Phelps Dodge Corporation

Former type	Public (NYSE: PD)
Industry	Mining
Fate	Friendly takeover
Successor(s)	Freeport-McMoRan
Founded	1834
Defunct	2007
Headquarters	Phoenix, Arizona, USA
Key people	J. Steven Whisler, Chairman & CEO
Products	Copper
Employees	15,000 (2006)

Phelps Dodge Corporation was an American mining company founded in 1834 by Anson Greene Phelps and William Earle Dodge, Sr.. On March 19, 2007, it was acquired by Freeport-McMoRan and now operates under the name Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc.

History[link]

Initially, Phelps Dodge operated an import-export trade business that shipped U.S.-grown cotton to England in exchange for tin, iron, copper and other metals essential for growth and development of the new American nation.^[1]

As time went on, the company began its own mining operations as the western United States frontier expanded, and its mineral wealth, especially copper, started being discovered. The company focused largely on providing copper wire and cables to industry that became in high demand as the Industrial Revolution took hold. As the company diversified, it began investing in new railroads, essential in the company’s efforts to establish itself in the west, especially copper-rich Arizona, and to transport products to and from its markets on the eastern/northeastern shores. During the late 19th century, in concert with its metal interests, Phelps Dodge Corporation became one of the largest producers of lumber and lumber products in the United States. In Tombstone, Arizona during 1900 E. B. Gage, Frank Murphy, and William Staunton consolidated their various mining properties into a single entity, the Tombstone Consolidated Mines Company. They re-started efforts to drain mines that had filled with water, laid a rail spur into town, and re-commenced mining. They experienced some success until the pumps failed in 1909. The new company filed for bankruptcy and the Phelps-Dodge Corporation corporation acquired its claims.^[2]

The company became notorious for its anti-union tactics, primarily for its kidnapping of nearly 1,300 striking miners and the seizure of the telegraph and telephone lines in the town of Bisbee, Arizona, during the Bisbee Deportation in 1917.^[3]

In South America, the company had several very large copper mining operations in Chile and Peru. In the Congo, Phelps Dodge Corporation was the majority owner and operator of the Tenke Fungurume project, generally considered to be the world's largest undeveloped copper/cobalt project.^{[citation needed]}

A subsidiary of Phelps Dodge Corporation, Climax Molybdenum, is the largest primary producer of molybdenum in the world. At the Henderson mine west of Empire, Colorado, Climax Molybdenum has produced more than 160 million tons of ore and 770 million pounds of molybdenum since the mine opened in 1976. Climax Molybdenum also owns the inactive Climax molybdenum mine, north of Leadville, Colorado.

The historic Phelps Dodge General Office Building in Bisbee, Arizona was declared a National Historic Landmark of the U.S. in 1983.

The Phelps Dodge copper mine at Morenci, Arizona was the site of a violent strike from 1983 to 1986, culminating in one of the largest union decertifications in American labor history.^[4]

The company employed more than 13,500 people worldwide.

Expansion and acquisition[link]

On Sunday, November 19, 2006, Freeport-McMoRan announced that it planned to acquire Phelps Dodge for $25.9 billion in cash and stock to create the world's largest publicly traded copper mining company. Stockholders for both companies voted on the proposal March 14, 2007. On Monday, March 19, 2007, Phelps Dodge Corporation was acquired by Freeport-McMoRan (NYSE: FCX), creating the world's largest publicly traded copper company, with 25,000 employees at acquisition.

At the time of its acquisition in 2007, Phelps Dodge Corporation had large copper mining operations in Bagdad, Arizona, Morenci, Arizona, Sahuarita, Arizona, Miami, Arizona, and Tyrone, New Mexico, and the El Chino Mine in New Mexico. Several of these locations provide ores rich in molybdenum as well. It had recently begun development of the Safford Mine near Safford, Arizona. In 2006, revenue was $11.910 billion USD, operating income was $4.226 billion, and net income was $3.017 billion.

