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Rebecca Gordon, The Enemies of Our Enemy Are Not Our Friends
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We're in a strange new world — of fantasists (see Kellyanne Conway's terrorist "massacre" in Bowling Green, Kentucky), delusionaries (see Sean Spicer's account of the "Iranians" who attacked an "American" naval vessel), and dreamers (if having a nightmare is your idea of dreaming). Only the other day, for instance, at the National Prayer Breakfast, President Trump said definitively, "We're taken advantage of by every nation in the world, virtually. It's not going to happen anymore." Honestly, you have to wonder what planet the former reality show host has been on these last decades.
And all of this has, in a couple of short weeks, started to change our world. Just ask Kjell Magne Bondevik, the former prime minister of Norway, who was stopped at Dulles International Airport on his way to that same prayer breakfast, held and questioned (even when it was clear that he had indeed been the prime minister of an allied country) because he had traveled to Iran three years earlier. Of course, looked at another way, he had also been the head of one of the many freeloading nations on the planet who, as President Trump now points out, have taken our country for a ride, so he undoubtedly got what he deserved. After all, in 2008, pressured by a "multi-departmental American lobbying effort," Norway caved and agreed to buy the most expensive, cost-overrun-prone weapons system in history, the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, rather than a perfectly reasonable Swedish plane. (If they hadn't, it might have adversely affected sales to other U.S. allies ready to take us for a ride.) And nine years later, in 2017, despite endless delays and soaring costs, the Norwegians are still buying the planes — 52 in all at an estimated price tag of $40 billion. What a crew of moochers!
Admittedly, it's been a one-way planet for one hell of a long time, but Donald J. Trump is finally readying himself to reverse that and turn it into… well, possibly a hell on earth. At least, European leaders (Britain's excepted) seem to think so, as they find themselves packed into more or less the same unfriendly basket of deplorables as Iran. I had a friend years ago who told me that I'd know I was on a different planet when European powers — Charles De Gaulle's long-gone France aside — started to say no to Washington. We may now officially be on that altered world, one where even Australia, America's most faithful ally, might start uttering a no or two to a president who considers hanging up on its prime minister good form. (I assume by now that somewhere in the Forbidden City, the Chinese leadership is dancing in the streets, knowing that on Donald Trump's planet their country is likely to look like the only reasonable imperial power around.)
These days, you may hear a similar chorus of "No's" coming out of the U.S. government where federal employees are beginning to form support groups and take courses "on workers' rights and how they can express civil disobedience." Consider this my way of saying that, in the Trump era, you're going to have to buy a scorecard to figure out what "team" the various players on this increasingly confused world of ours belong to, creating endless complications for those of us already thinking about how to make it into the post-Trump years. Fortunately, TomDispatch regular Rebecca Gordon, author of American Nuremberg, has been thinking about friendship, alliances, and how to figure out who's who in a world in which, even with that scorecard, it may be difficult to sort the players and the teams out. Tom
How Can We Recognize Our Friends in the Mixed-Up World of Donald Trump?
By Rebecca Gordon
You know you're living in a looking-glass world when former Vice President Dick Cheney speaks out against one of Donald Trump's executive orders. He's a good example of how past adversaries of movements for peace and justice are lining up against our current adversary, the new president.
The United States, Cheney told radio host Hugh Hewitt, should not exclude people from our territory on the basis of religion. That was just a few days after Trump had signed an executive order entitled "Protecting the Nation from Foreign Terrorist Entry into the United States." Such a move, said Cheney, "goes against everything we stand for and believe in."
In the same interview, Cheney revealed the origins of his personal affinity for Muslim refugees. His own ancestors, he said, arrived on this continent to escape religious persecution. "They were Puritans," he explained, adding, "There wasn't anybody here then when they came." No one? It was a sparkling display of precisely the European-American solipsism that so deeply marked the Cheney years in power.
Refugees, he acknowledged, do represent "a serious problem." To begin to solve it, however, "You gotta go back and look at why they're here. They're here because of what's happening in the Middle East."
The refugees Cheney refers to aren't "here," of course, or what would be the point of Trump's entrance ban? Otherwise, I'd have to agree with the former vice president: you do need to look at "what's happening" but also — something he didn't mention — what happened in the Middle East to explain their need for refuge. Refugees from Iraq and Syria (among other places) have indeed lost their homes and homelands by the millions, in significant part because of the very invasions and occupations that Cheney and his president, George W. Bush, launched in the Greater Middle East, radically destabilizing that part of the world.
The Enemy of My Enemy?
What should it mean for those of us hoping to resist the grim presidency of Donald Trump to find Dick Cheney, even momentarily and on a single issue, on our side? One thing it certainly can't mean is that Cheney stands for the same "everything" that moved thousands of people to rush to U.S. airports, demanding the release of visitors, immigrants, and green card holders detained under Trump's new order. Although in the Muslim refugees of today he may indeed recognize a reflection of his Puritan ancestors, Cheney's disagreement with Donald Trump does not, in fact, make him a friend of the cause of compassion, justice, or the rule of law.
Few of us who spent eight years opposing Bush and Cheney or who remember their record of invasions, occupations, torture, black sites, and so much more are likely to imagine that his opposition to the ban on refugees makes him our friend. But that doesn't mean that we can't take some satisfaction from where he's landed on this issue.
It's been harder, however, for many of us to find clarity when it comes to certain of the other war hawks who, for their own reasons, don't trust Trump.
It's a trap most of us avoided last summer when 50 members of the national security establishment, including former National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice and one of George W. Bush's CIA directors, Michael Hayden, wrote an open letter warning the world that Trump lacked "the character, values, and experience to be president." We recognized that the letter signers themselves lacked the "character, values, and experience" to comment. After all, in the Middle East and elsewhere, this bunch had helped to pave the way for Trump's rise.
In recent months, as the Russian hacking scandal hit and Trump's feud with the CIA gained ever more media attention, that Agency has proven another matter. Here is a real danger to avoid: in our efforts to delegitimize Donald Trump, it's important not to inadvertently legitimize an outfit that most of us have long opposed for its vicious campaigns around the world. Just because Donald Trump all but called its operatives Nazis shouldn't lead the rest of us to forget its long history of deceit or accept its pronouncements at face value because they happen to fit what we would like to believe.
When Barack Obama said that there was convincing evidence Russia had used its hacking efforts to throw the U.S. election to Trump, the president-elect not surprisingly labeled the claim "ridiculous." But there's also been a bit of sympathy for the CIA in some odd places. For example, long-time CIA critic and Hullabaloo founder Heather Digby Parton (generally known as "Digby") wrote at Salon that the CIA "understandably" felt there was something "a tad unfair" about the Trump transition team calling the Agency "the same people that said Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction." After all, they were under a lot of pressure from the White House back then. As Digby wrote, "It's now known that Vice President Dick Cheney went out to [CIA headquarters in] Langley [Virginia] in order to personally twist arms and 'stovepipe' the intelligence report on Iraq."
That's certainly true, but it's also true that the CIA director of that moment, George Tenet, assured President Bush that there was a "slam dunk case" that Saddam Hussein had such weaponry. The fact is that the CIA caved in to pressure from top administration officials for the intel they so desperately wanted for the invasion they already knew they were going to launch in Iraq. That is not exactly a ringing endorsement of the agency's integrity or political independence. An "independent" CIA is bad enough, but the CIA's vulnerability to political pressure from the White House is another reason we should be cautious about using Agency pronouncements as an instrument against Donald Trump. That's the slippery terrain we find ourselves on now.
Digby is certainly no admirer of the CIA, and her article wasn't primarily focused on the quality of its intelligence under Bush, but on a far more recent turf war between the Agency and the FBI. She rightly calls out FBI Director James Comey for his 11th hour intervention in the election, the way he alerted Congress to the (vanishingly tiny) possibility that the hard drive on the computer that Anthony Weiner shared with his wife, Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin, might have contained evidence of Clinton's failure to protect State Department emails. Nevertheless, the reader is left to infer that — at least when it comes to intelligence rather than clandestine operations — the CIA's pronouncements might prove a reliable instrument against Donald Trump, an urge that was relatively commonplace among opponents of the new president.
