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"The plants arrived in good order, beautifully packed, as always. Thank you!"
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Richard Foden, London August 2009
"Fern received safely thanks to your excellent packing – I am pleased with it and am glad that I waited!"
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Pests & Diseases - aphids, scale insects, vine weevils, leaf spot.
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Flower Colour: Yellow - opens creamy yellow.
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The massive hurricane barreling toward the East Coast has both presidential campaigns throwing out their fourth-quarter playbooks, canceling events in the storm's track and attempting to balance last-minute intensity with a show of compassion for people whose lives could be upended.
On Sunday, politicos from both sides said it was still too early to tell how the storm would affect the race, but that access to voting centers would be a concern if effects from the storm persist until Election Day.
"I don't think anybody really knows," top Obama adviser David Axelrod said on CNN's "State of the Union" about the potential political impact of Hurricane Sandy. "Obviously, we want unfettered access to the polls because we believe that the more people come out, the better we're going to do, and so to the extent that it makes it harder, you know, that's a source of concern. But I don't know how all the politics will sort out."
Virginia's Republican governor said Sunday his state would take measures to ensure residents are able to vote, despite potential obstacles brought on by the storm.
"We'll be ready, but we're planning for contingencies if there's still a problem," Bob McDonnell said on "State of the Union." He said his state would "absolutely" make polling centers such as schools and fire stations a top priority for restoring power should widespread outages occur.
Another Virginian, Democratic Sen. Mark Warner, predicted on Fox News the "storm will throw havoc into the race."
In Virginia, the effects of a major storm could linger until Election Day. Hundreds of thousands of customers in Northern Virginia lost power for more than week after Hurricane Irene in August 2011 and again in June after a powerful complex of thunderstorms called a derecho moved through. Residents' priorities might still be dealing with the storm's aftermath rather than a trip to the polls.
Virginia offers early absentee voting only with an excuse, unlike other states that offer less restrictive ways to cast ballots before November 6. That means the race in the commonwealth will be won or lost on Election Day.
North Carolina and Maryland, two other states in the storm's projected path, offer in-person early voting, which has benefited Democrats in the past. Martin O'Malley, Maryland's Democratic governor, canceled early voting on Monday in his state.
In Delaware, New York, Massachusetts, Connecticut and Rhode Island, residents only have the option of voting early by mail.
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SOUTH CHARLESTON, Ohio (WDTN) -
The Yake sisters are full of imagination and determination, not only to save money for Kayleigh's college career, but to learn life-long lessons.
"They understand the idea that they need money to buy things, but to actually create a budget, actually having to make a plan, estimate how much things are going to cost first, I think that's something else that being involved in an organization gives you a different outlook on," said Angela Yake, Kayleigh's mother.
That's why they found themselves inside the costume room at the Springfield Arts Council in downtown Springfield. Kayleigh volunteers as a youth ambassador for the organization learning about art and fundraising, lessons that will pay off the Savings Race, in college and beyond.
"It puts her in the position to hear the same stuff she hears at home and also hearing it from other people as far as you know, we need money to do this, we can't do these certain things because we don't have the money. If we want to do those things we need to raise the money, so that puts her in the position to be more fiscally responsible," said Chris Yake, Kayleigh's father.
Kayleigh's experience has inspired her little sister, Carrie as well. She's opened a business in the family's basement, teaching arts and crafts to kids while parents take some time off.
In the meantime, Mom and Dad have paid off two credit cards and saved money too, all by pooling their resources, doing their research and putting an end to the plastic.
"I feel that the Yake family is putting up with their coaches very well. We've already given them so many tasks and they have done an incredible job of doing everything we've given them really putting it into, their own spin on it," said Coach Andrea, Wright Patt Credit Union.
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9 Mobile Health Apps Worth A Closer Look
November 29, 2011 09:00 AM There's no doubt: Clinicians love their mobile devices. Among many new health apps, here are 9 that healthcare professionals and their patients should investigate.
There's no doubt about it: Clinicians are in love with mobile devices--especially the iPhone and iPad. Manhattan Research recently reported that three out of every four U.S. physicians own some type of Apple device. Nearly one in three own an iPad and another 28% plan to buy one this year. Meanwhile, smartphone penetration among physicians is forecast to reach 81% by the end of 2011, compared to 50% penetration for U.S. consumers. And a growing number of mobile medical apps from respected sources should make those numbers grow even faster.
One of the most popular apps is from Medscape for the iPhone, iTouch, Blackberry, and Android. The professional medical website, which offers news, full-text journal articles, CME, and reference material, was already among the most popular and its mobile app became the #1 downloaded free medical app in 2010. The app offers news alerts, drug reference, drug interaction checker, disease and conditions reference, news, and more.
Of note is the app's professional directories function, which allows users to search a database that includes lists of 400,000-plus physicians, 57,000-plus pharmacies, and 6,000-plus hospitals across the U.S. Search can be conducted by location, physician name, or specialty; results offer email contact and location information (including a map). This is a good example of a website that has taken its app strategy seriously, and has been able to migrate many useful resources onto the smartphone platform. In the Apple Store, the current version of Medscape Mobile rates 5 stars among users. Many of the commenters praise the app for its ease of use, news, navigation and more. For healthcare professionals, one of the best features is the mobile CME, which include CME/CE activities across 30+ specialty areas. Credits can be earned on-the-go and then tracked automatically via the apps on-site CME Track.
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Don’t judge a book by its cover, the saying goes. There’s no doubt, though, that a book’s cover can say an awful lot about what’s inside.
Deciding what work should go on the cover of the forthcoming book Art at Te Papa — Michael Illingworth’s Untitled 1971 — wasn’t easy. We tried lots of different possibilities, shopped ideas around, got sometimes contradictory advice and then, after nothing quite seemed to work, the Illingworth presented itself as one of those ‘what if we tried this…’ ideas.
The painting was part of a wonderful collection given to the museum in 1995 by Wellington collectors Hans and Martha Lachmann. It was also featured in the 1992 exhibition Headlands: Thinking through New Zealand art at Sydney’s MCA, which led to a reassessment of Illingworth’s status in New Zealand art. He’d kind of fallen out of fashion and Headlands showed him a new light.
Two works by Illingworth — Untitled and Pah Hill — are currently on show in the collection focus part of Toi Te Papa. This selection of works was meant to have been on show during the Rita Angus exhibition (the Lachmanns were also the donors of this painting, one of my favourite Angus works) but things didn’t quite work out that way and it went up a couple of weeks before Rita closed.
Speaking of which, the Rita Angus exhibition finishes at Dunedin Public Art Gallery on 15 February. The gallery’s been running a nice events programme with the exhibition and if you’re there during the last weekend, you can catch two contributors to the catalogue, Sarah Hillary and Vita Cochran, talking about Angus’s work.
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By Kim Bodine, LVC Perspectives Columnist
What is service learning?
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BEIJING -- In the narrative of U.S. presidential politics, China is a Hollywood villain, a monetary cheat that is stealing American jobs.
But the one-dimensional caricature offered by President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney obscures the crucial reality of U.S.-China relations: For all the talk about getting tough on Beijing, the U.S. and China are deeply entwined, defying easy solutions to the friction and troubles that beset their relations.
The two countries are the first and second largest economies in the world, doing nearly a half-trillion dollars in trade which in turn buoys the global economy. Their governments are in constant contact on North Korea's and Iran's nuclear programs and Syria's civil war and are trying to work out rules of the road for their huge militaries and such 21st century problems as cyberwarfare.
Few relationships are as critical to the world today. Managing the competition for global influence between the world's superpower and its still-rising rival so it does not become outright confrontation will be a priority for whoever wins next month's presidential election.
Little of the enormity and importance of U.S.-China ties found its way into Tuesday night's debate between Obama and Romney. Instead, the candidates used it as a convenient foil for their campaign positions about revitalizing the U.S. economy and getting Americans back to work.
Both candidates sought to portray China as vacuuming up American jobs. Their arguments contained half-truths and flaws.
Romney said excessive regulation and misguided policies during Obama's first term drained away American jobs, turning China into "the largest manufacturer in the world." Obama said Romney, through his work for private equity and investment firm Bain Capital, bore responsibility by investing in companies that moved jobs to China.
The title of No. 1 manufacturer is a matter of dispute. The research firm IHS Global Insight said last year that China overtook the United States in 2010, with total output of $1.995 trillion, compared with $1.952 trillion for the U.S. The National Association of Manufacturers disputed that, saying the United States still was in the lead and IHS Global Insight's figures were distorted by changes in exchange rates and other factors.
Left unsaid by both candidates: That if low-cost manufacturing jobs don't go to China, they'll go somewhere else. Think Mexico.
Obama, for his part, said his focus on doubling U.S. exports is "creating tens of thousands of jobs all across the country." But one concrete example he cited in getting tough on China -- slapping levies on imports of low-priced Chinese-made tires that he said saved 1,000 jobs -- had mixed results.
Economists at the Peterson Institute for International Economics in Washington have said that some 1,200 jobs might have been preserved, but that the cost amounted to $1.1 billion in higher prices paid by American consumers -- or $900,000 per job. Whether the outcome was good or bad for Americans is a matter of perspective.
Four years ago, Obama attempted to break with the past by trying to treat China as a partner in solving global issues: the Great Recession, climate change and nuclear proliferation. He was rebuffed by Beijing, which took the overture as a sign of declining American power. Re-tacking, Obama has begun diverting more naval and other military resources to Asia, shoring up longstanding alliances from Japan to Australia and building a new one with Vietnam.
Beijing views the current policy as hedged containment and sees Washington's hand behind current territorial disputes over remote islands with the Philippines and Japan. Senior U.S. and Chinese analysts have warned of a deepening distrust between Washington and Beijing that has the potential to impede solutions to conflict in the Middle East, better managing the global economy and other world problems.
If the candidates have answers to that predicament, they did not say. Their final debate on foreign policy -- and a chance to make the case for constructive U.S.-China relations -- takes place next week.
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"Constantly seek difficulties. You shouldn't be afraid to fail; rather you should fail continually, so that you can win in the end. Without difficulties, we cannot grow." - Michio Kushi
"When we see the human race, we must see before all else environment and food. Historians write about social change without taking these factors into account. This is why it is difficult for them to see the reasons decline and prosperity in society." - Michio Kushi
"We are always seeking our opposite, whether we know it or not. When we discover what that is we can dissolve our arrogance." - Michio Kushi
"Many people believe that they were made by their parents: 'I didn't ask to be born.' they cry. This is completely wrong. Please try to remember when your were five. If you try then you will remember that this memory had no beginning. It seems as if you can remember living infinitely; that your life didn't begin when you were born but continues without limit." -Michio Kushi
"It is easy to love friends and sweethearts. This is selfish love. Higher love embraces enemies and all ugly, bad people. The highest love doesn't see goodness or badness at all. One should even love warmongers, bad food producers and priests." - Michio Kushi
"An exclusive person hates ugliness, discomfort, enemies, sickness, poverty, ignorance. He finally concludes that there is no God and give himself over to abandonment." - Michio Kushi
"Yoga breathing control is practiced to influence our thinking. The lungs correspond to our fore brain and can influence our consciousness." - Michio Kushi
"You, the real you, which is creating your body and judging every day - that is the Infinite Universe itself." - Michio Kushi.
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June 9, 1937. Washington, D.C. "Congressional hog caller. The Capitol Plaza reverberated with sounds of the barnyard today as Rep. Robert L. Mouton of Louisiana went into serious training for his coming hog-calling contest with Rep. Otha D. Wearin of Iowa. The contest, which will take place on the Capitol steps sometime in the near future, is the result of an argument between the two solons as to the abilities of the hog-yodelers from the respective states. Judging from his demonstration today, the cameraman is willing right now to place the mantle of champion on Rep. Mouton." Harris & Ewing glass negative.
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Shark Angels - Changing the Future for Sharks
Globally connected, Shark Angels around the world are taking action
By Jamie Pollack
While many are aware of the plight of charismatic ocean creatures, like the dolphins and whales, few know - often blinded by irrational fears - of the sharks' current fate. Surprisingly, sharks, the creatures we fear most, are battling for survival, putting our oceans – and ourselves - at dire risk. The sharks are in desperate need of help, and guardian angels just might be their only hope.
Julie Andersen, Founder, Shark Angels. Photo: Paul Wildman
Meet the Angels
Globally connected, Shark Angels around the world are taking action locally, fueled by empowering tools, a collaborative community, and a shared passion. Through positive education, media and grassroots outreach, Shark Angels are changing the future for sharks.
In October, 2007, three dynamic shark conservationists from different organizations came together on a project of passion to show the world a new perspective on sharks in the Bahamas. Dubbed the Shark Angels, Julie Andersen, Alison Kock, and Kim McCoy got into the water with over a dozen tiger sharks and countless lemon sharks, with a team of friends and cameramen.
They believed that when the world came face to fin with the “world’s most dangerous sharks” with them, they would realize, that sharks aren’t the enemies, the only thing we have to fear is ourselves. A short film was released on the Internet, and Julie, Alison, and Kim continued gaining media attention. More importantly, the project ignited a movement around the world. What started as a video project in the Bahamas achieved even greater potential. People, energized by the Angels’ passion, began reaching out and asking to get involved, and Shark Angels began to evolve beyond much more than just a small collaboration.
Realizing that Shark Angels was exciting conservationists and enthusiasts alike, in an attempt to better harness potential and have a greater impact on the preservation of the world’s last remaining sharks, Julie officially started Shark Angels, as a non-profit organization.
Alison, Kim, and Julie swimming with tiger sharks off Tiger Beach, Bahamas. Photo: Eric Cheng
For the past three and a half years, the grassroots movement has grown and the Angels have relied upon one another to tackle shark issues around the globe and rally around sharks. The Angels also incorporated kids into the movement, starting Shark Cherubs as a way to get future generations involved. While Shark Angels was started by a woman, it has expanded to include anyone who is passionate about sharks, the oceans, animals or simply conservation, and wants to translate that passion into action. We even have our own version of Charlie.
It isn't just a girl thing... many men have joined our ranks, working together with us on the Shark Front. We come from very different backgrounds, education and perspectives, but share a undeniable desire to get involved.
The Shark Angels have accomplished much through sheer willpower, donated time, and grassroots campaigns. These include heightening awareness and changing perspectives, the creation of a robust, edgy but educational conservation toolkit, and the formation of a global network of Angels over 4,000 strong. Media in many global publications and programs in France, South Africa, the US, the UK, Japan, and Spain take the issues facing sharks into the mainstream, and develop of a very strong brand identity with world-wide recognition (people want to be shark angels). The creation of a line of apparel, and the deployment of world-wide campaigns are having measurable results on shark populations world-wide, like Fin Free. All of this has been personally fueled through passion, time, and personal funds donated by Angels.
Kim, Alison, and Julie still remain strong allies and friends that represent some of the first Angels and others around the world continue to look to them for inspiration. Yet, it has become so much bigger than that, and is now a positively-fueled, empowered, connected movement led by thousands of Angels world-wide acting locally on behalf of an animal who desperately needs our help.
Julie Andersen swimming with black tip sharks, Aliwal Shoal, South Africa. Photo: Paul Wildman
Many are shocked to learn sharks are disappearing at an alarming rate – their numbers down by 98% in some regions – with many species facing extinction during our lifetime. Over one hundred million sharks will be killed this year. That’s 11,432 every hour.
Out of sight out of mind
Few know about this issue, because it happens so far away from us. Out in the oceans, in countries few of us will ever journey to, for a reason that is foreign to many of us.
And, worse, few care, as sharks have evolved into terrifying monsters that ironically, while often times fueling a mass hysteria, really only exist within our collective imagination. And thus, most share the inaccurate sentiment “the only good shark is a dead shark."
Say the word “shark” and most people immediately imagine a bloodthirsty monster worthy of a “Jaws” remake. As a society, there are few things we fear more than sharks, with shark attacks consistently ranking as one of the top three most-feared natural dangers, making it difficult for many people to understand why sharks are worth saving – let alone take measures to do so. And thus, countless animals continue to disappear without us noticing or caring.
But, the man-eating monster is a myth that Hollywood and the media have created in order to increase ratings and sell newspapers. Actual attacks far outpace reports – as do the severity of the incidents. You are more likely to be killed in a hunting accident or lightening strike than a shark. In 2007, one person worldwide was killed by a shark bite, while 793 people died in bicycle accidents, and 49 died from dog bites. Of the over 500 species of sharks, only a handful have been linked to any incidents with humans; the vast majority of sharks are harmless to humans.
Misunderstood and mal-aligned, the stakes at hand are life or death – not just for the sharks, but also our oceans. Turns out, we need sharks on this planet for our very survival.
The frightening reality is, like them or not, sharks play a crucial role on this planet. Remove sharks from the oceans and we are tampering with our primary food and air sources. And the livelihoods of the over four million people that rely on the oceans for their main source of income. Sharks are a critical component in an ecosystem that provides 1/3 of our world’s food source, produces more oxygen than all the rainforests combined, removes half of the atmosphere’s manmade carbon dioxide (greenhouse gas), and controls our planet’s temperature and weather.
As the apex predators of the oceans, the role of sharks is to keep other marine life in healthy balance and to regulate the world’s largest and most important ecosystem. Remove sharks and that balance is seriously upset. Studies are already indicating that regional elimination of sharks can cause disastrous effects including the collapse of fisheries and the death of coral reefs. No one knows for sure what will happen globally if shark populations are destroyed, but one can safely fear the results. Two hundred and fifty million years ago, this planet suffered the largest mass extinction on record, and scientists believe this was caused in part by catastrophic changes in the ocean. Sharks play a keystone role in our seas remain in a healthy equilibrium.
An animal hunted
In addition to the factors challenging all marine creatures - pollution, destruction of habitat, and elimination of food sources - sharks face an even more urgent threat: the demand for their fins are skyrocketing increasing their value exponentially. Indeed a single whale shark fin can sell for upwards of $50,000 USD. As the demand for shark fin far outweighs supply, no sharks are safe from desperate fisherman – sharks everywhere – even the handful that are protected and in the few areas that are protected - are under attack.
The incredibly lucrative market for shark fins is driving the slaughter. This extinction trade full of greed and corruption is often likened to the illegal drug trade, as it is rife with murder, mafia, and millions of dollars. Fisherman desperate to feed their families will stop at nothing and are being driven to extremes, though it is only a handful of individuals who are benefiting – at an incredible cost to all of us.
It is a race against the clock to save sharks – and us - from a looming demise. The Angels have their work cut out for them taking on the world’s hardest public image campaign while for their survival. But it’s a battle worth fighting – and one they are slowly winning.
Julie Andersen operating in the field in Indonesia. Photo: Paul Wildman
The Angels have a singular goal and believe that by harnessing the power of the passionate, together, we have the power to do what many disparate efforts cannot: together we can save sharks. The Shark Angels raise awareness to the critical issues and also attempt to change perspectives. Through media, community involvement and activating local networks to take back their sharks, they are making a real difference around the globe.
Julie Andersen, Founder, Shark Angels and Jamie Pollack, Director, Shark Angels
Photos: Paul Wildman and Gerie Muchnikoff
According to founder, Julie Andersen, “We are the next generation of shark conservationists, working independently and as a network of angels to bring about change. Because sharks need all the guardian angels they can get! The Shark Angels are raising awareness on the plight facing sharks, giving the world a new perspective on these misunderstood animals, and often, in the trenches, stopping the slaughter of sharks, protecting them from our collective greed and ignorance. Instead of talk, we are all about action. We are making a difference.”
We caught up with Julie to hear about their plans for this year.
We’ve got a huge year ahead of us… rocking the world for sharks in 2012:
• After big wins in Canada, we are making more of the world shark Fin Free. A global, positive, movement, it is spreading across the world – even in Taipei.
• Shark Angels is launching in France… and China!
• Kids take center stage – as we launch new programs for our Cherubs – from Canada to Singapore.
• We’ve got lots of media appearances lined up – from Shark Week to several documentaries.
• We are journeying to Layang Layang, the Bahamas, Maldives, Singapore, Chicago and New York. And you can join us doing real work in the field for sharks!
• We’re launching new programs targeted at people who can make a difference for sharks – but are new to the cause.
• We will continue to grow, inspire and build a community of angels.
So what are you waiting for? If you haven’t already earned your wings, check out www.sharkangels.org to get inspired and become involved.
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The Peace Calendar Vol.2 No.5
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Michael Galler — June 1984
Metta Spencer — June 1984
Two months after its inauguration, the Peace Petition Caravan Campaign (PPCC) is well underway. Michael Manolsen, national coordinator of the campaign, was in Toronto on May 7 to meet with the local organizers and canvassers. He talked a bit about the progress of the campaign to date.
There’s no doubt that the momentum is building,” Manolsen says. “Word of the campaign is getting out, perhaps not so much in a broad public way yet, but certainly through the peace and activist community in Canada. Most of the major centres across the country have canvasses or canvass training underway.
Manolsen believes campaign activity is spreading fairly evenly across the country, although regional resources and levels of organization do come into play.
“Toronto is one of the most advanced in terms of the level of organization, “ Manolsen noted, “but, by and large, we’ve got more activity in the West than we do in the East – the Victoria canvass was the first to get off the ground. The Maritimes are a little slow going at this point, which is understandable. The network is a little bit more diffuse there. I think we’ll see more building there as time goes on.”
Special effort is being made to canvass some of the more inaccessible rural and northern ridings, in order to make the campaign broadly representative of Canadian society. At this point, both Northern Ontario and the Yukon seem to be well-covered.
This early in the campaign, statistics about response rates and numbers of signed petitions are hard to come by. In Victoria, at the halfway mark, about 11,000 signatures had been counted. At the April 28 rally in Vancouver, 10,000 petitions were printed up and distributed, an effort which could conceivably return hundreds of thousands of signatures.
Manolsen is most encouraged by reports that between 60 and 70% of the people approached are signing the petition. “I think that is in fact very good,” he said, when you consider that on the cruise test issue alone, we were hovering around a 50% rate, according to the Gallup polls. And the petition goes quite a deal further than cruise testing alone, in terms of dealing with the issues.”
(The petition contains four demands: that cruise testing be halted; that Canada be declared a Nuclear Weapon-Free Zone; that spending on the arms race be directed to fund human needs; and that these points be ratified through a free vote in Parliament.)
Manolsen also noted that the campaign is attracting people who previously had not been extremely active in the peace movement. “The campaign offers these people an opportunity to get involved,” he said. “We are getting calls from groups that have just gotten started and are quite excited about having something to focus on like the campaign.”
In contrast to the enthusiasm of those participating in the campaign, news coverage has been somewhat muted. Manolsen speculates that the kickoff of the campaign was given a low media profile because it came hard on the heels of the demonstrations and ,activities responding to the commencement of the cruise testing. “The campaign at this point is soft news,” he observed. “There are no demonstrations or actions.”
Manolsen believes, that the campaign serves two understated but important functions. The first is to take the peace movement in Canada beyond the single issue of cruise testing. The second is the campaign’s role in the movement-building process. He expects to see long-term changes at the political level resulting from a heightened awareness and commitment to disarmament issues.
Manolsen stresses PPCC’s role as a first attempt to forge a broad-based national disarmament coalition. For example, labour unions have endorsed the campaign, and have lent it their considerable organizing abilities.
The Canadian Labour Congress has produced about 100,000 leaflets on the PPCC, and the National Union of Public Government Employees is coming out with two booklets. Three major Quebec unions are active in the campaign. Says Manolsen, “I think that’s exciting, the Labour and peace movement connection, and it bodes well in terms of the success of the campaign.”
Many local groups will be completing their initial canvasses in the spring. One of the problems facing the campaign is trying to maintain continuity over the summer, since the caravan won’t begin before the early fall. In order to fill the breach, local campaign committees will be organizing other activities, such as festivals, fairs and demonstrations.
“As well,” Manolsen says, “the summer will be a time for the mass petition drives at fairs, concerts, shopping centres and in the workplace. Perhaps we’ll be looking at a national blitz, hitting the streets again for a week or two in early September, and then rolling right into the caravan and the closing rallies.”
Manolsen sees the task of his Ottawa office primarily as one of providing services and materials to local organizers. “The first priority was to get a fairly comprehensive package out on the canvass, so local groups could get their canvass organizing underway. We will be producing in the near future another couple of packages about fund raising and the media, and then later another on the caravan itself. “
Manolsen also sees the national office as a “liaison centre” for the channeling of experience from major centres out to many smaller groups. A small newsletter is also planned.
As for the future, the PPCC as currently structured will end October 20, when the caravan arrives in Ottawa. Manolsen, a 28-year-old Montrealer, who is a member of the board of directors of Greenpeace and who has been active in peace-related issues for nine years, says he is making no plans past October. “I think the campaign will facilitate discussion of an ongoing national coalition, or an ongoing process by which groups across the country can determine a national program of action. “
The Peace Calendar staff now has its own phone line and can be contacted directly. TPC’s editorial and advertising offices can be reached at 416-xxx-xxxx.
Joe Mihevc — June 1984
TORONTO – Exiled members of the Moscow Independent Peace Movement, the “Group to Establish Trust Between the USSR and the USA,” visited peace groups in St. Catharines and Toronto in late May. Sergei Batovrin and his wife Natalia have been living in New York for one year, since they were ousted from their homeland for unauthorized peace work. They were accompanied on their Ontario trip by fellow activist Dr. Valery Godyak, a physicist who was expelled from the Soviet Union only two months ago.
Although Dr. Godyak spoke briefly at the three public lectures, Batovrin was the main spokesperson. An artist in his late twenties, he is an articulate speaker with a ready understanding of western culture and an American accent, acquired in his youth as the son of a Soviet diplomat posted in the United States.
Batovrin and Godyak keep in touch with the Trust Group through frequent phone calls. Despite being systematically intimidated by the KGB, the group continues to thrive: a few members have dropped out but others join, and they estimate the membership as 2000 in the whole country. Nine different branches exist in various cities. In addition, there are two other independent peace organizations in Moscow.
The Trust Group does not criticize its government’s military policy, both because they believe that criticism only produces hatred, and because it is illegal to do so. Instead, they concentrate on offering positive suggestions for ways of “humanizing” relations between people of the two blocs, in the conviction that improved trust -is an essential condition for stopping the arms race. Their proposals include ideas for conversion of the military-industrial complexes on both sides by shifting to joint work on peaceful, humanitarian projects.
The Trust Group’s impact is disproportionate to its relatively small size. Every statement that it issues is immediately read, without comment, by Radio Liberty, which has 20 million Soviet listeners. The Moscow synagogue, where some members of the coordinating committee (including non-Jews) can be reached at every weekly service, is kept as a meeting place for contact with the public, since members of the group have been deprived of phone and mail service.
Hundreds of western peace activists come to meet with the group, especially during the summer, and the New York members strongly support such contacts. They urge Canadians to do everything possible to make human contacts with ordinary Soviet citizens. Batovrin suggests that Westerners send friendly letters to people who are going on visits and ask them to hand them out on the streets to Russian passersby: it’s perfectly safe for them to do so.
Indeed, the presence of Western peace activists is of great support to the Trust Group. For example, last summer some women from Greenham Common went out onto the streets with some Trust Group members, distributed leaflets, gave speeches, and answered questions. Whereas any Soviet citizen who attempted such an action normally would be arrested in a minute or two, this demonstration went on without any interference whatever for two hours, since the KGB didn’t want to clamp down on Western peace activists or even display their repressive tactics to Western witnesses.
Batovrin will gladly put Canadians in touch with members of his group when they plan to visit the USSR. If you are going and want names and addresses, or if you want to forward letters through other visitors, contact Sergei Batovrin, 1793 Riverside Drive, Apt. 5B, New York 10034.
Hamish Wilson — June 1984
At present, the peace movement in Toronto has no centre to call its own. The small number of offices that do exist are almost always to result of the sustaining support of a church, political or community group. While this kind of support and the networking it encourages are vital, the existence of a centre of its. own with direct connections to the community will foster another important link for Toronto’s peace movement.
It is with this objective in mind that the Toronto Disarmament Network (TDN) has initiated the Toronto Peace Education Centre (TPEC). Recent literature from Vancouver indicates that the peace movement there is organizing. a similar centre.
The IDN feels that the peace movement is ready to make such a move. Those who years ago formed groups and networks are now ready to take a further step: the organizing and forming of a centre which will demonstrate that the peace movement will be around for a very long time.
TPEC’s immediate goal is to purchase a storefront building along a major Toronto street. The purchase will be made as soon as sufficient down payment can be raised. Given real estate prices in Toronto, this down payment should be at least $100,000.
Ideally, the building will have three floors. The first floor will be operated by TPEC, the TDN and its member groups, and will be open to the public as an information centre. Peace materials, such as books, buttons and artwork from the TDN and other groups and individuals will be offered for sale, and profits will help support the cost of running the Centre.
The second and third floors will contain offices for the wide variety of groups who make up the TDN. Many resources, such as photocopying machines, phones and meeting rooms, can be shared. One office will be reserved for the regular campaigns that occur throughout the year.
TPEC’s commitment to one location over an extended period of time will allow it to be a truly community-based organization. With an accessible storefront location, and operating as a broadly-based professional resource centre, TPEC will promote a direct connection between the public and the peace movement which will be beneficial to both.
TPEC is currently organizing a fundraising campaign. It is specifically looking for individuals and groups who will raise $500 for the cause. The names of each individual and group who makes a $500 contribution will be included on a plaque to be installed in the centre once it opens. TPEC is also approaching foundations and other funding groups.
For more information about TPEC, contact the Toronto Disarmament Network, 736 Bathurst Street, Toronto On., MSS 2R4. Telephone: 416/xxx-xxxx.
Keneva Kunz and Ami Hjartarson — June 1984
TORONTO – A number of peace, public interest and energy groups have recently formed a coalition whose objective is to make Ontario a Nuclear-Free Zone.
The Campaign for a Nuclear-Free Ontario (CNFO) has. as its major focus a rally at the site of the Darlington nuclear power station, now under construction in Oshawa, east of Toronto. The $11 billion station is thought to be the “key to halting the nuclear industry,” and the cancellation of Darlington is therefore the major demand of the Campaign.
Making Ontario nuclear-free goes well beyond the halting of Darlington, and the CNFO campaign has developed a comprehensive set of demands which would ensure that Ontario become nuclear-free.
CNFO calls for a halt to the manufacture ‘of the cruise missile guidance system by Litton, the development of energy policies which would encourage conservation and efficiency, the democratization of Ontario Hydro, the improvement of safety standards for those currently involved in the nuclear industry, and the retraining of those workers on the Darlington construction site.
Of most interest to the peace movement are the demands to halt the exportation of CANDU reactors and Canadian/Ontario uranium to other nations, as there are proven links between nuclear power and the spread of nuclear bomb-making capability.
The CNFO rally takes place on June 9th at Darlington. Bus transportation from Toronto to the site is available through the purchase of $5 bus tickets from the CNFO office at 730 Bathurst St. prior to June 6.
A further facet of the campaign is a Civil Disobedience action to take place on Monday following. All participants must be involved in a preparation session which can be arranged by calling the CNFO office at 416-xxx-xxxx.
David Cleary — June 1984
HAFNARFJORDOUR – There is an old saying. in Iceland that under the ocean’s surface lurk a hundred hazards. However, with the ever-increasing militarization of the North Atlantic, the hazards can probably be numbered at least in the thousands by now, and the pace of the arms race in the area shows no signs of slowing in the near future.
Iceland pursued a policy of neutrality in international affairs from the inception of sovereignty in 1918 until the British occupation of the country during World War II. In 1942, the Americans replaced the British and remained for the duration of the war.
From the outset, the Americans expressed the desire for permanent military installations in the country. However, Iceland’s newly achieved independence in 1944 and the end of the war in 1945 served to strengthen the desire for continuing non-alignment, and the Americans were forced to withdraw. However, in 1949, the government agreed to join NATO (refusing to permit a referendum on the issue, despite widespread protest and even riots in the streets), on condition that military forces would never set foot in Iceland during peacetime.
Scarcely two years later, in 1951, American troops returned to Keflavik, as there was now a war going on – in Korea.
During the ’50s and early ’60s, American operations in Iceland consisted primarily of radar and surveillance installations, as well as forward bases for bombers. However, changing tactics and a growing emphasis on nuclear warfare have resulted in the increased strategic importance of Iceland and the waters of the North Atlantic for the waging of nuclear war. Consequently, the scope of American military operations in Iceland has increased enormously over the past decade or so.
Orion PC-3s and Phantom F4E fighters are based in Keflavik. Both are designed for nuclear armaments and are intended for anti-submarine operations.
From the western and eastern corners of the country lie SOSUS underwater listening devices to monitor submarine traffic. LORAN-C installations orient NATO submarines and satellite communication centres are operated. AWACS, flying radar and control posts for air and missile warfare, are based at Keflavik. Negotiations are underway for construction of more radar installations. Construction of new, reinforced hangar facilities and greatly increased fuel storage facilities near Keflavik are well underway.
Recently plans for the construction of missile bases in Iceland were discovered, in connection with proposals to make available facilities for the sections of the American military which control long-range bombers and land-based missiles.
The situation in Iceland is probably duplicated to a greater or lesser degree all across the North Atlantic. While the European peace movement protests the deployment of 572 new ground launched missiles, “Battlefield North Atlantic” will be getting 3995 sea-launched and 3418 air-launched cruise missiles.
Opposition to Icelandic involvement in NATO and to American military operations in the country has been widespread, both in and out of Parliament. Annual rallies, cultural festivals and 50 km mass peace marches from Keflavik to Reykjavik have become traditional forms of protest.
With the upsurge in the European and North American peace movements, the Icelandic Campaign Against Military Bases (SHA) has sought to cooperate with other organizations, especially in the British Isles and Scandinavia, to work toward common disarmament goals and to exchange information.
In April 1983, an international conference was held in Glasgow, where representatives from the peace movements in countries bordering on the North Atlantic met to discuss the common dangers and to coordinate efforts to reverse the trend. Participants expressed the desire to collaborate with other peace movements in the Faeroes, Greenland, and Canada, to draw all the North Atlantic countries into discussion of these questions.
A follow-up conference, sponsored by a steering committee elected in Glasgow, will be held in Reykjavik, Iceland, August 24-26, 1984. The conference will discuss the dangers facing all the countries whose coastlines border on the North Atlantic and what can be done to reduce them. The conference is open to all interested parties, and details can be obtained from:
or from Campaign Against Military Bases in Iceland
P.O. Box 314
Matthew Clark — June 1984
Editors’ note: We would like to apologize for not having the space to run this article earlier, but we feel that it is just as interesting and pertinent now as it was then.
ATHENS – On February 6 an international Conference For the Denuclearization of Europe was convened in Athens, Greece. The conference was hosted and paid for by KEADEA, a government supported peace group made up of members of the Greek Parliament’s governing PASOK party and others. A seven-member committee composed of representatives from three western peace groups, three East Europe peace committees, and presided over by KEADEA, organized the four day conference.
One hundred and fifty representatives of 64 national peace groups from 29 countries attended. Canada was represented by two people from Project Ploughshares and two from the Canadian Peace Congress.
The conference was introduced as an attempt to coordinate and unify the international peace movement, and to plan a common platform for it. The main subject of discussion was European nuclear weapon free zones, specifically those proposed for the Balkans, the Nordic and Central European zones.
All but the French delegation expressed support for denuclearized zones. Some western groups argued that the creation of nuclear weapon free zones or declarations of no-first-use should be accompanied by the reduction of conventional arms, and should not be used as pretexts to an increased conventional arms race. East European groups agreed.
Disagreement arose over the question of responsibility for the crisis in Europe. A representative from the Czechoslovak Peace Committee rejected the idea of equal responsibility and was echoed in this by other East Europeans. E.P. Thompson of European Nuclear Disarmament (END) took issue on this position and linked the problem of responsibility with East European governments’ intolerance of independent peace activists. Thompson was supported by many western groups, including the Dutch Interchurch Peace Council. A West Berliner circulated a petition addressed to the East German government protesting the jailing of 16 independent East German peace activists.
There was greater agreement on questioning the need for ‘ba1ance’ or ‘parity’ in nuclear weapons. It was generally accepted that the introduction of new missiles. into Europe was at the root of the present crisis and the deployment of missiles on both sides were criticized, although East, European representatives assumed that a balance was created when SS-20’s were introduced.
It was also pointed out that there was a difference between ‘equal’ security and ‘enough’ security. Seeking balance, or equal security has only perpetuated the arms race. On unilateral initiatives Bruce Kent of Britain’s Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) commented that “a unilateralist is a muitilateralist who means it.”
A number of European representatives raised points that might be of interest to Canadian activists. Lars Baregard of Sweden described the stepping up of electronic surveillance for Soviet submarines in the North Atlantic and warned of the implications this had in the preparation of U.S. first strike capabilities. People in Iceland were reported to be concerned about the possible introduction of nuclear weapons there. Baregard called for the emergence of a third voice from the middle powers, such as those in the Nordic area, to mediate between the superpowers. A coalition of Nordic peace groups has prepared a nuclear weapon free zone proposal for the Nordic area, which includes extending such a zone to encompass Iceland, Greenland and Canada.
On the final day of the conference, the organizing committee submitted a list of points which they believed represented a consensus of views on the denuclearization of Europe. The document adequately reflected agreement on the desirability of nuclear weapon free zones, the call for the removal of all new missiles in Europe, support for a declaration of no-first-use, and support for the freeze. In the end, however, the conference organizers failed to receive support from some significant western groups.
Led by the Dutch Interchurch Peace Council, these groups felt that too many important issues had been left unresolved and that the conference had failed to provide a process to work out disagreements. It became clear at this point that there were differing expectations about what the conference should deal with and what its results would be. Future meetings of eastern and western peace groups should be clearer about goals and the procedures for attaining them.
The Athens conference was a useful first step in promoting increased dialogue between East and West. The Greek government, by supporting the conference, showed how important middle powers can be in promoting the disarmament process, a fact that should encourage the Canadian government to take greater steps in this direction.
Robert Penner — June 1984
TORONTO-The World Federalists of Canada held a public symposium Saturday, May 19, at Glendon College, as part of their four-day annual conference, “Harmony for a small planet: Creative Approaches to Peace and Security”. The organizing committee expected about 200 people to attend the public symposium, but the attendance exceeded their expectations by it considerable number. About half the participants were members of the World Federalists; the other half were interested and sympathetic non-members. Everyone I spoke to, members and nonmembers alike, found the symposium well-organized and informative.
Conference Co-ordinator Dieter Heinrich opened the day’s program, which began with a panel discussion and question period. The panelists were William Barton, former Canadian Ambassador to the United Nations, who spoke on New Directions in the Search for Peace; Norman Alcock, founder of the Canadian Peace Research. Institute, who spoke on National Initiatives in Tension Reduction; and Douglas Roche, M.P., who spoke on the Parliamentarians for World Order, of which he is Internationa1 Chairman. The session was chaired by Beth Richards. The various presentations emphasized positive proposals for reducing international conflict. During the question period, several participants noted that the panelists had given little attention to problems of social injustice; one participant also remarked that the panel was entirely white and male.
After lunch, two seminar sessions were scheduled, on a wide variety of subjects. I attended Our Image of the Soviets – How Real?, which was facilitated by Barrie Zwicker, a freelance media critic. After a six-month statistical study of the three Toronto daily papers, he found not only that the media treatment of the Soviet Union is overwhelmingly negative, but also that it is overwhelmingly uninformative.
“Instead of anything approaching an informative, rounded, realistic picture of a country the papers repeatedly claim is so important, the public is being mistreated to hodge-podge of distorting trivia, boring stereotypes, and transparent bias parading as news.”
Zwicker often speaks in public on this issue; I recommend his presentation highly, and also his pamphlet, “War, Peace, and the Media” , available from Sources, 10 Britain Street, Toronto, Ont M5A lR6.
I also attended the seminar titled Promoting East- West Friendship, which was led by Koozma Tarasoff from the Ottawa chapter of the Canada-USSR Association. The participants in this seminar an agreed that greater human contact, including exchange visits and twinning of cities and correspondence exchanges would help to increase understanding and reduce tension.
At a banquet held that evening, World Federalists of Canada President Norman Alcock presented this year’s WFC Peace Award to Canadian journalist Gwynne Dyer, writer and narrator of the seven part television series War. Dyer is not a member of the World Federalists, and indeed had never heard of the WFC until he was selected for this year’s award, but many of the ideas he expressed in the series are very like those of the Federalists. In his acceptance speech Dyer quoted Sherlock Holmes method of problem solving: “Reject an the impossible solutions, and whatever is left, however implausible, is correct.”
Martin Cash — June 1984
TORONTO – On June, 30th Toronto’s Peace community will stage a new type of event to promote the cause of nuclear disarmament. The eight-hour Toronto Peace Festival will be heavy on entertainment and light on .speakers but the focus on disarmament will remain. The festival is organized by the Toronto Disarmament Network (TDN) in support of the Peace Petition Caravan Campaign, and will be held on the Toronto Islands.
Confirmed artists so far include Nancy White; Louise Lambert and the Humner Sisters. There will also be classical musicians and many other performers. The stage show is being coordinated through the TDN by Performing Artists for Nuclear Disarmament (PAND).
Lynn Connell of PAND says the response from the arts community has been very enthusiastic. “The growth and credibility if the peace movement can very definitely be seen in the numbers of performers who are now willing to commit their time and talent for peace,” she says.
There will also be short speeches throughout the afternoon, but the emphasis will definitely be on having a good time and promoting a positive public profile for the Peace Petition Caravan Campaign.
“The festival is a non-threatening way to introduce people to the peace movement,” says Danya Agar, whose group East End Peace Action (EEPA) brought the idea to the TDN. For the past two years EEPA has organized, with great success, a similar but smaller-scale event in Toronto’s Beaches community.
The festival is seen as a way of culminating the first phase of the Peace Petition Caravan Campaign. The first three months of canvassing will be complete, and the festival will bring people together for a festive climax before the inevitable lull in summer activity.
The festival takes place on Hanlan’s Point on Toronto Islands from 12 noon to 8 pm on Saturday, June 30, rain or shine. Peace related groups are invited to set up displays.
For further information about the Toronto Peace Festival, contact the TDN at xxx-xxxx or xxx-xxxx.
anon — June 1984
Among its other objectives, the Peace Petition Caravan Campaign (PPCC) will try to promote the discussion of peace and disarmament issues by candidates in the upcoming federal election.
The specific tactics on how to address the candidates have not yet been finalized. However, Matthew Clark, a member of the Toronto PPCC steering committee, says, “We don’t plan to be antagonistic. We don’t want to box anybody in. We want to encourage candidates to take a stand we think is the right one.”
As opposed to single-issue lobbyists in the US, who raise large sums of money and actively endorse of condemn specific candidates, the PPCC is a grassroots project whose impact will come primarily from its national scope and the numbers of Canadians who have signed the petition.
According to Clark, “We’re going to get as many people as possible to sign the petition, then go to the candidates in each riding and say ‘This is what the people feel about cruise testing and nuclear weapons in Canada. What do you say?’ That’s a very democratic way of going about it.”
Although things may change as the campaign grows in strength over the summer, early reactions from political strategists of all three federal parties to the demands of the campaign are, at this point, fairly predictable.
A spokesperson, from the Tory foreign policy planner’s office, who asked that his name not be used, says, “Our policy to continue testing the cruise missile is not going to be altered by public opinion. A Tory government is not going to be influenced by public demonstration. If we win the next election, we will have the responsibility to govern responsibly. You can’t lay policy on public petitions.”
A senior member of the Liberal Party policy committee says that “Peace is a very serious issue, but when party policy is decided upon, it will probably not be as important to us as questions of the economy. Also, the Liberal Party does not demand that its candidates stick to the party line as strictly as the NDP does. I’m sure there will be some Liberal candidates who support these issues and some who will be opposed to them.”
Steve Lee, Secretary of the NDP policy committee, says, “At our national convention in Winnipeg last July, Tommy Douglas said it best in a speech, that the three major issues in the next election will be jobs, medicare and disarmament.
Judy Wells — June 1984
We are expanding circulation of The Peace Calendar throughout Canada. For the present, Toronto distribution will continue on the usual basis but, in other parts of the country, we are experimenting with the following offer:
Your group can receive a whole box of 400 copies by about July 1 for $40, plus shipping costs, if we receive your prepaid order by June 22. You can then sell or distribute the copes without charge, as you prefer, in you own community. If you wish, you could rubber-stamp your group’s address on the top edge, as a local contact.
If 400 copies are too much for your group to afford, perhaps you can find other peace groups who will share the cost and the copies. Send a cheque today for $40, and we’ll ship a box to your town by Bus Parcel Express on about June 25. You’ll be phoned on arrival and pay shipping charges when you pick up the carton. Please don’t request smaller orders at this rate: we can afford to offer this low per-copy price (10 c.) only for full boxes.
