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The service is held to honor all those who died in war, but whose bodies were not returned to the United States or who remain missing in action.
In Leominster, a ceremony was held last Wednesday evening for the Veterans Project 2000, a project that seeks to honor those who served in the military with the placement of a brick in Carter Park on Main Street.
This year, 160 bricks were added to the more than 2,000 already in the park. On Friday, the city�s White Cross Memorial Service was held at the Leominster Veterans Center, 100 West St.
Yesterday, more than 400 people gathered at Carter Park for the annual Memorial Day program. The program was the culmination of a series of events held at each of the city�s cemeteries.
Local and state officials participated in the Memorial Day program, as well as members of the Leominster High School marching band and the 15th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry. The guest speaker was Cmdr. Richard P. Halloran of the U.S. Navy Reserves.
He said the focus of his speech was the values those who serve hold dear, and how this allows them to do what they have to do to preserve the freedoms that everyone enjoys.
VFW Post 1807 Cmdr. Dennis M. Lyddy read the names of veterans from the city, 67 in all, who have died since the last Memorial Day program.
Those of you who are regular readers, or know me personally, are well aware of my passion for sailing. I’m leaving later this week for a week-long sailing holiday on a catamaran in the US and British Virgin Islands. I will have limited access to the Internet, so you can expect there will be fewer GE news-related posts on this blog during the week I’m gone. I will have some scheduled posts to keep some activity going on the blog.
Chart Plotting with Google Earth – I plan to use EarthNC’s nautical charts on a laptop. My handheld GPS will be hooked up with Goops (a tool for linking your GPS to Google Earth). With this combination, I will be one of the first people to use Google Earth as a marine navigational chart plotting. Of course, I will be careful to not rely on these new tools as my only means of navigation! I know the Virgin Island waters pretty well, and will also have other charts.
Geotagged Photos – Post a selection of Geotagged photos to show you after I get back. Hopefully a few will be underwater shots – see some examples of other underwater photos I’ve taken.
Review – Post a review of my experiences with the software tools, and the trip itself after I get back.
KML file – And, publish a KML file documenting the trip afterwards.
By the way, I will be chartering the catamaran from Voyage Charters who have a base at Soper’s Hole, on the west end of Tortola, BVIs. I chartered from them in 2001, and had a very positive experience. They use catamarans made by Voyage Yachts based in South Africa. In 2002-4 we sailed a Voyage 440 called PatiCat mostly in the Caribbean and Bahamas. You can learn about, and see details, on our travels in a Google Earth file (read more here).
Hi Frank, I’ve written about EarthNC’s a little at my blog, http://www.panbo.com, and will be interested to hear how actually navigating with them will work out. I noticed that the charts for the BVI in particular are notably out of register with G.E. and wonder which you will find to be ground truth with your GPS.
Would love to be along for that trip. I lived on St. Croix as a teenager, and sailed a few times during college visits to my father on St. Thomas, although one of those times involved puking into the sea as we passed the QEII. Enjoy.
Sounds like a great job! Just grab some beer and some Happy face sorbet (for the morning after) and you’ll be in heaven at sea!
Enjoy the sea, my friend.
Daily Mail editor Paul Dacre has called on the industry to create a register of all accredited journalists as part of a revamped system of media self-regulation.
He said such a register would be an effective means of ensuring newspaper companies sign-up for self-regulation.
Under his proposal, any that did not would find its journalists unable to gain accreditation and thereby barred from covering key events.
Said Paul: “The key would be to make the cards available only to members of print newsgathering organisations or magazines who have signed up the new body and its code.
Paul said that to make the system work, there would need to be a “universal agreement” that only acrcredied journalists should be admitted to government briefings, police press conference and even post-match interviews at football games.
His proposals will be seen as a potential alternative to statutory regulation of the industry by the government.
Senior ministers and inquiry chairman Lord Justice Leveson himself are believed to favour such a system.