For example, the Atlantic, which has carried excellent reporting about CIA deceptions, published a piece by Kelly Magsamen, who served on the National Security Council (NSC) under both Bush and Obama, expressing alarm at Trump's plan to exclude the CIA director from his version of the NSC. (In fact, the new president reversed himself on the matter almost immediately.) It's not surprising that Magsamen would have this view. For those of us who would like to dismantle the entire national security edifice, however, it would be shortsighted indeed to attack Trump by shoring up the reputation of an agency — the CIA — that, as former counterintelligence officer John Kiriakou has suggested, the country and the world "do not need." Kariakou, you may remember, was jailed for discussing the CIA's torture program with a journalist.
Support for America's spooks has continued to resound in odd places. For example, there's been much outrage expressed at President Trump's bizarre behavior on a visit to CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia. In a performance that was indeed shocking, he used the occasion to complain about the way the media underestimated the size of the crowd at his inauguration, after which he asserted that God had stopped the rain during his Inaugural Address.
What many commentators found far more bizarre and disturbing, however, was that Trump gave his performance in front of a memorial wall commemorating CIA agents who had died on the job. Writing for the not-exactly-right-wing Huffington Post, Neil McCarthy claimed that the wall honors "un-named heroes who have died in our service." In a New Yorker article headlined "Trump's Vainglorious Affront to the CIA," former Washington Post diplomatic correspondent Robin Wright chided the new president for his lack of respect for the Agency's martyrs. Trump, she suggested, should have followed the example of President Ronald Reagan, who on his first visit to the CIA told the assembled staff:
"The work you do each day is essential to the survival and to the spread of human freedom. You remain the eyes and ears of the free world. You are the 'trip wire' over which totalitarian rule must stumble in their quest for global domination…"
While I would never applaud anyone's untimely, violent death, the fact that Donald Trump (despite his denials) has been feuding with the CIA shouldn't erase that agency's history or just what those agents died defending. Trump's annoyance shouldn't magically transform an agency responsible for decades of violent and bloody coups against democratic governments in places like Iran, Guatemala, the Congo, and Chile into an organization "essential to the survival and spread of human freedom." Whatever pleasure we may take in Trump's irritation, it doesn't vindicate the murder of between 26,000 and 41,000 Vietnamese, many of then tortured to death, in the CIA's notorious Phoenix program during the Vietnam War. It doesn't erase the training in torture and repression its agents provided to dictatorships around the world. And it certainly doesn't make the CIA's use of terror and torture in its black sites as part of the Bush administration's "war on terror" any less horrific or illegal.
Nor does the CIA's future look much more promising than its past. When it comes to torture, its new head Mike Pompeo has clearly wanted to have it both ways. During his confirmation hearing, he proved unwilling to call waterboarding and other "enhanced interrogation" methods torture, but did acknowledge that they are illegal under a 2015 law, which limits interrogation techniques to those described in the U.S. Army Field Manual.
There are two problems with reliance on that law. The present Field Manual contains a classified annex, which permits among other things repeated 12-hour bouts of sensory deprivation and solitary confinement for up to 30 days at a time. Both of these are forms of the cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment prohibited by the U.N. Convention against Torture. In addition, the manual itself is up for revision in two years. A new version might provide very different guidance.
But it's not clear that Pompeo is actually wedded to the manual anyway. As Human Rights Watch (HRW) points out, in his written testimony for his confirmation hearing he "indicated that he would consult with CIA staff to determine whether the application of the Army Field Manual was an 'impediment' to intelligence-gathering, and whether it needed to be rewritten." Note as well that Gina Haspel, Pompeo's newly appointed deputy director at the Agency, is notorious for her involvement in its black sites and torture practices in the Bush years (as well as the destruction of video tapes of waterboarding sessions — evidence, that is, of those criminal activities).
Trump himself supports such torture practices. On January 25th, he told ABC News that he still clings to his belief that torture "works." His evidence? The testimony of "people at the highest level of intelligence" who "as recently as twenty-four hours ago" told him that it works "absolutely." It seems likely one of those "people" was Gina Haspel, who has a good reason to cling to that same belief.
In reporting ABC's interview with Trump, CNN, like most mainstream media, allowed itself to be distracted by the question of whether or not torture is an effective way of getting information from someone. It isn't, as the Senate Intelligence Committee concluded in its landmark 2014 report. However, the question really shouldn't be whether torture "works." The question should be: Is it either moral or legal? And Donald Trump notwithstanding, the answer in both cases is no.
Pompeo is also a big fan of NSA-style mass surveillance and has called for the reinstatement of the NSA's massive secret collection of telephone, Internet, and social media metadata. The telephone data part of the program officially expired in November 2015 as a result of the USA Freedom Act, passed earlier that year. Under the new arrangement, metadata is held by the phone companies, rather than directly by the NSA, which now needs a FISA warrant to get access to those records. Internet and social media records are still directly available to the NSA, however.
But that's not enough for Pompeo. Human Rights Watch points to a 2016 Wall Street Journal op-ed, in which Pompeo urged Congress to "'pass a law re-establishing collection of all metadata' — that is, records of communications, such as their dates, parties, and durations — 'and combining it with publicly available financial and lifestyle information into a comprehensive, searchable database.'"
HRW observes that, in spite of "repeated written and oral questions in the context of the hearing, Pompeo remained vague on what he meant by the potentially expansive and discriminatory term 'lifestyle information.'" As one devoted to the lesbian "lifestyle," I don't find this particularly encouraging.
Fortunately for those of us who hope to see the national security state dismantled someday, as recent events have indicated, that edifice and its friends in both parties are not a seamless whole. There are runs and tears throughout its fabric, and part of our job is to help open those gaps wider — always keeping in mind that while politics may make strange bedfellows, there are some people you don't ever want to sleep with. Even in the Trump era, the enemy of my enemy is not my friend, at least not when that enemy is the CIA.
Enemies of Enemies of Enemies
If the CIA is the enemy of my enemy, then Vladimir Putin's government in Russia must be the enemy of the enemy of my enemy. Is it therefore my friend?
This is a complicated and delicate question. The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists has just set its doomsday clock forward to two-and-a-half minutes to midnight, 30 seconds closer to catastrophe.
In the shadow of nuclear war, who wouldn't be eager to see tensions between Russia and the United States defused? At the same time, I become uncomfortable when some of my colleagues on the left appear to believe that any adversary of U.S. hegemony may represent a potential ally for us.
For example, the Nation's Stephen Cohen, whose many years of writing on the Soviet Union served as an important corrective to the official narrative of the time, characterizes those who today are wary of Putin as "enemies of détente." He points to a New York Times editorial whose descriptions "of Putin's leadership over the years" were "so distorted they seemed more like Saturday Night Live's ongoing parodies" and calls out Times columnist Paul Krugman's "neo-McCarthyite baiting" of Trump for his admiration of Putin.
I can agree with Cohen that Krugman goes over the top when he refers to the present administration as the "Putin-Trump regime." But it's a mistake to equate legitimate suspicion of Russia and Putin with the efforts of Senator Joe McCarthy to discredit the U.S. left (and liberals) during the Cold War. The Russian Federation is not the Soviet Union, and distrust of Vladimir Putin is not McCarthyism.
Cohen is certainly correct that Putin has good reason to be wary of what he calls "NATO's highly provocative buildup on Russia's Western border." But even if Russia quite rightly objects to the way NATO has moved east, it doesn't prove that Putin's government didn't try to influence the U.S. election. Such things are hardly beyond the realm of possibility. After all, the United States has a long history of doing just that to countries around the world (as did the Soviet Union in its day).
That the Washington establishment opposes Russian challenges to the U.S. urge for global dominance doesn't make Vladimir Putin any less an autocrat, or Russia under his rule any more a country to emulate. Indeed, on January 27th, the Russian parliament voted 380-3 to decriminalize domestic violence. A week later, Putin signed the bill into law. Which way, I wonder, would Donald Trump go if similar legislation were on the table here?
What About Friends?
When the thieves who run our government fall out, we should be glad — and find ways to drive the wedge deeper. When John McCain does something we approve of, like objecting to Trump's executive order on immigration, we can agree with him, but notice as well that, in the next breath, he says he supports Trump's "commitment to rebuilding our" (already vast and unprecedentedly powerful) military.
There's a difference between people who find themselves sharing the same adversary and people who can be, to use an old-fashioned term, in solidarity with each other. Those of us who oppose U.S. military adventurism abroad and inequality, racism, and sexism at home need to remember who our friends are. The next few years must be a time of building broad coalitions and tightening the bonds among organizations and people who believe that, even now, a better world is still possible.