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— June 1984
VANCOUVER – With its impressive turnout for the April 28 Walk for Peace (estimated at approximately 115,000), Vancouver has informed the country in no uncertain terms that its citizens are solidly behind initiatives for peace. The success of the Vancouver event also raises questions about the relatively lower numbers who attended April 28th rallies in other cities.
Claire Perry of End the Arms Race (EAR) Vancouver, gives a number of reasons for the success of Vancouver’s Walk for Peace. (EAR is a coalition of almost two hundred organizations, including church, labour, student, professional, peace, women, ethnic and others who are united in their opposition to nuclear weapons and their support for the funding of human needs.) “It is not an accident that the Walk for Peace was again so successful in Vancouver,” says Perry. “EAR, which was responsible for the Walk for Peace, worked for a full year for this achievement.”
Perry also points out that during the year of preparation, churches responded more vigorously than ever before. New groups formed in more denominations and the results could be seen in the greater array of banners representing a wider variety of different faiths, as well as different individual church congregations.
The Trade Union Peace Committee also developed new groups and new support in the labour movement during the past year, Perry notes. It made connections between the arms race and unemployment which were written up as a centrefold advertisement for the Walk for Peace and distributed to union members in 100,000 copies of trade union newspapers. The Trade Union Peace Committee also paid for twenty-five expensive and highly visible bus stop signs advertising the Walk for Peace all over Vancouver.
In preparing for the Walk for Peace, and to follow up on Vancouver’s Cruise Awareness Campaign, Perry says that hundreds of letters were sent to mainstream organizations inviting support for the Walk, and 200,000 leaflets were distributed by EAR, advertising the Walk’s objectives. They were:
- Help freeze the arms race by refusing to test the cruise or any other nuclear weapons system.
- Build international support for trust and negotiation between the US and the Soviet Union.
- Set an example by becoming a Nuclear Weapons Free Zone.
- Place the highest priority on funding human needs.
While the rally in Toronto also endorsed these objectives, the focus of the march in Toronto, as well as in some other cities, was against cruise testing and consequently was more sharply directed against Canadian government policy.
Some groups consider that Vancouver’s broader focus on peace may have been. partly responsible for the larger crowd. However, Bert Keser, Secretary of Against Cruise Testing (ACT) in Toronto, says “I don’t think it would have made a big difference to numbers if we’d watered down the demands of the march.” He also emphasizes that ACT will “continue to sharpen the focus against the Canadian government.”
Keser attributes the smaller numbers at rallies outside Vancouver to a “deflation” over the start of the tests, felt by many groups who had been working to prevent the testing. He also pointed to the nine other successful events organized by ACT during the past year which brought out good numbers in Toronto.
Bob Penner, a member of the Coordinating Committee of the Toronto Disarmament Network (TDN) , points out that since British Columbia has a political climate which fosters a high degree of citizen involvement on all political fronts, it is not surprising that there was a .greater turnout for the Vancouver March. He added that, wliether we like it or not, the “peace movement is basically middle-class and nonethnic,” and perhaps this character is especially consistent with Vancouver’s social make-up.
One thing is certain – there has been- a steady growth of support in British Columbia for peace issues over the past five years, as evidenced by the annual march, which gets bigger each year. Assistance from government, from the Mayor’s office to the Provincial legislature, has been a tremendous help.
As Frank Kennedy, President of EAR, says, “We had full endorsement from the Province and the Mayor’s office. The march was led by the Mayor and his family. And we had broad-based community support because we walked for peace. If you concentrate on one issue, as they did in some cities, you diffuse your forces. “
Matthew Clark of TDN says that the Network “didn’t organize a special effort for April 28 because we have put most of our recent efforts into launching the Peace Petition Caravan Campaign. TDN made a conscious decision to diversify tactics. There’s a danger of tiring your organization if you go all out for one single event. Each city has its own strategy and the PPCC is the strategy many people are picking this year.”
As Claire Perry says:” There is an enormous job ahead and the PPCC is the most immediate activity for most peace groups to undertake because of the need to make nuclear – disarmament the main issue before the people of Canada and its Parliament.”
While our strategies for achieving this goal may differ, each city, with sufficient time and energy, can realistically aim for a rally on the scale of April 28th in Vancouver.
— June 1984
Many small projects are in progress or have already resulted in reports or newspaper articles. This report, however, deals with large projects requiring funding from agencies or foundations. It includes possible studies on accidental nuclear war, applied games theory, and inquiries into the causes of wars since 1945.
A project on the consequences for Canada of nuclear war has been started by Prof. Tom Hutchinson of the Institute of Environmental Studies, U. of Toronto, with the cooperation of Science for Peace. A major element in it will be Nuclear Winter. People wishing to take part in this study should contact Prof. Hutchinson. The Royal Society of Canada has been asked by the Federal Ministry of Environment to form a committee to review the impact of nuclear war on the environment. Professor Ken Hare is chairing the committee.
In the past year we have kept in close touch with the Division of Arms Control and Disarmament, Dept. of External Affairs, which has adequate funds n()w for research on verification. The Division gives priority to research on Chemical Warfare Treaty verification and Comprehensive (Nuclear) Test Ban Treaty (CTB) verification. Science for Peace may undertake new work on chemical warfare. This matter will he considered upon receipt of a study of verification nearing completion at Queen’s University. A Chemical Warfare Treaty is perhaps the Arms Control Treaty most likely to be finalized in the next two years. We shall cooperate with the Department of External Affairs in its considerable efforts toward this.
There are several verification technologies relevant to a CTB treaty:
1. for explosions in the atmosphere: satellite observations and fallout;
2. for underground explosions: seismic detection, and fallout if there is a leak from the site of the explosion.
The Dept. of Energy, Mines and Resources (EMR) is managing the Canadian programme of seismic verification, technically and in worldwide linkage through ISDE (International Seismic Data Exchange). The Division of Arms Control and Disarmament will be supporting two further staff members in this field, in addition to the one recently hired. Specialized experts are needed and being hired. We should continue to monitor this work in case an opportunity should arise to be of service.
Radioactive air monitoring has been ignored by the Canadian Arms control community. The Swedish Government has, however, called for an international data exchange on atmospheric radioactivity and has pointed out its desirability for CTB Treaty verification, In Sweden an inexpensive air monitoring system has operated routinely for many years and has detected two Soviet underground nuclear explosions. We might usefully look into the possibility of such monitoring in Canada.
Science for Peace submitted a brief in 1982 to the Parliamentary Committee on External Affairs and National Defence regarding an International Satellite Monitoring Agency (ISMA); it is still resting there.
The Government’s position then was that the project would require U.S. cooperation. One purpose of ISMA was to lift the monopoly of satellite monitoring from the superpowers and put part of the responsibility with the U.N., which should be strengthened thereby. A copy of the ISMA brief was recently. sent to the Rt. Hon. Joe Clark’s commission on arms control.
We intend to cooperate with the Canadian Centre for Arms Control and Disarmament, a new research centre. Our good wishes go with its director, Dr. John Lamb, and his research director, Mr. Larry Hagen.
Another important step forward is the proposed new Canadian Institute for International Peace and Security which was promised in the Throne Speech in Dec. 1983. We have stressed to Mr. Geoffrey Pearson that such an Institute could fulfill important roles in Canada today. We have submitted a Brief on it to the Parliamentary Committee on National Defence and External Affairs which is currently holding hearings on Bill C-32. This Bill had two readings in the House of Commons.
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David Delaunay — June 1984
ST CATHARINES – The second annual Inter-university Workshop in Peace Education met at Brock University in St. Catharines, Ontario, on the weekend of May 12. A variety of possibilities for curriculum development were presented and in addition several speakers discussed ongoing research.
An especially significant contribution was made by Professor Michael Wallace, a University of British Columbia political scientist who has been attempting to estimate the probability of accidental nuclear war. Wallace does not think there is much chance of a war starting from a single, unexpected fluke in, say, a computer’s program. But in a crisis situation, the probabilities increase greatly, since the whole war machine is put on alert.
Two crucial factors determine the probability of catastrophic errors in such crises: the rate at which false alarms occur and the speed with which they can be resolved. If many alarms have resolution times that approach the flight times of the enemy’s missiles, the danger becomes very great that a retaliatory strike will be undertaken in response to false alarm.
Wallace has calculated the probability that a retaliatory strike will be launched in response to a false alarm, assuming varying frequencies of false alarms of varying duration. His most optimistic estimate is that there is a 95 percent probability that such a nuclear attack would be launched on the basis of error within eight days during a crisis.
Wallace seems to pin all his hopes for the future on an unexpected rationale for optimism: the possibility of annihilating all life through a “nuclear winter.” He reasons that it will soon be well established that any nuclear war will destroy everyone, including those who start it. When it becomes obvious that there can be no payoff for anyone, both sides will, if they are rational, relinquish their nuclear capability.
During another panel discussion, Professor Theodore Olson, of the York University Strategic Studies Program, stimulated a lively debate by arguing that strategic analysts and peace researchers have a good deal in common. His audience (comprising mainly peace researchers) resisted this conclusion, insisting that, on the contrary, they study ways of preventing wars, while strategic analysts study ways of winning them.
On the final evening of the conference, Geoffrey Pearson spoke about the bill that is to create a government-funded peace research institute. Mr. Pearson, who served recently as Canadian Ambassador to the Soviet Union, has been largely responsible for planning the new institute. The bill has just received its second reading in the House of Commons and has been sent, with the blessings of all three parties, to the committee that would administer its final touches. Consequently, Mr. Pearson expressed some optimism that it would be enacted before the summer recess.
According to Mr. Pearson, the peace research institute may begin to function this fall with a budget of $1.5 million, to be supplied equally by grants from the Ministries of External Affairs and National Defense. Its budget is expected to increase to $5 million within 5 years. For the present it will have a staff of six or seven full-time research scholars.
Various suggestions offered by Rt. Hon. Joe Clark to make the institute more independent were accepted as amendments to the bill. What remained contentious at the time of Mr. Pearson’s speech was whether the organization would be expected to reply to questions from the government or to offer advice. (There is some objection that a requirement that the institute respond to questions from the government would result in the tailoring of its research programs to fit the anticipated questions.)
The bill in its present form includes a compromise on this issue by stipulating that Parliament may request advice and that the institute may give it.
The conference ended by discussing plans for at least three similar workshops to be held in British Columbia and elsewhere next summer
Peter Rosenthal — June 1984
SUDBURY Over 400 signatures were gathered for the Peace Petition Caravan Campaign in a special Mother’s Day canvass, organized by the Sudbury Women’s Centre. Those who went door-to-door were impressed with the high level of support they received. About 80% of those approached signed the petition. Buoyed by their success, many canvassers have decided to do more petitioning for the PPCC.
Mother’s Day originated as a day of peace, initiated by Julia Ward Howe following her experience tending the wounded. in the American Civil War. The Mayor of Sudbury declared it a “Day of Peace, Love and Understanding, in recognition of the dream of all mothers for a peaceful world for their children and grandchildren.”
Before going door-to-door, a balloon-fest was held in a downtown park. One hundred people heard moving speeches by Dr. Jane Cox, M.D., co-chair of the PPCC in Sudbury, and Yvonne Obonsawin, grandmother, community activist, and narrator of the film All of Our Lives, on women and aging.
Keeping with the theme of “We’d rather see people blow up balloons than blow up the world,” over 150 balloons, shaped as a large dove and a women’s symbol, were used.
Both the balloon-fest and the Mayor’s declaration were well covered on the local media.
— June 1984
On April 26, 1984, a Crown attorney withdrew a charge of making an explosive substance against the president of the Toronto firm Litton Systems Canada, manufacturers of the guidance system for the cruise missile, On May 5 inspectors at Metropolitan Toronto Police Division 23 rejected the demand by fifty demonstrators that the police investigate the legality of Litton’s production of guidance systems for cruise missiles.
Peter Rosenthal, a professor of mathematics at the University of Toronto, who has represented many of the protestors against Litton in their various trials, sets out the background of these events in the following article.
TORONTO – For several years persons who have committed civil disobedience at the Litton plant have raised the issue of Litton’s criminality as a defense to their own charges. That is, they have argued that their actions were justified on the grounds that they were an attempt to stop Litton from committing a much more serious offense.
No judge has acquitted a demonstrator on these grounds, although no judge of Crown attorney has indicated why such a defense does not apply.
(In the U.S. the situation is quite different. The Plowshares Eight recently, won a new trial on the grounds that their justification defense had not been given a reasonable hearing at their original trial.)
Several judges have suggested, however, that it might be appropriate to charge Litton with an offense under section 79 of the Criminal Code of Canada.
Section 79 of the Criminal Code of Canada states that it is an offense if one “makes or ~
substance with intent thereby… to enable another person to endanger life.
Section 2 of the Code says that “explosive substance” includes “anything, or any part thereof, used or intended to be used … or to aid or to aid in causing an explosion in or with an explosive substance.”
Clearly, in my view and in the view ‘of other peace activists, a guidance system for a nuclear armed cruise missile is an explosive substance within the meaning of the Criminal Code, and it can certainly be argued that cruise missiles enable the U.S. military to endanger life. Therefore it seems that Litton and its senior executives should be charged with, and convicted of, violating the criminal law.
Although it is possible that Litton has some special exemption from the provisions. of this law, no such authorisation has been revealed, in spite of extensive investigations.
On October 25, ’1982, a charge was laid against Litton under Section 79, but the Justice of the Peace who received it said he would not proceed further.
When asked why, this justice of the peace said that he required further evidence to proceed. When asked what evidence might help he said; “Bring me a guidance system.” When asked for a more serious response, he said he would get back to us. We’re still waiting.
In 1983 another attempt was made to lay a charge. This time the justice of the peace refused to accept the charge on the grounds that the informant “did not hold a bona fide belief that Litton was violating the law.
On March 30, 1984 two members of the Women’s Action Collective laid an information (ie. laid a charge) in front of Justice of the Peace Bernard Gottlieb. Gottlieb also said that he wanted more evidence, but he agreed to hold a hearing in August to give the informants an opportunity to present further evidence and argument.
On April 26, assistant Crown attorney Norman Matusiak conducted an extraordinary procedure. Without ‘telling the informant, he brought the information on which the March 30 charge was based in front of a Judge and withdrew the charge. He said he was withdrawing the charge because “the only device manufactured at Litton Systems Canada is an inertial guidance system of the same type used in 747s, DC-10s…and many other general aircraft.”
This statement of Matusiak’s is patently false. As is well known, the essence of the cruise missile, the thing that makes it special, it the LN-35 manufactured by Litton. According to .Litton’s own brochures (which the informant would have been happy to supply to the Court), this part “brings the missile into terminal on-target attack” and “issues warheads arming command.”
Matusiak claimed that he was unaware of Justice of the Peace Gottlieb’s intention to hold further hearings when he withdrew, the charge. Lawyers are considering what should be done in response to Matusiak’s unprecedented manoeuvre, but it doesn’t really matter. A charge that is withdrawn can be re-laid at any time. (Should Litton ever be tried and acquitted they could not be re-charged.)
On May 5, 1984 the Women’s Action Collective and the Cruise Missile Conversion Project organized a demonstration at Police Division 23, the division responsible for Litton., to demand that the police investigate the legality of Litton’s production of guidance systems.
Such an action would be normal police procedure when anyone reports an alleged crime. Normal procedure was not followed in this case, however. The police said that they needed “evidence that Litton built parts for cruise missiles.” .
The police know, as we all do, that Litton produces such parts. They could easily obtain compelling evidence. The standard procedure would be for them to get a search warrant, enter Litton’s premises, and seize some guidance systems. They could then call expert witnesses to identify the seized parts as parts of the cruise missile, and to prove the offensive nature of the missile.
Instead of doing this, the police said with winks and smiles, “we need proof that Litton makes such parts.” The demonstrators’ spokespeople then produced a photocopy of a Litton brochure, to which the police replied “we would need the original.” (The police were later informed that the original could be produced by somebody present, to which they responded that they did not want to discuss the matter any further.)
It appears that the police, the Crown attorneys, and the Justices of the Peace are toying with the protestors. It seems clear that the authorities will not stop production of the parts for cruise missiles unless we force them to, hot by clever legal arguments but by public pressure. Nonetheless it may be sensible to continue to press for charges against Litton as part of the campaign to build such pressure.
Jane Davidson — June 1984
Dr. Carl Sagan will visit Ottawa on June 3 and 4 as part of a campaign to alert government leaders and the public to the urgent significance of recent research on nuclear winter. Much of this research has been carried out by Sagan and his colleagues. (See May issue of TPC for details.)
Sagan’s appearances in Ottawa have been organized by Physicians for Social Responsibility in cooperation with Lawyers for Social Responsibility, Science for Peace, and Nurses for World Peace.
According to Dr. Gerd Schneider of Physicians for Social Responsibility, Sagan’s itinerary will begin with a dinner for 250 on Sunday, June 3. The next day he will meet with senior bureaucrats and have lunch with Mr. Trudeau. In the afternoon, all Senators and MPs have been invited to hear Dr. Sagan discuss the policy implications of this new knowledge. All of these events will serve to publicize the real possibility that all humanity could be destroyed in the dark and frozen environment produced by even a limited use of nuclear weapons.
In the United States governmental attention is also being directed to research into nuclear winter. For example a subcommittee of the Senate Armed Services Committee has decided to commission another scientific study and has allocated funds for it in ~he next year’s budget.
— June 1984
A desire to reach out to ordinary people, people who shun peace marches and yet feel quiet despair over the arms race, has led an Ottawa couple to create a grassroots-style of forum modelled after Tupperware parties.
The Peace Party Network got its start last fall when Maria and Paul Rigby of Ottawa decided to invite friends and neighbours over for an evening of discussion about nuclear war.
The party was so successful that several more were held, with an initial focus on the Peace Petition Caravan Campaign, and ,the movement spread to the Toronto area in March. Since that time, and with a broadened scope and purpose, seven peace parties have been held in Toronto and outlying areas.
Organizers and hosts who open their homes for the parties agree that ; each one has a different outcome and that none could be termed ‘failures..’
Although Tupperware parties provided the inspiration for peace parties, there is a basic difference. People attending are not pressured to go on. and hold their own peace parties.
Carolyn Spoore, a Toronto peace party organizer and host, says that even if a group never meets again and people go their separate ways afterward, something has been achieved.
“Their consciousness has been raised,” she says. “Questions get answered, and someone who has been to a party may well confront politicians at election time. They will certainly be better informed than they were before the party.”
The party format is very simple. Someone agrees to host a party and invites between eight and fifteen people, who may be friends, neighbours, relatives or co-workers. A facilitator is also invited to attend. The facilitator begins the discussion by asking each person in turn to identify themselves and say why they carne.
A free-flowing discussion of nuclear issues follows, and all points of view are welcomed. Facilitators try to maintain a non-combative, supportive environment. After a coffee break, the facilitator may ask people what further action, if any, they would like to take, and what they learned from the evening.
Some remarkable turnarounds in attitude have been reported. “often,” says Paul Rigby, “those who feel the most hopeless will argue the loudest about the futility of the peace movement. At one party, I confronted such a person and said ‘you really feel that nothing can be done. After that, he kept quiet and listened, and at the end was one of those most enthusiastic about taking further action.” ‘.
After a peace party in Bolton, Ontario, several people said they felt better informed about the reasons behind resistance to cruise missile testing in Canada. And participants in Newmarket, already committed to opposing the cruise, decided to meet again and form their own peace group.
Maria Rigby has national aspirations for the movement.
“What I really hope is that every person across the country will have a chance to get together in small groups and talk about the issue. I want a groundswell of people saying ‘no’ to war. We have to stop the U.S. and the Soviets — we have to change our government’s policy on cruise missile testing.”
Ken Hancock — June 1984
Peace Activist: Mr./Ms., as our Member of Parliament, I was shocked to learn that you have not been actively working on the issue of disarmament and development.
Member of Parliament: Quite to the contrary, I came out in support of Trudeau’s proposal.
Peace Activist: Which proposal was that, the peace initiative, or the decision to test the cruise missile?
Member of Parliament: Both of course!
Peace Activist: Oh.
Absurd? Yes. Uncommon? No. Therefore, this month’s suggestion is to write your member of parliament, asking him/her to come out in support of the four objectives of the Peace Petition Caravan Campaign, and letting them know in “no uncertain terms” that whether they endorse, and work towards the objectives of the PPCC, will playa large part in determining whether you will vote for him/her in the next federal election.
No postage is required in writing to your Member of Parliament, and letters should be addressed to the House of Commons, Ottawa, Ont., K1 A OA6. .
If you don’t know the name of your MP, please call your local Canada Service Bureau, except in Prince Edward Island, where you should call Island Inquiries.
The NLWC would like to welcome three new groups: Ashton Creek- Kingfisher Nuclear Disarmament Committee, Ploughshares Brantford, and Search for Alternatives to War. If your group is interested in becoming part of the NLWC, please write and let me know that your group endorses the concept and is willing to encourage peace activists in your community to write letters. Also, please send suggestions of individuals you would like to see targeted for letters.
Finally, as you sit down to write your letter this month, remember that peace activists from 46 groups, from St. John’s, Newfoundland to Denman Island, British Columbia, will be writing to their member of parliament. Together we can make a difference! “
Happy letter writing, Doug Mohr
301-103 Church St.
Kitchener, Ont. N2G 2S3
P.S. Remember: Thinking about it doesn’t change anything. Please, put something in the mail.
To date, the following groups have endorsed the letter-writing campaign. We hope to be able to add the name of your group to the list.
Arts for Peace; Ashton Creek. Kingfisher Nuclear Disarmament Committee; Brampton and area Peace Council; Chatham. Kent Association for Peace and Disarmament; Community Forum for Shared Responsibility; Cruise Missile Conversion Project; East End Peace Action; East York Peace Committee; Educators for Nuclear Disarmament; Guelph Disarmament Group; Hamilton Disarmament Coalition; Inter-Church Disarmament Project; Killarney Nuclear Disarmament Group; Lakeshore Committee for Disarmament; Lawyers Alliance for Judicial Action on Nuclear Disarmament; Manitoba Peace Council; Mount Arrowsmith Disarmament Coalition; Niagara Disarmament Coalition; North York Action for Disarmament; Operation Dismantle; Parkdale for Peace; Peace Education Network; Peace Resource Center; Performing Artists for Nuclear Disarmament; Ploughshares – Brantford; Ploughshares – London; Ploughshares St. John’s; Ploughshares-Saskatoon; Ploughshares-Sudbury; Ploughshares Waterloo Region; Port Alberni Nuclear Disarmament Coalition; Psychologists for Social Responsibility (Toronto); Psychologists for Social Responsibility (Waterloo); Safe Mosquito Abatement Committee; Search for Alternatives to War; Slocan Citizens for Peace; Spadina Peace Group; Status of Women (Newfoundland); Thunder Bay Coalition for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament; Toronto Disarmament Network; Toronto Quakers Peace and Social Action Committee; Trinity Peace Association; United Jewish People’s Order; Vernon World Disarmament Coalition; Voice of Women; Waterloo Region Peace Network; and the Winnipeg Co-ordinatlng Committee for Disarmament.
— June 1984
Editors’ note: This is the second in a series of five articles by Ken Hancock on “Nuclearism, Militarism and Third World Intervention.” The first article provided a general introduction to the topic. This article examines three specific examples of U.S. nuclear terrorism against Third World countries. Succeeding articles will deal with (a) nuclear weapons and nuclear energy and their link to Third World oppression; (b) Canada and U.S foreign policy; and © Present trends in. military strategies and their link to global political issues and struggles.
“If the problem of the proper use of this weapon can. be solved… our civilization can be saved.” – Secretary of War Henry Stimson (Emphasis added) Ken Hancock It can be said with reasonable certainty that no empire has been as planned as that of the United States. In fact, during the entire period of the Second World War U.S. policy makers studied how to ensure that their system would emerge as the dominant capitalist colonial power. ‘
During World War II, the U.S. State Department and the Council on Foreign Relations (one of many ~on-elected, but fundamentally important policy-making groups in American society) established what was known as the Grand Area strategy. Its objective was to construct a post-World War II Pax Americana. More specifically, it was intended to identify those areas in the world which had to fall under direct American economic and political ,control if the world capitalist system was to survive.
Underlying the Grand Area strategy was the assumption that the old colonial masters could no longer maintain their imperial interests, and that the United States government (and the elite ecoonomic interests it represented) had to take on the major responsibility for global management.
An obvious example of this ‘change of command’ was the way the responsibility for re-establishing the right wing elites in Greece in 1948 was transferred from Great Britain to the U.S. This included supporting the monarchy (which had belonged to the fascist youth organizations in the 19308); destroying the Communist forces (who had been the ones who resisted the Nazis) and killing 80,000 people in the Civil War.
In other words, the plans of those who carved out the post Second World War order included a clear perception of what would and would not be allowed to happen. The establishment of the International Monetary Fund and the world banking system in 1944; the re-establishment of fascists collaboration governments from Thailand to Taiwan to Greece, and the emergence of a global economic and military system under U.S. control were the dominant political realities of the day.
It is in the context of this emerging post World War II global order that we must analyse Hiroshima and Nagasaki. 1945, Japan had already been devastated by the saturation of conventional bombs. Tens of thousands had been killed. The Japanese sued for peace and sent a message to Molotov, the Soviet Foreign Minister. Molotov passed this information on to Truman at the Potsdam Conference and Truman stated that he already knew that the Japanese had sued for peace: the U.S. military had broken the Japanese will. High-ranking militarists like Curtis Le May stated that the Japanese could not fight past the fall of 1945. But, that would be too late. By then, because of established Allied agreements, Russia would be able to join in the takeover of Japan. (Japan and Germany had already been identified by the Grand Area strategists as essential links to post World War II capitalist development.)
The U.S. decision makers did not want to ‘split up’ Japan like they had agreed to ‘split up’ Europe. The war over China was still going on. The U.S. had already occupied Guam, Hawaii, the Philippines and South Korea. All of Asia was at stake. The Russians could join in the final takeover by August 15, 1945.
Japan asked as a condition of surrender only that the position of, the Emperor be maintained. Truman refused, calling for an unconditional surrender. The Japanese had to be made to continue fighting while the bomb was being perfected. In other words, the Japanese people were used as pawns in the game of world power politics.
Hiroshima was bombed August 6th and Nagasaki on August 9th. In many ways these bombings were experiments. Both Uranium-235 and plutonium would be used as the bomb grade material to discover what effects they would have on the human life.
Japan could have been defeated by other means. But that was not the purpose of the bomb. As Eisenhower said later, the U.S. could not have protected its global interests if it had not possessed the bomb and if it had not shown the world that it would use the bomb on people.
Others have echoed Eisenhower’s opinion. Truman said that the bomb was useless if it was not used. Eugene Rostow stated that “we (the U.S.) could not go forward in planning the use of conventional forces with great freedom because we know that the Soviet Union could not escalate beyond the local level.” In other words, the ‘will’ to use the bomb forced the Soviets to back away from confrontations with U.S. military adventurism around the world.
In 1949, two events occurred which shocked the U.S. elite classes. In the summer, the Soviet Union exploded its first bomb, and China was ‘lost’ to Communist forces. Within two years the United States would be engaged in a war in Korea.
As in Vietnam, the entire arsenal of U.S. destructive power would be unleashed: Curtis le May (head of Strategic Air Command) observed proudly that the U.S. had burned down every town in North Korea. The people were forced to live in caves. Both Harry Truman (by flying simulated, atomic equipped 8-29 bombing raids over North Korea) and Eisenhower threatened to use the bomb. General MacArthur wanted to unleash 50 – 60 atomic weapons against North Korea and China. Only strategic military decisions (not sufficient troop concentration of enemy forces) kept the bomb from being used.
History was repeated in Vietnam. The U.S. flew more than 500,000 sorties against North Vietnam. During the 12 day Christmas bombing of Hanoi in 1972, the tonnage of bombs dropped was greater than that of all of the bombs dropped on Japan during the Second World War, including Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
According to Seymour Hersh, in his book The Price of Power, in 1969 nuclear equipped 8-52 bombers were kept on ready alert for 29 consecutive days, poised to strike against Vietnam with nuclear weapons. And Kissinger was sent to the Paris Peace talks with the “Madman Theory”. He was ordered to tell the North Vietnamese that Nixon was mad enough to use the bomb if U.S. demands were not met. As Rostow stated, these threats allowed the American military to employ its massive conventional weaponry because the Soviets (on whose support the North Vietnamese depended) would not risk a nuclear holocaust.
Since Hiroshima, we know of seventeen times when the American government has threatened to use the bomb. All but two of these were against Third World countries. The examples show clearly that whether the bomb is used or not is matter of strategic, not moral, concern.
The legacy of the ‘use’ of the bomb in Asia is overwhelming. The purpose of its threatened use has often been to ensure U.S. dominance in Southeast Asia. Repressive systems have been established throughout the region (Taiwan, Indonesia, Philippines, South Korea). The initial use of the bomb ensured American control of Japan. This was seen as essential to capitalist development. The people of the region have paid the price.
The record of history shows that the bomb is a tool for clearly articulated political and economic objectives. And the bomb is quite a rational tool; given global interests and power relations. The next article in this series will look at how these ‘rational’ interests have, to this day, continued to destroy the lives of the peoples of the Third World.
Margaret Boyce — June 1984
Letters to the editor are welcomed. Please be brief as space is limited. Letters should be addressed to: Editorial Board, The Peace Calendar, c/o CANDIS, 736 Bathurst St., Toronto, Ont., M5S 2R4.
In Andrew Van Ve1zen’s article “Target: Military Production” in the May 1984 issue of The Peace Calendar, there is one mistake and two serious omissions.
- The PT -6 engine was not of the type used to bomb guerillas in Central America. It was General Electric.
- De Havilland Aircraft have supplied, and presumable will continue to supply aircraft to many of the world’s armed forces, including our own Canadian Armed Forces.
- McDonnell Douglas Canada is building small parts of the CF-18 Hornet jet fighters, and are building wings for the KC-10A Extender flight refuelling aircraft for the U.S. Air Force, which is used to refuel jet aircraft of both the U.S. Navy and Air Force. This allows the B-52 fleet to take off with a full load of air-launched cruise missiles, and refuel once airborne. It will be compatible with the North American Rockwell B-1 bomber when it reaches Squadron Service.
To be effective, ANVA should be at these plants during the work week, as security guards are rather blasé about demonstrations.
Andrew Van Velzen replies:
There are just a few points I would like to mention.
The PT -6 engine is built by Pratt and Whitney near Montreal and has been used in the Arava 101, an aircraft built by the Israeli’s which has seen much activity in Central America. ARA VA’s. have been used in El Salvador. The other companies which Derek Pennington mentioned such as De Havilland Aircraft and McDonnell Douglas Canada both based in the Toronto area are well known for their contribution to war production and the information Mr. Pennington gives is important. Unfortunately only so much information could go into the article, so only a few weapons producers were highlighted.
The Alliance for Non-Violent Action hopes the campaign will raise the level of awareness of Canadians to the many companies in Canada involved in military production and hopefully if enough people get involved the weapons producers will not get away with profiting from war and war making.
Item: Toronto Globe and Mail of May 17 indicated that Netherlands will be making a decision within the next few weeks regarding missile deployment. Apparently, Job de Ruiter, Defense Minister contends that the Netherlands did not agree to deploy at the time of the ’79 NATO meetings. NATO leaders are pressuring him to do so now.
Suggestion: perhaps peace groups should telegram support to the Netherlands for the stand against deployment.
NWFZ and the Constitution
The Village of Kaslo has just been declared a Nuclear Free Zone and we are asking the village council to consider passing a bylaw to give legal enforcement to this declaration. The provincial government has notified our regional district that the Canadian Constitution does not allow the province to sanction this kind of municipal bylaw. We are seeking further information on this question.
I am wondering if you or any of your readers could put us in touch with a municipality which has a Nuclear Free Zone bylaw. So far we have not heard of any such a bylaw exists in Canada.
We would appreciate any information on this topic.
Elizabeth A. Scarlett
As we go to press, we are unable to confirm any NWFZ bylaws, except in Vancouver.
Many municipalities have, as you know, “declared” themselves NWFZs, but Vancouver has passed a fire bylaw and a building code bylaw which prohibit the manufacture, storage and transportation of nuclear weapons in that city.
In the next issue, we will publish as much information as we can on other such bylaws. If any readers of The Peace Calendar are aware of such bylaws, please forward any information to Jon Spencer, c/o CANDIS, 736 Bathurst St.. Toronto. On. M5S 2R4.
— June 1984
TORONTO – The Christian feast of Pentecost, sometimes called the “birthday of the Church,” recalls the “gift of the Holy Spirit,” when the assembled disciples underwent a powerful experience in which they were convinced that God had visited them in a new way. They found no language adequate to describe what happened to them, but the results were indisputable: people who had been run-of-the-mill, timid and uncertain henceforth displayed extraordinary courage and assurance, power and eloquence.
Many Christians today, as well as non-Christian peace activists, covet these “gifts of the Spirit” to equip them for peace-making. As a result, the feast of the Pentecost has, for the past several years, been marked by prayers, vigils and civil disobedience actions at bomb factories, missile bases, etc., especially in the U.S. In 1983, a prayer service held illegally in the Capitol Buildings in Washington, D.C. resulted in 242 arrests.
Peace Pentecost 1984, Sunday June 10, will be observed in Toronto with a quiet service of prayer and witness against warmaking outside Litton Systems Management Office, 25 City View Drive, at 8:00 pm. Afterwards, those who wish may remain for an all-night vigil.
Though the action marks a Christian feast and is organized by a committee from several Christian groups, all peace people are welcome. Participants are encouraged to bring a candle. For more information, call xxx-xxxx or xxx-xxxx.
— June 1984
Edited by Mary Vrantsidis and Nancy Watt
- An International Peace Workshop will be held in England from July 13th to 20th. Guest speakers are Jonathan Porritt, Co-Chairman of the Ecology Party Council; Stephanie Leland, Founder – National Council of Women for Life on Earth; and, John Davy, Principal of Emerson College. For further information, write to: The Secretary, Summer Workshop, Emerson College, Forest Row, Sussex, England RH18 5JX.
- A Western peace group visiting Moscow brought flower seeds as gifts, both to the official and unofficial peace groups. An activist in the latter organization requested, and was granted permission to plant a peace garden in front of the police station. When the flowers bloom, they will spell out the message: “Ban the bomb in Russia!”
- William H. Epstein, former advisor to the Secretary General of the U.N. for Disarmament Questions, is being awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Alberta on June 4th and will deliver the convocation address. This is the first occasion (of which we are aware) of an honorary doctorate being awarded to someone in appreciation of activities in peace and disarmament.
- On May 2, 1984, Nobel peace prize laureate, Andrei D. Sakharov began a hunger strike in the Soviet city of Gorky. Sakharov was arrested and exiled in Gorky 4 years ago by Brezhnev, without being charged with any offence.
His hunger strike is an attempt to save the life of his wife, Yelena Bonner. She desperately needs special heart treatment, that can only be performed outside the Soviet Union. The Soviet government has refused both of them exit visas. Yelena joined her husband’s hunger strike 10 days later. She has been charged under Article 190-1 of the Soviet Criminal Code with “spreading slanderous anti-Soviet information discrediting the Soviet social and state order” and sentenced for up to three years in labour camps.
In Canada, Dr. Roman Fin and his wife Prof. Galina Fin joined their hunger strike for 6 days to demonstrate their support. They urge others to join – even for a day – and/or send letters of protest to the Soviet government: His Excellency Konstantin Chernenko, Chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the U.S.S.R., The Kremlin, Moscow, U.S.S.R.
- The Peace Petition Caravan Campaign has opened an office at 32 Macdonell St. in Guelph. Office hours are 11 am to 4 pm, Monday to Saturday. Canvassing started on May 19th, but they are still looking for volunteers. If you are interested, please contact Dorothee Bienzle at xxx-xxxx.
- The University of Bradford will be holding a conference on “Peace Studies in Higher Education” to enable academics interested in the subject to come together and discuss intellectual issues and practical problems. The conference will run from September 12 – 14. Further information can be obtained by writing: Conference Organizer, PSHE, School of Peace Studies, U of B, Bradford, West Yorkshire, B10 1DP.
- The Peace Petition Caravan Campaign contact for London is: Jim Alexander, c/o Cross Cultural Learner Centre, 533 Clarence St., London, N6A 3Nl. 519-xxx-xxxx.
- Konaka Yotaro will talk about the anti-nuclear movement in Japan and will bring a new film, Hiroshima/Nagasaki: The Harvest of Nuclear War at OISE, June 18th, 7 pm.
- The Peace Calendar apologizes to all those people who were not contacted for the events calendar this month (especially London). As we all know, volunteer labour is a wondrous and mysterious thing. Unfortunately we just did not have the time to try to reach anyone more than once this month. It looks like this situation may be difficult to rectify as it has been a recurring problem. Please, if at all possible, try to send your events to us (or call them in yourself) by the 15th of each month. (Consider the virtues of Special Delivery). If you don’t have time to mail your events, check our list of correspondents before you call, there may be someone near you that you can contact.
— June 1984
Editors’ note: This month, the Campaign for a Nuclear-Free Ontario is beginning its drive to halt construction of the Darlington nuclear power facility, among its other objectives (See Page 1).
Many peace activists are especially concerned about Canada’s nuclear energy program because CANDU reactors, which are widely sold overseas, are ideal for nations who have military intentions.
The CANDU produces large amounts of relatively pure plutonium, an element which does not occur in nature, and which is used in the” manufacture of nuclear weapons.
Moreover, CANDU reactors are fuelled with natural uranium. Any nation which has a CANDU and has uranium reserves within its borders is therefore free from dependence upon international markets for fuel.
Finally, the CANDU’s continuous refuelling system enables governments to remove plutonium from the reactor without shutting down. Spent fuel can therefore be diverted for military purposes without detection by international :authorities, such as the International Atomic Energy Agency.
In order to further clarify this relationship between nuclear energy and the proliferation of nuclear weapons, The Peace Calendar is reprinting excerpts from two articles, one published by the British organization Scientists Against Nuclear Arms, the other published in Canada’s Nuclear Free Press.
What is nuclear proliferation?
Nuclear proliferation can be broadly defined as the increase of the total number of nuclear weapons in the world. This increase happens in two ways. The first (so-called ‘vertical proliferation’) is the acquisition of new nuclear weapons by a country (such as the USA or the USSR) which already possesses them. The second way (‘horizontal proliferation’) is the spread of nuclear weapon capability to more and more countries.
This Briefing is concerned only with horizontal proliferation.
A short history of horizontal proliferation
- 1945 – The UNITED STATES carries out the first explosion of an atomic device and the first use in warfare.
- 1946 – At the first session of the United Nations both the United States and the USSR put forward proposals to internationalise nuclear technology and abolish nuclear weapons – but no agreement is reached.
- 1949 – The USSR carries out a successful nuclear test.
- 1952 – BRITAIN carries out a successful nuclear test.
- 1953 – The United States sets up the ‘Atoms for Peace’ programme by which it hopes to be able to export ‘peaceful’ nuclear technology while avoiding the possibility of proliferation.
- 1957 – The International Atomic Energy Agency is set up to promote the peaceful use of atomic energy.
- 1960 – FRANCE carries out a successful nuclear test.
- 1964 – CHINA carries out a successful nuclear test.
- 1970 – The Non-Proliferation Treaty comes into effect.
- 1974 – INDIA carries out a successful nuclear test.
- 1977 – It is revealed at the Windscale Inquiry that the United States has successfully tested a nuclear bomb made from ‘reactor grade’ plutonium — albeit one made with the help of sophisticated weapon design techniques. “
As well as the six countries listed above as having carried out successful nuclear tests, two more; South Africa and Israel, have almost certainly developed their own weapons in secret. A further three (Pakistan, Brazil, and Argentina) are believed to be very close to a bomb production capacity, while many more could, given the appropriate political conditions, develop the necessary technology in one or two decades. In this last group. one could include nearly all the European states and countries such as Libya and Iraq which are in strategically sensitive areas of the world.
How bombs are made: the nuclear link
The actual production of crude nuclear fission weapons does not present great technical problems once the appropriate raw materials have been obtained. About 20 kg of weapon-grade uranium or 5 kg of weapon-grade plutonium is sufficient. (Weapon-grade plutonium usually implies a concentration of the isotope plutonium 239 of greater than 90%.) Provided the weapon is skillfully designed and constructed, a bomb can even be made from reactor-grade plutonium.
Weapon-grade uranium can be produced using the uranium ore and enrichment facilities of a civilian nuclear programme. Similarly the spent fuel rods of power reactors can be reprocessed to yield plutonium for a bomb. Thus any country which possesses either natural uranium and an enrichment facility or nuclear reactor with a reprocessing facility has the potential to develop nuclear weapons.
The Non-Proliferation Treaty and other international safeguards
(a) The Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT)
The Non-Proliferation Treaty was designed to make possible the widespread peaceful use of nuclear power, while preventing weapon development in non-nuclear-weapon states. By adhering to the treaty, states agree that in return for access to nuclear technology and materials, they will renounce all attempts to produce nuclear weapons. For their part, nuclear weapon states agree to work towards nuclear disarmament and eventual abolition of all nuclear weapon systems. The transfer of nuclear weapons to either weapon or non-weapon states is prohibited.
It is obvious that for such a treaty to be fully effective it must be universally applied. Although by July 1983, 118 non-nuclear weapon states had signed the treaty, important non-signatories still include India, Pakistan, China, South Africa, Israel, Brazil and Argentina, and there is little incentive for non-signatories to join the fold when the nuclear industry is willing to supply sensitive materials to both signatories and non-signatories alike.
(b) The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
Signatories of the NPT agree to submit to IAEA ‘safeguards,’ that is, to the inspection and monitoring of their facilities by the IAEA. IAEA inspectors check inventories and analyze samples of reactor materials while television cameras and seals protect sensitive areas. Even under optimum conditions however, these safeguards leave much to be desired. Plutonium is notoriously difficult to weigh and measure and experience shows that it is difficult to maintain records to an accuracy of even 1 %.
At present estimates, world nuclear power could produce over 2000 tonnes of plutonium by the year 2000. With this level of accuracy in accounting, the equivalent of several thousand bombs could go missing and not even be noticed.
Even assuming measurements could be accurately carried out, IAEA inspectors have little power. They can be refused access to key areas, inspections can be postponed, accounts can be fiddled and, if all else fails, a state can simply withdraw from the NPT on 90 days notice. The Israeli raid on the Iraqi ‘Osirak’ reactor was an outstanding illustration of the possible consequences of these limitations. Although covered by the IAEA, the Israelis suspected the Iraqis of avoiding IAEA surveillance and took preemptive action.
It should also be pointed out that some of the roles of the IAEA are rather contradictory. In addition to being the nuclear watchdog body, it is also charged with the development of ‘peaceful’ nuclear energy and it is easy to see how these two roles can come into conflict in situations where enthusiastic implementation of safeguards might threaten important contracts.
In 1981, the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission told the Senate it was no longer confident that the IAEA could detect the misuse of nuclear materials.
© Other proliferation prevention measures
Another set of safeguards, preventive in nature, were drawn up in 1977 by the major exporters of nuclear technology (the so-called ‘London Club’). They consist principally of a trigger-list of sensitive technology which the firms concerned undertake not to supply to unsuitable governments, particularly those wl10 have not signed the NPT.
These regulations have had some effect and certain questionable contracts have been refused, but the system is voluntary and is constantly under commercial pressure. Several non-nuclear states. with ambiguous intentions,. such as Pakistan, Brazil and Argentina, have been given help.
US President Carter imposed unilateral restrictions on nuclear exports through the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Act (1978): this was helpful but imperfect. He also initiated a major study of the nuclear fuel cycle and associated proliferation risks (called INFCE). The final report did not identify any proliferation-proof technologies and indeed confirmed the opinion of several previous studies, that preventing proliferation from nuclear power is primarily a political problem for which ultimately no technical fix exists.
SANA Briefing 14
Scientists Against Nuclear Arms 112 Newport Road, New Bradwell, Milton Keynes, England MKI30AA
Three case studies
India exploded a nuclear device in 1974 with plutonium produced in a small Canadian.research reactor, which Canada supplied in 1960. The heavy water was supplied by the U.S. There were no safeguards on the reactor.
Two U.S. reactors fuelled by enriched uranium started up in 1969. A 30 year fuel supply was included in the deal.
India completed a second larger CANDU in the early 1970s. Canadian cooperation on third reactor ended in May 1974, but the reactor was Completed by India in 1981. .’
Four additional large reactors based on the CANDU design are under construction. Heavy water plants are also being built.
India has two plutonium reprocessing facilities (with a total capacity of 175 tons per year), two fuel fabrication plants, one uranium enrichment centre and one uranium mine (with an output of 200 tons per year).
India refused to sign the nonproliferation treaty but allows IABA inspections at selected facilities. India has purchased heavy water from Soviet Union.