I do think it’s a good idea to have proper accreditation for properly qualified journalists – would stop any old idiot (sorry, “citizen journalist”) gaining access to events and taking places meant for genuine members of the press, as seems to be happening at present.
What about freelancers, or trained, qualified reporters who aren’t working for a newspaper or magazine – perhaps on a website or similar? They can be just as responsible as those employed by newspapers, if not more so, and it would be unfair to exclude them because some less genuine individuals have caused problems in the past.
This is obviously a well-meant attempt to overcome the problem of some kind of statutory regulation or the slightly softer notion of a state-sponsored regulation framework. But it’s wholly impractical (as is a similar idea by Blair Jenkins).
I’m a senior, fully trained journo, so as a self-preservation measure, I like the idea.
However, as a matter of principle, I am against limits on anyone being able to have their say, be they press or public.
Above all, though, companies will probably refuse to sign-up to a scheme which a) obliges them to employ only accredited staff (costing them money) and, b) limits their ability to actually get rid of those same staff in favour of citizen journalists (costing them money). £s and Ps will still rule.
And of course the real point is on a regional level PSCO Plod in his divine wisdom will still ignore you and your card whoever it’s issued by.
All those implicated in the NoW phone hacking scandal, apart from the so-called ‘private investigators’, would presumably have qualified as bona fide journalists, so a licensing system would not have worked in their case.
Also, it must be borne in mind that the Leveson inquiry is not about the ethics of the press as a whole, but the uncontrolled behaviour of a rogue element of the tabloid media which came to believe it was untouchable.
No worthwhile journalist on, say, papers like The Yorkshire Post, The Scotsman, the Express and Star or the Manchester Evening News would have resorted to tactics used by NoW hacks.
Let’s not forget that phone-hacking was confined to the feral fringes of the newspaper business, and never affected the mainstream.
Cannabis-focused magazine High Times took its first major steps Tuesday to launch its IPO, with an “equity crowdfunding campaign” that allows investors to buy shares of the company at a discounted rate before it lists on the Nasdaq.
Under the SEC’s Regulation A+, High Times shares are set at a value of $11, a 10% discount from the anticipated opening price on the Nasdaq.
“Given the fan base that we have created, it is important that we allow our loyal brand followers the opportunity to become equity owners of the company” stated Adam Levin, CEO, High Times.
“It’s like a virtual road show," he told Publishers Daily.
This campaign gives investors an early opportunity to participate in what will be one of the first Cannabis-related stocks on the Nasdaq, and allows dedicated readers to own common stock in High Times' business. So far, the campaign has received “a great response," Levin said, with checks coming in from $11 to $100,000, mostly from individuals.
Investors can also buy the stock using their credit cards. Shares are available for purchase at hightimes.com/invest.
The company will see how much money is raised over the next four-to-six weeks, and then list on Nasdaq, Levin said.
High Times plans to use the capital from the IPO to expand its publishing, events and licensing businesses, as well as invest in video and audio content and add product lines and brands.
Most of the company’s revenue comes from its events, such as its popular Cannabis Cup, one of the world’s biggest marijuana-focused trade shows. There will now be an “Investor’s Village” at the Cup, Levin said.
The Reg. A+ filing has a $50 million cap. High Times will also meet with more investors throughout the month.
Levin said he is curious to see how High Times' engagement rates may be affected by consumers who are also shareholders. “Fast forward to next year: How does [an IPO] impact engagement of shareholders? Will they engage much closer? And how does that impact a media business?” he wondered.
High Times has expanded its business since Hightimes Holding Co. took controlling interest in the portfolio of brands in April 2017. The new ownership also expanded monthly digital impressions by 425%. The network of brands under the media company reaches over 275 million monthly digital impressions, as well as 10 million monthly uniques.
High Times' ad sales process previously "lacked structure," Levin said, and relied primarily on endemic ads.