In the mixed-up looking-glass universe that is Trumplandia, we are going to need our friends more than ever. This is true domestically, which means, for instance, that tenants' rights groups will need to keep jumping into struggles for immigrant rights (as is already happening in many places), and veterans' organizations will need to keep on supporting fights to preserve Native land and water rights as in the struggle over the Dakota Access pipeline. It's true on the international level, as well. We will need to build strong ties with people in Europe fighting the rise of the far right there, and to continue our solidarity with the victims of U.S. military actions around the world.
But it's also true at the level of our individual lives. Now especially we need contact with the people we love to keep us strong and hopeful. Now is a good time to remind your friends that you love them, and that you will have their backs. It's a time to march together, but also to eat together. To strategize and organize, but also to make each other laugh. It's a time to remember who our adversaries are, but also to cherish our friends.
Rebecca Gordon, a TomDispatch regular, teaches in the philosophy department at the University of San Francisco. She is the author of American Nuremberg: The U.S. Officials Who Should Stand Trial for Post-9/11 War Crimes. Her previous books include Mainstreaming Torture: Ethical Approaches in the Post-9/11 United States and Letters from Nicaragua.
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Copyright 2017 Rebecca Gordon
Rebecca Gordon
Rebecca Gordon, a TomDispatch regular, teaches at the University of San Francisco. She is the author of Mainstreaming Torture, American Nuremberg: The U.S. Officials Who Should Stand Trial for Post-9/11 War Crimes and is now at work on a new book on the history of torture in the United States.


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Covers the interest of corporations and executives to create more meaning and engagement with their brand for customers, employees, and society overall.
What is Brand Activism?
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Building Brand Equity by Supporting Progressive Policies
Conservative Dominance
For most of the 20th century, corporations were conservative. They only recognized one stakeholder: the shareholder. The dominant mantras were "free markets" and "driving shareholder value." The conservative business perspective was taught in all large MBA schools. We learned that "What is good for business is good for America." Indeed, progressive views on corporate responsibility that recognized all stakeholders rarely saw the light of day.
In terms of marketing, companies were product-centric. Their focus was: How do we get more people to buy our product?
During the conservative business era, no one said it was "political" to hire lobbyists to advocate for conservative legislation favoring the company and its shareholders. Donations for politicians who supported lower corporate taxes were normative. Going further, large corporations often supported candidates in both parties. This was even better for business … if you could afford it.
Sea Changes
But product markets changed radically starting in the 1990s. Corporations lost their monopoly on product information, thanks to the internet. By the 2000s, buyers could complete most of the buying process before contacting a company or a sales representative.
Just as important, labor market power shifted radically. For most of the 20th century, it was hard for job seekers to learn about a company's true labor practices. Now, sites such as Glassdoor provide forums where current and former employees can anonymously review companies. Job seekers use the internet to choose which companies to pursue or avoid. So, even while union power has faded, workers increasingly vote with their feet by avoiding or quitting poor employers.
Corporate support for diversity was the first major shift toward progressive business practices. The 1964 Civil Rights Act had a widespread impact, including the formation of the EEOC and its power to enforce laws against workplace discrimination.
While many companies resisted it initially, many others created competitive advantages by embracing diversity programs. Diversity laggards suffered the consequences. Customers and job seekers tended to avoid corporations that did not support diversity.
One of the early adopters of diversity is Unilever. Their Dove "Real Beauty" campaign, which started in 2004, is the stuff of legends. The campaign delivered a 60% jump in revenue over 10 years.
Today, corporate diversity programs are normative. Companies are not labeled "activist" when they feature people of color in ads or require diversity training for all employees. That said, there is still a long way to go, especially in industries like hi-tech.
One especially stubborn aspect of corporate responsibility involves pay equity. White workers are about 50 percent more likely than workers of color to hold good jobs, and much less likely to be displaced from their jobs by automation. Women receive 81 cents for every dollar earned by men.
These statistics highlight the systemic nature of racism and sexism in the US.
A leader in correcting pay iniquity is Salesforce. They have spent over $12 million on pay raises to reduce it.
The Salesforce example is not yet normative. Many corporate boards conveniently dismiss pay inequity as inappropriate corporate activism. They say it is not their fault if the labor market pays less to minorities and women.
Others, like Marc Benioff, CEO of Salesforce, regard their pay equity investment as good business strategy. It is closely tied to maintaining their top competitive position around the world.
Corporations now pay close attention to the environmental catastrophe due to global warming. GM recently announced it will only offer electric vehicles (EVs) by 2035. Most US utilities offer customers incentives to adopt energy efficient products (e.g., LED lighting, solar generation) and technologies (smart thermostats). The examples are numerous and growing daily.
Companies that offer sustainability products and services or favor suppliers who actively support sustainability are now normative. They are not activist corporations.
What Are Conservatives Afraid Of?
The number two Google search result for the term progressive corporations is a self-proclaimed "consumer watchdog" website. It declares at the top of its home page:
The Cardinal rule of business is to never even discuss politics, yet some companies have recklessly chosen to alienate half of the country by attacking Donald Trump and/or Republicans, pushing for censorship of conservative speech, and/or supporting the false and racist narrative of systemic racism in police and in America in general. These companies are a threat to our freedoms. If we do nothing, then their left-wing ideologies become the norm.
On the one hand, it is shocking this fake consumer watchdog site ranks so high on Google. On the other, it is a sign of the tumultuous times we live in.
Many large corporations now enhance their competitiveness by embracing progressive thinking. For marketers, brand activism is nothing more than aligning marketing efforts with the company's use of progressive thinking to improve its competitive position.
Companies that think business success depends on a singular focus on the shareholder are getting left behind.
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The Ethical Disaster Called Facebook
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Tim Cook's recent takedown of Facebook was a long time coming. Facebook has been an ethical trainwreck since its inception. It enables bullies and terrorists. It claims First Amendment protections for its members and absolves itself of responsibility as a technology platform rather than a publisher.
Though Facebook denies any partisanship, the facts are compelling: Facebook is a Republican-favored institution.
Analyses of 2016 search activity show that Facebook usage was highest in Republican-stronghold states.
In 2016, Facebook was most popular in highly racist states that often used racist slurs in their internet searches.
The third-most powerful predictor of Biden's 2020 victory was low interest in Facebook.
Using Facebook data, Cambridge Analytica assisted the 2016 campaigns of Donald Trump, Ted Cruz, and the overall Republican National Committee.
COO Sheryl Sandberg lied during the Cambridge Analytica scandal by denying knowledge of a PR scheme to spread a false narrative that George Soros backed an anti-Facebook backlash.
Peter Thiel, a Facebook board member since 2004, donated $1.5 million to Trump's campaign one week after the Access Hollywood tape leaked.
Facebook's ethical failures are tied to its business model, which converts members into products. For years, it sold advertising based on customer data harvested without consent. Now, after being shamed into making an effort to secure consent, Facebook offers confusing menus of data privacy options.
It is only a matter of time before the US starts to regulate Facebook and hold it accountable for harmful content. It is easy to predict, however, that Facebook privacy and harm regulations will be strongly resisted by Republicans.
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West German Bundesgrenzschutz (BGS) Splinter Camouflage (1968, 1971)
August 26, 2015 Camouflage, Early Cold War (1945 - 1968), Germany, Later Cold War (1969 - 1989), West Germany/Bundeswehr
The Bundesgrenzschutz (BGS) was West Germany's border guard force. While nominally a police force due to early Cold War limitations against West German re-armament, they had a distinctly paramilitary, almost Wehrmacht-like, appearance until the 1980's, since they were expected to be the first responders to a potential Soviet invasion and to act as light infantry in such a case. Their distinctive camouflage uniforms were a reprint of the WW2 Sumpfmuster pattern, albeit in slightly different colorway. Despite the helmet's associations with the Nazi past, the BGS also used the Stalhelm design for a time.
From https://www.wehrmacht-awards.com/forums/showthread.php?t=252712&page=7&p=8033281
While the BGS's role and appearance was a product of Cold War tensions, they were a source of controversy in Germany, particularly in the 1960's when a new generation started to re-examine the Third Reich period.
Eventually, a series of press scandals due to them being a paramilitary police force combined with their Wehrmacht-like appearance caused the BGS to transition to a more civilian, actual police-like role.
