song, the first of Yankovic’s to crack the Billboard Top 10, went to No. 9 and introduced his music to a new generation of listeners.
Yankovic never went away, so it wouldn’t be accurate to call this a comeback, but he’s certainly experiencing a renewed cultural prominence. You can find him all over YouTube. And the Al’s Brain exhibit at the O.C. Super Fair (through Aug. 9) offers a goofy, informative 3-D trip through the human brain -- with Yankovic as tour guide.
But for devoted fans like DeVries, it’s all about Al Fest. There’s only one thing missing: Al himself. Yankovic, who declined to be interviewed for this story, is spending the summer vacationing with his family in Hawaii and won’t be attending the festival.
“I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t disappointed,” DeVries says, “but we will still have a blast.”
Where: Holiday Inn, 3131 Bristol St., Costa Mesa
When: 10 a.m-10 p.m., Saturday
Price: $50, general; $30, children 5-10


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"The Shackles on Job's Body"
[Originally written for the publication of the DC Area Guild of Body Psychotherapists]
[See also: Homeopathy Science and its disclosure of the deadly Chronic Miasms]
by Dr. Ralph Wilson, N.D.
Joining the Guild is a freeing experience for me. I am pleased to join this mobile Guild community (connected through internet, publications, meetings and events). It feels like I have come into a homeland, a place where I can move with greater freedom and watch and learn as others exercise some of their skills. I carry with me an enthusiasm that helps me manage the many different energies coming into my domain of experience. Along my life journey and through my own sufferings I have sorted through many examples of how to help a person heal in mind and body. I have gained some wisdom and am energized to have seen a larger landscape of healing than most practitioners in our western culture seem to recognize. A lot of this is reflected in the content of my web site*. For those who have “ears to hear” (to include yet another of our senses) I want to tell you about some critical aspects of human existence that may catalyze foundational/root-level changes to how you treat patients and how you understand your own life.
The excellent book Job’s Body, by Deane Juhan, was one of the choices for the Guild’s book and theory discussion group. It is a far-reaching volume, worth including in your library. The title alone is worth some thought, as we reflect on what we know of Job and the sufferings and lessons he faced. The book details body systems, their intricacies and the mental/intentional aspects of the human being [the books covers much more than this]. I approach this book with a different understanding than I would have earlier. Briefly about me: I have been in the health care field in different roles for over 30 years now and I have seen repeated signs that pointed me beyond the limited boundaries I first perceived. I began studies to become a medical doctor at the University of Michigan Medical School. Personal health issues pushed me into a search for healing and I took a leave of absence after the first year. Eventually, I “went over the horizon” [literally] and studied acupuncture in China as part of a long journey that has crisscrossed the field of alternative medicine. My training and experience has been deep. I am now practicing as a naturopathic physician (graduating from the four-year naturopathic medical school, Bastyr University in Seattle) as a member of a Washington, DC coalition called National Integrated Health Associates*. Below are several basic concepts I outline as critical to understanding and working with our human existence, physical, mental, spirit…all of it.
Chains that keep us from healing: Factors that restrain our bodies from their marvelous function (in the order of the relative benefit from addressing them): Toxics, Microbes, Memories, Lifestyle (including diet, how one eats), Exercise (how one moves through life), Environment, Accidents (traumas, surgery with scars, etc.) and Genetics.
We know there are better results when more of the entire person is involved in their healing process. “Your body will heal itself,” and “The individual is the one doing their own healing,” are phrases I still accept as true but within a greater context. Body Psychotherapists especially realize that the person (body and mind… and spirit/soul) will do better if they have help removing restrictions to movement and if they are taught or allowed to experience unfettered exploratory freedom of movement on all levels (mentally as well as physically). We need to increase people’s access to their innate self-healing abilities by removing more of the obstacles that impede progress.
These factors I call “shackles” limit the person in enjoying life and hold them back from fully focusing their energies toward healing. Some may seem trivial or easy to ignore in favor of other more “glamorous” or “heroic” measures but I have seen many examples where one or more of these are key to the success (or failure) of a person’s attempts to reclaim their health—of body and of mind.
These shackles hold back the mind and body in multiple ways. When people come to a body psychotherapist they present as the end result of the impacts from many stressors or of sustained deficits. When the body psychotherapist (or any individual giving aid to the person) works with the person it is a challenge to balance the desire to treat the symptoms with the knowledge that if the cause is not removed the person will not make the progress they might have. What I am listing includes causal factors that are not widely recognized or usually addressed. The Internet sites I give below will help you learn more about these.
