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What It's Like to Go Through Weed Withdrawal
Weed isn't technically an 'addictive' substance, but that doesn't mean some people don't have withdrawal symptoms when they quit cold turkey
"The tremors affect everything," 23-year-old Martijn tells me, speaking about his weed withdrawals, a condition most people don't know exists. "I can't sit normally at home without shaking constantly, which is very disturbing. When I'm working or going out with friends, I'm always just focusing on my body shaking — and when I go outside, every cold breeze makes my skin crawl."
This isn't Martijn's only destabilizing side effect since attempting to quit weed a few weeks ago. He also lists cold sweats, a poor appetite, high anxiety, trouble sleeping and boredom as symptoms of his quitting. He even tells me they've been so bad that he's relapsed, explaining that he "lasted around a week before smoking again."
It was only at the beginning of the pandemic, around March 2020, that Martijn started smoking regularly — specifically, three to four joints a day (it actually all began with homemade edibles, but he quickly moved onto smoking). "I did this daily for six months," he explains, "and then I quit. That time, I had mild symptoms that didn't bother me, like a lack of motivation, less appetite and excessive sweating. But they only lasted for a couple of days." Then, another six months after he first quit, Martijn started smoking again, which is where he's at now, minus the recent attempt to curb the habit. He says that while he can cope with the other withdrawal symptoms — "for example, you can go to the gym to make yourself hungry and tired" — the shaking is having a ruinous effect on his day-to-day life.
Although weed is famously touted as non-addictive — the drug itself doesn't tend to be physiologically habit-forming, but users can become psychologically and behaviorally dependent on it — many regular smokers can experience nasty withdrawal symptoms when they quit. But, explains Adam Waugh, the core team lead at harm-reduction charity PsyCare UK, unlike other drugs like alcohol, heroin or meth, "cannabis withdrawal symptoms aren't medically serious."
"When someone is physically dependent on alcohol and suddenly stops drinking, they can develop a severe withdrawal that includes hallucinations and seizures, and it can cause death if untreated," he says. "With cannabis withdrawal, people typically lose their appetite, struggle to sleep and feel anxious, tired and unwell."
But while the symptoms aren't life-threatening, it doesn't mean they can't be debilitating. For 22-year-old Sebastian (not his real name) from Australia, the withdrawals are putting a hindrance on his usual routine. "I've been unable to work some days," he tells me. "The loss of appetite combined with vomiting has caused me to lose huge amounts of weight, and the fever dreams have been disrupting my sleep schedule tremendously."
Sebastian has been a daily smoker for the "better part of the last decade," and has had several periods of sobriety during that time. Although he always suffers some side effects, he says they've been especially bad recently. Two weeks ago, after a six-month period of smoking a lot, he decided to have a hiatus in an attempt to "sort some personal shit out." Since then, he hasn't been able to sleep for more than three hours a night, has been experiencing "bad cravings, anxiety and irritability," and has endured "extreme chills and sweats, constant vomiting, migraines and stomach pain." He also has no desire to eat, and is suffering from "a lot of bad, intrusive thoughts."
In fairness, Sebastian blames some of these side effects on nicotine withdrawals, as he usually smokes his joints with tobacco in them. "This doesn't mix well going cold turkey off weed, because it's also like quitting smoking tobacco cold turkey, too," he says.
Martijn and Sebastian aren't alone — there are plenty of Reddit threads by people seeking advice to alleviate their withdrawal symptoms, with titles like "Day Eight of Weed Withdrawal… This Feels Hopeless," "Weed Withdrawal Is Kicking My Ass," and bizarrely, "Weed Withdrawals Make You Want to End Your Marriage?" For Sebastian, the main solution is exercise. "It helps burn off that erratic energy you get from withdrawals and, in my experience, also helps to minimize cravings, makes you sleep better and alleviates anxiety," he explains. "I've also found that taking CBD oil helps with intrusive thoughts and cravings." Another key thing, says Sebastian, is to make sure there's no weed easily accessible — that way, "you don't have to resist a temptation that isn't there."
Waugh supports Sebastian's suggestion to exercise. "There isn't really any 'quick fix' for cannabis withdrawal symptoms," he says. "They can be unpleasant, but they usually pass within a week or 10 days. The best thing to do is to try and eat food — even if you're not hungry — exercise a bit and keep yourself distracted."
Not everyone gets weed withdrawal symptoms, though, and Waugh says some people are "much more sensitive" to it than others. "Someone who's particularly sensitive to cannabis withdrawal symptoms may start getting a mild withdrawal reaction — such as low level anxiety — after a week or so of daily use," he explains. "But many people can take cannabis fairly regularly and stop without having any withdrawal symptoms. The people who tend to have worse withdrawals are people who consume quite a lot of cannabis — e.g., 0.5 grams or more per day — for long periods of time."
For better or worse, Sebastian says the temporarily crippling withdrawal symptoms never put him off coming back to weed (and then going on hiatus, and so on, and so on). "I always return to weed, simply because I enjoy it a lot," he says. "There's no better way to relax after work than to smoke a bit of weed."
And then, six months later, be unable to work because of it. The circle of life!
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Brit Dawson is a London-based journalist who mostly writes about sex, women's rights and sex work. She is also the staff writer at Dazed.
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The video contest to highlight Chilean women scientists now has its winners
The national Video Contest on Chilean Women in Science has selected the winners in the two categories of the competition, students and the general public. The jury highlights the quality and creativity of the 68 videos received that seek to show the contribution of Chilean women scientists to our country
The jury and the organizing committee of the National Contest of Videos on Chilean Women in Science are pleased to announce the winners and honorable mentions of the first contest, organized by the Center for the Development of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, the Center for Mathematical Modeling, the Chilean Academy of Science and the Iberoamerican Network of Science Academies.
In the student category, the first prize went to the video Dr. Lilian Jara and her project of genetic markers for breast cancer, produced by Belén Aguilera, Sofía López, Ana Laura Palma and Lía Díaz, 5th and 6th year high-school students from Rosa Ester Alessandri Rodríguez School.
Second place in this category went to the work Paola Cañón, which deals with work of the doctor in molecular genetics and microbiology, and was produced by Sofia Bardi, Fiorella Ullrich and Romina Toro, third year high school students from the Italian School Vittorio Montiglio.
Honorable mentions went to the audiovisual works Paulina Lira, woman scientist, by Cristian López from Paine Modern School; Getting to Know a Chilean women scientist, by Javiera Maldonado and Jorge Trigo from Elvira Hurtado de Matte School; Margaret Lengerich, by Sofía Castillo and Héctor Corvalán, from Antilhue School in La Florida, and The big bang Maritza, by Diana Campos, Catalina Fuentes, Julián Muñoz and Axel Castro, from Coya School in Machalí.
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The second prize went to the video The importance of what is small, by Pablo Gutiérrez, which highlights the contribution of the doctor of Physics, María Luisa Cordero Garayar.
The videos Paulina Bahamonde, research and inspiration from Patagonia, from the group led by Gustavo Chiang; Evolution after teeth, from the group led by Alberto Gajardo; Grain of sand, sent by Luis Morgado and his group, and Maruja animada, by Claudia Juárez were distinguished with honorable mention in this category.
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It is hard to define life as each one of us has a different interpretation. However, when you meet young writer Frederika Menezes you get the feeling that here is one who can actually define life for you. A cerebral palsy patient Frederika suffers from physical disability, but there is no room for complaint in her life and on the contrary is happy for all life has given her. "I've been lucky all along and I acknowledge that", says Frederika.These days Frederika has more than one reason to be excited about life. Today, two of her books are being released – Unforgotten, a young adult novel, and Stories in Rhyme, a book of verse for children.
"I just love writing; it is my passion. I write everyday", says Frederika, who takes inspiration for her writing from day to day life. "Everything in life serves as inspiration for me. When friends speak about their experiences or memories, it inspires me. Even this conversation between you and me is inspiring", adds Frederika.