1965 Article in Der Stern magazine comparing the BGS to Nazi youth organizations (from https://nat.museum-digital.de/index.php?t=objekt&oges=468640). Jürgen Henschel Collection License: RR-F Further information on the legal status can be found at: www.museum-digital.de www.deutsche-digitale-bibliothek.de www.fhxb-museum.de
They officially changed its uniforms to a more civilian appearance in 1976, though the stalhelm was still used until the mid-1990's (source: https://wwiiafterwwii.wordpress.com/2016/04/10/wwii-equipment-of-the-bundesgrenzschutz/).
Social and historical information about the BGS from: https://escholarship.org/content/qt6hr297n8/qt6hr297n8.pdf?t=pamvak
Sample 1: 1968
Earlier 1968 dated version that has no arm pocket.
Metal hardware to support webbing:
Webbing shoulder straps intended to go under shoulder panels?:
Imported by Trident Militaria, likely in early 1990's due to "Made in EEC" stampe (name defunct in 1993) and "Made in Germany" (not "West" or "East"):
Sample 3: Late 1970's (1975?)
Mint condition, very similar to Sample 2, except NATO stock number (NSN) and no date on tag. Material is a cotton twill, not poplin like Sample 2.
Has pocket at inside front for bandage:
Bandage is dated 1965.
Bottom bellows pocket has organizer loops inside:
Shoulder Pocket:
The flap of this part of the jacket is often ripped off as part of the demilitarization process before surplus sale since the BGS insignia is sewn here (source: https://www.wehrmacht-awards.com/forums/showthread.php?t=252712&p=8537608) .
Has loops to hold pens.
Came with greatcoat insignia that is too big for pocket flap.
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File name says 1968 (from https://www.wehrmacht-awards.com/forums/showthread.php?t=252712&page=7&p=8033281).
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Duties and Roles of Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie
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Serene Highness
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I don't know about the rest of you, but giving permission to children to miss an event is not at all the same thing as being happy about them missing it. This comes up in most every family. I would never interfere in my daughters' decisions to do as they wish (and they do always politely come to me to "ask" for permission to skip a family thing - which they know will always be granted; that's the style in many families). I keep my private feelings about them missing family occasions between myself and my husband. There's absolutely no reason to assume the Queen is "happy" (or not) just because she gave them permission. What else, really, could she do? It would be absurd for her to withhold permission.
But given the nature of old age, I doubt she is truly happy that they weren't all together as much as possible (she may be a really exceptional older person and not give a fig and therefore be happy not to see her grandchildren, but to me, that makes her a somewhat peculiar grandmother). She could also be happy for them, but not happy for herself and Philip, at their absence. Or maybe, as is implied by her "being happy that they didn't come," she just doesn't care (but that's precisely what I'm doubting). The Queen seems to me to be a person who would make a decision based on reasoning, not her feelings - so why anyone would assume she's happy they were absent I don't know.
Does any grandparent really feel they get to see "enough" of their grandchildren? Maybe. Just not a familiar thing, to me.
Agama.Pearl, how is it their decision. IIRC, their dad asked (begged?) if they could not be restored to the list - and it was a no go. The list of working royals is being pared and I don't think it's up to the two York princesses to make their own decision about their (paid) role. If you mean, "they can do the work of royals without being paid," well then, of course they can.
But to me, being a "working royal" means getting to do royal work with all expenses paid. The Queen revoked Beatrice's and Eugenie's security detail (IIRC) and has made it clear to their father that he will be paying their future expenses - neither the Crown nor the taxpayers shall pay them. A working royal is someone who is paid by the Crown to do work on behalf of the Monarch. I'm not sure that Prince Charles is technically a "working royal," as I believe he pays his own expenses, the Queen does not (maybe she does...I'd appreciate some expertise here).
Lumutqueen
Location: Middlewich, United Kingdom
Originally Posted by PrincessKaimi
Missing the dinner is not what put them out of being working royals - that happened some time ago.
My point is that it doesn't help them get back into the working royal role, especially as in the future it will be their Uncle Charles who makes the decision. I suspect the Queen would consult with him before putting anyone back on the list. They would be the obvious next persons to put on the list, wouldn't they?
William and Harry won't be put off the list, as sons of the future monarch, no matter what (so it's nice when they behave with decorum, isn't it?)
But Beatrice and Eugenie have no such certainty in their lives - and (my other point) is that they appear to have accepted the fact that they need to make their own way in life. THe social occasion they did attend was probably quite important to them, socially.
It doesn't matter what either of the princes was doing "at their age," it matters that they've been stricken from the list, that no one plans to expand the list, that the list cannot be expanded without a monarch lobbying strongly for that expansion (or paying for it him/herself?)
Prince Charles is unlikely to restore them to the list, IMO. I don't think they could truly wage a PR type campaign to get back on the list and be successful. I do think that they could fall even further from royal grace, though, and get themselves disinvited from occasions that it would be to their benefit to attend (although I really think that's unlikely; I think that all of the Queen's grandchildren will be treated with some indulgence - but not necessarily paid engagements - as long as she lives).
Sorry but where is this "list" they have been struck from? I haven't seen it?
A monarch lobbying for expansion? What are you talking about?
It is fact that when members of the BRF pass away there will be less people to do royal engagements. They will be Charles, Camilla, William, Catherine, Harry, Harry's future wife and that's it. Anne, Andrew, Edward, Sophie, Alexandra and the rest cannot work forever. We cannot rely on any of Charles' grandchildren to do royal engagements until they're 30+ unless they're forces into it. Charles will have to forsake public engagements and public opinion because Beatrice and Eugenie are 'out of favour', rather ridiculous to me. Zara, Peter as grandchildren will never do engagements and it is unlikely Louise and James ever will. Beatrice and Eugenie will always be family, I can't see even Charles 'disinviting' to family events
And a good point just made; Prince William missed his own cousins wedding to attend Jecca Craigs brother's wedding. But of course that doesn't matter as they could never fall from the list. My point mentioning what the boys were doing at Eugenie and Bea's age is equal to or worse than what the girls are doing now, so how can you criticise them when members of their family have done worse? Maybe you don't think a royal doing drugs is worse than attending a rich friends wedding?
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Princess of Durham
Location: Durham, United States
It seems the point is, it will be some time before B&E will actually be needed, if at all. It would stand them in good stead if they appeared to be doing something productive, which at this point they are not. Possibly too early but certainly in another year it should be the case. Certainly their father could be doing more actively than he is currently doing. But to be honest .... I'm sure the girls suffer very much from the antics of their mother. She (Sarah) seems to show up on numerous occasions and smile into the camera. Maybe the hope it that at some point she will decide that it is not in the best interests of B&E for her to constantly be in the picture, but then, maybe not.
A number of points have been made that I would like to clarify.
The current working royals are: HM The Queen - aged 85, HRH The Duke of Edinburgh - aged 90, HRH The Prince of Wales - aged 63, HRH The Duchess of Cornwall - aged 64, HRH The Duke or York - aged 51, HRH The Earl of Wessex - aged 47, HRH The Countess of Wessex - aaged 46, HRH The Princess Royal - aged 51, HRH The Duke of Gloucester - aged 67, HRH The Duchess of Gloucester - aged 65, HRH The Duke of Kent - aged 76, HRH Princess Alexandra - aged 75 and the part-times HRH The Duke of Cambridge - aged 29, The Duchess of Cambridge - aged 29 and HRH Prince Henry - aged 27.
That is the 'list'.
Now for payment - The Queenand The Duke of Edinburgh are paid by the government a Civil List to cover their expenses (and yes I know the name of this payment is going to change). The government also pays a number of other members of the RF for their activities (all those listed above except for the Wales and Wessexes) but The Queen repays that money from her personal income so The Queen supports personally all the official work of the members of the RF, except for the Wales family - which is supported from the Duchy of Cornwall estate.
Andrew and the girls are supported by The Queen - either directly or from income from trust funds established for them.
Currently the above listed working royals do an average of 4000 duties a year and the full-time royals are all 46 or older, with 4 of them over 70 and another 5 in their 60s.
In deciding not to have the girls do royal duties it is clear that the number of duties will be halved in time - so in 20 years time the average number of duties will drop to about 2000 a year or even fewer. Harry intends on making his career in the army - which limits his duties quite significantly e.g. Andrew would fewer than 100 while in the navy and often when his ship stopped somewhere e.g. the ship would be in port so he would do three or four engagement while there - visit the Head of State etc. If Harry doesn't marry for say another 10 years (and I can see him still single in that period of time as he can't seem to stay in a committed relationship - he keeps breaking up with Chelsy and has short flings) that means that there won't be anyone extra to who is currently in the family to take up the slack - in 10 years time the number of working royals under 50 will be 3.
