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A terrific story in the Journal this morning shines a light on what the country’s brightest minds do all day on Wall Street—bicker over paper sold by boiler-room lenders to strapped lower-middle-class borrowers.
The piece, by Greg Zuckerman, Serena Ng and Liz Rappaport, describes a trade between Wall Street banks and small Texas outfit that sold them insurance, credit default swaps, on ailing bonds backed by subprime mortgages in California.
The Texas outfit, Amherst Holdings, then arranges for the bonds to be paid off in full, rendering the CDS worthless. Ta da!
Now JP Morgan Chase, Bank of America, Royal Bank of Scotland are crying foul, the Journal says, because they paid 90 cents expecting to be paid a dollar in insurance for bonds that were certain to go bad had they not been redeemed. Ha ha.
A couple of key details to keep in mind, courtesy of the WSJ
Traders can buy credit-default swaps on securities they don’t own. At one point, at least $130 million of bets had been made on the performance of around $27 million in securities, according to a person familiar with the matter.
So far the latest dust-up has been all words, in part, bankers say, because they are wary of attracting more regulatory scrutiny at a time when lawmakers are planning major reforms in the largely unregulated derivatives markets, long lucrative for banks.
Second, the story is a great example of straightforward reporting at its best because it places new facts in the public domain, and allows people like me to ponder their implications. My take: this is what our brightest minds do for a living?
What is the economic utility of having $130 million of insurance sold on $27 million worth of bonds, especially bonds backed by mortgages that never should have been made in the first place? Remember, as we now know (and “Giant Pool of Money” remains the best explainer on this), it was the demand for bonds that drove the hard-sell of subprime mortgages to unsuspecting amateurs, in this case in California, not the other way around. Without the bonds, subprime mortgage lending remains the backwater it always was. Remember also, as the Journal reported back in 2007, more than half of subprime mortgages were sold to people who probably qualified for more affordable prime loans:
An analysis for The Wall Street Journal of more than $2.5 trillion in subprime loans made since 2000 shows that as the number of subprime loans mushroomed, an increasing proportion of them went to people with credit scores high enough to often qualify for conventional loans with far better terms.
In 2005, the peak year of the subprime boom, the study says that borrowers with such credit scores got more than half — 55% — of all subprime mortgages that were ultimately packaged into securities for sale to investors, as most subprime loans are.
Why, 2005, that’s the same year as the mortgages in today’s story!
And this is all not to mention the fact that this story deals with the sale of bond insurance that was not defined as insurance, meaning that the seller did not have to follow normal insurance rules and set aside reserves to cover potential losses. That’s why AIG went down, and why taxpayers own it.
And then there are the players. Did you know that RBS this year recorded the biggest loss in British corporate history? And as for BoA, proud owner of Countrywide and Merrill Lynch, what more can one say?
A lot that’s wrong with the financial system can be found in this story. Good job, WSJ.
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‘Piggyback Bandit’ Terrorizing High School Basketball Teams Again
There are seven billion people in the world, so it would stand to reason that at least one poor soul would be saddled with an overwhelming compulsion to ride around on the backs of high school athletes.
That’s pretty much the only way we can explain Sherwin Shayegan, aka ‘The Piggyback Bandit.’ Described to police as five-foot eight and stocky, the 28-year old has been banned from high school sporting events in Montana, Washington, Oregon, Montana and North Dakota because of his habit of going up to the players after games and asking them if he could ride around on their backs. The habit began back in 2008 and was last reported earlier this month.
Sometimes Shayegan, who will pose as a water boy or a college student writing a term paper, offers the athletes money for the ride. Sometimes he just hops on without warning. Shayegan looks like he could be mentally challenged, according to first-person accounts, so the players usually appease his strange behavior. But the authorities say Shayegan, who has a long non-piggyback-related criminal record in his home state of Washington, is actually quite intelligent.
“What’s disturbing to me is that he is jumping on our young athletes, he is 240 pounds, and he can hurt someone,” said Mark Beckman, executive director of the Montana High School Sports Association.
Oh totally. That’s obviously the only thing that’s disturbing here. Player injuries. We were thinking the same thing.
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Since 1963—before our doors on Wilshire Boulevard were even open!—LACMA has been supporting young and emerging Los Angeles artists through an annual acquisitions program, originally known as the Young Talent Award and now called Art Here and Now. One-time up-and-coming artists like Chris Burden, Mary Corse, Tim Hawkinson, and Mark Bradford have all been YTA/AHAN artists. More recently AHAN has resulted in acquisitions by Ruben Ochoa, Steve Roden, Aaron Curry, Zoe Crosher, and Mark Flores.
