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Jasculca/Terman and Associates (JT) is a Chicago-based PR firm.
"We bring valuable insights to the issues that are debated every day in local, national and international arenas of public opinion: education, health care, the environment, transportation, economic policy, telecommunications, energy, community development, public safety and others," it states on its website. [1]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jasculca_Terman
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The firm was founded in 1981 by Rick Jasculca and Jim Terman, who got to know each other in the Carter-Mondale White House when Terman was Associate Counsel to Vice President Walter Mondale and Jasculca was a private consultant doing advance work for President and Mrs. Jimmy Carter. JT is believed to be the pioneer of public affairs in the Chicago market, applying the strategic and tactical discipline of political campaigns to the management of public policy and social issues and to the advancement or protection of reputations and brands. [1]
http://jtpr.com/bio/kristi-sebestyen
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http://www.chicagolandchamber.org/wdk_cc/membership/board_of_directors/individual_board_profiles/valerie_corr.jsp
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Valerie Corr directs government, public and community affairs for BP America's business and operations in Illinois, as well as the company's Midwest fuels business. Valerie is responsible for issues management, crisis response and relationships with community and civic organizations.
Before joining BP in 2004, Valerie was a senior account executive at Jasculca/Terman and Associates, a public affairs firm in Chicago. Valerie has also held positions in marketing and communications and government affairs for several nonprofit organizations. She has also volunteered on several local and federal political campaigns.
Valerie, a native of Detroit, received a bachelor of arts degree in English language and literature from the University of Chicago. She is a member of the Chicagoland Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors and the Chicago United Leaders Council.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amoco
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Incidents
On March 16, 1978, the very large crude carrier Amoco Cadiz ran ashore just north of Landunvez, Finistère, Brittany, France, causing one of the largest oil spills in history. More than a decade later, Amoco was ordered to pay $120 million in damages and restitution to France.
On October 21, 1980, an explosion at an Amoco plant in New Castle, Delaware, killed six people, caused $46 million in property damage, and eventually led to the loss of 300 jobs.[7]
In the 1980s and 1990s, six former Amoco chemical engineers at the firm’s Naperville, Illinois research campus developed a deadly form of brain cancer. Researchers who conducted a three-year study of the cancer cluster determined that the cancer cases were workplace-related, but they could not identify the source of the workers' ailments. In June 2010, BP demolished Building 503, where the workers had worked, because according to a company spokesperson, the building was "underused," and "required upgrades the company deemed too expensive." Heirs of one of the cancer victim workers won a $2.75 million suit against BP Amoco in 2000.[8]
An abandoned Amoco station.
In the aftermath of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, there were reports in the press that BP was considering rebranding itself as Amoco.[9]
http://clusteralliance.org/2010/06/02/bp-building-gone-but-its-medical-mystery-remains/
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Valerie Corr directs government, public and community affairs for BP America's business and operations in Illinois, as well as the company's Midwest fuels business. Valerie is responsible for issues management, crisis response and relationships with community and civic organizations.
Before joining BP in 2004, Valerie was a senior account executive at Jasculca/Terman and Associates, a public affairs firm in Chicago. Valerie has also held positions in marketing and communications and government affairs for several nonprofit organizations. She has also volunteered on several local and federal political campaigns.
Valerie, a native of Detroit, received a bachelor of arts degree in English language and literature from the University of Chicago. She is a member of the Chicagoland Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors and the Chicago United Leaders Council.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amoco
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Incidents
On March 16, 1978, the very large crude carrier Amoco Cadiz ran ashore just north of Landunvez, Finistère, Brittany, France, causing one of the largest oil spills in history. More than a decade later, Amoco was ordered to pay $120 million in damages and restitution to France.