Beatrice and Eugenie surely know what their future is - and as the reports have been for years now that they won't be working royals - they are working on what they will be doing. Hopefully they will find worthwhile careers for themselves and appear at major royal functions such as Coronations, Weddings, Funerals and quietly fade into the background and be happy.
I do see Charles making major changes - e.g. I don't see him inviting his siblings to Sandringham for Christmas for instance or having large crowds on the balcony at Trooping the Colour. I think that he will have his sons and their children and basically push his siblings into the background.
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I don't see Charles disinviting his siblings for Christmas. The Queen always inviting Princess Margaret. Charles is a creature of habit. I can't see him making that kind of change. I can see him inviting Camilla's children.
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Location: Somewhere, out there, United States
Lumutqueen, I agree with you & feel that Charles may be being a bit 'short-sighted' as far as the availability of future royals for patronages and charity engagements. There is also quite a 'gap' between the first of the next generation (William, Harry, Beatrice, Eugenie) and the 'next' of the next generation (Louise, James, and any little Waleses that may appear) that could result in a real 'royal shortage' in the future if Beatrice & Eugenie are excluded from 'the Firm'. I'm not included Zara & Peter as they live 'private' lives. As you say, HM's children & cousins will not be able to work forever & it will then be up to a much smaller group to pick up the slack. But maybe Charles sees that as William's future problem.
I don't have a problem with either of the York girls. They are young and will mature. Their main problem is having to 'live down' the faults (real or perceived) of their parents. I think that is why people want them to be, like Caesar's wife, above reproach; to prove that they 'deserve' to have a royal role because of what people perceive to be their parent's faults. Fair, not in the least, but then life isn't fair, is it?
The whys & wherefores of who gets to be a 'working royal' is beyond my ken, but if HM and/or Charles consider public opinion when making this type of decision, then fair or unfair, Beatrice and Eugenie may have to weigh every decision if they want to be a 'working royal'. I suppose it may be similar to working for a promotion in any job. You have to view everything you do in light of how it will make you appear to management. It's up to the individual to decide if it's 'worth it'.
Elizabeth and Margaret were always close and the Queen's mother was alive all that time as well - remember Margaret died before her mother.
With Charles - I see him inviting Camilla's family, and the Middletons and not inviting the Yorks and Wessexs at all.
He clearly doesn't get along with them - except at Christmas doesn't spend time with them - like he used to do when Diana and Sarah were in the fold and the families would holiday together. The vibe I get from seeing Charles with the extended family - apart from Anne and Zara - is that they aren't comfortable with him or he with them.
The Queen had to invite her mother so of course she invited her mother's other child and that meant her neice and nephew and that has continued but I don't see that happening with Charles as King. He wants to make the RF smaller so having fewer royals at Christmas would send a large message that the family is smaller - same as I don't expect him to continue the large mass of people on the balcony at Trooping the Colour - just him, Camilla, William, Kate, their children and Harry, his bride and their children.
Would Charles exclude his brothers and sisters (and families) from the Trooping? Thoughts?
In order to reduce the visible size of the RF - which he supposedly wants to do - then yes - that is where to start.
Make the RF only the monarch and the monarch's children with the clear understanding that when a new monarch comes along the siblings step aside.
sobriquet
Location: NC, United States
How do we even know that Beatrice and Eugenie want to be full-time working royals? Have they ever actually said that this is what they want?
Also, I don't think we will see Charles excluding his siblings or their families from Christmas, Trooping the Colour, etc. Slimming down the number of working royals, yes. But apart from their royal duties, they are still a family.
To me it seems Charles just wants to reduce the number and cost of working royals. I think his siblings and the others will continue to perform royal duties as long as possible, even after Charles becomes King, but not adding any more working royals, apart from William, Harry and their wives when they eventually start doing royal duties full time. It all really depends on whether Charles wants to keep up the current number of royal engagements or significantly reduce it, because Beatrice and Eugenie will be needed if he wants to keep it up.
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Can anyone provide any sources for the following claims:
1) Charles wishes to cutdown the size of the Royal Family
2) Andrew has requested that his daughters assume royal duties
3) So far this request, has been turned down?
Any sources other than the Daily Mail, Richard Kay or Kate Nichols would be very much appreciated.
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ZaJa
Location: New York , United States
Originally Posted by Zonk
There is no source that I've seen other than those. Vanity Fair magazine spoke on the subject but it was just the same stuff they read in the UK papers . I'm no expert but I think that P. Charles would still invite his siblings after his parents passed on. It's not like he hates them.
sndral
Location: Coastal California, United States
Originally Posted by Iluvbertie
Beatrice and Eugenie - the topic of this thread - would be better off taking Zara as a role model - a girl who got a good degree, found something she enjoyed, was good at and works hard to succeed and has reached the top of her profession - that is the sort of role model I would set up for young people to follow - one who works hard and succeeds on her own merits.
Zara was helped tremendously by the fact that both her parents were heavily involved in her sport and finances were available to allow her to participate initially, it is an extremely expensive sport, I understand - I suspect that only young ladies from wealthy families could afford to follow Zara's path. That said, I do believe she works very hard at her sport/passion and in that she is a great role model.
Unlike Catherine, Beatrice's parents do not have a business she could work for, and unlike Zara, there's no country estate/sport business her parents are involved with for her to naturally take up.
I, for one, am willing to judge Beatrice based on her own actions, hopeful that she has the wisdom to not follow the role models of her parents - thus far I see little to suggest that she has such wisdom - she finished university 7 months ago and hasn't done anything except attend a few weddings and a fashion show, show up with her mom at a few 'charity' parties, be photographed on expensive vacations, be seen w/ her Branson employed BF and be shown on her mom's docudrama on OWN.
Eugenie, while still at university, should not be expected to do anything but attend school, IMO.
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I have asked the same question on this thread on a couple of occasions. No one bothered to respond. I assume that everyone is quite happy to accept the above statements as graven in stone.
Having done so, it allows people to expound, at length, on the supposed deficiencies of the York family in general and Beatrice and Eugenie in particular. Bad marks for missing a pre-Christmas lunch because you wish to attend a friend's wedding? Hello! What sort of horrendous old bat do they think "Granny" is and how does that somehow translate to yet more black marks in Uncle Charles "B & E Ledger of Sins?
Some have postulated that not only will the Yorks, Wessex's and perhaps even the Phillips be missing from the Balcony but that Charles step-family will be present. Yeah right! Charles is a secret Republican and one day will pull the pin, toss and yell "Grenade" on said Balcony!!!
IMO it is just another way to "have a go" at Charles by default.
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I have to disagree with this. I def. think Charles' siblings, and their children and possibly grandchildren, will be included in these major events. Who you probably won't see will be the Kents, Gloucesters, P/Pss Michael, and all their children. I also think Charles will continue to iinvite his cousins, Visount Linley and Lady Sarah, and their families.
I think the York girls will def. be there for such events, and probaby others. And while Charles may cut back on the royals that carry out duties on a regular basis, I believe Pss B & E will be called upon from time to time.
princess gertrude
Location: Columbia, United States
For some reason, I see Prince Charles cutting way back on the number of royals "working" when he becomes King. I think that he will rely on Princess Anne, Prince William, The Duchess of Cambridge, Prince Harry and Harry's future wife. But as for Princes Andrew and Edward, I think he will call on them less and less the older he gets.
Princess Anne has proven her worth over and over and her charities adore her. The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge will take on quite a few engagements and Prince Harry will also take on quite a few more that he has now. As far as the trooping of the color, I do think that he will include his siblings and their children but definitely not the Gloucesters & Kents.
Location: Los Angeles CA, United States
Originally Posted by princess gertrude
As far as the trooping of the color, I do think that he will include his siblings and their children but definitely not the Gloucesters & Kents.
Why? What's all this about the Gloucesters and Kents? If they've been working hard all these decades it would be rather 'poor' to oust them in their old age. Kinda tacky if you ask me.
I think the size of the royal family will diminish by natural attrition, especially as regards the Kents and the Gloucesters, so no major cuts would necessarily be needed in the next reign.
Gloucesters & Kents will be work for the Queen/later Charles as long as it'll be possible. I'm talking about older generation, not their children, they'll attend at family gatherings but won't have public roles. Charles siblings will help them, cause it's impossible that he'll do everything himself (with Camilla and boys), siblings's children - I don't think so. I hope that won't change the long tradition and still we would see big family at the balcony and during the Christmas.