Environmental record[link]

Researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst have identified Phelps Dodge as the 23rd-largest corporate producer of air pollution in the United States, with roughly 3.64 million pounds of toxins released annually into the air. Major pollutants included sulfuric acid, chromium compounds, lead compounds, and chlorine.^[5][6] The Center for Public Integrity has reported that Phelps Dodge is named as a potentially responsible party in at least 13 Superfund toxic waste sites.^[7]

Notes[link]

References[link]

• Cleland, Robert Glass. A History of Phelps Dodge, 1834-1950. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1952.

External links[link]

• Former website (March 13, 2007 snapshot from the Internet Archive)
• Freeport-McMoRan corporate website
• Climax Molybdenum corporate website

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David Phelps
David Phelps, left
Background information
Birth name	David Norris Phelps
Born	(1969-10-21) October 21, 1969 (age 42) Texas, United States
Genres	Southern gospel, Christian
Occupations	Musician, singer
Instruments	Vocals, piano
Years active	1994–present
Labels	Springhill Music Word Entertainment
Associated acts	The Gaither Vocal Band
Website	davidphelps.com

David Norris Phelps (born October 21, 1969) is an American Christian vocalist, songwriter and vocal arranger, who is best known for singing tenor in the Gaither Vocal Band.^[1] He has also released several solo albums, including four Christmas collections. On January 13, 2008, Phelps appeared on Extreme Makeover Home Edition for the Woodhouse family.

Biography[link]

David Phelps was born in Texas, to Gene and Mary Ella Phelps. Gene is a former accountant/banker who currently teaches business and finance at a college in Houston. Mary Ella is a retired English Professor. He has two older sisters, Sherri Proctor (who sings backup vocals for him when he tours) and Kari Lee (a professional trumpeter who tours with the Chicago-based Millar Brass Ensemble.)

Phelps grew up in Tomball, Texas near Houston and graduated from Tomball High School in 1988. He attended Baylor University, (where he directed the Baylor Religious Hour Choir) graduating in 1992 with a degree in music and vocal performance.

Phelps is a lyric tenor whose trademark is his large range, featuring an ability to sing in a high tessitura for sustained periods. Live recordings, whether by himself or with the Gaithers, indicate he has more than a three octave full voice range. In the first verse of "Just as I Am", from the album Revelation, Phelps sings an E2. This is attested by live performances. During a performance of "When God Dips His Love in My Heart", he ably sings an F5, full voice, and sustains it for a significant period of time. During his time with the Gaither Vocal Band, his high tessitura was employed often. He was introduced to Bill Gaither by Mark Lowry, who was (and is now again) the baritone in the group. Lowry brought Gaither a tape of Phelps. During a performance of "Let Freedom Ring" (originally recorded on their God Is Good CD), he ably sings an Db5 in full voice. In Studio his highest note ever is a C#6 the Soprano High C#6.^{[citation needed]}

Phelps is once again, since approximately January 13, 2009, part of the Gaither Vocal Band. He is sharing the tenor part with Wes Hampton.

Personal life[link]

David's wife is Lori Purtle Phelps (also born on October 21, 1969); together the two have four children: Callie Noelle (born 1995), Maggie Beth (born 1997), David Grant (born 2000) and Coby Daniel (born 2004). Callie, Maggie Beth and Grant can be seen on the Gaither Homecoming videos Christmas in the Country and A Time for Joy. The Phelps Family currently resides south of Nashville, Tennessee.^{[citation needed]}

Discography[link]

Solo Albums[link]

Compilations[link]

• 2009: The Best of David Phelps (Word)

With the Gaither Vocal Band[link]

• 1998: Still the Greatest Story Ever Told
• 1999: God Is Good
• 2001: I Do Believe
• 2002: Everything Good
• 2003: A Capella (producer/arranger)
• 2004: Best of the Gaither Vocal Band
• 2009: Reunion Vol. 1 & 2 (LIVE)
• 2009: Reunited
• 2010: Better Day [LIVE]
• 2010: Greatly Blessed
• 2011: I Am a Promise

Appearances on other albums[link]

