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Andrew Jackson's Shifting Legacy
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As you read the attached article, answer all focus questions in a short, two to three sentence response.
by Daniel Feller
History Now 22 (December 2009)
Of all presidential reputations, Andrew Jackson's is perhaps the most difficult to summarize or explain. Most Americans recognize his name, though most probably know him (in the words of a famous song) as the General who "fought the bloody British in the town of New Orleans" in 1815 than as a two-term president of the United States from 1829 to 1837. Thirteen polls of historians and political scientists taken between 1948 and 2009 have ranked Jackson always in or near the top ten presidents, among the "great" or "near great." His face adorns our currency, keeping select company with George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, and the first secretary of the Treasury, Alexander Hamilton. Jackson is the only president, and for that matter the only American, whose name graces a whole period in our history. While other presidents belong to eras, Jackson's era belongs to him. In textbooks and in common parlance, we call Washington's time the Revolutionary and Founding Era, not the Age of Washington. Lincoln belongs in the Civil War Era, Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson in the Progressive Era, Franklin Roosevelt in the Era of the Great Depression, the New Deal, and World War II. But the interval roughly from the 1820s through 1840s, between the aftermath of the War of 1812 and the coming of the Civil War, has often been known as the Jacksonian Era, or the Age of Jackson.
Yet the reason for Jackson's claim on an era is not readily apparent. Washington was the Father of his Country. Lincoln, Wilson, and Franklin Roosevelt were war leaders who also (not wholly coincidentally) presided over dramatic changes in government. But besides winning a famous battle in the War of 1812 years before his presidency—and at that, a battle that had no effect on the war's outcome, since a treaty ending it had just been signed—just exactly what did Andrew Jackson do to deserve his eminence? He led the country through no wars. No foreign policy milestones like Thomas Jefferson's Louisiana Purchase or the "Doctrines" of James Monroe or Harry Truman highlighted Jackson's presidency. He crafted no path-breaking legislative program like Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal or Lyndon Johnson's Great Society. Indeed Jackson's sole major legislative victory in eight years was an 1830 law to "remove" the eastern Indians beyond the Mississippi, something more often seen today as travesty than triumph. That measure aside, the salient features of Jackson's relations with Congress were his famous vetoes, killing a string of road and canal subsidies and the Bank of the United States, and Jackson's official censure by the United States Senate in 1834, the only time that has yet happened. On its face, this does not look like the record of a "top ten" president.
Focus Question: Why might some historians question Jackson's place on the list of "great" or "near great" presidents?
An exception might be claimed for Jackson's handling of the Nullification Crisis of 1832–33. Most southern states in Jackson's day vehemently opposed the "protective tariff," an import tax that provided most of the government's revenue and also aided American manufacturers by raising the price of competing foreign (mainly British) goods. In 1832 the state of South Carolina declared the tariff law unconstitutional and therefore null and void. In assuming this right, independent of the Supreme Court or anybody else, to judge what the U.S. Constitution meant and what federal laws had to be obeyed, South Carolina threatened the very viability of the federal Union. Although he was himself a Southerner, no great friend of the tariff, and a South Carolina native, Jackson boldly faced down the nullifiers. He first confronted nullification's mastermind (and his own vice president) John C. Calhoun with a ringing public declaration: "Our Federal Union—It must be preserved." He then responded officially to South Carolina's action with a blistering presidential proclamation, in which he warned that nullification would inexorably lead to secession (formal withdrawal of a state from the United States), and secession meant civil war. "Be not deceived by names. Disunion by armed force is treason. Are you really ready to incur its guilt?" Bloodshed was averted when Congress passed a compromise tariff which South Carolina accepted and Jackson approved. Although he played no direct role in its passage, Jackson took much credit for the compromise, and even many political opponents conceded it to him.
For his own generation and several to come, Jackson's defiance of nullification earned him a place in the patriotic pantheon above the contentions of party politics, at least in the eyes of those who approved the result. In the secession crisis thirty years later, Republicans—including Abraham Lincoln, an anti-Jackson partisan from his first entry into politics—hastened to invoke his example and quote his words. In 1860 James Parton, Jackson's first scholarly biographer, managed to praise Jackson's unionism while providing a negative overall assessment of his character.
Still, though not wholly forgotten, Jackson's reputation as defender of the Union has faded distinctly in the twentieth century, and hardly explains historians' interest in him today. Secession is a dead issue, and commitment to an indivisible and permanent American nationhood is now so commonplace as to seem hardly worth remarking.
Focus Question: Why might Jackson's strong stand in the nullification crisis earned him a reputation as one of the "great" or "near great" presidents?
Rather, Jackson's continuing prominence, and the source of continuing controversy, lies in something much less concrete: his place as an emblem of American democracy. He is remembered less for specific accomplishments as president than for his persona or image, his role as America's first presidential Representative Man. That image has deep roots. In 1831–32, midway through Jackson's presidency, a French aristocrat named Alexis de Tocqueville toured the country. Returning home, he published Democracy in America, still the most penetrating analysis of American society ever penned. Tocqueville organized his exposition (which in many respects was not at all flattering) around two themes. One was "the general equality of condition among the people." The other was democracy, which gave tone to everything in American life: "the people reign in the American political world as the Deity does in the universe." Tocqueville saw democracy, for good or ill, as the future of Europe and the world. "I confess that in America I saw more than America; I sought there the image of democracy itself, with its inclinations, its character, its prejudices, and its passions, in order to learn what we have to fear or to hope from its progress."
America, then, was democracy embodied—and Andrew Jackson was its exemplar. Born poor, half-educated, self-risen, he was the first president from outside the colonial gentry, the first Westerner, the first with a nickname ("Old Hickory"), the first to be elected in a grand popular plebiscite—all in all, the first living proof that in America, anyone with enough gumption could grow up to be president. He furnished the plebeian template of humble origins, untutored wisdom, and instinctive leadership from which would spring "Old Tippecanoe" William Henry Harrison, "Honest Abe" Lincoln, and a thousand would-be imitators down to the present day.
Focus Question: How does Jackson serve as the example of American Democracy, as de Tocqueville saw the U.S. during the 1820s through 1830s?
The image of Jackson as a quintessential product of American democracy has stuck. Yet always complicating it has been the interplay between the personal and the political. If Jackson is a potent democratic symbol, he is also a conflicted and polarizing one. In his own lifetime he was adulated and despised far beyond any other American. To an amazing degree, historians today still feel visceral personal reactions to him, and praise or damn accordingly.
Jackson's outsized, larger-than-life character and career have always offered plenty to wonder at and to argue about. His lifelong political antagonist Henry Clay once likened him, not implausibly, to a tropical tornado. Jackson's rough-and-tumble frontier youth and pre-presidential (mainly military) career showed instances of heroic achievement and nearly superhuman fortitude. Mixed in with these were episodes of insubordination, usurpation, uncontrolled temper, wanton violence, and scandal. Jackson vanquished enemies in battle everywhere and won a truly astonishing victory at New Orleans. He also fought duels and street brawls, defied superiors, shot captives and subordinates, launched a foreign invasion against orders, and (disputably) stole another man's wife. As president he was, depending on whom one asked, either our greatest popular tribune or the closest we have come to an American Caesar.
An adept manipulator of his own image, Jackson played a willing hand in fusing the political and the personal. First as a candidate and then as president, he reordered the political landscape around his own popularity. Swept into office on a wave of genuine grass-roots enthusiasm, Jackson labored successfully through eight years as president to reshape his personal following into an effective political apparatus—the Democratic Party, our first mass political party, which organized under his guidance. Significantly, the party's original name was the American Democracy, implying that it was not a party at all but the political embodiment of the people themselves. Democrats labeled their opponents, first National Republicans and then Whigs, as the "aristocracy." But the initial test of membership in the Democracy was less an adherence to a political philosophy than fealty to Andrew Jackson himself.
A generation after Jackson's presidency, biographer James Parton found his reputation a mass of contradictions: he was dictator or democrat, ignoramus or genius, Satan or saint. Those conundrums endure, and the facts, or arguments, behind them would fill a book.
Focus Question: How was Jackson able to manipulate his image to gain respect and support from the people?