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Has anyone heard of a PC game called Star Assault?
I came across the game on my travels today and it seems to be a space combat sim similar to Wing Commander or X-Wing, but I can't find out any proper information about the game. When searching I find some places selling the game, but no reviews or screenshots, or information about the gameplay. Anyone know?
But is not this one you want right?
I've seen it on Amazon for £16.99 or £16.00 from Virgin but the RRP is £19.99 which is never a good sign but i've never played it.
No, I also found many references to the Star Wars game, but this one is different. It is just called Star Assault.
And as Buleste mentions, releasing a game at a low price point to begin with isn't usually a good sign as it often means the developer is trying to get the game sold under the scope before the magazines and websites get their hands on it for review.
Oh cool. Thanks for finding that. The screenshots like quite good. Not amazing but pretty nice.
The babylon Project looks better and thats free. Although it can be a pig to get mods for.
The Babylon Project definitely does look good, and as you say it is completely free, being developed using the free freespace 2). I've not tried the beta release out yet, but thanks to you reminding me of the project I definitely will be when i get chance.
But, the more space games we get the better, so I'm also going to give Star Assault a try too to see if it is any good. I'm not bothered if the graphics are a few years out of date compared to current standards, it's the gameplay that matters.
TBP is on its final release with the download including a couple of mods various installers and promises of new mods all the time. It is a hefty download at about 1GB but it is worth it.
Nice. I will definitely give it a try when I get chance.
So I got hold of a copy of Star Assault and installed it... and I can report that it isn't worth bothering with.
The graphics are OK but quite dated. The backdrops look ok, as do the lighting effects, but they wouldn't have won any awards even 5 years ago.
The problems however start when you actually play the game. You start off by having to equip your ship by dragging components from the store into your ship's sections (engine, reactor, shields, weapons etc). The game doesn't tell you that you have to do this though so I tried to start the first mission and was given the message "your CPU isn't powerful enough" which confused me as it wasn't referring to the CPU in the computer, but the game rather confusingly called the ship you fly a CPU. So after realising this and equipping the ship it let me start the first mission. And oh boy, the animated guy reading out the mission briefing is very amateur looking, but at least the voice over isn't so bad.
Once the first mission began the usual intercom commands from the space station (which is common with many space games) began, directing me to an asteroid field where I would find some enemies to take out. Sounds like the usual first mission stuff. But the controls. Umm... very basic. The mouse controls the direction of the ship, with the left mouse firing the currently selected weapon and the mouse wheel zooming the view in and out (all that actually seems to do is scale the ship). The rest of the basic controls are keyboard based, with the Page Up and Down keys controlling engine power, the 1-0 keys selecting the current weapon, F1 turning auto pilot on, C switching between external and cockpit view, and a couple of other things.
Now the control problems. First you move the mouse and the ship shows some thrusters firing to move the ship, but where are the physics? The movement of the ship feels like it is stuck to the front of your view and you are rotating as if this view were a turrent. So it feels like you are rotating the game's view like a first person shooter, with a space ship stuck on the front of the view where the cross hair should be. Very strange and it doesn't work.
Anyway, I thought I would try out the first mission, so I hit F1 and let the autopilot take me to the destination, which it did. Some reference points appeared in the area showing the location of the enemies, who started to close in and fire at me. I started to shoot back but then I noticed something else. How are you meant to aim at something without a cross hair? I basically had to fire and see where the bullet spray was going and then try to guess where to line the ship up to hit the enemy. But that wasn't that easy with the enemies yo-yoing around me going from 800m away, then flying past and going off away from me again. I got the shields of two of the ships right down but it was very had to hit them and they just kept hitting my ship until it exploded! This was the first mission to teach you some basics, and yet the enemy were shooting non stop constantly depleting my shield. Mad!
At which point I quit the game!
Freespace 2 ? Never play it, is it like homeworld 2?
Try the Beyond the Red Line demo at this site http://www.game-warden.com/bsg/ for Battlestar Gallactica version of Freespace 2.
I've already played the Beyond the Red Line demo and it's great.
For a game running on such an old engine it is looking very nice, which just shows how good the original Freespace 2 engine is. And the actual game mechanics are spot on with the feel of the vipers being just right, and even the short wave radio chatter between pilots. Everyone should give the demo a play for sure.
No, Homeworld 2 is a space RTS, whereas Freespace 2 is a space combat sim, and a great one at that. The closest games to compare it to are X-Wing and the like. And unlike games like Wing Commander which are quite arcade shoot 'em up like, Freespace 2 is a bit more serious and is best described as a full on flight sim, but in space. It is a brilliant game.
Good choice of screen shots. They also show up what i find as the only failing of Freespace and that is the lighting. Freespace 2 is best played in a pitch black room with no distractions. Any amount of light and you may not see whats happening.
I'd have loved if they had a real physics engine option for it though. Can't dark up there as there's too many laser blast's etc up there. But remember "In a locked darkened room no one can hear you scream, in frustration that you missed one of the buggers and can't see him because it's too dark and he snuck up behind you and killed you."
Yep, but they are cylons, it's what they do!
BTW, when is the last BSG series due to air? I'm getting withdrawal symptoms.
I played the 2 Freespace games and have to agree that they are really great, although I haven't finished the 2nd one yet.
I also bought Tachyon:The Fringe for low price some years ago, but I never installed or played it. Does anyone know if it's good?
I've got that game too and have also never installed it! :lol: I bought up all the space games I'd missed on the PC a couple of years ago and am still slowly going through playing them. I've read some reviews of Tachyon: The Fringe and it is meant to be pretty good.
Is Star Assault really that bad?
I was considering getting it for a friend of mine who is a bit of a space game nut.
Not sure if he has Tachyon: The Fringe.
It definitely isn't very good. It feels more like a homebrew game than a full commercial release.
The intro from a famous tv-series could also describe Star Assault - which is a perfect mixture between Wing Commander and Battlestar Galactica.
The story-based single player mode offers the player to accomplish breathtaking missions and tasks. Between the different missions he spends most of the time on a space station or a carrier equipping his space craft with lasers, rockets, shields or different propulsions. The player can choose out of a large variety of ships. Each ship varies in terms of weaponry and flight quality. The force feedback support greatly improves a realistic and stunning experience.Surely I must have been playing a completely different game? I much check... nope, definitely says Star Assault, and the screenshots match. Not sure what game they are describing, but I don't think whoever wrote that has actually played the game this is meant for.
Am I being too harsh about this game? After all we don't actually see that many space games released each year. I will give it another play just to see if I was in a negative mood the first time, but i suspect I wasn't. Also if I can't even get through the basic first mission easily without blowing up how hard must the rest of the missions be?


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Angela Zhang
MD Student, expected graduation Spring 2023
Ph.D. Student in Genetics, admitted Autumn 2019
MSTP Student
Institute Affiliations
Member (Student), Cardiovascular Institute
University - Student Department:&nbspGenetics Position: Graduate
University - Student Department:&nbspSchool of Medicine Position: Graduate, Medicine
Shifting machine learning for healthcare from development to deployment and from models to data. Nature biomedical engineering Zhang, A., Xing, L., Zou, J., Wu, J. C. 2022
In the past decade, the application of machine learning (ML) to healthcare has helped drive the automation of physician tasks as well as enhancements in clinical capabilities and access to care. This progress has emphasized that, from model development to model deployment, data play central roles. In this Review, we provide a data-centric view of the innovations and challenges that are defining ML for healthcare. We discuss deep generative models and federated learning as strategies to augment datasets for improved model performance, as well as the use of the more recent transformer models for handling larger datasets and enhancing the modelling of clinical text. We also discuss data-focused problems in the deployment of ML, emphasizing the need to efficiently deliver data to ML models for timely clinical predictions and to account for natural data shifts that can deteriorate model performance.