• 1998: In My Life, Larry Gatlin (Spring House) (background)
• 1999: Within Old Pages, Walt Mills (Homeland Records) (background)
• 2000: Lordsong, Lordsong (Daywind) "Trial of the Heart" (background)
• 2001: Lauren Talley (Horizon) "The Prayer" (duet)
• 2001: Mark Lowry On Broadway (Spring Hill) "A Whole New World" (duet with Sandi Patty)
• 2001: Pursuing His Presence, The God Chasers (Spring Hill) "Completely Yours" (solo)
• 2006: The Nativity Story: Sacred Songs, Various (Watertower Music) "The Virgin's Lullaby" (Background)
• 2009: Let Go, Sheila Walsh (Spring Hill) "The Prayer" (duet)
• 2009: In All I Do, Paid In Full, "Because I Love Him" (solo)
• 2010: Love Will Find A Way, Steve Green, "God Is Love" (background)

Video[link]

Solo[link]

• 2006: Legacy of Love [LIVE]
• 2007: No More Night: David Phelps Live in Birmingham
• 2008: O Holy Night
• 2010: Christmas With David Phelps

With the Gaither Vocal Band[link]

• 1998: Hawaiian Homecoming
• 2001: I Do Believe
• 2003: Australian Homecoming
• 2009: Reunion Volumes 1 & 2
• 2010: Reunited
• 2010: Better Day

Gaither Homecoming Video featured performances[link]

• 1998: Kennedy Center Homecoming "The Battle Hymn of the Republic"
• 1998: All Day Singin' at the Dome "I'll Fly Away"
• 1998: Atlanta Homecoming "What a Meeting in the Air", "Jesus Saves"
• 2000: Good News "I'm Free", "What A Meeting in the Air"
• 2001: A Billy Graham Music Homecoming - Volume 2 "It is Well with My Soul"
• 2001: Mark Lowry On Broadway "A Whole New World"
• 2002: Freedom Band "Worthy the Lamb"
• 2002: I'll Fly Away "I'll Fly Away", "When I Survey the Wondrous Cross"
• 2002: God Bless America "The End of the Beginning", "The Battle Hymn of the Republic"
• 2003: Heaven "No More Night", "What a Day That Will Be"
• 2004: A Tribute to Jake Hess "Sweeter as the Days Go By"
• 2004: Passin' the Faith Along "I Can't Even Walk"
• 2005: So Glad "Bein' Happy"
• 2006: Harmony in the Heartland "The Lifeboat"
• 2007: How Great Thou Art "There is a Fountain Filled with Blood"
• 2008: Rock of Ages "When I Survey the Wondrous Cross"
• 2011: The Best of David Phelps
• 2011: Alaskan Homecoming "America, the Beautiful"
• 2011: Majesty, "Sunday School Medley", "His Eye Is On The Sparrow"

References[link]

External links[link]

• David Phelps at Allmusic
• Official website
• "When God Dips His Love" video

Thomas Allen Phelps (born March 4, 1974 in Seoul, South Korea) is a former Major League Baseball pitcher. He is currently the pitching coach for the Double-A Trenton Thunder in the New York Yankees organization after serving as their minor league rehabilitation pitching coach in 2008.^[1]

He began his major league career in 2003 with the Florida Marlins, where he spent two seasons, pitching in 46 games (starting 11) and won four games, losing five and winning a World Series championship in 2003 World Series. In 2005, he pitched in 29 games with the Milwaukee Brewers, recording no wins and two losses. In 2006, he signed a minor league deal with the New York Yankees, and started 17 games for their Triple-A affiliate, Columbus Clippers, finishing the season with a 7–4 record with a 4.45 ERA.

References[link]

External links[link]

• Baseball-Reference

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Amy Goodman
Amy Goodman addresses the 2010 Chicago Green Festival.
Born	(1957-04-13) April 13, 1957 (age 55) Bay Shore, New York
Show	Democracy Now!
Station(s)	over 1000[1]
Network	Pacifica Radio
Style	Investigative journalism

Amy Goodman (born April 13, 1957) is an American progressive broadcast journalist, syndicated columnist, investigative reporter and author. Goodman is the host of Democracy Now!, an independent global news program broadcast daily on radio, television and the Internet.