For Frederika her strength comes from family and friends whom she cherishes. She is constantlyin touch with friends over emails and social media. She believes that technology has made life easy for her. "Technology is helpful for everyone, not only me. I type with two fingers and I am quite fast compared to people who type with both hands", quips Frederika, who started typing with typewriters.
Frederika, a veritable picture of youthfulness and liveliness, says she feels disgusted when she hears of suicides, especially among the youth. "I feel disgusted when I read about youth committing suicide. One needs to look within and see what you are good at and explore it", she says.


One of my goals in the 2004 short course season is to swim the 200 fly and complete it without embarassing myself. I am looking for anyone who can provide me with some training guidelines / tips.
That was one of my goals last season, and I'd like to think that I at least came close to succeeding. One thing that helped me a lot was working on my underwater dolphin kick (since I'm a backstroker, it was beneficial to my main events too). Some people will probably scream that this is unfair and not swimming, but it's still legal as long as you pop up by the 15-meter mark - not that I ever got anywhere near that after the first length. If I kick 10 meters off each wall, I find that I am less likely to have a piano fall on my shoulders somewhere around the 150.
I too aspire to completion of the 200 fly at 2004 SCY Nationals. I'm in the evil 40-44 age bracket. How about you? Will we be in the same heat together?
Since I am not one of the naturally gifted swimmers who can just power through a 200 fly any old way I chose, I am trying to learn the crafty way to swim the stroke that relies less on pure conditioning. I ain't there yet, but I can see my destination on the road map.
First, learn how to swim fly with your body. The best articles I have found for this are Emmet Hines' "Slip Slid'n Away" and "Vive le Papillon." You can find them on his club's web site (http://www.h2oustonswims.org/) in the "Articles" section. You can also find lots of technique drills from the Total Immersion folks. I would strongly recommend Terry Laughlin's book "Swimming Made Easy" which has excellent drills for all 4 strokes. They have other products and do-dads. You can get them or not as you fancy. The book has the essentials for their approach. Finally, whether you follow Emmett's or Terry's approach (or someone else's for that matter) the key tool for learning the proper body dolphin technique is a pair of fins, any ole' fins, full-length, short-blade, cheap, expensive...it does not matter so long as they are comfortable and stay on your feet. They are NOT cheating; they are essential to getting the feel for what you body should be doing. After you get that, you can progress to the same feeling with just your feet.
The key problem with fly is being on the horns of a trilema. What do I mean by that? Well, you gots to do 3 things to swim fly. (1) Get your shoulders high enough on so you can recover your arms out of the water every stroke, and so you can inhale on the strokes when you breath (usually every other stroke or 2 out of 3). (2) keep you hips high enough so that you stay horizontal, and avoid having your back end sink down to the point of increasing your drag through the water. (3) Breathing often enough to be able to complete the race. Like many trilemas in life, you can usually get 2 out of 3 (as in "good, cheap, or fast; I can give you 2 out of 3"), but all 3 takes a lot more imagination. Since lifting your head enough to breath in most swimmers makes them lift their shoulders even higher than they would otherwise, a lot of them solve this puzzle by breathing less. Shoulders stay down; hips stay up; it works for about a 50. Once you get to a 100, it is a tough strategy to follow, and completely out of the question for a 200. A variation on this strategy is to simply swim faster. You breathe as you normally would, and you keep your hips up by increasing the velocity. This works a little better for a 100; moreover, since it is something you can improve with conditioning, it leads to the solution of doing lots of grueling fly sets while you are working out. Again, it is feasible up to a point. What happens when you cannot maintain this pace for 200 yards? You slow down, your hips sink, and you begin what Emmett so eloquently describes as butterstruggle. So I asked myself, is there a way to SLOW DOWN to a 200 pace, breathe as much as I need, and keep my body horizontal? I think there is with proper pacing. Let me explain below.
Why is it so hard to slow down? If you are only breathing every second stroke, you could turn blue waiting for you next breath when you hit the 125 yard mark. That is why you see some swimmers try to make their turns in the 200 fly as SLOW as possible, so they can cram in two or three big breaths before they start the next length. OK, why don't we breath every stroke? Our hips will sink. So, how can we breathe every stroke, and keep our hips up? I think the answer is, at least for me, is to put a glide in my stroke, and put it in when I am pressing my chest, and floating my hips. So, my distance fly stroke is pull, recover, glide, pull, recover, glide, and I breathe every stroke. Normally, that would not let me get my hips up, but with an exaggerated glide, I wait until I feel that they have refloated to the proper position. In fact, that is my cue for starting the next pull. The other key to stretching this stroke out is to de-emphasize my pull. I am focusing on a good body dolphin motion, and let my arms tag along for the ride. That helps me use the larger muscles in my body core, which are slower to tire than my arms, for more of my propulsion. I suspect that I have always put a glide in my stroke when I tire in a 200; however, I think I have been doing it at precisely the wrong moment for an efficient fly—when my shoulders are up and I am trying to gasp in as much air as possible. Does this sound familiar to you? I think the key may be to glide on purpose, from the very beginning, in the best, streamlined part of the stroke, and to avoid going into extreme oxygen debt and prematurely fatiguing key muscle groups before the race is over.
Now that I've found my stroke, there are a few key concepts I want to follow in the training part of my preparation. ONLY practice technically sound butterfly. If I feel myself slipping into butterstruggle, I cut short the distance, catch my breath, and begin again. Emmett's two articles talk about his "Easy Fly" drill, i.e. swim a 200 or 500 or whatever, swim the first 2, or 3, or 4,…strokes of each lap butterfly, and the rest of the lap freestyle (or body-dolphin). The idea is to pick a number of strokes so that you can swim them with good form at the beginning of each of the 20 laps that comprise a 500. Start with 2, and work up to the point where you can do the whole thing fly. Also, this is where my "pull, recover, glide" stroke fits in. I can vary speeds, and fall back to a slower fly that lets me "recover" (instead of simply tiring out more slowly). I can swim longer when I am tired without lapsing into butterstruggle. The key is to build up the yards I swim of butterfly in good form. Gutting out more yards of butterstruggle in poor form does not contribute.
Note how the set starts with a 200; if I do it in practice every time I use this set (and I tried to use it at least once a week), how big a deal could a competition 200 be? Then I do 3 more broken 200's, but I step down the distances to avoid lapsing into butterstruggle. I am practicing fatigued fly, but in a context where I can still keep the stroke mechanics together, and in a format that approximates swimming 200's. This set works simultaneously on mechanics, conditioning and confidence.
The last key concept is to continue to use stroke drills to maintain good mechanics, and otherwise ensure I have a well-rounded training program. I have found in most of the masters teams I join a tendency in many swimmers to indulge in mindless yardage pounding on the lowest sustainable interval, and give short-shrift to stroke drills, speed work, or even avoiding boredom. I do not understand why this aerobic rut is so popular (I have felt is siren allure myself, almost like some irresistible test of manhood, but I digress…). However, I do feel I need to consciously resist it by ensuring I have the other essential elements of conditioning in my workouts. If you practice with a masters team, as I do, this may require an exercise of discipline. It can be very attractive to switch from drilling to swimming, or blowing off what you should be doing to keep up with your lane mates who want to use a faster interval than you can maintain. It's your conditioning program; you made need to move over to a slower lane, or modify the workout to ensure you reach the training objectives the coach intends for the particular workout. (Note: this requires from me that I actually UNDERSTAND what the coach is trying to do. That can be a dicey proposition for me at 5:00 am, if I do not make a conscious effort to do so.) Take control of your training program.
OK, if you are still reading this, thanks for your patience. I expect most folks would have moved onto another post (or had their eyes rolled up into the back of their ends, and a little trail of drool leaking out the side of their mouth, but again I digress…), rather than wade through my semi-coherent ramblings. Please let me know how things work for you. I'd be interested. Oh, BTW, here is another interesting article on training for distance fly (http://www.thomasboettcher.org/RecordFly/default.htm).