There are a few focal points upon which Jackson's modern reputation has turned for better or for worse. One is his attack on corporate privilege and on the concentrated political influence of wealth. In his famous Bank Veto of 1832, Jackson juxtaposed "the rich and powerful" against "the humble members of society—the farmers, mechanics, and laborers," and lamented that the former "too often bend the acts of government to their selfish purposes." No president before and few since have spoken so bluntly of economic antagonisms between Americans. Jackson went on, in his Farewell Address in 1837, to warn of an insidious "money power," made up of banks and corporations, that would steal ordinary citizens' liberties away from them. (It said something of Jackson's sense of his own importance that he presumed to deliver a Farewell Address, an example set by Washington that no previous successor had dared to follow.)
Jackson's Bank Veto was so riveting, and so provocative, that in the ensuing presidential election both sides distributed it as a campaign document. Foes of bankers, corporations, Wall Street, and "the rich" have turned to it ever since. Populists and other agrarian insurgents in the nineteenth century, and New Deal Democrats in the twentieth, claimed it as their birthright. Writing in the wake of the Great Depression and the New Deal, Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., made the Bank Veto the centerpiece of The Age of Jackson (1945), the foundational work of modern Jacksonian scholarship.
In the late twentieth century, Jackson's strictures attracted some historians who were articulating a class-based analysis of American history, and who used them to interpret Jackson as a foe not only of capitalist abuses and excesses, but of capitalism itself. To other recent scholars, though, the Bank Veto has seemed merely demagogic, while to most people outside the academy the whole Jacksonian struggle over banking grew to appear baffling and arcane, divorced from our present concerns. All of that has suddenly changed. Since the financial collapse of 2008, Jackson's warnings seem not only urgently relevant but eerily prescient. They are again often quoted, and his reputation has enjoyed, at least for the moment, a sharp uptick.
Focus Question: How was Jackson's Veto Message on the Bank Recharter Bill used during the 1830s?
How has the Bank Veto been interpreted in more modern times?
The other framing issue for Jackson's recent reputation—one that Schlesinger did not even mention, but which has come since to pervade and even dominate his image—is Indian removal. The symbolic freighting of this subject can hardly be overstated. Just as Jackson—child of the frontier, self-made man, homespun military genius, and plain-spoken tribune of the people—has sometimes served to stand for everything worth celebrating in American democracy, Indian removal has come to signify democracy's savage and even genocidal underside. It opens a door behind which one finds Jackson the archetypal Indian-hater, the slave owner, the overbearing male patriarch, and the frontiersman not as heroic pioneer but as imperialist, expropriator, and killer.
To Schlesinger (who was no racist) and to others who have seen Jackson's essential importance in his championship of the common man, the "little guy," against corporate domination, Indian removal appeared to be an aside, at worst a regrettable failing. But to many today it shows Jackson and his white man's democracy at their core. There is no doubt that removing the Indians, particularly those in Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi, was centrally important to Jackson. Together with purging the federal bureaucracy of his political opponents and instituting what he called "rotation in office" (and what his enemies dubbed the "spoils system"), it stood at the head of his initial presidential agenda. Jackson's motives and methods in pursuing Indian removal were deeply controversial at the time and remain so today. He claimed to be acting only on impulses of duty and philanthropy. The Indians could not, without violating the essential rights of sovereign states, remain where they were; their own self-preservation required quarantine from pernicious white influences; and the terms offered for their evacuation were reasonable and even generous. Critics, then and since, have branded these as artful rationalizations to cover real motives of greed, racism, and land-lust.
Connecting directly to our widely shared misgivings about the human cost of Euro-American expansion and the pejorative racial and cultural attitudes that sustained it, the recent debate over Jackson's Indian policy has gone mainly one way. A handful of defenders or apologists—most notably Jackson biographer Robert V. Remini—have dared to buck the tide, but for most scholars the question is not whether Jackson acted badly, but whether he acted so badly as to exclude considering anything else he might have done as palliation or excuse. Both inside and outside the academy, at least until the sudden resuscitation of Jackson as anti-corporate champion, the arch-oppressor of Indians had become Jackson's prevalent image. Far more American schoolchildren can name the Cherokee Trail of Tears (which actually happened in Martin Van Buren's presidency, though in consequence of Jackson's policy) than the Bank Veto, the Nullification Proclamation, or perhaps even the Battle of New Orleans.
Focus Question: Why, in more recent times, has the way Jackson handled Indian Removal during his presidency, been criticized?
How does Indian Removal reflect Jackson's ideas of democracy in the early Nineteenth Century?
No simple conclusion offers itself. Jackson's reputation, like the man himself, defies easy summary. The one thing that seems certain is that Americans will continue to argue about him.
Daniel Feller is Betty Lynn Hendrickson Professor of History and Editor of The Papers of Andrew Jackson at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. He is the author of The Jacksonian Promise: America, 1815-1840.
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In February of 2001, the Dickerson family packed up their car and traveled the 16 hours it takes to get from New Jersey to Orlando. They had planned their two-week vacation in part to avoid a snowstorm heading toward where they lived.
"We were supposed to be there for two weeks, but every time we were supposed to leave, there was another snowstorm," Jessica Dickerson, the mother of the family, explains. "We were like, why are we gonna leave? And so we never left. We never left that vacation."
Coordinating with other family members, the Dickersons sold their home, sold their businesses, and eventually transitioned from extended-hotel-stays to a home right up the street from Universal Orlando Resort, the top selling-point for the family's relocation.
The two sisters, Kaitlyn and Skylar, were two and three years old at the time of that first trip to Universal and have, as evidenced by the pictures throughout this post, grown up at Universal.
"That's what makes Universal so special," Rich, the father of the family, starts. "We came out here to Florida and found Universal to be a place to raise your family. You can spend family-time together, but you could also let the children be free and learn their independence."
Because the four of them were the only family they had locally, the Dickersons became closer and closer with Team Members at Universal. After all, that's who they were spending the majority of their time with.
"Team Members became family," Rich says.
"The girls started bringing cookies and ornaments to the Team Members during the holiday season because they knew they had to work and couldn't be with their own family," Jessica says.
Kaitlyn chimes in with, "I mean it took nothing for us to wish them Happy Holidays and thank them for being here. They were our family, it would be weirder if we didn't visit with them during the holidays."
While the holiday season is certainly a special one for the Dickersons at Universal, they will not hesitate to all exclaim in unison that Mardi Gras is their absolute favorite event in the parks.
"That first visit, when we were two and three, we became obsessed with the event," Skylar says. "We just always wanted those beads. Mom would try to take us to do something else and we'd go, 'No! Mardi Gras or nothing!'"
"I loved it, too, they just wanted to go even if it was raining!" Jessica says. "But some of my favorite memories are holding Skylar with one hand and catching beads with the other."
After 19 years coming to the parks, there are a lot of favorite memories to choose from. A lot of meet-and-greets (though the one where the girls gave The Grinch an onion stands out), a lot of rides (the time Skylar was so scared on Revenge of the Mummy that her mom's arm had a light bruise from where she held on too tight), and even some iconic grand openings (the year Skylar's birthday and Father's Day fell in the same week that The Wizarding World of Harry Potter – Hogsmeade opened).
But one of the many perks the Dickerson family has discovered from living so close by and being Annual Passholders is the ability to come for the big and the small moments.
"We've come to the parks just for an hour or so after we eat just to walk off dinner," Kaitlyn says.
In 2019, the parks became a safe haven for the family as they navigated through a difficult time.
"Dad had a heart attack in February of 2019," Kaitlyn says. "It was a major heart attack for him and a major life-changer for us."
Rich was in the hospital for over a month in varying degrees of serious complications and paths to recovery. During those ups and downs, backs and forths, the women of the family were, understandably, on edge.
"They needed somewhere to escape life for a while and this was that place for them," Rich says.
During the hours that hospital visits were limited, Jessica, Kaitlyn, and Skylar would come just to walk around, catch a show or two, and head back to the hospital to visit with Rich.
"Universal helped us get through that time," Skylar says. "It felt more like being home than our actual home did at the time."
Only a year or so after Rich's heart attack, in the spring of 2020, the Dickerson family was faced with the same challenge many Universal fans were: how to bring Universal home during the closure caused by COVID-19.
"It was really challenging because you don't realize how much this place is a part of your life until it's suddenly not even an option to be here," Kaitlyn says.
"We tried to bring the parks into our house, though," Skylar starts. "For her (Kaitlyn's) birthday, I set up Men In Black. I painted all the alien signs and hung them throughout our house and drove her around on our dining room chair. We also watched a lot of the vintage POV videos."
"Men In Black was our favorite ride when we were kids and it's still our favorite in the park," Kaitlyn adds.
"Yep, if you ask what's changed between when they were kids to now?," Jessica says. "Really nothing. Mardi Gras is still their favorite, Men In Black is still their favorite. Obviously things have changed since reopening…"
Kaitlyn chimes in, "But the characters haven't! Even though we can't hug characters right now, they still give so much love. It always feels so special when these characters step out of the screen. It brings this little piece of nostalgia in your heart."
