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East Coast Assault Volumes 1 and 2
Posted by xCHIPxSEM | File under : East Coast Assault, Too Damn Hype Records
I'm finally back from Japan and can now resume posting. In my time hunting the record stores of Tokyo and Osaka, I came across a 3 disc edition of the old East Coast Assault that was originally released by Too Damn Hype. This particular edition was released by Out Ta Bomb Records which was based out of Tokyo. The label has since folded and this series of comps is once again out of print. So many great bands on these...Hatebreed, All Out War, Indecision, Merauder, Converge, Stigmata...seriously excellent. I ripped the 3 discs at a VBR so they sound great and scanned the cover at a high quality as well. Enjoy!
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East Coast Assault, Vol. 1
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Cameran / Bastard In Love split 7"
Posted by XhcnoirX | File under : Austria, Bastard In Love, Brazil, Cameran, moo cow records, Personal Choice, Straight Edge
And yet another Moo Cow Records request. If anything, this should give you a good idea of how great a record label it was during the 90's. And Jim's still releasing records every now and again. Anyways, released in 1998, this split 7" featured Cameran out of Austria and Bastard In Love out of Brazil. 2 Quite different bands, but nonetheless a sweet split. Cameran formed out of the ashes of Racial Abuse, but went in a different direction. Cameran went for a more technical metallic hardcore approach with highly political lyrics. After this split 7" they did a few EP's and a full-length, none of which I've ever seen unfortunately. They also relocated to the UK and are still around apparently. Good stuff for sure tho. Bastard In Love was one of the bands of the owner of Teenager In A Box Records, who also did time in Personal Choice, a legendary old Brazilian sXe hardcore band. Bastard In Love had a more melodic edge to them tho. As far as I know they did some demo's and also appeared on some compilations but no proper releases of their own. Either way, check it out.
Cameran myspace
Atlas Shrugged - 'Old Familiar Face' 7"
Posted by XhcnoirX | File under : Atlas Shrugged, Fistheldhigh Records, moo cow records, New York
Another request, and another Moo Cow Records release, this time a 7" they released together with Fistheldhigh Records, back in 1998. Atlas Shrugged was an amazing hardcore band out of New York who had a pretty distinct sound, altho one can definitely hear influences of bands such as Burn. Rocking & grooving hardcore with the passionate spoken/screamed vocals of Chris Weinblad, who also did, and still does, Trip Machine Laboratories. Ever since I first heard this band on their split 7" with New Day Rising, I loved em. I've gotten pretty much all of their releases, at least the ones I know of, and I can recommend them all. This was their final release/7" before their demise in 1998. They did record a few more songs in 1998 tho, however they never got released at the time. Trip Machine Laboratories released those recordings in a limited run as the 'Vigilante Songs' CD-r a couple of years ago, and has also been planning an Atlas Shrugged discography for a while now, hopefully that will happen soon, this band needs more recognition.
Atlas Shrugged myspace
Pete Spielman (Green Rage, Flakjacket, Beta Minus Mechanic) Interview, Part 1
I started talking to Pete back in September or so and as we were talked, I knew there was a great story behind him. He had been in some killer bands and thought maybe I should see what he's been up to. As we started talking, he went way back and told me how he became the person he is. Love him or hate, Pete has a great story to tell. This is the first of a series of 3, maybe 4, interviews Ive conducted so check back for part 2 soon. I apologize for the font...blogger is being a pain and not letting me edit it the way I want so again, sorry.
Stuck In The Past: Well let's start from the beginning...how did you get involved in the hardcore scene?
Pete Spielman: ok well let's see...I discovered punk in the fall of 1986 via college radio in Ithaca, NY. I started getting really into it and skateboarding. As a result, my parents, strict Christians, saw me growing more and more rebellious and thought the only option was to pick the entire family and move me away from the evil influence of punk
Stuck In The Past: And into the sleepy town of Syracuse.
Pete : Yes, a town much more urban and a town with a bigger punk scene. We moved here in time to s tart the 87-88 school years after my sister and I spent the summer with our grandparents on Long Island where I found another college radio show out of Stony Brook and this show featured more hardcore and thrash than the radio show in Ithaca had. I attempted to go to a Cro Mags show at the Ritz that summer after winning tickets on the radio show. My best friend on Long Island, who was also getting into punk, and I lied about having a camp out and took the L.I. railroad into NYC. We got turned away because we were too young. It was my first time in the city unescorted and I have to admit I was pretty scared. I was a fairly sheltered kid and I was terrified of the big scary NYC dudes. We milled around in front of the club like we had some other option and realizing we were in over our heads, we got back on the train and headed home.
Stuck In The Past: Was this when the Cro Mags were playing the Best Wishes material?
Pete (10:08:57 PM): This was the summer of 1987 so yeah they would have been playing some Best Wishes material at that point I would think. I remember seeing ads for Best Wishes in Rip magazine that fall.
Stuck In The Past : Had you heard the Cro Mags at that point or were you going because you guys won tickets?
Pete: I heard World Peace and Show You No Mercy on the college radio show and I was super into it. At that point it was the heaviest hardcore I had heard besides DRI who I also loved.
Stuck In The Past: Right, so you moved to Syracuse
Pete: When we moved to Syracuse, the punk scene was in a bit of a transition. The club where shows had been going on, the Jabberwocky, had just closed so with the exception of a random big punk act coming to the metal club, the Lost Horizon, there wasn't much going on for the last half of 1987. I remember I went to Ithaca to visit my friends for a weekend in October of 1987 only to discover that the Circle Jerks were playing at the Lost Horizon. I was so bummed out because they were one of my favorite punk bands.
Stuck In The Past: Oh man, what a bum out. It's always when you go out of town.
Pete: Even if shows HAD been going on at this point, I was a pretty shy kid and I hadn't made any friends yet who were into punk, as I was being sent to a small private Christian school in Syracuse as part of my parents plan to keep me away from punk. I wouldn't have ventured to any shows on my own. Right after I left Ithaca, Jello Biafra came to speak at Cornell university on a speaking tour for his first spoken word album, No More Cocoons. I couldn't win.
Stuck In The Past: Oof. So what bands were playing at the time?
Pete: Playing as far as what? You mean in Syracuse?
Stuck In The Past: Yes, local bands.
Pete: Oh local bands. There really weren't any actual punk bands. There were some bands made up of punk guys but they played more alternative type stuff. There was Give John a Razor. They were made up of some sketchy types who treaded the line of being white power even though their singer, after whom the band was named, was gay. They were the guys that you would look at for at shows. John was infamous for slicing people for very little provocation and to a shy 14 year old that was pretty scary. One of Syracuse's hometown heroes, Belvy K, had left Syracuse to play drums for 7 Seconds. He's the drummer on New Wind. He's credited as Belvy Kamillus, Camillus being a suburb of Syracuse. He wasn't in the band for very long and was kicked out
Stuck In The Past (10:20:08 PM): That's cool. At least he played on the record.
Pete: I later joined a band fronted by him called Libertine. On all of our flyers it always said featuring ex members of 7 Seconds, Dgeneration and UK Subs.
Stuck In The Past: Ah I remember them...on the Syracuse 98 comp that Watermark released.
Pete: He WAS a founding member of Dgen but 7seconds he was in for about 10 months I think, and UK Subs he just played drums for a European tour.
Stuck In The Past: Still a hell of a resume if you ask me.
Stuck In The Past: At what point did you start playing bass? Or did you start on another instrument?
Pete: A friend of mine on Long Island who knew how badly I wanted to play bass broke into the music room at his high school and stole a bass and surprised me with it the next time I visited Long Island. My parents told me there wasn't enough room in the car to bring it and I put up quite a temper tantrum till they caved in.
Stuck In The Past: Kinda like "Ill put it on my lap"
Pete: It was a 1974 Gibson Grabber, the same bass you see Mike Dirnt from Green Day playing in all of the early videos. Gene Simmons played one in the 70s too. I had that bass until some piece of shit stole it out of the club in Gainesville, FL. It was the first date of a Beta Minus Mechanic/Hot Water Music tour and while I was in my first band that bass was the only item to survive a house fire at our drummers home. It had some history.
Stuck In The Past: Thats terrible. Im sure it had that special sound that you were known for and couldn't be replaced
Pete: I'm still pissed about that bass getting stolen. Stealing instruments from a band on tour is one of the grimiest things you can do
Stuck In The Past: Moving on hahah.
Pete: I started teaching myself how to play by ear. I would learn all of my favorite songs that I could figure out and slowly started coming up with my own riffs. The only problem was I didn't know anyone else who played an instrument. I made friends with a nerdy kid at my Christian school named Tom Ranger and I slowly but surely indoctrinated him into punk and hardcore. When I met him he was into Star Trek, Dungeons and Dragons and his favorite bands were Weird Al and the Monkees.
Stuck In The Past: Heyyyyy no talking bad about Weird Al.
Pete: I knew I needed an ally so I got him into punk which came in handy because my strict parents forbid us from having MTV so Tom would video tape 120 Minutes, the alternative show on MTV every Sunday and then I would watch it on Monday after school at his house. I really had to go out of my way to listen to and find new punk to listen to. But the more my parents forbade me to have it in my life the more determined I was to find more.
Stuck In The Past: So the two of you started going to shows together?
Pete: Well in the mean time I met a skater in my neighborhood named Martin which was remarkable because I lived in the hood and he was part black. I had kind of given up skating when I moved to Syracuse because I was too shy to hunt for skate spots on my own and it was too dangerous in my neighborhood. Now I had a skate buddy a block away and he was into punk and metal. He was really into the Misfits.
Stuck In The Past: As we all should be.
Pete: He liked a lot of thrash metal and he got me into that and I got him into more punk. We were attached at the hip. Tom and I were close friends too but he didn't skate so I spent more time with Martin but we all went to the mall in Camillus via Tom's mother and would hang out there. Around this time a guy named Owen started putting on shows at a VFW on the east side of Syracuse, also in the hood. It was all old black guys at the hall but they were ok with punk. They would hide out in the basement bar and what punks that had ID or looked old enough would drink in the bar.
Stuck In The Past: What year was this?
Pete: This was 1988. Swiz played there. He booked a lot of Dischord bands. Mostly DC bands were the headliners here at the time. Then DJ Rose moved here to attend Syracuse University and he started putting on shows at the same place and booking more hardcore stuff like Vision.
Stuck In The Past: What kind of turnout would those shows get?
Pete: Turnouts would be a few hundred but a lot of the people would mill around outside drinking or downstairs in the bar, which totally endeared us to the neighborhood. They were stoked to have a bunch of white kids with dyed hair and mohawks on their turf.
Stuck In The Past: How old were you at this point?
Pete: I was 14. There were surprisingly fewer skirmishes than you would think. DJ booked Underdog, Die Hard, No Outlet, and Substance at a local polish home. That show was my first as well as Rangers, Martin's, Shane Durgee's and a number of other prominent future scenesters. I met Karl (Buechner) at this show and did my first stage dive during Underdog.
Stuck In The Past: It's kind of liking hearing about the Ramones going over the London and all the guys from the Damned and the Sex Pistols seeing them and then starting bands
Pete: Oh yeah. I remember these guys from Albany had all come up wearing these jackets that said Wolf Pack on them and they tore it up in the pit. They had come with Substance. Steve Reddy who owns Equal Vision Records was one of those guys. Anyway, shows started happening with more frequency at this point. DJ was booking more hardcore bands. He got Uniform Choice here. He booked Verbal Assault but they showed up but the pipes had burst at the VFW and the turnout was weak so they took off and the other bands played in DJ's back yard. I have some pics from that show.
Stuck In The Past: Staring at the Sun UC?
Pete: Yes this would have been Staring At The Sun UC. i missed that show because I had just gotten my wisdom teeth out. I was bummed.
Stuck In The Past: And rightfully so.
Pete: I loved Uniform Choice. I really liked Staring Into The Sun.
Stuck In The Past: It's been a long time since I've heard it...I'd like to hear it again but I remember not liking it. But I also had the taste of Screaming for Change.
Pete: Staring Into The Sun was more melodic like Verbal Assault, Dag Nasty, or Justice League. Around this time DJ was the first sxe guy in town. He gradually got more guys to join his cause
Stuck In The Past: At what point did you start calling yourself sxe?
Pete: Oh man that wasn't till 93. During the late 80s i was boozing and drugging it up.
Stuck In The Past: Did you kind of just get to a point where you gave it all up? You said this is not for me
Pete: You mean drinking?
Stuck In The Past: Yes.
Pete: Yeah it's a convoluted and dramatic tale. I went through two rehabs by the time I was 19. I checked myself into a second stint at rehab right before Christmas in 1992. I was in a bad place and I didn't think my drinking was the cause of it. I had a lot of drama going on and had made some enemies. I had guys with guns camping out in front of my parent's house who wanted my blood. I needed to get out of town. I also had the cops on my tail and was getting into trouble at school. This was my full on retard skinhead thug dickhead period. I had started my first band, Flakjacket, during this time (fall of 1991). I knew I could fall back on my status as a drug abuser to get sympathy from the system and also use rehab as a place to hide out from my enemy's because I needed to get out of town for a while.
Stuck In The Past: Were you into heavy drugs or were you just smoking alot of weed? If I may ask…