Biography[link]

Early life[link]

Goodman was born in Bay Shore, New York^[2] on April 13, 1957 to George, an ophthalmologist, and Dorothy (née Bock) Goodman,^[3] and graduated from Bay Shore High School in 1975. She graduated from Radcliffe College in 1984 with a degree in anthropology.^[4] She spent a year studying at the College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor, Maine.^[5]

[edit] Democracy Now!

Goodman had been news director of Pacifica Radio station WBAI in New York City for over a decade when she co-founded Democracy Now! The War and Peace Report in 1996. Since then, Democracy Now! has been called "probably the most significant progressive news institution that has come around in some time" by professor and media critic Robert McChesney.^[6]

In 2001, the show was temporarily pulled off the air, as a result of a conflict with a group of Pacifica Radio board members and Pacifica staff members and listeners. During that time, it moved to a converted firehouse from which it broadcast until November 13, 2009.^[7] The new Democracy Now! studio is located in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan.^[8]

Goodman credits the program's success to the mainstream media organizations who leave "a huge niche" for Democracy Now!^[6]

When President Bill Clinton called WBAI on Election Day 2000^[9] for a quick get-out-the-vote message, Goodman and WBAI's Gonzalo Aburto challenged him for 28 minutes with questions about Leonard Peltier, racial profiling, the Iraq sanctions, Ralph Nader, the death penalty, the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Clinton defended his administration's policies and charged Goodman with being "hostile and combative".^[10]

Investigative journalism career[link]

Amy Goodman speaking at Power To The Peaceful Festival, San Francisco 2004.

In 1991, covering the East Timor independence movement, Goodman and fellow journalist Allan Nairn reported that they were badly beaten by Indonesian soldiers after witnessing a mass killing of Timorese demonstrators in what became known as the Santa Cruz Massacre.^[11]

In 1998, Goodman and journalist Jeremy Scahill documented Chevron Corporation's role in a confrontation between the Nigerian Army and villagers who had seized oil rigs and other equipment belonging to oil corporations. Two villagers were shot and killed during the standoff.^[12] On May 28, 1998, the company provided helicopter transport to the Nigerian Navy and Mobile Police (MOPOL) to their Parabe oil platform which had been occupied by villagers who accused the company of contaminating their land. Soon after landing, the Nigerian military shot and killed two of the protesters, Jola Ogungbeje and Aroleka Irowaninu, and wounded 11 others. Chevron spokesperson Sola Omole acknowledged that the company transported the troops, and that use of troops was at the request of Chevron's management. The documentary, "Drilling and Killing: Chevron and Nigeria's Oil Dictatorship", won the George Polk Award in 1998.

Michael Delli Carpini, dean of the Annenberg School for Communication, said, "She's not an editorialist. She sticks to the facts... She provides points of view that make you think, and she comes at it by saying: 'Who are we not hearing from in the traditional media?'"^[13]

Arrest at 2008 Republican Convention[link]

During the 2008 Republican National Convention, several of Goodman's colleagues from Democracy Now! were arrested and detained by police while reporting on an anti-war protest outside the RNC.^[14] While trying to ascertain the status of her colleagues, Goodman herself was arrested and held, accused of obstructing a legal process and interfering with a police officer,^[15] while fellow Democracy Now! producers including reporter Sharif Abdel Kouddous were held on charges of probable cause for riot.^[16] The arrests of the producers were videotaped.^[17] Goodman and her colleagues were later released,^[18] and City Attorney John Choi indicated that the charges would be dropped.^[19] Goodman's (et al.) civil lawsuit against the St. Paul and Minneapolis police departments and the Secret Service resulted in a $100,000 settlement, as well as an agreement to educate officers in First Amendment rights of press and public.^[20][21][22]

Douglas border crossing incident[link]

On November 25, 2009, Goodman was detained for approximately 90 minutes at the Douglas border crossing into Canada while en route to a scheduled meeting at the Vancouver Public Library.^[23] During an interview of her and her colleagues, Immigration officials asked questions pertaining to their intended topics of discussion at the meeting. They wanted to know whether she would be speaking about the 2010 Olympic Games to be held in Canada.^[24]