Argentina bought a large CANDU in 1976, which started up in 1983. Canada lost a minimum of $130 million on the sale. Argentina’s first reactor was built in 1974 by West Germany. The deal included a pilot reprocessing plant, a second, larger reprocessing plant is under construction. Expected to be completed in 1984, it will produce enough plutonium to make 10 bombs per year.
West Germany won the bid to build a third reactor in 1979, beating out Canada. The deal included a Swiss heavy water plant. Later the Soviet Union agreed to supply heavy water and enriched uranium which the U.S. had supplied in the past. The Soviet Union has also built a fuel rod plant near Buenos Aires.
Argentina refuses to sign the NPT, but allows limited IAEA inspections of selected facilities. Argentina also insists on its right to proceed with ‘peaceful nuclear explosions.’ “
Several large uranium mines are under development. Argentina has also signed nuclear co-operation agreements with India (one week before the 1974 explosion), Israel, Libya and Brazil (none are full NPT members).
Pakistan has a 137 Mw CANDU reactor which began operating in 1971. After the 1974 India explosion, Canada pressured Pakistan to accept safeguards on its reactor. Pakistan refused. Canada then stopped all nuclear assistance, including the flow of replacement parts, fuel rods, and equipment for a fuel fabrication plant. The reactor continues to run, however, and makes enough plutonium to make five bombs per year.
Pakistan tried to buy a massive plutonium reprocessing plant from France. The sale was cancelled in 1976 under U.S. pressure. It was later found that the French company had delivered 95 per cent of the blueprints to Pakistan anyway.
A top Pakistani nuclear scientist was convicted in absentia of stealing blueprints from a European uranium enrichment plant in the early 1970s. He now supervises an enrichment plant-under construction at Kahuta.
Pakistan has purchased large amounts of uranium from Niger, which is ‘laundered’ through Libya. Much of Pakistan’s weapons programme has been bankrolled by Libya’s Colonel Quadaffi.
Pakistan has obtained uranium enrichment components through an industrial espionage network which operated in Britain, West Germany, France, Italy, Switzerland, the U.S. and Canada.
Pakistan refused to sign the NPT but allows restricted IAEA inspections at the CANDU reactor.
Pakistan has a pilot uranium enrichment plant, one uranium refinery, plutonium separation labs, and one heavy water plant.
Excerpted from The Nuclear Free Press 21, Spring 1984.
Roy McFarlane (reviewer) — June 1984
Transcripts from the conference initiated by the American Friends Service Committee, New England Regional Office. 122 pages..,(Cambridge, 1983; AFSC.)
Reviewed by Patrick McDonald
It is an unfortunate truth that, in the struggle to mobilize our fellow citizens’ opinion against Armageddon, single issues such as the cruise missile are more easily presented to the public than the broader pattern of inherently complex realities which underlie such symbolic issues.
Nevertheless, to be truly effective and informed advocates of disarmament, we owe it to ourselves to be familiar with significant implications of the arms race, other than that of a possible exchange of force between the US and the USSR.
This book is a collection of papers presented at a conference held in December 1982 at M.I.T. Organized by the AFSC, it drew the abilities of many personalities prominent in the disarmament field to bear on an alternate but vital consideration in the broad scenario of human survival in nuclear age: increased ,and apparently actively premeditated military action by the US in the Third World.
Although the many facets of this situation are examined from viewpoints as seemingly diverse as the repression of political dissent in the Philippines and the aggressive actions of American client states such as South Africa, a consistent. and chilling pattern is common to most of the presentations.
- American interests are maintained to a considerable degree by totalitarian “client” regimes;
- Widespread and usually indigenous revolutionary activity has arisen in many of these territories.
- The United States’ strategy has been to establish conventional military unity of a strength and mobility designed expressly to overwhelm the military forces of most Third World nations and revolutionary movements while counting on a massive superiority in nuclear weapons to hold the Soviet- Union at bay should it wish to contest any invasions or interventions resulting from this strategy.
Daniel Ellsberg and Noam Chomsky trace the historic roots of this policy ably and with well” documented arguments to the period after World War II and during most of the 1950s when, for a time, the US could in many instances dictate terms to the Soviet Union by directly or indirectly threatening to use its. nuclear arsenal, an arsenal which began by being unique and which later remained overwhelmingly superior.
The Soviet Union’s determined effort to close this gap following their humiliation during the Cuban missile crisis has resulted in a rough parity in nuclear strength at this time between the two nations.
The participants make a strong case for the argument that current American rearmament concepts are an attempt to return to those days of apparent invincibility – a period in which American military strength assumed virtually mythological dimensions and when the US felt it could send commandments carved in stone tablets to any part of the world and have them obeyed.
It is perhaps because this concept is a myth that this understanding is not so much Quixotic as potentially devastating. Christopher Paine- and Paul Walker demonstrate that, in order to, support Third World intervention in conventional terms, the development of nuclear deterrence has drifted more and more into the realm of first-strike scenarios. This development has been one of momentum rather than purposeful direction.
The authors reveal that the albeit relatively stable nuclear tension between East and West lies not in the nature of deterrence itself, but on the Third World foundation, the stability of which is decreasing rapidly. It is sobering indeed that events in Grenada, Latin America and the Philippines subsequent to the conference have strongly supported their thesis.
The only problem the reader may encounter in the 1983 edition is the large number of misprints; and in many of the later articles, omissions of entire pages of text, which make it difficult if not impossible to derive meaningful information from some of these presentations. If a later and corrected edition becomes available, however, the informed citizen would do well to invest a few hours in the reading of this book.
— June 1984
Jim Garrison and Pyare Shivpuri. Gateway Books. Distributed by Scholarly Books Services. Paperback $12.95.
“The Russians are believed to be ‘the greatest threat to peace’ by 75%of the public in virtually all of the 16 nations in the NATO alliance,”
The above statement is made in the concluding chapter of The Russian Threat. Jim Garrison and Pyare Shivpuri wrote their book to address this belief. In so doing they examine the current situations in Poland and Afghanistan, and answer the often-asked question “Do the Russians want to rule the world?”
Garrison and Shivpuri pick out the fine detail of the actions and statements of both the Soviet Union and the United States. Actions and statements which, over the decades, have increased the tensions between the world’s two most powerful nations. Tensions which lead the human race toward annihilation.
The authors are not Soviet apologists – they portray the Soviets as being collectively paranoid. The purges, show trials, mass murders and excessive cruelty of the Stalin regime are seen as the forbears of the subtler techniques of repression employing psychiatric treatment and internal exile.
Neither, however, are successive American administrations innocent of any wrongdoing. The authors detail the CIA involvement in the ousting of Salvador Allende from elected office in Chile, and they list the numerous occasions of American military intervention in Central America. And, clearly, the United States has been the pacesetter in the nuclear arms race, while the Soviet Union strives continually to keep up.
The Russian Threat is outstanding in its depth and scope. Whether the authors are discussing the relationship between each superpower and their respective alliances, the development of space-based weapons systems, or the psychological process of denial, they encompass more facts than any comparable study.
A sense of hopelessness may, on occasion, overtake the reader. The Russian Threat holds nothing back. The retelling of one woman’s story of torture by the Turkish government reveals that the human race has hot lost its capacity for barbarism – after continued beatings, hanging by her wrists from a pipe, her tormentors ran electric current through her body by way of her vagina.
If governments can sanction treatment such as this, it is conceivable that governments could sanction the use of nuclear weapons. In point of fact, both the Soviet Union and the United States have strategies which include scenarios for waging and ‘winning’ nuclear war.
A tightly-written, exceptionally readable book, The Russian Threat is highly recommended. It strips away the rhetoric and reveals the greatest threat facing humanity itself – nuclear war itself.
— June 1984
Thomas L. Perry Jr., Editor. 335 pages, available from the B.C. Chapter of Physicians for Social Responsibility, Box 35426, Station E, Vancouver V6M 3H5.
Reviewed by Helen Ready
This soft-cover collection of articles contains the proceedings of a symposium held at the University of British Columbia on March 5 and 6, 1983.
Beginning with a foreword by Dr. David Suzuki and proceeding through an impressive series of presentations by knowledgeable and distinguished speakers, the book contains the essential elements to enable its readers to become ‘nuclear-literate.’
The relevance of the topic to the health professions is firmly established by the description by Dr. Thomas Perry, U.B.C. professor of pharmacology, pediatrician and neurochemist, of the projected effect of a nuclear attack on Vancouver and Calgary, and the effect on Canada and on the world of an all-out nuclear war. He makes the futility of any preplanning by the medical system for such events so perfectly clear that the only realistic action remaining is that of working to prevent such catastrophic events.
Dean Michael Pentz of the Faculty of Science, The Open University, Milton Keynes, U.K. provides a chilling overview of the “State of the art” of nuclear weaponry, describes how the danger of war by escalation, accident or mutual misperception is ever-increasing and the logical futility of the concept of deterrence.
In “A Military Man Looks at the Nuclear Freeze,” Admiral Eugene Carroll, US Navy (Ret.), a man who has spent 37 years in support of the US National Defence Program, provides such a cogent argument why nuclear weapons serve no useful or rational military or political purpose- that this reviewer considers his article to be the keystone of the book.
As well as the numerous articles from noted speakers there are two articles devoted entirely to the cruise, Canada’s role in its testing, and the resultant weakening of Canada’s reputation and moral authority in the community of nations. These are crucial readings for Canadians.
The book is often scholarly, inescapably logical, deeply moving, contains a powerful call to action, and provides suggestions for how this action might be implemented. By addressing and answering so many facets of the nuclear issue through incorporating an excellent core of knowledge, this book serves as an ideal reference.
- Russia, America, the Bomb and the Fall of Western Europe, by Brian May. This book argues that the whole if Europe is afflicted by a crisis which transcends, but includes, that of the nuclear danger. Both East and West are handicapped by anachronistic thinking which could be disastrous. &22.75. Published by Routledge and Kegan Paul.
- The Dora Russell Reader, by Dora Russell. A peace activist since World War t, Russell has written and published vigorously for 60 years, and continues to do so today. With her husband, Bertrand Russell, she travelled to China and took part in the 1950s Women’s Caravan for Peace across Eastern Europe. $9.95. Published by Pandora Press. .
- Soviet Foreign Policy; The Brezhnev Years, by Robin Edmonds. Analysis of the Soviet Union’s rise to super-power status since the 1962 Cuban missile crisis, and that nation’s relationship with the U.S.A. Edmonds assesses the foreign policy options now open to the new Soviet leadership and to the Western alliance. Cloth – $32.50; paper – $12.95. Oxford University Press.
- The Prisoners of Insecurity: Nuclear Deterrence, the Arms Race, and Arms Control, by Bruce Russett. Demonstrates that most of the fundamental questions about national security are political rather then technological, and questions the performance, use and function of weapons in the U.S. arsenal. Provides facts and figures necessary to an informed opinion and clarifies primary political issues. Cloth – $22.50; paper – $12.75. W.H. Freeman.
- The Cruise Missile, by Simon Rosenblum. Rosenblum discusses the cruise in context of US foreign policy, the debate over deployment in Europe, and the manifold implications of the cruise for Canada. Cloth $12.95; paper – $5.95, published by James Lorimer & Co.
- Safe and Sound: Disarmament and Development in the Eighties, by Clyde Sanger. Sanger provides a practical, understandable basis from which to consider the pros and cons of world disarmament. $8.95. Published by Deneau Publishers & Co.
- Arm Disarm for Peace: The Nuclear Threat and East-West Relations, edited by Waris Shere. Former and incumbent leaders from Britain, Canada, Germany and the United States as well as the secretaries-general of NATO and the Commonwealth address East-West relations, particularly the core problem of arms control. $9.95. Published by Hyperion Press.
- Winding Down: The Price of Defense, by the Boston Study Group. A study of the costs of the present-day arms race. The authors suggest that limitations on military expenditures may ultimately enhance, rather than diminish, the world’s security. Paper – $11.25. W.H. Freeman.
- Hope’s Half-Life, by Raymond Filip. The author directs his critical eye at the nuclear debate and takes potshots at both sides. However, Filip does not hide his bias – the nuclear arms race must be stopped. $5.95. Published by Vehicule Press.
- Women, Peace and Power, by Jo Vellacott. A look as the important role women have in the peace movement. Vellacott maintains that women’s rights are inseparable from the issue of peace, war and international order. $2.00. Published by Argenta Friends Press.
For a catalog of 30 taped lectures by disarmament activists and theorists, including Mary Kaldor, Richard Barnet, E.P. Thompson, Prof. Michael Howard, on alternative defense, spiritual and psychological aspects of the arms race; write to, Dunamis, St. James Church, 197 Piccadilly, London WIV 9LF.
- Nuclear Countdown: 27 min., 1978 United Nations. An outline of the history of international arms agreements and points out the increasing world insecurity as world nuclear arsenals build up. Designed for non-expert audiences. Available from the Metro Toronto Library Board.
- Dark Oracle: 90 min., 1982, colour. This f11m interweaves dramatic personal and human stories with rare, recently declassified footage of the secret world in which the hydrogen bomb is manufactured, tested and sold. Dark Circle shows the complex human costs of a nuclear economy. Available from DEC, 427 Bloor St. W., Toronto, MSS IX7; xxx-xxxx.
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Peikoff: "I completely agree...People attach the term "Romanticism" much too often to movies that have some element of good...however inessential or however peripheral...and that is a complete mistake. "Romanticism" means a definite kind of work, with a certain kind of plot, a certain kind of characters. You can't say "the hero said something good; therefore, it's a romantic movie; he said something hopeful and optimistic about man." That does not make a movie Romantic." Peikoff then relates some anecdotes about recommendations from friends on this basis, then he'd make a recommendation, only to be horrified when he saw the movie himself. He theorizes that "The problem is that people [those people] don't approach movies from the point of view on an integrated...philosphic...esthetic context. The problem is a lot of people are desperate to find something good, inspiring, benevolent...and they drop the context of the total. They seize on one some one aspect, they focus on it, they love it, and the rest, in their mind, has the status of "oh, that's a side issue...".
The first thing she did was turn to me and say that she could see why I liked it. I was shocked. And I asked her why, because she had disliked so much about the movie. And then she began to give me her analysis of my positive response to the movie.First, she asked me ques tions about my reactions to the characters of Bogart and Hepburn, and brought me to understand that I really didn’t consider him a heroic type, that I had overlooked those naturalistic touches (the growl ing stomach, his crudeness, his dirty clothes), and that my positive response was to Hepburn. I admired a woman who didn’t fold up and give up. In the story, she conceives of a plan to sink an enemy ship, and she is determined that they will do it together. And Ayn pointed this out to me: that I was responding to the abstraction of determination and heroism, and overlooking some of the unsavory concretes. It was selective awareness, on my part. I remember very clearly one thing she said: that this is an example of some one seeing past the bad directorial touches in the movie, see ing past the things that undercut the characters of both Hepburn and Bogart. She was sympathetic about my desire to see some thing heroic in human behavior, but she pointed out what I had failed to see in the movie—or, more exactly, the aspects I dismissed or glossed over in my appraisal and, consequently, in my response.
Peikoff: "Absolutely, yes! A philosophy cannot deny you the right to enjoy any work of art if it's not one of these modern, non-objective...music, because that is not art, that is nihilism. But there's no reason why, particularly in the case of music... we don't even have an objective vocabulary to say what one piece means as against another and what sense of life it conveys. You can ask yourself do you like each period with the same intensity, with the same personal intimacy. If you like one more than another, then you're showing a direction of your sense of life. But maybe you hear the same thing in both; no one can criticize you for that at our present state of knowledge. It is your prerogative in any art if you interpret it objectively...and of course, music, we can't do that yet...but if you interpret it objectively, to respond to it, what you should be able to do is say why you respond to it. Now, if you respond to it because it represents the destruction of life, then what's wrong is not your response but that that is a motivating premise that you hold, which will have all kinds of manifestions."
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We hear about the conflict in the Middle East. And, we'll find out why so many women want to leave Congo and escape the violence.
Also, Jerome talks with an escaped rebel leader of the Senegalese army.
YLTWV. I’m JM.
It’s Thursday, and time for our Global Activism series.
Each Thursday we hear about an individual who’s decided to work to make the world a better place.
Bernadette Chopra is the founder of Young Africa USA. The organization supports vocational training programs in Zimbabwe and Mozambique.
Young Africa was started by two of Bernadette’s closest friends, Raj and Doreen.
Their work with street kids in Nairobi, Kenya made them realize how few opportunities available for young kids who had dropped out of school.
So Raj and Doreen went back to Holland- Doreen is Dutch- and began writing letters to various countries in Africa, with the hope of starting a program…
12:xx Global Activism: Teaching Trades to Young People in Africa
Bernadette Chopra is the founder of Young Africa USA.
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Bernadette Chopra is the founder of Young Africa USA. You can find out more information about Young Africa and Young Africa USA on our website at wbez dot org slash worldview.
While you’re there you can hear more stories from our Global Activism series. And you can download the global activism podcast.
You can also suggest someone you think we should include in the series.
Bernadette Chopra suggested herself.
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Talk of a 'True Video iPod' Buzzes the Web
Friday, February 10th, 2006 at 4:15 PM - by Staff
Various Internet Web sites were buzzing on Thursday and Friday with the news of a "true video iPod" that Apple is supposedly readying for release. ThinkSecret, relying on its anonymous sources, said that the new device will feature a 3.5-inch LCD that takes up its entire face and requires users to hold it sideways to view video content. It will also drop the physical click wheel for a digital version that will appear when a user touches the screen.
Ryan Katz said that a release is set for late March or early April, adding: "During the Macworld Expo in San Francisco, Apple CEO Steve Jobs alluded to a major announcement on or around April 1, Apple's 30th anniversary as a company." He also noted that ThinkSecret maintained last year that the video iPod released in October was simply "a souped-up 4G iPod with video capabilities."
Mr. Katz's report has some basis in an article published last week by Endaget, which detailed a touch screen input patent submitted by Apple's Jonathan Ive. While the site assumed that the patent was for the long-rumored Apple tablet Mac, some think the technology described in it will be used for the new iPod.
Unsurprisingly, this week's news has led to a flurry of Photoshop mock-ups being posted around the Internet. Engadget received a pair that it believes are fakes, for example.
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Spiritual Basis of Nonviolent Communication
A Question and Answer Session with Marshall B. Rosenberg, Ph.D.
Is spirituality important in the process of Nonviolent Communication?
I think it is important that people see that spirituality is at the base of Nonviolent Communication, and that they learn the mechanics of the process with that in mind. It’s really a spiritual practice that I am trying to show as a way of life. Even though we don’t mention this, people get seduced by the practice. Even if they practice this as a mechanical technique, they start to experience things between themselves and other people they weren’t able to experience before. So eventually they come to the spirituality of the process. They begin to see that it’s more than a communication process and realize it’s really an attempt to manifest a certain spirituality. So I have tried to integrate the spirituality into the training in a way that meets my need not to destroy the beauty of it through abstract philosophizing.
What does God mean to you?
I need a way to think of God that would work for me, other words or ways to look at this beauty, this powerful energy, and so my name for God is “Beloved Divine Energy.” For a while it was just Divine Energy but then I was reading some of the Eastern religions, and Eastern poets, and I loved how they had this personal, loving connection with this Energy. And I found that it added to me to call it “Beloved” Divine Energy. To me this Beloved Divine Energy is life, connection to life.
What is your favorite way of knowing Beloved Divine Energy?
It is how I connect with human beings. I know Beloved Divine Energy by connecting with human beings in a certain way. I not only see Divine Energy, I taste Divine Energy, I feel Divine Energy, and I am Divine Energy. I’m connected with Beloved Divine Energy when I
connect with human beings in this certain way. Then God is very alive for me. Also talking with trees, talking with dogs and pigs, those are some of my other favorite ways.
How did you develop Nonviolent Communication?
Nonviolent Communication evolved from my attempt to get conscious of what this Beloved Divine Energy is and how to connect with it. I was very dissatisfied with clinical psychology because it is pathology based and I didn’t like its language. It didn’t give me a view of the beauty of human beings. So, after I got my degree I decided to go more in the direction of Carl Rogers and Abraham Maslow.
I decided to look at this side and ask myself the scary question, “What are we and what are we meant to be?” I found that there was very little written about this in psychology. So I took a crash course in comparative religion because I saw they talked more about this question. And this word “love” kept coming up in each of them.
I used to hear the word love as many people use it in a religious sense like, “You should love everybody.” I used to get really annoyed at the word love. “Oh yeah, I’m supposed to love Hitler?” I didn’t know the words “New Age Bullshit” but I used what was my equivalent then. I tried to understand better what love means because I could see it had so much meaning for so many millions of people in all of these religions. What is it, and how do you do this “love”?
Nonviolent Communication really came out of my attempt to understand this concept of love and how to manifest it, how to do it. I came to the conclusion that it was not just something you feel, but it is something we manifest, something we do, something we have. And what is this manifestation? It is giving of ourselves in a certain way.
What do you mean, “giving of ourselves”?
To me, giving of ourselves means an honest expression of what’s alive in us in this moment. It intrigues me why every culture asks upon greeting each other, “How are you?” It’s such an important question. What a gift it is to be able to know at any given moment what is alive in someone.
To give a gift of one’s self is a manifestation of love. It is when you reveal yourself nakedly and honestly, at any given moment, for no other purpose than as a gift of what’s alive in you. Not to blame, criticize, or punish. Just “Here I am, and here is what I would like.” This is my vulnerability at this moment. To me, that is a way of manifesting love.
And the other way we give of ourselves is through how we receive another person’s message. To receive it empathically, connecting with what’s alive in them, making no judgment. Just to hear what is alive in the other person and what they would like. So Nonviolent Communication is just a manifestation of what I understand love to be.
Nonviolent Communication came out of your desire to manifest love?
I was also helped by empirical research in psychology that defined the characteristics of healthy relationships and by studying people who were living manifestations of loving people. Out of these sources I pulled together this process that helped me to connect with people in what I could understand is a loving way.
And then I saw what happened when I did connect with people in this way. This beauty, this power, connected me with an energy that I choose to call Beloved Divine Energy. So Nonviolent Communication helps me stay connected with that beautiful Divine Energy within myself and to connect with it in others. And certainly when I connect that Divine Energy within myself with the Divine Energy in others, what happens then is the closest I know of what it is to be connected to God.
How do you prevent Ego from interfering with your connection with God?
By seeing Ego as very closely tied to the way my culture has trained me to think, and trained me to communicate. And how the culture has trained me to meet my needs in certain ways, to get my needs mixed up with certain strategies I might use to meet my needs. So I try to remain conscious of these three ways that the culture has programmed me to do things that really aren’t in my best interest, to function more from Ego than from my connection with Divine Energy. I have tried to learn ways for training myself to be conscious when I’m thinking in these culturally learned ways and I’ve incorporated these into Nonviolent Communication.
Then you believe that the language of our culture prevents us from knowing our Divine Energy more intimately?
Oh yes, definitely. I think our language makes it really hard, especially the language given to us by the cultural training most of us seem to have gone through, and the associations “God” brings up for people. Judgmental, or right/wrong thinking is one of the hardest things I’ve found to overcome in teaching Nonviolent Communication over the years. The people that I work with have all gone to schools and churches and it’s very easy for them, if they like Nonviolent Communication, to say it’s the “right way” to communicate. It’s very easy to think that Nonviolent Communication is the goal.
I’ve altered a Buddhist parable that relates to this question. Imagine a beautiful, whole, and sacred place. And imagine that you could really know God when you are in that place. But let’s say that there is a river between you and that place and you’d like to get to that place but you’ve got to get over this river to do it. So you get a raft, and this raft is a real handy tool to get you over the river. Once you’re across the river you can walk the rest of the several miles to this beautiful place. But the Buddhist parable ends by saying that, “One is a fool who continues on to the sacred place carrying the raft on their back.”
Nonviolent Communication is a tool to get me over my cultural training so I can get to the place. It’s not the place. If we get addicted to the raft, attached to the raft, it makes it harder to get to the place. People just learning the process of Nonviolent Communication can forget all about the place. If they get too locked into the raft, the process becomes mechanical.
Nonviolent Communication is one of the most powerful tools that I’ve found for connecting with people in a way that helps me get to the place where we are connected to the Divine, where what we do toward one another comes out of Divine Energy. That’s the place I want to get to.
Is this the spiritual basis of Nonviolent Communication?
The spiritual basis for me is that I’m trying to connect with the Divine Energy in others and connect them with the Divine in me, because I believe that when we are really connected with that Divinity within each other and ourselves, that people enjoy contributing to one
another’s well being more than anything else. So for me, if we’re connected with the Divine in others and ourselves, we are going to enjoy what happens, and that’s the spiritual basis. In this place violence is impossible.
Is this lack of connection to Divine Energy responsible for violence in the world?
I would say it this way: I think we have been given the gift of choice to create the world of our choosing. And we’ve been given all of this great and abundant world for creating a world of joy and nurturing. To me, the violence in the world comes about when we get alienated or disconnected from this Energy. How do we get connected when we are educated to be disconnected? I believe it’s our cultural conditioning and education that disconnects us from God, especially our education about God.
Walter Wink writes about how domination cultures use certain teachings about God to maintain oppression. That’s why Bishops and Kings have often been closely related. The Kings needed the Bishops to justify the oppression, to interpret the holy books in ways that justified punishment, domination, and so forth.
How do we overcome this conditioning?
I’m often in between people in a lot of pain. I remember working with twenty Serbians and twenty Croatians. Some of the people there had family members killed by the other side and they all had generations of poison pumped into their heads about the other side. They spent three days expressing their rage and pain to each other. Fortunately we were there about seven days.
One word I haven’t used yet in speaking about this is the word “inevitability”. So many times I have seen that no matter what has happened, if people connect in this certain way that it is inevitable that they will end up enjoying giving to one another. It is inevitable. For me my work is like watching the magic show. It’s too beautiful for words.
But sometimes this Divine Energy doesn’t work as fast as I think it should. I remember sitting there in the middle of all this rage and pain and thinking, “Divine Energy, if you can heal all this stuff why are you taking so long, why are you putting these people through this?” And the Energy spoke to me, and it said, “You just do what you can to connect. Bring your energy in. Connect and help the other people connect and let me take care of the rest.” But even though that was going on in one part of my brain, I knew joy was inevitable. If we could just keep getting connected to our own Divine Energy and to each other’s.
And it happened. It happened with great beauty. The last day everybody was talking about joy. And many of them said, “You know I thought I was never going to feel joy again after what we’ve been through.” This was the theme on everybody’s lips. So that evening the twenty Serbians and twenty Croatians, who seven days earlier had only unimaginable pain in relation to one another, celebrated the joy of life together.
We gain this connection to each other by knowing God?
Here again I want to stay away from intellectualizing about God. If by “knowing God” we mean this intimate connection with Beloved Divine Energy, then we gain every second as experiencing heaven.
The heaven I gain from knowing God is this inevitability, to know it is inevitable, that no
matter what the hell is going on that if we get to this level of connection with each other,
if we get in touch with each other’s Divine Energy, it’s inevitable that we will enjoy giving and we’ll give back to life. I’ve been through such ugly stuff with people that I don’t get worried about it anymore, it’s inevitable. If we get that quality of connection, we’ll like where it gets us.
It amazes me how effective it is. I could tell you similar examples between the extremist
Israelis, both politically and religiously, and the same on the Palestinian side, and between
the Hutus and the Tutsis, and the Christian tribe in Nigeria. With all of them it amazes me
how easy it is to bring about this reconciliation and healing. Once again, all we have to do
is get both sides connected to the other person’s needs. To me the needs are the quickest, closest way to getting in connection with that Divine Energy. Everyone has the same needs. The needs come because we’re alive.
How do you get enemies to recognize that they need to give to each other?
A: When you get people connected at that level it’s hard to maintain those “enemy” images. Nonviolent Communication in its purity is the most powerful, quickest way I’ve found to get people to go from life alienated ways of thinking where they want to hurt each other, to enjoying giving to each other.
When you have a couple of people facing each other, Hutu and Tutsi, and their families have been killed by each other, it’s amazing that in two or three hours we can get them nurturing each other. It’s inevitable. Inevitable. That’s why I use this approach.
It amazes me how simple it is given the amount of suffering that has gone on, and how quickly it can happen. Nonviolent Communication really quickly heals when people have experienced a lot of pain. This motivates me to want to make it happen even more quickly because the way we’re doing it now still takes a while.
How do we get this done more quickly with the other 800,000 Hutus and Tutsis, and the rest of the planet? I would like to explore what would happen if we could make movies or television shows of this process, because I’ve seen that when two people go through the process with other people watching, that vicarious learning, healing and reconciliations happen. So I would like to explore ways to use the media to get masses of people to go quickly through this process together.
Have you encountered any cultural or language barriers to this process?
A: This amazes me how few and how little they are. When I first started to teach this process in another language I really doubted that it could be done. I remember the first time I was in Europe I was going to go first to Munich and then to Geneva. My colleague and I both doubted that we could get this through in another language. She was going to do it in French and I would be there for her to ask me questions if something came up. I was going to at least try to see if we could go through translators. But it worked so well without any problems, and I find the same thing everywhere. So I just don’t worry about it, I’ll do it in English and you translate it and it works very well. I can’t think of any culture that we’ve had any problem with other than little things, but not with the essence of it. Not only have we had no problem but also there are repeated variations of people saying that this is essentially what their religion says. It’s old stuff, they know this stuff, and they’re grateful for this manifestation, but it’s nothing new.
Do you believe a spiritual practice is important for practicing nonviolence?
I recommend in all workshops that people take time to ask themselves this question, “How do I choose to connect with other human beings?” and to be as conscious as they can about that. To make sure it’s their choice and not the way they’ve been programmed to choose. Really, what is the way you would choose to connect with other human beings?
Gratitude also plays a big role for me. If I express gratitude when I am conscious of the
human act that I want to express it for, consciousness of how I feel when the act occurs,
whether it’s my act or someone else’s, and what needs of mine it fulfills, then expressing gratitude fills me with consciousness of the power that we human beings have to enrich lives. It makes me aware that we are Divine Energy, that we have such power to make life wonderful, and that there is nothing we like better than to do just that.
To me, that is powerful evidence of our Divine Energy, that we have this power to make life so wonderful, and that there is nothing we like more. That’s why part of my spiritual practice is just to be conscious of gratitude.
How basic is this need to give to one another?
I think the need to enrich life is one of the most basic and powerful needs we all have. Now another way to say this is that we need to act from the Divine Energy within us. And I think that when we “are” that Divine Energy that there is nothing we like more, nothing in which we find more joy, than enriching life, than using our immense power to enrich life.
But when we are trying to meet this need of ours to “live” this Divine Energy, trying to contribute to life, there is a request that goes with it. We have a request for feedback
from whichever creature whose life we are trying to enrich. We want to know in fact, “Is
my intention and my action being fulfilled?” Was there fulfillment?
In our culture that request gets distorted into our thinking that we have a “need” for the other person to love us for what we’ve done, to appreciate what we’ve done, to approve of us for what we’ve done. And that distorts and screws up the beauty of the whole process. It wasn’t their approval that we needed. Our very intent was to use our energy to enrich life. But we need the feedback. How do I know my effort was successful unless I get feedback?
And I can use this feedback to help me know if I am coming out of Divine Energy. I know that I am coming out of Divine Energy when I value criticism as much as a thank you.
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For two years, Acharya, a bank regulation specialist and former academic adviser to the Bank of England, had followed the simmering credit crisis, created when risky mortgages, made to borrowers with poor credit histories, went into default, taking dozens of so-called “subprime” lenders down with them. But this was drama of a different order: If Lehman failed, with nearly $650 billion in assets, it would be the biggest bankruptcy in American history. “I had the instinct that evening: This is really going to be a disaster,” Acharya says. “It was like a movie, like something you read about in books.”
He was right. By Monday, September 15, Lehman had not only failed but a nearly insolvent Merrill Lynch had sold itself to Bank of America, and the giants Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs were floundering near collapse (and would soon convert from high-flying investment banks into bank holding companies)—all because their enormous stashes of complex, mortgage-backed derivatives now appeared to be practically worthless. The next day, the money-market system underpinning global commerce seized up for the same reason, and the Federal Reserve mounted an emergency rescue of the world’s largest insurance company, AIG. A few days later, Washington Mutual was seized by the FDIC.
At Stern, the conversation in faculty meetings, in the halls, and on blogs went into overdrive. Dean Thomas F. Cooley called for an emergency brainstorming session. The school’s Board of Overseers had asked him for a response to the meltdown—something big, in writing. “At a moment like this, at a business school, with the wealth of knowledge we have gathered, one puts it all in perspective,” Cooley says. The question he posed to his faculty was simple: “What do we really need to do?”
Wiley recently published their answers in the new book Restoring Financial Stability: How to Repair a Failed System. Edited by Acharya and financial economics professor Matthew Richardson, and compiling 18 white papers authored by 33 scholars, the book describes the growth, and implosion, not only of megabanks but of the risky shadow banking system they parked outside the reach of regulators. It documents how investment banks, insurers, hedge funds, and others invested long-term, while funding their holdings short-term—a prescription for runs and instability. Ultimately, the book lays out a new style of “systemic” financial regulation, designed to monitor and defuse emerging dangers in today’s rapidly shifting, deeply interconnected global economy.
In February, the book was in the hands of President Obama’s economic team—Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner and Lawrence H. Summers, who heads the White House’s National Economic Council. Dean Cooley notes that Stern also sent galleys to “the people we know at the Fed,” the Bank of England, and the most powerful policymakers on Capitol Hill. The House Oversight Committee on the bailout requested 10 copies. At press time, when Geithner revealed new plans for the biggest overhaul of financial regulation since the Great Depression, the book’s recommendations were much in evidence. “We have had a role, for sure, in shaping the debate,” Cooley says.
The book, like the crisis, was significant for another reason: Academics, accustomed to spending years on major projects, had to deliver it to the publisher in just six weeks. To get it rolling, professor Ingo Walter, vice dean of faculty, drew up a blueprint, created a faculty e-mail list called CrisisFac, and blasted an announcement soliciting contributions: “This is probably the most important event of our lifetime.” Three dozen economists signed on that day. Richardson, a capital markets expert who runs Stern’s Salomon Center for the Study of Financial Institutions, managed the process.
Contributors gravitated to areas where they’d done research and in many cases advised government. Some had worked on securities and derivatives exchanges, others with central banks and public agencies, such as the Federal Home Loan Bank. They’d testified before Congress on the Savings & Loan crisis, rating agencies, and the 1999 repeal of the Glass-Steagall Act, the milestone that tore down the wall among banks, brokerages, and investment managers—creating the megabank model that, the economists would write in the book, had proven a failure.
Throughout the month that they prepared the book, the Stern economists circulated ideas in hundreds of e-mails. In the home stretch period of comments and revisions, a single economic question posed on the listserv generated 60 e-mails in 45 minutes, and these online debates, Acharya and Richardson say, sometimes flourished at 4 am. Just before the deadline—while the crisis continued and the United States doubled the funds committed to failing insurer AIG and spent $125 billion on equity stakes in major U.S. banks—the authors presented papers at nine back-to-back roundtables. Then Acharya and Richardson pulled six all-nighters to finalize the manuscript.
The book’s recommendations would end up representing a collaborative agreement, reached through weeks of aggressive debate. The most vociferous disagreements were over whether bankers’ pay should be regulated and what role monetary policy should play during a bubble. While they differed on these points, they did agree that financial institutions that pose systemic risk should be forced to buy insurance against catastrophic losses.
The book narrates the years leading up to the financial crisis, when easy availability of credit fueled a housing bubble and a boom in lending during which loan standards plummeted. Banks packaged or “securitized” high-risk mortgages into trillions of dollars of exotic, little-traded instruments, which were bought and sold in an unregulated, over-the-counter market. Unlike with simpler derivatives, such as futures and options, there was no central clearing house where everyone could see who’s trading what. Now, thanks in part to the new book, that’s set to change.
As the underlying risky loans’ interest rates ballooned, homeowners defaulted, and the widely held, complex securities made from those loans started weighing down Wall Street. The mortgage-related derivatives, it turned out, were now toxic and a gigantic problem for any bank that held them. Banking and housing’s declines left Americans feeling poorer, so that even fewer bought homes, which sank related industries—from home electronics to the building trades. Stocks followed suit, creating a dangerous recessionary spiral. The Fed cut interest rates several times but couldn’t rev the economy.
Part of the problem was that rather than greasing the wheels of commerce by turning deposits into loans, the banks had acted like supersized, risky hedge funds. They ignored their own business models, Richardson says. They were supposed to transfer risk by off-loading the complex mortgage securities onto investors. Instead, the banks kept them in-house, like time bombs ticking in the basement. Regulators were too weak to stop them and seemed unable to meet the challenge once the crisis hit. “You got the feeling the regulators didn’t have it all in control—that they were caught without sufficient forewarning, were maybe even in a state of panic,” Acharya says. “Some very natural responses policymakers would have considered, if they’d been researching these issues for a long time, weren’t being considered. That lack of preparedness surprised me.”
By contrast, the Stern economists had spent their careers studying these very matters. The book’s prescriptions for remedying the catastrophe share an approach the editors call “regulation light” —using incentives, such as taxes and fees, yet relying finally on the power of markets (see White Paper Briefs). The fixes also proceed from the recognition that “free markets” aren’t actually free: Government guarantees and subsidies, as the ongoing bailout makes clear, are inevitable features of modern finance. “Once you accept that,” Acharya says, “you can focus on getting the incentives right.” One key challenge is solving the problem of “moral hazard,” the danger that a safety net becomes an invitation to misbehave, because you know you’ll be rescued. To meet that, the economists say, the Fed’s lender-of-last-resort role must stop being ad hoc and unconditional. Instead, emergency help should come with conditions: Banks must hew to limits on leverage and stiffer capital requirements. They should also pay a tax into a guarantee fund, commensurate with the risk they’re adding to the system.
Back at the business school last winter, while students rushed around the elevator banks, Cooley headed to lunch with former Fed Chairman Paul Volcker, now running Obama’s Economic Recovery Advisory Board, to discuss the book. The volume and its authors, Cooley says, “changed the focus from the present to talking about the way the world should be. It was the ultimate teachable moment for a business school.”
PHOTO © BROOKS KRAFT/CORBIS
The new book describes the growth, and
only of megabanks but of the risky shadow banking system they parked outside the reach of regulators.
“This is probably the most important event
-Vice Dean Ingo Walter
Rather than greasing the wheels of commerce by turning deposits into loans, the banks acted like supersized, risky hedge funds. They ignored their own business models.
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PETALING JAYA: Poor attitude -including asking for too much money - is the chief reason why employers shy away from hiring fresh graduates. Another common complaint is that many graduates are poor in English.
A survey by online recruitment agency Jobstreet.com showed that 55% of employers cited unrealistic expectations of salaries while 48% of them said poor English was the main reason why Malaysian fresh graduates from both public and private institutions remain unemployed.
“While previous surveys named poor English as the main cause for unemployment, bad attitude has now topped the list,” said its chief operating officer Suresh Thiru.
He said their attitudes were so bad that some did not even bother to inform the companies if they were running late or unable to attend scheduled interviews.
It was announced that the number of jobless graduates had increased from 65,500 to 71,600 although the overall unemployment rate had dropped from 3.4% last year to 3.1% during the first quarter of this year.
Another study by recruitment agency Kelly Services showed that fresh graduates asked for flexible working hours and expected their work to accommodate their personal life, not vice versa.
Its marketing director Jeannie Khoo said employers were also turned off by the lackadaisical attitude and lack of drive to improve among many of them.
“They have the misconception that they can earn high salaries at entry-level. They enter the banking industry expecting to earn RM3,000 while the market rate is only RM2,200,” she said.
PricewaterhouseCoopers Malaysia head of recruitment Salika Suksuwan said some candidates had many offers in hand but acted unprofessionally in rejecting job offers - by not turning up for interviews or the first day at work.
“We sometimes have to call them and remind them about a scheduled interview when they didn't turn up,” she said.
“It is more important to join a company that can develop your skills and prepare you for future opportunities,” he said.
In a related development, Human Resource Deputy Minister Datuk Maznah Mazlan said half of the applicants who registered with the JobsMalaysia portal (www.jobsmalaysia.gov.my) had found employment.
Speaking when launching the Graduan Aspire 2011 employment fair yesterday, she said about 300,000 job applicants were currently registered with the website.
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Hi everyone, this is my first post. Great website, excellent info! We have been reading a lot and my wife and I are very excited about getting a little GSP. We've set up a new 27 gallon cube as a brackish setup (1.010), with the intent to eventually move to full marine. We've done a lot of research and I think we're ready! My question has to do with the tank cycle.
To initiate the cycle I placed some gravel in the tank from an established aquarium, and established filter media in the aquaclear HOB filter. We took it to the LFS to test it after a week and got 0 ammonia, 0 nitrite, and 0 nitrate. As there are no nitrates showing up, we can't be sure it has cycled. We ended up buying a couple of mollies to aid with the cycle if necessary. My question is about using the gravel/media I used. They were from a freshwater setup, and I just dropped them in (no acclimation). Do you think that would have killed the bacteria? Am I starting fresh with a cycle and these mollies? The mollies are doing okay, but very shy and are barely eating. It seems at this rate it could be long time before we can add our little puffer. Any input/advice is appreciated. We're just a little anxious to get the little guy, but want to do it right. In hindsight, I think I should have cycled it as fresh.
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I am a former federal prosecutor, having served as an Assistant United States Attorney in the Southern District of New York under John Martin and Rudy Giuliani, prosecuting public corruption, organized crime, white collar, narcotics conspiracies, and other complex criminal cases. I have also defended two innocent men who served years in prison for murders they did not commit before their convictions were reversed by the courts. If the death penalty had been imposed, the state would have killed each man before he could prove his conviction and sentence were miscarriages of justice.
One man was the late Geronimo Pratt, the former Black Panther leader who served 27 years in prison in California for a murder he did not commit.
"Q. Where would Geronimo Pratt be . . . if the death penalty hadn't been banned for a few years in the early 1970s? A. Long dead." -- Interview with Jack Olson, author of Last Man Standing: The Tragedy and Triumph of Geronimo Pratt (2000).
The other man was Gary X. Nelson, an indigent African American man who served 12 years on death row in Georgia for a murder he did not commit.
In each case, the court reversed the conviction because the prosecution at trial failed to disclose evidence that the jury was entitled to know in deciding whether the defendant was guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. The main prosecution witness lied under oath on the stand before the jury at trial.
In each case, after the defense team persuaded the reviewing courts to reverse the conviction, the state dropped all charges because there was insufficient evidence for a reasonable juror to convict. Each man was falsely accused, convicted, sentenced to die -- and then freed.
Each man was represented by a superb team of defense attorneys who worked without charging the client a penny. In very few instances is a person on trial in a capital murder case able to meet the resources available to the state. Whether you live or die depends on who your lawyer is. Clarence Darrow never lost a client to death row.
The United State Supreme Court held 5-4 that the racially discriminatory imposition of the death penalty does not violate the Constitution in McCleskey v. Kemp in 1987. A person accused of killing a white victim is four times more likely to be sentenced to death than a person accused of killing a black victim, according to a meticulous study by David Baldus. This suggests that juries value the lives of black victims less than the lives of white victims.
Justice Lewis F. Powell Jr., who wrote the opinion for the five person majority, was asked after he retired in 1991 whether there was any vote he would have changed. "Yes," he told his biographer, John C. Jeffries, Jr. "McCleskey v. Kemp." "I have come to think that capital punishment should be abolished."
Proposition 34 would eliminate the death penalty in California and replace it with life in prison without the possibility of parole.
California has 725 people on death row. California is one of 33 states that currently authorize a death penalty. The death penalty in California was invalidated in the 1970s and was reinstated via Prop 7 in 1978. Thirteen people have been executed since then.
Donald J. Heller, who wrote the language of Prop 7, and Ron Briggs, who ran the successful death penalty campaign in 1978, now support Prop 34 to abolish capital punishment. "I made a terrible mistake 33 years ago, but it is one that can be corrected by replacing the death penalty with life in prison without the possibility of parole," says Mr. Heller.
A consensus of the leading criminologists in the world believe that the death penalty does not add any significant deterrent effect above that of long-term imprisonment. Over 88% do not believe that the death penalty is a deterrent. "In point of fact, death penalty states have consistently higher homicide rates than non-death-penalty states. In 2007, for example, the homicide rate in states with active death penalty statutes was 42% higher than that of non-death-penalty states." See M. Radelet and T. Lacock, "Do Executions Lower Homicide Rates?: The Views of Leading Criminologists," 99 Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology 489 (2009).
The death penalty is outrageously expensive to administer and wastes taxpayers' dollars that should be better spent to improve life. Since 1978, California's capital punishment system has cost taxpayers $4 billion more than life without parole. If the current system is maintained, Californians will spend $5 billion to $7 billion over the cost of life without parole to pay for the broken system between now and 2050, according to a study by a former judge, prosecutor, and death penalty supporter. See Judge Arthur L. Alarcón and Paula M. Mitchell, "Costs of Capital Punishment in California: Will Voters Choose Reform this November?", 46 Loy. L.A. L. Rev. S1 (2012).