Thanks for the training tips. In my research I have come across some of the articles you mentioned and I will be incorporating them into my training. I liked your comments about gliding and stretching out the stroke. I will work on that as well as the use of fins when I do the "Easy Fly?".
By the way, I am also in the 40 - 44 age group and you got it right, down right evil! I will only swim the 200 fly at the 2004 SCY Nationals if I make a NQT. Out here in the west, there are two meets I am shooting for to make an NQT; 1. USF Valentine Meet and 2. Pacific Masters SCY Champioship.
Again, thanks for all the info, much appreciated, good luck in your training and keep in touch.
Warning, another rambling post. I am a 210lb ball of lard, so people who get bent out of shape about us lard balls can go ahead and ignore this post and save us all some grief.
Matt, great post. I am someone who has never had a decent fly, but I am working towards completing a 200 fly with good form. I too am in the evil 40-44 age group, but you don't have to worry about me providing any competition to you. I was a nordic ski racer and not a swimmer in HS and college.
I am not doing very many long fly swims, since the longest sustained fly I have been able to do so far is only about 115m. (I do this as part of my IM day). I am still an emerging flyer, so I try to maximize the number of stroks of good fly emphasis workout. If most of those good strokes have a lot of intervening freestyle so be it. It is the number of strokes that count.
My technique for when I fall into butterstruggle is to keep going, but do a 2 one arms on each side and then pick it back up. That seems to be enough for me to clean out enough lactic acid to keep going for a while.
Here are some workouts I am doing to work towards my goal.
A typical fly emphasis workout is..
Every 4-8 weeks I have my coach take a look at my stroke and he tells me what drills to do.
(I start with what I can do a 500 superfly in and then increase by 1 to the top and then go back down). I find that the dr/sw and kick help me stay loose.
I tend to do my longer fly swims on the IM day. A typical IM day for me is shown below.
When I can finish a distance, the IM pyramid is made taller. I would like the pyramid to peak out at 600m.
Since I will probably never swim an NQT, a sensible thing to ask is why I do this to myself? Fact of the matter is I grew up doing very long power-endurance workouts, and I got to the point where I enjoyed them. Since I can't XC anymore because of very unstable knees, doing all this long distance stroke work gives me a similar feeling to sking 50 km workout, the switches in technique are similar to the switches in technique that happen during a long ski. So the answer is that I do it because doing those types of workouts is fun.
Thought I would drop an update.
Yesterday I demonstrated to my satisfaction that my new fly actually works for me! (Please see previous post to this discussion thread.) After doing multiple fly drills to find the stroke I wanted, I tried to do a 200 SCY fly in practice. Not only did I complete the 200, I felt like I could have done another 50-100 yards more. After waiting less time than I needed for my set of broken 200's (again, see previous post), I then did the 125/75 combination, also feeling less fatigued than what I expected.
I had previously been a bit intimidated by this set. The last time I used it was 4 years ago and as part of a program with more aerobic work and more yardage. I figured out the reason for my intimidation at about the 75 yard mark of the first 200. I noticed I had a subjective feel to my stroke that I had previously associated with having about 50 yards left before falling into butterstruggle. This had previously caused me to cut it short. During yesterday's swim I convinced myself that my changed stroke meant that I would use less of the energy I had left (that is, after all, the reason I made those stroke modifications) and be able to go longer with it. Correct answer.
4) Bring you hands together in front of you, and glide in this position. When you feel your hips float back towards the surface, that is your key to start the next stroke.
I want to emphasize, I am not saying this is the stroke of the future. It is designed to let people who cannot do more than a 50 or 100 with their "normal" fly swim substantially longer distances with good form. It is a way to SLOW DOWN your fly so you can chose how fast your swim, just like you do with the other three strokes.
The best 200 yard fly I swam,. When I was 18 years old, I swam a 2:31 200 yard fly and went out faster in the morning swim. I made the consolation heat of the 200 yard fly in the JO's and swam much slower spliting at 1:13 in the first 100 yard and doing the second at 1:16, now for our age groups in the 40's, the 40-44 and the 45-49, anyone who does a 2:29 butterfly is not that bad. Not that great if your a guy, really good if you are a gal. Try to almost negative split it or swim your second 100 yard not much slower than your first 100 yard.
Thanks for your post. Glad to hear you completed the 200 w/out too much of a problem. I've been working on the fly as well IM's and distance over the past couple of weeks. Don't want to burn out on too much fly.
In any case I did a 150 to open a fly set the other day and I really felt good. In fact when I finished I told my training partner (who will compete in the 55 - 59 age group in the 2004 SC season) that I could have done another 50, easy. Didn't really worry about the speed, just kept the body stretched out and glided all the while generating most of the power from my legs.
I will work on more of your suggestions and look forward to your future posts.
Since fly came from breaststroke, no one excepts breaststrokers to breath everyother stroke in a 200 yard breaststroke. That would take too much oxygen. So, why are we taught to breath everyother stroke in fly which also has another underwater pullout as well.
Because breathing in fly forces you to raise your head and results in dropped hips for most swimmers. Whereas, breathing in breaststroke doesn't throw off your stroke like it does in fly.
Speaking of breathing every other stroke in breaststroke, I remember a high school swimmer in the early 80's who would breathe every other and was quite good at it. Although, I'm not sure because of it or despite of it.
This is usuallly the agrument against breathing every stroke. But some of us don't have the conditioning in our 40's to be able to do it everyother stroke in a 200 yard or in my case even for most of the 100 yard. As for the breaststroke,many of the swimmers in their 50's will tell you in the late 1950's and early 1960's,people were swimming 100's and 200's almost totally underwater except for coming up for breath at the turn. The AAU ban that because it pose a risk. Remember it wasn't long ago where swimmers where doing dolphin kick almost for the while swim in back and fly. I don't know if the reasons were similar to the ban on breast in the early 1960's or because they felt it change fly and back too much.
I found the training tips and articles in this thread very helpful. One thing that I think was missing, however, was discussion of the head movement in the stroke. The articles spoke of starting your undulation by pressing down with your chest, then hips. While this is an OK discription, I think it misses the starting point.
Proper fly undulation starts with dipping the head as the arms are coming out of the water. This actually pushes the shoulders up during the recovery which makes the recovery easier. The shoulders then follow the head as the undulation passes through them and down toward the hips. As the hips are pressing down the head is coming up. The breath is taken just as the arms are completing the push and the head dives back down.
Thinking about the head, at least for me, becomes very important as butterstruggle sets in. I find that when this is happening, my hips are dragging and my head is tilting up. In this position getting my arms out and over the water is very difficult, hence the struggle. By focusing on dipping my head it forces my shoulders up and parallel to the water and then my hips come up as well, keeping my body in a more streamlined, though also more undulating position.


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On Memorial Day, we remember and honor the men and women who made the ultimate sacrifice in service to our country. And we also look to the future. To the ways we can honor their legacies and to the ways they have given us strength and help propel us into that future even as we cherish their memories.
NASA is in the future business. For more than 50 years, we've helped to bring things into reality that were just dreams. It's a dangerous business we do – this exploring space – it always has been and always will be. Each time men and women board a spacecraft, their actions carry great risk along with the opportunity for great discoveries and the chance to push the envelope of our human achievement.
We will always honor the Apollo 1, STS-51L Challenger and STS-107 Columbia crews, as well as other members of the NASA family who lost their lives supporting NASA's mission of exploration. We thank them and their families for their extraordinary sacrifices in the service of our nation.
The Marine Corps was my life for 34 years. It will always be a part of me. Along the way I served with and commanded many fine Marines and sailors, some of whom lost their lives serving this nation. I remember them all and ask that you remember and honor all our military members on this occasion of Memorial Day.