The brand is now reaching non-endemic advertisers: Chrysler recently took out ads on High Times, Levin said, a sign that clients are recognizing the publication as a “brand-safe environment."
In addition, High Times closed two acquisitions this year. It bought Green Rush Daily in April. High Times has also acquired Culture magazine from Southland Publishing, Inc. The publication features cannabis-related celebrities, advocates, entrepreneurs and product reviews. “We’re building a broad collection of different cannabis-related publications to offer to our many advertisers seeking the highly sought demographic of canna-users," Levin stated.
Culture offers local reach into more than 10 different localities (across the US, Canada and the UK), which will be expanded to High Times Media's advertisers.
Apple releases iPhone Configuration Utility 2.0 that isn't meant to be a troubleshooting tool per se, but actually shines as one in several ways.
Apple's iPhone Configuration Utility 2.0, released this week, isn't designed as an end-user troubleshooting tool--it's really meant to help enterprise users create configuration profiles for device deployment--but it provides two functions that can be very useful for troubleshooting.
1. It can uninstall applications directly from the host computer, which can be useful for removing stubborn apps that cannot be deleted directly from the iPhone. Some third-party applications can cause systemic issues, which can be resolved through their removal via a host computer.
2. It allows easy access to the iPhone's console log, which shows application and general system errors, successful or failed attempts to connect to networks, and much more. These logs can prove invaluable for pinpointing otherwise elusive issues.
The iPhone Configuration Utility 2.0 is currently available via Software Update or as a direct download for Mac OS X or Windows.
The passage of President Clinton's budget, marked by its one-half trillion in deficit reduction, is already restoring respect for the administration. Clinton will be tempted to move on to other issues. The urgent need to make good on health care reform and the generally sour nature of budget discussions will add to this impulse.
But the administration should resist the temptation to rush off the playing field, for two reasons. First, there will be a retrospective debate over the budget that may be more important politically than all the arguments leading to its enactment. Second, over the longer run, sad to say, unacceptably slow economic growth remains likely. Since economic growth, not legislative success or failure, will determine the ultimate judgment on Clinton, he needs to prepare ground for the next wave of budget and economic policy reform.
Republicans and some deficit "hawks" are already framing the retrospective debate. In a recent New York Review of Books, economist Benjamin Friedman argues that the package wasn't daring enough, that it should have cut spending more and raised taxes much more sharply on the middle class. Friedman focuses on the fact that the nominal deficit will start to rise again in 1997, and that even at the bottom the deficit "will still absorb more than half of the nation's net saving." Old supply-siders, for their part, are having a field day with the high ratio of (mainly progressive) tax increases to spending cuts. When the economy fails to grow, they will blame it on diminished work incentives for the rich.
It would be fatal to concede to either criticism. On the contrary, the president should insist that this package represents a once-for-all attack on the deficit. The budget should be portrayed as a full and fair test of the argument that financial markets and private investors will respond to credible deficit reduction by cutting interest rates and raising private investments. The deficit hawks have, in fact, been given their wishes. They must not be allowed to frame the retrospective debate and thereby escape responsibility for the results.
The president has ably defended the tax/spending balance. The simple fact is that excessive tax cuts, not excessive spending increases, caused the deficit; the dependent poor did not get rich under Reagan. It is also true that the tax increases have more credibility than spending cuts. Outside of Social Security, spending cuts are only projections and promises, whereas tax increases, once enacted, are law, and a future Congress would have to override the president's veto to repeal them. For this reason, Clinton's willingness to bite the tax bullet ought to be a major force in driving down long-term interest rates--if those who argue that tough and credible deficit reduction is the key to economic recovery are correct.
The present package deserves a fair chance to work (or not work) in practice. To assure that it has the best chance, the president and administration must keep the Federal Reserve on the team. Some members of the Federal Reserve Board wish to display their independence by raising interest rates in response to an inflationary threat, real or imagined. The administration should resist. It should not even be drawn into an argument over whether inflation threatens, since to do so is to concede the contingent policy position of the hard-liners. The present responsibility of the Federal Reserve is to support growth and deficit reduction by keeping interest rates low, come what may.