Art Here and Now: Studio Forum is the latest iteration of this program. Members join this group and then, along with LACMA curators, visit a variety of artists’ studios around L.A. Following a dialogue between AHAN members and curators about the works, LACMA acquires new works to enter its contemporary collection. This year, five artists have had works acquired by LACMA through AHAN: Studio Forum—Mark Hagen, William E. Jones, Sanya Kantarovsky, Dianna Molzan, and Brenna Youngblood.
Mark Hagen draws inspiration from temporal and spatial contradictions and what he calls the “problem of orientation in a directionless field.” A key influence on Hagen’s work is Robert Smithson, whose own oeuvre displayed a fascination with geography, deep time, and a dystopian skepticism of technology. Hagen’s current body of work stems from an interest in amateur archaeology and serial forms borrowed from a minimalist vocabulary. To Be Titled (Subtractive and Additive Sculpture #8) is composed of slabs of obsidian that have been cut from a boulder and an aluminum frame of the artist’s design. Obsidian is a rock made when volcanic lava cools suddenly creating a hardened form while retaining an internal amorphous structure. This “material irony” is one of the attractions for Hagen, who is also fascinated by its multifarious symbolic and functional uses over the world—from Southeast Asia to the Americas. The obsidian slices or plates in To Be Titled are polished to a deep shine that further references the material’s uses as mirror in ancient Mexican cultures. He also alludes to Smithson’s notion of “mirror travel,” the collapsing of spatial and temporal references played with in his Yucatan Mirror Displacements (1969).
William E. Jones’ digital video Punctured gathers one hundred images from a vast cache from the Farm Security Administration’s photography program (1935–44), which famously depict rural and urban life in the Depression and is now archived and publicly accessible on the Library of Congress’ website. Jones singles out negatives that had been rejected, or “killed,” by Roy Stryker, the head of the FSA, who was not trained as a photographer but an economist. For a number of years, Stryker had ultimate authority over which of 145,000 negatives were printed; nearly half of the negatives made from 1935-1943 were rejected, including negatives by Walker Evans, Theodor Jung, Carl Mydans, Marion Post Wolcott, among others. Stryker’s physical method of rejecting negatives was to punch a hole in the negative—puncturing the image.
Working from this informal collection of “killed” images, Jones works with photo editing software to create thousands of details, therefore creating the impression of a manual zoom out of the central image—a punctured hole. Jones describes the work as a “movie” rather than an animation although it is a collection or agglomeration of thousands of still images that he edits to create the impression of a motion picture.
Sanya Kantarovsky spent his childhood in Russia before departing for his artistic education abroad. His current work is haunted by the aesthetic concerns of the Soviet era. The Third Librarian and The Man with the Black Coat are part of a body of paintings, sculptures, and drawings inspired by the writings of Soviet experimentalist Daniil Kharms. With economic and deadpan formal means, The Man with the Black Coat depicts a man in a blue suit with a pipe surrounded by two men in black coats—alluding to the forced disappearance of both Kharms and his writings under Stalin’s regime.
Kantarovsky uses a surrogate figure of sorts who bears a resemblence to the Monsieur Hulot character in the films of Jacques Tati. The Third Librarian isolates the nondescript shoes of this recurring character in another frozen moment that seems both comic and menacing. Through his use of isolated gestures and synechdocal elements, as well as his blurring of figure and ground, Kantarovsky combines and reconstitutes the art historical, literary, and personal references that populate his work.
Dianna Molzan’s practice lies in recontextualizing the fundamentals of painting by manipulating traditional materials and framing devices. Using common material elements (oil paints and canvas) she incises, unravels, and reworks the painting surface, oftentimes only leaving the stretcher bars intact. Untitled (2012) retains one L-shaped corner of a painted frame, but the central area typically occupied by the painted canvas exposes the support wall. From the other corner, a U-shaped stuffed-and-painted canvas resembling a velvet rope hangs down and makes a fragile connection back to the frame. In this painting as in others, Molzan tests how far an artist can go before a painting becomes an object rather than a picture plane.