At the mere mention of characters and nostalgia, Skylar lights up.
"When we were kids getting to talk to The Grinch — not on a TV screen but in real life — it blew our minds," Skylar says. "Still to this day we get that warm, fuzzy feeling when we meet him."
"Yeah, it never went away, even though we're adults," Kaitlyn adds.
Kaitlyn and Skylar also credit having several Universal Orlando merchandise items in the house as helping them in those closure months. The whole family stayed inside their home for the majority of March – June, returning to the parks a couple weeks after the initial reopening date of June 3.
"We felt so much safer here [at Universal] than going grocery shopping," Skylar says. "Plus everyone has been nice and seems genuinely happy to be here. It has not changed."
"Well, it's changed, just not enough to keep us from coming," Kaitlyn says. "It's still that electric energy we love, the same sights and sounds."
"They've grown up here," Jessica says. "Yes, it was sad and weird not being here for so long, but when we came back? As soon as we walked through the gates it was like we never left. It all came back."
The family acknowledges that some of those same feelings that emerged after Rich's heart attack are present during the tough times of this past year. But they are grateful to have the opportunity to return to the place that helps them forget about life for a while.
"Dad being able to come back here and walk around means the world to us," Skylar says.
"They take me very seriously," Rich adds.
"Of course we do! We are a very close family unit," Kaitlyn says.
"Right," Rich continues. "And we feel safe here."
"We trust you guys," Kaitlyn says. "You're family."
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Reply	Tyler December 17, 2020 at 12:56 pm
Great story! I proposed to my wife on property and the resort is now our go-to anniversary destination. Fun to read about another family with a close personal connection.
Reply	Christopher January 14, 2021 at 11:30 am
I love this story, we have know this family for years, as they came to visit the park down the street. They all have such great hearts!!
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I know this family personally from working at Denny's. They would come in and they are just the kindest and sweetesth family you could ever meet. They spread Joy wherever they go.
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Why Get Tested
To help diagnose the cause of early onset emphysema and or liver dysfunction to establish the risk of emphysema and or liver disease due to alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency and determine the likelihood that children might inherit the risk
When your infant or young child show signs of liver disease when you develop emphysema before age 40 when you have chronic obstructive pulmonary disease COPD or unexplained liver disease at any age when you have a close relative with alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency
Sample Required
A blood sample drawn from a vein in your arm
Test Preparation Needed
How is it used
Alpha-1 antitrypsin AAT testing is used to help diagnose alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency as the cause of early onset emphysema or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease COPD when a person does not have obvious risk factors such as smoking or exposure to lung irritants such as dust and fumes It may also be used when someone has asthma that obstructs his or her breathing even after treatment Testing is also used to help diagnose the cause of persistent jaundice and other signs of unexplained liver injury This is done primarily in infants and young children but may be done in people of any age Testing may also be used to help determine whether a person who has a family history of alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency has one or two copies of the SERPINA1 gene Three types of AAT tests are commonly available One or more of these may be used to evaluate an individual Alpha-1 antitrypsin measures the level of the protein AAT in blood Alpha-1 antitrypsin phenotype testing evaluates the amount and type of AAT being produced and compares it to normal patterns Alpha-1 antitrypsin genotype testing DNA testing can be used to establish which SERPINA1 gene alleles are present including the normal wild type M allele or variant alleles This test does not identify every variant but it will detect the most common ones S and Z as well as variants that may be common in a particular geographical area or family Once the affected person s SERPINA1 gene alleles have been identified other family members may be tested to establish their own risk of developing emphysema and or liver involvement as well as the likelihood that their children might inherit the disease Gene sequencing is uncommon for AAT but may be necessary to identify rare alleles and obtain an accurate diagnosis
When is it ordered
Alpha-1 antitrypsin testing may be ordered when An infant has jaundice that lasts for more than a week or two an enlarged spleen fluid accumulation in the abdomen ascites persistent itching pruritus and other signs of liver injury Someone of any age has COPD raised tender skin spots that form ulcers necrotizing panniculitis a vascular disease called granulomatosis with polyangiitis or unexplained airway widening bronchiectasis A person younger than 40 years of age develops wheezing a chronic cough or bronchitis is short of breath after exertion and or shows other signs of emphysema this is especially true when the person is not a smoker has not been exposed to known lung irritants and when the lung damage appears to be located low in the lungs Someone has a close relative with alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency An individual has an affected family member and wants to know the likelihood of having an affected child In their 2003 guidelines the American Thoracic Society recommends AAT testing when individuals are diagnosed with certain conditions such as Emphysema at a young age younger than 45 years old and or no obvious risk factors for the disease such as smoking Bronchiectasis Asthma that is difficult to treat Liver disease with no known cause Necrotizing panniculitis In their 2016 guidelines intended to update the American Thoracic Society s guidelines the Alpha-1 Foundation recommends AAT testing for all individuals with COPD Liver disease with no known cause Necrotizing panniculitis Granulomatosis with polyangiitis Unexplained bronchiectasis The Alpha-1 Foundation also recommends offering AAT testing and genetic counseling to individuals with close or extended family carrying an abnormal AAT gene
What does the test result mean
AAT level A low level of AAT in blood indicates that the person tested may have alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency The lower the level of AAT the greater the risk of developing emphysema and other disorders related to AAT deficiency Phenotype test In people with an abnormal form of AAT the risk of developing disease depends on how much is produced and which variant is present A variant with very low activity may lead to both emphysema because it does not protect the lungs and liver disease because of the buildup of abnormal AAT inside liver cells Genotype test Most people in the U S have two copies of the normal wild type MM gene and produce sufficient AAT When DNA testing indicates the presence of one or two abnormal copies of the SERPINA1 gene less AAT and or abnormal AAT will be produced The degree of AAT deficiency and the degree of lung and or liver damage can vary greatly Two people with the same abnormal genes may have very different disease courses As with any genetic testing a genetic counselor can explain the likelihood that the disease may be passed on to the affected person s children People with one copy of M and one of S or Z MS or MZ will produce reduced amounts of AAT but should have enough to protect themselves They will be carriers of the condition however and can pass it on to their children Individuals with two copies of S SS may be asymptomatic or moderately affected they produce about 60 of normal AAT People with one copy of S and one of Z SZ are at an increased risk of developing emphysema they produce about 40 of normal AAT Individuals who have two copies of Z ZZ are the most severely affected they only produce about 10 of the required AAT along with those who have one or two copies of rare forms of the SERPINA1 gene that are null they do not produce any AAT
Is there anything else I should know
AAT is an acute phase reactant This means that it will be elevated in acute and chronic inflammatory conditions infections and with some cancers Increased levels of AAT may also be seen with oral contraceptive use pregnancy and stress These temporary or chronic AAT increases may cause levels to appear normal in people with mild to moderate AAT deficiency AAT levels may be decreased in neonatal respiratory distress syndrome and in conditions that cause a decrease in serum proteins such as kidney disease malnutrition and some cancers Protein electrophoresis is a test that evaluates many different proteins in the blood Sometimes the test will detect a deficiency in AAT unexpectedly when it is done for a different purpose In those cases follow-up testing for AAT may confirm a deficiency of the protein even if there are no signs or symptoms of disease
What can I do to take care of myself if I have alpha-1 antitrypsin AAT deficiency
Don t smoke Taking care of your lungs can increase your lifespan and delay the onset of emphysema Avoid lung irritants such as dust and fumes get regular vaccinations to protect against pneumococcal pneumonia and Haemophilus influenzae type b infections for example and an annual influenza shot get prompt medical attention for lung infections and get regular exercise to help maintain lung function Work with your healthcare practitioner to determine what steps will help you take care of yourself
How common is alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency
It is thought to be one of the most frequent genetic deficiencies in Caucasians The American Lung Association estimates that as many as 100 000 people in the U S are born with AAT deficiency each year and that as many as 25 million Americans are carriers of at least one deficient gene AAT is an under diagnosed condition About only 10 of severely deficient individuals have been identified
Do I need to have all three types of AAT testing
Usually no The number of tests and the order in which they are done depend upon the laboratory or medical facility performing the testing In most cases the AAT blood test and either the phenotype or genotype test are sufficient In difficult or unusual cases all three tests may be ordered