Pete: I was in a really self destructive place and suffering from depression. My drug of choice was alcohol. I thought weed was for faggot hippies but I had so many friends that sold it that I would smoke it from time to time. At parties I would use whatever was around, mostly high school type stuff like shrooms, acid, pills, nitrous. I tried coke a few times and really liked it but I couldn't afford that shit.
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2006 Partners in Preservation: San Francisco Bay Area
Congratulations to the American Express Partners in Preservation grant recipients and to the First Church of Christ, Scientist, Berkeley for winning the popular vote. Thank you to the American Express Partners in Preservation recognition grant recipients for their participation in the initiative and commitment to preservation efforts.
More: Partners in Preservation
By: National Trust for Historic Preservation
American Express and the National Trust for Historic Preservation have updates on the 13 San Francisco Bay Area historic sites that received grants as part of the company's $1 million commitment to preservation efforts in the Bay Area. Many of the American Express Partners in Preservation grant award winners have already completed their projects.
In addition, American Express and the National Trust for Historic Preservation gave a $5,000 award to each of the remaining 12 Partners in Preservation sites in recognition of their participation in the initiative and their commitment to preservation efforts.
Partners in Preservation thanks you for your participation and encourages you to continue exploring our site and to spread the word about preservation in your community.
Participating Places
Angel Island Immigration Station
From 1910 through 1940, Angel Island was the West Coast entry point for over one million immigrants from the Pacific Rim. This "Ellis Island of the West" used its grant for structural repairs and a new roof for the World War II-era mess hall.
4705 3rd Stree, San Francisco, CA 94124
Built in 1888 as part of a Masonic Temple, this San Francisco landmark is the city's first and oldest opera house. Its history reflects that of the Bayview-Hunters Point community, which has fought to keep the significant building from being demolished. The 300-seat theater is a vital community meeting place for the Bayview neighborhood. Grant money received from Partners in Preservation aided the restoration of the theater's woodwork, proscenium arch and balcony.
Berkeley City Club
2315 Durant Avenue, Berkeley, CA 94704
Designed by renowned California architect Julia Morgan and opened as The Berkeley Women's Club in 1930, this National Register-listed site evokes the history of America's Women's Club Movement. Berkeley's "Little Castle" is notable for its rich Romanesque/Gothic-inspired design that combines grand public spaces with an eclectic exterior that enriches the streetscape. Grant money received from Partners in Preservation helped facilitate the restoration of the grand entrance, windows gates and decorative elements.
21350 Almaden Road, New Almaden, CA 95042
This 1855 Federal Revival-style brick building maintains a mining museum that tells the story of the New Alameda Quicksilver Mine District. The Partners in Preservation grant was used to restore the exterior of the building, including window and door reconstruction and replacement of the roof, gutters and downspouts.
Cleveland Cascade Park
Between 2250-2300 Lakeshore Avenue, Oakland, CA 94606
In 1923, the Park's main attraction was an elaborate cascading fountain with colored lights. The fountain, filled in and planted with rosemary since the 1950s, was rediscovered by the Oakland community in 2004. The grant money received from Partners in Preservation was used to help return this spectacular water feature to its original operating condition.
Fallon Building (San Francisco LGBT Center)
1800 Market Street, San Francisco, CA 94102
Built in 1894, the Queen Anne-style Fallon Building survived the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and marks the furthest edge of the Great Fire's devastation on Market Street. Funding was used for exterior repainting, repair and illumination of the Fallon Building. The project was completed in November 2008.
First Church of Christ, Scientist
2619 Dwight Way, Berkeley, CA, 94704
Winner of the popular vote! Since 1910, famed architect Bernard Maybeck's spectacular Arts and Crafts-style church has stood in the heart of Berkeley. The top vote-winner of 25 Bay Area sites selected to participate in the inaugural year of the Partners in Preservation program. It was awarded the highest grant of $118,000 to seismically upgrade the Sunday School, a 1929 project of Maybeck and his student, Henry Gutterson. The seismic upgrade was completed at the end of May 2008 and the Church now utilizes the space for regular Sunday School Services.
Fox Oakland Theater
1807 Telegraph Avenue, Oakland, CA 94612
Built in 1928, the Fox Oakland Theater is one of America's finest Art Deco movie palaces. Its restoration is vital for downtown Oakland. The Partners in Preservation grant is being used to restore the Art Deco ticket booth at the main entrance of the theater. The theater reopened in February 2009 and now is the flagship live music venue for Another Planet Entertainment.
Haas Lilienthal House
2007 Franklin St, San Francisco, CA 94109
Built in 1886, this impressive Queen Anne-style building is the only intact private home of the period that is regularly open as a museum with authentic furniture and artifacts. Funding was used to provide enhanced accessibility, seismic strengthening and to carry out repairs to the roof and exterior. The project was completed in October 2008.
Hakone Gardens
21000 Big Basin Way, Saratoga, CA 95070
Beautiful Hakone Gardens, located in the hills above Saratoga, has been called one of the most authentic Japanese gardens in America. Hakone was designed and built in 1915 in strict accordance with traditional Japanese principles. Nearly all of Hakone's historic buildings, wisteria pavilions, lanterns, bridges and gates are original, but the gracious gardens are now showing their age. Grant money from Partners in Preservation was used to restore Hakone's 90-year old Moon Viewing House (Upper House) and the Lower House, built in 1922.
Japanese YWCA Building
1830 Sutter Street, San Francisco, CA 94115
Celebrated architect Julia Morgan designed this homage to Japanese architecture in 1932. The only documented pre-war community building built by and for Japanese-American women, the building was in need of exterior repairs, structural updating, a new roof, as well as new windows and tiles. Rehabilitation of the historic structure was completed in July 2008.
Lyford House
376 Greenwood Beach Road, Tiburon, CA 94920
At the Richardson Bay Audubon Center & Sanctuary, the Lyford House, a 1876 Victorian, Gothic-style residence, proudly stands as one of Marin's oldest and most spectacularly situated homes. The house, which overlooks Richardson Bay, serves as a museum to the work of artist John James Audubon, while the surrounding land and bay serves as a wildlife sanctuary. After storm damage in 2005, the Center used grant money received from Partners in Preservation to weatherproof and restore the building's exterior and to rewire the building to better accommodate educational programs that take place on the premises.
Maritime Child Care Center (Rosie the Riveter NHP)
Built during World War II as a nursery school for the children of Kaiser Shipyard's female employees, this was the first publicly funded childcare center in the U.S. As part of the innovative Rosie the Riveter WWII/Home Front National Historical Park, grant money from Partners in Preservation was used to rehabilitate the building as an interpretive history center.
Murphy Windmill
Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, CA
Built in 1905 as a companion to the Park's 1902 Dutch Windmill, the Murphy (South) Windmill helped power the irrigation system that transformed sand dunes into what we now know as Golden Gate Park. At 95 feet high it is the largest windmill of its kind in the world, its sails spanning an amazing 114 feet. The grant received from Partners in Preservation was used to refurbish its cap and restore the tower as part of a strong community and international effort to restore this remarkable resource.
Outdoor Art Club
1 West Blithedale Avenue, Mill Valley, CA 94941
The Outdoor Art Club was founded over a century ago by 35 community-minded women to preserve Mill Valley's natural setting and nurture its civic culture. Clubmembers selected famed architect Bernard Maybeck to design the 1904 rustic clubhouse that stands today. Grant money received from Partners in Preservation helped facilitate the replacement of the exterior siding of the clubhouse to match the original 1904 hand-split redwood barn shake.
Pigeon Point Lighthouse Station
210 Pigeon Point Road, HWY 1, Pascadero, CA 94060
Thought to be the oldest lighthouse remaining on the West Coast and one of the tallest lighthouses in America, Pigeon Point boasts a renowned Fresnel lens comprised of over 1,000 prisms. The Partners in Preservation grant was used to restore the historic windows and doors, damaged by years of storms and exposure to salty sea air. The project was completed in November 2008.
Richmond Municipal Natatorium
1 East Richmond Avenue, Richmond, CA 94801
Locally known as "The Plunge", this 1925 structure houses one of the largest salt water pools in the world. Due to seismic safety concerns, it closed in 2001. Grant money received from Partners in Preservation facilitated critical seismic retrofitting.
Roxie Film Center
3117 16th Street, San Francisco, CA 94103
Built soon after the 1906 earthquake, the Roxie is San Francisco's oldest operating movie theater and one of a handful of surviving single-screen cinemas in the city. Over time, the theater has established an unparalleled reputation for showing daring and provocative independent films. Grant money received from Partners in Preservation was used to restore historic elements and to help preserve San Francisco's cinematic history.
San Francisco Streetcar #798
Public transportation by streetcar was fundamental in shaping San Francisco's urban fabric in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. This streetcar is the lone survivor of the 250 streetcars built in the city between 1923 and 1931. Public transportation by streetcar was fundamental in shaping San Francisco's urban fabric in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. This streetcar is the lone survivor of the 250 streetcars built in the city between 1923 and 1931. The car's interior has been meticulously restored, but a thorough mechanical overhaul was needed to return Car #798 to operating condition. Grant money received from Partners in Preservation were used for this purpose so in can serve new generations of riders on Muni's popular F-line along Market Street and The Embarcadero.
San Mateo Courthouse
The stained glass dome of this 1910 Renaissance Revival-style Courthouse, once the largest on a public building on the West Coast, dominates the Redwood City skyline. Unquestionably the most historic public building in San Mateo County, the County Courthouse is also notable for the unusually fine craftsmanship of its stone carving, ironwork and mosaics. Grant money received from Partners in Preservation facilitated repair of water damage to the dome and column restoration.
Saint Peter's Chapel
Mare Island Historic Park, CA
Completed in 1901 to provide a non-denominational house of worship for the Mare Island Naval Shipyard community, Saint Peter's is the oldest naval chapel west of the Mississippi. An outstanding example of Victorian Gothic architecture, the 200-seat chapel features exquisitely detailed brass and woodwork, along with 29 stained glass windows, some of which are works of the Tiffany studio. Grant money from Partners in Preservation was used to restore the windows and the rest of the Chapel to its former glory.
Spreckels Temple of Music (GG Park Bandshell)
Hawagawa Tea Garden Drive, San Francisco, CA
Located in Golden Gate Park's Music Concourse and built in 1900, this beloved band shell has two colonnades of impressive ionic colums. Spreckels Temple's exterior stone, roof and rosettes were restored and the waterproofing system was redesigned using the Partners in Preservation grant. The project was completed in September 2008.
Tenderloin Façade & Neon Sign Improvement
Measured in dollars, San Francisco's Tenderloin neighborhood is not wealthy, yet it is one of the most culturally and architecturally rich neighborhoods of the city. It is home not just to a thriving Vietnamese community, but also to some of the city's most notable historic hotels and apartment buildings, many featuring original neon signs. Ten historically significant buildings were selected for facade improvements. This project would heighten and restore the Tenderloin's architectural character.
Tilden Park Carousel
Tilden East Bay Regional Park
Each year 150,000 visitors enjoy this 1911 Herschell-Spillman "Menagerie Edition" carousel, one of two originals still operating. The Partners in Preservation grant was used to restore the hand-carved and painted animals, to replace the wood floor, and to repair the irreplaceable band organs. The project was completed in October 2008.
Tomales Town Hall
27150 Shoreline Highway (Hwy One), Tomales, CA 94971
One of the oldest continuously used public halls in California, this building played a significant and active role in Tomales' past – and is a mainstay of the rural West Marin village today. To ensure its continued role in town history, funds were needed for a partial new foundation and new retaining walls for storm damage control. With the Partners in Preservation grant, the project was completed in November 2008.
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Staunton, October 19 – The presence of NATO forces in the Baltic Sea region has sparked discussions about the need to restore Russia's military capacity in Kaliningrad, but "to restore what Russia itself for decades has destroyed will require enormous efforts," possibly more than Moscow can currently afford, according to Andrey Rezchikov.
In Moscow's Vzglyad today, the Russian analyst says that Western officials have long talked about Russia's "militarization of Kaliningrad," talk that reached a crescendo during the recent Zapad-2017 exercises and that has been used to justify the presence of NATO forces in the region (vz.ru/politics/2017/10/19/139608.html).
"In reality," Rezchikov continues, "Russian forces in the region" are far fewer than NATO's in the same theater and vastly fewer than they were in the early 1990s. At that time, for example, there were 32 submarines in the Baltic Fleet; now, there are "only two" remaining. There were then 90,000 Russian soldiers; now, there are a total of 11,600. And almost 900 tanks were withdrawn in 2008 alone.
According to the newspaper's sources, in the early years of this century, the relationship of forces between NATO and Russia was 21 to 1 in the Western alliance's favor. By the middle of the first decade, it has become 32 to 1 in favor of NATO. With the arrival of NATO forces in the region this year, the relationship may be even more lopsided against Russia.
As a result, according to one retired Russian general with whom the journalist spoke, "aviation regiments will be restored only on paper." In reality, they will be hollow. Moscow officials and Duma members talk tough about building up defenses, the general says; but they aren't committing the enormous resources needed according to a long-term plan.
Unless that changes, Kaliningrad will remain in a militarily weak position for some time to come.