By 2007, Brenna Youngblood had abandoned the straight printed photograph as her medium of choice and began to integrate photography as source and surface material for her mixed-media paintings and constructions. Layering her own photographs of fragments of interior as well as figurative elements and eyes onto panels, canvases, and found surfaces, Youngblood’s practice became more painterly and abstract. Youngblood often incorporates elements from her personal archives, combining the subjective realm of personal souvenirs and recognizable cultural icons. Speaking about M.I.A., a large-scale, free-standing sculpture, Youngblood said, “When I was rummaging through old boxes, I found my grade school math book entitled Mathematics of Individual Achievement. I turned it over and on the back cover there was a logo design of a three-dimensional M.I.A., like a jungle gym, which became the inspiration for this piece.” The math book, in fact, became a point of departure for an entire recent body of work, which employs visual and material languages, arithmetic symbols, and equations.
Made of plywood in human-scale, or “jungle-gym scale,” M.I.A. invites circumambulation. Words and reading, such as “I AM” and “AIM” reveal themselves as a viewer interacts with the work. One may also see ‘missing in action’ as well as MIA, the popular Sri Lankan-British songwriter, singer, artist, director and activist, emerge as linguistic, figurative and cultural references. This is referred to as Youngblood’s “self-reflexive process,” in problem-solving, in relation to form, concept, and meaning.
Rita Gonzalez and Christine Y. Kim, Contemporary Art
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Using a more easily absorbed form of zinc oxide has enabled Image Skin care to develop products that are a cross between skin care and sun care. The new collection is called Prevention+, and it's available with an SPF as high as 50 - yet the products will be absorbed into your skin like any moisturizer.
"Everyone dreads using sunscreen because of the white, tacky film it leaves on the skin....Prevention + absorbs immediately into the skin and leaves no sticky residue," said Janna Ronert, founder / CEO, Image Skincare.
The products are packaged in white tubes with bright yellow accents. Prevention+ Daily Hydrating Moisturizer, SPF 30, is shown. The collection also includes a matte moisturizer with SPF 32; a tinted moisturizer with SPF 30; and an Ultimate Protection moisturizer with SPF 50.
In addition to zinc oxide, the products contain stem cells, potent antioxidants, and botanical UVB "boosters" that help protect skin on a cellular level.
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Event: The John L. Warfield Center for African and African American Studies at The University of Texas at Austin presents a reading of "Sweet Tea, Black Gay Men of the South" by performance artist and scholar E. Patrick Johnson.
When: Thursday, Sept. 9 at 8 p.m., Friday, Sept. 10 at 8 p.m., and Sunday, Sept. 12 at 2 p.m.
Where: F. Loren Winship Drama Building, Oscar G. Brockett Theater. A campus map is available online.
Background: Based on excerpts from his book, "Sweet Tea, Black Gay Men of the South," Johnson will perform the oral histories of black gay men, ages 19 to 93, who were born and raised in the American South. The performance will address an array of topics, including love, sex, death, family, the church and HIV/AIDS. Johnson is professor and chair of graduate studies in the Department of Performance Studies, and professor of African American Studies at Northwestern University. A part of the John L. Warfield Center for African and African American Studies' Performing Blackness Series, the performances will include a Q&A forum on Thursday, Sept. 9, a post-performance reception on Friday, Sept. 10, and a matinee on Sunday, Sept. 12. The Performing Blackness Series is dedicated to the production of new theatrical forms that stimulate dialogue around race, identity and the role of art in fostering social change. This special production is presented in partnership with the Ellen Stone Belic Institute for the Study of Women and Gender in the Arts and Media, Columbia College, Chicago and ALLGO, a statewide queer people of color organization.
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I have read a fiery gospel writ in burnished rows of steel.
April 9th, 2012, 04:33 AM
Originally Posted by PureX
I was only 9 when I started to play and take lessons. What I remember is really liking the sound of the guitar string ringing through the wooden guitar body. I don't know why, but it sounded like a kind of voice to me. Like the guitar had it's own voice.
When I was a little older, I really liked the way Jimmy Page played guitar. I liked that he was so much more versatile than most of the guitar players of the day. My teacher loaned me some B.B.King records to listen to and said I should listen closely to the way he played. So I understood that a lot of what Jimmy Page played was a variation of the sounds and styles of blues guitar players like B.B. King. I was amazed to discover that those trippy Zeppelin songs like "That's The Way", and "Tangerine" were played in the old blues dropped "D" tuning. (Something else that I had never heard of before then.)
I was very excited to learn about the blues, and those strange ways of tuning the guitar, and how they tied in with the music I liked listening to. It opened up possibilities that I never knew existed.