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package org.apache.poi.hpsf.extractor;

import java.io.IOException;

import junit.framework.TestCase;

import org.apache.poi.POIDataSamples;
import org.apache.poi.hpsf.Thumbnail;
import org.apache.poi.hssf.HSSFTestDataSamples;
import org.apache.poi.hssf.extractor.ExcelExtractor;
import org.apache.poi.hssf.usermodel.HSSFWorkbook;
import org.apache.poi.poifs.filesystem.POIFSFileSystem;

public final class TestHPSFPropertiesExtractor extends TestCase {
	private static final POIDataSamples _samples = POIDataSamples.getHPSFInstance();

	public void testNormalProperties() throws Exception {
		POIFSFileSystem fs = new POIFSFileSystem(_samples.openResourceAsStream("TestMickey.doc"));
		HPSFPropertiesExtractor ext = new HPSFPropertiesExtractor(fs);
		try {
    		ext.getText();

    		// Check each bit in turn
    		String sinfText = ext.getSummaryInformationText();
    		String dinfText = ext.getDocumentSummaryInformationText();

    		assertTrue(sinfText.indexOf("TEMPLATE = Normal") > -1);
    		assertTrue(sinfText.indexOf("SUBJECT = sample subject") > -1);
    		assertTrue(dinfText.indexOf("MANAGER = sample manager") > -1);
    		assertTrue(dinfText.indexOf("COMPANY = sample company") > -1);

    		// Now overall
    		String text = ext.getText();
    		assertTrue(text.indexOf("TEMPLATE = Normal") > -1);
    		assertTrue(text.indexOf("SUBJECT = sample subject") > -1);
    		assertTrue(text.indexOf("MANAGER = sample manager") > -1);
    		assertTrue(text.indexOf("COMPANY = sample company") > -1);
		} finally {
		    ext.close();
		}
	}

	public void testNormalUnicodeProperties() throws Exception {
		POIFSFileSystem fs = new POIFSFileSystem(_samples.openResourceAsStream("TestUnicode.xls"));
		HPSFPropertiesExtractor ext = new HPSFPropertiesExtractor(fs);
		try {
    		ext.getText();

    		// Check each bit in turn
    		String sinfText = ext.getSummaryInformationText();
    		String dinfText = ext.getDocumentSummaryInformationText();

    		assertTrue(sinfText.indexOf("AUTHOR = marshall") > -1);
    		assertTrue(sinfText.indexOf("TITLE = Titel: \u00c4h") > -1);
    		assertTrue(dinfText.indexOf("COMPANY = Schreiner") > -1);
    		assertTrue(dinfText.indexOf("SCALE = false") > -1);

    		// Now overall
    		String text = ext.getText();
    		assertTrue(text.indexOf("AUTHOR = marshall") > -1);
    		assertTrue(text.indexOf("TITLE = Titel: \u00c4h") > -1);
    		assertTrue(text.indexOf("COMPANY = Schreiner") > -1);
    		assertTrue(text.indexOf("SCALE = false") > -1);
		} finally {
		    ext.close();
		}
	}

	public void testCustomProperties() throws Exception {
		POIFSFileSystem fs = new POIFSFileSystem(
				_samples.openResourceAsStream("TestMickey.doc")
		);
		HPSFPropertiesExtractor ext = new HPSFPropertiesExtractor(fs);
		try {
    		// Custom properties are part of the document info stream
    		String dinfText = ext.getDocumentSummaryInformationText();
    		assertTrue(dinfText.indexOf("Client = sample client") > -1);
    		assertTrue(dinfText.indexOf("Division = sample division") > -1);