"I was completely surprised by what he was asking and did not know what he was getting at. I'm an anti-sports fan," she told a CBC Radio interviewer. "At Democracy Now, we don't cover sports much."^[24]

Goodman was eventually permitted to enter Canada after the customs authorities took four photographs of her and stapled a "control document" into her passport demanding that she leave Canada within 48 hours.^[24][25] MSNBC's Keith Olbermann commented: "If you‘re that desperate to prevent criticism of some Olympic games, you shouldn‘t detain a noted commentator and write her scripts for her."^[26]

Dave Zirin of the Huffington Post quotes Derrick O'Keefe, co-chair of the Canadian Peace Alliance, as saying: "It's pretty unlikely that the harassment of a well-known and respected journalist like Amy Goodman about whether she might be speaking about the Olympics was the initiative of one over-zealous, bad-apple Canadian border guard. This looks like a clear sign of the chill that the IOC and the Games' local corporate boosters want to put out against any potential dissent."^[27]

Recognition[link]

Goodman has received dozens^[28] of awards for her work, including the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award^[29] and the George Polk Award.^[30] In 2001, she declined to accept the Overseas Press Club Award, in protest of the group's pledge not to ask questions of keynote speaker Ambassador Richard Holbrooke and because the OPC was honoring Indonesia for their improved treatment of journalists despite the fact that its forces had recently beaten and killed reporters in occupied East Timor.^[31]

On October 2, 2004, Goodman was presented the Islamic Community Award for Journalism by the Council on American-Islamic Relations.^[32] In 2006 she received the Puffin/Nation Prize for Creative Citizenship.^[33]

On November 18, 2004, Goodman was presented the Thomas Merton Award.^[34]

On October 1, 2008, Goodman was named as a recipient of the 2008 Right Livelihood Award,^[35] and often refers to it as the "Alternative Nobel Prize". The Right Livelihood Award Foundation cited her work in "developing an innovative model of truly independent grassroots political journalism that brings to millions of people the alternative voices that are often excluded by the mainstream media." The prize was awarded in the Swedish Parliament on December 8, 2008.^[36]

On March 31, 2009, Goodman was the recipient (along with Glenn Greenwald) of the first Izzy Awards for independent media, named after journalist I. F. Stone. The award is presented by Ithaca College's Park Center for Independent Media.^[37]

In May of 2012, Goodman received an honorary Doctor of Letters degree from DePauw University in recognition of her journalistic work.^[38]

Books[link]

• 2004 — The Exception to the Rulers: Exposing Oily Politicians, War Profiteers, and the Media That Love Them co-written with her brother, Mother Jones reporter David Goodman. ISBN 1-4013-0799-X

• 2006 — Static: Government Liars, Media Cheerleaders, and the People who Fight Back (also with David Goodman). She appeared on the Colbert Report on October 5, 2006 to promote the book. ISBN 1-4013-0293-9

• 2008 — Standing up to the Madness: Ordinary Heroes in Extraordinary Times (also with David Goodman) details the capabilities of ordinary citizens to enact change. Was on the New York Times bestseller list. ISBN 1-4013-2288-3

• 2009 — Breaking the Sound Barrier (with a preface by journalist Bill Moyers), an anthology of columns written for King Features Syndicate. In her first piece she wrote: "My column will include voices so often excluded, people whose views the media mostly ignore, issues they distort and even ridicule."^[39] ISBN 1-931859-99-X

Film[link]

In 2006, Goodman narrated the film One Bright Shining Moment: The Forgotten Summer of George McGovern. Directed by Stephen Vittoria, the documentary chronicles the life and times of George McGovern, focusing on his failed 1972 bid for the presidency. The film features McGovern, Gloria Steinem, Gore Vidal, Warren Beatty, Howard Zinn, Ron Kovic, and Dick Gregory. The film won the Sarasota Film Festival's award for "Best Documentary Feature."

References[link]

External links[link]

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