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iPhone 3GS turned out to be an incredible hit in the first weekend after its launch, selling more units than its predecessor, the iPhone 3G. Experts expect to see 50% more iPhone 3GS units sold in comparison the 2008 version of the iPhone.
In the UK, there were 10 times more customers in local shops selling the new iPhone in the last days, when compared to a normal work day and the online sites selling the handset got a 150% increase in traffic. What does this mean? The new iPhone seems to be a hit and stocks are getting close to depletion, but have no fear, as restocking is done as we speak.
Right now, the black iPhone 3GS is outselling the white one by 3:1 and we found out that over half of the 3GS buyers have already installed the iPhone OS 3.0, available from June 17 and downloaded via iTunes.
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An experiment conducted with Jefferson Lab's Free-Electron Laser has shown how to make a highly useful form of light -- called terahertz radiation -- 20,000 times brighter than ever before. Jefferson Lab is a Department of Energy laboratory located in Newport News, Virginia.
The name "terahertz radiation" derives from the frequency of the radiation -- of the order of one trillion oscillations per second. The corresponding wavelength is of the order of tenths of a millimeter. Terahertz radiation is thus located in the spectrum of electromagnetic radiation between the upper end of the microwave range (mm wavelength) and the far infrared (hundredths of mm).
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HEL Ivan Andriyovych. Vakhtang Kipiani and Vasyl Ovsiyenko
LYTVYN, Yury Tymonovych
(b. 26.11.1934, village of Ksaverivka, Vasylkivsky district, Kyiv region – d. 05.09.1984, Kutchino, Chusovoi district, Perm region
Poet, writer, publicist, member of the Ukrainian Helsinki Group (UHG), he died in captivity, having spent 20 years a political prisoner in camps and prisons
Yury Lytvyn was the son of village teachers. His father first fought at the Front during World War II, then as a partisan in a unit led by Sydir Kovpak, the legendary commander who waged guerrilla warfare against the Nazi occupiers. He was mortally wounded in 1944.
Yury Lytvyn and his mother moved to the village of Barakhty in the Kyiv region. On completion of the seven-grade school there, he enrolled in the mining technical school in the town of Shakhty in the Rostov region but was forced through illness to return to his village.
On 24 June 1953 Lytvyn, together with several other lads, was arrested and on 29 July was sentenced by the Vasylkivsky District Court under Article 4 of the Decree of 4 July 1947 "On criminal liability for the theft of State or public property" to 12 years deprivation of liberty. In trying to obtain the relevant documents enabling them to leave the village to continue their studies, the boys had attempted to "blackmail" the head of the collective farm with the "loss" of a cow which they had in fact tied to a tree in the forest. Lytvyn served his sentence working on the construction of the Kyubyshev Hydroelectricity Station (the Kuneyev Corrective Labour Camp).
On 31 January 1955 Lytvyn was released thanks to the efforts of Sydir Kovpak, however on 14 April he was once again arrested and charged with having organized an anti-Soviet nationalist organization 'Bratstvo vilnoyi Ukrainy' ['Brotherhood for a free Ukraine'] in the camp between July and August 1954.
The members of this organization had planned, on their release, to establish contact with the underground groups of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) in order to fight for Ukraine's independence. Although they had got no further than drawing up a charter, taking an oath of allegiance and campaigning within their circle, Lytvyn as initiator and one of the leaders of the organization was on 10 September 1955 sentenced by the Kyubyshev Regional Court under Articles 58-10 § 2 ["Propaganda or agitation containing a call to overthrow, subvert or weaken the Soviet regime or to commit particular counter-revolutionary crimes"] and 58-11 { Participation in a counter-revolutionary organization ] of the Criminal Code of the RSFSR to 10 years labour camp and 3 years loss of civil rights. In all, 16 Ukrainian prisoners of the Kuneyev labour camp were tried and sentenced in connection with this organization.
Lytvyn served his sentence in the labour camps of Siberia (Medyn and Ozerlag) and Mordovia. It was there that he wrote his book of poems 'Tragicheskaya galereya' ['Tragic gallery'] about the fate of his generation and the victims of the Terror, dedicating the book to L. LUKYANENKO.
He was released on 14 June 1965 and set off immediately for Moscow where he passed to the US embassy information about the situation of political prisoners in the labour camps. Employees of the embassy were able to get him away without his being noticed and leave him somewhere on the street.
He settled in the village of Barakhty where his mother lived. During this period he married and his son, Rostislav, was born.
Lytvyn found work in a factory producing refrigerators in the town of Vasylkiv, and in a factory producing pipes, where he was elected to the trade union committee. He tried to convince his colleagues that a trade union was not the "drive belt of the Party", but rather a means for protecting the economic interests of the workers. The KGB's response was to threaten him with arrest and Lytvyn was forced to leave and find work in Siberia.
After returning, he was arrested in Rivne on 14 November 1974. He was charged on the basis of a number of literary and publicist works deemed to slander the State, On 13 March 1975 the Kyiv Regional Court sentenced Lytvyn under Article 187-1 of the Criminal Code of the UkrSSR ("Dissemination of patently false statements defaming the Soviet political and social system") to 3 years harsh regime labour camp. This sentence was served in camp no. 25 (village of Verkhniy chov, the Komi Autonomous SSR). In the camp he was operated on to remove a stomach ulcer.
On 14 November 1977 Lytvyn returned to Barakhty, where for a year and a half he was held under administrative surveillance. At the suggestion of O. MESHKO in June 1978 he joined the Ukrainian Helsinki Group (UHG).
In 1979 during searches carried out in other people's flats, Lytvyn's work 'Pravozakhysny rukh v Ukraini, yoho zasady ta perspektyvy' ['The Human rights movement in Ukraine: its principles and prospects for the future'] was confiscated. This document was to be published in 1983 in the books Ukrainska Helsinksa Grupa 1978-1982 [The Ukrainian Helsinki Group 1978 – 1982) and Portrety suchasnykiv [Portraits of contemporaries], compiled by N. SVITLYCHNA. In it he writes: "Society is a living organism which lives and develops in accordance with natural laws and the trend towards ever greater freedom… Dissent in Ukraine has its own deep revolutionary-democratic and liberal traditions... The love of freedom and democracy are characteristic features both of individual Ukrainians and of the Ukrainian nation as a whole...' The work was held in high esteem by Petro GRIGORENKO.
On 6 March 1979, a search was carried out of the home of Lytvyn's mother in connection with the arrest that day of O. BERDNYK, and Lytvyn's unfinished study "Radyanska derzhava i radyansky robitnychy klass" ["The Soviet State and Soviet working class"] was removed. On 30 March he himself was summoned to the KGB for questioning, but refused to give any evidence.
At the end of July 1979, some of Lytvyn's works were published in the 'Informatsionny bulleten' [Informational bulletin] printed in New York. In November 1979 Lytvyn signed several documents of the UHG: Nashi zavdannia [Our tasks] and Rukh za prava ludyny na tli natsionalnykh zmahan ukrainskoho narodu [The Human rights movement against the background of the national aspirations of the Ukrainian people).
On 19 July 1979 Lytvyn, who had recently been operated on for varicose veins, was detained by five police officers and taken to the police station where he was beaten, fined and released. Then on 6 August he was arrested and charged with showing resistance to police officers. He was tried and sentenced on 17 December by the Vasylkivsk District Court under Article 188-1 § 2 of the Criminal Code of the UkrSSR to 3 years harsh regime labour camp. In his final words he said: "You want to destroy Lytvyn but you will not succeed. You, gentlemen, will not succeed in crushing the human being in me, my faith in love, in the sublime, in truth and freedom. Lytvyn is not afraid of you, gentlemen in power. He is not afraid despite the fact that he knows what you are capable of, knows your real nature, he is aware of what Soviet reality and Soviet power are, and knows its punitive bodies".
Lytvyn served this sentence first in the town of Bila Tserkva, then in camp no. YA-45/85 in the settlement of Bucha near Kyiv, then from July – September 1980 in Kherson no. 17/90.
A month and a half before the end of his sentence, on 24 June 1982, the Kyiv Regional Court declared Lytvyn a 'particularly dangerous repeat offender' and sentenced him under Article 62 § 2 of the Criminal Code of the UkrSSR ("anti-Soviet agitation and propaganda) to 10 years special regime labour camp and 5 years exile. He was, charged with writing a number of articles, as well as "making verbal statements slandering bodies of Soviet power". The following documents, written earlier, were also added to his case: "Bortsam za svobodu i nezalezhnist Chekhoslovachhyny" ['To those fighting for Czechoslovakia's freedom and independence"], "Slovo pro hrishnykiv shcho kayutsa" ["On sinners who repent"], "Nekrolog" ["Obituary"], "Appeal to Jimmie Carter", "Radyanska derzhava i radyansky robitnychy klass" and other publicist works.
In May 1983, Lytvyn who was suffering from a stomach ulcer was moved to camp No. VS-389/36-1 in the settlement of Kutchino, Chusovoi district of the Perm Region (the Perm political labour camps). A dentist there removed the enamel from his teeth apparently in order to put crowns on yet never appeared again. In the last 9 months of his life Lytvyn lived in terrible pain, and then heard that his former wife had died in captivity, and his son was now in the care of his grandmother. For Lytvyn news of the deaths of O. TYKHY and B. ANTONENKO-DAVYDOVYCH also came as a harsh blow. All of these circumstances combined to cause a severe deterioration in his physical health and psychological condition. During his last days Yury Lytvyn was unable to walk and almost blind. He was let off work.
On 23 August 1984 Lytvyn was found in the barracks with his stomach cut open, and he died in a prison hospital in the town of Chusovoi two weeks later. His mother was allowed to be present at the funeral in Kutchino. The question remains open whether it was suicide. The guards never found anything he could have used to cut himself, neither then, nor during subsequent searches.
In all Yury Lytvyn was sentenced to 41 years of captivity, not counting the 18 months of administrative surveillance. He spent 20 of the 49 years of his life in labour camps. He wrote several novels and collections of poems (the majority of his literary works have never been found).
On 19 November 1989 the remains of Yury Lytvyn, Vasyl STUS and Oleksiy TYKHY were reburied in a solemn ceremony at the Baikove Cemetery in Kyiv.
In 1980 the External Representation of the Ukrainian Helsink Group published the book "Yury Lytvyn (Portraits of contemporaries)". In 1981 a collection of poems by V. STUS and Lytvyn entitled "Peredchutya" ["Presentiment"] came out in Lviv. In 1996 Lytvyn's friend and former political prisoner, I. Pashkov, had Lytvyn's collection of poems 'Tragicheskaya galereya' published in Kharkiv. 42 documents pertaining to his case – manuscripts, articles, appeals, letters were handed to the Security Service of Ukraine by Lytvyn's mother in 1991. Some of these were published in a separate book in 1999.
In 1992 the Drohobych branch of 'Memorial' arranged for a new house to be built for Lytvyn's mother, Nadiya Antonivna Parubchenko in the village of Barakhty where she lived until her death in 1997. In 1994 a memorial room dedicated to the memory of Yury Lytvyn was opened in the local village school.
Yury Lytvyn. Pravozakhysny rukh na Ukraini, yoho zasady ta perspectyvy. // Suchasnist, 1979, No. 10, pp. 98-104.
Yury Lytvyn. Tragicheskaya galereya. // Kharkiv: 'Kentavr', 1996, 124 pages.
Yury Lytvyn. Lyublyu – znachyt zhyvu. Publitsystyka [I love, therefore I am alive. Publicist writings]. Compiled by Anatoly Rusnachenko. – Kyiv: "KM Academia", 1999. 96 pages.
Yury Lytvyn, Portrety suchasnykiv. - New York: The External Representation of the Ukrainian Helsinki group, 1980, 32 pages.
Г.Касьянов. Незгодні: українська інтелігенція в русі опору 1960-1980-х років. / G. Kasyanov. Dissenting voices: the Ukrainian intelligentsia in the resistance movement of the 1960s to 1980s — Kyiv: Lybid, 1995.— pp. 166, 168, 173-175, 195.
A. Rusnachenko. Yury Lytvyn – humanist and thinker. – Nova Polityka, 1998, №1. - pp. 28 - 36.
А.Русначенко. Національно-визвольний рух в Україні. / A. Rusnachenko. The National Liberation Movement in Ukraine. – Kyiv: The O. Teliha Publishing house, 1998, pp.145, 212, 224, 245, 246.
V. Shovkoshyny. Narode miy, do tebe ya shche vernu … [My people, I will return to you again] — Ukraina, 1990, № 4.— pp. 7-9.
V. Ovsiyenko. Lyubov. Dobro. Svoboda [Love. Goodness. Freedom] — Ukraina, 1991, № 24.— pp. 12-19.
Vasyl Ovsiyenko. Svitlo lyudei. Spohady-narysy pro Vasylya Stusa, Yuriya Lytvyna, Oksanu Meshko [The Light they gave: Memories and portraits of Vasyl Stus Yury Lytvyn and Oksana Meshko. Biblioteka zhurnalu URP "Republic". Seriya: political portraits, №4. Kyiv, 1996, 108 pages.
"Khronika tekushchykh sobytiy" ['Chronicle of Current Events'] (CCE). - New York: Khronika, 1976, No. 39.— pp. 26-27.
CCE.— New York: Khronika, 1977, No. 47.— pp. 109, 129.
CCE.— New York: Khronika, 1979, No. 54.— pp. 6, 36-37, 40; No. 55.— p. 6.
CCE.— New York: Khronika, 1980, No. 56.— pp. 16, 111; No. 57.— p. 86.
Vesti iz SSSR [News from the USSR] . V. 1. 1978-1981.— 1979. - Munich : Prava cheloveka 12-10, 15-3, 23-13; 1980, 1-14.
Vesti iz SSSR.— Munich : Prava cheloveka. V. 2. 1982-1984.— 1984, 19/20-1.
The Ukrainian Helsinki Group. On the twentieth anniversary of its creation. — Kyiv.: URP,
1996,.— pp. 16-17.
C. Karasyk. Revised by V. Ovsiyenko