    		String text = ext.getText();
    		assertTrue(text.indexOf("Client = sample client") > -1);
    		assertTrue(text.indexOf("Division = sample division") > -1);
        } finally {
            ext.close();
        }
	}

	public void testConstructors() throws IOException {
		POIFSFileSystem fs;
		HSSFWorkbook wb;
		try {
			fs = new POIFSFileSystem(_samples.openResourceAsStream("TestUnicode.xls"));
			wb = new HSSFWorkbook(fs);
		} catch (IOException e) {
			throw new RuntimeException(e);
		}
		ExcelExtractor excelExt = new ExcelExtractor(wb);

		final String fsText;
		HPSFPropertiesExtractor fsExt = new HPSFPropertiesExtractor(fs);
		fsExt.setFilesystem(null); // Don't close re-used test resources!
		try {
		    fsText = fsExt.getText();
		} finally {
		    fsExt.close();
		}

        final String hwText;
		HPSFPropertiesExtractor hwExt = new HPSFPropertiesExtractor(wb);
		hwExt.setFilesystem(null); // Don't close re-used test resources!
		try {
		    hwText = hwExt.getText();
		} finally {
		    hwExt.close();
		}

        final String eeText;
        HPSFPropertiesExtractor eeExt = new HPSFPropertiesExtractor(excelExt);
        eeExt.setFilesystem(null); // Don't close re-used test resources!
        try {
            eeText = eeExt.getText();
        } finally {
            eeExt.close();
        }

		assertEquals(fsText, hwText);
		assertEquals(fsText, eeText);

		assertTrue(fsText.indexOf("AUTHOR = marshall") > -1);
		assertTrue(fsText.indexOf("TITLE = Titel: \u00c4h") > -1);

		// Finally tidy
		wb.close();
	}

	public void test42726() throws IOException {
		HPSFPropertiesExtractor ext = new HPSFPropertiesExtractor(HSSFTestDataSamples.openSampleWorkbook("42726.xls"));
		try {
    		String txt = ext.getText();
    		assertTrue(txt.indexOf("PID_AUTHOR") != -1);
    		assertTrue(txt.indexOf("PID_EDITTIME") != -1);
    		assertTrue(txt.indexOf("PID_REVNUMBER") != -1);
    		assertTrue(txt.indexOf("PID_THUMBNAIL") != -1);
        } finally {
            ext.close();
        }
	}

    public void testThumbnail() throws Exception {
        POIFSFileSystem fs = new POIFSFileSystem(_samples.openResourceAsStream("TestThumbnail.xls"));
        HSSFWorkbook wb = new HSSFWorkbook(fs);
        Thumbnail thumbnail = new Thumbnail(wb.getSummaryInformation().getThumbnail());
        assertEquals(-1, thumbnail.getClipboardFormatTag());
        assertEquals(3, thumbnail.getClipboardFormat());
        assertNotNull(thumbnail.getThumbnailAsWMF());
        wb.close();
    }

    public void test52258() throws Exception {
        POIFSFileSystem fs = new POIFSFileSystem(_samples.openResourceAsStream("TestVisioWithCodepage.vsd"));
        HPSFPropertiesExtractor ext = new HPSFPropertiesExtractor(fs);
        try {
            assertNotNull(ext.getDocSummaryInformation());
            assertNotNull(ext.getDocumentSummaryInformationText());
            assertNotNull(ext.getSummaryInformation());
            assertNotNull(ext.getSummaryInformationText());
            assertNotNull(ext.getText());
        } finally {
            ext.close();
        }
    }
}

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Ross Atkins was busy on Thursday, adding two players to the Toronto Blue Jays' depth on minor league deals with the biggest name being Mat Latos.
Latos, 29, comes into 2017 with eight years of major league experience after being an 11th round pick of the San Diego Padres in 2006. Latos debuted in 2009 but really came into his own in 2010 when he started a four-year run of making 30+ starts with excellent stats. Latos was 51-35 in 127 games from 2010 to 2013 with the Padres and the Cincinnati Reds, throwing almost 800 innings with a 3.27 ERA and 1.16 WHIP, striking out 8.4 batters per nine innings and accumulating 16 wins above replacement (according to Fangraphs).
In 2014, Latos was coming back from offseason surgery to remove bone chips in his elbow and tore cartilage in his left knee, getting surgery during spring training and returning to the major leagues in mid-June. Latos had solid numbers coming back in 2014 but became more of a journeyman in 2015, struggling with knee pain throughout the year. He was traded to the Dodgers in July and was designated for assignment and released towards the end of the season. He signed with the Angels and pitched the last week of the season with them.
Latos was a free agent and signed a one-year deal with the Chicago White Sox for 2016. While he was excellent in April, he struggled after that and was released by the White Sox in June. He signed a minor league deal with Washington at the end of June and worked his way back to the majors in September, throwing 9 2/3 innings, allowing seven runs.
Latos is clearly a depth signing for the Blue Jays and there are a couple of opt-outs along the way for him. It's reported that Latos will have an opt out at the end of spring training as well as another one at some point throughout the year (usually in early June). If he makes the majors, he'll earn $1.5 million as a base salary with up to $500,000 in incentives available.
The Blue Jays also signed another minor league catcher to add more depth to the club. Rafael Lopez is 29 and a former 16th round pick of the Chicago Cubs in the 2011 draft. The Philadelphian has played in 15 ML games over two seasons without doing much with the bat (just two hits in 18 at bats). In 175 games at the Triple-A level, Lopez has a decent .259/.333/.322 slash line and it appears that all of the power he showed in Double-A (12 home runs and 35 doubles over 140 games) went away as he moved up. Lopez threw out 29% of the runners who tried to steal against him last year and has a cumulative 31% caught stealing percentage over his career at all levels.
Lopez likely fits in catching in Double-A or Triple-A for the Blue Jays and their signings are starting to create a bit of a log jam with Jarrod Saltalamacchia, Alex Monsalve, Juan Graterol, Mike Ohlman and Reese McGuire joining the Blue Jays' organization this offseason. While the loss of Jorge Saez in the minor league portion of the Rule 5 draft and the release of A.J. Jimenez leave significant holes in the depth chart, there is now more than enough talent to fill catching slots in the top two levels of the minor leagues. The Blue Jays also are expected to have Mike Reeves, Max Pentecost and Michael De La Cruz looking to move up in the system.
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Sometimes, when restarting or turning on the PC, authentication on Windows Server is failing. After about 10 or 15 minutes, it authenticates normally.
Another situation is that, throughout the work, the mapping of the server share, also loses the connection. Again, I wait 10 or 15 minutes and I can access the share again.
Today I was able to "filter" the log "auth.log" since I ran the machine until I was able to authenticate. I will attach to the end of the message, as I am not familiar with all samba, kerberos, winbind, PAM, etc. settings. I made the settings all consulting guidelines searched on the internet, so to solve, I rely on tips and help from other users.