On October 21, 1980, an explosion at an Amoco plant in New Castle, Delaware, killed six people, caused $46 million in property damage, and eventually led to the loss of 300 jobs.[7]
In the 1980s and 1990s, six former Amoco chemical engineers at the firm’s Naperville, Illinois research campus developed a deadly form of brain cancer. Researchers who conducted a three-year study of the cancer cluster determined that the cancer cases were workplace-related, but they could not identify the source of the workers' ailments. In June 2010, BP demolished Building 503, where the workers had worked, because according to a company spokesperson, the building was "underused," and "required upgrades the company deemed too expensive." Heirs of one of the cancer victim workers won a $2.75 million suit against BP Amoco in 2000.[8]
[edit] Merger with BP
On August 11, 1998, Amoco announced it would merge with British Petroleum (BP) in the world's largest industrial merger. Originally, the plan was for all US BP service stations to be converted to Amoco while all overseas Amoco service stations were to be converted to BP. But by 2001 BP announced that all Amoco service stations would either be closed or renamed to BP service stations, including the remaining stations still bearing the "Standard" name. However, BP rebranded its gas as "Amoco Fuels", including "Amoco Ultimate". By 2008, the "Amoco Fuels" brand had been mostly discontinued in favor of "BP Gasoline with Invigorate." In addition, few BP stations continue operation under the Amoco name. Most were either converted to BP, demolished and replaced with BP-style stations, abandoned, or switched to competitor brands. On April 1, 2010 in Mississippi Chevron purchased some BP gas stations which were Amoco, to convert them to the Texaco brand.
In the aftermath of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, there were reports in the press that BP was considering rebranding itself as Amoco.[9]
http://clusteralliance.org/2010/06/02/bp-building-gone-but-its-medical-mystery-remains/
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BP building gone, but its medical mystery remains
Terry on Jun 2nd 2010
Demolition of Naperville research facility provides little solace to cancer victims’ families
June 02, 2010|
By Gerry Smith,
Chicago Tribune reporter
The former setting of a medical mystery is now a pile of rubble. But for Gayle Palmer, the final chapter has yet to be written.
In recent weeks, BP demolished Building 503 of its Naperville research campus where at least six former chemical researchers of what was then Amoco Corp. — including Palmer’s husband, David — developed a deadly form of brain cancer in the 1980s and 1990s.
Researchers who conducted a three-year study of the cancer cluster concluded those six cases of glioma probably were workplace-related. Yet the scientists never could identify the source of the workers’ ailments.
The demolition of Building 503 gave little solace to Palmer and other victims’ relatives who still have unanswered questions about a mystery that was never solved.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/steven-weber/emasculation-nation_b_600001.html
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BP has America by the balls.
After years of video games and twenty-four-hour-a-day infotainment memes shortening attention spans to the same length of the switchback cuts of an MTV video (remember those? Barely?), Americans' eyes never light for too long upon anything.
And that's good for BP. The potential of people's senses to detect when they are being supremely duped has been squelched by relentless corporate sleight of hand and the attendant laughable lip service which follows a major fuck-up, portraying the callous companies as caring for their crude-coated constituents.
http://www.salvilaw.com/naperville-illinois-injury-lawyers.asp
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Naperville is within the Illinois Technology and Research Corridor. Top employers for Naperville include Alcatel-Lucent, Nalco, and Nicor. Amoco Research Laboratories was a top Naperville employer; now owned by BP, ARL was a subject of controversy, as six employees who died of cancer were long-term chemical researchers at building 503, since demolished (Chicago Breaking News). Naperville is also home to the headquarters of Dukane Precast and their double-wall precast concrete manufacturing plant.
http://www.ahtest.com/winning_results/wr_birth_defects_chem.shtml
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Recovery Amount: Confidential
Case Details: Five confidential recoveries for one survivor of brain cancer and four families of British Petroleum Amoco laboratory researchers who died from brain cancer. All worked at Amoco's Naperville, Illinois research center's Building 503 on the third floor during the late 1970s and early 1980s. All were white, male, long-term employees of Amoco, averaging 17 years in tenure, compared with the average of nine years among Naperville employees altogether. Researchers from the University of Alabama-Birmingham and Johns Hopkins University concluded that six cancer cases were more likely than not workplace related and constituted a valid brain cancer cluster. In this case the six glioma victims were frequent users of a chemical called n-hexane which was used to make plastics and were more frequently involved in a process involving ionizing radiation used to track compounds in chemical reactions.