I joined the military to follow in the footsteps of my father and uncles, who had served in World War II, and to be part of something larger – to do something for my country and be involved on a national scale.
I am privileged to have served with so many fine men and women, who took their military training and applied it to NASA and other agencies and organizations to help create a future that was not only free, but expanded horizons for people across the globe.
To friends and family of service members lost in combat, we honor your great sacrifice. To those of you still serving or who have served, I know you carry with you the same large debt I do to our colleagues who have made the ultimate sacrifice and enriched our lives through their work.
It's my honor as NASA administrator to help our nation maintain its leadership in space and to push the limits of human experience. National service is about serving that ideal of our nation — that we do big things – things that benefit the whole world. The highest compliment we can pay those who have died for our country is to take action today to keep unfolding the future for which they fought and died.
As we gather with family and friends on Memorial Day, we celebrate the blessings of our hard-won freedom and remember those who made it possible. I wish you a safe and enjoyable holiday.
Author Administrator Charles BoldenPosted on May 27, 2011 Tags General
Reaching for New Heights
It is hard to imagine that just 50 years ago, a young and vibrant President challenged a worried nation to reach for the seemingly impossible goal of landing humans on the moon and returning them safely to Earth. I was a teenager when President John F. Kennedy delivered his charge to Congress and the American people, but those words sparked my imagination, as they did for the millions of others who watched.
We recently completed the construction of the International Space Station and today we stand at the door to closing the incredible 30 year Space Shuttle Era – a great adventure of unprecedented international cooperation in low Earth orbit. The words of President John Kennedy 50 years ago today are at this time so appropriate: "…the impact of this adventure on the minds of men everywhere, who are attempting to make a determination of which road they should take."
He added, "Now it is time to take longer strides–time for a great new American enterprise–time for this nation to take a clearly leading role in space achievement, which in many ways may hold the key to our future on Earth."
And a NEW ERA began.
His inspiring words, calling on us to pursue exploration as a unified nation, to think beyond the moon and also envision the benefits of exploration for Earth, were part of a speech on "Urgent National Needs."
Today, we have another young and vibrant President who has outlined an urgent national need to out-innovate, out-educate, and out-build our competitors and create new capabilities that will take us farther into the solar system, and help us learn even more about our place in the universe.
President Barack Obama not only honors the Kennedy space legacy, but advances it for this new century with his vision for the next era of exploration and discovery. We stand at a moon shot moment once again, where we have a chance to make great leaps forward to new destinations, develop new vehicles and technologies, and new ways of exploring.
Our advantage now is that we have five decades of accomplishment and world leadership in space on which to build. The dreams President Kennedy helped make real for our world, and the dreams we still hold, may appear to be just out of reach but they are not out of our grasp.
Today, we pause to remember the speech that launched that first moon shot moment, but we should not focus on the past. Later today, we'll announce an exciting new mission that represents an important down payment on President Obama's exploration objectives. We're making incredible progress in our goal to hand over low Earth orbit transportation services to our commercial partners, and yesterday, we announced an important next step in developing a successor to the space shuttle – a spacecraft that will carry our astronauts to new destinations away from the gravity of our home planet.
We are moving into a bright new future that builds on a challenge presented to us 50 years ago. It is important that we remember our history but we must always look forward toward a brighter future.
We want to express our thanks and appreciation to the entire Kennedy family for sharing this day with us, and I want to thank each of you who work every hour of every day to make NASA the world's preeminent space program. What began 50 years ago as a desperate race to space is now an ongoing journey to reach for new heights and new knowledge in the stars.
Recognizing Excellence in STEM Education
It was my pleasure today to meet the 85 winners of the Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching. It was an honor to host them at NASA Headquarters, since these educators are critical to our nation's future in space and the scientific and technological breakthroughs of tomorrow.
This year's award recognized teachers at the Kindergarten to 6th grade level, and that's really where young minds start to grasp the important concepts of science, technology, engineering and mathematics and turn their sense of wonder into a sense of purpose.
STEM teachers bear a special responsibility, because it is so essential that we develop more technology leaders for tomorrow to out-innovate and out-build our competitors and maintain U.S. leadership in space. I remember the many teachers who were instrumental in my life as I grew up – not least my parents, who were lifelong educators. These dedicated public servants are on the front lines of tomorrow with the young people who are going to be carrying out our missions to new destinations in the solar system and creating the technologies we'll need to live and work in space for long periods of time.
President Obama has committed to strengthen STEM education and prepare 100,000 effective science and mathematics teachers over the next decade. These commitments build on the President's "Educate to Innovate" campaign to help bolster science and technology education in the classroom.
The President said, "America's competitiveness rests on the excellence of our citizens in technical fields, and we owe these teachers a debt of gratitude for strengthening America's prosperity."
Congratulations to all the winners. Keep going!
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Administrator Bolden speaks at NASA Headquarters to winners of the Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching. (Photo credit: NASA/Paul Alers)
Author Administrator Charles BoldenPosted on May 19, 2011 May 23, 2013 Tags General
Thoughts On Today's Final Launch of Endeavour
Today's final launch of the space shuttle Endeavour is a testament to American ingenuity and leadership in human spaceflight. As we look toward a bright future with the International Space Station as our anchor and new destinations in deep space on the horizon, we salute the astronauts and ground crews who have ensured the orbiter's successful missions. The presence of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords at the launch inspired us all, just as America's space program has done for the past 50 years.
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NASA officials view space shuttle Endeavour (STS-134) as it launches skyward through the windows of Firing Room 4, Monday, May 16, 2011, at Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla. During the 16-day mission, Endeavour, with Commander Mark Kelly, Pilot Gregory H. Johnson, Mission Specialists Michael Fincke, Greg Chamitoff, Andrew Feustel and European Space Agency astronaut Robert Vittori will deliver the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS) and spare parts including two S-band communications antennas, a high-pressure gas tank and additional spare parts for Dextre. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)
50th Anniversary of US Human Spaceflight
Fifty years ago today, Alan Shepard rocketed into space on America's first manned space mission. That flight set our nation on a path of exploration and discovery that continues to this day.
May 5, 1961 was a good day. When Alan Shepard launched toward the stars that day, no American had ever done so, and the world waited on pins and needles praying for a good outcome. The flight was a great success, and on the strength of Shepard's accomplishment, NASA built the leadership role in human spaceflight that we have held ever since.
I was a teenager at the time and just sorting out the field of study I wanted to pursue. Though I never dared dream it growing up in segregated South Carolina, I was proud to follow in Alan's footsteps several years later and become a test pilot myself. The experiences I've had would not have been possible without Alan's pioneering efforts. The inspiration that has created generations of leaders to enlarge our understanding of our universe and to strive toward the highest in human potential was sparked by those early achievements of our space program. They began with Freedom 7 and a daring test pilot who flew the ultimate experimental vehicle that May day 50 years ago.
Today we celebrate a first – and we celebrate the future. Project Mercury gave our country something new, including an astronaut corps and the space vehicles that began our human exploration efforts.
I encourage everyone to not only remember that remarkable achievement, but to be reminded that we are still driven to reach for new heights in human exploration.
At NASA, each first is grown and expanded until we make the next breakthrough. 50 years ago, we sent the first American into space. Today we have a space station flying 250 miles overhead right now on which men and women have lived continuously for more than 10 years.
With the same spirit of innovation and grit of those early days of space flight, we now move out on an exciting path forward where we will develop the capabilities to take humans to even more destinations in the solar system. With our support and assistance, commercial companies will expand access to that rarefied area Alan Shepard first trod for America, allowing NASA to focus on those bigger, more challenging destinations and to enable our science missions to peer farther and farther beyond our solar system.
We are just getting started. Our future, as an agency and as a country, holds many more firsts. We know the next 50 years will be just as exciting as the last – filled with discovery, innovation and inspiration.