Toxics: These include heavy metal toxicity that comes from our modern society. Mercury, the “mad hatter” metal, can severely impact personality and general health. Dental visits are the main source of mercury in the body, and can introduce other metals such as cadmium (in braces). Pesticides and other compounds can also imbalance a person’s metabolism, neurologically as well as biochemically. Human toxic management is described in the German model of “Homotoxicology” described on my web site: If we cannot throw a toxin out of our body, then it is deposited in deeper and deeper levels as we cope with it. Many times I hear of practitioners treating someone for headache with relaxation or herbs, or medication, or guided imagery when the person had a low-level dental stress, or a gastrointestinal problem from microbes (below) that should be treated.
Microbes: We are learning about low-level, chronic conditions such as parasites, Lyme disease and “stealth virus” infections. Treating these can be very difficult and can require months of diligent medication and careful management of diet and eating patterns. Microbes can live in dead root canal filled teeth. They can grow in tooth extraction sockets and be a big drain on the body’s energy. The intestines are a “community” of microbes that often becomes a battleground of unfriendly organisms stressing the body.
Memories: Deep-seated patterns from negative social situations can push neurochemistry in a detrimental direction, as well as foster “holding patterns” that skew posture and reduce freedom of movement. Body psychotherapists can expand on this category.
Lifestyle: 1. Diet: Both the types of foods and quantities matter. Probiotics (such as acidophilus and bifidus) are critical to gastrointestinal health. We need to find the zone of nutrient levels that is best for the individual, supplementing in an “orthomolecular” manner. The time of day we eat, how you eat—rushed or relaxed, how much one chews the food are each important. 2. Sleep: Is it in total darkness? Less in summer and more in winter. We are genetically programmed for 8 to 10 hours of darkness [Wiley, Formby].
Exercise: How one moves their body through life is one of the biggest factors influencing the kind of person they become. Growth can come with appropriate weight bearing exercise. We can be harmed by too much exercise. Movement also brings our body through the electromagnetic lines around the planet and may generate “chi”; this is especially evident in use of gentle “rebounder” trampoline exercises. Body movement also increases lymph flow; lymph helps the body eliminate toxins.
Environment: 1. Light on the skin is important; not only for the daytime concern about skin cancer, but light on the skin at night (TV, computer, overhead lights, clock radio lights, etc.) will cause subtle hormone shifts and can stress the adrenals and lead to stress-related behavior, as well as obesity, hypertension, diabetes and cancer [Wiley/Formby]. 2. In Europe there is concern about underground water streams causing electromagnetic disturbance that can result in so-called “cancer houses” where occupants develop cancers; the remedy for this is to move one’s bed or location in which they spend many hours at a time. 3. Radiation from computers, microwaves, etc., can be significant stressors.
Accidents: Trauma causing scars and bone and tissue injury can cause focal disturbances in the Autonomic Nervous System’s function. In our clinic we use Neural Therapy to treat scars, including hidden fascial tears due to whiplash injury. Mal-position of body structures is a key problem assessed by different schools of treatment.
Genetics: I include this because it can be helpful for a person to know about how their body is “wired” to function. Ayurvedic body typing addresses this. The study of iris fiber structure has been useful in alternative medicine practices (I deeply the appreciate the Psychological Iridology of Denny Johnson—the Rayid system). The “bio-tech” industry has made us all aware of how genetics can be used to classify people, so we need to consider this for pro and con aspects. My “take” on genetic testing is that if a person is told they will develop a disease because of a certain genetic pattern they have, there may be hope that if they get appropriate nutrient support their body may not develop the condition (I met Henry Turkel, M.D., who treated Down’s Syndrome children with nutrient injections and they looked normal).
Many times over the years I have looked at the treatment given by medical doctors, and by psychotherapists (as well as others) and was stunned by the way these key factors were not considered. I still feel a twinge of pain inside when I encounter a person who is struggling in counseling or under the treatment of a medical doctor and has not dealt with these factors. They are living a life in shackles and do not even know it. The body has innate ability to heal itself if it is freed from restrictions and given tools to do the work. I am angered and humbled at the same time when someone talks about their spiritual growth or their ability to “cope” when they continue to walk around with some of these problems I see glaring back at me. These people are being denied the fullness of life that could be theirs. Too often I have to be supportive in my words and move on, not causing strife by trying to tell them what they are missing. I am still learning about how to deal with the insights and visions I have had of the possible greater freedom available for people if they can only make the journey to see a “bigger picture.”