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Yes, we like our trees naked around here...and by we I mean Simon. I've decided to be a kind wife and let him have his way in this department this year...white lights and no hat to speak of for our artificial guest.
triple threat: a sprinkle of happy, a dash of whiney and a dollop of three chins.
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2. As Simon was greeting me with a kiss (and catching a whiff of my apppppparently offensive breath) that same evening he again paused and very seriously asked, "uh.............have you been snacking on one of Julia's diapers??"
We were heading out the door last night and Simon suggested that we top her off with a pink, floral headband to feminize her look a bit...so we did. That didn't stop a stranger from inquiring ... "girl or boy??" later that evening (and to be honest...I didn't really blame her).
1. Pampers diapers are the worst. Worst. I will be boycotting them for the rest of my life ... just as soon as we have used up the two boxes that contain over 200 of the blasted things.
2. As Simon was leaving for class earlier he gave me a brief hug and said..."if you HAPPEN to find yourself in a shower this afternoon with maybe some soap...lots of soap..that wouldn't be the WORST thing in the world..."
Apparently he doesn't appreciate that I have been sacrificing all time previously dedicated to hygienic practices in order to try to sweat off these last million pesky postpartum pounds.
Simon and I have been seriously discussing renaming Julia. Something like Juliadiva or Juliarequiresnosleepever or maybe Juliacriesuntileveryoneintheneighborhoodcanhear. .... I think they all have nice rings to them? Julia's latest trick is to work herself into an inconsolable state in the middle of the night until her parents are both very wide awake, appear concerned and have pulled out all of their hair (eyebrows and lashes included). She then wiggles her miniature magic wand and somehow finds herself tucked tightly into her parents bed where they can wake up every seven minutes to give her back her pacifier (because her life is seriously over when her pacifier falls out).
I hope these count as social smiles because if they don't she is WAY behind on the developmental train.
and any digestive problem that the formula had posed has obviously been solved.
If you need me, I will be harvesting steroid enhanced coffee beans and brewing the strongest coffee in the whole entire universe that shall be sweetened with Red Bull and spiced with a Monster Energy Drink.
"If you like the series Touched by an Angel...this is the book for you..."
and back to the biblioteca I go.
Sometimes we have to give her a little startle and tempt a smile to bring her back to reality...indoors.
Simon has joked that she must be under the impression that her mother is the East window and her father is the South window and that she is an obvious product of their love. She must be paying some serious homage to her proverbial parentals.
Mary is hosting a superbly wonderful giveaway over at her BLOG....go go go!!!
And...over here at Camp Patton we have a little camper that seems to require fewer hours of sleep than the average bear. If she so much as smells an activity in which she is not included...she lets us know in her dialect of screech and scream.
Simon: We already ate dinner, loaded the dishwasher, cleaned the kitchen and it is merely............5:07 pm.
1. Ricky Martin meets crack cocaine.
2. Arm flailing, leg stomping adult temper tantrum.
3. Thigh, upper arm and ear lobe jiggling 'dance'.
5. Knee slapping, laugh inducing and permanent eyebrow raising by any outsiders.
6. High volume of highly inappropriate hip thrusting, hip circling and hip gyrating.
7. A class I will never, ever attend again after making the fatal mistake of doing so last night.