Author Administrator Charles BoldenPosted on May 5, 2011 Tags General
NASA Family Affected by Storms
The severe weather that devastated parts of the country last week has hit close to home for the NASA family. Madison County, home to Huntsville and the Marshall Space Flight Center, was in the path of the storm. Many of our coworkers and friends are dealing with property damage and power outages and Robert Lightfoot and his leadership team at Marshall continue their efforts to account for all our NASA and contractor employees.
Although the damage in Alabama to homes and businesses is unimaginable, we can at least take solace in the fact that property can be replaced. Lives, however, cannot and the toll in human life is even more tragic. Our thoughts and prayers are with all those who lost loved ones or friends.
We often talk about "the NASA family." These are not just words. Everyone at NASA, regardless of their geographic location, pulls together to support each other in times like this. The employees and contractors at Marshall Space Flight Center proved this in 2005 when they opened their hearts, homes, and wallets to many of our Stennis and MAF families who found themselves homeless for a time. They joined with the NASA family around the country in sending relief items and supplies and also shared office space with many who worked from MSFC as the region slowly returned to normal. To the members of the NASA family in Alabama, we are standing with you now just as you did with your fellow NASA family members then.
I encourage everyone to visit http://www.fema.gov/rebuild/recover/howtohelp.shtm to see how you can offer support to the people in Alabama and other states across the country impacted by these storms. I also encourage every member of the NASA family to visit http://www.ready.gov for more information on how to prepare in case disaster strikes where you live.
Again, please keep the members of the NASA family impacted by these storms in your thoughts and prayers. Together, we will get through this tragedy.
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myPhoneMD, a company that specializes in smartphone parts, repairs and accessories, today opened its newest store at 471 King Street in downtown Charleston. During the grand opening, company officials hinted at expansion plans for South Carolina, and beyond.
Shattered screens, cracked LCDs, broken buttons and other troubling setbacks are among the many repairs available at myPhoneMD stores. Since opening its first of five stores in Louisiana in March 2009, the company has generated buzz with its "CPR" technique, or Cell Phone Resuscitation. myPhoneMD meets a growing need among consumers: to restore their cracked, waterlogged and otherwise damaged smartphones to order.
Charleston Mayor Joseph P. Riley, Jr. (a smartphone user), Metro Charleston Chamber of Commerce members, business leaders and others joined myPhoneMD officials at today's announcement.
"Think of myPhoneMD as the emergency room to revive your smartphone after it sustains almost any type of damage that makes it unusable," said Conrad Green, co-founder of myPhoneMD. "We see the desperation and nervousness in our customers' faces when they walk in the door and then they are relieved after we tell them it can be fixed in a few minutes," explained company co-founder Jeff Lyons.
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Actor Tracy Morgan is in critical condition after a car crash early Saturday morning.
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You'll want to read this before you pack up the car for a summer getaway.
Actor and comedian Tracy Morgan is in critical condition following a car accident on the New Jersey Turnpike early Saturday morning that killed one person and injured three more. The driver of a tractor-trailer crashed into the back of a limo bus carrying Morgan, a former "Saturday Night Live" and "30 Rock" cast member, along with 6 other people. The driver of the truck allegedly hadn't slept in more than 24 hours.
The crash killed one passenger and critically injured four more, including Morgan, who suffered a broken leg, a broken nose, and several broken ribs. He's expected to remain in the hospital for several weeks.
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Building on the museum's already exceptional holdings of work by folk and self-taught artists, Petullo's gift will make the museum one of the more important repositories of art by untrained artists in the United States.
"I feel as if a lot of my children are leaving me," Petullo said of his beloved artworks, many of which have been taken from the walls in his private, Third Ward gallery in anticipation of the move. "But I'm told that I will have a lot of visitation rights."
The museum plans to install a rotating selection of Petullo's artworks, many of which are fragile and can be shown for only limited periods, on the second floor of the museum's older wing in the coming few years. A major exhibit is also planned for 2012.
What sets his collection apart is its strength in European works, which date from the 1920s to present. The collection includes 63 artists, mostly men, including works by artists such as Adolf Wölfli, Alfred Wallis and Scottie Wilson. American artists such as Bill Traylor, Henry Darger and Minnie Evans are also represented.
"The Petullo Collection is amazing in paying attention to the very sensitive and thoughtful European artists that really haven't been seen in the U.S. very much at all," said Leslie Umberger, senior curator at Sheboygan's John Michael Kohler Arts Center and an authority on the genre.
The Petullo collection will complement works in the permanent collection at MAM, which has been acquiring folk and self-taught artists since 1951. The new infusion of art will build on the Michael and Julie Hall Collection of American Folk Art and the Richard and Erna Flagg Collection of Haitian Art, one of the better collections of 20th-century work from Haiti.
Petullo, the founder and former president of Olsten Staffing Services in Milwaukee, started collecting in 1990 with the idea of giving what he acquired to the museum.
By 1993, he had amassed enough work that a traveling exhibition was organized called "Driven to Create." As is often the case with a show of so-called outsider artists, people who for various reasons exist outside mainstream society and the influence of art traditions, some critics took issue with the ways the artists were categorized. Writing for The New York Times, art critic Holland Cotter wrote that some of the works were by academically trained artists that didn't fit the collection.
The collection started with an almost archaic-looking drawing of a brown mule made in the 1930s by George Traylor, a former slave from Alabama. Using simple materials like pencil and cardboard, Traylor had apparently started making art suddenly one day in front of a pool hall not long after his wife died. After that, Petullo bought another piece by English artist Alfred Wallis, who, it turned out, also started making art after his wife died.
The biographies of the artists, the stories of how they disengaged from the world and created their own realities, are part of what attracts Petullo. Many of the artists began making voluminous quantities of art inexplicably, suddenly and obsessively, speaking of spirit guides or visions.
As he expanded his collection, Petullo got advice from the museum's former director Russell Bowman, who was well versed in the area, and for many years Petullo gave several works to the museum each year. That continuity was lost when Bowman left, Petullo said.
But even collecting with the museum in mind, Petullo never set out to create an encyclopedic collection or buy according to the museum's needs. He bought what he loved, often quite viscerally.
"The heart of that collection stems from a very personal place, from private moments that perhaps were never meant to be shared and have something very powerful in them," Umberger said.