Cannabinoid receptor 1 antagonist genistein attenuates marijuana-induced vascular inflammation. Cell Wei, T. T., Chandy, M., Nishiga, M., Zhang, A., Kumar, K. K., Thomas, D., Manhas, A., Rhee, S., Justesen, J. M., Chen, I. Y., Wo, H. T., Khanamiri, S., Yang, J. Y., Seidl, F. J., Burns, N. Z., Liu, C., Sayed, N., Shie, J. J., Yeh, C. F., Yang, K. C., Lau, E., Lynch, K. L., Rivas, M., Kobilka, B. K., Wu, J. C. 2022
Epidemiological studies reveal that marijuana increases the risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD); however, little is known about the mechanism. Δ9-tetrahydrocannabinol (Δ9-THC), the psychoactive component of marijuana, binds to cannabinoid receptor 1 (CB1/CNR1) in the vasculature and is implicated in CVD. A UK Biobank analysis found that cannabis was an risk factor for CVD. We found that marijuana smoking activated inflammatory cytokines implicated in CVD. In silico virtual screening identified genistein, a soybean isoflavone, as a putative CB1 antagonist. Human-induced pluripotent stem cell-derived endothelial cells were used to model Δ9-THC-induced inflammation and oxidative stress via NF-κB signaling. Knockdown of the CB1 receptor with siRNA, CRISPR interference, and genistein attenuated the effects of Δ9-THC. In mice, genistein blocked Δ9-THC-induced endothelial dysfunction in wire myograph, reduced atherosclerotic plaque, and had minimal penetration of the central nervous system. Genistein is a CB1 antagonist that attenuates Δ9-THC-induced atherosclerosis.
Treating Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy: The Promise of Stem Cells, Artificial Intelligence, and Multi-Omics. Frontiers in cardiovascular medicine Vera, C. D., Zhang, A., Pang, P. D., Wu, J. C. 2022; 9: 851491
Muscular dystrophies are chronic and debilitating disorders caused by progressive muscle wasting. Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is the most common type. DMD is a well-characterized genetic disorder caused by the absence of dystrophin. Although some therapies exist to treat the symptoms and there are ongoing efforts to correct the underlying molecular defect, patients with muscular dystrophies would greatly benefit from new therapies that target the specific pathways contributing directly to the muscle disorders. Three new advances are poised to change the landscape of therapies for muscular dystrophies such as DMD. First, the advent of human induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) allows researchers to design effective treatment strategies that make up for the gaps missed by conventional "one size fits all" strategies. By characterizing tissue alterations with single-cell resolution and having molecular profiles for therapeutic treatments for a variety of cell types, clinical researchers can design multi-pronged interventions to not just delay degenerative processes, but regenerate healthy tissues. Second, artificial intelligence (AI) will play a significant role in developing future therapies by allowing the aggregation and synthesis of large and disparate datasets to help reveal underlying molecular mechanisms. Third, disease models using a high volume of multi-omics data gathered from diverse sources carry valuable information about converging and diverging pathways. Using these new tools, the results of previous and emerging studies will catalyze precision medicine-based drug development that can tackle devastating disorders such as DMD.
View details for DOI 10.3389/fcvm.2022.851491
Antitumor effects of iPSC-based cancer vaccine in pancreatic cancer. Stem cell reports Ouyang, X., Liu, Y., Zhou, Y., Guo, J., Wei, T., Liu, C., Lee, B., Chen, B., Zhang, A., Casey, K. M., Wang, L., Kooreman, N. G., Habtezion, A., Engleman, E. G., Wu, J. C. 2021
Induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) and cancer cells share cellular similarities and transcriptomic profiles. Here, we show that an iPSC-based cancer vaccine, comprised of autologous iPSCs and CpG, stimulated cytotoxic antitumor CD8+ Tcell effector and memory responses, induced cancer-specific humoral immune responses, reduced immunosuppressive CD4+ T regulatory cells, and prevented tumor formation in 75% of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) mice. We demonstrate that shared gene expression profiles of "iPSC-cancer signature genes" and others are overexpressed in mouse and human iPSC lines, PDAC cells, and multiple human solid tumor types compared with normal tissues. These results support further studies of iPSC vaccination in PDAC in preclinical and clinical models and in other cancer types that have low mutational burdens.
View details for DOI 10.1016/j.stemcr.2021.04.004
Race and Genetics in Congenital Heart Disease: Application of iPSCs, Omics, and Machine Learning Technologies. Frontiers in cardiovascular medicine Mullen, M. n., Zhang, A. n., Lui, G. K., Romfh, A. W., Rhee, J. W., Wu, J. C. 2021; 8: 635280
Congenital heart disease (CHD) is a multifaceted cardiovascular anomaly that occurs when there are structural abnormalities in the heart before birth. Although various risk factors are known to influence the development of this disease, a full comprehension of the etiology and treatment for different patient populations remains elusive. For instance, racial minorities are disproportionally affected by this disease and typically have worse prognosis, possibly due to environmental and genetic disparities. Although research into CHD has highlighted a wide range of causal factors, the reasons for these differences seen in different patient populations are not fully known. Cardiovascular disease modeling using induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) is a novel approach for investigating possible genetic variants in CHD that may be race specific, making it a valuable tool to help solve the mystery of higher incidence and mortality rates among minorities. Herein, we first review the prevalence, risk factors, and genetics of CHD and then discuss the use of iPSCs, omics, and machine learning technologies to investigate the etiology of CHD and its connection to racial disparities. We also explore the translational potential of iPSC-based disease modeling combined with genome editing and high throughput drug screening platforms.
Universal intracellular biomolecule delivery with precise dosage control SCIENCE ADVANCES Cao, Y., Chen, H., Qiu, R., Hanna, M., Me, E., Hjort, M., Zhang, A., Lewis, R. S., Wu, J. C., Melosh, N. A. 2018; 4 (10): eaat8131
Intracellular delivery of mRNA, DNA, and other large macromolecules into cells plays an essential role in an array of biological research and clinical therapies. However, current methods yield a wide variation in the amount of material delivered, as well as limitations on the cell types and cargoes possible. Here, we demonstrate quantitatively controlled delivery into a range of primary cells and cell lines with a tight dosage distribution using a nanostraw-electroporation system (NES). In NES, cells are cultured onto track-etched membranes with protruding nanostraws that connect to the fluidic environment beneath the membrane. The tight cell-nanostraw interface focuses applied electric fields to the cell membrane, enabling low-voltage and nondamaging local poration of the cell membrane. Concurrently, the field electrophoretically injects biomolecular cargoes through the nanostraws and into the cell at the same location. We show that the amount of material delivered is precisely controlled by the applied voltage, delivery duration, and reagent concentration. NES is highly effective even for primary cell types or different cell densities, is largely cargo agnostic, and can simultaneously deliver specific ratios of different molecules. Using a simple cell culture well format, the NES delivers into >100,000 cells within 20 s with >95% cell viability, enabling facile, dosage-controlled intracellular delivery for a wide variety of biological applications.
Harnessing cell pluripotency for cardiovascular regenerative medicine NATURE BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING Chen, H., Zhang, A., Wu, J. C. 2018; 2 (6): 392–98
Harnessing cell pluripotency for cardiovascular regenerative medicine. Nature biomedical engineering Chen, H., Zhang, A., Wu, J. C. 2018; 2 (6): 392-398
Human pluripotent stem cells (hPSCs), in particular embryonic stem cells and induced pluripotent stem cells, have received enormous attention in cardiovascular regenerative medicine owing to their ability to expand and differentiate into functional cardiomyocytes and other cardiovascular cell types. Despite the potential applications of hPSCs for tissue regeneration in patients suffering from cardiovascular disease, whether hPSC-based therapies can be safe and efficacious remains inconclusive, with strong evidence from clinical trials lacking. Critical factors limiting therapeutic efficacy are the degree of maturity and purity of the hPSC-derived differentiated progeny, and the tumorigenic risk associated with residual undifferentiated cells. In this Review, we discuss recent advances in cardiac-cell differentiation from hPSCs and in the direct reprogramming of non-myocyte cells for cardiovascular regenerative applications. We also discuss approaches for the delivery of cells to diseased tissue, and how such advances are contributing to progress in cardiac tissue engineering for tackling heart disease.