Evgeny Zavoisky museum in the Kazan Federal University hosts a remarkable collection of the original equipment used by Evgeny Zavoisky while he was inventing Electron Paramagnetic Resonace (EPR) in 1944.
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A transporter carries the Orbital ATK Cygnus pressurized cargo module, sealed inside a shipping container, to the Space Station Processing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The module will soon begin preflight preparations for its upcoming mission to carry hardware and supplies on the company's Commercial Resupply Services flight to the International Space Station.
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NASA has opened media accreditation for the next launch of a commercial resupply mission to the International Space Station. The launch of Orbital ATK's Cygnus spacecraft is scheduled for Thursday, March 10, during a 30-minute window that opens at approximately 3 a.m. EST.
Cygnus will launch on a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (CCAFS) in Florida. The spacecraft will carry crew supplies and vehicle hardware to the orbital laboratory to support the Expedition 47 and 48 crews.
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Filmmaker shares insights with journalism class
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Lauren Kawana shows off the website for the film Mind/Game – Itzel Contreras Mendez
Like many young people, Lauren Kawana didn't specifically know what she wanted to be when she grew up. Instead her thoughts were always: "What are the possibilities? What's out there?"
She focused on things that she enjoyed like traveling, cultural exploration and writing, and waited to see what would come of them. In the end, they brought her to journalism.
The 31-year-old Hawai'i native, who now lives in Berkeley, California, was in town last month to screen the documentary Mind/Game at the Honolulu African American Film Festival. But she stopped by WCC's Journalism 250: Media Writing class to share her journey through journalism with students, showing that an adventurous spirit, open mind and perseverance are just as important qualities for success as having a fixed plan.
After graduating from Bates College with a bachelorʻs degree in English in 2006, Kawana worked as an intern on WCC instructor Kimberlee Bassfordʻs documentary about the late Hawai'i Congresswoman Patsy Mink. She was then a freelance writer and later associate editor and managing editor for local magazine Pacific Edge. And then she went back to graduate school to earn her masterʻs of journalism from the University of California Berkeley, where she made her first documentary film about a kumu hula in Oakland.
Along the way, she had her struggles. She didnʻt get into Berkeley her first time trying. And some questioned the value of pursuing a masterʻs degree at all.
But she remained steadfast.
"Sometimes for better or worse, you are just stubborn about doing things," Kawana said.
For the past two years, she has been working in documentary in the San Francisco Bay Area. Most recently, she was the associate producer of Mind/Game, about WNBA basketball player Chamique Holdsclaw and her struggle against mental illness.
Kawana felt a connection to Holdsclawʻs story because she personally struggled with depression as well. She hopes the film will make people more accepting and aware of mental illnesses.
Students in the class appreciated her genuineness and candor in sharing her story.
"It was refreshing to see how your life doesnʻt need to be planned out," said Ka'ainoa Fernandez. "Sometimes opportunities will come to you."
"It was inspiring to see a woman from Hawai'i succeed in highly competitive fields as journalism and filmmaking," said Grace Mathew.
by Itzel Contreras Mendez, Ka 'Ohana Staff Reporter


Saarbrücken is in Saarland, Germany. Saarbrücken is the capital city for the Saarland.
Saarbrücken Airport  (IATA: SCN, ICAO: EDDR) is an international airport and is located 15 km to the city center. Regional bus R10 travels once an hour from the airport to the main railway station and takes 28 minutes. A single ticket costs €2.30.
Zweibrücken Airport can be reached from the main station twice a day by a direct bus #199. It takes 45 minutes. During the day it can also be reached by taking a train to Homburg and from there bus R7. This will take 1.5 hours.
Frankfurt Hahn Airport . There are no direct connections from this airport to Saarbrücken. One of the possibilities you have is to take the Airport Shuttle Mosel (RegioLinie 750)  from the general bus station 500 meters from the airport to Bullay and switch to the regional train to Saarbrücken.
Autobahn A6, near the France border. About 2 hours from Mannheim.
Saarbrücken is served by the German train system. There are direct trains from Frankfurt, as well as to Paris. Frequently travel through the rest of Germany requires one to change trains in Mannheim.
Between Saarbrücken in Germany and Sarreguemines in France, both of which are served by good domestic train connections, you can take a ride on the Saarbahn, a border-crossing railway which nowadays forms a part of the traffic network of Saarland: . The journey takes approximately 30 minutes and in 2010 the ticket (to be bought at a machine, present also at the station of Sarreguemines) cost 4,60 €.
Saarbrücken has an excellent public transport system . It has city buses and a tram line. Given that the city is not very big, you can also reach most places within 20 minutes of walking.
St Johanner Market . Every Saturday from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. there is also a farmers market where regional products are sold.
Also check the listings on the official webpage of the city .
Perspectives Festival  German-French festival of theater, dance and music.
Saarländisches Staatstheater  Opera, theatre and dance performances, symphony and chamber concerts and more.
"Urwald vor den Toren der Stadt" . A nature reserve ideal for hiking. Maps are available online (front:  and back: ). They can also be picked up for free at the tourist information at city hall. One way to get there is to take the tram to stop "Heinrichshaus", which is also marked in the bottom left corner of the map with an "S".
A Saarlandish specialty is Schwenker. A steak prepared on a special grill where the grilling rack is swung by the cook over a fire. This is often served at festivals and beergartens.
The main town square (St. Johanner Market) and the Nauwieser Quarter feature many bars and restaurants.
Völklingen Ironworks  is situated just outside Saarbrücken. It was one of the most important Ironworks in the world. It was closed in 1986, Now they are the only intact example, in the whole of western Europe and North America, as such they have been included on the UNESCO World Heritage List. There are museum and Multimedia displays brining the site to life. Open 10am - 7pm (summer); 10 a.m. - 6 p.m. (winter). Entrance fee €12; Tuesdays from 3 p.m. free entrance. There is a Train station in Völklingen about a three minute walk from the site. It is 10 minutes by train from Saarbrücken Hauptbahnhof.
Saarschleife (Saar loop)  - Take the regional train to Mettlach and then walk for about 5 km along the river upstream. There is also a lookout ("Cloef") which can be reached within about 1 hour from the bottom of the hill. Make sure you are on the left side of the river if you want to reach the lookout (you have to cross the river once when coming from the train station). You can also easily go to the Saar loop by bike from Saarbrücken (60 km one way).
Luxembourg - Easily reachable by bus (direct connection: 1 hour and 30 minutes).
Strasbourg - Easily reachable by regional train (direct connection: 1 hour and 45 minutes).
Trier - Porta Nigra, nice old town center, etc. Easily reachable by regional train (direct connections between 1 and 1.5 hours).
Metz - French city with the modern art gallery Centre Pompidou-Metz, Cathedral, food market, etc. Easily reachable by regional train within about 1 hour (some direct trains are available). Consider the special DB regional train ticket "Saar-Lor-Lux"  for the entire trip, especially if you are travelling in a group.
Nancy - A cheap option to go there is to buy a Saar-Lorraine-Tarif ticket  (only available at the train station; return tickets can only be bought at the counter).
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El hotel de los secretos es una telenovela mexicana producida por Roberto Gómez Fernández para Televisa en 2016. Es una adaptación de la serie española Gran Hotel, escrita por Ramón Campos y Gema R. Neira.

Protagonizada por Irene Azuela y Erick Elías, con las participaciones antagónicas de Diana Bracho, Jorge Poza e Ilse Salas. Cuenta además con las actuaciones estelares de Daniela Romo, Carlos Rivera y Jesús Ochoa.

La telenovela tiene como locación principal al antiguo hospital psiquiátrico "La Castañeda", en el Municipio de Amecameca de Juárez, Estado de México, convertido en el emblemático "Gran Hotel".

Trama
Julio Olmedo (Erick Elías) llega de visita al hotel donde trabaja su hermana, un lugar hermoso, de mucho prestigio y alejado de todo. Cuando Julio llega se entera que su hermana ya no trabaja ahí: le dicen que robó a un cliente y por eso la echaron. Pero él conoce bien a su hermana y sabe que es incapaz de hacer algo así, por lo que empieza a hacer preguntas. Pero todos dicen no saber nada de su hermana desde hace más de 30 días y Julio empieza a tener sospechas sobre lo que realmente pasó con su hermana, así que consigue trabajo de camarero para investigar.
Isabel Alarcón (Irene Azuela) se entera de la presencia de Julio y decide apoyarlo con la investigación, ya que ella también tiene dudas. Con el tiempo que pasen juntos, irán naciendo el amor, un amor que no puede ser correspondido porque Julio es pobre e Isabel, heredera del hotel. Además la madre de Isabel, Teresa de Alarcón (Diana Bracho), es una mujer de fuerte carácter para la que el prestigio del hotel y sus intereses están por encima de todo. Ella vive del qué dirán y la ha comprometido con su hombre de confianza, Diego Montejo (Jorge Poza), alguien muy parecido a Teresa que la apoya en todos su planes por más sucios que sean. Por eso, Julio e Isabel insistirán en llegar a la verdad, descubriendo secreto tras secreto y pasando muchos obstáculos para estar juntos.