Families of victims whose killers were executed, former judges, prosecutors, wardens, and executioners have come out in support of Prop 34.
The death penalty does not work. It is too expensive, it does not deter murder compared to life without parole, it is imposed in a racially discriminatory way, whether a person receives the death penalty depends on the vagaries of who the prosecutor, judge, jurors, and defense counsel are, the trial and review process are commonly riddled with prejudicial errors, and innocent people run the risk of being executed. This is no way to decide who lives and who dies. The death penalty is barbaric and immoral. Please vote Yes on 34 to replace the death penalty with life without parole.
Top: Geronimo Pratt is freed after 27 years in prison for a murder he did not commit. Defense team L to R Robert García, Kathleen Cleaver, Johnnie Cochran, Stuart Hanlon (1997).
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I find it really useful to have a library of soundbites ready to use on a moment's notice - mostly for PowerPoint, but also for...
Well, you can never tell when you'll need a recording of an oboe or a polar bear or the theme song to Welcome Back Kotter. Won't you feel foolish if you needed one of those sounds and didn't have it? Hmmmm??
This is how I find the sounds I use:
Searching For a Particular Sound:
A couple of years ago, one of the other teachers in my school asked for help looking for music for her class to use in their group PowerPoint about the American Revolution. After half an hour or so of "helping" her look online for something usable, we finally had a bit of an epiphany and did a Google search for:
"Revolutionary War", music, .wav
We found something within ten seconds.
Since then, that's been my first step when I look for a specific sound. I type in a whatever keyword I'm looking for - clapping, train whistle, PeeWee Herman, etc... - then a comma, then ".wav".
Wave files (.wav) are a type of sound file that works particularly well with PowerPoint.
When you find a webpage with a sound that you want to save, there is a very cool shortcut that will save you a lot of aggravation - the Save Target As command. Right-click on the file you want to save and choose "Save Target As...". This allows you to save it directly to whatever folder you want to put it in without dealing with a bunch of frustrating intermediate commands. (This is another one of those commands that you might never have used before, but once you start using it, you'll find yourself using it it all the time.)
Another cool way of capturing sounds is with your Free Hi-Q Recorder. (Do you remember when we discussed that a few months ago?)
A year or so ago, I was putting together a PowerPoint on the Geography of Europe. Mostly because I have a very tiny brain, Bern, the capital of Switzerland reminded me of the old song, Disco Inferno - the one that goes, "Burn, Baby, Burn..." Many online music stores, including the iTunes Store and Amazon, allow you to listen to a 30 second soundclip of a given song. I used Free Hi-Q Recorder to capture those 30 seconds, then used Audacity to edit the soundclip down to the ten seconds or so that I needed. Now my students have the dubious pleasure of using 30 year-old disco music to learn European geography.
Isn't education inspiring?
Audacity is a free, very user-friendly program that I use to edit sounds. It is very easy to learn and it's one of those programs that lets you get fancier and fancier as you learn to use it. I use it in my classroom all the time and it is a great way to hook kids into a project. (If you work on a Mac, GarageBand does the same thing.)
Finding Cool Soundbites You Didn't Know You Wanted:
There is a website I go to called Dailywav.com. Once a day or so, whoever it is who runs the site uploads one or more soundclips from popular movies, tv shows or commercials. I have found some profoundly weird soundbites here.
One of the unexpected benefits of the brain-dead aspects of YouTube is that as soon as a cool commercial hits the airwaves, somebody will immediately upload it to YouTube. As soon as you hear something cool on tv or the radio, you can look it up on YouTube.
The third place I shamelessly grab cool soundbites from is the podcasts that I listen to each week. For the people who put these shows together, one of their jobs is to find cool soundclips and insert them into their podcasts. I like to benefit from the hard work of people much cleverer than me. Again, this is where Free Hi-Q Recorder and Audacity come in very, very handy.
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My Wedding Bells is in flower,we are due frosts this weekend, have you any suggestions to how I can save it?
Margaret Coast Northeast
Here in Hampshire we have Knautia flowering, and our beautiful Brugmansia (in the porch) has 6 flowers!! had frost overnight, so pleased we went round with the fleece last night phew!
I have a perennial wall flower that has been flowering constantly since May of last year, nothing seems to stop it. I think by cutting old flowering stems down a couple of times, I have encouraged more flowers. Also, we had a cool summer so that may have simulated spring for a longer period than usual. Either way, I'm amazed!
I planted antirynums in a trough in my Mothers garden last year, they flowered all last summer, this summer and they re flowering again. are they annuals or byannuals?
. I m new to vegetable gardening, I had a wonderful year last year, and the aqua dulcie broad beans I planted in November are about 6 inches high, is this unusual?
Here in the South East ive still got Lobelia in bloom in a pot in the garden, its a self seeded one that was dropped from one of my baskets 19th Jan.
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These days, there are many good Jewish poets. But name a great Jewish poem written recently ...
See? It's not easy. The reason seem obvious: most Jews who write poetry today are secular, and so is their work. But fortunately, there are exceptions.
One is Ira Bedzow, whose first collection of poems, "Things Overheard In The Synagogue," has just been published by Urim Publications. Several of the poems retell Biblical stories, and in a section of personal reflections, there are many Talmudic asides. All of it reflects Bedzow's deep immersion of Jewish texts, as well as a lyrical ear perfectly matched for poems.
These are qualities hard to come by these days: a commitment to Jewish learning, as well as secular language. But it's a perfect reflection of Bedzow, who is both an ordained rabbi and now pursuing a Ph.D. in Jewish thought. Ira also happens to be an old family friend. But I don't think I betray any false enthusiasm for his work. Let a verse from "Isaac's Surrender," be his own defense:
He and I – we walk up alone
up to a place we cannot see.
Only with faith we will be shown
of what will be our destiny
or rather what will be of me.
Or how about a section from "To Sleep but Not to End'? The poem is about the frenetic pace of modern life, but it's written in way that seems to calm it:
As I look for the setting sun
the sky becomes a deeper blue.
The current day’s long course has run,
but I still have so much to do
before the day begins anew.
With all the duties I must keep,
always many and never few,
reluctantly, I go to sleep.
There is as much playfulness in these poems as there is an acute self-awareness. Bedzow's use of rhyme may in part account for the insouciant mood, but as you go through the book you realize it's as much a reflection of hard-earned wisdom. In the personal reflections, which range from lessons drawn from Pirkei Avot, to a parable about individuality, told through a story about choosing the right coffee shop, you find a writer searching for how one should live.
A quiet, moving example comes in the piece "Vanguard, En Garde!" Bedzow remembers a story his father told him when he took him to a synagogue as a teenager. His father tells him to go say hello to the rabbi, and when Bedzow returns, his father tells him: "Son, do you want to know what makes him such a successful rabbi?"
The rabbi was was never officially hired, his father says, and he wasn't even ordained . But he was extremely knowledgeable and exceptionally kind. So when the synagogue's official rabbi left, he naturally filled the void. No one ever questioned his authority, his father says, because the man himself, "never stopped considering himself as just another member."
Bedzow's search for wisdom is our reward.
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By MATT BRADLEY
CAIRO -- Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi withdrew part of a controversial declaration that awarded him near absolute power, a limited concession to protesters whose two-week-long campaign had gridlocked Egyptian politics.
But the new declaration preserves next Saturday as the date of a referendum on a divisive proposed constitution, skirting a key demand of Mr. Morsi's opponents.
Selim Al Awa, a former presidential candidate and one of the lead negotiators between Mr. Morsi and his opponents, announced the new declaration in a news conference just past midnight on Sunday morning.
It still seemed unlikely that Mr. Morsi's partial climbdown would satisfy liberal-leaning politicians.
Their opposition to Mr. Morsi and his Nov. 22 declaration set off the worst constitutional crisis to afflict Egyptian politics in decades.
But it may ease tensions on the restive streets of Egypt's capital, where fighting between secularists and Islamists killed six people in the past week.
Sunday morning's announcement preserves articles in Mr. Morsi's original declaration that replaced the Mubarak-appointed public prosecutors and allowed courts to retry former regime officials if new evidence becomes available. Many Egyptians blamed the public prosecutor for the light sentences handed down to the country's ousted leaders and police officers accused of corruption and killing protesters.
Mr. Morsi's new declaration maintains the accelerated timeline for adopting Egypt's new constitution, defying his opponents' complaints that Saturday's referendum would railroad through an Islamist-tinged constitution.
The concession marks only a mild sacrifice for Mr. Morsi, say the president's mostly liberal critics, because the power-expanding decree had already prevented Egypt's Supreme Constitutional Court from dissolving the constitutional drafting committee.
Mr. Morsi and his Islamist allies have said the court is stocked with former regime loyalists inimical to Egypt's democratic reforms.
The court had been expected to rule on the legitimacy of the constitutional drafting committee last Sunday, but delayed the decision after Islamist protesters blocked the court's entryway.
With the constitution drafted and its referendum date set, the founding document's passage is now nearly certain, said some secular-minded activists.
"It was expected all along that he would do that at the last minute," said Bassem Sabry, a secular-leaning blogger and political analyst, of Mr. Morsi's decision. "After he got everything he wanted from the decree, he rescinded the decree and got some political points."
But by withdrawing the most offensive articles in his Nov. 22 constitutional declaration, Mr. Morsi still exposes the 236-article document to the court's judgment.
The courts now hold the reins of the unfolding crisis. If Egypt's SCC convenes and decides to block the new constitution and its referendum, it could send Egypt reeling once again toward fresh instability.
In what could amount to an additional concession, Mr. Awa said Mr. Morsi would consider the opposition's suggestions for the proposed constitution. Mr. Awa offered few details on how much sway the opposition would have on the document, nor whether the president would reconvene the constitutional assembly to consider such changes.
Mr. Morsi's constitutional declaration arrogated his authority over the judiciary, preventing them from challenging his decisions or dissolving the constitutional assembly. It also awarded the president vague powers to "take the necessary actions and measures to protect the country and the goals of the revolution."
The presidential policy shift came hours after Mr. Morsi's leading critics refused to attend a day-long reconciliation meeting that Mr. Morsi had called for Saturday.
Instead, only Mr. Morsi's like-minded Islamist colleagues and one pro-democracy activist attended the meeting at Mr. Morsi's besieged palace.
The liberal leaders, which included several former secular-leaning presidential candidates, have insisted that dialogue was impossible until the president lifts a constitutional declaration that granted him almost unlimited political power.
The timing of Mr. Morsi's decision could also reveal some pressure from Egypt's military, which tentatively waded into the conflict for the first time on Saturday.
In a televised statement on Saturday afternoon, an unnamed military official admonished Mr. Morsi's opponents for ignoring the president's calls for dialogue and made ominous references to the military's "responsibility for maintaining the supreme interests of the nation."
"Dialogue is the best and sole way to reach consensus that achieves the interests of the nation and the citizens," the spokesman said. "Anything other than that puts us in a dark tunnel with drastic consequences, which is something that we will not allow."
Egypt's military, which for two years had been a constant presence in the country's political scene, has been largely absent from the two-week conflict.
Their creeping re-entry to the political field come a day after Mr. Morsi showed signs of ceding to some of its opponents' demands after tens of thousands of activists thronged around the presidential palace on Friday in a deepening of the country's constitutional crisis.
Opponents of Mr. Morsi—who have rallied angrily after the president gave himself extraordinary powers in a declaration late last month and placed himself above judiciary oversight—had demanded, among other things, that he defer plans to hold a Dec. 15 referendum on Egypt's freshly drafted constitution. These opponents say the document is an Islamist-tinged charter drafted by a body that was unfairly stacked with Morsi allies.
Hemmed in by ultra-conservative supporters on one side and secularist revolutionary activists and Egypt's Christian minority on the other, Mr. Morsi is navigating a narrow political channel, said Khaled Fahmy, a political analyst and history professor at the American University in Cairo.
He said the compromises like those offered Friday would make the president appear weak to his power base while failing to win over his opposition. "Something much more substantial needs to be done. The Brotherhood needs to realize that they cannot rule the country alone. They need partners," said Mr. Fahmy.
Late Thursday evening, Mr. Morsi had appeared on television with an offer to meet with his opponents about withdrawing the article from last month's declaration that gave him extraordinary powers.
The offer, which came just hours after tanks were deployed to disperse protesters from around the presidential palace, appeared to have done more to inflame anger against the president than to soothe it, according to some activists.
Secular-leaning political leaders rejected the offer earlier Friday. Tens of thousands of Morsi opponents descended on the presidential palace in Cairo in protest.
The crowds in front of the palace had thinned to only a few hundred by Saturday afternoon, with protesters and soldiers chatting amicably on sidewalks and sipping tea together at road-side stalls.
Write to Matt Bradley at email@example.com
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10 Things You Didn’t Know About Michael Jackson’s ‘Thriller’
The shadow cast by Michael Jackson’s bizarre personal life and legal troubles may have eclipsed most of his career but it still could not blot out the shining triumph of his song and music video ‘Thriller.’
The surprise blockbuster single, video and album not only drove album sales to record heights but the music video, directed by John Landis, paved a new path for the recording industry. Lavish music videos became a must for every single that wanted to earn a spot on the top of the charts or a place in pop culture’s pantheon. The success of the album and video even created new opportunities for African-American musicians, getting their videos played on MTV and opening doors that were still closed off due to misguided bigotry that permeated the recording industry. As the iconic album reaches its 30th anniversary, let’s take a look back at the scary good song that transformed pop music overnight the way a full moon transforms an ordinary man into a snarling werewolf.
1. The song wasn’t always called ‘Thriller’
Michael Jackson’s most famous chart topper and music video can produce an eerie chill and goosebumps just by saying its name. An early draft of the song, however, didn’t evoke such imagery.
Songwriter and drummer Rod Templeton was behind such huge Michael Jackson hits as ‘Rock with You’ and ‘Off the Wall.’ When legendary producer Quincy Jones brought Templeton on board to write songs for Jackson’s sixth album, he turned in a song called ‘Starlight.‘ Jones liked the song but thought it needed a new hook and sent the songwriter back to the drawing board. Templeton said he wrote “two or three hundreds titles” but the best was ‘Thriller’ because, “You could visualize it on the top of the Billboard charts.” Jones liked it so much that he titled the album ‘Thriller’ as well.
2. Background vocals were recorded in a shower stall
Jones’ kicked off the recording of Jackson’s ‘Thriller’ album in a Santa Monica studio by announcing, “OK guys, we’re here to save the recording industry.” The crew then spent long hours undertaking this massive responsibility with great care and ingenuity.
The crew used every inch of space they could to record and mix the album. Bruce Swedien, an audio engineer who worked with Jones on the album in 1982, said the album’s distinctive sound came from some creative use of acoustics. Some of the background singers actually recorded their parts in a bathroom shower stall to take advantage of its unique acoustics. He also had Jackson record and then re-record his vocalizations over each other to give Michael’s voice “a unique character.”
3. Jackson wanted Landis to direct the ‘Thriller’ video after seeing ‘An American Werewolf in London’
Jackson was a devout Jehovah’s Witness at the time the video for ‘Thriller’ was made, so he felt it was important to include a personal disclaimer that famously read, “Due to my strong personal convictions, I wish to stress that this film in no way endorses a belief in the occult.” Of course, that doesn’t mean he didn’t have a deep interest in it.
Jackson was a huge fan of Landis’ ‘An American Werewolf in London,’ the dark comedy-horror starring David Naughton, Jenny Agutter and Griffin Dunne. Jackson said in the ‘Making of ‘Thriller” feature that the werewolf movie convinced him that Landis was the man to direct the short film he wanted to do for the ‘Thriller’ single. He also brought the movie’s legendary makeup artist, Rick Baker, on board to create the look of the film’s monsters. Jackson would reteam with Landis in 1991 for his song ‘Black or White.’
4. Jennifer Beals was originally offered the role of Jackson’s girlfriend
Actress and Playboy model Ola Ray scored the role of a lifetime as Michael Jackson’s girlfriend in the ‘Thriller’ video. However, she wasn’t the first actress that casting had in mind.
Jennifer Beals, the star of the hit romantic film ‘Flashdance,’ got the initial offer to play Jackson’s girlfriend but for some reason, she declined it. The part went to Ray instead. Ray said following Jackson’s death that she was grateful for the role and the two remained close friends long after the video shoot ended. He even flew her to Germany so she could accept and keep a film award for the video.
5. Michael’s famous red outfit came from John Landis’ wife
The dark and creepy sound and look of ‘Thriller’ may have made the song and video an iconic part of entertainment history, but the distinctive look of Jackson’s outfit helped cement its place as a classic.
The famous red costume actually came from Landis’ wife Deborah. She said in an interview with the Wall Street Journal that she wanted to make an outfit for Jackson that would make him “absolutely pop off the screen,” especially during the famous dance scene with the dark and dreary zombies. Mrs. Landis also thought the wide shoulders from the “V” design of the jacket “would make Michael more virile.” Deborah only made two of the memorable red V-style jackets. One of them was sold last year at an auction for $1.8 million. She also came up with the iconic look and style for two legendary movie characters — ‘Animal House’ lush Bluto Blutarsky and Indiana Jones.
6. The ‘Making Of ‘Thriller” documentary raised the money to make the actual video
Jackson and Landis had some big ideas for their “short film.” Those ideas, however, would require an unprecedented budget to bring them to life.
The project would not only require extensive makeup and special effects to create the scary look of the monsters, but Landis also insisted that the dancing monsters spend at least 10 days rehearsing their moves. Altogether, Jackson and Landis needed nearly $500,000. CBS/Columbia Records president Walter Yetnikoff was a staunch supporter of Jackson’s music and even got MTV to retire its racist “no black acts” policy by threatening to pull his other videos unless they played Jackson’s now iconic ‘Billie Jean’ video. However, he was livid when he learned how much money the project would cost.
Landis said his producer George Folsey Jr. came up with the brilliant idea of producing a behind the scenes documentary about their video that they could sell to the networks to pay for the project. MTV and Showtime both bought the rights to air the documentary for $250,000, each giving the ‘Thriller’ production team the money they needed to shoot the actual video.
7. Quincy Jones’ wife helped the ‘Thriller’ team score Vincent Price
One of the most memorable moments of both the song and video was horror movie icon Vincent Price’s creepy narration and trademark laughter echoing across the tune’s booming baselines.
Price came on board through Jones’ then-wife, the actress Peggy Lipton (‘Mod Squad,’ ‘Twin Peaks’) since the two were close friends. Price didn’t spend much time in the studio since Jones said he managed to get a perfect take out of the actor with only two recordings. They also didn’t have to spend much money to get Price into the recording studio — the famed horror movie actor only earned anywhere from $1,000 to $10,000 for his work on the song and the subsequent video, even turning down a chance to earn a portion of its millions in profits. Landis said he talked to Price a year after the video’s massive release and learned he was very upset with the deal he took and that Jackson would not return any of his phone calls.
8. The star-studded audience called for an encore at the video’s premiere
Jackson and Landis never saw their video as just a music video. They envisioned it as a short film and just like a major motion picture, they wanted to give it a lavish, Hollywood-style premiere.
Landis said the theater was filled with Jackson’s celebrity friends such as Diana Ross, Warren Beatty and Prince and naturally, the video received wild applause and a standing ovation. Then the crowd started chanting “encore” and Landis said he didn’t know how to respond to the request. That’s when Eddie Murphy stood up and screamed,“Show the [expletive] thing again!” So they screened the film a second time to even wilder applause.
9. The ‘Thriller’ video helped to create the video rental business
These days, the home video rental industry may be standing on fewer steady legs than one of the rotting corpses in Jackson’s video. Still, the once burgeoning industry has ‘Thriller’ to thank for the success they had.
The video went into regular rotation on television and MTV showed the clip repeatedly, sometimes at least twice every hour at the height of its popularity. Fans wanted to watch the video in their home, but VHS tapes were expensive to own. So video rental chains started popping up to lend copies of the tape and eventually other movies for a much smaller price. Then, Landis said, a video retailer wanted to sell the video on VHS. Landis didn’t think the deal would be a moneymaker but he gave the plan his blessing. The VHS version sold over a million copies in the US alone.
10. It’s the only music video in the Library of Congress’ National Film Registry
Jackson and Landis’ video received numerous honors and broke many records since its release, but they probably paled in comparison when the Library of Congress chose to preserve it in its archives for future generations.
In 2009, The Library’s National Film Registry officially selected the ‘Thriller’ video as one of its inductees along with ‘The Muppet Movie,’ ‘The Incredible Shrinking Man,’ ‘Dog Day Afternoon’ and ‘The Mark of Zorro.’ Its inclusion makes it the first music video to be enshrined in the Registry’s archives as a film, the way Jackson and Landis have always considered it to be.
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Sweet Liberty: Our Right to Know What Chemicals We’re Eating
The 4th of July has always been one of my favorite holidays. It’s full of friends, family, food and fun, and it doesn’t require a lot of fuss or formality. We come together to celebrate everything that makes our country great – the pioneering beliefs of our founding fathers that wanted to give their families the absolute best future they could create. And it is with food and festivities that we celebrate the beliefs on which our country was founded- liberty, justice and freedom for all Americans.
But this 4th, things look a little different. With a growing number of diseases affecting the lives of our families, we gather together over backyard picnic tables mindful that life is short, to savor it and to try to do what we can to help protect the health of the people that we love.
With the increasing number of Americans now impacted by diabetes, asthma, heart disease, obesity, allergies, cancer and obesity, there isn’t a family in the country that hasn’t been touched by one of these conditions. And on holidays, we do what we can to help them, mindful of the salt content, fat content, sugar content, allergen content and so much more as we provide foods that can accommodate the growing concerns and needs of the people that we love.
But surprisingly, there is one thing that we haven’t been told. And it’s so surprising, actually, that when I first heard it, I wanted to dismiss it as alarmist or some kind of hippy thing. And that is that a growing number of the foods that we feed our families contain ingredients that have been genetically engineered to withstand increasing doses of toxic weed killers and chemicals.
Now this certainly isn’t something anyone wants to hear and the 4th is an unusual time to talk about it, but talking about it just might be one of the most patriotic things that we could be doing. Because as the US continues to fall behind the rest of the world when it comes to the health of our children and families, the chemical content of our foods is something that mounting scientific evidence, from the Presidents Cancer Panel to the American Academy of Pediatrics suggest that we pay attention to, as much as the salt content, fat content and allergen content of the foods that we are feeding our loved ones.
Because the fact of the matter is that these genetically engineered foods and the methods used to create them are relatively new and no long-term human safety studies have ever been conducted to know what eating these foods, hardwired for chemicals, might do to a pregnant mom, her developing baby or to anyone else that is eating them over an extended period of time. And it is for that reason as well as others that these ingredients are labeled in over 40 countries around the world, so that consumers can make an informed choice when it comes to feeding their families.
But here in the US, in a country that prides itself on freedom of choice, we don’t have these labels. The truth is that we haven’t been told that these ingredients have been introduced into our food supply.
And that’s hard to hear.
But it’s not the first time that this has happened (remember “pink slime”?) and it certainly won’t be the last, but it just might be one of the most important issues we could be talking about as it relates to our food supply today.
As countries in the European Union, as well as China, Japan, Australia, New Zealand and places like Russia, label these ingredients, that have been genetically engineered to withstand chemicals, it is time for Americans to have that same right to know, too.
Now some may argue that this labeling is cost-prohibitive, but the only thing required are the words “genetically engineered” to be inserted in front of the ingredients to which this hardwiring has been done (mainly corn, soy and canola) on the ingredient label. No new stickers, no new labels, just a few additional words (like the ones on the label to the left).
If we had those two words on our ingredient lists, the way millions of eaters around the world already do, we would know, all of us, if the corn on the cob we are eating has been genetically engineered to withstand increasing doses of pesticides or if the butter that we are putting on it or the hamburger we are eating with it come from a cow that has been fed crops engineered to make its own insecticide because these are chemicals that we can’t wash off, they have become part of the plant itself.
With a growing number of headlines asking, “Do chemicals cause cancer…obesity…autism?” Americans have the right to know what chemicals are going into food. And we have a right to know if our food has been engineered to withstand increasing doses of these chemicals.
Can you imagine in the face of obesity and diabetes epidemics if we didn’t have the information on the labels that told of us the sugar and fat content in our foods? And while correlation is not causation, in the face of the growing number of diseases, we haven’t been told which foods have been hardwired to withstand toxic chemicals.
Americans deserve the same freedom of choice that has been given to countless citizens around the world. This freedom, this choice, is as American as apple pie and one of the founding principles upon which are country was established.
Sure, it might be a hassle for the food industry to add a few words to their ingredient lists, but they have proven that they can label these ingredients in over 40 countries around the world, as evidenced on their packaging overseas or their choice to opt out of these ingredients altogether in our countries. They have responded to the concerns of governments and citizens in other countries. At the very least, they can label genetically engineered ingredients in the United States, too, placing the same value on the lives of our citizens that they have already placed on the lives of citizens overseas.
Because if you think about it, especially on the 4th of July, it just might be one of the most patriotic things that the food industry and all of us could be doing – to label these ingredients and give all Americans the right to know if our foods have been genetically engineered to withstand chemicals – for the health of our children, our families and our country.
To learn more about genetically engineered foods and why labeling is important, please visit Just Label It.
Wishing you and those you love a safe and happy holiday week.
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The inaugural 1959 Daytona...
The inaugural 1959 Daytona 500 featured 59 cars. Here, the cars line upon the track before taking the green flag. Notice the No. 43 Oldsmobileconvertible of Richard Petty. He fell out of the race early and finished57th. His father, Lee Petty, won the race.
Competitors and fans attending events at Daytona International Speedwaythis season will hardly recognize the place after a multi-million dollarinfield renovation totally changed the look of the famed raceway. To saythe Daytona infield has undergone a major transformation is a hugeunderstatement. What once was an odd collection of timeworn,weather-beaten garages and administration buildings is now a sparklingracer- and fan-friendly complex worthy of the title "World Center ofSpeed."
The entire infield has been ergonomically re-engineered to enhance theflow of race and fan traffic. Gone are cramped, dank cement block CupSeries garages; they are replaced by sparkling and spacious new ones.The open-sided canopies that served the Busch Series garage have beendemolished and replaced with new enclosed garages. A new, long overdueinfield access tunnel accommodating race rigs and fan foot traffic,along with new specialty vehicle parking areas, scoring pylons andexpansion of the existing media center have all been completed as partof the project.
There is a winding promenade Fan Zone, complete with rooftop viewing ofthe new Cup and Busch garage areas. Even Victory Lane has been updatedand expanded, allowing fans to be part of the Victory Celebration.
The infield at Daytona International...
The infield at Daytona International Speedway has always been considered"fan-friendly" as evidenced by this '80s photo. The new infieldrenovations over the off-season will not only provide competitorslong-overdue facilities upgrades, but will give the fans greater accessto the garage and Victory Lane areas through a Fan Zone.
In short, the improvements, while long overdue, are breathtaking.
Not that Daytona International Speedway hasn't always made your heartbeat a little faster. The brainchild of NASCAR founder Bill France, DISwas a dream that became reality in 1959. Feeling the crunch of communityexpansion, France had relocated the famed Daytona "Beach & Road Course"three times by the early '50s. The construction and success ofDarlington (SC) Raceway in 1950 also showed the NASCAR pioneer that ifthe sport was to continue to thrive in Daytona, it needed a permanentfacility.
Few shared France's vision of a track to rival the Indianapolis MotorSpeedway, especially those France tried to convince to invest in theproject. The proposed track, a 2- to 5-mile, high-banked, D-shaped oval,was unlike anything in motorsports at the time. Even the racers whowould eventually compete on the track had reservations about theproject, many of them calling it "France's Folly."
The old Cup garages at Daytona,...
The old Cup garages at Daytona, constructed out of cement blocks, werecramped, dank and outdated. The new spacious and up-to-date garages havebeen reoriented to the racetrack to facilitate better traffic flow onand off the speedway for the racers.
Determined, France pushed on with the project and in 1957 signed a leasewith the Daytona Beach Racing and Recreations Facilities District for500 acres of cypress swamp land near the old World War II Naval Stationwest of the city. Seed money for the project--$35,000--came from ClintMurchison, a Texas oilman who would later found the Dallas Cowboys.
France hired a civil engineer, Charles Moneypenny, to bring hissuperspeedway vision to life. To create the footings for the 31-degreebanking in the turns, Moneypenny had construction crews excavatemillions of tons of soil from the track's infield. The result was alake, covering 44 acres, springing from the low water table area.France, in honor of Sax Lloyd, the first man to give him a job when hemoved to Florida in 1934, named the waterway Lake Lloyd. The body ofwater, which lost about 15 acres to this off-season's infieldrenovation, is still one of the raceway's most unique features.
Creating the steep inclines of the track's turns proved to be achallenge for Moneypenny, who eventually solved the problem byconnecting the paving equipment to bulldozers anchored to the top of thebanking. The solution produced ultra-smooth, flat turns that wouldeventually provide the high-speed, side-by-side racing Daytona is famousfor.
With the 3,000-foot backstretch and the 3,800-foot, 18-degree banked"dogleg" frontstretch and 10,000-seat grandstand completed, Franceopened Daytona International Speedway in 1959. Final cost of theproject--approximately $1.6 million.
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Calling the Code - a coping mechanism in 14 linesRegister Today!
We all have different ways of dealing with the stress of what we do on the job. This is one of them.by TDFlMedicRN Oct 6, '10It all started simply enough – a usual day at the station house. We checked in, we checked out the rig, we did our station duties and filled out the logbook; we looked up our duty roster for the day and we even started working on CE’s. There are mornings that the calls come right away, and days you actually get to unpack your gear; some days you might even be able to have a cup of coffee and relax for a bit – but the calls always come. When the calls come, you never know what it’s going to be when you get there or what you’re going to see. You don’t know whether the person you’ll be dealing with even wants you there, or if someone else called on their behalf. You don’t know whether it’s a life-or-death situation, or a stubbed toe. None of that matters. When the calls come, we roll.
Some days you never forget. Some cases stay with you throughout an entire career; you may never remember a name, or a date, but you always remember the faces. A blur of activity, a rush of frantic haste, and then the silence that comes at the end of a futile race to a foregone conclusion. And at the center of it all, one calm, still, angelic face.
When it all comes crashing down on us, how do we cope? How do the comforters ask for comfort? How do you bear the unbearable? Some of us write letters, write articles, or write blogs. Some of us talk. Some of us cry. Some of us punch walls; some of us turn inward and turn mean. Some of us drink. Some of us do some combination of all of these things and more.
Some of us – as silly as it seems – well, we write poetry.
I see her as I'd wish, this stranger's child.
Her smile alive, her childhood still intact,
her purity of skin left undefiled.
The trace of time's caress could not detract
from beauty that was hers by birth and right.
I see her thus. Not as I saw her last,
surrounded by the remnants of my fight
to bring her back - her final struggle past.
Pale lips curved, an enigmatic smile.
Those lips I vainly sealed with mine to breathe
the life back into her. So for a while
I stood -- abashed, exhausted and bereaved,
silenced, for all my furious battle, lost --
Compelled by those who live to hide that cost.
Ted D.Last edit by Joe V on Oct 12, '10 : Reason: formatting for easier reading
Print and share with friends and family.
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- Oct 7, '10 by cherryames1949What a beautiful article. It brought tears to my eyes. Few people understand what it is like to have this experience. I thank you for putting it into words so beautifully. Keep writing poetry and bringing it to us.
- Oct 7, '10 by rn/writerHeartfelt and very well-written. You truly painted the picture for me.
Bravo, from a former EMT (who knows whereof you speak) and a current writer and RN.
- Oct 8, '10 by noreenlThat was beautiful! as a former EMT and current school nurse with special needs kids I found it very touching. I have had a rough week, thank you for the moment of grace and clarity.
- Oct 8, '10 by Purple_ScrubsYou truly have a gift with writing.
- Oct 8, '10 by AltraThanks to your eloquence, I can see her in my mind, too.
Peace be with you.
- Oct 20, '10 by FlowersInTheWindowThat was stunning. Thank you for sharing
- Oct 24, '10 by VivaLasViejasAbsolutely beautiful and heartrending. I can visualize that little girl's face as I type this through my tears.
Keep writing, Ted....you are very talented. Who knows, your ability to put your feelings on paper or a computer screen may also save your sanity one day, when you've got a pile of bottled-up emotions that need someplace to go. Bless your for sharing this with us!
- Oct 29, '10 by nightingale1969[speechless and amazed]
What a beautiful poem, you truly have talent. Keep on sharing your gift with us.
- Nov 1, '10 by MingmaWell written, ...keep writting for those who have that feeling... though hard to express , like me!!!
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The annual event focuses on publications that have received censorship challenges over the years.
As one of the supporting organisations, the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund (CBLDF) has published a list of 19 graphic novels that have been the subject of attempted bans.
The list includes the acclaimed graphic novels Bone by Jeff Smith, Art Spiegelman's Pulitzer Prize-winning Maus, Fun Home by Alison Bechdel and perennial comics classics The Sandman (Neil Gaiman) and Watchmen (Alan Moore).
Another of Moore's books, Neonomicon, also made the list as one of the more recently challenged graphic novels.
Kim Dong Hwa's comic series The Color of Earth was one of the top-ten challenged books of 2011, alongside Suzanne Collins's Hunger Games trilogy and Harper Lee's classic To Kill a Mockingbird.
Banned Books Week runs from September 30 to October 6.
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Reporting from Bar Harbor, Maine:
NAPLES — State government lawyers have identified a possible glitch with a budget document that was crafted this past spring to provide funding for the proposed Jackson Laboratory project in eastern Collier County.
It seems wording in the budget document to provide $50 million in first-year funding to the project doesn’t mesh with the federal stimulus package approved by Congress earlier this month, said Keith Arnold, a Tallahassee lobbyist for Collier County government.
That means attorneys for the governor’s office and state agencies are trying to clarify the issue but if they can’t, the conflict may get sent to the Legislative Budget Commission when it meets Sept. 15 to address an array of budgetary matters, Arnold said.
If the budgetary commission isn’t able to figure it out, or doesn’t have the legal authority to do so, the full state Legislature may have to take it up when and if a special session is convened to address the Gulf of Mexico oil spill and other issues, he said.
Some state lawmakers want another special session but others don’t.
“They haven’t called one in September,” Arnold said, adding that he doesn’t see it as being possible until after the November elections.
This past spring, state lawmakers approved the $50 million allocation, contingent on the stimulus coming through, to help bring the Maine-based Jackson to Collier. The Barron Collier Co. also agreed to donate 50 acres on Oil Well Road for the nonrofit genetics research institute. The proposal has been spearheaded by the Economic Development Council to start establishing a biomedical research park to create jobs and diversify the economy.
The plan is for the state’s $50 million to be beefed up by another $80 million in later years and Collier County would have to match the $130 million. That has generated considerable debate in the community about the county venturing into corporate welfare and risking a huge amount of taxpayer dollars on an endeavor that may not create the thousands of jobs that’s been pitched by consultants for the EDC.
Jackson isn’t the only special project that state lawmakers targeted to fund if another federal stimulus package got passed, which didn’t happen until a few weeks ago.
“There are at least two or three other projects that are in exactly the same boat,” Arnold said. “It is a legal question. I think the intent of most of the budget writing was pretty clear. The Legislature intended for all of them funded if Congress passed additional stimulus. All had similar language but not all the same.”
The Jackson budget document, in particular, talks about an Federal Medical Assistance Program extension but it also refers to the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act, which was passed in 2009 and not the same thing that was approved by Congress a few weeks ago.
What Congress approved is paying a higher share of the cost of Medicaid, which is jointly funded with states, for another six months. That means states don’t have to spend as much money to supplement the insurance program for the poor and disabled and can use those dollars elsewhere.
There’s also an issue that the amount of stimulus to states got reduced in a compromise to get it passed. Instead of getting $1 billion as hoped this past spring, Florida is getting $600 million, he said.
That’s raising questions whether state agencies and projects, like Jackson, will have to accept a proportionate cut from their original budget allocation.
Commission Chairman Fred Coyle, who has been spearheading the Jackson project with EDC, said the language glitch is convoluted but he believes it will get fixed.
“Most people believe it was an unintended glitch and can be resolved,” Coyle said.
Coyle said he will not be going to Tallahassee to attend the meeting, if the matter doesn’t get resolved before, but Arnold would be there.
Members of the Joint Legislative Budget Commission include Sen. J.D. Alexander, R-Lake Wales, and House Rep. David Riveria, R-Miami, and others, Arnold said.
Connect with health-care reporter Liz Freeman at www.naplesnews.com/staff/liz_freeman
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This is Week 6 of our 49 Square Mile Project, in which The Chronicle's Food & Wine staff searched out the most interesting or significant food-related enterprise in each square mile of the city. For an overview, go to sfg.ly/oNdJeK. Now we're highlighting one square each week to spotlight more of the culinary attractions. Sewn together like a quilt, the squares reveal the diversity and traditions that surround us.
Square 6 is a sliver of waterfront land with piers jutting out into the bay. It's a beautiful, active area where people stroll or jog; fish from the piers; grab a ferry to Marin County, Oakland or Alcatraz; and watch the pilot boats escort ships into the bay.
One imposing structure dominates the square, and it is the home of what has become the symbol of San Francisco's obsession with food: the Ferry Building, with a glorious food hall that opened in 2003.
Today most of us would be hard-pressed to imagine the waterfront without it, whether we're shopping the permanent stalls inside or touring the main farmers' market on Saturday, where the sidewalk in front and parking lots behind the building are filled with farm stands selling mostly locally grown and organic produce and meats. It's estimated that about 25,000 people visit each week, whether on Saturday or the smaller markets on Tuesday and Thursday.
However, it wasn't an easy transition from transportation hub to food hub - in San Francisco nothing ever is. The magnificent Beaux Arts building with a clock tower similar to one in Seville, Spain, was built in 1898 to replace the wooden Ferry House erected in 1875.
Until the Bay Bridge opened in 1936 and the Golden Gate Bridge six months later in 1937, boats were the only way to get to the city unless you were driving up from the Peninsula. After the bridge openings, water traffic fell dramatically, and by 1950 the building was a shell.
Its landmark presence was further diminished with the 1957 erection of a freeway that separated the building from the rest of the city. It took the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake to turn things around, but even though the road was razed 20 years ago, it took 12 more years after that to find a new purpose for the building.
Today, ferry traffic is on the increase. But while the Ferry Building might not be the transportation hub it once was, it's certainly captured the city's passion for food.
The building is home to Acme Bread Co., Blue Bottle Coffee, Boccalone Salumeria, Book Passage, Ciao Bella Gelato, Cowgirl Creamery, Far West Fungi, Ferry Plaza Wine Merchants, Frog Hollow Farm, Golden Gate Meats, Hodo Soy Beanery, Imperial Tea Court, La Cocina, McEvoy Ranch Olive Oil, Prather Ranch Meat Co. and Stonehouse California Olive Oil, among others. It's also the location of top restaurants, including Slanted Door, Boulette's Larder and Il Cane Rosso.
While there are a few other businesses in the area, including Tcho Chocolate, One Market restaurant and the Waterfront Restaurant, which made the transition from longshoreman's bar to a restaurant in 1969, it's the Ferry Building that dominates.
Ferry Building, 1 Ferry Building; (415) 983-8007. www.ferrybuildingmarketplace.com.
One Market, 1 Market St.; (415) 777-5577. www.onemarket.com.
Tcho Chocolate, Pier 17; (415) 981-0189. www.tcho.com.
Waterfront Restaurant, Pier 7; (415) 391-2696. waterfrontsf.com.
Go to www.sfgate.com/food for a video.
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For the first time in its history, Carroll County will have a School Resource Officer (SRO) in its elementary schools beginning with the 2012-2013 school year.
During the June 25 meeting of the Carroll County Board of Supervisors, the board unanimously approved a motion to fund an SRO in its elementary schools. The position will be funded through the Carroll County Sheriff’s Office’s Highway Safety Funds.
“The School Resource Officer program has been a really positive thing,” Carroll Supervisor Bob Martin said after the vote to approve the position. “It’s not to get the kids in trouble, it’s keeping the kids out of trouble, advising them and being a friend.”
Board of Supervisors’ Chairman Sam Dickson said the SRO program has been a huge success since now-Sheriff J.B. Gardner was installed as the first SRO officer at Carroll County High School in 1997-98. An SRO officer was added at Carroll County Intermediate School a few years later, and both schools have continued to have an officer since that time. Dickson said the thought behind having an SRO officer in the elementary schools was to reach youth at an earlier age.
“Hopefully they will realize police is not our enemy, they are good people. They will try to instill that in them and keep them off of drugs, anything not good for their health. That is the main purpose of this,” Dickson said. “We can start working at the intermediate and high schools, but if they have already started doing some of those things it is a little harder to reach them. I think this is a good thing and a needed program. I believe we will see improvement in the years to come.”
Gardner said the position has been advertised and he is currently looking for the right person for the job. While Carroll County has had DARE officers in the elementary schools part-time since the late Hassell Vass was Sheriff back in the 1980s, Gardner believes a full-time SRO officer in the elementary schools will be a tremendous asset for the county’s youth.
“We’ve never had one assigned full time, and sometimes you just need to be in the schools working. This a little more intensive,” Gardner said. “They will be at the schools regularly.”
The new SRO officer will be a roving position, Gardner said, to serve set times at each of the county’s elementary schools at certain times and certain days. Like Dickson, he believes the new SRO position will benefit elementary school students throughout Carroll County.
“Absolutely, the whole purpose is for the kids, to make the students’ lives better. I absolutely enjoyed it more than any job I have ever done,” Gardner said. “I did more counseling than I did anything else when I served as an SRO officer, just talking to them about life stuff. You do more of that than anything and it’s crazy, but parents can relate to it, they will tell a stranger something they won’t tell their parents. I think it will be a good thing.”
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This document is created to help other people using Novell Clustering on VMWare ESX server and not cause you to pull your hair out.
There are two ways to do Novell Clustering on the ESX server(that I have found). The first way is to use RAW Lun mapping for each Virtual Machine(VM). The second way is to use VMWare virtual disks.
Using Raw Lun Mapping is a bit limiting in the sense that VMWare only allows you to have one Raw Lun Mapping per ESX server. So in order to cluster you need to have two physical servers. This is a good idea anyway but there is a further issue, if you are using VMWare to run multiple servers only one of those servers can be clustered. So in my instance we have a IBM Blade server with 5 Blades, each blade has 8GB of RAM and 2 Quad Core CPU’s, I can run many Netware servers on this and I want to cluster a few of them. With Raw Lun mapping I can only have one clustered server per ESX server and the second clustered node will have to be on another ESX server.
Using the VMWare disks allows me to have multiple clustered servers on each blade with their counterparts on other blades or on the same blade. The issue with using VMWare disks is that it is harder to configure then Raw Luns.
I will go over Raw Lun config first because it is real easy and fast.
RAW LUN Configuration
First Configure a Lun on a SAN, we are using Pillar Data Systems for our SAN so your interface may look different.
You may notice that the Lun is the same on both servers. You want this in case you need to migrate the VM to another physical machine. So make sure each cluster resource has the same LUN!!!
Once this is created you can add a disk to an already running server. Once the Luns are added to the different servers you need to go to storage adapters and press rescan a couple of times for the Luns to come up.
Select Edit Setting.
Select the Hard Disk.
From here select Raw Device Mapping.
Notice the Lun ID in the Target, you want this to be the same on all servers so when you migrate a server it will migrate without issue.
This can be stored with the VM or in another Datastore, this is just the files that define the mapping to the Lun not the Lun itself.
Here I found that it makes no difference so you can choose either depending on your preference.
This one doesn’t really matter either so you can choose which ever.
As I said at the beginning, there is only one Raw Lun Mapping per Physical server so the picture above is what you get if you try and add a second Raw Lun Mapping on the same ESX server, MAJOR LIMITATION.
Now you have your Raw Lun mapping you just need to make it Sharable..
FFrom NSSMU program on Netware just select the device and press F6 to share it, now you can install clustering and make a Clustered volume and services..
Ok that was the easy one!!!! Now onto the Harder more flexible one.
NCS with VMWare Virtual Disks.
The benefit here is that you can have multiple members of the same or different clusters on one ESX Server. So say I have a Netware File Server Cluster and GroupWise Server cluster I can have one node of the Netware file server cluster on Server 1 as well as one node of the GroupWise Server cluster or even have more then one node of each of the servers or have a two node cluster on one physical server. It is really open there.
The First thing you have to do is figure out what volume sizes you need for the server. You are limited to 2 Terabytes per Virtual Disk. A virtual disk is basically a file system in a file, like an ISO image, and when you configure a Datastore in VMWare you specify the size of the largest possible file, the largest being 2 terabytes.
Second is to create a Datastore area.