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Title: INDUCTION OF PEROXIDASE AS A DISEASE RESISTANCE RESPONSE IN VERTICILLIUM DAHLIAE RESISTANT (HIBISCUS TRIONUM) AND SUSCEPTIBLE (ALTHEA ARMENIACA), MEMBERS OF THE FAMILY MALVACEAE
GOLUBINKO, ZAMIRA
AKHUNOV, ALIK
BERESNEVA, YULIANA
KHASHIMOVA, NIGORA
MUSTAKIMOVAL, ELMIRA
IBRAGIMOV, FAZIL
ABDURASHIDOVA, NIGORA
Stipanovic, Robert - Bob
Submitted to: Phytoparasitica
Citation: Golubinko, Z., Akhunov, A., Beresneva, Y., Khashimova, N., Mustakimoval, E., Ibragimov, F., Abdurashidova, N., Stipanovic, R.D. 2007. Induction of peroxidase as a disease resistance response in resistant (Hibiscus trionum) and susceptible (Althea armeniaca) species in the family Malvaceae. Phytoparasitica. 35:401-413.
Interpretive Summary: Cotton producers in the U.S. and Uzbekistan suffer substantial losses due to the wilt pathogen, Verticillium dahlia. Cotton is a member of the Malvaceae Family. Hibiscus trionum, a member of the Family Malvaceae that grows wild in Uzbekistan, was highly resistant to this pathogen, while Althea armeniaca, which is also a member of the Malvaceae, was highly susceptible to this pathogen. Information on why these plants differ in resistance to the pathogen could provide guidance for increasing cotton's resistance to this pathogen. It was found that both the resistant and the susceptible plants produce chemicals (peroxidases) that protect the plant from attack by microorganisms. However, the resistant plant produces them quicker and in larger amounts than the susceptible plant. Thus, the resistant plant is already producing these compounds in just one hour, while the susceptible plant has not begun to ramp up production at the end of 18 hours. Furthermore, when the resistant plant is attacked by the pathogen one of the chemicals it produces actually attaches itself to the cell wall of the pathogen, while the susceptible plant fails to produce this type of chemical when it is attacked. The ability of the chemical to directly attach itself to the pathogen could be one reason why the resistant plant is more successful in warding off attack. This same phenomena may be important in cotton's resistance to Verticillium dahliae.
Technical Abstract: Pathogen induced biosynthesis of peroxidase in two wild species of Malvaceae, Hibiscus trionum and Althea armeniaca was studied. After inoculation with the fungal pathogen Verticillium dahliae, peroxidase activity increased more rapidly in the resistant plant (H. trionum) than in the susceptible plant (A. armeniaca). Increased peroxidase activity was noted within one to five hours after inoculation of H. trionum, and decreased after 18 hours. After 5 days, the levels were not different from that of the mock inoculated control. In A. armeniaca, peroxidase activity was only marginally different from the mock inoculated control, even after 18 hours, but it was significantly higher after 5 days. Electrophoretic analysis of inoculated tissue extracts showed the occurrence of two new peroxidase isoforms in H. trionum. A chitin affinity chromatography column showed that one of these was a chitin binding peroxidase isozyme; its concentration increased significantly after inoculation. The ability of the peroxidase to bind with chitin in the cell wall of the pathogen may facilitate its destruction. New isoforms also occurred in A. armeniaca, but they did not bind to chitin. The concentration of the two chitin binding peroxidase isozymes in A. armeniaca did not increase after inoculation.