Altered tunings intrigued me early on as well. The first song I ever learned was in drop C
"God foreknows nothing by contingency, but that he foresees, purposes, and does all things according to his immutable, eternal and infallible will. By this thunderbolt, "free will" is thrown prostrate and utterly dashed to pieces. Those therefore, who would assert "free will," must either deny this thunderbolt, or pretend not to see it, or push it from them." -Martin Luther
"The Church has surrendered her once lofty concept of God and has substituted for it one so low, so ignoble, as to be utterly unworthy of thinking, worshiping men. This she has not done deliberately, but little by little and without her knowledge; and her very unawareness only makes her situation all the more tragic." -A.W. Tozer
"He that has doctrinal knowledge and speculation only, without affection, never is engaged in the business of religion." -Jonathan Edwards
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Economic Outlook: Free lunch, really
25 Sep, 2012
Remember those hucksters who say, “You have nothing to lose,” or “This won’t hurt a bit?”
Don’t internal walls go up whenever the word “free” is tossed around carelessly?
In that case, Robert Frank, a Cornell University economics professor at the Johnson School of Management, sounds every bit the flim-flam man in an opinion piece published Monday in The New York Times. His claim, also his headline, is “Nation’s choices needn’t be painful.” And, sure enough, Frank connects a dots and creates a few logical loops that offer a way out of the country’s ballooning deficit problem and economic morass, all in a few simple, if exceedingly scary steps.
Call it sink-or-swim economics but it is not new to claim the nation’s politicians are out to polarize the issues, economic or otherwise, in order to paint the opposition as extraordinary in their ineptitude. (Meanwhile, if an issue is truly that terrible, it would take a true hero/genius/saint to turn it around — vote for me!)
Then there is the concept of kicking an issue down the road, finding a way to put off a painful solution until after the next election, using some vague combination of generosity and logic to explain why taking our medicine today would be a bad idea.
If you are in a hurry, some painful surgery is necessary. Cut spending on schools, roads, defense, healthcare, social security — you name it.
And do it now.
The deficit is one issue in which politicians create an emergency out of thin air. The concern here is that erasing the $16 trillion deficit in 10 years is extremely arbitrary. Why not 15 years or 20 years or 30 years? Doctors don’t ask patients to lose all their extra weight in some sort of crash diet strategy. Deficit reduction can be far more generous than even that. Someone on a diet might really only have 15 years to live and should start dieting right away. The U.S. economy’s life expectancy is longer than that, so a no-huddle offense is unnecessary.
In effect starting deficit reduction today is an extremely good idea. But forcing the fix into a 10-year span is extremely arbitrary and a very bad idea. As long as progress is being made, 20 years is fine. So is 30.
Here’s Frank’s idea of painless: Don’t cut taxes to provide stimulus to the economy — everyone with a little more jingle in their pockets at the end of the day. Raise taxes with a target date in the near future to stimulate the economy.
Why? If you cut taxes to stimulate the economy, you subtract from government revenue, which means cutting government spending and laying off government workers. If you pass a higher tax and have a start date of two years from now, corporations and consumers will see higher prices coming down the road. Their response will be to start spending now before prices go up. That will increase business activity, generate sales tax and add, not subtract from government revenues. In addition, it will give companies a reason to hire, because companies hire when demand rises or, put another way, when customers show up.
Here’s another simple formula. If the federal government waits before fixing roads, bridges, canals, dams, national monuments or whatever national maintenance needs doing, the cost goes up. Waiting to fix something means more wear and tear and gives inflation a chance to elevate prices.
Anyone who owns a house knows the longer you wait to fix the roof, the more the price goes up and the greater the chance of water damage inside the house.
Using the same logic, don’t let politicians polarize simple issues. Fix the roads now because it means jobs and saves money later. It’s hard to argue with that.
Frank sounds he’s raising children with the premise that the consequences of an action should be tied closely to that action. In other words, don’t react to a child who spills the milk by sending him to his room. React by having the child clean up the milk. Align consequences to behavior.
Frank recommends using tolls on roads to shape national behavior. Taxpayers understand toll booths and take them in stride, more or less. But some drivers will stay off congested roads if tolls are too expensive. They will take the bus to work, or the subway, which means less congested roads and better use of public transportation, which lowers greenhouse gas emissions, as well.
This is where things get dicey. It’s obvious that poorer workers will quit using roads sooner than wealthier folks and soon this kind of economic manipulation begins to sound undemocratic.