Treating these factors: This takes skill as well as the awareness of their important role in health problems. The references will give you information on some of the many assessment and treatment options. Broad treatment categories include: Detoxification, Nourishment, Touch Therapies, Supportive Relationships (with self, people, nature), Education (self-discovery, teaching about healthy living on all levels). My enthusiasm for dealing with the toxic aspects of dentistry is the reason I moved to DC. I am working with a group that supports “Biological Dentistry” and calls their work Integrative Medicine. The order of the list of eight factors is taken from my observation of what our group has found to give good return for the invested energy and money. It is gratifying to see increasing numbers of people discover a bigger picture to understand and reclaim health of body and of mind. I will continue to test and refine my “model” for how to best help a person find the freedom to heal. Guild members include a spectrum of practitioners, and each can address these factors with varying directness. If you do not want to treat a factor such as I listed, for whatever reason, I ask you to consider at least making the client/patient aware of it and give them a chance to eventually take action.
I wish you the health you seek along your path, and even more than you thought possible.
Enjoy the journey,
Ralph Wilson, N.D., M.S. Acupuncture


My good friends and favorite band Birdpen are about to release their second album ‘Global Lows’ As always I was thrilled to be asked to do the promo shots for the album artwork. Check out the video for the new single it is absolutely stunning!
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The boys are back! Dave & Mike are just putting the finishing touches on their new album ‘only the names change’ I’ve had sneak listen and it sounds awesome. This is a shoot for some of the album artwork and a few promo shots as well. As ever their ideas have a dark humor to […]


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President John F. Kennedy's last night recalled as key event for Latinos
Jacqueline Kennedy also spoke at Rice Hotel in Houston
President John F. Kennedy was supposed to just stop by and wave hello.
Instead, a group of eager Latinos persuaded him to come inside and speak to a packed room of Mexican-American civil rights activists. And then he persuaded his wife, first lady Jacqueline Kennedy, to address the crowd in Spanish.
It was Nov. 21, 1963.
Hours later, the president was dead. And his assassination overshadowed the significance of a speech that can be seen as the birth of the Latino vote — which was so instrumental in 2012 in helping re-elect the first black president, Barack Obama.
To historians, Kennedy's appearance at the Rice Ballroom in Houston was likely the first time that a president officially acknowledged Latinos as an important voting bloc.

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Jamaica Gleaner article.
Kingston, Jamaica - Batsman Danza Hyatt is questioning the decision by the new national selection committee to omit him from Jamaica's 14-man squad for this month's West Indies Cricket Board NAGICO Super50 tournament.
Kingston, Jamaica - Former West Indies pacer, Jerome Taylor, has been recalled to Jamaica's cricket squad after being out for almost three years because of injury.
Jamaica Star article.
Kingston, Jamaica - Long-standing national four-day captain, Tamar Lambert, is no longer the captain of the national Super50 team.
Jamaica Observer article.
Kingston, Jamaica - Bowlers dominated in a low scoring game as Yannick Elliot's XI defeated Donovan Nelson's XI by four wickets in Jamaica's Senior Cricket team trial match at Sabina Park yesterday.
WICB Media Release.
PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad – Defending champions Windward Islands will face Jamaica on the opening day of the NAGICO Super50 2014 Tournament on Thursday, January 30 at Queen’s Park Oval.
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Aint It Cool News? Yes. A Bit Late Though : Tetsujin 28.
AICN aka Aint It Cool News has put up a link to the Tetsujin 28 site overnight. Thing is, it was posted here weeks ago by Todd (i think?). Infact, I can't even find it in the archives here at ScreenAnarchy : but who knows, someone might have spotted it here and told AICN about it. Bit late guys.
Anyhow : I can't tell them over there. So, anyone with the ability to post at AICN, can you please tell them and everyone else we were on the case.
The only snippets i've heard about the film so far suggest theres little CGI in it and its "paced for shit", as a forum poster put it. Still, thats opinion in part so lets wait and see for ourselves, hopefully in 2005.