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Un journal télévisé (terme utilisé principalement en France et en Belgique et abrégé en JT), ou téléjournal (principalement au Canada et en Suisse, abrégé en TJ), dit également  bulletin d'information, est une émission d'information diffusée à la télévision et généralement animée par un journaliste présentateur unique ou un couple de présentateurs récurrents, qui introduit des reportages ou des séquences sur des sujets locaux, nationaux ou internationaux et des chroniques comme la météo.

Les informations proviennent le plus souvent des journalistes et des correspondants de la rédaction du réseau sur le terrain en région ou à l'étranger. Elles peuvent également provenir d'agences de presse internationales comme l'Agence France-Presse (AFP), Reuters TV, AP TV, La Presse canadienne ou de réseaux d'échange d'images comme l'Eurovision qui centralisent les sujets d'intérêt international, produits par les télévisions nationales du monde entier. Le présentateur peut également résumer lui-même une information par des commentaires, avec images (« off ») ou sans (« brève »).

Depuis le milieu des années 1980, le journal tout en images introduit une nouvelle formule de journal télévisé, dépourvue de présentateur face caméra, les nouvelles sont commentées en voix hors-champ.

Terminologie
Le terme journal télévisé, abrégé JT, est utilisé principalement en France, où il est notamment diffusé par les chaînes TF1, France 2, France 3, Canal +, M6, BFM TV, CNews, LCI et franceinfo et en Belgique, par la RTBF. Au Canada et en Suisse, le terme téléjournal est employé, avec l'acronyme TJ.

Distinction entre journal télévisé et journal parlé (journal radio)
Les journaux télévisés se différencient des journaux parlés (terme réservé à la radio) non seulement par la présence d'images mais aussi par un type d'expression différent : le journaliste étant visible, son apparence est primordiale (manière de s'habiller, gestuelle, mimiques). Pour un journal parlé, au contraire, le vocabulaire et le ton de la voix sont fondamentaux, car tout le message passe par la compréhension du discours audio. En contrepartie, l'auditoire étant concentré sur le texte, le débit de parole peut être plus important qu'au journal télévisé.

De plus, alors que la durée moyenne d'un JT à travers le monde , le journal radio peut aller plus couramment du flash (quelques minutes) à la tranche matinale, de la mi-journée ou du soir d'une à plusieurs heures. De plus, la diffusion d'un JT comporte plus de contraintes que celle d'un journal parlé en radio, où une plage musicale peut être facilement interrompue, ce qui est difficile à faire pendant une émission télévisée.

Représentation sociale
En France, le baromètre publié chaque année par le CSA illustre un écart très important entre la représentation des catégories sociales supérieures à la télévision et leur poids démographique réel dans la société. Ainsi, alors que moins d'un tiers des Français appartiennent à ces catégories, ils représentent plus de 88 % des personnes visibles aux journaux télévisés.

Typologie

En se référant aux JT quotidiens, cinq types principaux peuvent être mis en évidence :
 les journaux télévisés de synthèse, en fin de soirée
 les tranches d'information matinales
 les grands journaux télévisés
 l'édition spéciale
 les titres

Il existe également les journaux télévisés en continu, présentant de l'information sur toute la journée, parfois même la nuit. C'est le cas en France de BFM TV, CNews, LCI et FranceInfo. L'appellation JT est toutefois discutable puisqu'elle fait d'abord stricto sensu référence à une émission ponctuelle.

Principaux JT
 Voir la liste des journaux télévisés du soir
 Voir la liste des journaux télévisés de la mi-journée

Travaux universitaires
 Armelle Dujardin, sous la direction de Christian Delporte et Fabrice d'Almeida, Le journal télévisé de 13 heures, mémoire de DEA en histoire culturelle des sociétés contemporaines, université de Versailles-Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, 2002.