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Gov. Bill Lee champions agriculture sector, vocational education in Memphis trip (Commercial Appeal) Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee visited Memphis on Tuesday. Here are six things he spoke about. The future of food: Lee came to The Peabody to speak at the Davos on the Delta conference, a meeting dedicated to new ideas about agriculture, technology and food systems. The trade show section of the conference highlighted high-tech gadgets including a remote-controlled drone that can spray crops from the air and a startup company that's working on robotic tractors. LINK
TN Governor & local mayors announce new training in trades for Shelby County School students (WATN-TV) Shelby County Schools students who want to learn a trade are getting a big boost. Tuesday morning, Mayor Jim Strickland, along with Shelby County Mayor Lee Harris, Governor Bill Lee, and others announced a new program for Shelby County Schools. Working with the Tennessee Home Builders Association, two schools will give students opportunities to get needed training to receive certificates in trades. LINK
Gov. Lee, mayors tout homebuilding curriculum in Shelby County Schools (Memphis Business Journal) Gov. Bill Lee and the mayors of Memphis and Shelby County gave high praise Tuesday, May 14, to a program that will bring residential construction curriculum into Shelby County Schools classrooms. The program, which the Memphis Business Journal reported on last month, will begin at Trezevant and Sheffield high schools this fall, with room for 200 students. "I have long known that there is a shortage of those skilled [technical] workers because we have left that part of education out of our school system for decades," said Lee, who ran a plumbing and electrical company prior to becoming governor. LINK
Addressing home builder gap, two Shelby County high schools offer construction curriculum (Commercial Appeal) Building industry and school officials joined Gov. Bill Lee on Tuesday to debut a new nonprofit that hopes to combat a home builder shortfall through a freshly approved high school curriculum. The Tennessee Builders Education Foundation organization will bring building and construction classes to Shelby County's Trezevant High School and Sheffield High School beginning in the upcoming 2019-20 school year. The program will look to address a 1,700 skilled worker shortage in West Tennessee's building industry while developing high school students for a sturdy career path, officials said at the press conference at Shelby County Schools Teaching and Learning Academy. LINK
Governor Lee, Mayor Strickland weigh in on Bluff City Law filming push (WMC-TV) It's crunch time for NBC producers as they decide where to shoot the new legal drama Bluff City Law. "We certainly will consider any economic activity opportunities like filming," Governor Bill Lee said on Tuesday. He also says he's well aware of the push for incentives to produce Bluff City Law locally, but Lee's comments came without a secure promise they'd happen. "I'm very intrigued by that opportunity. It's certainly an exciting one for this city," he said. LINK
Report: Trade war taking toll on Tennessee exports (WMC-TV) The global trade war is not just causing concern on Wall Street, but across Tennessee. A new report from Middle Tennessee State University said the Volunteer State lost almost $500 million dollars in exports in the last quarter of 2018, which it called it "one of the worst quarters in recent memory." … The report doesn't mention agriculture, but Governor Bill Lee says he's concerned about farmers. "I think that we're very concerned about particularly about the impact it has on grain crops, producers for example," said Lee. LINK
New Memphis program encourages more students to pursue careers in construction (Chalkbeat Tennessee) About 200 more Memphis students will be able to work toward certification in construction jobs next year thanks to a two-year state grant and an additional curriculum announced Tuesday. The after-school program, known as Pre-Apprenticeship Certificate Training, or PACT, is Gov. Bill Lee's latest push to train more high school students to enter careers straight out of high school in areas such as masonry, carpentry, landscaping, painting, plumbing, and construction technology. LINK
Tennessee's new governor named charter school champion by national group (Chalkbeat Tennessee) Gov. Bill Lee has been in office for less than six months, but he's already been named a champion of the charter school movement by the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools. Lee — who pushed through new funding and legislation for the state's growing charter sector — was the only Tennessean and sole governor among 17 local, state, and federal officials named Tuesday to the organization's 2019 class of "Champions for Charters." LINK
Governor won't intervene in execution of Donnie Johnson (Daily Memphian) Gov. Bill Lee announced Tuesday evening he will not stop the execution of death row inmate Donnie Johnson, who is set to be put to death Thursday. "After prayerful and deliberate consideration of Don Johnson's request for clemency, and after a thorough review of the case, I am upholding the sentence of the state of Tennessee and will not be intervening," Lee said in a statement. LINK
Gov. Bill Lee denies clemency for Donnie Edward Johnson; execution set for Thursday (Tennessean) Gov. Bill Lee will not stop the first execution of his term, rejecting a plea for mercy from death row inmate Donnie Edward Johnson, who is scheduled to die Thursday. Johnson, 68, was convicted in the 1984 murder of his wife Connie Johnson in Memphis. He suffocated her by stuffing a trash bag down her throat. But Johnson's application for clemency said he had changed behind bars, from a murderer and con man to a devoted man of faith. He serves as an elder in the Seventh-day Adventist Church and ministers to his fellow inmates. LINK
Governor Lee denies clemency request for condemned inmate Don Johnson (WKRN-TV) Governor Bill Lee has denied a request for clemency in the execution of Don Johnson. The Governor released a statement Tuesday: After a prayerful and deliberate consideration of Don Johnson's request for clemency, and after a thorough review of the case, I am upholding the sentence of the State of Tennessee and will not be intervening. Johnson is scheduled to be executed Thursday at Riverbend Maximum Security Institution in Nashville. Johnson's legal team released a statement after the governor's announcement: LINK
Gov. Lee says he won't intervene in Donnie Johnson execution (WTVF-TV) Gov. Bill Lee announced that he won't stop the execution of Donnie Johnson, scheduled for 7 p.m. Thursday, all but assuring the execution will take place. Lee released the following statement Tuesday: "After a prayerful and deliberate consideration of Don Johnson's request for clemency, and after a thorough review of the case, I am upholding the sentence of the State of Tennessee and will not be intervening." LINK
Governor Denies Clemency for Don Johnson (Nashville Scene) Gov. Bill Lee has denied Don Johnson's request for clemency, and will not intervene to stop Johnson's execution on Thursday. "After a prayerful and deliberate consideration of Don Johnson's request for clemency, and after a thorough review of the case, I am upholding the sentence of the State of Tennessee and will not be intervening," Lee said in a written statement. Johnson was convicted in 1985 for the murder of his wife, Connie Johnson. But Connie's daughter, Cynthia Vaughn, is now pleading for the governor to grant him clemency. The two reconciled in 2012. LINK
Governor Bill Lee denies clemency for death row inmate Donnie Johnson (WZTV-TV) Governor Bill Lee has denied clemency for death row inmate Donnie Johnson. "After a prayerful and deliberate consideration of Don Johnson's request for clemency, and after a thorough review of the case, I am upholding the sentence of the State of Tennessee and will not be intervening," Governor Lee said. Johnson was moved to death watch Tuesday. He is slated to die Thursday. LINK
Gov. Lee: No clemency for death row inmate (WVLT-TV) Governor Bill Lee announced he will not grant death row inmate Don Johnson clemency. Johnson was moved to death watch Tuesday morning ahead of his scheduled execution set for Thursday night. Johnson is scheduled to be executed Thursday for the 1984 murder of his wife, Connie Johnson. Her daughter, Cynthia Vaughn, has forgiven Johnson and joined in the request for clemency, but other relatives sent a letter to the governor asking that the execution move forward. LINK
TN Governor Bill Lee will not halt execution of Memphis death row inmate Don Johnson (WATN-TV) Tennessee Governor Bill Lee released the following statement regarding death row inmate Don Johnson: "After a prayerful and deliberate consideration of Don Johnson's request for clemency, and after a thorough review of the case, I am upholding the sentence of the State of Tennessee and will not be intervening." Statement of lead clemency counsel Rev. Charles Fels on behalf of the Don Johnson clemency team: LINK
Tennessee governors recall their agonizing death row decisions (News Sentinel) Bob Clement remembers walking past his father's bedroom inside the governor's mansion when he was a boy. Gov. Frank Clement was on his knees leaning against his bed, praying. A man was about to die. The life-or-death decisions placed on the shoulders of Tennessee's governors weighed mightily on the men in the moment and, for some, throughout their lives. Donnie Johnson is on death watch, scheduled to die by lethal injection Thursday for suffocating his wife with a 30-gallon trash bag just two weeks before Christmas in 1984. LINK