And then Frank would kick the can down the road, as well. “None of these taxes should be levied, however, while the economy is still struggling,” he wrote in a column published Monday. So maybe he plans to run for office someday.
Markets around the globe were flat Tuesday. The Nikkei 225 index in Japan rose 0.25 percent, while the Shanghai composite index in China shed 0.19 percent. The Hang Seng index in Hong Kong added 0.02 percent, while the Sensex in India rose 0.11 percent.
The S&P/ASX 200 in Australia lost 0.29 percent.
In midday trading in Europe, the FTSE 100 index in Britain added 0.19 percent, while the DAX 30 in Germany gained 0.06 percent. The CAC 40 in France rose 0.07 percent, while the Stoxx Europe 600 climbed a mere 0.18 percent.
ANTHONY HALL || United Press International
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My review in seven words: the film is excellent, go see it.
But I’m not here to review films. This is a blog about 3D so this post is going to be about Scorsese’s first 3D film Hugo, a new landmark in 3D filmmaking.
Martin Scorsese has made a fantastic film on at least two distinct levels. It’s a great story told beautifully. Plus it’s a turning point in filmmaking that examines another major turning point in filmmaking history with great insight and love.
Visually it’s gorgeous, very well suited for 3D treatment. Hugo is full of dark moody interior shots that lend themselves beautifully to the low light limitations of 3D. Lush period sets, lots of steam, snow, oversized clockworks—these all work very well in 3D.
Scorsese has also mastered the art of expressive 3D close-ups. Having an incredibly talented cast certainly helps, but there is an intimacy in his technique that I haven’t seen before. It adds to the story.
Sidebar: at the showing I attended there was something funny going on with the right side of the screen, not in every scene, but many. It looked like perhaps some alignment was off. I was seated slightly to the left in the theatre, but not far enough to make a difference. It was distracting (so was the row of eight little boys loudly chewing popcorn behind me) but not enough to keep me from being completely caught up in the film.
Hugo is a story-driven film, not the effects-driven cross-merchandised product so many people have come to dread. The story is a powerful one, featuring an archetype most of us can identify with—the plucky resourceful orphan. From Dickens’ Oliver Twist and David Copperfield to Harry Potter, it’s a great formula. When you see it bring tissues.
Georges Méliès (1861 to 1938)
But there’s another very meaningful level to the film centered on Georges Méliès, an early enthusiastic pioneer of spectacular cinematic visual effects. In gorgeous and (as far as I can tell) quite accurate flashbacks Scorsese captures his delight in the new technology, the highs and lows of the business, as well as the risks of ridicule, ignominy, and obscurity.
Méliès took what was literally a sideshow gimmick and turned it into the most important storytelling tool since the invention of the printing press and moveable type. You see where I’m going with this?
This had special resonance for me. There are parallels with the artistic tribulations of 3D and I had an overwhelming sense of the historical moment—the cinema crossroads if you will—we’re at today.
Scorsese is a prominent film preservationist, cineaste, and promoter of film history—as well as one of the most respected directors of our time. His study of and respect for film history is visible in every frame. He shows the seminal L’arrivée d’un train en gare de La Ciotat or The Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat Station by the Lumière brothers—one of the first things I blogged about here. Even the film’s poster depicts little Hugo dangling from a clock hand in an homage to Harold Lloyd. With this film Scorsese now joins the ranks of Wim Wenders and Werner Herzog as pioneers elevating a lowly gimmick into a powerful storytelling tool, an art.
With every 3D film of artistic quality and integrity released the industry gains important experience and the negative stereotypes about 3D are eroded a bit more.
3D isn’t finished—it’s just getting started
Our culture is nostalgic. The good old days always seem to be behind us. Every generation believes the parade’s gone by. With Hugo we are finally seeing what 3D can do in the hands of a visionary filmmaker—from my vantage point I am increasingly convinced that the golden age of 3D film is just beginning.
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press play to hear from WCHC Clinic Physical Therapist Andy Bishop
For most, the holiday season is about joy and giving to others, but if you’re not careful, it can mean many aches and pains. During the season, many are baking non-stop, packing their cars for holiday road trips, and shopping until they drop. Washington County Hospital and Clinics Physical Therapist Andy Bishop says there are ways of preventing these pains from happening. He says when lifting, lift with your knees. He says stretching your neck and shoulders is also important when hovering over a stove or countertop, and try not to be in one position for too long. A full list of tips can be found at moveforwardpt.com.