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 :Catégorie:Journal télévisé
 :Catégorie:Chaîne de télévision d'information en continu
 Information en continu
 Journal télévisé de la mi-journée
 Journal télévisé du soir

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Earlier this month Ritz-Carlton opened their first property in Hungary.
The Ritz-Carlton, Budapest is located in Elizabeth Square, within a historic building that was first constructed in 1914 as an Italian insurance company. The building still retains much of the elegant architectural details such as the statues on the walls but has been expertly renovated to include a calm and modern interior that has colors inspired by the Danube River.
The location is great, about 30 minutes from Budapest's Ferenc Liszt International Airport, within walking distance to the Hungarian Opera House, and situated right in the middle all the action. The property has views overlooking St Stephens Basilica and Fashion Street, and is close to the Danube River.
If you're thinking that this hotel sounds familiar, it's because it was once the Le Meridien Budapest within the Starwood chain, up until September of 2015. After it left Starwood, it stayed open as the Elizabeth Park Hotel while renovation was going on since it was already slated to become a Ritz. It was a disappointing departure, as Starwood no longer has any hotels in Budapest and only a single Four Points by Sheraton in all of Hungary.
To get an idea of what the hotel was like as a Starwood, you can still find a pretty good description of the once-Le Meridien Budapest on Luxury Hotel Budapest's website.
As a Ritz-Carlton, there are 170 guest rooms and 30 suites, and the Club Level is located on both the 8th and 9th floors of the hotel. The basic Deluxe Room at 390 square feet occupies up to 4 adults and has heated floors in the marble bathroom.
Rates start at 225 EUR, or about 252 USD.
Deak Street Kitchen is the hotel's Hungarian restaurant that uses local seasonal ingredients and offers indigenous Hungarian wines and beers. There's also the Kupola Lounge, which offers breakfast and lunch under the hotel's grand crystal chandelier.
The Ritz-Carlton Budapest will face some fierce competition, as there are lots of great options in the area. There's the Four Seasons Hotel Gresham Palace, an InterContinental, Hilton, an Autograph Collection Marriott, Kempinski, Sofitel.
Although I am a fan of many Ritz-Carlton properties, the fact that there are so many other solid choices in the area means that I'd be very rate conscious.
Have you stayed at this property when it was a Le Meridien? Would you try it as a Ritz?


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This is my first annual "Best of the Blog," a look at some of the most important news stories, historical anniversaries and personal favorite posts of the past year. I am not numbering the list to avoid the appearance of rank. Most links are to my original posts.
Enjoy, and Happy New Year:
The most significant personal milestone of the year was the centennial of my grandfather's May 1913 emigration from County Kerry. I detailed Willie Diggin's trip in a series of posts and recently published book, "His Last Trip: An Irish-American Story."
The year 2013 marked the 150th anniversary of the Irish Brigades fighting in the Battle of Gettysburg and Irish-Catholic anti-conscription riots in New York City. It was the 100th anniversary of the Dublin labor lockout and the formation of the Irish Volunteers.
Ireland also noted the 50th anniversary of John F. Kennedy's return to his ancestral homeland in June 1963. November marked the 50th anniversary of the assassination of America's first Irish-Catholic president.
Ireland liberalized its abortion laws in 2013 after a contentious debate with the Catholic Church, including a controversial appearance at the Boston College commencement by Irish PM Enda Kenny. Kenny won the abortion battle, but his effort to abolish the Seanad Éireann was defeated in a nationwide referendum.
The Irish community in Boston was in the news with the trial and conviction of mobster James "Whitey" Bulger, and the election of new mayor Martin J. Walsh.
The Irish Independent obtained recorded telephone conversations between former Anglo Irish Bank executives that revealed the depth of deception leading up to a government bailout of the failed financial institution. The Irish banking scandal and property bust reached all the way to Tampa, where I have covered problems with a retail and entertainment complex called Channelside Bay Plaza.
The Gathering Ireland 2013 focused on increasing visitors to their ancestral homeland. Project officials said it delivered more than a quarter million overseas tourists as of Dec. 23.
RIP: The passing of Seamus Heaney, 1939-2013, was probably the most significant death in Ireland during the year. Watch New York Times video tribute. The death of Margaret Thatcher also caused quite a stir on the island, though hardly as affectionate.
U.S. President Barack Obama and other global leaders attended the G8 Summit at County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland, something that would have been unthinkable a generation ago. Nevertheless, as the year ended, U.S. envoy Dr. Richard Haass and Northern Ireland political leaders were still trying to finalize on agreement to solve ongoing problems with flags, parades and the past.
The past year was the 125th anniversary of the murder of Kerry farmer John Foran, a victim of the agrarian violence so widespread across Ireland in general and Kerry in particular during the last quarter of the 19th century. I look forward to doing more research and writing about this episode and the period in the new year.
This image of rural road in Kerry illustrated a New York Times story headlined "Lost In Ireland. It was published in October 2010. I've kept the picture posted at my work desk ever sense. In 2014 I'll be moving to Washington, D.C. and look forward to seeing what's beyond the hill.
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On this week's episode of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh speaks with Mary Shortall, Jim Dinn, and Sara Langer. They are all members of Common Front NL, a broad coalition that has formed to oppose the drastic austerity measures being implemented by the provincial government in Newfoundland and Labrador.
According to today's guests, there isn't a lot of precedent, at least in recent decades, for the people of Newfoundland and Labrador rising up in significant numbers to oppose the policies of their provincial government. But late last year, a provincial Conservative government that had been in power for many years was decisively defeated, and a large Liberal majority swept into office. Though their platform did not call for cuts and privatization -- that is, for austerity -- the introduction of their first budget in the context of a major economic downturn made decisive moves in that direction, with the possibility of even more drastic cuts in a second budget slated for late in 2016. The cut that made the news most widely outside of Newfoundland would've resulted in the closure of many, many public libraries, and that has (at least for the moment) been rescinded, but as today's guests discuss, the vast majority of cuts are still happening, and people's lives are being impacted in a wide range of ways.
Mary Shortall is the president of the Newfoundland and Labrador Federation of Labour. Jim Dinn is the president of the Newfoundland and Labrador Teachers' Association. And Sara Langer is the treasurer of the Newfoundland and Labrador branch of the Canadian Federation of Students. The Common Front NL brings together unions, student groups, women's organizations, social justice groups, faith groups, and other sorts of community organizations, as well as concerned individuals. While some of the component member organizations have already been mobilizing people into the streets, the common front as a whole has so far focused on using roundtables and town halls to talk with Newfoundlanders in a way that they say the government has not. They are talking with people about their lives, about the impacts of austerity, and about developing a more hopeful vision for a fair and prosperous Newfoundland that makes sure everyone's needs are met. Though actual reversals of proposed austerity measures have so far been minimal, the engagement by ordinary Newfoundlanders is unprecedented -- not just via the common front but in lots of other independent initiatives as well -- and the popularity of the ruling Liberals has tanked despite being in office for well under a year. Though they see a long road ahead, the common front also sees a real possibility for turning back the austerity agenda in Newfoundland and Labrador.
Shortall, Dinn, and Langer talk with me about the impacts that austerity is having and will increasingly have on people in Newfoundland and Labrador, and about what the Common Front NL and its member organizations are doing to fight back.
For more information on the work of the Common Front NL, click here.