Tennessee Gov. Lee monitoring House speaker scandals (AP) Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee says he is continuing to monitor the scandals surrounding House Speaker Glen Casada but says that it's up to the House to determine its leader's fate. Lee made the remarks Tuesday in Memphis. The first-term Republican governor has previously said that if Casada were in his administration, he would ask him to resign but has declined to say whether Casada should step aside from his leadership post. LINK
Monroe County woman charged with Tenncare fraud after selling painkillers (WATE-TV) A Monroe County woman is behind bars Tuesday after she was caught selling painkillers she received using Tenncare. Brenda Lou McNabb, 51, is now charged with one count of Tenncare fraud and two counts of sale and delivery of a schedule 2 controlled substance. Investigators say McNabb obtained two separate hydrocodone prescriptions and was caught selling some of the pills to an informant. LINK
Officials: Sweetwater woman used TennCare to pay for drugs, sold them (WVLT-TV) The Office of the Inspector General announced charges for a Monroe County woman related to TennCare fraud. Brenda Lou McNabb, 51, was charged with one count of TennCare fraud and two counts of sale and delivery of a schedule II controlled substance. McNabb is accused of getting a hydrocodone prescription and selling some of the drugs to "a confidential informant." According to the Inspector General, she paid for a clinical visit and the prescription using TennCare benefits. LINK
Henderson Co. woman charged with TennCare fraud (WBBJ-TV) A Henderson County woman is charged in nearby Decatur County with doctor shopping for prescription drugs and using TennCare as payment. Julie Smith, 38, of Lexington is charged with one count of TennCare fraud by doctor shopping, according to a news release from the Office of Inspector General. Smith is accused of using TennCare to doctor shop for the painkiller hydrocodone, the release says. LINK
More than 40 animals removed from home, crews call conditions neglectful (WSMV-TV) Authorities said 42 dogs and cats have been removed from a home here. Representatives for the Animal Rescue Corps said the animals were living in neglectful conditions and this isn't the first time the owners have done this. "Their condition was sad," said neighbor James Dial of Cookeville. The animals were with the Animal Rescue Corps in Lebanon, TN, on Monday … The animals were spotted by the Putnam County Sheriff's Department while they were serving a warrant to homeowner Tara Neutzler for felony theft and TennCare fraud. LINK
Tennessee sues second Big Pharma giant for pain pill claims (News Sentinel) Tennessee's attorney general sued another painkiller producer Tuesday as an "unconscionable" accomplice to the state's epidemic of opioid abuse. Endo Pharmaceuticals and Health Solutions knowingly marketed the drug Opana as a safe, more effective and less addictive alternative to such painkillers as Oxycontin, in spite of blatant evidence otherwise, according to the lawsuit filed in Knox County Circuit Court Court under the state Consumer Protection Act. LINK
Rep. Dunn: Culture of paranoia exists under Speaker Casada's leadership (WTVF-TV) State Representative Bill Dunn called for Glen Casada to step down from his role as House Speaker, citing recent controversy and a culture of paranoia surrounding. Lawmakers are continuing to speak out about the culture of state legislature under Speaker Casada's leadership – state troopers in the hallways of the Cordell Hull building, people thrown out of committees, House chamber doors locked to keep members inside, paranoia about staffers eavesdropping on conversations. Rep. Dunn is the second and would temporarily take over Casada's role as speaker of the house should he choose to step down. LINK
Republican rep says Casada support dwindling to fewer than fifth of House (Daily Memphian) State Rep. Jeremy Faison, one of the first House Republicans to call for Speaker Glen Casada's resignation, said Tuesday fewer than a third of the 73-member caucus supports Casada. "I think he has less than 20 votes," Faison said. The total would give Casada support among fewer than a fifth of the 99-member chamber, including the 26-member Democratic Caucus, which already has called for him to step down. Faison, a Cosby Republican from East Tennessee, said he and other members took unofficial surveys of the Republican Caucus and came up with the figure. LINK
More GOP Lawmakers Call For Special Meeting To Discuss Future Of Tennessee House Speaker Glen Casada (WPLN Radio) At least 10 Republican lawmakers in Tennessee have publicly called for a caucus meeting to discuss the fate of House Speaker Glen Casada. According to GOP Caucus bylaws, that's the minimum number of lawmakers needed to trigger a special meeting. One of the latest Republicans calling for the meeting is Ron Gant, the House Assistant Majority Leader. He says the caucus needs to discuss its direction. LINK
Glen Casada used state plane for 5 trips in 3 months. His predecessor used it twice in 8 years (Tennessean) House Speaker Glen Casada spent nearly $7,900 in taxpayer money for 10 flights on a state airplane in the last three months, according to state records. The frequency and cost of Casada's flights are significantly more than those of his predecessor and Senate counterpart. And at least one of the taxpayer-funded trips Casada took included attendance at a Republican political dinner. Casada's taxpayer-funded travel included round trips to Knoxville, Chattanooga, Memphis and Fort Campbell. LINK
Report: Casada makes liberal use of state plane (TN Journal) The Tennessean reports that House Speaker Glen Casada (R-Franklin) used the state plane on five round trips since coming into office in January. That compares with two trips predecessor Beth Harwell (R-Nashville) took over her entire eight years as speaker. Senate Speaker Randy McNally (R-Oak Ridge) has used it only once since 2017. Casada's flights to and from Knoxville, Chattanooga, Memphis, and Fort Campbell cost nearly $7,900. Another trip planned for Sparta was cancelled amid the test messaging scandal enveloping Casada's office. LINK
Reps. Johnson, Weaver latest Republicans to call for Speaker Casada's resignation (WKRN-TV) More names of House Republicans are being added to those who want fellow party member Glen Casada to resign as their speaker. Rural middle Tennessee Rep. Terri Lynn Weaver and Montgomery County lawmaker Rep. Curtis Johnson are two of the latest who have come out publicly asking that Speaker Casada to "step aside." LINK
House Majority Leader addresses allegations against Speaker, staff (WSMV-TV) Tennessee's House Majority Leader William Lamberth is addressing the latest allegations against House Speaker Glen Casada. Lamberth said he called Casada's former Chief of Staff Cade Cothren right after learning Cothren was accused of sending racist and vulgar text messages and pursuing interns. "I made the phone call to Mr. Cothren before he stepped down and recommended that he do so," Lamberth said. "Actions certainly have consequences and his actions were wildly inappropriate." LINK
Reps. Johnson, Moon make it 9 Republicans to call for Casada resignation (TN Journal) Reps. Curtis Johnson of Clarksville and Jerome Moon of Maryville have joined the call for Glen Casada to step aside as House speaker following a text message scandal. That brings the number of Republicans to nine making appeals for Casada to resign from the chamber's top leadership role. "We need to restore the trust that has been lost," Johnson told The Tennessean. "He has become a political liability to the members of the House and to the state. I would urge the speaker to step down." LINK
Gant: 'We can all recognize the severity of what is happening' (TN Journal) Republican Rep. Ron Gant, the assistant House majority leader, is issuing a call for a caucus meeting to discuss the fallout from the text messaging scandal enveloping Glen Casada's speakership. "With all the vitriol playing out before our eyes; personally, I find myself thinking that if this is what public service has come to then I may want to serve the community that I love in another way," wrote Gant. It's unclear whether Gant's call for a caucus meeting differs from once sought by Rep. Jason Zachary (R-Knoxville), which the latter has described as involving a "vote of confidence" for the speaker. LINK
Grand Divisions Episode 52: House Speaker Glen Casada faces a growing chorus of calls for his resignation (Tennessean) For the second week in a row, House Speaker Glen Casada continued to face the fallout of a scandal involving his former chief of staff. The scandal started after a series of news NewsChannel 5 reports detailed racist text messages and drug use by Cade Cothren, Casada's former chief of staff. But it accelerated after The Tennessean reported on sexually explicit text messages between Cothren and Casada. LINK
Is this what Casada meant by 'nothing else?' (TN Journal) Seeking to shore up support among the Republican caucus last week, House Speaker Glen Casada assured colleagues "there's nothing else to come out" in the text message scandal that threatens to topple him from the chamber's top leadership position. But new revelations emerged on Monday, as WTVF's Phil Williams reported that Casada and his now former chief of staff exchanged text messages about whether two young women were at the legal age of consent. LINK
Glen Casada controversy opens old wounds from 2018 Hamilton County state House GOP primary (Times Free Press) A Chattanooga Republican who blames 2018 attacks by Tennessee House Speaker Glen Casada for his state House GOP primary loss to fellow Republican Esther Helton says "it is time for Speaker Glen Casada to step down." Jonathan Mason also says it's time for Rep. Helton, R-East Ridge, to speak up on where she stands with regard to the embattled Casada, who faces multiple controversies stemming from sexist and racist texts sent by a former top aide, along with other eruptions. LINK