Article: BP Amoco settles brain cancer suits, March 14, 2000
http://www.businessweek.com/2000/00_23/b3684006.htm
Excerpt: Trade places for a moment with H. Laurence Fuller, co-chairman of BP Amoco PLC (BPA). It's the summer of 1999, and your company is being sued by the families of six scientists stricken with a rare form of brain cancer.
http://www.seas.yale.edu/faculty-detail.php?id=97
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AWARDS & HONORS
June 02, 2010|
By Gerry Smith,
Chicago Tribune reporter
The former setting of a medical mystery is now a pile of rubble. But for Gayle Palmer, the final chapter has yet to be written.
In recent weeks, BP demolished Building 503 of its Naperville research campus where at least six former chemical researchers of what was then Amoco Corp. — including Palmer’s husband, David — developed a deadly form of brain cancer in the 1980s and 1990s.
Researchers who conducted a three-year study of the cancer cluster concluded those six cases of glioma probably were workplace-related. Yet the scientists never could identify the source of the workers’ ailments.
The demolition of Building 503 gave little solace to Palmer and other victims’ relatives who still have unanswered questions about a mystery that was never solved.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/steven-weber/emasculation-nation_b_600001.html
Excerpt:
BP has America by the balls.
After years of video games and twenty-four-hour-a-day infotainment memes shortening attention spans to the same length of the switchback cuts of an MTV video (remember those? Barely?), Americans' eyes never light for too long upon anything.
And that's good for BP. The potential of people's senses to detect when they are being supremely duped has been squelched by relentless corporate sleight of hand and the attendant laughable lip service which follows a major fuck-up, portraying the callous companies as caring for their crude-coated constituents.
http://www.salvilaw.com/naperville-illinois-injury-lawyers.asp
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Naperville is within the Illinois Technology and Research Corridor. Top employers for Naperville include Alcatel-Lucent, Nalco, and Nicor. Amoco Research Laboratories was a top Naperville employer; now owned by BP, ARL was a subject of controversy, as six employees who died of cancer were long-term chemical researchers at building 503, since demolished (Chicago Breaking News). Naperville is also home to the headquarters of Dukane Precast and their double-wall precast concrete manufacturing plant.
http://www.ahtest.com/winning_results/wr_birth_defects_chem.shtml
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Recovery Amount: Confidential
Case Details: Five confidential recoveries for one survivor of brain cancer and four families of British Petroleum Amoco laboratory researchers who died from brain cancer. All worked at Amoco's Naperville, Illinois research center's Building 503 on the third floor during the late 1970s and early 1980s. All were white, male, long-term employees of Amoco, averaging 17 years in tenure, compared with the average of nine years among Naperville employees altogether. Researchers from the University of Alabama-Birmingham and Johns Hopkins University concluded that six cancer cases were more likely than not workplace related and constituted a valid brain cancer cluster. In this case the six glioma victims were frequent users of a chemical called n-hexane which was used to make plastics and were more frequently involved in a process involving ionizing radiation used to track compounds in chemical reactions.
Article: BP Amoco settles brain cancer suits, March 14, 2000
http://www.businessweek.com/2000/00_23/b3684006.htm
Excerpt: Trade places for a moment with H. Laurence Fuller, co-chairman of BP Amoco PLC (BPA). It's the summer of 1999, and your company is being sued by the families of six scientists stricken with a rare form of brain cancer.
http://www.seas.yale.edu/faculty-detail.php?id=97
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AWARDS & HONORS
- Fellow, Biomedical Engineering Society (2010)
- Sheffield Teaching Prize, Yale University (2009)
- Paper selected as one of top 25 published over past 25 years in Biomaterials (2006)
- Distinguished Lecturer Award, Biomedical Engineering Society (2004)
- BP Amoco/H.Laurence Fuller Chair in Chemical Engineering at Cornell (2001)
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he asbestos drama has a face though, as also is shown in Franklin's story
below, because a week ago - according to a TV item in the New York Times* -
called "Asbestos, Hidden in Plain Sight", the story is told about Libby,
Montana. Reporter Hale: ''Libby, Montana" sets a high bar for itself. An opening
voice-over, covering idyllic home-movie scenes of life in the West, proclaims:
Either this is the most horrific story I¹ve ever heard in my life, or those
people are completely crazy. It couldn¹t have happened." But it did, like 9/11,
and the people are suffering and dying.