Elenco
 Irene Azuela - Isabel Alarcón Langre
 Erick Elías - Julio Olmedo Gutiérrez / Julio Espinoza
 Daniela Romo - Ángela Gómez Vda. de Salinas
 Diana Bracho - Teresa Langre Vda. de Alarcón
 Jorge Poza - Diego Montejo
 Carlos Rivera - Andrés Salinas Gómez / Andrés Alarcón Gómez
 Ilse Salas - Belén García Aguado
 Dominika Paleta - Sofía Alarcón Langre de Vergara
 Alejandro de la Madrid - Alfredo Vergara Saviñón
 Pablo Cruz Guerrero - Felipe Alarcón Langre
 Jesús Ochoa - Serapio Ayala
 Eduardo España - Dagoberto Suárez
 Juan Carlos Barreto - Guadalupe "Lupe" Mosqueda
 Regina Blandón - Matilde Salaverry
 Luis Couturier - Benjamín Nieto
 Ximena Herrera - Cristina Olmedo Gutiérrez
 Juan Ferrara - Dr. Lázaro Vicario
 Claudia Ramírez - Cecilia Gaitán
 Silvia Mariscal - Elisa Saviñón Vda. de Vergara
 Queta Lavat - "La Nena" Limantour
 Joshua Gutiérrez - Jacinto Mosqueda
 Arantza Ruiz - Violeta
 Ilse Ikeda - Natalia Suárez Martínez
 Luis Gatica - Genaro Varela
 Claudia Ríos - Melibea
 Eduardo Liñán - General Evaristo Ballesteros
 Bárbara Singer - Mercedes Ballesteros
 Sofía Castro - Eugenia Ballesteros
 Enrique Singer - Don Rómulo Alarcón de Castilla
 Marlene Kalb - Victoria Louis
 Moisés Arizmendi - Olegario Alarcón de Castilla
 Gonzalo Peña - Ignacio Alarcón
 Fernanda Borches - Jorge Arenas / Manuela Arenas
 Juan Verduzco - Javier Góngora
 Rodrigo Virago - Pascual Duarte
 Marisol del Olmo - Emma de De la Garza
 Lucía Guilmáin - Consuelo Escandón
 Marcia Coutiño - Beatriz Zamora
 Alex Perea - Gabriel Suárez Martínez
 Francisco Avendaño - Juez Fausto Barreda
 Hernán Romo - Mariano Arenas
 Antonio Gallegos - Miguel Arenas
 Bernardo Bucio - Melquíades Arenas
 Odin Ayala - Melesio Arenas
 Erwin Veytia - Cutberto Garrido
 Antón Araiza - Padre Alfonso
 Horacio Castelo - Dr. Santamaría
 Mauricio García Lozano - Juventino Alcalá
 Nuria Gil - Remedios
 Mahoalli Nassourou - Cordelia
 Ariadne Pellicer - Helena
 Montserrat Marañón - María Reyes de Rangel
 Alexander Holtmann - Sheamus Rangel
 Pilar Ixquic Mata - Doña Juana Vda. de Angarita
 Edsa Ramírez - Clara Canabal de Angarita
 Jose Elías Moreno - Juez
 Rafael Amador - Dr. Vallejo
 Sergio Gallardo - Mateo
 Cristian Ramos - Cipriano
 Daniel Haddad - Don Pierre Paulet
 Joan Santos - Feliciano
 Esteban Maggio - Esteban Alcázar
 María Penella - Rocío
 Paloma Arredondo - Micaela
 Adrián Villanueva - Adrián
 Elizabeth Ávila - Soledad
 Víctor Carpinteiro - Pablo Salinas
 Pablo Bracho - Justo Olmedo, padre de Julio y Cristina Olmedo

Producción
El inicio de la producción se confirmó el 26 de octubre de 2015 en el foro 10 de Televisa San Ángel, y concluyó la producción el 16 de mayo de 2016. El equipo de producción y el elenco duró siete meses grabando la telenovela. La serie fue grabada con técnica cinematográfica y los directores de fotografía fueron Luis García y Diego Tenorio; La dirección del escenario fue responsabilidad de Francisco Franco y Ana Lorena Pérez-Ríos. Para el vestuario participaron 250 personas, para crear más de 13 mil piezas.

Desarrollo
La telenovela se desarrolla en México a principios del siglo XX. El escenario principal donde se desarrolla la telenovela fue un edificio de arquitectura neoclásica, cuya construcción data de 1910 y que en su momento albergaba el psiquiátrico más grande de México. La Castañeda, que actualmente se encuentra en Amecameca, Estado de México, fue el lugar principal para el desarrollo de la telenovela. Santa María Regla, Hidalgo, fue el escenario que se adaptó principalmente para el pueblo que apareció en la telenovela. Para crear la ciudad de Santa María, se recrearon escenarios como la cantina, oficinas, un burdel, una panadería, un telégrafo, una farmacia, el mercado, la casa de la costurera, una tienda y puestos de callejeros. La serie se grabó en varios lugares como; Ciudad de México, Morelos, Hidalgo, Estado de México, Aguascalientes, y en foros de Televisa San Ángel.

Música
La banda sonora se titula igual que la telenovela, y fue lanzada el 21 de junio de 2016 bajo el sello discográfico de Fonarte Latino.

Listado de pistas

Premios y nominaciones

TV Adicto Golden Awards

Premios TVyNovelas 2017

Premios ACE Nueva York 2017

Versiones
 Gran Hotel (2011-2013): serie transmitida por Antena 3, protagonizada por Yon González y Amaia Salamanca
 Grand Hotel (2015): serie italiana transmitida a través del canal Rai 1 Protagonizada por Eugenio Franceschini y Federica De Cola.
 Grand Hotel (2016) serie egipcia transmitida a través del  Canal CBC. Protagonizada por Amr Youssef y Amina Kalil.

Enlaces externos

 http://television.televisa.com/telenovelas/hotel-de-los-secretos/

Referencias

Adaptaciones de series de televisión españolas
Telenovelas de México
Telenovelas de Televisa
Telenovelas en español
Telenovelas iniciadas en 2016
Telenovelas finalizadas en 2016
Telenovelas históricas de México
Telenovelas de 2016