Select the Add Storage.
Select the Disk/Lun option
In order make sure you can move these servers to other ESX servers make sure the Lun number are the same on all servers.
Here you will need to pick the maximum file size of the data store, it ranges from 256GB to 2TB, this will also define how large any single Virtual disk will be. Of course if your savvy enough you probably already realized you could probably do a stripped volume of multiple 256GB Virtual Disks.
Once this is done you now have a file system and the Linux fun BEGINS!!!!
The issue with Virtual disks is that when you try and access a VD from more then one server you get a disk lock error when trying to start the server, this is no good seeing as Clustering needs a Quorum disk at minimum (well not really you can do it without but that is no fun, I know I did it). So you have to get VMware to access one disk from multiple servers and in order to do this you have to create a Virtual Disk with the “thick” option, do not ask me what that stands for because I do not know.
The issue is that there is no way from the infrastructure client to do this; you have to access the ESX server command line itself.
There are two ways to access the server; the first is to go to the server console itself or to SSH into the server. If you are physically at the server you can use the root login but if you are coming in from SSH you have to use an account that can have terminal access so you can gain a session into the box then do a switch user (su) command to login as root.
To gain ssh access, point your VMWare infrastructure client to the physical ESX server, Virtual Center access does not have this option.
I assume that the adm account is good to edit, seeing as that is what VMWare tech support had me use for another issue.
Make sure you change the password to something you know as well as check the “Grant Shell Access to the User” check box.
Next is to ssh into the box
If you notice I cd’d to the vmfs and volumes directory, this is where your data-stores are.
The next part is to create a Virtual Disk with the thick option set, I gained this command from the Microsoft clustering, the only one VMWare supports.
The command to create a Virtual disk with the thick option is:
/usr/sbin/vmkfstools –c <Size of Volume in Bytes> –d thick –a lsilogic <path to Virtual disk>
So for Cluster Disk clstrdisk1 under the NW1Data file system that I want to be 10GB I would enter:
/usr/sbin/vmkfstools –c 100000000000 –d thick –a lsilogic vmfs/volumes/NW1Data/clstrdisk1.vmdk
The –d is for the disk format and the –a is for the adapter, if you do not specify the –a option you will get a message the first time you start the server saying the disk was made with a buslogic adapter, do you want to change it to LSI Logic. You will need to use the LSILogic adapter for clustering though (that is what VMWare supports).
Once this is done you can proceed to create your servers, just make sure they point to the Virtual disks you created. During the creation or after you need to change the Scsi controller setting on the VM..
The default is None, Virtual, as it says in the description allows you to share within the same ESX server and Physical allows you to share across servers.
Once this is all done you can start the VM and set the device to share, as described in the Raw Mapping example. Then install cluster services.
How I did it myself.
We have a blade server with 5 blades and a SAN connected to them, we have 5 ESX Servers and Virtual Center with the VMotion option.
What I did was configure the servers on one server and then I migrated the server to another ESX server with VMotion. I am a bit new to ESX so I don’t know how to register a datastore already created on the SAN from another ESX server but if I create it all on one server then migrate the cluster nodes to other servers VC seems register it automatically. When I tried to create a data-store point to the data store another ESX server created it would keep telling me all the info would be deleted so I never did it, however I suspect that all that needs to be done is create a linked file in the volumes directory to the hardware device associated with the Lun or that there is a tool that will do this for you from the command line.
What I found with the LUNS not matching is that when you use VMotion and try and move a server it will have a problem moving from one LUN number to another, if the LUN is the same then it seems to just move the references, this makes for a very fast move operation with no data loss.
Anyway, I hope this helps someone out
Disclaimer: As with everything else at Cool Solutions, this content is definitely not supported by Novell (so don't even think of calling Support if you try something and it blows up).
It was contributed by a community member and is published "as is." It seems to have worked for at least one person, and might work for you. But please be sure to test, test, test before you do anything drastic with it.
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- Service Dress (British Army)
Service Dress was the new style of khaki uniform introduced by the British Army for use in the field from the early 1900s, following the experiences of a number of imperial wars and conflicts, including the Second Boer War. This variant of uniform continues to be worn today, although only in a...
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My son has been playing sports since he was a little boy and now that he is getting older, we have been signing him up for club sports teams as well as school teams. He loves to play sports and is quite the athlete; however, lately we have been noticing a few things that have been bothering his father and I about what happens while he is involved on these teams.
A lot of the parents seem to be more competitive than the kids that are playing. We have always taught our son to show good sportsmanship no matter what the outcome of the game is. For example, when the game is over we encourage our son to shake hands and say “good job” to the other players on the other team. We also taught our son that if someone gets hurt, no matter what team they are on, that he should help the hurt player up, and so on.
At the last game we attended (on a new team we just signed him up on), another player on the other team was hurt and so my son tried to help him up just like we taught him. One of the parents on my son’s team shouted that he was wasting game time by walking over and helping the other boy up. My husband and I could not believe our ears. During the same game, the boys were showing respect for each other and good sportsmanship by shaking hands with one another after the game ended with the opposing team. Yet, a different parent started yelling from the bleachers that the game was fixed and that the coaches didn’t do a good job, all for everyone else to hear.
What’s disappointing is the kids were having such a great time just playing and the parents were actually the ones ruining the game by complaining and showing examples of bad sportsmanship. The kids had better sportsmanship than the parents. By the parents shouting out disrespectful comments to where all of the children could hear, in my opinion, was giving all of the players a bad example of how they should act at a game.
Do these parents not realize the example they are setting? Whatever happened to just letting kids be kids and to have fun and just play and enjoy the game?
You are correct. Kids should just be able to have fun on these club sports teams while the parents sit in the stands cheering their children on without any displays of bad sportsmanship. By showing bad sportsmanship, the parents are setting a bad example not only for their own child, but for the other children playing.
That is outstanding that you and your husband teach your son about good sportsmanship because you are building and setting up a foundation for him to carry with him for every single team he is ever on for the rest of his life. Yet, good sportsmanship doesn’t just stay on the field or on the court, it is a life-skill he can take with him outside of sports. For example, it is a skill he can use in the classroom by encouraging other students when they get a right answer or good grade on a science project, or even in the workplace when he gets older by congratulating a fellow co-worker on a promotion. So the fact that your son is attaining this skill at a young age is very impressive. It also shows leadership among the other children who may not have been taught the importance of good sportsmanship and they can follow your son’s lead.
Parents need to realize that they are at the game to show support for their child and the team. They need to remember that kids look up to adults and mirror their behavior. So if a child is playing on a baseball team and some other child’s parent starts yelling negative words from the stands, that parent needs to realize that they are influencing every single child on the field at that very moment, and that is not setting a good example.
Club sports teams are provided for children to improve their physical skills, while also learning about teamwork and staying healthy. It is not a second chance for parents to relive their lost childhood dreams of becoming a famous baseball or basketball player through their child. Children are innocent and do not deserve that type of punishment. It is not fair to them. The teams are about the children so parents need to let their competitive side go and let the kids have a good time while they learn a lot about the specific sport they are playing. The bottom line: let kids be kids and just have fun.
Thanks for teaching your son about the value of good sportsmanship. Hopefully, the other parents will lead by your example.
Ahwatukee Foothills resident Michelle “Mikey” Arana is a 2003 graduate of Mountain Pointe High School. She offers free peer advice, however, Mikey is not licensed or trained, just a fellow friend to the community. All inquiries made to Mikey will remain anonymous unless legal issues occur. She can be reached at www.myaskmikey.com or email@example.com.
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|VOL. 33, NO. 6||P.O. BOX 618, ALTON, ILLINOIS 62002||JANUARY 2000|
What Did Congress Do in 1999?|
Can the President wage unconstitutional war? When the truth is finally known, the big majority of House Republicans will be able to take pride in their foresight in going on record against Clinton's war in Yugoslavia: 91% voted to require Congressional approval before sending in ground troops (H.R.1569, 4/28/99), 84% voted against the bombing (S.Con.Res.21, 4/28/99), 78% voted against sending in peacekeeping troops (H.Con.Res.42, 3/11/99), and 57% voted to withdraw the troops Clinton had already sent in (H.Con.Res.82, 4/28/99). (PSR: 12/99, p.3; 7/99, p.2&4; 5/99, p.2-4; 3/99, p.1-2)
But then the Republican House leadership pushed through an appropriation giving Clinton double the funds he requested to pay for the war he had already waged. This was called spending for "defense" but it was actually spending for Clinton's offensive war (H.R.1141, 5/18/99), and he signed the bill 5/21/99.
In a big defeat for Clinton, the Republican Senate killed the dangerous Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty which Clinton signed in 1996. It would have crippled our nuclear defense by forbidding even underground nuclear tests while we would not be able to verify other countries' compliance. (PSR: 12/99, p.2)
Congress halted Clinton's plans to implement the unratified Global Warming (Hot Air) Treaty, which has never even been submitted to the Senate. The Consolidated Appropriations Act included a provision to forbid Clinton from proposing or issuing "rules, regulations, decrees, or orders for the purpose of implementation, or in preparation for implementation, of the Kyoto Protocol." (PSR: 1/98, p.4)
The American Land Sovereignty Protection Act (ALSPA), H.R.883, passed the House in May. ALSPA reaffirms that U.S. lands are under the authority of Congress -- not the UN -- and states that the UN will no longer be able to designate U.S. lands as "World Heritage Sites" or "biosphere reserves" without congressional approval. This bill would protect U.S. sovereignty against attacks made possible by a treaty ratified in 1972 called the World Heritage Convention. No action has yet been taken on the Senate companion bill, S.510.
In the Commerce/Justice/State Appropriations bill, Rep. J.D. Hayworth's (R-AZ) H.Amdt.412 to H.R.2670 added language (adopted Aug. 5 by 217-209) that prohibits the State Department from spending funds in support of "adding or maintaining any World Heritage Site in the United States" pursuant to this same treaty. However, without ALSPA, the UN can still designate "heritage sites" in the U.S.
Goodbye U.S. Canal in Panama! December 31, 1999 was the historic date when the United States turned over our magnificent Canal to Panama under terms of the Jimmy Carter-Torrijos Panama Treaties ratified in 1978 by a margin of one vote, despite the overwhelming opposition of the American people. Clinton's friends, the Communist Chinese, will now be the gatekeeper of the Canal we built because a Hong Kong firm has acquired 50-year leases to occupy a strategic port at each end of the Canal: Balboa on the Pacific and Cristobal on the Atlantic. Panama has no army even to defend the Canal against the drug terrorists coming from Columbia.
Although he has traveled to more countries than any U.S. President in history, Clinton didn't go to Panama for the lowering of the U.S. Flag because photos would have been too politically damaging, especially after he admitted on Nov. 30 that the Chinese will be "running the Canal." Why is he sending U.S. troops all over the world to places where we have no national security interest but won't negotiate for a single U.S. soldier to be stationed at the world's most strategically significant waterway?
Despite the illegalities of the Panama Treaty (the U.S. Senate and Panama ratified different "reservations") and corruption in the bidding process for the ports, Congress is not disposed to try to retain the Canal. However, bills have been introduced to partially safeguard U.S. interests. Sen. Jeff Sessions' S.Con.Res.6 and Rep. Dana Rohrabacher's H.Con.Res.186 demand a continued U.S. defense presence in Panama and a review of the bidding process for the ports. Sen. Bob Smith's S.Con.Res.59 urges the President to negotiate a new agreement with Panama to station U.S. Armed Forces in Panama to defend the Canal. (PSR: 11/99, p.1-2; 7/99, p.3)
Will we ever get SDI -- and do we need it? Back in 1983, Ronald Reagan urged us to build an anti-missile defense, but we still don't have it even though Russia has 10 of its most sophisticated ICBMs on "combat alert" and Communist China has 13 ICBMs targeted on U.S. cities. We need SDI more than ever. On Mar. 18 by 317-105 the House passed the National Missile Defense Act, H.R.4, stating that "it is the policy of the United States to deploy a national missile defense." The Senate passed it unanimously on May 18. However, when Clinton signed it on July 22, making it Public Law No. 106-38, he said it was not the intention of his Administration to deploy a missile defense system anytime in the near future. (PSR: 4/99, p.3-4)
Congress has yet to face up to the national security threat to American lives, property and interests posed by the growing Chinese military and nuclear arsenal. Where does China get the funds and the know-how to build a modern military machine? The Cox Report released May 25 exposed China's strategy and success in obtaining U.S. military technology through espionage, transfers of technology as part of all commercial transactions, and illegal political donations especially to Clinton's reelection. This strategy has given China's nuclear program a ten-year leap. (PSR: 7/99, p.1; 4/99, p.2)
China gets the funds to finance its military-industrial complex from its extraordinary favorable balance of trade with the U.S. Every month, China sells us $6 billion in goods but buys only $1 billion, meaning that China's People's Liberation Army pockets $5 billion in hard U.S. cash every month.
Yet despite this military threat, despite the revelations in the Cox Report, despite China's blatant theft of U.S. intellectual property, despite the escalating human rights violations, and despite China's refusal to admit U.S. goods on the same basis and at the same low tariff we give their goods, the House on July 27 renewed Most Favored Nation (now called "Normal") Trading Relations with China. This issue will come up again in 2000, but Congress seems afraid even to discuss the China issue in terms of unfair trade, military threat, espionage, or human rights. (PSR: 6/98, p.1-3)
Goals 2000 was due to expire Sept. 30, 1999, but Congress extended it until Sept. 30, 2000, at which time Titles III and IV (but not I, II and V) will be automatically repealed. Meanwhile, at a Feb. 20, 1999 meeting, recognizing that the goals were not reached by the deadline, the National Education Goals Panel passed a resolution suggesting to Congress that it be renamed "America's Education Goals" and the goals extended "beyond the year 2000 without a specific deadline for their achievement." We will have to work hard to keep Goals 2000 from getting more funding. (PSR: 4/97, p.1-4)
The $11 billion Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) contains the bulk of federal spending in education. Numerous studies show that the results of this 34-year-old program are pitiful, but Congress has no political will to end this boondoggle. House Republicans tried to change the education debate by promoting the Straight A's bill, H.R.2300, to allow states to take the federal cash but opt out of the federal strings in exchange for setting and meeting academic test goals. Last-minute whining from Education Subcommittee Chairman Mike Castle (R-DE) changed this plan from a 50-state program to a 10-state pilot program.
The Women's Educational Equity Act (WEEA), which gives federal grants to feminist organizations to promote "gender equity," was stripped out in committee but added back on the House floor. The House on Oct. 20 passed the Mink-Woolsey-Sanchez-Morella amendment 311-111 to authorize $5 million a year to continue this "feminist pork."
The Education Budget bill, H.R. 3424, contained Sec. 303: "No funds appropriated under this Act may be used to prevent the implementation of programs of voluntary prayer and meditation in the public schools."
The House passed 248-180 Rep. Robert Aderholt's (R-AL) amendment to the Juvenile Justice/Gun Control bill, H.R. 1501, on June 17 to allow states to publicly display the Ten Commandments on publicly owned property (which would include schools).
Will Republicans address the big issue of Health Care? We heard posturing from both sides of the aisle about plans to impose more regulations and controls on health care and health insurance, but no serious move to address the real reason why health insurance is expensive and why so many millions don't have it. The fundamental problem is that the system is rigged so that, unless you have a job with an employer offering a good health plan, health insurance is difficult or sometimes impossible to obtain. (PSR: 6/96, p.1-4)
An essential part of Clinton's original plan for national health care was to control all treatment through the use of a medical ID card, called a "unique health identifier," for every American. A temporary moratorium on the medical ID card "until legislation is enacted specifically approving the standard" was passed in the Consolidated Appropriations Act.
When Congress failed to meet a deadline of Aug. 21, 1999 to enact legislation regarding the privacy of electronic medical information, the authority to write regulations passed to HHS Secretary Donna Shalala. She has published a proposed 400+ page regulation on medical privacy and the public can send comments until Feb. 17, 2000 to: US Dept. of HHS, Asst Secy for Planning and Evaluation, Attn: Privacy-P, Room G-322A, Hubert Humphrey Bldg., 200 Independence Ave., SW, Washington, DC 20201. (sample letter)
Congress took another step toward a government cradle-to-grave healthcare tracking system by requiring "all babies" born in hospitals to get a "hearing screening before leaving the birthing facility." Under Title VI of H.R.3424, the Labor/Health & Human Services/Education Appropriations bill, states are "to collect data" for "research, program evaluation and policy development," and the Centers for Disease Control is instructed to "promote the sharing of data" with other "monitoring programs." The real purposes of this law are to get all Americans on a government medical-records database and to implement Hillary Clinton's plan for children to be raised by the "village" instead of their parents. (PSR: 9/99, p.4)
The House Government Reform Committee held hearings on federal vaccine policy and injuries. Most children get at least 21 vaccines before starting school including 3 Hepatitis B, 5 DPT, 3 Hib, 4 polio, and 2 measles-mumps-rubella. Embarrassed federal health officials suspended use of the rotavirus (infant diarrhea) vaccine on Oct. 23 because of the "causal connection" with a life-threatening bowel obstruction called intussusception. Until the day before, the government's official position was that all infants should get 3 doses of this vaccine. (PSR: 9/99, p.2-3; 2/99, p.1-4)
Congress in 1999 repealed the section of the 1996 Illegal Immigration and Welfare Reform laws which would have federalized driver's licenses into a national ID card by requiring them to contain "machine-readable" Social Security numbers. The repeal was part of the FY2000 Transportation Appropriations bill, H.R.2084. Driver's licenses should be under state, not federal, jurisdiction. Unfortunately, some states are already requiring Social Security numbers and even fingerprinting on driver's licenses.
Thanks to Sen. Richard Shelby (R-AL), this same law included a provision prohibiting the selling of driver's license information without your permission.
Sen. Shelby tried to amend the big banking bill to prohibit banks from selling personal financial information without the customers' consent. But these secret sales by banks are so profitable that the banking lobby was able to prevent passage of the Shelby amendment. This was one of the many evidences we saw in the current Congress of the powerful influence of corporate "soft money." (For information about how corporate money lobbied the banking bill, see "Hooray for Soft Money," Wall Street Journal, 10/27/99, reporting that the banks spent $145 million in political money and $163 million for lobbying during 1997 and 1998. For how corporate money lobbied the Copyright Term Extension bill for Disney, see PSR, 12/98, p.4. For information on how weapons manufacturers spent $51 million to lobby for the NATO Expansion Treaty, see PSR, 4/98, p.3.)
Can't we cut off tax dollars from controversial agencies?
Getting rid of the federal agency that continues to fund obscene "art" with taxpayers' money should have been a no-brainer for the Republican Congress. Despite the latest outrage at the Brooklyn Museum (which received $500,000 from the National Endowment for the Arts over the past three years), where a current exhibit shows the Virgin Mary spattered with elephant dung and pornographic pictures, we got brave words from Congress but no cuts. (PS column on "Hate Art," 10/13/99)
The Senate passed Sen. Bob Smith's (R-NH) denunciation of this "religious bigotry," but then on Aug. 8 upped the NEA's budget by $5 million. On Oct. 4 the House approved Rep. Jim DeMint's (R-SC) amendment to condemn this "sacrilegious" exhibit. On July 14 a House amendment to increase the NEA funding by $10 million was narrowly defeated 217-207. The Republican House leadership stood firm against any increase and kept NEA funding at "only" $98 million.
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) was embarrassed by the scandal that this taxpayer financed agency was sharing its donor lists with Democratic fundraisers and pro-abortion groups. Congress wasn't embarrassed, however, and by H.Amdt.391 to H.R.2670 rewarded CPB with an additional $10 million, bringing its budget to $350,000,000.
Congress gave the Legal Services Corporation a $5 million raise over its FY1999 budget, despite a 1999 General Accounting Office report that some LSC offices inflated their caseloads as much as 70%. Started as a federal program to help the poor, LSC is today a lawyers' playground for leftwing lobbying and class-action lawsuits.
Where does the pro-life agenda stand?
The Senate passed the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban, S.1692, by a vote of 63-34. Since 2 pro-life Senators were absent, we are now just 2 votes shy of a veto-proof majority. Clinton will veto the bill after its expected House passage in 2000. Unfortunately, the Senate in a 51-47 vote agreed to a non-binding "Sense of Congress" amendment that Roe v. Wade "should not be overturned." This should be deleted in Conference.
Because of the globalists' demand that the U.S. pay alleged "back UN dues," Clinton was forced to agree to a UN-abortion-funding deal. Pro-life language known as the "Mexico City Policy" was attached to the $385 million appropriation for international family planning so that 96% ($370 million) cannot be spent to perform abortions or to lobby foreign governments on their abortion laws. Language was also added to the law to prevent the UN from directly taxing U.S. citizens, and the U.S. contribution to the UN budget was reduced to 22% from 25%.
All new attempts to force taxpayers to pay for more abortions for federal employees, military personnel, federal prisoners, and DC residents and employees were defeated or withdrawn in the House and Senate.
The House passed a resolution, H.Res.350 on Nov. 9 sponsored by Reps. Tom Tancredo (R-CO), Joe Pitts (R-PA) and Chris Smith (R-NJ) calling for hearings to investigate the trafficking in body parts from babies killed by abortion. Current federal law prohibits the transfer of aborted babies or their parts for "valuable consideration," but at least two companies appear to be selling body parts and even intact bodies of dead babies to researchers for profit. The Senate also considered this issue on Oct. 21 but defeated 46-51 Sen. Bob Smith's (R-NH) amendment to require certain disclosures and impose regulations on this trafficking in baby body parts.
The House passed the Child Custody Protection Act (CCPA) by 270-159 on June 30. Authored by Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL), this would make it a federal crime to take a minor across state lines for an abortion without the consent or notification of a parent if her residing state has parental involvement laws. CCPA thus upholds states' rights by not allowing a minor to evade her state law. The Senate is expected to take up H.R. 1218 or the Senate companion bill, S.661, in 2000.
The House passed the Unborn Victims of Violence Act, H.R.2436, on Sept. 30 by 254-172. Authored by Rep. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), an individual who commits a violent federal crime can also be prosecuted for a separate offense if he kills or injures an unborn child. The Senate is expected to consider H.R. 2436 or its companion bill, S.1673, in 2000.
The House passed the Pain Relief Promotion Act, H.R. 2260, by 271-156 on Oct. 27, amending the federal Controlled Substances Act, in order to promote pain management and end-of-life care while reaffirming that assisted suicide and euthanasia are not permitted. The Senate is expected to act on either H.R. 2260 or its Senate companion, S.1272, in 2000.
More attempts to have the 'village' raise children.
The Treasury/Postal Appropriations bill included a Rep. Connie Morella (R-MD) amendment to allow federal agencies to help employees pay for child care, but only if the children are cared for in a daycare facility, not in the home. Daycare as a middle-class entitlement is a longtime feminist goal. (PSR: 12/97, p.1-2)
Due to the legislative perseverance of Rep. Ernest Istook (R-OK), the House initially froze Title X funding at FY1999 levels and earmarked $2 million for abstinence-only in the FY2000 budget and another $20 million in FY2001. Title X is the source of controversial "family planning" services which distribute contraceptives and abortion-inducing drugs, such as the morning-after pill, to teens without their parents' knowledge or consent. However, the pro-abortion budget negotiators, Rep. John Porter (R-IL) and Sen. Arlen Specter (R-PA), were successful in increasing Title X from $214.9 million to $238.9 million, an 11.2% increase over FY1999.
The phony Patent 'reform' bill passed, after all. Congress ignored powerful criticisms from American inventors and Nobel Laureates that the Patent Reform bill, H.R. 1907, would allow foreign and multinational corporations to reduce the constitutional patent rights of American inventors by legislating the deal made by the late Commerce Secretary Ron Brown with the Japanese Ambassador on Aug. 16, 1994. The House passed the Patent bill anyway, after many last-minute revisions, on Aug. 3 under a steamroller process that allowed the advocates of the bill to control both sides of a mere one-hour debate. The fight against the bill was nobly led in the Senate by Kit Bond (R-MO) and Richard Shelby (R-AL), but Judiciary Committee chairman Orrin Hatch (R-UT) maneuvered so that the Senate was never permitted to debate or even vote on the Patent bill. He then slipped the entire House-passed bill into the final budget bill so that the Patent bill could not be rejected without shutting down the government. Clinton signed the Patent bill into law as part of the budget bill. The bill is a gift to the Japanese, the Chinese and the multinational corporations at the expense of independent inventors and the innovation and entrepreneurial advantages they bring to America. Score another victory for corporate "soft money" politics. (PSR: 3/98, p.1-4)
Did Congress deserve a pay raise? Over the strenuous objections of conservative Republican Members, the House on July 15, voted itself a 3.4% cost-of-living raise, from $136,700 to $141,300 a year (plus medical and pension benefits and travel budgets). A parliamentary maneuver prevented a roll-call vote.
PSR = references to background information in the Phyllis Schlafly Report. All these articles are also available on our website: www.eagleforum.org where you can also see our Scoreboard showing how each Senator and Representative voted.
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Your first class today is taught by Sofeea Icecall.
Sofeea Icecall — The Mage
The life of a mage revolves around hand size and mana potions. A mage should always try to keep a full hand, as this is going to provide the options needed to overcome encounters. Don't forget to use the Ice Block ability found on the back of the mage's card. This disrupts opponent's strategies and gives the mage control of the game. The mage's ability cards can be broken into three categories; cards that help, cards that disrupt enemy characters, and cards that help in combat.
The first set contains cards like Arcane Intellect, which reduces the price of any ability by one, and Evocation, which cycles faster through the ability deck. The real key ability in this category though, is Teleport. This card lets a mage move 3.5 inches in any direction. This sounds pretty weak, but when looking at the board, 3.5 inches can get from one branch to the next, or can be used to get out of a space with an Aggro encounter.
The second set is smaller and earns the mage a bad reputation. These cards include such spells as Counterspell, which cancels an enemy ability card just played. These cards have limited range so use them sparingly.
The last category makes up most of the ability deck. These are the cards that need to be in the mage's hand. Blink is a spell that cancels a battle, letting the mage decide when to fight. Blizzard is a ranged attack with a strength of 4, giving the mage an edge early in the game. The real powerhouse is Summon Water Elemental. This card is a ranged attack with a strength of 4, but if the opponent fails to hit, the card goes back into hand. To further compound the ability, a mana potion can be consumed to fuel the spell Frost Armor. Frost Armor increases a mage's base defense by one, making it that much harder for an opponent to hit, making Summon Water Elemental that much stronger.
The final thing to remember is mana. Without it, abilities are useless cards. Mana can be acquired through encounters, but the easier way to get it is to win a couple encounters, then use the Auction House Icon. This icon lets you swap out any item for a new one of the same level, effectively letting you swap out items until you get a mana potion.
Lesson two this afternoon is taught by Mr. Fang and his… um… associate?
Burbonn Fang — The Hunter
The most important thing to a hunter is his pet. My pet is Samson. As you can see Samson is a bear. Your pet is the one thing that can stay a constant, and will help you out immensely throughout Azeroth. The next thing are your abilities. The ability to keep your eye out for is Mend Pet. If you haven't been able to get Samson, this card lets you get him for free. On to the other abilities, the first set I'm going to talk about are the traps.
Traps give you control of the battlefield. You can use them to prevent an enemy from leaving a spot with a Freezing Trap, or you can do a fair amount of damage with a Snake Trap. One of my favorites uses Samson, it is called Intimidation. First you set up a trap, Snake Trap for preference. Then you move into a space with an enemy character, and attach Intimidation to him. Now on his turn you get to choose where he goes, and guess what, he goes right into the Snake Trap!
The next thing of note is your aspect. Depending on your aspect, you gain powers no other adventurer can obtain. Sure they can get the ability maybe once or twice a game, but you can have it until you change it. The aspects of the Cheetah and Monkey are the best for new Hunters. The Cheetah will let you move through those pesky Aggro encounters, while the Monkey will let you reroll if you rolled a 1 on your combat die. Both of these powers get better once you are green level. The other two aspects are a bit more powerful, and require a bit of know how. Aspect of the Hawk allows you to convert unspent energy into attack strength right before combat. The key here is knowing when you need that energy to fuel your other abilities, and when you can use it to power your Hawk. The last aspect is my personal favorite, Aspect of the Viper. The downside is a maximum hand of only 5 cards. To make up for that, every time you play a card, you get to draw a card. Drawing cards is a very powerful ability, and when something grants you the ability to draw potentially 5 or more cards a turn you best take notice.
The last thing is your combat cards. Half of them are used instead of a weapon, these are good at the very start, since your weapon isn't very powerful, and again towards the end as the improved green and red abilities become more powerful. The other half are abilities that add to combat, and most of these require Samson to take part. Claw makes your attack a melee attack and gives it +1 to hit. Growl is near identical to Claw, but adds to your defense. The trump card to use is Bestial Wrath. This card makes your combat die a 6, and if you are red level, prevents your opponent from rerolling! For those of you who did your homework, you know that on a combat roll of a 6 Samson provides a boost to your defense.
So to sum up, the bear is your best friend, use combinations of cards to accomplish your mission, and use the Aspect best suited to get you where you need to go.
All right bells are ringing, which brings school to a close for today. Next session begins soon and classes will cover two new subjects.
Fantasy Flight Games
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Today's fast paced lifestyle sure comes in with a million and one health threatening complications which are not just bound to drain you off financially, but also mentally and physically when left uncared. Health is wealth. You ought to put this first on your list of priorities. No one has to pour in a huge sum to be healthy each day. Food supplements such as XAMthone and routine exercise are enough for you to lead a healthy lifestyle.
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The story behind NYC Garbage:
Justin Gignac is a New York City based artist and entrepreneur. He began selling garbage in 2001 after a co-worker challenged the importance of package design. To prove them wrong, he set out to find something that no one would ever buy, and package it to sell. Looking around the dirty streets of Times Square, garbage was the perfect answer. Twelve years later, over 1,400 NYC Garbage cubes have been sold and now reside in 30 countries around the world.
In addition to original New York City Garbage, Gignac has also produced a number of limited edition cubes. Past editions include: The Republican National Convention, the World Series at Yankee Stadium, New Year’s Eve in Times Square, the NY Giants Victory Parade, the first day Gay Marriage was legal in NYC, Obama’s Inauguration and St. Patrick's Day in Dublin, Ireland.
Justin resides in SoHo with his wife, Christine, where they keep busy by creating paintings for Wants For Sale and Needs for Sale. He is also the co-founder of Working Not Working, a site that pairs ad agencies and companies with the Universe's best freelance creatives.
If you have an enthusiastic audience that would like to hear the story behind Justin's work, email him. His anecdotes inspire anyone from sales teams to students – if Justin can sell garbage you can sell anything.
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As you know, a lot of PyPy's recent development effort has gone into speeding up execution of Python programs. However, an additional good property of PyPy's Python interpreter is that most objects are represented in a much more compact way than in CPython. We would like to investigate some more advanced techniques to reduce the memory usage of Python programs further.
To do this it is necessary to investigate the memory behaviour of real programs with large heaps. For speed measurements there are standard benchmarks, but for memory improvements there is nothing comparable, the memory behaviour of large programs is not that well understood. Therefore we are looking for programs that we can study and use as benchmarks.
Specifically we are looking for Python programs with the following properties:
- large heaps of about 10MB-1GB
- should have non-trivial runtime as well (in the range of a few seconds), to judge the speed impact of optimizations
- ideally pure-Python programs that don't use extension modules so that they run under both CPython and PyPy (this is optional, but makes my life much easier).
We are also rather interested in programs that do a lot of string/unicode processing.
We would be grateful for all ideas. Telling us about a program also has the advantage that we will work on optimizing PyPy for it :-).
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in a post entitled Are blacks scared straight by the law or by hell-raisin’ whites?, agnostic finds that african-american incarceration rates are lowest in areas of the country where “celtic” whites predominate, his “celtic” whites being, afaics, borderlands/backcountry folks. and he thinks it has to do with this:
“Compared to other white Americans, those of Celtic ancestry are more clannish and warlike, more honor-driven and less law-regarding. The hell with being tattle-tales to law enforcement — how about we just settle this little thing ourselves, like men. Picking up that vibe from whites at the grassroots level must make black criminals think twice about stepping on the wrong man’s dick — if he doesn’t pursue you to within an inch of his own life just to bring about your death, then his kinfolk may just round up a party and track you down like an animal, unencumbered in whatever they do by legal regulations since the authorities won’t know about it….
“In contrast to the Culture of Honor prevailing among the more pastoralist-influenced Celts, there’s a greater Culture of Law among the more agriculture-influenced English, Scandinavians, French, and Germans. “
from an article in the American Anthropologist, July-September 1921, “The ‘Blond’ Eskimos” (links added by me):
“Several travellers had noticed [eskimo] individuals who markedly resembled Indians; Collinson had observed acquiline noses and a Jewish caste of countenance in Walker Bay, in Victoria Island, and Murdoch had noticed the same thing at Point Barrow, in Alaska; Petitot had seen a Scotch- or Russian-looking individual in the Mackenzie River regions, while one or two other travellers elsewhere had observed Scandinavian types. These variations were noticed all the way from Greenland to Alaska and as far south as Labrador…”
wait. what? “blond” eskimos?! how come nobody told me?! you guys have been holding out on me! (~_^) there’s more…
“…for to the authors quoted by General Greely we have to add, besides Murdoch to whom we have already referred, the old Jesuit missionary Pere Lafitau, who says of the Labrador Eskimos, ‘They are tall, well built, and whiter than other savages. They allow their beards to grow, and have curly hair which they cut below the ears. Their hair is almost always black, but a few have light-colored hair (Fr. blonds), and some red hair (Fr. roux), like the people of Northern Europe.
“Mr. Stefansson first encountered the Copper Eskimos at Cape Bexley, in Dolphin and Union Strait. Even there, he says, he had noticed a certain peculiarity in some of the natives, a certain lightness in the color of the moustache and beard that he had never observed farther west. But it was only when he crossed the strait and met the Hanerak and Puivlik groups of southwestern Victoria Island that he became fully conscious of the change. ‘We had been told by our guide,’ he says, ‘that we should find the Victoria Islanders of a light complexion, with fair beards, but still we were not prepared for what we saw…. Here (in Victoria Island) are men with abundant three-inch-long beards, a light brown in their outer parts, but darker towards the middle of the chin. The faces and proportions of the body remind of ‘stocky,’ sunburned, but naturally fair Scandinavians.’ Mr. Stefansson finally sums up the physical characteristics of the Copper Eskimos as follows: ‘Of something less than a thousand persons, ten or more have blue eyes … some of the men eradicate their beards … but of those who have beards a good many have light brown ones; no one seen has light hair of the golden Scandinavian type, but some have dark-brown and rusty-red hair, the redness being usually more pronounced on the forehead than on the back of the head, and perhaps half the entire population have eyebrows ranging from a dark brown to a light brown or nearly white. A few have curly hair.’ Mr. Stefansson then compares the form of head of the Copper Eskimos with that of the Eskimos in other regions, and comes to the conclusion, (1) that the Copper Eskimos show clear evidences of hybridism, and (2) that their European-like appearance is most easily explained by the theory that they have European blood in their veins, for which the old Scandinavian colony in Greenland furnishes the only explanation.”
genetic studies don’t seem to back this idea up: DNA tests debunk blond Inuit legend.
chinese clans again:
“Ideology, vested interests: Why China’s reforms have hit brick wall”
“By Willy Lam, Special to CNN
“November 16, 2012
“[W]hile aspects of the economy are being integrated with the global marketplace, about 120 yangqi or centrally-held enterprises will continue to enjoy monopolies over key sectors, ranging from oil and gas to banking and telecommunications.
“Moreover, an unprecedented number of the spouses and children of party elders have gone into business. Some have become the yangqi’s senior managers. Even more have used their sterling political connections to start highly successful private businesses in lucrative areas such as finance and real estate. These so-called ‘red capitalists’ are evenly represented by members of the party major factions.
“Critics of the government do not seem to be exaggerating when they say that 100 or so of the biggest clans that represent the country’s ‘red aristocracy’ control the largest chunk of the economy.
“The official China Daily has reported that the top 1% of Chinese families owns 41.4% of the nation’s wealth….”
(note: comments do not require an email. dreamed i was an eskimo….)
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WORLD VIEW - Phoenix Rising
Phoenix Rising - the Re-birth of Civilisation
The will-to-good of the world knowers is the magnetic seed of the future.
It is often said that we currently live in a time of profound transition. The familiar mores and institutions of societies in every part of the world are being challenged in many ways. We could even say that global civilisation itself is undergoing transformation.
Victor Hugo noted that there is nothing more powerful than an idea whose time has come. Humanity’s difficulty at the present time is that it is faced with an ever-growing torrent of new ideas whose time is coming. This is a direct result of the growth in mental potency in humanity. Partly as a result of the growth of mass education (in itself, the working out of a great philanthropic idea) and partly due to the onward evolution of consciousness, more and more people are becoming mentally focused, and capable of working with ideas. And civilisation itself is the result, the outer material expression, of ideas. As ideas change, so, eventually, do the many forms and institutions, the technologies and the characteristic art-forms, which make up civilisation.
Why do ideas change? An idea, like all else, has a life-cycle. First, it magnetically attracts a body of thinkers, gathering cooperation, and working its way out into active expression. Depending on the vitality of the idea, it then holds this form of expression together for a longer or shorter time. Finally, the hold on form is released, leading to its disintegration. Five hundred years ago, Monarchy held centre stage in the political organisation of most societies. Now, the events surrounding the British Queen’s Diamond Jubilee show that, in the few places it is still present, the idea of Monarchy is realised in largely ceremonial and symbolic terms.
In a number of her writings, Alice Bailey highlights the importance of a key group in this process of the emergence of ideas. The New Group of World Servers is made up of all those who are in the vanguard of transforming the thinking of humanity, through their constant reaching out to contact and bring into manifestation the Ideas of the Divine Plan. This process requires not only those few who can sense the new incoming ideas, but also those who can act as midwives, presenting the new ideas to a wider populace, enabling widespread acceptance. And finally, there are those who are skilled in implementing the ideas as programmes of action. Thus, the widest possible diversity of minds is needed to bring ideas from the levels of high abstraction down to the point where they can be embodied in enduring institutions and practices. And for an institution or practice to endure, care must be taken at every point of the descent of the idea into form.
This process whereby civilisation periodically re-makes itself can be profoundly unsettling for those who live through it. This is especially true now, as the process accelerates. Moreover, people now live longer, and may expect to see many more changes in their life than previous generations. So, as the many changes accumulate, they may even come to feel that the civilisation they were born into is dying, and being replaced by something quite alien. Alice Bailey remarked on this when she noted that, “Dying civilisations are present in their final forms whilst new civilisations are emerging; cycles come and go and in the going overlap”.1
If humanity is to learn to live and work constructively in this period of rapid civilisational change, it may help to see this time as the gradual expression of a high vision of the future - a vision that must not be too rapidly forced into being, but must be carefully and thoroughly worked out, so that all can feel they can make a positive contribution. This patient unfolding is characteristic of the persistent will-to-good, which is deeply concerned with right timing in the evolution of consciousness. Even good ideas can be stillborn if they are forced into being before the public is ready to accept them. The League of Nations was ahead of its time: nevertheless, it provided a prototype upon which the United Nations could build. The purifying effect of austerity has been discussed in a previous World View, and the deep structural problems in the European Union, revealed by the current economic crisis, may lead to a profound re-consideration of the meaning and purpose of the Union itself. Has it always been primarily about securing greater material benefit for its citizens, or is there a deeper dimension of shared history, culture and values that needs to be tapped? And is there some deep lesson which the struggles of the Union is intended to convey?2 While this re-thinking may be a painful process, the fact that the human mind is thereby being led further into the world of meaning, which is where ideas reside, is itself a positive consequence. What distinguishes the work of the New Group is that the motive for contacting and working out ideas is always the good of the whole, so the ideas contacted always contain within them the seed of synthesis. It is also significant that the members of the New Group are predisposed to work constructively in group formation, for it is said that the newer truths can only be grasped by group endeavour.
One of the most ancient world symbols is the Phoenix, the great bird which is periodically consumed through fire and then re-born. In the Ageless Wisdom, fire is often used to symbolise the mind. As we know, fire can be both beneficent and destructive. It is up to all people of goodwill to learn to work constructively with the mind, taking our place somewhere within the many groups which compose the New Group of World Servers, seeking to contact the high vision of a future world where the good of the whole informs every organ of society. Then, the Phoenix of civilisation can be safely re-born, and soar to greater heights.
1. A Treatise on the Seven Rays Vol.V, p.309
2. Alice Bailey remarked in 1935 that “Europe is the field for the educating of the world in the ideas of a true world unity”. (Discipleship in the New Age Vol. 1, p.161)
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Updated: February 9, 2013 2:02 AM EST
Alexandria music therapist gives voice to disabledBy JODI BELGARD
The town Talk
The clients sat in a large semi-circle, all eyes on Julie Thiels DeKeyzer.
The session began with a lesson on patience.
"Can anyone tell me what patience is?" DeKeyzer asked.
"To endure," responded a woman in the center of the semi-circle.
"Very good," DeKeyzer said.
It's a scenario that could have played out anywhere, but this setting isn't anywhere.
The men and women display a variety of developmental and intellectual disorders from schizophrenia to mental retardation. The day rehabilitation group is a subset of clients at the John Eskew Training Facility on Ashley Avenue in Alexandria who are unable to function independently.
Some of the clients are confined to wheelchairs. Some struggle with words, others with motor skills. But during their sessions with DeKeyzer, they are all musicians, if only for a short time.
"I don't go to work to get a million-dollar merger," DeKeyzer said. "I go to work to get eye contact or the first letter of a word."
She is a licensed music therapist who contracts with Rapides Arc, which runs the training center, to help individuals who need more than traditional occupational or physical therapy.
In the course of the session, DeKeyzer worked with the group on listening skills, counting, socialization and motor skills. She also sang and played guitar.
"Music camouflages therapy," DeKeyzer said. "That's why music therapy is a palpable thing - music by its nature is therapeutic."
DeKeyzer, 26, said she always knew she wanted to help people, and she's always been a musician. She assumed she'd start a nursing program, but while she studied at Louisiana College in Pineville she heard about music therapy.
"I never would have dreamed something so perfect for me existed," she said.
She completed pre-music therapy course work at LC, and then moved on to a music therapy graduate program at Loyola University in New Orleans.
"If you ask people about music therapy, some will say they've never heard of it, and others will say, `Yeah, I get that every day in the car,'" DeKeyzer said. "Music therapy is the evidence-based practice of a therapist having a relationship with a client and through music reaching non-musical goals. Music is not our goal. Communication, motor skills, socialization - those are our goals."
DeKeyzer has been working with the John Eskew center for about a year, and activities coordinator Kristine Hodges said the time the clients have with DeKeyzer is well-spent.
"I see their quality of life improve," Hodges said. "They show up bright and early. I see the enthusiasm they have to come to class. They all know her name. We have some clients who don't say a word all day long, but they talk to Julie."
DeKeyzer and the music therapy program at John Eskew recently received a $1,300 grant from the Alexandria chapter of Rotary International. The goal is to use the money to start a bell choir, but bells are expensive. DeKeyzer estimates the handbells at around $7,000.
"I want to expand with the higher functioning clients," she said. "(A bell choir) fosters group cohesion and team work, and motor planning is a big part of it. They've got to move the bells. Most of all, it's motivational. How amazing is it that you're going to make real music?"
DeKeyzer also contracts with Our Lady of Sorrows group homes in Alexandria. She's the owner of Tuned Up Music Therapy on Jackson Street Extension, where she does private sessions for children with developmental and intellectual disorders and typically developing children.
Kimberly Elmore enrolled her 5-year-old daughter, Miranda or "Mira" for short, a year ago. Mira is autistic and has trouble with social cohesion. She loves music, though, and that was enough for Elmore to give Tuned Up a chance.
"(Mira) has very limited verbal ability," Elmore said. "She can repeat what people say, but she can't really express her own wishes or what she feels. Her social abilities are very limited. She has this thing where she notices adults, but she doesn't notice other kids. It's like they're not even there."
Mira is enrolled in two classes - one for typically developing kids and their parents and one for kids with autism spectrum.
"Things have greatly improved," Elmore said.
Mira now notices other kids, and she's becoming more verbal.
"She has just become so good at watching Julie and imitating the things that she does," Elmore said. "She loves the songs, and she has started singing in class, which she only does at home."
Elmore said Mira participates in other forms of therapy, including Applied Behavior Analysis, but she said she believes Mira's rate of success comes from music therapy.
"I just don't think it would have happened as soon," Elmore said.
In music therapy "success" is a relative term. It could be that a person with limited motor skills shakes a maraca for the first time, or a non-verbal person says "bell."
DeKeyzer knows what success is, though.
"Their success is my success," she said. "I'm getting just as much as they're getting. My main goal is to advocate music therapy. It's real, it's tangible and it works."