If economic growth remains unsatisfactory, say below 3 percent at an annual rate, then responsibility should be laid where it belongs: first, on Republicans in Congress who blocked the president's original growth package; second, on the unwillingness of the Federal Reserve to bring interest rates down far enough to offset the contractionary effects of deficit reduction; third, on the weakness of the theory that deficit reduction alone will revive growth.
The original two-track strategy combined a short-term growth package with long-run deficit reduction. With only half of that program enacted, growth will likely remain slow. Some may suggest a new (and larger) stimulus package, timed for best effect in 1995-1996. As economics, this position has merit. But coming as the president faces reelection, it would receive intense resistance from Republicans in Congress and from the press, revive unpleasant memories of an early defeat, and perhaps provoke the Federal Reserve to jump ship and raise interest rates sharply. A second stimulus package is probably a political non-starter.
Further constraints on the administration's margin of fiscal maneuver may be imposed by Congress. Renewed future-year spending caps have already been agreed to. A balanced budget amendment is also possible, unless the administration defuses it. All this too would militate against a discretionary fiscal expansion in 1995-1996.
The administration is unlikely to find other engines of growth. The gains from steps to revive private bank lending through regulatory relief--much talked about in the early days--are likely to prove illusory. Likewise, a global growth strategy, though potentially a vital contributor to domestic growth, is not a short-term solution, particularly when Europe's economy is stagnant and Japan's political climate is in disorder.
Therefore, despite the arguments made above against a new stimulus package, some other form of direct fiscal action may be the only practical way to break the economy out of stagnation. The question then becomes how to broach such steps in the political climate that now exists. The only answer requires bold and permanent changes in the terms of reference of fiscal discussion.
It must become possible for the administration and Congress to act on needed investments without having to run a gauntlet of balanced budget arguments, arbitrary spending caps, and charges of political opportunism. And this can only happen if the administration goes beyond recent efforts to recast the rhetoric of fiscal policy ("investment-led growth") and moves to recast the actual legal and political framework on which fiscal policy is made.
Capital Budget. The administration should begin to plan such a budget for, say, Fiscal Year 1996 or 1997. Allowing that some $200 billion of expenditures can properly be placed in the capital category, this single step would do wonders toward educating the American public on the dual nature of fiscal and economic responsibility. More important, it would permit the president to initiate capital projects with bond finance while presenting a balanced operating budget in normal economic times.
Infrastructure Bank. Congress has developed many variations on this idea, which would establish a revolving fund for state and local infrastructure projects. Here again, such capital projects, which spur development and support growth, should not be hostage to artificial and politicized federal budget constraints. An infrastructure bank would give the president more flexibility in capital spending, without derogation to the authority of Congress to set the operating terms of the bank.
Expanded Earmarking. Social Security (and also highway programs) has been isolated politically in part because dedicated revenues lock in long-term political commitment to them. Earmarking can get out of hand. But in health care, the idea of a national budget financed by a dedicated and stable tax source warrants close examination; it may be the only way to win acceptance for effective cost control and stop health care costs wreaking havoc with the rest of the budget.
New Framework for Fiscal-Monetary Coordination. A full reexamination of fiscal policy ought to include a review of institutional links between the president and the Federal Reserve. Moreover, the president must find new ways to use fiscal and incomes policy levers--such as, perhaps, allowing discretionary presidential control over annual cost-of-living adjustments--to signal inflation expectations to the private economy and relieve pressure on the Federal Reserve to be the only dutch boy at the anti-inflation dike. Now may not be the time to implement major changes, but a discussion of these issues should be on the agenda.
While dealing with the budget aftershocks, Clinton must indeed turn to meet his commitments on health care and other matters. He cannot assume that the economic orthodoxy behind the budget will pay off either for the American people or for himself. He must therefore begin now to prepare for the day when the effects of the present package are clear and the political climate may become receptive to larger reforms in the conduct of budget and economic policy.