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New execs optimistic about USA Truck's comeback prospects
by Emma Hurt | May 13, 2017 at 1:52 a.m.
Cheryl Stone, senior vice president of human resources at USA Truck
After a few months of leadership turnover and executive vacancies, the changing of the guard at USA Truck is coming to an end.
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The new executives have decided to move to Van Buren from all over the country to join in what they see as the impending turnaround of USA Truck.
After posting several years of losses, in 2013 the trucking and brokerage company fought a hostile takeover attempt from Knight Transportation. While things began looking up in mid-2014, the situation deteriorated again, and the company recently reported its fifth-consecutive quarterly loss. Stocks trading on the Nasdaq exchange closed at $5.87 on Friday, compared with a 2015 high of $31.
James Reed is the company's fifth CEO since the takeover attempt. He took control in January and has been assembling an almost entirely new leadership team.
"It was a great opportunity to build something even greater. That's what I saw," said Cheryl Stone, new senior vice president of human resources.
"I like to see things that are happening and see a vision. That's what James was able to put out there." She was previously vice president of global human resources at Tri-Marine International Inc. in the Seattle area.
She explained she had interviewed at other companies that "just liked where they were at."
"I'm not interested in coming in and filling another set of shoes," she said. "I'm interested in coming in and helping the company get to where they want to be."
Jason Bates, who is filling the chief financial officer vacancy left by Reed, said he did a few things to vet the company before accepting the job. He was previously investor relations officer and vice president of finance and revenue services at Swift Transportation in Arizona.
First, he checked out USA Truck's financial numbers and was encouraged.
"A lot of people will look and make quick, rash decisions based on the company lost money last quarter or last year. They say, 'Oh, obviously it's not a good company,'" he said. "And I think you have got to dig a little deeper."
He said he asked himself whether the issues were "systematic" or "fixable."
"In this case, you've got a company that cash flows fairly well. I came from Swift, and we had years where we didn't make any money either, but we still generated very strong, free cash flow."
Cash flow refers to the money a company has on hand after cash expenses.
What he asked himself, he said, is, "Do we have runway?"
"Is there sufficient free cash flow generation to allow us to have the time to really work on the business and work on the people such that we can turn the [profit and loss statement] around, so that we can generate a profit? And when I looked at the numbers, I felt that was the case."
"You can do what USA Truck has been doing, but only for so long," said Brad Delco, transport analyst at Stephens Inc. "The problem with losing money and generating cash flow is, at some point, you have to reinvest in the assets that are generating revenue, which will be a drain on cash," he said, referring to investments in new trucks.
Bates said he also vetted the company culture. "If the people really want to win and want to be successful, it's just a matter of getting the right leaders in to help get in that direction, clear the path for them and get out of the way."
"People at this company want to win. Some of them have worked here for 30 years. They are very committed to the region and the company," he said. "And that's all we need."
"What I've seen has been quite a bit of turnover, a lot of unclear direction," he said.
"Some people look at that and are scared or worried about what can happen. From my perspective, this is a great opportunity," he said. "The world has underappreciated and undervalued the potential that this company has. So why wouldn't I want to come in right now and help the company get to where it can be?"
Werner Hugo, the latest addition to the team, has accepted the task of leading the company's trucking segment, which has had trouble staying profitable recently. It lost $15 million in 2016 and $7.1 million in the first quarter of 2017.
Hugo is a native of South Africa but will move to Van Buren next week from the Atlanta area, where he has been chief operating officer of 7 Hills Transport Inc. He was a driver for a few years in his home country before building his own trucking company and then moving to the U.S. six years ago.
"The challenges they are facing is nothing new," he said of the USA Truck segment. "It's the same old utilization problem. It's the same old in-service problem. All those things at the end of the day lead to revenue."
As to what initial obstacles he might face in Arkansas, he spoke of the staff, acknowledging that they've seen a few leaders in recent years. "I think the challenge is going to be the day when I walk through the door, individuals will say, 'So here's another guy, here's another face. Let's see how long he lasts.'"
Neither of his two predecessors stayed more than two years.
"People forget how to win. When you lose that feeling, you forget how it feels to win and then you start asking questions like, 'Can I do this job?'" he said.
"I think it's going to be a huge challenge to just put everyone at ease and comfort them that I'm here to stay, and I've got your back."
Hugo said he is looking forward to it, though. "Once we get on the same page and we set our goals, I think it's going to be fun moving the needle from there."
"It's not as if we are trying to turn the Titanic here," said Bates. "This company has a very strong history of making money. [The employees] know how to do it, and I think for a variety of different reasons over the last few years it has just lost its way a little bit."
"I think [Wall] Street will be surprised by what we will be able to do," he said.
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Toma is an American crime drama television series that ran on ABC from March 21, 1973 to May 10, 1974. The series stars Tony Musante as a real-life detective Dave Toma, who was a master of disguise and undercover work. Susan Strasberg and Simon Oakland also star in supporting roles as his wife and his boss, respectively.

Overview
The series stars Tony Musante and Susan Strasberg and was based on the real-life story and published biography of Newark, New Jersey, police detective David Toma. Toma had compiled an amazing arrest record during his years on the force, particularly in arresting drug dealers. His boss, Inspector Spooner, was played by Simon Oakland. The actual David Toma played bit parts in the series.

The show ended production after one season, as Musante had only agreed to film one full season, citing a desire not to get trapped into only playing one character over a long period of time. The network and producers had initially assumed this to be a negotiating ploy, but it was not. Musante held firm and did not return for a second season.

Although the role of David Toma was recast with Robert Blake, it was soon felt that Blake would be better served with a different concept;  accordingly, Toma was overhauled and became the 1975 series Baretta.  Apart from the circumstances of its conception, Baretta has no obvious on-screen connection to Toma, as the shows have no characters or settings in common.

Many of the people on the Toma writing staff would go on to write episodes of The Rockford Files, which debuted shortly after Toma'''s cancellation.  These writers included Stephen J. Cannell, Roy Huggins (who signed most of his work on both shows as "John Thomas James"), Juanita Bartlett, Zekial Marko, Don Carlos Dunaway, and Gloryette Clark.  Series stars Musante, Strasberg and Oakland would also guest star on various episodes of The Rockford Files.  An early version of the character of Jim Rockford had originally been conceived of as a guest star for a never-filmed episode of Toma; the script was rewritten and became The Rockford Files 90-minute pilot, and all connections and references to Toma were dropped.

Episodes

Pilot (1973)

Season 1 (1973–74)

Reviews
The series received favorable reviews and blistering criticism for its depictions of criminal and police violence. Although Toma was achieving relatively good ratings, the show ended after one season. A second season was planned, but Tony Musante refused to continue with the show. Musante had told the producers at the outset that he wanted to do only one season, but they mistakenly assumed that this was only a negotiating tactic and that he would return if the series was renewed. The show would rank 45th out of 80 shows that season, with a 17.7 rating.

Legacy

Baretta

Rather than recast the starring role of Toma, the show was retooled as Baretta starring Robert Blake, with violent scenes toned down. Baretta debuted as a mid-season replacement on ABC in early 1975.

The Rockford Files

According to interviews on The Greatest American Hero DVD set, a writers' strike during the shooting of Toma is what indirectly led to The Rockford Files. Writer Stephen J. Cannell and his mentor Roy Huggins created the character of Jim Rockford as a way to get around an impossible schedule created by the strike.

Reruns
Despite having contributed to the development of the popular Baretta, reruns of Toma were never syndicated to local stations, and repeats of the show on national television post-cancellation have been rare. Repeats of Toma aired in the late-1970s during ABC Late Night, and later on USA Network's Crimebusters'' in 1984–1985. One episode aired on TV Land in 2001.

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Why does an old and faded British Government file exist on sightings of Godzilla-sized monsters of the seas" Is Britain's Royal Navy sitting on amazing classified evidence suggesting that such leviathan-like creatures really are among us and are not just the stuff of sea-faring legend?
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These are just a few of the many amazing issues that are rumored to have secretly tasked and worried the finest minds of the CIA, the FBI, the British Royal Navy, the Australian Government, the state-sponsored scientists of the former Soviet Union, and the U.S. Army, Navy, and Air Force. For years, agencies of government have taken an astonishingly deep interest in those legendary creatures that mainstream science and zoology assure us do not, and simply cannot, exist but that just might be doing exactly that, after all.
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