Information from: Alexandria Daily Town Talk, http://www.thetowntalk.com
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"Kowakian Monkey-Lizard" is the first in a series of comics on the LEGO Star Wars website. The comic was first placed at the LEGO website in late 2008. It was later added to the official Star Wars site on October 19, 2009.
"Obi-Wan Kenobi and his clone forces arrive to attack the Separatist battle droids!"
"It's probably not a Kowakian monkey-lizard…"
The comic begins with a group of battle droids. One of them spots something in the sky which turns out to be a Republic gunship with a Jedi. The commander orders a droid gunship underneath them into the air and the two ships engage in combat. During the battle, the droids realize they are outmatched, and the droids send the gunship into the ground to escape the Republic gunship. Later, the droid commander is seen commenting that at least they got away, when the droid behind him spots another Republic gunship with another Jedi.
Behind the scenesEdit
The comic was originally posted on the website under the title "Kowakian Monkey-Lizzard". The title was later changed to the correct spelling.
In one scene, the battle droid commander calls another droid a "fool". In the comic's original posting, the commander's word of choice was "idiot". StarWars.com's posting of the comic contains the original word choice.
Although it is the first comic in its series, it was placed as "LEGO Webcomic #2" on StarWars.com.
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On ABC's This Week, host George Stephanopoulos failed to correct a series of misleading statements by former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-TX) concerning the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) and potential sources of oil off the coastal United States.
During an interview with former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-TX) on the May 7 broadcast of ABC's This Week, host George Stephanopoulos failed to correct a series of misleading statements by DeLay concerning the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) and potential sources of oil off the coastal United States. DeLay claimed that "Democrats have stopped us from developing American oil and American gas in this country. They've stopped us from drilling in Alaska, off the offshore of Florida and California. ... If President Clinton had signed drilling in ANWR back in the '90s, we would be enjoying a million barrels a day more today, and that would have an impact on gas prices." Contrary to DeLay's claim, the 2006 Annual Energy Outlook (AEO) report released in February by the Energy Information Administration (EIA) concluded that, if ANWR had been opened for development in 2005, daily production would have peaked at 780,000 barrels per day in 2024, falling to 650,000 barrels per day by 2030. In addition, a Department of Energy study conducted by EIA found that oil production in ANWR would have a relatively insignificant impact upon crude oil prices. The report concluded that drilling in ANWR would reduce oil prices by 30 to 50 cents per barrel by 2025, "relative to a projected 2025 world oil price of $27 per barrel" The report also noted that the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) "could countermand any potential price impact of ANWR coastal plain production by reducing its exports by an equal amount."
Further, contrary to DeLay's claim that Democrats were responsible for blocking drilling off the coast of Florida, The Washington Post reported on May 30, 2002, that it was the Bush administration that blocked drilling there. The administration first proposed drilling in 2001 but then reversed course after Florida Gov. Jeb Bush (R), who ran for re-election in 2002, objected:
Last year, [then-Interior Secretary Gail] Norton floated a proposal -- developed in the Clinton administration -- to open 6 million acres of the Gulf of Mexico to oil and gas leasing. But after Gov. Bush objected, she scaled back the plan to forestall drilling within 100 miles of the Florida coast. The exception was the Destin Dome area off Pensacola, where Chevron, Conoco and Murphy Oil were in litigation over leases approved 16 years ago. Under yesterday's deal, the companies will relinquish seven of their nine leases and suspend the other two until at least 2012.
The Washington Post article also reported that according to "several environmental activists ... President Bush had been far less eager to block drilling in states where his brother isn't governor."
From the May 7 broadcast of ABC's This Week:
STEPHANOPOULOS: The president is talking now about tapping the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, investigating price gouging by oil companies, maybe raising fuel efficiency standards. Do you think that's the right approach?
DELAY: I mean, I think he's talking about more than just that. I don't think either of those will have an impact on lowering demand or, or increasing supply. We are -- we are paying the price of Democrat policies. The Democrats have stopped us from developing American oil and American gas in this country. They've stopped us from drilling in Alaska, off the offshore of Florida and California, the huge reserves of oil shell and natural gas in the West. They stopped it. If President Clinton had signed drilling in ANWR back in the '90s, we would be enjoying a million barrels a day more today, and that would have an impact on gas prices.
STEPHANOPOULOS: Relatively small, but you are -- clearly are paying a price also with your base right now. And I want to show you --
DELAY: It's not relatively small. A million barrels a day is pretty significant. It's exactly what we're losing in the Middle East.
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Army Times | The U.S. has about the same number of private contractors in Iraq as uniformed service members, a new congressional report says — a history-making ratio that presents problems in keeping track of all the workers and highlights the difficulties of supporting extended military operations without a larger force.
The Congressional Budget Office, a nonpartisan analytical arm of Congress, issued a report Monday that provides the first detailed accounting of the number of civilian contractors working in the Iraq theater, often doing jobs that historically have been military responsibilities, such as administration and logistics.
“The extent of DoD’s contracting is particularly evident during prolonged, large-scale operations — like those in Iraq — where there may not be enough military personnel available to provide logistics support,” says the report, “Contractors’ Support of U.S. Operations In Iraq.”
Most of the attention and controversy has centered on the estimated 30,000 people hired by the State Department to provide private security — a mission traditionally the responsibility of U.S. military forces in combat zones.
“Providing security for all personnel, including contractors, is an inescapable aspect of U.S. operations in Iraq because of the instability and violence in that country,” the report says.
Under current policy, the military provides security for contractors deploying with a combat force or directly supporting the military’s mission, but nonmilitary agencies of the U.S. government and other contractors, like those involved in reconstruction, use private security.
The presence of private security companies has caused some consternation in military circles because some private guards are earning up to $1,222 a day, compared to $160 to $190 earned in pay and benefits by a midgrade military member with similar skills.
However, the report says private security is not necessarily more expensive because the guards don’t have to be paid when they are not being used, which would not be case if 30,000 more service members were to replace the security contractors in the Iraq theater.
The military also would be expected to have enough troops so that they could rotate personnel in and out of the war zone. Private security companies often do pay employees between deployments, the report says.
Using contractors to support military operations is not new, the report says, although the current one-to-one ratio that has 190,000 private contractors in the Iraq theater “is at least 2.5 times higher than … any other major U.S. conflict.”
However, the ratio is similar to the heavy use of contractors during U.S. military operations in the Balkans in the 1990s, the report says.
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KCCHA, BHA working to improve home health
July 4, 2008 · Updated 10:33 AM
By CHARLES MELTON
The Bremerton City Councils decision to allow the Bremerton Housing Authority to participate in the Kitsap County Consolidated Housing Authoritys lead abatement program didnt create much fanfare about a month ago.
However, for Bremerton resident Loxie Schneider it was nothing short of a godsend.
Concerns about lead paint in her home led Schneider to postpone visits from her granddaughter in Minneapolis, Minn., and when Schneider first became involved in the program those fears were well-founded.
I read their (KCCHAs) offer and it said if your home was built before 1976 it probably had lead paint, she said. My house was built in 1936.
Initial testing on her home revealed that both her homes interior and exterior contained large areas of lead-based paint, she said.
It was pretty heavily infested, she said.
After the testing was completed, KCCHA staff visually inspected her home and found several areas that were in need of lead removal, she said.
Among the places were the homes exterior and interior walls, which Schneider repainted shortly after she moved into her home, but the kitchen was the worst, she said.
It was on the kitchen cabinets and kitchen counters, she said. Because I wash my dishes by hand I was chipping lead paint every time I put dishes up.
Although Schneider had replaced a couple of windows in her home over the past few years, the remaining windows needed to be replaced along with the kitchen cabinets, countertops and floor, which would have been an overwhelming expense.
They were able to fund most of the windows and theyre going to be painting the exterior and replacing the kitchen cabinets, countertops and floor, Schneider said. Its a godsend.
Schneider is just one example of the local homeowners who are eligible for the program, said Mary Barton, KCCHA rehabilitation and construction administrative assistant.
They have to be below 80 percent of the median income of Kitsap County and the home needs to be built before 1978, Barton said. They also have to be in ownership of the home.
There is the potential for a large number of homes in the county to benefit from the program, but currently the program only has three homes undergoing actual lead abatement, she said. Forty-five homes are on the waiting list for work to begin.
The program provides up to $7,200 per home to remedy the lead-based paint problem and the process begins as soon as the KCCHA receives a completed application, she said.
After the application is approved, testing is done on all of the surfaces in a home before a visual inspection is made, she said. Once that is done, the lead removal work will be scheduled.
Lead paint involves more than just visible chips and it is often a hidden health problem, she said.
If you open and close a window that has lead paint, it creates dust, she said. Its things that are often out of sight.
While the primary focus of the program is on homeowners, it is also available to landlords who have low-income tenants, and the KCCHA works with the BHA for the BHAs Section 8 tenants, she said.
Its a great service to the community, she said.
Applications can be procured by calling Barton at (360) 535-6131 and the process will begin immediately.
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Stormsurf has created a unique toolset known as Powertools. They are software utilities that consolidate meteorological data of a common theme from one or more sites onto an easy to view page. Theyre designed to provide access to large amounts of data for quick analysis with minimal keystrokes, and are used extensively to develop Stormsurf forecasts.
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What’s Next for Gun Rights?Fordham Urban Law Journal in National Review Online, March 13, 2012
To gun-rights supporters, the Supreme Court’s District of Columbia v. Heller and McDonald v. Chicago decisions may have felt like a dream come true — the Court recognized an individual right to keep and bear arms, and applied that right to state and local governments. Going forward, handgun bans are off the table in the U.S.
But judging by a conference hosted by the Fordham Urban Law Journal last Friday, the two sides of the gun-control debate have simply regrouped, recalibrated their expectations, and lined up for battle once again. As definitive as Heller and McDonald may seem, they offer little guidance to lawmakers and lower courts as to what kinds of gun control are still permissible.
For the pro-gun folks, Priority No. 1 is to make sure that Heller and McDonald have some practical effect. Despite the adverse court rulings, Washington, D.C., and Chicago have replaced their handgun bans with onerous requirements — such as registration and training — designed to discourage citizens from owning guns. A bill before the D.C. council would eliminate some requirements, as would a court case filed by Dick Heller (the plaintiff from the original decision). Numerous lawsuits have also been filed against Chicago’s post-ban regulations. While New York City has never banned guns outright, it too makes it difficult and expensive for residents to own guns and is facing court challenges.
But anyone who’s been paying attention to the Supreme Court knows that once the litigation ball starts rolling, it doesn’t magically stop when all the obvious abuses have ended. At the Fordham conference, UCLA law professor Adam Winkler estimated that 300 gun-rights suits have been filed. Many of these are frivolous, last-ditch appeals by criminals accused of misusing guns, and fewer than half a dozen laws have been invalidated.
Another panelist, the Independent Institute’s David Kopel, offered a rundown of court rulings that gun-rights supporters — or at least those who want the courts to micromanage state and local lawmaking — might hope for as the courts work out a system for balancing the public-safety aims of gun controllers against the Second Amendment rights of citizens. Bans on so-called “assault weapons” could be struck down because they do nothing to prevent crime. Courts could declare self-defense and the defense of others to be Second Amendment rights. They could even forbid public schools to punish students who fight back against bullies.
And while the Heller decision specifically noted that bans on concealed carry have a long history in America and have typically been upheld by the courts, several lawsuits seek to apply the right to bear arms outside of the home. Basically, the argument is that while bans on concealed carry are consistent with the Second Amendment, some rulings upholding such bans have noted that the jurisdictions in question allowed the open carrying of weapons. This suggests that states and cities may discriminate between open and concealed carry, but may not ban both. This is a questionable argument — as Winkler pointed out at the Fordham conference, through the course of American history, some states have banned open carry as well as concealed.
Also, Kopel claimed that Heller’s protection of bans on carrying in “sensitive places” is an “exception that proves the rule” (in the traditional sense of that idiom), but this is even more of a reach. The list he was referring to is non-exclusive — a footnote says it offers some “presumptively lawful regulatory measures only as examples” — and therefore the inclusion of a narrow regulation does not imply the exclusion of a broader one.
As for the gun-control movement, it appears to have disabused itself of the notion that gun bans are the way forward. “I have never supported a ban, I do not support a ban, and I can’t imagine that I ever would,” said Richard Aborn, who has been a Manhattan district attorney and a president of Handgun Control Inc. (now the Brady Campaign), at the Fordham conference. Later in the day, Michael Pastor, the acting first deputy criminal-justice coordinator in the notoriously anti-gun administration of New York mayor Michael Bloomberg, added: “Believe me, we do not sit in our office debating whether people have an individual right to own guns. We just don’t.”
But that’s not to say we won’t see new gun regulations in the coming years. No fewer than three panelists — Aborn, Pastor, and Florida State University criminologist Gary Kleck — suggested that we require private gun sellers (as opposed to licensed dealers) to conduct background checks on buyers. Aborn and Pastor also endorsed efforts to combat gun trafficking from states with loose gun laws to states with stricter ones — such as limits on how many guns one can purchase at once, and better enforcement of laws against straw purchasing.
Other ideas from Aborn included “microstamping” of guns and ammunition to make them easier to trace, and a nationwide gun registry. Kleck — whose research has typically shown gun control to be ineffective — suggested focusing on the people most likely to misuse guns, such as by improving the registry of people too mentally ill to own a gun, prosecuting felons who try to buy guns but are denied by background checks, and making more of an effort to arrest people who are wrongfully carrying concealed weapons.
Thus far, all the Supreme Court has done is to rule out the most extreme forms of gun control. Going forward, we’ll see how willing it is to be involved in day-to-day policymaking — and how effective the gun-control movement can be when its options are limited.
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The nation's largest online payment service, PayPal, is paying New York $150,000 in penalties after misrepresenting to consumers its policy on repayment when merchandise doesn't arrive, the state attorney general said Monday.
PayPal, which claims 40 million customers worldwide, had specifically stated that it provided the same rights and protections of a traditional credit card transaction, said Attorney General Eliot Spitzer. But consumers were often denied those rights, he said. For example, consumers who didn't receive merchandise purchased through PayPal were often denied reimbursement from either PayPal or American Express or Discover credit cards. A spokeswoman for Spitzer said consumers complained they were being bounced between PayPal and their credit card companies and there was no prompt action.
The credit card firms agreed to properly credit consumers in an agreement with Spitzer late last year. PayPal creates accounts for buyers and sellers using the Internet, including PayPal's parent, eBay, the Internet auction site. The service lets buyers and sellers exchange money through e-mail. Besides the penalties, PayPal will pay New York state the investigation costs. The online payment service also will clearly describe consumer rights including conditions or limitations on their rights and refund policies.
News source: CNN
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About This Blog
Sorry I've been away for awhile, but I've been fighting off a pretty nasty virus.
With Mitt Romney looking more like the Republican nominee after yesterday's wins in Michigan and Arizona, I should examine one of President Obama's talking points against the Mittster, the one about how Romney wanted Detroit to go bankrupt. Here's the President:
Supreme Court Justices are sworn to uphold the Constitution Of The United States. Therefore, it is of utmost importance that we select Justices who have respect for that document. That's why it was fairly disturbing to discover that one particular liberal Justice, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, does not think so highly of our Constitution:To read more or comment...
We had a pretty good jobs report in January, with 243,000 jobs created. That's a good sign...but only if it continues. If we created 240,000 jobs every month, that would be 2.88 million jobs created over a year's time. Not too bad. If that continues for several YEARS, we'll be in decent shape, so I'm not going to get overly excited yet. Still, it's a good bit of news in what have been some bleak economic years.
Our economy is supposed to create jobs. That's normal. I looked at some jobs data going back through history, and every presidential administration since Calvin Coolidge has created jobs, with two exceptions - Herbert Hoover from 1929-1933 (the Great Depression), and Barack Obama. The only other President beside Hoover and Obama who didn't have net job creation during his first term was George W. Bush.To read more or comment...
We already know about the failure of Obama's stimulus investment in Solyndra, which cost the American taxpayers $535 million.
We found out a few days ago about the failure of Ener1, another Obama stimulus-funded alternative energy company, which has filed Chapter 11 bankruptcy. The taxpayers put up $118 million for that one.To read more or comment...
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When it comes to preventing today’s disasters, the squabble about climate change is just a distraction. The media usually has room for only one environmental argument: is climate change happening? This pits virtually all climate scientists against a band of self-taught freelance sceptics, many of whom think the “global warming hoax” is a ruse got up by 1960s radicals as a trick to bring in socialism. (I know, I get the sceptics’ e-mails.) Sometimes in this squabble, climate scientists are tempted to overstate their case, and to say that the latest disaster proves that the climate is changing. This is bad science. It also gives the sceptics something dubious to attack. Better to ignore the sceptics, and have more useful debates about disasters and climate change – which, for now, are two separate problems.Read the whole thing.
22 January 2011
FT Column on Disasters and Climate Change
Simon Kuper has a great essay on disasters and climate change that draws on some of my work. Here is the bottom line:
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Mar 27,2009 00:00
WASHINGTON -- Patients of a La Plata, Md., medical office are among 250 people whose health insurance information was posted online by the U.S. District Court of Maryland.
Attorney Bruce Marcus says the information was erroneously included in documents placed on the federal court system's online database in a case involving investigation of insurance fraud, The Washington Post reported Friday.
Marcus's client and another physician are subjects of the federal probe.
Lillie Coney, associate director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center, told the Post corporations, universities and healthcare providers have mistakenly posted private information on the Internet but she said she has never heard of a similar incident involving medical information obtained through online court documents.
"When a court posts medical information, it punishes patients who had nothing to do with the prosecution or the crime allegedly committed in the first place," Coney said to the newspaper.
Such information is especially sensitive, she says, because a privacy breach could reveal a patient's medical conditions.
Copyright © 2009, by United Press International. All Rights Reserved.
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Valentine’s Day Bump Game — Division
Can you believe how quickly Valentine’s Day is approaching? Here’s a game I made to practice division. As always, these games are free to download.
- The first player draws a division card. She determines the answer and places a token on the heart.
- If another player has a token on the heart, the player can bump the other player’s token off and replace it with her own token.
- When a player has two tokens on a heart, she has won that heart.
- The player who has the most hearts at the end of the game wins.
Download the Valentine’s Bump Game — Division.
I also made some basic division cards to go with this game. Cut them out and shuffle well before playing. You can also use cards that you have on hand.
Download the Valentine’s Division Cards.
Other Valentine’s Math Freebies:
Valentine’s Multiplication Worksheets and Game Boards (I had a couple of mistakes and re-posted the corrected pages).
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Dave is a Principal Technical Evangelist for Microsoft focused on Windows, Windows Phone, Windows Azure and the Web. Based out of the Greater Philadelphia Area.
For all you niners out there... please check out the new look and feel of channel 9 by going to the Beta Site. The team would love to hear your Feedback!
For those who could not make Tech Ed 2007 this year, hop on over to Virtual Tech Ed ! Visual Studio 2008, Sql Server 2008, and Windows Server 2008 all stopped by the party!
Come Sit down and dig into a steaming bowl of Webcasts. Followed by a crisp, sparkling drink of Virtual Labs.
You will need all of your energy if you are going to get all the way to 1.21 Gigawatts! Time to go... Back to the Future!
For those who do not already know, the new Surface technology from Microsoft Labs is running on a Vista PC using a .NET WPF application. Hmm, sounds like a good opportunity for Silverlight to show how this could be ported cross platform cross browser, no? Well someone has done just that already! The demo loads several images and allows you to stretch the images by moving the corners with your mouse, or moving them around by dragging the image center. Check out the demo here .
Head over to Delay's blog to get all the information and source. Remember you will need Orcas Beta1 and Silverlight tools to compile and run.
What is it? We live in a digital age where images and videos are captured all the time. These images have information about real places in the world. Even the picture you took of your kids playing in the backyard contains information about that space! These images are often posted to someone's blog, a photo sharing site, a family picture album website or even on postcards in your local gift shop. Imagine taking all of those pictures and mining the relationships between them to create a model of that space in three dimensions.
Intrigued? Watch this TED Conference video on the Microsoft Labs blog. It will take you on an amazing journey through the possibilities this type of technology opens up.
Official site also found here.
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This week's project is one I started about a month ago. Pretty sad I am just now finishing it. I was inspired when my friend (Lulu's Pin-ups) posted about Sublime Stitching. If you haven't been there before, you should definitely go now. There is so many awesome patterns and inspiration. I used to think that embroidery was all about flowers and kittens, which aren't bad at all. Let me try again. I used to think embroidery was all about lighthouses and hummingbirds until I saw this site.
So, I decided to combine two of my current likes. Tattoos and sewing. I came up with embroidering a traditional style "Death Before Dishonor" tattoo on a 3-month old t-shirt, since I'll have one of those pretty soon.
Here's all the materials you'll need: T-shirt (or other material), scissors, pen, embroidery needle, floss, and an embroidery hoop. Some items that aren't shown are pins, tracing paper and carbon paper. I promise I am going to get good at this whole planning thing one day. I am really sucking at leaving stuff out and not taking enough pictures!
First, find a design you like and trace it with the tracing paper. Next, situate the tracing paper on the t-shirt where you want the design to go and pin it in place. Slide a piece of carbon paper, color side down, under your design. Trace over your design fairly hard on the tracing paper. When you're finished, unpin the tracing paper and you should have a faint outline of your design on the material. You may want to check ever so often to make sure you are tracing hard enough. I had to do this a couple of times to make sure the carbon paper was working. I'm sure there are easier ways of doing this. Meaning, better materials. Recently I found out they make iron transfer pencils! I really could have used those with this project!
Now you're ready to put your material in the hoop and start sewing.
Just a note. I used a 100% cotton shirt. I would not suggest it, unless you take your 6 strand floss down to two. With 6 strands it was really hard to get the needle and floss through the cotton without stretching too much. I'm sure there's an easier way to embroider on cotton, but I'm just learning! If you have any suggestions for me, please leave them! I need help!
I used a back stitch on this project.
Close up of stitching.
Keep on stitching and following your lines and it should take the shape of your design! I'm pretty happy about this. There are definitely some imperfections, but at least my daughter will have an awesome t-shirt!
I'm thinking about just using fabric markers to "paint" it. The cotton was really hard to work with, but the t-shirt looks so plain! Maybe just Sharpies?
This is the inside of the shirt. Haha, you can tell I had a little problem at some parts with the tieing off. Looks like I won't be selling anything embroidered for awhile. I need to find some of those iron on sheets to cut out and put on top of your stitching so they don't snag. Anyone know the name of these?
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The Monmouth-Roseville school superintendent hopes the Classroom First Commission will take a look at simple ways to save education dollars.
Paul Woehlke said small steps can mean big savings.
He said, “There is opportunity for sharing what we call 'back office' functions. Payroll and bookkeeping and those kinds of things. In my mind, I'm not sure that opportunity has been explored to its fullest extent yet.”
He said districts use a wide variety of software packages so compatibility is the only real barrier.
Monmouth-Roseville School Superintendent Paul Woehlke said many people form their first impression of the district from its website. He said it serves as the online ”front porch” for the district. It needs a facelift.
He said, “We just have not kept up with the times in terms of having a website that's modern and user-friendly and informative and up-to-date.”
Woehlke said the website is a vital link between the district and parents and students. He said people interested in the community, especially businesses, frequently visit the website as do job-seekers.
School bells will ring an hour later on Wednesdays next year in the Monmouth-Roseville School District.
Students might see it as recreational time. Superintendent Paul Woehlke said teachers will be hard at work. They will spend the extra time collaborating to make sure they are all on the same page when it comes to common core standards. The state has adopted the standards with testing of students to begin in 2014.
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The iSpaceship is on its way.
Hours after Steve Jobs' surprise appearance before the Cupertino City Council to share renderings of Apple's (AAPL) new headquarters, ecstatic officials Wednesday toasted the futuristic circular building as a huge commitment by the company and its homegrown CEO that would further pump up the municipal bottom line, boost Silicon Valley's global stature, and create an American architectural icon in the process.
"This is unprecedented in the United States," said Kelly Kline, the city's redevelopment and economic development manager. "This is truly a legacy building."
The legacy really belongs to Jobs, who came out of his medical leave Tuesday night looking frail but pitching the building with the trademark gusto he has used to debut the iPhone and iPad.
"It looks a little like a spaceship landed," Jobs admitted to the council when he showed up with only a few hours' warning. "But there it is."
The Apple slide show revealed an arenalike structure, four stories high, sprawled across 180 acres that Apple has acquired since 2006 just north of Interstate 280, with room for 12,000 employees -- and designed for maximum awe by star British architect Sir Norman Foster.
At his City Council appearance -- his second public outing this week, having shown up Monday at an Apple developers conference -- Jobs started off talking about his years growing up in Cupertino. Jobs told the City Council how special the town has been to him and his company over the years, while also reminding them about Apple's importance to the city.
"I think we've found a way to stay in Cupertino," he said, reminding the politicians that "since we're
Launching into his spiel, Jobs told the council members that "Apple is growing like a weed" and needs to expand from its current headquarters on Infinite Loop.
But it wouldn't be just any building the company was proposing. This one was an architectural wonder, a massive circle with stacked rows of windows curving along the structure's silhouette so that "there is not a single straight piece of glass in this building.
"I think we do have a shot at building the best office building in the world," Jobs said. "I really do think architecture students will come here to see this. I think it can be that good."
The project timeline promises to be fast and furious: city officials expect preliminary plans from Apple within days, an environmental impact study completed by summer's end, then public hearings in fall 2012 followed immediately by final consideration by the City Council. Apple hopes to break ground late next year and move into the new headquarters in 2015.
If ever there was a project with its skids greased right out of the box, this is it.
"There's no chance we'll say no," Mayor Gilbert Wong told a group of reporters and staff members gathered in the lobby of City Hall. "If Steve Jobs had his way, he'd probably love to have his new campus completed by tomorrow. This won't be overnight, but we're ready to do whatever it takes to bring in more staff to make sure everything is on track and on time.
"After all," Wong said, "this will be one of the cleanest buildings in America and it'll surely become a destination building site for people the world over."
City officials giddy
For a town of 55,162, this was something of a star-struck moment. Asked about the head-turning design, in which Jobs has reportedly played an intimate role, council members said they were blown away when they first saw it.
"It's so, well, pretty," said Councilman Barry Chang.
—'Wow!' is the operative term," said fellow Councilman Orrin Mahoney. "There's nothing like it. And while some people might wonder why a CEO would get so involved at such a level of detail around a
It's hard to fault the officials for their giddiness. Given the recessionary crunch, most cities would kill to land a major corporate bunker. But with Apple flying high on the phenomenal successes of the iPhone and iPad, and just coming off an announcement earlier this week of a major push into cloud computing, having the company put down even deeper roots was more than enough reason for their excitement.
"With Sacramento having a hard time, Cupertino, like other cities, is more dependent than ever on sales-tax revenue," Wong said. And while officials would not disclose how much tax money the city takes in each year from Apple sales, the mayor said the new expanded campus constitutes "a huge shot in the arm for us."
Even the preliminary numbers Jobs released are impressive. The current campus, which holds 2,600 employees, will remain open, while the new main headquarters will house as many as 12,000 employees in the 3.1 million square feet of new office space. Jobs did not divulge any numbers or say how many of these workers would be new hires, but said Apple is "increasing our employment by 20 percent."
The city says Apple now owns or rents 60 buildings in town. And while some of the workers in them could be brought into the new campus, Jobs indicated that the company's workforce is expanding so quickly that it will need all the space it can get.
Officials struggled to find a precedent for Jobs' spaceship. Walt Disney, to whom Jobs is often compared, left behind his theme parks. But once finished, this campus could be without parallel, they said, especially since it carries the cachet of the architect behind internationally acclaimed works such as the domed Reichstag in Berlin. In a way, that big round circle, surrounded by 6,000 trees and apricot orchards like the ones that used to thrive here, will be synonymous with Jobs the man and Apple, the company he cofounded 30 years ago in his parents' house in nearby Los Altos.
"We're definitely a city linked to a company," Mahoney said. "But if you're going to be linked to a company, we're happy that it's Apple."
Contact Patrick May at 408-920-5689. Follow him at Twitter.com/patmaymerc
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Nancy T. Vineburgh, M.A. is Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at The Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, Maryland. She serves as the Director of the Office of Public Education and Preparedness at the Center for the Study of Traumatic Stress (CSTS).
Ms. Vineburgh is an expert in health communication, health marketing and public education. She has created numerous, high profile public education campaigns that have generated national and international attention: Fight the Bite, the nation’s first health campaign for Lyme Disease awareness; Courage to Care, an electronic campaign addressing the well-being of deployed soldiers and their families; Can a Depressed Parent Be a Good Parent, You Bet, the nation’s first campaign on parental depression sponsored by Children’s Hospital Boston; Where to Draw the Line, a three year campaign for National Alcohol Screening Day sponsored by NIAAA and SAMHSA; Our Nation’s Resilience: Paintings, Public Education and Preparedness for Terrorism, an art exhibit to educate the nation about terrorism preparedness on display in the Rotunda of the Russell Senate Office Building, Washington, D.C throughout the week of September 11, 2005.
She is Co-Principal Investigator of a research study, Workplace Preparedness for Terrorism, funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. Her published paper, The Power of the Pink Ribbon: Raising Awareness of the Mental Health Implications of Terrorism in the Journal Psychiatry influenced public policy and led to Maryland’s proclamation of National Resiliency Day on September 11, 2004, an official event to be held annually.
Her work has earned numerous awards including Woman of the Future by Hartford Woman Newspaper in recognition for her broadcasting on women’s health; The Combined Health Appeal Media Award and Connecticut’s Arthritis Foundation Public Education Award for her work related to Lyme Disease education.
Ms. Vineburgh received her B.A. from Connecticut College in New London, Connecticut, her M.A. in counseling from St. Joseph College, West Hartford, Connecticut, and attended Harvard University Graduate School of Education. She is a member of the Washington School of Psychiatry, the American Public Health Association, the Employee Assistance Professionals Association and Employee Assistance Society of North America.
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Summary : Highly recommend
It’s not often that a piece of cinema has such a powerful message or ‘gets through’ to me. In the age of Netflix (as life comically would have it, where I saw this film on Watch It Now!), I’ve grown desensitized to the emotional tugs filmmakers and studios try and seduce us with. Perhaps that is the power of documentaries.
I’ve always enjoyed documentaries.
While each has a necessary bias or slant, when done well, that bias or slant is revealed through the subjects themselves (rather than through commentary).
Still Bill features singer/songwriter Bill Withers, who basically walked away from a lucrative music career to be with his family. He is known for hits like ‘Lean On Me’ and ‘Just the Two of Us’ and will now also, no doubt, be remembered as someone who really seemed to strike at the core of what we may call meaningful in life. The title is really interesting to me and I’d like to ask the filmmaker why it was chosen. My own interpretation was that Withers comes across as having this Zen-like stillness and grace about him. The trajectory of his life suggests that these insights and approach to life are not mere products of older age and wisdom. After all, Bill Withers didn’t even enter the music industry until he was in his early thirties.
He was a man with life experience who took a side journey in to stardom and fame, where he no doubt could have remained had he chosen to. I would love to have a followup documentary on Bill Withers to this. He quotes Thoreau and says things which, like Yoda, come across as incredibly profound and insightful. Here is an example:
“It’s okay to head out for wonderful but, on your way to wonderful, you’re going to have to pass through alright. When you get to alright, take a good look around and get used to it, because that may be as far as you’re going to go.”
Until his mid-twenties, Withers had a stutter. In his small coal mining town of childhood in West Virginia, Bill’s stutter was the source of ridicule from his peers.
A teacher once referred to him as disabled.
As anyone who cares to look knows, stuttering has nothing to do with intelligence or IQ. If you watch this film, which I hope everyone will, Bill is clearly very bright. Wherever the film follows Bill, he really connects with people with his infectious smile, his warm touch and an almost Zen-like perspective on life.
I watched this film now in my mid-thirties. I found myself relating to him and was awed by him. The presence he has is quite obviously the result of careful reflection and cultivation on his part.
Wisdom is not earned without great sacrifice and suffering. Christians might refer to it as the dark night of the soul. Huxley hints at it in The Doors of Perception. It seems that, like nature through evolution, human beings garner wisdom scientifically, through trial and error. Nature does this by camouflaging certain plants in nature through DNA programming, etc. It seems nature, like a computer, is in a constant state of updating herself.
Sorry, I got a bit lost. Still Bill was an excellent film which was about more than music. I think you might enjoy and even learn something from it!
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John McCain on Environment
Republican nominee for President; Senior Senator (AZ)
In early 2000, we were overconfident about winning the nomination. That made us cautious and unwilling to get into a wrestling match by responding to McCain's negative TV ads. McCain's spots called Bush's tax cuts "too big, too tilted to the wealthy, too little focused on debt reduction and blind to the challenges of shoring up Social Security and Medicare." They weren't, but our silence helped convince some voters they were and made them wonder [about] a general election fight.
McCAIN: We can move forward, and clean up our climate, and develop green technologies, and alternative energies for battery-powered cars, so that we can clean up our environment and at the same time get our economy going by creating millions of jobs.
OBAMA: It is critical that we understand this is not just a challenge, it’s an opportunity, because if we create a new energy economy, we can create five million new jobs, easily. It can be an engine that drives us into the future the same way the computer was the engine for economic growth over the last couple of decades. We can do it, but we’re going to have to make an investment. The same way the computer was originally invented by a bunch of government scientists who were trying to figure out, for defense purposes, how to communicate, we’ve got to understand that this is a national security issue, as well.
In fact, McCain twice voted against a Democratic proposal to set up an independent 9/11-style commission to investigate the causes of the Bush administration’s fumbled response to Hurricane Katrina, opting instead for a congressional investigation.
Had McCain chosen to give a “straight talk” answer, he might have acknowledged voting against Hillary Clinton’s proposal for an independent commission while explaining why he preferred a Congressional investigation. Instead, he laid himself open to criticism by saying that he had supported “every investigation” into the tragedy.
A: I have to agree with the governor. I’m a federalist. The states should decide to enormous degrees what happens within those states, including off their coasts. The people of California have decided they don’t want oil drilling off their coasts. The people of Louisiana have decided that they do. I applaud the governor’s efforts and that of other states in this region and other states to try to eliminate the greenhouse gas emissions that are causing climate change. Suppose that the governor and I are wrong, and there’s no such thing as climate change. We adopt these green technologies, of which the US and the innovative skills we have and the entrepreneurship and the free market cap-and-trade proposal is enacted. Then all we’ve done is giving our kids a cleaner world.
Good laugh lines, maybe, but the USGS’s Grizzly Bear Project didn’t study DNA for paternity tests or forensics. Rather, it explored a means of estimating Montana’s grizzly bear population by analyzing bear fur snagged on barbed wire.
McCain he didn’t actually try to remove the bear project from the bill. He did introduce three amendments to reduce funding, but none removing the grizzly bear project appropriations. And despite his criticisms, he voted in favor of the final bill.
America has been blessed with a rich and diverse natural heritage. In the tradition of his hero, Theodore Roosevelt, John McCain believes that we are vested with a sacred duty to be proper stewards of the resources upon which the quality of American life depends.
John McCain believes that America’s economic and environmental interests are not mutually exclusive, but rather inextricably linked. Our economic prospects depend greatly upon the sustainable use of ample and unspoiled natural resources. A clean and healthy environment is well served by a strong economy. History shows that poverty is a poor steward.
[McCain described a past bipartisan effort with Mo Udall]: “We were able to place more than 3.5 billion acres of land into wilderness protection, increase the preservation of public lands and tackle complex environmental threats to the Grand Canyon.” McCain was obviously making a political statement with the new---and increasingly tough---stand he was taking on the environment.
McCain got a seat on a committee dealing with aging issues, crucial in a state that, because of its dry, temperate climate, had absorbed many retirees from other parts of the country.
By 1984, he got on the choice Armed Services Committee which was crucial in a state that had many high-tech defense-related industries. In a larger sense, however, being on the Armed Services Committee also played to McCain's political strength in national-security affairs and foreshadowed a wider, perhaps less parochial focus in the upcoming Senate race, which he surely must have been contemplating after winning an easy reelection to the House in 1984.
Proponent's argument to vote Yes:Rep. OBEY (D, WI-7): The cash for clunkers program has proven even more wildly popular than its strongest supporters had predicted. Just last month, Congress passed the program, which provided up to $4,500 if you trade in your old gas guzzler for a new car that gets better mileage. That was done in the hopes of spurring some new car sales and encouraging people to be a little more environmentally friendly. We provided $1 billion in the supplemental to get it going, enough for about 250,000 sales--which was just about exhausted in one week. This bill transfers $2 billion from the Department of Energy's Innovative Technology Loan Guarantee program, which doesn't expect to award funding until late next year.
Opponent's argument to vote No:Rep. LEWIS (R, CA-41): In the majority's haste to slam legislation with no time for consideration or amendments, we are now seeing the effects of such shortsighted martial law tactics.
Senator Feinstein tried to negotiate some changes to improve the program but was told that it was this way or the highway. Not one hearing on the Cash for Clunkers program, not one hearing on how the first billion dollars has been spent, not one hearing on how much money the program will need to get through the fiscal year.
Many of my colleagues will say, This is a great program, and it is necessary for the revitalization of the car industry. I'm not really going to argue with those goals. However, are we sure this program is working like it's supposed to? I don't think so. This program has only been up and running 1 week. If that is how the government is going to handle billion-dollar programs affecting all Americans, I ask, Whatever will we do if the administration takes control of our health care system?
H.R. 2941 Brownfields Redevelopment Enhancement Act.
Republican Main Street Partnership Congresswomen Marge Roukema (NJ), Sue Kelly (NY), and Melissa Hart (PA) as well as Congressman Paul Gillmor (PA) have introduced legislation providing a new source of funding for improving former industrial sites. H.R. 2941 reauthorizes the Brownfields Remediation Grant Program as well as creating a new loan program for brownfields redevelopment. The pilot program encourages cities to tap private loans for civic improvements by using the federal grants as collateral. The bill allows for Community Development Block Grants to be used in industrial site clean up as well.
H.R. 2438/H.R. 2694 Department of Environmental Protection Act.
Republican Main Street Partnership members Sherwood Boehlert (NY) and Steve Horn (CA) each have introduced legislation that would elevate the position of Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to that of cabinet level. Initially, the EPA served as a regulatory agency, but as a result of numerous statutes enacted by Congress, the agency's jurisdiction has swelled. Each bill would redesignate the EPA as the Department of Environmental Protection. RMSP supports the efforts of Congressman Vern Ehlers to include a deputy administrator for science within the department.
The League of Conservation Voters (LCV) is the political voice of the national environmental movement and the only organization devoted full-time to shaping a pro-environment Congress and White House. We run tough and effective campaigns to defeat anti-environment candidates, and support those leaders who stand up for a clean, healthy future for America. Through our National Environmental Scorecard and Presidential Report Card we hold Congress and the Administration accountable for their actions on the environment. Through regional offices, we build coalitions, promote grassroots power, and train the next generation of environmental leaders. The 2003 National Environmental Scorecard provides objective, factual information about the environmental voting records of all Members of the first session of the 108th Congress. This Scorecard represents the consensus of experts from 20 respected environmental and conservation organizations who selected the key votes on which Members of Congress should be graded. LCV scores votes on the most important issues of the year, including environmental health and safety protections, resource conservation, and spending for environmental programs. Scores are calculated by dividing the number of pro-environment votes by the total number of votes scored. The votes included in this Scorecard presented Members of Congress with a real choice on protecting the environment and help distinguish which legislators are working for environmental protection. Except in rare circumstances, the Scorecard excludes consensus action on the environment and issues on which no recorded votes occurred.
To: Administrator, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Dear Administrator Leavitt:
We are writing to urge you to take prompt and effective action to clean up mercury pollution from power plants. The EPA’s current proposals on mercury fall far short of what the law requires, and they fail to protect the health of our children and our environment. We ask you to carry out the requirements of the Clean Air Act to protect our nation from toxic mercury contamination.
On January 30, 2004, EPA proposed two alternative rules to address mercury emissions. Unfortunately, both of these proposals fail to meet the Clean Air Act directives for cleaning up mercury. EPA's proposals permit far more mercury pollution, and for years longer, than the Clean Air Act allows.
The toxicity of mercury has been proven time and again by scientists around the world. The Agency's own scientists just released a study finding that approximately 630,000 infants were born in the US in the 12-month period, 1999-2000, with blood mercury levels higher than what is considered safe. This is a doubling of previous estimates.
The newest scientific studies show that controlling mercury emissions works. As we saw in Florida, sharp reductions in mercury pollution are mirrored by reductions in nearby fish populations. A study in northern Wisconsin indicated that reductions in the input of mercury from air corresponded with marked reductions in mercury fish tissue levels in the 1990s.
As the Administrator of the EPA, you have the legal authority and the responsibility to address mercury emissions and protect public health. We do not believe that EPA's current proposals are sufficient or defensible. We urge you to withdraw the entire proposed rule package and re-propose a rule for adequate public comment that meets the terms of the 1998 settlement agreement and is promulgated by the December 15, 2004 deadline.
112th Mid-Term Humane Scorecard: The Humane Society Legislative Fund has posted the final version of the 2011 Humane Scorecard, where you can track the performance of your federal lawmakers on key animal protection issues during last year. We rated legislators based on their voting behavior on measures such as agribusiness subsidies, lethal predator control, and the Endangered Species Act; their cosponsorship of priority bills on puppy mills, horse slaughter, animal fighting, and chimps in research; their support for funding the enforcement of animal welfare laws; and their leadership on animal protection. All of the priority bills whose cosponsorships we're counting enjoy strong bipartisan support; in the House, each of the four now has more than 150 cosponsors.
The Humane Scorecard is not a perfect measuring tool, but creating some reasonable yardstick and allowing citizens to hold lawmakers accountable is central to our work. When the Humane Scorecard comes out each year, it helps clarify how the animal protection movement is doing geographically, by party affiliation, and in other categories. It helps us chart our course for animals by seeing where we have been effective, and where we need to improve.
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George W. Bush(R,2001-2009)
George Bush Sr.(R,1989-1993)
John F. Kennedy(D,1961-1963)
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The Gay Pride Parade, celebrated last Saturday July 3, 2010, in Madrid (spain), was officially dedicated to defending the rights of transgender people, I totally agree this purpose.
However, other claims were also granted their own space, as the blame to Iran by the death sentences handed down against homosexuals last year.
Remembering Mahmoud Asgari (in Persian: محمود عسگري), Ayaz Marhoni (in Persian: عياض مرهوني), Nemat Safavi (in Persian: نعمت صفوی) & hundreds of women and men that will remain forever unknown to international public opinion. In his memory, helped by Eliseo Ocaña and Woodi Forlano, I went to the Gay Pride Parade with a body painting of the flag of Iran, accompanied by a banner and a hangman's noose around my neck.
Make no mistake: it is not against Islam & let alone against Iran. It is plain and simple: I did it against hatred, for the right to exist and the freedom to love and be loved.
Currently, in 2010, there are still 76 countries that consider homosexuality a crime, and some, such as: Iran, Mauritania, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, United Arab Emirates, Yemen and parts of Nigeria and Somalia is punishable by death penalty.
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Edited and Translated by Yan Meng, People's Daily Online
Chinese and U.S. navies conducted their first joint anti-piracy drill in the Gulf of Aden. The Chinese missile frigate Yiyang and the U.S. guided missile destroyer USS Winston S. Churchill participated in the exercise. The drill increased understanding and trust between the two navies.
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Is the topic one on which you have special experience, or is it a piece you've researched? Is the article a column or editorial, or just a regular piece?
If I'm reading an article written by a woman I'm familiar with, I'd be fine with "I". (eg. if Angelina Jolie decided to explain her decision to adopt, "I" would be good). If the person who wrote the article is recounting a unique adventure, I'd expect "I". (eg. if the article is about a woman's solo crossing of the Sahara, I'd expect first person). If the article is an editorial or column in which writers are expected to express their opinion, I'd expect "I".
Otherwise, I'd want third person. If the article is designed to inform me, I want to hear from the experts, not from the person who has put the experts' opinions together.
I'd also recommend that you check the style used by the magazine to which you're submitting - what has everyone else done?
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Mon December 17, 2012
Democrats in Albany Press for Tougher Gun Laws
Governor Cuomo says federal gun laws need to be strengthened to prevent more shootings like the one in Newtown Connecticut, but he says New York State’s assault weapons ban has loopholes that need to be closed.
Governor Cuomo, who says the Newtown shooting is “every parent’s worst nightmare”, says the state already has some of the toughest anti gun laws in the nation, so the focus should really be on the strengthening of federal laws.
The federal ban on assault weapons was allowed to lapse in 2004. New York State has an anti assault weapons law on the books, but Cuomo says it’s outdated and needs to be tightened up. For instance, the semi automatic weapon used in the Newtown shootings is legal in New York.