THE STORY WAS SHOWN ON MOST PBS STATIONS AS PART OF THE DOCUMENTARY SERIES
"P.O.V.," AND IS DEFINITELY HORRIFIC.
"It is the tale of how an entire town in Montana was exposed to asbestos for
decades without its knowledge, resulting at last count in an estimated 1,500
cases of lung abnormalities in a population of about 8,000, and of how W. R.
Grace & Company knew the asbestos was there." - Like the complicit humanoids who
were in charge in New York knew on 9/11 and thereafter during their cover up, as
Franklin writes. It really is too bad to be true, as he shows in his story:
"A WAITING NIGHTMARE IN NYC."
Franklin's Focus: 9/3/07 - Most of my readers will immediately guess that I'm
going to discuss the vast fallout of white powder that descended on most of
Manhattan over a period of two or three weeks. That, dear reader, is exactly
what I'm going to do, albeit in a highly abbreviated form.
Due to the extreme lightness of billowing, lethal, microscopic particles,
blanketing Manhattan, they took days and probably weeks to completely settle
down on open surfaces or to drift into apartments, stores, offices, taxis,
subways, restaurants, bars and so forth. These microscopic particles are of such
tiny size, they entered all structures or vehicles whether the windows were
tightly closed or not.
http://watchdogcentral.org/watchdogcentral/forum/yaf_postst66_IBM-the-final-solution-company.aspx
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IBM did not miss a beat when Nazi Germany was defeated. Its information processing technology proved indispensable to US post-war occupation and administration of Europe. When the US carried out the post-war Nuremberg trials of Nazi war criminals, there was never a thought that any IBM executive in New York, or any other US capitalist, would find themselves in the dock.
IBM, upon which the Nazi regime was utterly dependent for organising the systematic extermination of Jews and others, could have, by walking away from evil, slowed the Holocaust and the extent of Nazi occupation and terror. It didn't. The US government could have stopped IBM. It didn't.
The guiding principle of business and governments under capitalism is profit-making. Genocide and war did not divert IBM from “business as usual”.
When the Gestapo came knocking on the doors of Europe's Jews, the lists were courtesy of IBM's lust for profits. If ever an example is needed of why the capitalist profit-system should be abolished, then the behaviour of IBM in preparing, facilitating and reaping the spoils from genocide, provides it.
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H. Laurance Fuller[39] (1960) - President (1983–1995), CEO (1991–1998), and Chairman (1991–2000) of Amoco; Lincoln Center Humanitarian of the Year (1998); Cornell University trustee; Cornell University presidential councilor
http://watchdogcentral.org/watchdogcentral/forum/yaf_postst66_IBM-the-final-solution-company.aspx
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IBM did not miss a beat when Nazi Germany was defeated. Its information processing technology proved indispensable to US post-war occupation and administration of Europe. When the US carried out the post-war Nuremberg trials of Nazi war criminals, there was never a thought that any IBM executive in New York, or any other US capitalist, would find themselves in the dock.
IBM, upon which the Nazi regime was utterly dependent for organising the systematic extermination of Jews and others, could have, by walking away from evil, slowed the Holocaust and the extent of Nazi occupation and terror. It didn't. The US government could have stopped IBM. It didn't.
The guiding principle of business and governments under capitalism is profit-making. Genocide and war did not divert IBM from “business as usual”.
When the Gestapo came knocking on the doors of Europe's Jews, the lists were courtesy of IBM's lust for profits. If ever an example is needed of why the capitalist profit-system should be abolished, then the behaviour of IBM in preparing, facilitating and reaping the spoils from genocide, provides it.
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