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As healthcare continues to evolve and change, leaders must be equipped with a business skill set in order to be effective—an MBA can be invaluable.
Business and management competencies are essential to leadership roles in healthcare, especially if you wish to foster sustainable change. Healthcare is increasingly recognized as a business and its changes are becoming more complex. While initiatives will always be patient centered, today's healthcare landscape demands understanding and navigation of additional issues, such as costs, third-party payers, regulatory review, patient experience, and efficiencies. As healthcare continues to evolve and change, leaders must be equipped with a business skill set in order to be effective—an MBA can be invaluable.
Prior to medical school, I took courses in accounting, marketing, and economics, which sparked an initial interest in business. When applying to medical school, I believed it would be very helpful to earn an MBA along with my medical degree given the changing healthcare environment. Several years later, I still employ the skills I learned in business school every day, not only as an emergency medicine physician, but also as a leader of the Emergency Department.
In addition to providing great clinical care, my MBA has given me integral skills in operations management, strategy, organizational behavior, and finance, which I use on a daily basis. As the head of a very busy, high-volume academic Emergency Department, we are constantly adapting to changing demands. I have devised and implemented workflow changes and launched multiple patient-centered initiatives. My MBA education allows me to not only optimize operations within the Emergency Department, but also model from successes in other industries.
When I talk with prospective students interested in the Executive MBA/MS in Healthcare Leadership program, they often ask for advice on the value of earning an MBA: Will I use it? Will it help my career? Can an MBA help me make a difference?
The short answer is yes—you will use the skills you learn every day, like I do, and you will have an edge on workforce competition because you will thoroughly understand how business fits within healthcare. The Executive MBA/MS in Healthcare Leadership program combines world-class faculty from the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University and Weill Cornell Medicine. Over the course of 20 months, you and your colleagues—healthcare leaders, directors, PAs, administrators, physicians, and more—will work on finding solutions for real challenges that are affecting high-profile healthcare institutions. You will dive into the program on Saturdays and Sundays while continuing to work in your current job, and then complete the program with two degrees in hand.
I have had the opportunity to work on several innovative patient care programs with NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medicine. One such initiative is the launch of telehealth in the Emergency Department with the NYP/Weill Cornell ED Express Care Service (featured in the Wall Street Journal). It is one of the first ED-based telehealth programs in the country, and it is already incredibly successful in terms of streamlining efficiencies and improving patient care. In fact, we are consulting with many other U.S. health systems, which have expressed interest in implementing this program at their institutions. This program is innovative and deeply relevant because telehealth not only improves the quality of patient care and experience, but also provides increased access in a climate of limited resources.
Incoming patients are triaged and given a medical screening exam by a nurse practitioner or a physician assistant. If it is determined that their condition is not urgent—such as flu-like symptoms, a sprain, or minor abrasions—patients are offered the option of ED Express Care. Once patients consent, they are moved to a private room where a physician treats them via videoconference. Discharge paperwork is printed right in the room, and then patients are free to leave, without any further checkout process. All ED Express Care patients receive a follow-up phone call the following day from an RN.
Here's how my MBA helped to make the launch of this important initiative possible.
We had a clear goal for Express Care Service: to reduce emergency room waiting times for patients with non-urgent conditions by streamlining processes without compromising quality of care. This required an in-depth analysis of the current patient experience and process. Then we formulated a strategy to provide a new service (ED Express Care), which would further optimize patient experience without disrupting traditional workflows. My ability to prepare a strategic business plan, which addressed concerns before they became obstacles, was key to this process. And the results have been promising: Our patients overwhelmingly approve of this service, with patient satisfaction scores in the 99th percentile.
ED Express Care has reduced wait times from 2 to 2.5 hours to an average of 35 to 40 minutes.
In order to successfully implement a project of this scale, we needed to identify and engage with key stakeholders early and often. Business school gave me the skills I needed to make such identifications, ask the right questions, negotiate the best solutions for all parties involved, and most importantly, keep everyone enthusiastic and engaged. We needed several teams and departments to be fully invested, including the nursing department, the registrar, the innovation team, corporate compliance, and the legal team. A patient entering ED Express Care would interact with nursing, registration, and other ED personnel, and we wanted those first interactions to be positive.
The landscape that comprises a hospital is not all that different than one of a corporation. Like any business, the healthcare system is made up of employees who serve customers. Physicians do not always learn much about organizational behavior, health policy regulations, operations management, finance, or compliance, but these are areas of extreme importance when it comes to running a hospital or department smoothly and delivering outstanding care. It was very helpful for me to understand the necessity of process improvement plans from a business and clinical operations perspective. Before implementing ED Express Care, we communicated with frontline hospital staff to ensure they knew how the project aimed to improve patient care and our own efficiencies. Immediately following the launch of ED Express Care, we performed in-depth patient and staff interviews and changed and enhanced workflows based on feedback.
Business school presents us with cases that need solutions, and we see business cases in the healthcare system every day. For us, telehealth was the solution to a common complaint in the Emergency Department—wait times. As technology grows and improves, telehealth is becoming more prominent. It speaks to the demands of a "right now" culture. The telemedicine project at NYP/Weill Cornell Medicine has been so successful that it is recognized as an example of quality service among leading teaching hospitals. Our colleagues from NYP/Weill Cornell Medicine have been invited to speak on several national panels and have also been invited to serve on several national and regional telehealth committees. We often speak and consult with our peers about how they can implement similar systems.
The Executive MBA/MS in Healthcare Leadership program is launching at such an optimal time—there is a lot more change to come to the field of healthcare. We need to prepare leaders to stay up-to-date with trends and learn to apply, or even build, up-to-date solutions that serve the business of healthcare.
If you are interested in learning more about the Executive MBA/MS in Healthcare Leadership program at Johnson and Weill Cornell Medicine, click below.
Dr. Rahul Sharma is the emergency physician-in-chief at NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center and an associate professor of clinical medicine. He oversees all academic and operational activities for the Division of Emergency Medicine. He is also associate director of the Executive MBA/MS in Healthcare Leadership program and an associate professor of clinical healthcare policy and research. Dr. Sharma has a distinguished record as a medical educator. He founded and serves as director of the Healthcare Leadership and Management Scholars Program for medical students at Weill Cornell Medicine. He was honored with two national teaching awards, including the Emergency Medicine Residents' Association (EMRA) National Excellence in Teaching Award and the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) National Faculty Teaching Award. Dr. Sharma received combined MD and MBA degrees in Health Management from Tufts University School of Medicine. Learn more about Dr. Sharma here.


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Tasmanians with disability now have a clear pathway to access DisabilityCare Australia, the national disability insurance scheme.
An agreement between the Commonwealth and Tasmanian governments is an important step towards the launch of DisabilityCare Australia from July 1 this year.
Participants aged 15-24 years as at 1 July 2013 can access the scheme during the first stage of DisabilityCare Australia in Tasmania. Over the next three years, young people with significant and permanent disability will be able to access the scheme when they turn 15 years old.
The first stage of DisabilityCare Australia to be rolled out in Tasmania is expected to support around 950 young people living with disability.
Young people with significant and permanent disability using existing disability support programs or mental health services will access the scheme gradually from 1 July 2013 to ensure smooth transitions from their current supports.
Young people with disability leaving school or who either have or have expressed a need for individual supports, a community access package or who are transitioning from formal out-of-home care arrangements will be among the first to move into the scheme over the next year.
The support young people receive through the current system will be maintained until they have their individual plans and support arrangements with DisabilityCare Australia in place.
Young people aged 15-24 with significant and permanent disability not currently accessing disability programs can make an access request to DisabilityCare Australia at any time over the launch period.
Through DisabilityCare Australia, the Australian and the Tasmanian governments will work closely with people with disability, their families and carers and providers to ensure a smooth transition into the scheme. A number of programs will continue under existing funding arrangements through the duration of the launch.
From July 2013, people can contact DisabilityCare Australia directly or use the My Access Checker tool (available on the website from June 2013) to help inform their access to the scheme.
The Australian Government is providing $1 billion towards the DisabilityCare Australia launch and the Tasmanian Government will provide $49.5 million over three years.
The full roll out of DisabilityCare Australia in Tasmania will be complete by July 2019 and will provide around 11,000 Tasmanians with significant and permanent disability with choice and control over the care and support they receive.
For more information about DisabilityCare Australia, the rollout of the scheme from 1 July 2013 and specific information for service providers visitwww.ndis.gov.au, emailNDISenquiries@fahcsia.gov.auor call 1800 800 110.
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Union Pacific 4402 leads a southbound manifest train over the Big Muddy River near Wolf Lake, IL.
Wasting no time the crew of SOO 6037 maintains 60mph down the CN Bulford sub on it's way to be unloaded some where to the south.
After being loaded at Sugar Camp coal mine, this southbound NS coal train running on the CN to Memphis, TN. There it will get back on home rails before being delivered.
BNSF 2814 a GP 30 leads the BNSF Beardstown local and awaiting a track warrant from the UP dispatcher to continue south.
BNSF 1035 leads a Westbound stack train out of Streator, IL on a beautiful fall day.
After waiting for little over 2 hours for rail traffic to clear up an Westbound auto train lead by a UP SD70M gets the signal and highballs for Chicago, IL.
As the sun sets in Tuscola, IL UP 6154 run solo south with a train of Automobiles an old SP locomotive.
No trespassing on the IHB, in East Chicago I don't think a sign is going to keep people off the tracks.
On a warm summer afternoon NS 9348 holds for an eastbound witch the conductor of NS 9348 had already lined the eastbound train in to the siding for the meet.
Not an often sight in 2014 any more, but to BNSF "executive" MAC's pass thought the small town of St Johns, IL on the Main Line of Mid America.