“There is no doubt that our assault weapon law has significant flaws and significant loopholes,” said Cuomo, who says the list of weapons and magazine cartridges banned under the law have not been updated since 1994.
The governor says he does not plan to add anti gun measures to his “litmus test” of issues he released several days ago, and wants the new Senate governing coalition to accomplish. The coalition includes all of the Senate’s Republicans, who have traditionally not been as receptive to gun control. The governor did leave open the possibility that he could add some proposals to his State of the State message in January.
Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, a Democrat, agrees that the state’s assault weapons ban needs to be modernized to account for new types of weapons and ammunition.
“I hate to use a tragedy in this fashion, but the reality is, we have to stop the proliferation of guns,” Silver said.
Speaker Silver says he intends to push the new coalition of around 30 Republicans and the five Democrats in the Independent Democratic Conference to adopt bills like child safety locks for guns, and micro stamping of bullets to better investigate criminal shootings.
In statements after the Newtown shooting on Friday, IDC Leader Senator Jeff Klein said we must “continue to reevaluate the place of guns in our state and our society”
Senate Republican Leader Dean Skelos, who will jointly lead the new Senate governing coalition with Senator Klein, says he’s interested in pursuing measures to “curb illegal gun use by increasing penalties and enacting mandatory minimum sentences”. Skelos says most gun crimes are committed by people illegally possessing guns.
Assemblyman Karim Camara, chair of the legislature’s Black, Puerto Rican, Hispanic and Asian Caucus, says approving stricter gun laws in New York can set an example for the rest of the nation.
“We can pass laws that can both have an impact and symbolically send a message to the rest of the country ,” said Camara.
Governor Cuomo says there other steps that need to be taken as well, in response to the recent spate of mass shootings. He says the mental health system needs to be re examined, to determine whether society is being adequately protected. And he says society needs to address the current propensity for violence.
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Watkins Glen, New York
|Watkins Glen, New York|
|— Village —|
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Notable events and attractions
Located on the southern tip of Seneca Lake, one of western New York's deep, glacial Finger Lakes, Watkins Glen is the site of scenic Watkins Glen State Park, but is probably best known for its role in auto racing, being the home of a street course used in road racing, a famous racetrack, Watkins Glen International, and a historic race, the Watkins Glen Grand Prix. The racetrack was also the scene of the 1973 Summer Jam at Watkins Glen rock festival attended by an estimated 600,000 people. At the time, this set the world record for the largest number of people at a pop music festival. The concert featured the bands The Grateful Dead, The Band, and The Allman Brothers Band. On July 1–3 of 2011, the band Phish hosted Superball IX, a three-day music festival on the same grounds of the Summer Jam of '73. Superball IX drew approx 30,000 people and was what track officials and local residents called a huge success. Watkins Glen is also the home port for True Love an 84+ year old schooner that has been featured in several Hollywood movies. (High Society (1956) and The Philadelphia Story (1940)) This magnificent wooden sailboat is now available for charter on the Seneca Lake.
Watkins Glen is also the home of the International Motor Racing Research Center, an annex to the village library.
Auto racing at Watkins Glen
Watkins Glen is home to Watkins Glen International, one of the premier automobile road racing tracks in the United States. The first Watkins Glen Sports Car Grand Prix, however, was held in 1948 on public streets in and near the village. Organized by local resident Cameron Argetsinger, it was the first post-WWII road race held in the United States and it marked the revival of American road racing.
The original course ran for 6.6 miles (10.6 km) and passed through the center of the village. The streets used for the original course remain intact today and a checkered flag marks the original start-finish line on the village's main street.
A permanent racing facility, the Watkins Glen Grand Prix Race Course opened in 1956. It has hosted nearly every type of road racing, from the Formula One United States Grand Prix (1961–1980), to one of the few races in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series not conducted on an oval speedway.
The village was incorporated in 1842 as Salubria, then "Jefferson", but was renamed Watkins after Dr. Samuel Watkins, for his contributions to the community. The current name Watkins Glen was adopted in 1926. The first settlement of European peoples in the area began circa 1800. Watkins Glen was the northern terminus of the Chemung Canal, connecting Seneca Lake to the Chemung River. Catherine Creek, flowing into the lake through the village, was used to help create the canal.
In 2006 Charles R. Mitchell and Kirk W. House produced a historic photo book, Around Watkins Glen, in the Arcadia Publishing "Images of America" series.
The A. F. Chapman House, First Baptist Church of Watkins Glen, Schuyler County Courthouse Complex, United States Post Office, Watkins Glen Commercial Historic District, and Watkins Glen Grand Prix Course, 1948-1952 are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Watkins Glen is located at (42.380984, -76.871079).
According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of 2.2 square miles (5.7 km2). 1.9 square miles (4.9 km2) of the village is land and 0.4 square miles (1.0 km2) of it (17.41%) is water.
New York State Route 14 joins New York State Route 79 and New York State Route 414 by Watkins Glen. NY-14 is one of the principal streets in Watkins Glen village. New York State Route 329 and New York State Route 409 lead into Watkins Glen from the west.
As of the census of 2010, there were 1,859 people, 873 households, and 442 families residing in the village. The population density was 845 per square mile (326.25/km²). There were 977 housing units at an average density of 444 per square mile (168.4/km²). The racial makeup of the village was 96.2% White, 0.50% African American, 0.40% Native American, 0.50% Asian, 0.70% from other races, and 1.70% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 1.40% of the population.
There were 873 households out of which 22.60% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 33.70% were married couples living together, 12.7% had a female householder with no husband present, and 49.40% were non-families. 42.40% of all households were made up of individuals. The average household size was 2.09 and the average family size was 2.86.
In the village the age distribution of the population was spread out with 22.70% under the age of 20, 5.40% from 20 to 24, and 31.80% from 25 to 50 and 17.50% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 43.20 years old. The Village of Watkins Glen had 866 male residents, and 993 female residents.
The median income for a household in the village was $34,969 and the median income for a family was $55,357. Males had a median income of $37,885 versus $29,000 for females. The per capita income for the village was $24,116. 5.0% of the population and 1.70% of families were living below the poverty line. 3.6% of those under the age of 18 and 6.80% of those 65 and older were living below the poverty line.
- "American FactFinder". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved 2008-01-31.
- "US Board on Geographic Names". United States Geological Survey. 2007-10-25. Retrieved 2008-01-31.
- "Find a County". National Association of Counties. Retrieved 2011-06-07.
- "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. 2009-03-13.
- "US Gazetteer files: 2010, 2000, and 1990". United States Census Bureau. 2011-02-12. Retrieved 2011-04-23.
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- Village of Watkins Glen
- Watkins Glen State Park
- Book excerpt on the 1973 Summer Jam Rock Festival from "AQUARIUS RISING" by Robert Santelli
- 1884 Guidebook to Watkins Glen with Illustrations at Internet Archive
- Google Earth overlay of original circuit
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Tag Archives: Privacy
Fernanda Viegas, IBM
Fernanda Viegas addresses blogging and privacy. Her presentation is based on the results from a survey she conducted on bloggers’ subjective sense of privacy and perceptions of liability in 2004.
Fernanda B. Viégas has just finished her PhD at the MIT Media Lab and joined IBM Research. Her research focuses on the visualization of the traces people leave as they interact online. Some of her projects explore email archives, newsgroup conversations, and the editing history of wiki pages. She is the creator of the award-winning Chat Circles program, an abstract graphical interface for communicating online. Her interest in issues of online privacy stems from her work with large archives of online social data. She received PhD and MS degrees in Media Arts and Sciences from MIT, and a BFA in Graphic Design and Art History from the University of Kansas. More information is available at http://web.media.mit.edu/~fviegas/
CRIME-FIGHTING ON THE INTERNET
Three leading experts examine the difficulties in keeping up with the bad guys’ abuse of new technologies. FBI Special Counsel for Electronic Surveillance Matters Alan McDonald argues why law enforcement agencies need the ability to use electronic surveillance equipment to monitor traffic on the Internet. Ohio State University Law School faculty member Peter Swire, an Internet privacy advocate, stresses the need for restraint and oversight of agencies employing such technology. Bernard Debatin discusses the ethical and moral dimensions of Internet law enforcement and of electronic surveillance in general Debatin, a professor at the University of Leipzig (Germany), is a visiting lecturer in the Ohio University Institute for Applied and Professional Ethics.
Alan McDonald is Special Counsel for Electronic Surveillance Matters, Laboratory Division, at FBI Headquarters. For the last ten years, he has worked on the legal and policy aspects of issues related to advanced communications networks as they relate to U.S. Electronic surveillance. Prior to that time, he was assigned for five years to the FBI’s Legal Counsel Division at FBI Headquarters, where he specialized in electronic surveillance law, as well as law and policy regarding other sensitive investigative techniques.
During 1993/94, Mr. McDonald was the FBI/Government attorney member of a four-member FBI team dedicated to preserving governmental electronic surveillance capabilities in the United States in light of advanced telecommunications technologies. The resulting landmark Federal legislation that was enacted in October, 1994 — the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (CALEA) — is considered of critical importance by law-enforcement and prosecutorial authorities. In 1995, U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno presented Mr. McDonald with the John Marshall Award for Legislation for his role in the enactment of CALEA.
Mr. McDonald has spoken at numerous U.S. Telecommunications carrier meetings and privacy-related seminars, and he has provided numerous briefings for Congressional staff regarding electronic surveillance, encryption, and CALEA matters.
Mr. McDonald received his law degree from the University of Louisville, and he has been a Special Agent of the FBI for 26 years.
From March 1999 until January 2001, Peter Swire served as the Clinton Administration’s Chief Counselor for Privacy, in the United States Office of Management and Budget. In early January, Peter returned to his position as Professor of Law at the Ohio State University College of Law. Peter is now teaching two courses on privacy and the law of cyberspace. Peter was featured in a January 17 Washington Post article about the transition to life after working in the Administration, at washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3204-2001Jan16.html. USA Today gave a profile of Peter’s work at www.usatoday.com/life/cyber/tech/cti036.htm.
With a background in both banking regulation and cyberspace, much of Peter’s work addresses issues of cyberbanking and financial privacy. In June, 1997, Peter was selected as an Ameritech Faculty Fellow to conduct research on “The Role of Law in Assuring Financial Privacy.”
From December 1998 until late January 1999, Peter acted as a consultant to the Department of Commerce. He led a U.S. government team in visits to France, England, Germany, Sweden, and the Netherlands, meeting with public- and private-sector leaders on privacy issues.
In early 1998, Peter became editor of Cyberspace Law Abstracts (CLA), a monthly publication that provides synopses of new scholarship concerning cyberspace, as well as related conference and professional announcements.
From 1992-94 Peter worked on the idea of “Public Feedback Regulation” as an organizing theme for how the Internet could enhance political participation and address some important market failures. This research was never published, but is discussed in some detail in David Brin’s fascinating 1998 book “The Transparent Society,” where the author essentially argues that technology has made privacy impossible and our best hope is to open up access to the databases to a broader array of citizens.
Bernhard Debatin, Professor of public communication and media ethics at the University of Leipzig, Germany, is spending 2000/01 as a visiting professor at Ohio University’s Institute for Applied and Professional Ethics. Dr. Debatin specializes in internet-communication and media ethics. He received his doctorate from the Technical University of Berlin in 1994.
October 6th, 1992
National conference on privacy issues in the professions
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In Los Angeles, the future seems to arrive a little sooner than in the rest of the country. The defense-based economy has crashed and burned, shifting hundreds of thousands of employees into managed care plans, mostly HMOs.
Nervously clutching our ASCO abstracts in our axillae, medical oncologists here are knee deep in the results. By the painful but simple mechanism of full risk capitation contracts, the managed care industry has reversed two decades of medical oncology practice history--they think for the better, but we're not so sure. How did this come about?
Arguably, medical oncology did not exist until the early 1970s (the first Boards were in 1973) when the combination chemotherapy theories of Cooper, DeVita, and, later, Einhorn required sophisticated management of drug protocols and their side effects. Prior to that time, internists and surgeons were comfortable handling single agents, and oncology was really a surgical subspecialty.
As it grew in the 1970s and 1980s (the "money is no object" era in medicine), medical oncology evolved a practice paradigm of benevolent excess. We used vast permutations of combination chemotherapy, both empirically and systematically, in hopes of eradicating, or at least palliating, the sufferings of common cancers.
The limited success of most of these programs has not, in general, caused a reassessment of purpose but, contrarily, has accelerated ultra-high-dose therapies, requiring the development of disturbingly expensive modalities and drugs to counter the ever-worsening symptoms of vomiting, myelosuppression, and infection.
As long as fee-for-service held out on the private practice side, and government research grants on the academic side, all was well. However, those who viewed the situation from both a cost and an outcome perspective questioned whether the confusing variability in management of specific disease sites, and the lack of persuasive evidence that one treatment was really better than another, meant a bit of self-indulgent chaos.
Industry cannot and will not pay any longer, so it invented "managed care." While traditional medical oncology was based on a physician-patient compact for as much treatment as wanted by both, for as long as either could tolerate it, managed care now means as little treatment as possible, for as small a price as possible.
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[NAFEX] Pluots in the east
alandhaigh at gmail.com
Mon May 25 13:02:23 EDT 2009
I once managed an estate orchard that had been planted with a lot of trees
from Dave Wilson Nursery. The various pluots always would send out a
glorious floral display and be swarming with bees but after all the spring
dramatics summer would bring not more than a handful of delicious fruit.
Someone suggested that flower blossums can be damaged by cold but still
appear normal and produce pollen but not fruit. Never heard this theory
repeated. Anyone have any information on this situation. I'm figuring that
warmer spring weather is needed than we have here to get a good set from a
lot of these CA bred varieities.
There were also a lot of extremely bland Asian pears on the site- varieties
that I assume have to be grown under a stronger sun.
As far as the quality of Reliance (I guess Reliant is the name of my
woodburner) they are big and beautiful as grown here but soft and a little
watery compared to a great peach. Much better than something shipped from
CA or GA after being picked 2 weeks too early.
My question is just about how much extra cold hardiness does its vegetative
buds have over other peaches, if any?
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Make your own dried cranberries for the holidays by dehydrating fresh cranberries in a food dehydrator. Follow the steps in this link to make dried cranberries.
Dried cranberries are similar to raisins and can be used in like recipes and food such as trail mix, salads, breads, cereals or stuffing for turkey. They are also great on their own.
Dried cranberries carry the same nutrients and health benefits as fresh cranberries including dietary fiber and antioxidants. Cranberries have also been shown to reduce the risk of urinary tract infections and stones. Dehydrating can reduce dried fruit's vitamin C, however, dipping the fruit in citrus juice prior to drying can alleviate this and add flavor.
Don't buy and eat store bought cranberries. Most store bought dried cranberries contain added sugars, extra oils and preservatives. Make dried cranberries at home with a food dehydrator.
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Last weekend’s Look, and a related video in Rachel Nolan’s post below, furnish the perfect occasion to revisit — and recommend strongly — an article that appeared 15 years ago in The Atlantic Monthly: “In the Monster’s Maw,” by Burkhard Bilger. Where we only had room enough to skim over what goes into noodling, or catching catfish barehanded, Bilger was able to dive deep into the thoroughly American (it goes back to the Indians) subculture of using your fingers as fishing lures.
Here’s Bilger, an Oklahoman, like most of our portfolio subjects, describing the noodler in action:
Wading along the shore or diving to the lake bottom, he reaches into likely nooks and crevices, wiggling his fingers and waiting for a nip. When it comes, he hooks his thumbs into the attacker’s mouth or thrusts an arm down its throat and waits for the thrashing to stop. If he’s lucky, the thing on the end of his arm is a catfish.
And here’s Bilger, these days a staff writer at The New Yorker, describing himself as noodler:
I can’t feel the fish, it seems, because my arm is all the way down its throat. The fish and I realize this at about the same time — like stooges backing into each other in a haunted house. The fish clamps down, I try to yank free, and the rest is a wet blur of thrashing, screaming and grasping. At some point Lee threads a rope through its gills, and for just a second I get a good look at an enormous, prehistoric face. Then, with a jerk of its shoulders, it wrenches free of my hand, taking along a few pieces of my thumb.
I asked a relation of mine, an avid fisherman who happens to have a Ph.D. in fish pathology and who has lived in the South, if he had ever noodled. No, he said, he was always wary of the alligators and water moccasins in the water. Smart man. As Bilger puts it: “Catfish, I’ve been told, share their love for calm, shady places with turtles, eels, and cottonmouth snakes.”
I’m going to float a still scarier thought, at least for readers of Page Six. Sorry if it means two entirely distinct, already unsettling sets of visions morph into one Lovecraftian fish-mountain of madness that gets stuck in your mind’s eye, but . . . What if “noodling” and “canoodling” hatched from the same semantic brood? The Oxford English Dictionary — see here and here — seems unable to prove they didn’t come from the same murky watering holes.
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Compiled by Adam Gaffin
There I was, in the middle of the jungle in Guatemala, on the top of the tallest temple in Tikal. It was a beautiful sunset. Suddenly, from the other side of the temple, I heard "Renee, Renee, come around to the noahth side. That's wheah all the monkeys ah!" Sure enough, after we climbed down the temple I asked where they were from: Buhlington, of coahse."
Some comments about being a Bostoner abroad (further out than Worcester): People think I'm from New York. Once they hear I'm from Boston, they tell me some god-awful boring story of the time they went to Boston back in 1963 and how nice it was. When you say "aunt," people mock you by acting like you're some sort of blueblood. "Oh, Buffy, there's our AHNT." Puleeaase!
-- Christine Leccese
Yes, Bostonians really do drop their Rs after As, just like the Pepperidge Fahm Man.
But there's a lot more to the accent than that! It's not just after the A's that the R's go away. They disappear after other vowels as well, particularly "ee" sounds, so that one could properly argue that "Reveah is wicked wee-id" (translation: "Revere is unusual"). Christine Leccese explains the profound effect this can have on one's life: "I was 17 and reading a driver's ed. book before I realized that the mirror that hung from the windshield in the car was the REAR VIEW mirror. After hearing my family call it the 'reahview' my whole life, I thought it was REview mirror - so that you could review what you just passed, naturally."
Don't worry about poor lost New England R's, however. In typical Yankee fashion, we re-use 'em - by sticking them on the ends of certain other words ending with "uh" sounds: "Ah final ahs just disappeah, but wheah they go we've no idear."
But wait, it gets more complex. As seasoned Boston English speakah Alan Miles has gently tried to pound into a poor Nooyawka's thick head, that missing R only reappears when the word is followed by another word that starts with a vowel, for example: "I have no idear if the movie begins at nine or ten," but, "Does the movie begin at 9 or 10? I have no idea." Hey, just like French! Leccese, the Boston driver, also grew up wondering about the phrase "catchers catch can."
Jonathan E. Dyer notes this rule is nullified for certain words ending in "ure" such as "rapsha" (extreme joy) and "capsha" (what you do with a flag).
Also like French (and German), Boston English has an almost-R sound that is very difficult for most other Americans to reproduce. You'll hear it in words with an "er" sound. In Boston, the ordinal number after "second" is pronounced, roughly, "thihd." Try saying it as if you meant to pronounce the R but then thought better of it.
In Boston English, "ah" (the one without an R after it) sometimes becomes something closer to "aw", so that, for example, "tonic" comes out more like "tawnic" (former Mayor Kevin White would often express outrage by exclaiming "Motheragawd!"). In other cases, however, it assumes a British pronunciation, as in "ahnt and "bahthroom," says Carrie-Anne Dedeo, a native of B'rica (which is how you pronounce "Billerica" around here).
Bostonians, like Nooyawkas, often leave out consonants in their rush to get words out, in particular, d's and t's at the end of words. So "so don't I" is more properly pronounced "So doan I," real-estate brokers babble on about houses with plenny a chahm and we get such phrases as onna-conna. Also like Nooyawkas, Bostonians often change the "s" at the end of words to a a "z." "I toll you already, I can't go out on Tuesdiz, 'caz that's when I got practiz," as Don Hurter recalls.
However, Ds at the end of words ending in "id" sounds end up as Ts, so that, for example, "wicked" comes out as "wicket."
But sometimes, Bostonians add consonants, as well. Jeff W. recalls: "My father, who grew up in Brighton in the 1940s and 50s, adds the letter 'n' to the words 'out' and 'outside.' It's sort of a slum version of the Boston accent, as I've heard others from that time and place use it. Therefore, I grew up saying things like, 'Ya wanna go ountside in the yahd?' 'Let's find ount who's going.'
And one-syllable words with long-I sounds, such as "mine," often turn into two-syllable words: "Gimme back that curlin' eye-yen, it's MAYAN!" (as Douglas K. Lennan notes). Bostonians also sometimes add H's to the beginning of words that begin with a vowel, reports Jo: "We buy our hundaweah at Hames."
Finally, in certain blue-collar communities on the North Shore, speakers sometimes replace Rs with, of all things, Vs, reports John Lawler, who provides an example: "Tevesah doesn't have any bvains, she's from Veveah."
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Dr. Kathy Moffitt
Kathy Moffitt is Associate Dean of the Craig School of Business and Professor of Computer Information Systems at California State University, Fresno, where she has taught since 1990. She holds a Ph.D. in Computer Information Systems (Business Administration) from Arizona State University, a Master's in Cultural Resource Management (Anthropology) from the University of Arizona, and a Bachelor’s in Anthropology from the University of Colorado.
She has extensive work experience in natural and cultural resource management with the National Park Service and the US Forest Service, where she served on the planning teams for Yosemite and Sequoia-Kings national parks and worked extensively on hydroelectric licensing and relicensing projects. It was this experience and her computer background that led to her interest in Geographic Information Systems (GIS). From 1999 to 2001, in addition to her teaching duties, Kathy developed the Interdisciplinary Spatial Information Systems (ISIS) Center while on special assignment to the Provost at Fresno State. After hiring qualified staff, she stepped down as director to become associate director and return to the classroom. She continues to teach Database and be active in GIS during her appointment as Associate Dean.
Dr. Zhi (Luke) Wang
Dr. Zhi (Luke) Wang is an Associate Professor of Hydrology and Soil Physics at California State University, Fresno in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, and is the Coordinator of this GIS Certificate Program. Dr. Wang learned GIS in the 1990s and has been teaching the subject on campus since 2002. His PhD dissertation and many of his research involved many of the GIS applications, especially the 3-D, surface and geostatistical analyses. Dr. Wang participated in many ESRI user conferences, hands-on training sessions and user-model collaborations, and presented as a speaker in several of California’s local GIS meetings. His GIS analysis maps on the Fresno River Monitoring project were adopted by the Madera County Library for display to the public.
Dr. Wang teaches courses in Hydrology, Hydrogeology, GIS, Geostatistics, Soil and Environmental Sciences. He has many publications in Water Resources Research, Journal of Hydrology, and other peer-reviewed journals. Dr. Wang received his BS and MS degrees in civil engineering in China, his PhD degree in hydrology from the University of Leuven, Belgium, and his post-doctoral fellowship from the University of California, Riverside. His research on watershed hydrology and environmental hydrogeology has been funded by the US Natural Science Foundation, US Department of Defense, California EPA and California Department of Water Resources.
Dr. Xiaoming Yang
Dr. Xiaoming Yang is a Senior Analyst and the interim director of the Geo-spatial Information Center at the Henry Madden Library at California State University, Fresno. He has more than twenty-three years of experience in Geographic Information Systems (GIS), remote sensing (RS) and softcopy photogrammetry, and global positioning systems (GPS). Over the last ten years, Dr. Yang has been involved in more than one hundred different projects that have applied GIS, RS, and GPS technologies to areas ranging from health and human policy analyses, emergency response analysis and modeling, emergency management resource allocation, facility infrastructure inventory, land-use planning, and internet/web based citizen information system development, to county crop mapping, regional water planning, groundwater level and groundwater quality spatial modeling, groundwater rechargeable area mapping, and urban ecology analysis. In addition to the spectrum of GIS, RS, and GPS project achievements, Dr. Yang has taught GIS, geo-processing, remote sensing, and GPS courses at different universities at graduate and undergraduate levels.
Dr. Yang received his undergraduate degree in forestry from China. He studied Biometrics, GIS and spatial analysis at the Department of Forest and Natural Resource Management and received his MS and PhD from the State University of New York, College of Environmental Science and Forestry.
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Date: January 17 2013
There is no simple answer to improving Australia's athlete behaviour and mental preparation at future Olympic Games, but rower Kim Crow senses events like the Australian Youth Olympic Festival (AYOF) are part of the solution.
Crow, chairwoman of the Australian Olympic Committee (AOC) Athletes' Commission, spoke at an AYOF drug education session on Thursday morning.
The sixth edition of the AYOF, established as a legacy from the 2000 Sydney Games, features almost 500 young Australian athletes and is a rare chance for the AOC to enshrine its values.
Crow, who won silver and bronze medals at the London Olympics where fellow rower Josh Booth was sent home for damaging shop windows while drunk, says she learned a lot from attending the inaugural AYOF in 2001.
The 27-year-old believed the event helped lay the groundwork on what's acceptable at an Olympics.
"It gives a lot of young kids the chance to be leaders early on ... and they take (lessons) back to their peers," AYOF ambassador Crow said.
"It means that down the track, we can make sure there's a consistent culture.
"And we can set just how high the bar actually is in terms of the behaviour we expect from all our Olympians."
Aside from Booth's antics, members of Australia's swim team were accused of bullying and childish pranks amid the nation's worst performance in an Olympic pool for 20 years.
World champion James Magnussen, considered an unbeatable favourite in the 100m freestyle at the Olympics, bore the brunt of criticism as Swimming Australia ordered a review into team culture.
Magnussen said this week he got his life outside the pool "wrong" and was trying to improve himself as a person.
Crow said an athlete's first Olympics was a daunting experience.
"I think that's what's really good about this. It has an opening ceremony. It has a whole lot of other things that you wouldn't normally have at a championship, which almost distracts you from your event.
"But that's the Olympics. Living in the village is very different. There's heaps of people and it can be quite intimidating as well.
"There's so many external factors to deal with, so it's really good practice to do that now."
Bernie Mulroy, coach of Australia's 36-strong swim team at the AYOF, said the four-day meet offered a "huge educational opportunity".
"It's probably one of the few meets that will replicate an Olympic village-type atmosphere. Long, long days and the like," Mulroy said.
Australia claimed four gold medals in the pool on Thursday night as six AYOF swimming records were broken.
Regan Leong won the 200m freestyle final with a personal-best time of 1 minutes 49.87 seconds, while Amelia Gould (200m free), Hayley Baker (100m backstroke) and Madeline Groves (200m butterfly) were also successful.
Japan's Takeshi Kawamoto put in the most eye-catching performance of the night, winning the 100m backstroke in a time of 54.66.
Kawamoto had already broken the AYOF record of 56.41, set in 2003 by American Matt Grevers, in the morning's heat.
Grevers went on to win gold in the 100m backstroke at the London Games, breaking the Olympic record.
In weightlifting, Joshua Wu, younger brother of 2008 Beijing Olympic silver medallist diver Melissa, was third in the 62kg event.
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Midmarket companies are big enough to make juicy targets for attackers, yet they have insufficient IT to handle security in-house. They fall into a dangerous security "no-man's land."
Mike Rothman, president of the security research and advisory firm Securosis, compares midmarket companies' security position to the "no-man's land" between the baseline and service boxes in tennis, where it's easy for your opponent to score against you. He says about midmarket companies:
These folks have a couple hundred to a couple thousand employees. That's big enough to have real data interesting to attackers, but not big enough to have a dedicated security staff and the resources they need to really protect anything. These folks are caught between the baseline and the service box. They default to compliance mandates like PCI-DSS because they don't know any better.
Wendy Nather, an analyst with 451 Research, made the same point in 2011, saying SMBs fall below the "security poverty line":
Organizations below the Security Poverty Line have no in-house security expertise -- in fact, they may not even have any full-time IT staff at all. If they spend money on a security consultant, they may be able to get advice, but security also lies in the day-to-day execution, and without knowledgeable resources at their disposal, they won't be able to execute on whatever the consultant advises.
In organizations below the Security Poverty Line, Enterprise Security Information Management (ESIM) products might sit unused because nobody has time or expertise to tune them or read reports. Antivirus software might be improperly installed. "In an IT-poor organization, maintenance tasks take a back seat to the more pressing matters of outages and new installations," Nather said.
Rothman blames the security industry, which caters to large enterprises and neglects the midmarket. Security vendors focus on the biggest 1,000 companies worldwide. Big-business Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs) find it easy to buy another security server or appliance, and assign a few staff to make it work.
The security no-man's land is starting to get safer. Service providers offer firewall monitoring and spam-filtering as a service, and vendors are beginning to offer products purpose-built for the midmarket. But too many are "dumbed-down enterprise products, which doesn't really solve the midmarket company's problem," Rothman says.
Midmarket companies need security mentors to manage and teach security until the companies are ready to stand on their own, writes Dan Geer, computer security analyst and risk management specialist.
The security no-man's land is an extension of the direction the entire IT industry is moving, writes Bruce Schneier, security blogger, author, and chief security technology officer of BT. Only the largest companies have dedicated IT staffs, with others outsourcing the functions to IT providers, which also manage security. He says:
A company whose email consists entirely of Gmail accounts, whose payroll is entirely outsourced to Paychex, whose customer tracking system is entirely on Salesforce.com, and so on -- and who increasingly accesses those systems using specialized devices like iPads and Android tablets -- simply doesn't have any IT infrastructure to secure anymore.
How about you? How are you getting along in the security no-man's land? Let us know.
College Network Aces Private Clouds
Securing Data in the Cloud Is Everyone's Job
Boeing Learns Supply Chain Only as Strong as Weakest Link
— Mitch Wagner , Editor in Chief, Internet Evolution
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...The movement of Hispanics into the Democratic camp has been going on for decades. What are Republicans doing to woo them back? Replicating California Republican Governor Pete Wilson's disastrous support almost twenty years ago for Proposition 187 -- which would have screened out undocumented immigrants from public schools, health care, and other social services, and required law-enforcement officials to report any "suspected" illegals. (Wilson, you may remember, lost that year's election, and California's Republican Party has never recovered.)
1. Pete Wilson was termed out (and by a law he helped pass; see ADDED below).
2. Reich is also wrong about Proposition 187; see that page for the actual facts of the matter.
The Arizona law now before the Supreme Court -- sponsored by Republicans in the state and copied by Republican legislators and governors in several others -- would authorize police to stop anyone looking Hispanic and demand proof of citizenship. It's nativism disguised as law enforcement.
Do I have to even point out that Reich is grossly misleading about what the law would do? For the actual facts, see the post about Laura Murphy of the ACLU.
Romney is trying to distance himself from that law, but it's not working. That may be because he dubbed it a "model law" during February's Republican primary debate in Arizona, and because its author (former state senator Russell Pearce, who was ousted in a special election last November largely by angry Hispanic voters) says he's working closely with Romney advisers.
The Romney campaign is seemingly incapable of pointing this out, but that Democratic Party talking point is misleading. Here's what Mitt Romney said (link):
You know, I think you see a model in Arizona. They passed a law here that says -- that says that people who come here and try and find work, that the employer is required to look them up on e- verify. This e-verify system allows employers in Arizona to know who's here legally and who's not here legally.
That's not a reference to the latest Arizona immigration law (SB1070). It's a reference to the 2007 worker verification law that state passed that doesn't do the same things as SB1070. In another instance, Romney said the Arizona law was a model, but that was only in relation to it being an example of individual states enforcing laws the federal government won't.
That doesn't mean that Romney should back away from SB1070: he should support it, just as long as his campaign is able to aggressively defend that support. But, at present, Romney hasn't supported it except as indicated in the last paragraph.
Hispanics are also reacting to Romney's attack just a few months ago on GOP rival Texas Governor Rick Perry for supporting in-state tuition at the University of Texas for children of undocumented immigrants. And to Romney's advocacy of what he calls "self-deportation" -- making life so difficult for undocumented immigrants and their families that they choose to leave.
1. Perry's tuition break for illegal aliens isn't just limited to UT.
2. The correct term is illegal aliens, not "undocumented immigrants".
3. Those given tuition breaks are themselves illegal aliens, irrespective of their parents' status(es). The media has a habit of misleading about that.
4. If we're going to decide policy on whether the life of a foreign citizen who's here illegally is easy or hard, what would Robert Reich have us do? Make things as easy as possible for people to come here and remain here illegally? Would Robert Reich care to put that up for a vote? Most government actions are designed to make doing one set of things difficult and one set of things easier: jaywalking vs. using the crosswalk, etc. etc. What sort of cheap emotionalism nirvana is Robert Reich promoting where the government couldn't make some things that aren't in the public interest difficult?
5. Reich isn't revealing the impact that the Texas law has had on Americans: every dollar spent on illegal alien higher education in Texas is a dollar that didn't go to an American student. See the DREAM Act page for a longer discussion.
6. See attrition for the facts about the proven-effective "self deport" plan.
ADDED: See RArmant's comment below. Wilson was termed-out after two terms. He won the second term in the same election as Prop. 187 was approved. That proposition passed 59% to 41%, and Wilson beat Democratic Party challenger Kathleen Brown 55% to 40% in the same election.
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Your Guide to a Fair Trade Halloween
Celebrate Halloween the Fair Trade Way
It's Going to be a Fair Trade Halloween!
Your Halloween guide from Fair Trade USA is here! Whether you’re planning on staying home, trick-or-treating, or attending a costume party, we have ideas that will get you in the holiday spirit; just try these quick and easy tips and you'll be sure to have a Halloween that's fun AND fair.
This Halloween, kids throughout the country will be take to the streets in hopes of filling their pillow cases, paper bags, and pumpkin buckets with sweet treats from their neighbors. This year why not help your kids learn the meaning of Fair Trade through Reverse Trick-or-Treating? The concept is simple; help spread the word about Fair Trade by handing sustainably-sourced chocolate back to adults during your annual Trick-or-Treat adventure. By providing young people with an opportunity to have their voices heard, hundreds of thousands of households will have an opportunity to learn about how their chocolate is produced. To order your kit, visit the Global Exchange website.
Hurry! The kits are given on a first-come, first-served basis, so order yours today and make a difference in the lives of farmers and workers around the world.
Give Me Something Good to Eat
This Halloween, why not indulge in a little chocolate goodness yourself while helping Fair Trade end unfair labor practices in the cocoa industry. A great option, whether you want dark chocolate, milk chocolate, or a fruitier flavor, is Divine Chocolate.
As for those adorable trick-or-treaters who will soon be at your door, try Sjaak’s Organic Chocolates for a more kid-friendly option. They have many Halloween themed goodies to choose from, all in bite-sized form. Order them here.
You might also try Sweet Earth Organic Chocolates, who offers a fun (and scary) line of Fair Trade Certified Halloween goodies (right).
Fair Trade Friendly Recipes
Celebrate the season by treating your family to a Scary Halloween Pizza. The dinner table is a great place to talk to your friends and family about the importance of using Fair Trade Certified ingredients in your cooking.
For a delightfully ghoulish dessert, try these Halloween Pumpkin Orange Cookies. They’ll be scrumptious to taste AND you’ll have the satisfaction of knowing you made a difference by baking with Fair Trade Certified sugar.
Cozy Up With Fair Trade Certified Coffee
As the days become shorter and the weather gets colder, there is nothing like a good cup of coffee to warm your spirits. When drinking high-quality Fair Trade Certified coffee, you are supporting a system of trade that improves lives and protects the environment.
If you need a little extra flavor in your morning cup of joe, try a festive blend of Pumpkin Spice coffee on a chilly October evening. When you’re out and about (Trick-or-Treating for example) there is nothing more satisfying than a Fair Trade
Pumpkin Latte to keep you feeling warm and festive.
Halloween fun isn’t just for kids. It’s time to get into the swing of Halloween festivities with Fair Trade Certified cocktails. Hire that sitter, grab your costume, and bring some FAIR. Quinoa vodka to your next Halloween extravaganza.
Try this cocktail made with Quinoa vodka and Mandarin soda:
Socially Conscious Costumes
This Halloween be the talk of the town by dressing up as a Fair Trade product! Whether you’re gearing up for an office costume contest, your child’s classroom party, or meeting up with friends to celebrate, these costume ideas are sure to be a huge hit. Dress as a Fair Trade Certified banana, cup of coffee or chocolate bar. Then when someone asks about your costume, take the time to explain why Fair Trade is so important and how they can help make every purchase matter. Click HERE for for more last minute Fair Trade costume ideas.
Not sure where to buy Fair Trade chocolate bars or ingredients for your Halloween night? Use the Fair Trade Finder to find Fair Trade goods at store near you!
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KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - As the United States trumpeted its success in persuading Pakistan to end its seven-month blockade of supplies for NATO troops in Afghanistan, another group privately cheered its good fortune: the Taliban.
One of the Afghan war's great ironies is that both NATO and the Taliban rely on the convoys to fuel their operations - a recipe for seemingly endless conflict.
The insurgents have earned millions of dollars from Afghan security firms that illegally paid them not to attack trucks making the perilous journey from Pakistan to coalition bases throughout Afghanistan - a practice the U.S. has tried to crack down on but admits likely still occurs.
Militants often target the convoys in Pakistan as well, but there have been far fewer reports of trucking companies paying off the insurgents, possibly because the route there is less vulnerable to attack.
Pakistan's decision to close its border to NATO supplies in November in retaliation for U.S. airstrikes that killed 24 Pakistani troops significantly reduced the flow of cash to militants operating in southern and eastern Afghanistan, where the convoys travel up from Pakistan, said Taliban commanders.
Pakistan reopened the supply route in early July after the U.S. apologized for the deaths of the soldiers.
"Stopping these supplies caused us real trouble," a Taliban commander who leads about 60 insurgents in eastern Ghazni province told The Associated Press in an interview. "Earnings dropped down pretty badly. Therefore the rebellion was not as strong as we had planned."
A second Taliban commander who controls several dozen fighters in southern Kandahar province said the money from security companies was a key source of financing for the insurgency, which uses it to pay fighters and buy weapons, ammunition and other supplies.
"We are able to make money in bundles," the commander told the AP by telephone. "Therefore, the NATO supply is very important for us."
Both commanders spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of being targeted by NATO or Afghan forces, and neither would specify exactly how much money they make off the convoys.
The U.S. military estimated last year that $360 million in U.S. tax dollars ended up in the hands of the Taliban, criminals and power brokers with ties to both. More than half the losses flowed through a $2.1 billion contract to truck huge amounts of food, water and fuel to American troops across Afghanistan.
The military said only a small percentage of the $360 million was funneled to the Taliban and other insurgent groups. But even a small percentage would mean millions of dollars, and the militants, who rely on crude weaponry, require relatively little money to operate.
The military investigated one power broker who owned a private security company and was known to supply weapons to the Taliban. The power broker, who was not named, received payments from a trucking contractor doing business with the U.S. Over more than two years, the power broker funneled $8.5 million to the owners of an unlicensed money exchange service used by insurgents.
A congressional report in 2010 called "Warlord, Inc." said trucking contractors pay tens of millions of dollars annually to local warlords across Afghanistan in exchange for guarding their supply convoys, some of which are suspected of paying off the Taliban.
The military instituted a new, roughly $1 billion trucking contract last September with a different set of companies that it claims has reduced the flow of money to insurgents by providing greater visibility of which subcontractors those firms hire, said Maj. Gen. Richard Longo, head of a U.S. anti-corruption task force in Afghanistan.
But it's very difficult to cut off the illegal transfers completely, he said.
"I think it would be naive on my part to suggest that no money is going to the enemy," said Longo. "I think there is still money flowing to criminals, and I think that the nexus between criminals and the insurgency is there."
Rep. John Tierney, the Democrat from Massachusetts who led the Warlord, Inc. report, said the new contract has resulted in some increased contractor oversight and accountability, but "the Department of Defense must take more aggressive steps to keep our military personnel safe and to protect taxpayer dollars from going to our enemies in Afghanistan."
The U.S. pushed Pakistan hard to reopen the NATO supply line through the country because it had been forced to use a longer route that runs into northern Afghanistan through Central Asia and costs an additional $100 million per month.
The Taliban commanders interviewed by the AP said the northern route was less lucrative for them because fewer trucks passed through southern and eastern Afghanistan, and contractors seemed to have less money to direct toward the insurgents. It's unclear if that is a result of the new trucking contract implemented by the military.
But the commanders said they were determined to get their cut as the flow of trucks resumes from Pakistan - a process that has been slowed by bureaucratic delays, disputes over compensation and concerns about security.
"We charge these trucks as they pass through every area, and they are forced to pay," said the commander operating in Ghazni. "If they don't, the supplies never arrive, or they face the consequence of heavy attacks."
Prior to the November attack, the U.S. and other NATO countries shipped about 30 percent of their nonlethal supplies from Pakistan's southern port city of Karachi through two main crossings on the Afghan border.
The route through Pakistan will become even more critical as the U.S. seeks to withdraw most of its combat troops by the end of 2014, a process that will require tens of thousands of containers carrying equipment and supplies.
"We have had to wait these past seven months for the supply lines to reopen and our income to start again," said the Taliban commander in Ghazni. "Now work is back to normal."
Associated Press writer Richard Lardner contributed to this report from Washington.
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With so many language in the world you have to admire how some people are able to learn more than one, two or three – some of us often struggle with one. Now choosing what language you wish to learn is a bit of a tough one, and depends on your circumstances. My wife has decided to use Rosetta Stone to learn Spanish, but I was shocked that there are apps on how to speak Klingon.
There are some of you out there that would think that this is a joke, but we can assure you that it is not. The first app that we have found is called Star Trek: Conversational Klingon and even features the voice of Michael Dorn, who played the part of Worf. OK, now you know that I am a bit of a Star trek fan – although not sure I would feel the need to learn Klingon.
Not only will you get to learn certain phrases in Klingon, but also about its culture. You can learn basic conversations, pronunciations, basic expressions and so much more. The price for this app is just $3.99 on iTunes.
Star Trek: Klingon Phrasebook is the second app and will allow you to get by when you attend a Star trek convention, or if you find a partner who also shares in your love for Klingon – although there will not be many out there. This will be like have a universal translator in your pocket, as you can use the iOS app to learn the basics.
Those basics include different greetings, food, travel, as well as being able to use the language in an emergency – although not certain you will want to shout out something in Klingon in the street – you will get attention, but not the kind that you had hoped for. The price for this app is just $0.99 on iTunes.
Star Trek: Klingon Suite is the final app, but the $11.99 price could put a few people off – maybe not true Star trek fans though? If you like to believe that you are a true Klingon, or one that role plays one then this will be the app for you. This is the most-complete suite there is on the Klingon language and has a higher chance of teaching you how to speak it. In some cases we would say that this is the Rosetta Stone equivalent. For more details on this visit iTunes here.
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The talk wasn’t about how to boost student performance, keep teenagers from becoming dropouts, more efficiently spend money in the classroom or assist financially struggling school districts.
No, that’s not what got lawmakers and school principals — some of whom traveled for hours to Baton Rouge — jammed into a more than four-hour joint House and Senate committee hearing.
It was high school football. More specifically, it was a dispute over the playoffs.
“We drew more people today into this room than we do for a budget hearing. It’s just amazing,” said Sen. Ronnie Johns, R-Lake Charles.
Never underestimate the power of sports to draw a crowd and generate heated conversation in Louisiana, even a packed house at the state Capitol.
“This state is about football,” said Sen. Mike Walsworth, R-West Monroe.
The dispute arose after the Louisiana High School Athletic Association voted to split football playoffs starting with the upcoming season, with games for traditional public high schools separated from those involving private, magnet and charter schools.
The change reworks a system that had been in place for 92 years.
The issue has caused tension among school leaders, and parents are questioning the implications. So, lawmakers created new committees on high school athletics to delve into details of the dispute, even though it’s questionable what authority they might have in meddling in the high school football playoff system.
“Obviously, it is a very important topic, because look at how many people are here,” Rep. Steve Carter, R-Baton Rouge, chairman of the House Education Committee, said several hours into the hearing as he surveyed the room.
Public school principals who pushed the separation told lawmakers the other schools have an unfair advantage because they can cherry-pick students — and football players. They insisted they weren’t trying to rig the system, but wanted to create an equal playing field.
Leaders of private schools and public charter schools said the change is a form of segregation pushed by public school leaders who resent successful private school football programs and who dislike change in the public education system.
The change appeared to be targeted mainly at two high school football programs that together have won 38 football championships since 1921: John Curtis Christian School in Jefferson Parish and Evangel Christian Academy in Shreveport.
However, the split also separates out certain types of public schools that are less traditional but are expanding as Louisiana education leaders seek new ways to improve student performance and offer parents more choices for their children.
Charter schools are publicly financed but can be independently run without many of the requirements governing traditional public schools. Magnet schools offer specialized and advanced curricula and can choose which students are accepted.
John Hiser is principal of Edna Karr High School, a charter school in New Orleans. He accused supporters of the split playoff system of taking a specific shot “at reform education.”