A Rapid, High-Quality, Cost-Effective, Comprehensive and Expandable Targeted Next-Generation Sequencing Assay for Inherited Heart Diseases. Circulation research Wilson, K. D., Shen, P., Fung, E., Karakikes, I., Zhang, A., Inanloorahatloo, K., Odegaard, J., Sallam, K., Davis, R. W., Lui, G. K., Ashley, E. A., Scharfe, C., Wu, J. C. 2015; 117 (7): 603-611
Thousands of mutations across >50 genes have been implicated in inherited cardiomyopathies. However, options for sequencing this rapidly evolving gene set are limited because many sequencing services and off-the-shelf kits suffer from slow turnaround, inefficient capture of genomic DNA, and high cost. Furthermore, customization of these assays to cover emerging targets that suit individual needs is often expensive and time consuming.We sought to develop a custom high throughput, clinical-grade next-generation sequencing assay for detecting cardiac disease gene mutations with improved accuracy, flexibility, turnaround, and cost.We used double-stranded probes (complementary long padlock probes), an inexpensive and customizable capture technology, to efficiently capture and amplify the entire coding region and flanking intronic and regulatory sequences of 88 genes and 40 microRNAs associated with inherited cardiomyopathies, congenital heart disease, and cardiac development. Multiplexing 11 samples per sequencing run resulted in a mean base pair coverage of 420, of which 97% had >20× coverage and >99% were concordant with known heterozygous single nucleotide polymorphisms. The assay correctly detected germline variants in 24 individuals and revealed several polymorphic regions in miR-499. Total run time was 3 days at an approximate cost of $100 per sample.Accurate, high-throughput detection of mutations across numerous cardiac genes is achievable with complementary long padlock probe technology. Moreover, this format allows facile insertion of additional probes as more cardiomyopathy and congenital heart disease genes are discovered, giving researchers a powerful new tool for DNA mutation detection and discovery.
View details for DOI 10.1161/CIRCRESAHA.115.306723
DWI for Renal Mass Characterization: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Diagnostic Test Performance AMERICAN JOURNAL OF ROENTGENOLOGY Kang, S. K., Zhang, A., Pandharipande, P. V., Chandarana, H., Braithwaite, R. S., Littenberg, B. 2015; 205 (2): 317-324
The objective of our study was to perform a systematic review and meta-analysis of the test performance of DWI in the characterization of renal masses.We performed searches of three electronic databases for studies on renal mass characterization using DWI. Methodologic quality was assessed for each study. We quantitatively analyzed test performance for three clinical problems: first, benign versus malignant lesions; second, clear cell renal cell carcinoma (RCC) versus other malignancies; and, third, high-versus low-grade clear cell RCCs. We summarized performance as a single pair of sensitivity and specificity values or a summary ROC curve.The studies in the literature were limited in both quantity and quality. For classification of benign versus malignant lesions, four studies with 279 lesions yielded a single summary estimate of 86% sensitivity and 78% specificity. For differentiation of clear cell RCC from other malignancies, five studies showed marked heterogeneity not conducive to meta-analysis. For differentiation of high-from low-grade clear cell RCCs, three studies with 110 lesions showed a threshold effect appropriate for summary ROC construction: The AUC was 0.83.Evidence suggests moderate accuracy of DWI for the prediction of malignancy and high-grade clear cell cancers, whereas DWI performance for ascertaining clear cell histologic grade remains unclear. To develop DWI as a noninvasive approach for the evaluation of solid renal masses, prospective studies with standardized test parameters are needed to better establish DWI performance and its impact on patient outcomes.
View details for DOI 10.2214/AJR.14.13930
Functional MnO nanoclusters for efficient siRNA delivery CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS Xing, R., Liu, G., Quan, Q., Bhirde, A., Zhang, G., Jin, A., Bryant, L. H., Zhang, A., Liang, A., Eden, H. S., Hou, Y., Chen, X. 2011; 47 (44): 12152-12154
A non-viral gene delivery nanovehicle based on Alkyl-PEI2k capped MnO nanoclusters was synthesized via a simple, facile method and used for efficient siRNA delivery and magnetic resonance imaging.
View details for DOI 10.1039/c1cc15408g


Robert Gurr and the Kent Reliance dragon boat team announce the organisation is to be the headline sponsor of the annual KM Dragon Boat Race.
This year's KM Dragon Boat Race is expected to raise more than £80k for good causes in the county.
The event is now officially a sell-out with all 42 boats booked. This week Kent Reliance was unveiled as the event's headline sponsor for the annual event, which will be staged on the first Sunday in July at Mote Park, Maidstone.
The event is staged by the charity department at the KM Group to support good causes in county and this year more than 30 charities will benefit from sponsorship raised by the crews.
Because of the popularity of the event Mr Dolby said they will open for bookings in 2016 within the next month.
The KM Dragon Boat Race is in its 7 year and was originally staged at Medway Maritime but outgrew the location.
More than £300,000 has been raised for charity at the event since the event was first staged.


If you'd have told me 10 years ago that I'd be married and living in a foreign country, unable to speak the language, I probably would have shrugged my shoulders and responded, "It's possible," but I wouldn't have truly believed it.
Moving to Mexico has been a possibility since I considered the idea of marrying my high school sweetheart 10 years ago. Mexico always held a special place in J's heart. His family owns property and businesses there, and he spent nearly every summer there growing up, so I knew taking over the family business was something he hoped to do. Secretly, though, I assumed he'd get older and forget about the idea. It was possible, but not plausible.
Then there were the big obstacles I'd surely face. What about my job and the fact that I don't speak Spanish? What about my life? OK, so not speaking Spanish shouldn't really be an issue. In this hypothetical future, I'd have over 10 years to learn, so it shouldn't be a problem. (Alas, I never learned and it is now a problem.) My career, on the other hand, now I knew that would never work. J would just have to earn enough to support us both so I could be a happy stay-at home wife if I were to follow him to Mexico. Nope! I think I'd go crazy just sitting at home with no one to talk to and nothing to do but cook and clean. Fast forward to 2013 – I was working for a online company and was given the opportunity to work from home. Well, there went a second obstacle.
So here I am, newly wed, living in Mexico with my oh-so-Mexican husband. (His Mexican heritage has really come to the surface and it's hysterical to me. Who is this cowboy boot-wearing man blasting banda in our car?) That hypothetical future has become my reality, and it's kind of great. Yes, it's a struggle to communicate, but I'm slowly learning and little by little I'm getting there. And that third obstacle? What about my life? Well, I'm adding another adventure to the list. Of course I miss my family, friends, and pets terribly (thank goodness for Skype and international data plans), but now I'm getting to know my new extended family and making new friends. Plus, there's this little guy to keep me company.


North Park has a strong commitment to study abroad programs in Scandinavia. The Group Exchange Program with Södra Vätterbygdens Folkhögskola (SVF) in Jönköping, Sweden, is North Park's oldest exchange program, running continuously for over 40 years. Each fall semester, approximately 15 North Park students study at SVF together with a cohort of 15 Swedish students. In the spring semester, all 30 students return to Chicago to continue studies at North Park University (students do not follow a set curriculum during the spring semester and are free to enroll in any courses).
Swedish Language (SWED 1010/1020/2010/2020/3150): students do not need to have any experience or background in Swedish language in order to participate in this study abroad program. You will be placed in a beginning or more advanced course depending on your level. This course counts as the GE Language requirement, and also towards the Scandinavian Studies major/minor.
Scandinavian History and Culture (SCAN 2130): this course counts as the GE Culture & Society requirement, and also towards the Scandinavian Studies major/minor.
World Religions (BTS 2700): this course counts as the GE Christian Life & Thought requirement.
Urban Cities (CORE 3000): this course includes trip within Sweden and to nearby European countries. Counts towards the GE Keystone Seminar requirement.
Program costs (for 2018 Fall semester): students pay North Park University tuition, room and board (double room and 15 meal-plan). Additionally costs include: a $1500 Swedish Studies Fee that covers excursions around Sweden/Europe, a plane ticket (approximately $750-1000 round trip), and about $500 for visa fees and insurance coverage. All NPU, State & Federal Financial aid apply.
Aarhus, Denmark: Aarhus University Courses are available in English for a variety of majors/minors. *Note: this program is only offered during the Spring semester.
Tampere, Finland: University of Tampere Courses are available in English for a variety of majors/minors. *Note: students are required to travel to Washington, D.C. and obtain a student visa for this program.
North Park is a member of the International Student Exchange Programs (ISEP) consortium, a worldwide network for international education, consisting of more than 300 member colleges and universities in the United States and more than 50 other countries. Students interested in Scandinavian language and culture study may benefit from semester- or year-long programs in Denmark, Finland, or Sweden.
For more information about any of the above programs, please contact the Office of International Affairs by email, phone (773-244-5553), or visit us in the Center for Student Engagement (Johnson Center, 1st Floor).


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Bring groovy back with this fun 70's inspired tube top! It features a red, yellow and black stripped pattern, a ribbed fabric and comfortable knit with plenty of stretch!
Model is 5'8" with a 33 bust, 24 waist and 34" hips. She is wearing a size small.


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