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When Richard Caisey started having difficulty breathing while playing cricket a decade ago, he thought he was having a bad asthma attack.
But an X-ray revealed a mass in his chest wall that was diagnosed at The Johns Hopkins Hospital in the United States as a rare cancer of connective tissues.
Doctors did more tests and by delving into his family history discovered he had a genetic cancer disorder that greatly increases the risk of developing different cancers.
Despite four operations to remove tumours and five bouts of chemotherapy, he remained positive and determined to fight the condition that had claimed the lives of many of his family members.
“It has been ten years since my initial diagnosis and I live every day to the fullest and advise anyone who has been diagnosed with an illness, no matter what it is, to never give up and always think positive,” said the 32-year-old, who spoke to The Royal Gazette as the island marks Movember to raise awareness of men’s health issues.
Mr Caisey, who works at BAC, was 23 years old when he found out he had Li-Fraumeni syndrome.
“My father passed away in June 1988 from another rare cancer, chondrosarcoma,” he explained, adding that many of his other family members have died from cancer.
Mr Caisey, of Southampton, received the diagnosis after having major surgery at Johns Hopkins to remove the tumour in his chest, which doctors believe had been growing since he was about 10.
He recalls being told afterwards “the only way you will get over it is if you want to get better”. “From there it’s always just been work at it and keep moving forward,” he said.
Six weeks later, he started chemotherapy. He was given three different drugs simultaneously for four months, travelling back to Johns Hopkins every three weeks for the treatment.
However, a CT scan at his next appointment in April 2007 revealed about twelve tumours “of various sizes” growing in his chest and he started a second round of chemotherapy in Bermuda.
He tolerated the drips well. He never felt sick although he did lose his hair at one point.
But he started suffering severe side-effects when his doctors changed his medication to a newer drug after discovering that half the tumours had grown while the other half had shrunk.
“After taking this for a few weeks I developed hand/foot syndrome, which is pain and stiffness in the joints of the fingers and extremely sore and calloused feet,” he explained.
When he returned to Johns Hopkins in September 2007, the cancer had stabilised although he was still struggling with the side-effects of the medication.
He had to occasionally take time off work until the pain subsided and he went for regular follow-up appointments every three to four months over the next two year.
In 2010 he was able to stop the chemotherapy, which had also given him high blood pressure, but he continued his regular check-ups.
They were about to be spaced out to six months, when Mr Caisey noticed a pimple on his left thigh that even his doctors mistook for an ingrown hair at first. It turned out to be leiomyosarcoma — a totally different cancer. “It was a shock and in January 2013 I had surgery to have it removed.
He continued his follow-up appointments and a CT scan in May 2014 showed that a previously dormant tumour had started to grow.
A PET scan also revealed a tumour on his right lung and he had surgery to remove it in June 2014.
He kept up his four-monthly check-ups and at his last appointment in September, he was informed that his follow-up appointments would now be every six months.
Aside from the cancer, the avid sportsman, who plays on the Robin Hood Corona League team, had always been healthy and he credits this with helping him heal fast and bounce back after treatments. “I had always been active in sports, playing cricket, soccer, baseball and volleyball,” he said, adding that he even ran cross country.
He also had the support of his family, with his mother being there every step of the way.
But he knows the cancer could return at any time and he routinely checks for “any lumps and bumps” that should not be there.
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. - In the Red Sox dugout after the fourth inning yesterday, Brad Penny found Julio Lugo. "Keep your head up," Penny told him. "It happens."
The simple play Lugo had failed to make occurred before much tension had been built in the 5-3, series-deciding Red Sox loss to the Tampa Bay Rays - before Carl Crawford had stolen all six of his bases, before Manny Delcarmen revealed his first hint of ineffectiveness this season, and before the potential tying run died on second base in the eighth inning.