“The impact of this would be to make people think twice about chartering a high school. The impact of this would make people think twice from turning a district school to a magnet school,” Hiser said.
Supporters of the split playoffs said any school that doesn’t have to take all the students in an attendance zone should be treated differently.
Todd Guise, principal of Ouachita Parish High School, said the schools separated from traditional public schools can go outside attendance zones to attract students, which he said allows them to manipulate their student populations and football teams.
“I don’t think we can hide the fact that there are advantages to being able to control your student populations,” Guise said.
No truces were brokered at the legislative hearing, but even a dispute about high school sports can highlight the simmering tension in Louisiana’s fragmented education system.
Melinda Deslatte covers the Louisiana Capitol for The Associated Press.
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Roads to Mandalay
In 2001, with the fall of Taliban in Kabul, India embarked on a decade of engagement in Afghanistan that has been unparalleled in recent history. A decade later, India can say, with some justifiable pride, that it is one of the biggest players in that country with influence that spreads across the spectrum. India has completed some virtually impossible infrastructure projects, in record time too. Today, we need the same sort of commitment and political vision from Manmohan Singh's goverenment about Myanmar. As the PM heads to Yangon and Naypyidaw on Sunday, the first such visit since 1987, the word has to go out in the system - that Myanmar policies and projects must get priority.
Ask anyone in government and they will read you reams of virtuous lectures about how important Myanmar is for India's security and strategic concerns. Homilies are read out about Myanmar being our gateway to ASEAN. We want Myanmar to be prosperous because in its prosperity lies ours. We want Myanmar to be our springboard for an East-West connectivity corridor project that will increase our reach all the way to Vietnam. Wonderful words, and nobody tires of repeating them ad nauseum.
Yet the intention, too, is evident. The PM will announce a $500 million credit line to Myanmar during his three-day visit. Apparently 18 Indian cities will soon be connected with Yangon by air, which will be fantastic. Close to a dozen agreements will be signed by our PM and Thein Sein in Naypyidaw. The PM is also being sensitive enough to stay only at NayPyiDaw and only spend a few hours in Yangon, where he will briefly meet Aung San Suu Kyi.
He will signal that India continues to deal with the government of the day in Myanmar, which is military-dominated, while reopening ties with Suu Kyi. This is an important signal, because no matter what happens in Myanmar, the military will hold the balance of power for a long time to come. Second, it needs to be remembered that the military-backed political party, USDP, continues to be strongly backed by China. China is the largest investor in Myanmar and it will be a long while before it can be upstaged. It is in our interest to engage them meaningfully, as India works with Myanmar in its opening-up process.
But as many a weary Myanmarese will tell you, "India is all talk. No action. " Reluctantly, you will agree. The Imphal-Mandalay bus service may be a relatively new idea, but we all know it will only see the light of day years from now, when everybody has forgotten about it. Retired diplomats handling the Myanmar brief years ago will tell you that similar bus services had been started, worked in fits and starts and stopped. The showpiece Kaladan multi-modal transport corridor was recently halted because Indian planners found they had miscalculated and they had to work on an extra 29 km inside Myanmar. The Tamanthi and Shweyaze hydro-electric projects that India is building will be compared to projects completed at lightning speed by Korean and Chinese firms.
Let's think differently about Myanmar. Thus far, we have been used to thinking of Myanmar through the prism of our North-east. That's undoubtedly important, but runs the risk of holding our Myanmar ties hostage to our development of the North-East. The latter, we know, will take ages, because New Delhi cannot see beyond its own nose, and the North-east region always falls between the cracks.
Shankar Acharya, economist, has a better idea. He says we should focus on maritime connectivity with Myanmar. So the Kolkata-Sittwe port link should be speeded up, and may be easily done. We can increase connectivity with Vizag and Chennai. Thai PM Yingluck Shinawatra invited India to help set up a Chennai-Dawei-Bangkok corridor. This is easy stuff and a low hanging fruit if I ever saw one. Second, ask any Myanmarese what they want from India, and they will say, schools and hospitals. Let's export both CBSE and ICSE. The government can invite big private schools to set up others in Myanmar, and offer subsidies. That will translate into real influence. Similarly, with the healthcare majors, we could ask our big private players to set up the equivalent of primary health care centres. These could be joined up with India's telemedicine network. That's also easily done. And the results will be quick and long-lasting.
Meanwhile, let's not forget Aung San Suu Kyi. She is a huge political and moral force in Myanmar and we need to give that fact adequate importance. That will be a longer term project, but let's remember one thing - all of Suu Kyi's political and spiritual heroes are Indian;with Netaji Subhas Bose and Mahatma Gandhi at the top of the list.
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School buses were rolling again Wednesday morning across Staten Island and the rest of New York City as striking drivers and matrons returned to their jobs after a walkout that lasted more than four weeks.
The walkout, which ended without a settlement, had made life difficult for parents who were forced to find other means of transportation for their school-age children. The city Department of Education had issued MTA passes as a transportation alternative for school school children.
City school attendance dropped during the strike
Attendance at city schools dropped during the strike, which affected not just the city's public schools but more than 200 non-public schools as well, added The Advance.
"The walkout by Local 1181 of the Amalgamated Transit Union was over job security, not wages or other benefits," added the report. "The city has begun seeking bids from other transportation companies, the first such call for bids in more than 30 years, in an effort to rein in costs. The drivers and matrons feared a contract with a new company would eliminate the job security provisions they currently have."
"For its part, City Hall maintained that the drivers work for the bus companies, not the city, so it could not insist on job-security provisions," according to The Advance.
The New York City Office of Pupil Transportation, the largest such department in the U.S., moves more than 600,000 students within the city's five boroughs, according to the report. Neighboring counties in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut also use OPT services. Bus services include more than 160,000 school field trips each year. All in all, Staten Island parents and students can return to a more regular schedule now that the walkout has ended.
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I would think that this engrossing documentary would appeal to anyone who is against dictatorship, for human rights and democracy, interested in Burma in particular, the exercise of journalism in our wired world, .etc., etc.
Not to mention that it plays out like a thriller.
Democratic Voice of Burma is based in Oslo, Norway and broadcasts radio and TV into Burma and sends clandestinely shot footage out of the country via satellite, so the world will know what is happening there. This footage is then given to CNN, BBC, etc.
It’s dangerous work since anyone caught is is likely to be sent to prison, maybe even killed on the spot.
Through video shot by DVB and some re-enactments featuring DVB videographer Joshua, we are plunged into the heady days of September 2007 when the nation’s revered monks were joined by thousands of regular citizens in huge street demonstrations.
Each day more and more people turn out. Those who do not march watch and applaud from packed sidewalks, balconies and rooftops.
At that time there were hopes that this might be the beginning of a revolution that would bring down the military junta – “the 400,000 monks in Burma are the only force that can scare the military,” we’re told.
Alas, it was not be be.
Demonstrators are shot, monks beaten and arrested, and some murdered. The secret police raid the DVB’s facilities in Burma, arrest three reporters and cart away the equipment. Other members of DVB flee for their safety.
Joshua will have to rebuild his network, we are told.
Burma VJ: Reporting From A Closed Country will be shown today, Tuesday Nov. 17 at 5:30 in the Grande Bibliotheque (475 de Maisonneuve E.) and Friday Nov 20 at Concordia University (1455 de Maisonneuve W.)
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Daily Topic for November 05, 2011
Because of man’s wickedness, God destroyed all but Noah and his family through a massive flood. Notice here that God specifically singled out the issue of violence. All of us have a choice when faced by daily problems to be part of the problem or part of the solution. There are many people in Pakistan today, like the Taliban, who are part of the problem, and wish to drag others down to their level.
Pray for protection for those in Pakistan who are being enticed into violence or victimized by it. Pray for the Brahui people to look to God’s solutions rather than settle for mankind’s sin of violence.
“Ahmed, come fight for Allah,” said the young man in a hushed tone as they stood together in the crowded refugee camp. Ahmed was of the Brahui tribe, which had been driven out of their homeland near the Afghan border by last year’s flooding. “And fight against who?” asked Ahmed, after a long pause. “Against Christians? Aren’t they the ones who opened this refugee camp?” He stopped talking, knowing that the Taliban recruiter could do him harm if he said any more.
The Brahuis used to be nomadic herders, but in recent years they have settled down to become farmers. They live in Pakistan near the border with Afghanistan. The floods washed out the crops they planted. Many members of this people group were forced to flee to refugee camps.
The Brahuis speak a Dravadian language, unlike any spoken in Pakistan. Most other Dravadian languages are spoken by people groups living in southern India. Most Brahui are Muslims, but there are a few secret followers of Jesus among them.
Ask God to break the hold that Islam has on this people group, and direct them to follow Jesus Christ. Pray for linguists to complete the work of translating the Bible into the Brahui language. Ask God to strengthen and embolden the few Brahui followers of Jesus Christ to reach out to their neighbors. May they become an effective witness to these suffering Muslims.
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Talk about how fast rumors spread - imagine how many times the young lady in the Mall told her story. I was minding my own business when she came up and shared it with me. I bet she had a good time retelling it to every single teenage girl that walked into the most popular, teenage girly store in the Mall.
"The rumors are really swelling. A little over a week ago, there was an actual fight with punch throwing between some boys. I think it was the day that Shaun Grant got there. Anyway, these other fights are just between girls. They're not physical, only verbal. Our Asst Principal likened it to the movie "mean girls".
When the girls were pressed for the premise of the fights, none of them even knew! Mr. Poehls had the girls all together in a room with our campus police chief, among other authorities there in the school, as well as parents. It was handled very well.
Another problem we've had is that kids within the school are spreading rumors of these fights with a severely embellished twist. Technology today can really cause a lot of grief! Rumors have the ability to spread twice as fast!"
Sunday, March 13, 2011
Saturday, March 12, 2011
I was standing there talking with Little One about Hello Kitty jewelry and the clerk comes over out of the blue and begins to talk about she didn't know that there were black people in Panama. I asked her what made her say that. She told me that the two black ladies that were just in the store were talking in a different language and she asked them where they were from and they said Panama.
I informed her that yes, people from Panama come in all colors, just like Americans. She said that they don't teach you that stuff in District 150 and she's a senior at Richwoods. I told her that as a black girl, there are some things about people of color that she will need to find out on her own.
She changed the subject and started to tell me that she was kicked out of school and that they had 14 (fourteen) fights at Richwoods last week. My ears pricked up and I said, "14 (fourteen) fights - 14 fights"? Are you sure about that number, she said yes, because her fight was number 14 (fourteen).
I asked her what was the deal with all the fighting - she said:
"When Mr. Ptacek was Principal the rule was 10 (ten) days suspension for fighting but since Mr. Grant came, girls are willing to fight because the suspension is now only 5 (five) days and they are willing to take the 5 (five) day suspension to get at who they want."
The young lady was full of conversation, she went on to tell me that she was concerned that she was going to have to go to court. I asked her why, she said she just turned eighteen and the other girl was seventeen. She told me the girl fighting her knew she would be charged if she fought her.
There have been so many conflicting reports on fights at Richwoods. This student clearly told me fourteen fights, with her's being the fourteenth. What to believe?
Friday, September 24, 2010
According to a Manatee County Sheriff’s Office affidavit, April Newcomb, 39, can be seen on multiple YouTube videos “encouraging” her daughter “to physically fight” with the other girl. The videos, one of which can be viewed below, were filmed by attendees of the fight, which occurred in a vacant field near Palmetto High School.
As seen in this still, it appears most teens present came prepared to record the fisticuffs.
When questioned by a cop, Newcomb, pictured in the mug shot at right, claimed that she only attended the bout between the two 16-year-old combatants in order “to make sure nothing got out of hand.” She also wanted to look out for her daughter’s health since the teen had “sustained a skull fracture from a previous incident approximately two years ago.”
"Of course we were both wrong and I understand that," Newcomb said, adding, "I understand where ya’ll are coming from.”
As her daughter is being throttled by a larger girl, Newcomb can be heard at one point yelling to her child, “Don’t f**ing stop.” Later in the video, apparently serving as her offspring’s corner man, Newcomb advises, “Punch her in the f***ing body.”
Newcomb can also be seen at the clip’s outset, arriving with her daughter’s entourage as the teen's opponent bounced about in preparation for the fight.
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Niman Ranch Pork Company
Paul Willis and his Thornton, IA, hog production operation have received some pretty heady notoriety over the last year. There have been articles in New York City publications, articles in the San Francisco Examiner, appearances on TV, and editorials in, among other publications, the Des Moines Register. Several specialty trade publications dealing with production agriculture or with food topics have highlighted his efforts.
What’s so special about the way Willis raises and sells pork? Just about everything.
Willis is part of the San Francisco Bay area Niman Ranch Food Company, a firm that offers free-range meat products, pork in the case of Willis. Among the biggest claims of Niman Ranch is that the meat offered by the company to West Coast outlets and high-caliber restaurants simply tastes better, according to some. It tastes better, they say, because of the natural way it is raised – lots of space, humane conditions, no growth hormones or sub-therapeutic antibiotics.
Willis can take the description of how special growing translates to better product further. Animals that run, get more oxygen in their systems. They build different types of tissue. They are happier. And this animal friendly environment means the product tastes better.
Niman pitches the story as a contrast to the “mass production of meat on modern factory farms.” The company, which began operation more than 20 years ago, has established, it says, a reputation for the best tasting meats available. Its meat products are often listed on the menu with the word “Niman” attached. The writings of food-related editors on the West Coast, where Niman products abound, underscore the claim.
Willis thought he would be done with farming after graduating from the University of Iowa in psychology. He went into the Peace Corps and was placed on assignment in Nigeria. As it turned out, the contacts developed during those years may have set the stage for his pork-raising operation.
He had re-entered farming in Iowa and, until six years ago, was raising pigs the way he had always raised them. For the most part, they received few antibiotics and chemicals, were range-raised and were treated in what Willis terms a “humane” way that allowed them to produce what he believed was better meat.
Then he made the connection with Niman Ranch meat products through a Peace Corps friend who had marketing links to the organization. It was the kind of specialty market he had been looking for. The requirement was for free-range hogs, fed without using meat by-products, not given steroids or sub-therapeutic antibiotics or other artificial growth stimulants, and raised with “dignity and respect.”
At that point, Willis and another hog producer from California were the only producers from whom Niman purchased pork. The other producer did not continue to live up to the standards set by Niman, so Willis’ operation within the last couple of years has suddenly become the sole provider of pork to Niman. “All of a sudden, there was demand for my raising 2,500 hogs and there were certain times we didn’t have enough pigs.” That was the beginning of the Niman Ranch network, now at 40-50 producers in the Midwest. The search continued for other pork producers who fit the “type.” Pigs need to be raised in pasture or bedded pens/ hoop houses and meet the other special Niman criteria. According to the quality manager of Willis’ operation, increasing numbers of applications come in to the business from producers who would like to sell hogs into the Niman network. Each applicant must meet the criteria of a Quality Standards Affidavit, send copies of feed ingredient labels and feed formulas and send samples to the Thornton farm as well as to the Niman Ranch headquarters in California. If everything holds up to standards, someone from Niman Ranch Pork Co. will make a site visit to the producer.
The following are among criteria sent to potential Niman ranch producers. Pigs must:
- have been raised on pasture or in deeply bedded pens;
- have not been given any form of growth-promoting hormones or steroids; and
- have never been given antibiotics.
Recently, the Niman/Willis enterprise was approved by the Animal Welfare Institute. A set of standards that must be adhered to by each producer in the network is lengthy and detailed, covering such aspects as bedding, window openings, and, most of all, kindly treatment of animals. It requires that farms, in order to meet criteria, must be family farms and the term “family farm” is defined in detail. Networking is allowed among family farms.
The Niman Ranch Pork Company of Iowa received Extension 21 funding in 1998 and a report issued as follow-up from Extension 21 listed the numbers of hogs produced by the group as 3,000 in 1997; 10,027 in 1998 and an estimated 15,000-20,000 in 1999. Producers averaged $43/head over market price, according to the report.
Timing and connections just seemed to work for Willis. He has a built-in market for the specialty hog he wishes to produce. However, the majority of Americans (and others) who purchase pork products at meat counters are not necessarily in tune with the flavor and humane issues that are so important to those involved with Niman Ranch products.
There is some progress, however, Willis noted. People, he said, are beginning to want to know how their meat was raised, where it comes from and why they are better off buying one brand vs. another.
A few months ago, families involved with the Niman network were in Washington, D.C., at a natural foods conference. Interest seemed strong. Willis said that the 13th largest grocery chain in the country and several other large chains are “natural foods” stores. The growth and success of these companies indicates, he said, that at least a segment of our consumers are interested in knowing more about their food and believe in the better taste or value in “whole” foods. These consumers – as well as the restaurants and the customers to whom the restaurants cater – all seem willing to pay higher prices for this distinctive pork product and the flavor and the values they perceive it brings to them.
For more information about the alliance, contact:
Niman Ranch Pork Company
228 Eagle Avenue
Thornton, IA 50470
Phone: (641) 998-2683
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Mali: Independent media one of the first casualties in coup
Mutinous soldiers who seized power last week from Mali's President Amadou Toumani Touré also occupied the headquarters of the state radio and TV broadcaster and interrupted other TV and radio shows, say Reporters Without Borders (RSF) and Human Rights Watch.Some citizens turned to Twitter to get their news updates, reports the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ).
According to RSF, soldiers stormed into state broadcaster ORTM on 21 March, firing into the air and forcing all personnel to leave. Broadcasting by all privately-owned radio stations in the capital, Bamako, was suspended for at least a day, says RSF. In its place, soldiers repeatedly aired a communiqué announcing a nationwide curfew and the suspension of the constitution and state institutions.
"Whether this is a real coup or just a mutiny, we are appalled that soldiers have occupied the state broadcaster and taken control of its broadcasts," RSF said. "As is often the case in such circumstances, control of news and information is primordial and the media are among the mutineers' first targets."
But the unexpected unrest prompted demands for reliable and contextual information. CPJ documented how news unfolded on Twitter. For instance, Phil Paoletta, an expat based in Bamako, offered some advice for those just tuning in on 21March. "Anyone paying attention to #Mali for the first time-pls know that there is a lot more to this country than what you will read+see+hear today," he tweeted.
CPJ explained, "While the future of Mali's hitherto free press is unclear, the Twitter narrative demonstrated the ways in which traditional media are increasingly less relevant."
Even the President used his Twitter account to dismiss reports of trouble. According to RSF, one presidential tweet read, "There has been no coup d'état in Mali. It is just a mutiny."The state newspaper, "L'Essor", made no mention of the coup on the following day, reports CPJ.
A Malian print media journalist told RSF, "The situation is very confused... It is a problem within the military. Some soldiers are driving around the city firing in the air. No one knows what to believe."According to CPJ, until the coup, Mali had been one of the most stable and successful democracies in Africa, complete with free and abundant (though not always professional) media. The last time IFEX members documented an attack on the Malian media was 2008.
The mutinous soldiers seized power on 22 March from Touré, saying they wanted to launch a more effective response to an ethnic Tuareg rebellion in the north. Since the outbreak of the armed conflict in northern Mali in mid-January, some 200,000 Malians, many of them Tuaregs, have fled their homes, most to neighbouring Algeria, Burkina Faso, and Niger, reports Human Rights Watch.
The African Union has already suspended Mali, and the United Nations, the United States and other countries have called for a return to constitutional order.
Touré was due to step down in coming weeks after serving two terms. A presidential election had been scheduled for 29 April.
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"For all the talk of a 'large stimulus', you don’t hear much about a 'longer stimulus'."
He has this concern about short-term pump priming, whatever its size,
"The problem with a 'too small' stimulus is that you get an initial economic boost, but when the stimulus expires the economy slumps back down, as indeed happened in mid 2011. Ideally a stimulus employs some idle labor, stops it from depreciating, and tides those workers over until they can look for other jobs in fundamentally better economic conditions... If conditions are not improving soon, the ability of the stimulus to 'buy time' for those workers isn’t worth much... We end up having spent a lot of money to postpone our adjustment problems, rather than achieving takeoff. Deleveraging recessions last a long time, as shown by Rogoff and Reinhart. The need for continuing deleveraging implies that even a stimulus twice the size of ARRA won’t turn the tide."
In the circumstances, his suggestion,
"In those cases a well-designed stimulus program should not be so 'timely'. For a given presented expected value sum spent on stimulus, it is better to spread it out across the years. It is better to help a smaller set of workers for five years (or however many years it takes for most of the deleveraging to end), after which they are reemployable, than to temporarily boost a larger number of workers for two years, and then leave them back in the dust because deleveraging is still going on."
Here we go! There appears to be, to put it very charitably, an element of selective amnesia in Tyler's post here. This is effectively an admission of ideological failure (or, is it an error of judgement?) and an advocacy for focusing stimulus spending on creating durable public infrastructure assets atleast now.
In some sense, it is a classic case of the two-handed economist at work, albeit with a time lag in the action of the two hands. The one hand which had considered, debated and opposed the same when the ARRA was being formulated now appears to have changed track and embraced infrastructure spending when the earlier assumptions were proved wrong.
As early as late 2008, when the ARRA was being conceptualized, there was an intense and often acrimonious debate about the nature of the stimulus. Conservatives, who even then opposed any fiscal action, were willing to go only as far as tax cuts. They had opposed it on the grounds that there was no shelf of "shovel ready" infrastructure projects and that such spending takes time before its shows any stimulus effect on the economy. Marginal Revolution itself had directly posted and linked to several such views. In contrast, liberal economists like Paul Krugman, Mark Thoma and Brad DeLong felt that the recession was likely to persist for long and therefore preferred direct spending in infrastructure assets.
From hindsight, even the most conservative of economists would admit that the best course of fiscal policy action in late 2008 would have been to spend money on public infrastructure creation. The ultra-low interest rates, now certain to persist well into 2013 and atleast for a couple of years beyond that, would have provided unbelievably cheap financing for atleast 7-8 years. If in 2006, Congressmen and academics had been offered the prospect of accessing interest free loan for 8-10 years to repair America's battered infrastructure, many of them would have readily grabbed that opportunity. In fact, even the China-bashing Americans would have derived some vicarious pleasure from the realization that China was subsidizing America's infrastructure creation by offering virtually interest free loans!
In fact, Tyler's invocation of Reinhart-Rogoff now to fortify his argument about the pernicious nature of deleveraging recessions, appears to be a case of "what is sauce for the goose (is not) sauce for the gander"! Interestingly, Messers Krugman and Co had then invoked precisely the same duo to base their claim for infrastructure spending based stimulus. They had argued, based on the substantial body of empirical evidence presented by Reinhart-Rogoff about the average lengths of banking crisis induced recessions, that the Great Recession was likely to be a long drawn out one and therefore there was enough time for infrastructure spending to be effective.
The ideal course of action in late 2008 would have been to adopt a two-pronged approach, one which many of the aforementioned liberal/Keynesian economists did advocate, involving long-term stimulus on infrastructure creation and automatic stabilizers like unemployment insurance and food stamps to cushion the worst hit by the recession. Any tax cuts and other stimulus spending would have been an additional bonus.
I am inclined to believe that the impact of such spending on the economy as a whole would have been positive in many dimensions. Apart from the fact that it would have repaired or replaced the country's battered infrastructure, it would also have generated a significant multiplier on the economy on many fronts. It would have brought to work idle resources, encouraged businesses to not postpone investments, spurred market confidence (yes, the "confidence fairy"!) in the long-term health of the country, and so on. Given the fact that these investments were in any case necessary, one would also have to add the opportunity cost benefits of the ultra-low interest rates to calculate the multiplier.
In view of all the aforementioned, the final paragraph to Tyler's post is a sad commentary of the dark age of macroeconomics,
"Oddly, there is not much discussion about the length of fiscal stimulus. But there should be."
PS: I just did not have to energy to mine the numerous links in MR, and Krugman, Thoma and DeLong's blogs that contain the specific material from 2008-09 that I have alluded to in the post. I guess I am lazy! Anyways, interested readers could do so from here and here.
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Letter: President's gun control efforts no solutionPresident Obama signed his 23 gun-grabbing executive actions, surrounded dramatically by a human shield of children.
He played to raw emotion instead of offering a real solution to the kind of mass shootings that happened at Sandy Hook elementary school on Dec. 14.
He will no more stop gun violence with these anti-Second Amendment edicts and scare tactics than someone armed with a pea shooter. He has a bull's eye on law-abiding individuals (the ones he calls "bitter clingers"), who can protect themselves and their families with their own guns, thank you.
Every country, i.e., Cuba, China, Venezuela, that has prevented their citizens from owning guns has enslaved them and made them victims of their own governments.
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I'm looking for any information about the Python integreation in CS. Wondering why it's so hard to find anything, though Blender is often recommended for modeling (Python is it's main extension lanaguage) and CrystalBlend is on it's way. For Blender users like me this is of most interest.
Without infos about the API it's almost useless, isn't it?
Well for most cases the python API is just the same as the C++ API so the C++ api ref manual should work mostly. Other then that we don't yet have specific information. There are a few tutorials in scripts/python directory which you can look at.
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LL.D., Letters indicating the degree Legumptionorum Doctor, one learned in laws, gifted with legal gumption. Some suspicion is cast upon this derivation by the fact that the title was formerly ££.d., and conferred only upon gentlemen distinguished for their wealth. At the date of this writing Columbia University is considering the expediency of making another degree for clergymen, in place of the old D.D. — Damnator Diaboli. The new honor will be known as Sanctorum Custus, and written $$.¢. The name of the Rev. John Satan has been suggested as a suitable recipient by a lover of consistency, who points out that Professor Harry Thurston Peck has long enjoyed the advantage of a degree.
2009 Update: A particularly advanced degree in law available those who prefer to advocate mischief in the classroom rather than the courtroom.
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Probiotics are a great way to keep your intestinal system operating properly. Not just that, but (believe it or not) they help keep your immune system on track too! The kids and I tried out Culturelle® [me] & Culturelle® for Kids [kiddo & baby]. Not only were we all regular, but we were less gassy and bloated, too. And we craved sweets less and felt a lot more energy. (And I certainly needed more energy!)
I have taken probiotics before, but none like this. Culturelle® works faster and more gently than any other probiotic I have tried.
Keeping yourself and your kids healthy saves time and money for the whole family. Less time being sick and/or at the doctor means more time for the important things, like spending time together.
FROM THE COMPANY:
Culturelle® is the only probiotic dietary supplement containing Lactobacillus GG, the “good” bacteria strain used to restore and maintain a healthy balance in the digestive system. Culturelle works to help promote overall digestive and immune health. Diet, stress, travel and even some medications encourage bad bacteria to flourish in your intestinal tract. When bad bacteria outnumber good bacteria, your digestive and overall health is open to a host of potential concerns. Culturelle, with Lactobacillus GG, safely and naturally replaces the bad bacteria in your digestive tract with good bacteria leading to healthier digestion and a stronger immune system. Not all probiotic supplements are created equal. The amount of live bacteria listed on many probiotic labels is often the number of bacteria at the time of manufacture, not use. Culturelle, however is manufactured with at least 30 billion live cells with at least 10 billion guaranteed at time of usage. This is about 10 times the amount of probiotic bacteria found in many yogurts (and without the additional sugar or calories).
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What makes a good backup solution?
Part 3 of 4
Three more topics
If you have not read part one and part two you may want to start there.
In this section we will look at three more topics. First we will look at what kind of disaster we want to protect ourselves from. Then we will look at protecting the backups themselves and finally we will look at backup media.
What do we hope to protect ourselves from?
There are a few different risks that backup can protect us from. What risk you wish to mitigate will influence many of the choices you make in designing your backup strategy.
Recovery from accidentally deleted files: As I have mentioned before the most common form of recovery is recovering accidentally deleted or corrupted data files. The ideal solution for recovering from accidental deletions should probably be online with an offline solution backing that up. Online backups have the advantage of being quick to recover and depending on the solution may even allow the end user to recover their own files. If you plan to use an online backup you will also want an offline backup for resilience as we have discussed earlier but equally important an offline backups will allow you to hold a repository of older backups going further back allowing recovery of missing files that are not noticed for a period of time.
Recovery from maliciously deleted files: To be able to recover from maliciously deleted, corrupted or modified files you will need an offline backup solution. As has been mentioned previously, if an attacker can get to your production files the risk that they can get to your online backups is too great to rely solely on online backups.
Recovery from a disaster: A disaster can be anything from the failure of a drive or a server to the complete destruction of your data center. To be protected from this type of disaster you will need an offsite backup solution. The backup can be online, offline or a hybrid of both. The important item here is that the backup is not going to be in the same location as the disaster. The definition of the same location depends on the risk you want to mitigate. If you are only concerned with the possibility of a server failing a different location may be backing up to another system in the same room. If you are concerned about fire a few buildings away may be sufficient. If you are concerned about natural disaster you need to start considering geographic dispersion. Recovery from disaster really comes down to which disasters do I need to be able to recover from? In all likelihood you need to be able to recover from any disaster that might befall your datacenter.
Protecting offsite backups:
Once the backups are made they need to be protected from their own disasters.
The simplest form of sending backup offsite is to have a trusted employee to take the backups home with them. This meets the minimum requirements but really creates as many problems as it fixes.
The employee may loose the tapes.
The employee’s home/car may be robed and the tapes might be stolen.
You may have a disaster and not be able to get in contact with the employee who holds the tapes to get them back and start a recovery.
If you are using hard drives for backups it is trivial for the employee to make copies of the backed up data in the privacy of their own home. It’s slightly less trivial with tape media since most employees won’t have a tape drive at home but it is possible.
Many companies take tapes or other backup media offside and store it in a bank vault or similar secured location. This is relatively convenient and cheap while providing a fairly high level of security. There are a few downsides to this solution that must be considered. Assuming you keep the most recent full backup in the vault you can only start a recovery when the bank is open. For this to be a convenient solution you may not have a great deal of geographic distribution between the business and the bank.
There are a number of companies that specialize in secure off site storage of data backups. These companies can be contracted to pickup and drop off backups on a regular basis and in an emergency out of normal business hours access can usually be made available. The real downside to this solution is trust and cost. You are trusting a third party to protect your data so investigate the company, their history and what type of liability they are willing to accept. Since these services are taking a fair amount of liability and manpower costs you should expect to pay a fair price for their services.
Encryption: Much of the risk mentioned above can be mitigated by encrypting your backups. Many backup solutions will allow you to encrypt your data as it is written to backup media. On thing to keep in mind is that encrypted data does not compress so you will use more backup media but that’s a small price to pay for protecting your data.
There are a number of different backup media that can be used. Let’s look at the common ones.
Tape: Tape is the old standby.
To Good: It’s relatively inexpensive. It has a fairly high capacity per gigabyte of storage. Compared to spinning disks tapes are much less prone to shock damage. Tapes are easy to transport.
The Bad: Tapes are relatively slow. Tapes wear out faster than disk.
Removable Disk Cartridges: Removable Disk Cartridges are ruggedized removable hard disks. They can be useful in small organizations or for single server backups but they do not scale well for larger backup sets. I think of these in terms of being a replacement for DAT backup tapes only much faster.
USB Disks: I know a number of people who use USB disks for backups. They are relatively inexpensive. USB is not exceptionally fast for sustained transfer so they are a little slow. The biggest issue is that USB disks can only scale so far before they become to large to easily take offsite and they are not as rugged as tape. USB disks can be a really good online backup solution if the slow transfer rate is now an issue. I have used USB in a few circumstances and the price per GB can’t be beat.
D2D: Disk to Disk (D2D) backups are all the rage right now. This mostly has to do with backup windows getting shorted while the amount of data to back up continues to grow. D2D does a good job of mitigating this issue and is the only effective way to do online backups. D2D should not be the only form of backup for reasons that I have already explained. Since D2D is usually fast it is possible to have continual backups meaning we are moving from point in time backups to any point in time recovery or at least much more granular recovery.
D2D2T: Disk to Disk to Tape (D2D2T) takes D2D and then spins the data to tape while it is finishing the backup to disk. Think of the backup disk as a cache for the tape if that helps. This is a best of both world solution. This is very cool but it’s still mostly hanging out at the top end of the market so it is not cheap. D2D2T can be done on the cheap by backing up to disk and then backing those backups to tape. That’s not quite as seamless but it’s also cheaper.
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Surnames and Family Research Forum Archive
Re: Census/Marriage look up Claiborne Parish,La
In Response To: Re: Census/Marriage look up Claiborne Parish,La ()
I couldn't find the 1870 census mentioning Oliver and Margaret either. Can you please share the information that you have from that census. For example, ages, family member names, place of birth, parents' place of birth.
I'm looking for some Choctaw Bailey's too. I was wondering if we're looking for the same family line. My husband's ancestors are John and Amy Bailey (husband and wife). John is supposed to be Cherokee and Amy, Choctaw. But, that is just heresay. So, it could be reversed.
John and Amy were born in the 1820s, in South Carolina. They came to Texas and are in the 1870 and 1880 Burleson County, Texas censuses. They had 9 children. I'm wondering if Oliver, Margaret, and John are siblings or cousins. Their ages seem about the same. I know birth places on census records are wrong quite a bit.
Please let me know if you have any more information on the Bailey's, and if you've heard of John and Amy.
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|Hook and Ladder Company # 2 (708)|
95 Lehrer Avenue, Elmont, NEW YORK - 11003-2431
Apparatus History of Hook & Ladder Company #2 of Elmont Inc.
The summer of 1926 saw a group of neighbors, feeling the need for additional fire protection in the growing Elmont community, organize into what is now known as Truck 2, Elmont Fire Department. Hook and Ladder Company #2 of Elmont Inc. was originally located on Surprise Street on lots donated to the company by Joseph Nightingale, one of the charter members. The building was a simple wood frame structure erected by the members, and as legend has it, the foundation was dug using a plow pulled by a blind horse. The first floor was the apparatus room and the basement was the activity room. Over the years the structure was enlarged and improved. The first apparatus was a second hand unit and the equipment and protective clothing were basic to say the least. Alarms sounded by striking a steel ring with a large hammer. The "Firehouse" became the center of entertainment for the members and their families. It is said that for "Fifty Cents" one could have a pleasant night out with dancing and refreshments.
In 1947 a Seagrave mid-mount 65-ft. 3 section metal Arial ladder replacing the American LaFrance unit was put into service as "Hook 2". Another renovation to quarters. This expansion now allowed for a meeting room and a separate double apparatus bay, the activity area was still in the basement. This unit was in service until being replaced by a 1959 Mack C85- Cab over motor 75 ft. 3 section mid mount Arial ladder truck. The Seagrave ladder truck went on in service in Historic Williamsburg Virginia.
In the late 60's the Company sold the building and grounds to the Fire District. The District erected a six bay structure, which served as Headquarters, housing the Truck Company 2, Heavy Rescue Company 1, and the Chiefs Office. This structure was renovated in 1999 adding two additional bays and extending the building one bay deeper. A training classroom, department meeting room and administrative offices were added at this time.
In 1975 a 100 ft. 4 section Rear-mount Maxim Ariel ladder truck took over duties as Truck 2. In 1992 Truck 2 put into service a Spartan / LTI 100 ft. rear mount Ariel ladder unit. This unit remained in service until 2004. In June of 2004 we dedicated a new Spartan/LTI tiller with a 100 foot ladder .
During the over eighty years of service, the membership has compiled a remarkable record having had fifteen men achieve the rank of Chief of Department. Four members have served the Department for more than Fifty (50) years. To say that service in Hook & Ladder 2 is a family tradition under states the facts. Two of the senior members are sons of charter members and one is the grandson of a charter member.
In the last year (2011) Truck 2 responded to 716 alarms.
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Officials encourage road safety during Bayou Classic
LHSC rep: 'One drink too many is all it takes to lose your life'
Law enforcement officials and the Louisiana Highway Safety Commission encouraged safety on New Orleans roads this weekend as events for the Bayou Classic take place.
A news release urged those on the roads Friday through Sunday to buckle up, drive sober and avoid distractions, like cellphones and texting.
Officials said last year, more than 250,000 fans came to New Orleans for the Bayou Classic.
"In Louisiana, 676 people were killed in alcohol-impaired crashes last year," said LHSC representative Morris Beverly. "One drink too many is all it takes to lose your life or take another's."
Beverly also said that finding a designated driver "must be part of your game plan if you will be drinking this weekend."
The LHSC said seat belt use in Louisiana is 79.3 percent, which is nearly 7 points lower than the national average.
Copyright 2012 by WDSU.com All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
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Measure your geek quotient, 2012 version
Martin Rowe- August 9, 2012In 2000, we published "Measure your geek quotient" where we asked readers to answer several questions. Twelve years later, non-engineers still call us "geeks." (Actually, my daughter didn't call me a geek in 2000 because she was too young to know--Daddy was cool then.)
It's time for an update. Remember, there was no Facebook, YouTube, twitter, or LinkedIn at the turn of the millennium (was 200 really the turn of the millennium?). Would you define a geek as someone who walks around with two cell phones and a tablet or is that someone in sales?
Here's a question that needs revision:
25. Prior to the general use of electronic calculators, engineers used slide rules to perform calculations. All of the common scales but one are nonlinear: logarithmic, trigonometric, and so on. What is the one mathematical scale on a slide rule that has linear divisions?
The correct answer today: "Is there an app for that?"
Let's rewrite the survey. Click here to see the 2000 version.
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Who lives in independent living facilities?
Residents normally move to an independent living facility to downgrade from the size of their current residence, cut down on the amount of household chores, or to live in a more senior friendly environment. Independent living facilities like South Orange B'nai Brith Federation House (SOBBFH) are usually restricted to people over the age of 55.
How are independent living facilities paid for?
In most cases, independent living facilities are paid for by the resident. Subsidized housing funded by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) may be an option for low-income seniors. There's normally a wait list to move into a HUD subsidized facility, which can be a several-year long process.
How much do independent living facilities cost?
The average cost of an independent living facility is $2,500 a month. Cost varies based on a number of factors, including the geographic location of the facility and the size of the residence. The monthly cost normally includes the rent for your housing, utilities, cable, and Internet. A one-time move-in fee may be charged, which is typically up to $1,000. Contact South Orange B'nai Brith Federation House (SOBBFH) for detailed information about costs and payment methods.
Common Services offered by independent living facilities:
Contact South Orange B'nai Brith Federation House (SOBBFH) for a complete list of services and events offered.
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Mr. T.L. Johnson Jr. (Letter: Gun control numbers don’t add up, Letter of the Week, Feb. 20, amarillo.com) quotes a lot of statistics I have no problem with, but he makes a few other comments that I would like to address.
A little background: I was a gunner on B-24s in World War II. I have been a casual hunter, and I own a handgun. The statement was made in the letter of 32,637 vehicle deaths in 2011. Based upon the number of vehicles, miles driven and number of passengers, that percentage would be smaller than gun deaths. Approximately 35 percent of Americans own guns, while nearly all of us own or use cars.
Let’s compare a few facts with myths about guns.
■ Guns don’t kill people, people kill people: States with the highest rate of gun ownership have a gun murder rate 114 percent higher than those with the lowest gun ownership rates.
■ A gun at home keeps you safer: A gun at home is 22 times more likely to harm a family member than an intruder.
■ Good guys with guns can stop bad guys: No mass shootings have been stopped by good guys with guns in the past 30 years.
■ Guns make women safer: A woman is six times more likely to be shot by a husband, boyfriend or ex-partner than murdered by a male stranger. A woman’s chance of being killed increases more than seven times if a gun is accessible.
■ Violent video games: The U.S. spends $44 per capita on video games. Japan spends $55 per capita.
■ Firearms per 100 people: 88 in the U.S., 0.6 in Japan.
■ Gun homicides in 2008: 11,030 in the U.S., 11 in Japan.
The myth used is that we don’t need more gun laws, we just need to enforce the ones we have.
The laws we have are weak and full of loopholes, thanks to the gun lobby. The gun lobby opposes research on gun violence and sharing of information or funding for enforcement of existing laws. The gun lobby opposes background checks for private sellers, aka gun shows.
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, the enforcer of gun laws, has not had a permanent director for six years, thanks to the NRA.
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Top prize goes to company that aims to connect online shoppers and local retailers.
SOUTH BEND -- A Web site concept that enables online shoppers to receive products from local retailers within a day won first prize in the fifth annual McCloskey Notre Dame Business Plan Competition.
The team, composed of two seniors, three graduate students and one 2002 graduate, will win $15,000 as a result of their proposal.
The company, called LicketyShip, envisioned a system where online customers would have the ability to search for a product available within a certain ZIP code.
When a customer purchases an item, LicketyShip uses an existing courier service to have someone drive to the store, pick up the item, and deliver it to the customer on the same day it was ordered.
Current Notre Dame seniors Christopher Kelly and Aaron Wenger, current Notre Dame graduate students Justin Carter, Radu Olievschi and Sarah Coffman, and 2002 Notre Dame graduate Robert Pazornik teamed up to create the winning entry.
Their concept beat out 65 other entries. To enter, each team needed to have at least one Notre Dame student or alumnus and represent an enterprise that was either in the conceptual or early-growth stage.
The McCloskey competition was one of three competitions organized by the Gigot Center for Entrepreneurial Studies at the University of Notre Dame. The winners of all three competitions were announced Friday.
A Washington-based highway contractor, Max J. Kuney Co., took home first prize in the Dorothy Dolphin Notre Dame Family Business Plan Competition, which is designed to strengthen development of existing family-owned businesses.
In the Social Venture Plan Competition, Youth Training in Peace Education, an organization that wants to create a youth-oriented Web site to promote peace education captured the $5,000 first prize.
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What the Dog Saw and Other Adventures
Brings together some of Gladwell's writing from The New Yorker in the past decade, including: the bittersweet tale of the inventor of the birth control pill; the dazzling inventions of the pasta sauce pioneer Howard Moscowitz; spotlighting Ron Popeil, the king of the American kitchen; and the secrets… More »
Brings together some of Gladwell's writing from The New Yorker in the past decade, including: the bittersweet tale of the inventor of the birth control pill; the dazzling inventions of the pasta sauce pioneer Howard Moscowitz; spotlighting Ron Popeil, the king of the American kitchen; and the secrets of Cesar Millan, the "dog whisperer." Gladwell also explores intelligence tests, ethnic profiling and "hindsight bias," and why it was that everyone in Silicon Valley once tripped over themselves to hire the same college graduate.« Less
Pt. 1: Obsessives, pioneers, and other varieties of minor genius. The pitchman: Ron Popeil and the conquest of the American kitchen -- The ketchup conundrum: mustard now comes in dozens of different varieties--why has ketchup stayed the same? -- Blowing up: how Nassim Taleb turned the inevitability of disaster into an investment strategy. -- True colors: hair dye and the hidden history of postwar America -- John Rock's error: what the inventor of the birth control pill didn't know about women's health -- What the dog saw: Cesar Millan and the movements of mastery -- Pt. 2: Theories, predictions and diagnoses. Open secrets: Enron, intelligence and the perils of too much information -- Million dollar Murray: why problems like homelessness may be easier to solve than to manage -- The picture problem: mammography, air power, and the limits of looking -- Something borrowed: should a charge of plagiarism ruin your life? -- Connecting the dots: the paradoxes of intelligence reform -- The art of failure: why some people choke and others panic -- Blowup: who can be blamed for a disaster like the Challenger explosion? No one, and we'd better get used to it -- Pt. 3: Personality, character and intelligence. Late bloomers: why do we equate genius with precocity? -- Most likely to succeed: how do we hire when we can't tell who's right for the job? -- Dangerous minds: criminal profiling made easy -- The talent myth: are smart people overrated? -- The New-Boy Network: what do job interviews really tell us? -- Troublemakers: what pit bulls can teach us about crime
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It was a textbook dog-biting case: unneutered, ill-trained, charged-up dogs with a history of aggression and an irresponsible owner somehow get loose and set upon a small child. The dogs had already passed through the animal bureaucracy of Ottawa, and the city could easily have prevented the second attack with the right kind of generalization - a generalization based not on breed but on the known and meaningful connection between dangerous dogs and negligent owners.
The kinds of dogs that kill people change over time, because the popularity of certain breeds changes over time. The one thing that doesn't change is the total number of the people killed by dogs. When we have more problems with pit bulls, it's not necessarily a sign that pit bulls are more dangerous than other dogs. It could just be a sign that pit bulls have become more numerous.
They were looking for people who had the talent to think ouside the box. It never occurred to them that, if everyone had to think outside the box, maybe it was the box that needed fixing.
One possibility is simply to hire and reward the smartest people. But the link between, say, IQ and job performance is distinctly underwhelming. . . . 'What IQ doesn't pick up is effectiveness at commonsense sorts of things, especially working with people,' Richard Wagner, a psychologist a Florida State University, says. 'In terms of how we evaluate schooling, everything is about working by yourself. If you work with someone else, it's called cheating. Once you get out in the real world, everything you do involves working with other people.'
in our zeal to correct what we believe to be the problems of the past, we end up creating new problems for the future.
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