Conexión Américas announces successor to longtime leader Renata Soto (Tennessean) Juliana Ospina Cano will take over as executive director for longtime Conexión Américas leader Renata Soto. Soto will step down at the end of the month after co-founding the nonprofit 17 years ago. Ospina Cano is a former staff member who has also worked at Metropolitan Nashville Public School's Office of English Learners and served as STEM Preparatory Academy's founding director of family and community engagement. LINK
Former New Jersey Gov. Christine Todd Whitman: Hard for moderate Republicans to find home in current GOP (Tennessean) In her visit to The Hermitage on Wednesday, New Jersey's former governor will speak on why when honoring our history we should look at the "good, the bad and the ugly." Christine Todd Whitman said her speech takes place in an appropriate place to talk about the historical context of The Hermitage and former President Andrew Jackson's legacy. The goal, she said, is not to turn away from our history but also be careful how we judge the past. LINK
Nissan warns of sharp drop in profit as sales fall in major markets (NY Times) Nissan warned on Tuesday that sales would continue to drop in major markets and forecast a sharp fall in operating profit, another blow for the automaker as it tries to shore up its management approach after the arrest of its former chairman, Carlos Ghosn. The company expects its operating profit to shrink nearly 28%, to 230 billion yen ($2 billion) for the fiscal year ending in March 2020. It blamed diminishing sales in the United States and Europe. "We hope to hit the rock bottom in 2018 and 2019 and reverse the trend in the coming years," the company's chief executive, Hiroto Saikawa, told reporters. LINK
Memphis, Tenn., Earns Accolades for Its Evolving Data Work (Government Technology) After winning an accolade for its efforts to improve data-driven governance, Memphis, Tenn., is pushing its data practice even farther. Memphis was one of four new jurisdictions granted silver certification by What Works Cities, a Bloomberg Philanthropies initiative that supports the use of data and evidence-based management within local government. Cities obtain these certifications by hitting a series of benchmarks determined by the group, which develops a set of 45 criteria related to the work, including things such as whether they use data to set goals and track progress. It was a prestigious award, given that nearly 100 cities applied and so few were chosen. LINK
Guest column: House Speaker Glen Casada has history of abuse of power (Tennessean) Before he even took on the role of Speaker of the House, Glen Casada behaved as if he were the emperor of Tennessee. Time and again he circumvented the law and common decency to achieve his goals. There has been no act too low, no punishment too petty to give him pause. Thankfully, like the Roman emperor Caligula, it appears that his behavior has finally reached such a level of outrageousness that even his most dedicated supporters can no longer ignore it. At least he didn't have time to make his horse a senator. LINK
Guest column: Tennesseans should tell legislators Casada must resign (Tennessean) Glen Casada has to go. Not just from his speaker position but from the Tennessee House of Representatives. Now. For good. If he won't go willingly, then Gov. Bill Lee should call a special session and the General Assembly should vote him out the door. Such a dismissal is long overdue. For years, Casada has tolerated and even nurtured a climate on Capitol Hill that is toxic toward women. The unsavory tweets between him and his former chief of staff, Cade Cothren, were less of a revelation than confirmation of what everyone up there already knew. LINK
Editorial: Tennessee moves to sabotage its own health-care system (Washington Post) REPUBLICANS FAILED to undermine the Medicaid program, the federal-state partnership that provides health-care coverage for the poor and near-poor, when they tried to repeal Obamacare two years ago. But the Trump administration might have found a way — by issuing waivers allowing states to volunteer for "block granting." Tennessee lawmakers decided this month to make their state the first to try. That's a bad decision for Tennessee and an alarming portent of the next potential assault on the nation's safety net. Under the current Medicaid program, states and the federal government share the cost of caring for those who are covered — in Tennessee, the feds pay about two-thirds — and there is no cap on federal spending in any given state. LINK
Guest column: My life could have ended on death row. Inmates deserve mercy too. (News Sentinel) I was born in prison. I learned this at the age of 40 after receiving my birth records from the state of Tennessee. This was quite a sobering discovery. I assume most adoptees have a fantasy of how they were brought into the world. Beginning life with a drug addled, incarcerated mother does not fit the illusion. My biological mother gave birth to me at 18. I was her fourth child. She shot her husband and was charged with the homicide in 1973, more than a year before my birth. LINK
Column: The truth about Obamacare's numbers you won't hear from Roe (Johnson City Press) Rep. Phil Roe's latest messaging on healthcare is petty. He rehashes worn propaganda on Obamacare and the Medicare for All proposition but offers no new thing. He even sinks to a misleading dig about England's National Health Service. He says Democrats "predicted 27 million Americans would gain coverage by 2019, but the actual number was only 11.4." What he doesn't tell you is that his number doesn't include those who stay on parents' plans until age 26 and those millions who are now covered under Medicaid expansion. LINK


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How to help children abused and bullied online
Almost half of Britain's children are victims of cyberbullies. But parents are powerless to get Big Tech to take down sexual images and toxic comments. Now one father offers a solution (at a price). Julia Llewellyn Smith reports
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Three years ago, Dennis Timand Clemmensen was idly googling his name to see if anything interesting came up. Finding nothing, he decided to try his four children's names, but when he entered details of his 14-year-old daughter, Silke, he was horrified. "There were some really bad things written about her," he says. "I can't remember exactly what, but it was like, 'She's a hooker. She'll go to bed with everybody.' "
Further googling revealed that explicit pictures of Silke had been posted on Facebook. "I don't know what they were because I didn't look," says Clemmensen, a 46-year-old administrator for a bricklaying company in Køge, Denmark. "I was devastated and so was my wife."
An equally shattered Silke confessed she'd sent the picture to her…


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Berlin Critics' Week 2018 Lineup
Last week we saw the first four titles lined up for this year's Berlin Critics' Week, the independent program that, like its counterparts in Cannes and Venice, runs parallel to its city's big festival, the Berlinale. Below, an overview; you can delve into more details on each of these films here.
First up, on February 14, before the screenings begin, there'll be an evening of two panels under one rubric, "Painting by numbers? On notions of the public and their effects on cinema." The first panel will address the German film industry specifically, while the second will open up the discussion on an international level. Invited speakers include directors Kleber Mendonça Filho (Aquarius) and Rebecca Zlotowski (Planetarium) and curators and critics Marie-Pierre Duhamel and Chris Fujiwara.
Serge Bozon's Mrs. Hyde (Madame Hyde) with Isabelle Huppert. Click the title for reviews.
Lukas Feigelfeld's Hagazussa, a medieval tale of the "daughter of an outsider woman" who "seemingly drifts into madness after being rejected by the village community."
Olivier Godin's Waiting for April (En attendant avril), an "absurdist comedy" that "joyfully and radically does away with cinematic conventions." Image at the top.
Octavio Guerra's documentary Searching for Oscar. "For several months, the director accompanied the film critic Óscar Peyrou from one film festival to the next. In the process, through meticulously composed shots, the director created a dual portrait of an aging critic and of an idiosyncratic festival society."
Péter Lichter and Bori Máté's The Rub, which "invokes Shakespeare's Hamlet and the American films of the late twentieth century," and the short 8th October 2016, "an experimental sketch of the demise of Hungarian opposition daily Népsabadság."
Mihaela Popescu's debut feature, Yet to Rule, "fuses traditions from the Romanian New Wave . . . with free-flowing, fantastical narration about gender relations, dominance and the rules of communal life."
Ana Urushadze's Scary Mother (image above), winner of the Best First Feature award in Locarno.
The Big House is "an unusual documentary about the largest football stadium in the U.S.," Michigan Stadium in Ann Arbor.
And then there's Air Time, a collective work by six performers who use fragments of the Litchfield Mosquito Control District Meeting on YouTube. "The only two delegates present vie passionately for attention and speaking time—all in the hope that at the other end of the broadcast someone is still watching. Running parallel is live web-cam footage from remote corners of the earth."


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