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CEPD targets 3.8% economic growth in '13
CNATAIPEI--The Council for Economic Planning and Development (CEPD), Taiwan's top economic planner, has set a target of raising the country's gross domestic product (GDP) growth to 3.8 percent in 2013, according to the latest economic development paper released by the council Saturday.
March 10, 2013, 12:13 am TWN
As the global economy is on the way to recovery, the domestic economic fundamentals are staging a rebound, prompting the CEPD to become more upbeat about the local economic climate.
In 2012, Taiwan's economy grew by only 1.26 percent from a year earlier, easing from an annual increase of 4.07 percent recorded in 2011, largely because of weak global demand.
However, the Directorate General of Budget, Accounting and Statistics (DGBAS) has forecast Taiwan's GDP growth will hit 3.59 percent for 2013, citing an increase in exports and private consumption as a reason.
The DGBAS even raised its forecast of Taiwan's 2013 GDP growth from the previous estimate of 3.53 after the country posted better-than-expected economic growth in the fourth quarter of 2012. The DGBAS said momentum is likely to continue into this year.
According to the CEPD paper, the council aims to improve the local investment environment, speed up the pace of an industrial upgrade, push for development in the rural areas to strengthen the overall economic structure and eventually hit its GDP growth target.
According to the CEPD paper, the council has also set a target of US$21,412 (NT$633,795) in per capita GDP for 2013, up from US$20,378 recorded in 2012, while the jobless rate is expected to fall to 4.1 percent from 4.24 percent a year earlier.
The council has also set a goal of keeping Taiwan's inflation within 2 percent this year. In 2012, Taiwan's consumer price index rose 1.93 percent from a year earlier.
Regarding attracting more investments in Taiwan, since November 2012, the council said the government has approved 24 investment projects filed by Taiwanese investors operating overseas. The companies plan to pour NT$172.4 billion (US$5.82 billion) into the country, and once the projects are realized, the investments are expected to add about 26,000 jobs in the local market, according to the council.
Kuan Chung-ming, head of the CEPD, is scheduled to attend an economic sub-committee of the Legislative Yuan on March 11 to report the economic development paper and take questions from lawmakers.
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Army faltered in investigating detainee abuse
By Tim Golden, New York Times, May 22, 2005
Despite autopsy findings of homicide and statements by soldiers that two prisoners died after being struck by guards at an American military detention center in Bagram, Afghanistan, Army investigators initially recommended closing the case without bringing any criminal charges, documents and interviews show.
Within days after the two deaths in December 2002, military coroners determined that both had been caused by "blunt force trauma" to the legs. Soon after, soldiers and others at Bagram told the investigators that military guards had repeatedly struck both men in the thighs while they were shackled and that one had also been mistreated by military interrogators.
Nonetheless, agents of the Army's Criminal Investigation Command reported to their superiors that they could not clearly determine who was responsible for the detainees' injuries, military officials said. Military lawyers at Bagram took the same position, according to confidential documents from the investigation obtained by The New York Times. [complete article]
In U.S. report, brutal details of 2 Afghan inmates' deaths
By Tim golden, New York Times, May 20, 2005
Even as the young Afghan man was dying before them, his American jailers continued to torment him.
The prisoner, a slight, 22-year-old taxi driver known only as Dilawar, was hauled from his cell at the detention center in Bagram, Afghanistan, at around 2 a.m. to answer questions about a rocket attack on an American base. When he arrived in the interrogation room, an interpreter who was present said, his legs were bouncing uncontrollably in the plastic chair and his hands were numb. He had been chained by the wrists to the top of his cell for much of the previous four days.
Mr. Dilawar asked for a drink of water, and one of the two interrogators, Specialist Joshua R. Claus, 21, picked up a large plastic bottle. But first he punched a hole in the bottom, the interpreter said, so as the prisoner fumbled weakly with the cap, the water poured out over his orange prison scrubs. The soldier then grabbed the bottle back and began squirting the water forcefully into Mr. Dilawar's face.
"Come on, drink!" the interpreter said Specialist Claus had shouted, as the prisoner gagged on the spray. "Drink!"
At the interrogators' behest, a guard tried to force the young man to his knees. But his legs, which had been pummeled by guards for several days, could no longer bend. An interrogator told Mr. Dilawar that he could see a doctor after they finished with him. When he was finally sent back to his cell, though, the guards were instructed only to chain the prisoner back to the ceiling.
"Leave him up," one of the guards quoted Specialist Claus as saying.
Several hours passed before an emergency room doctor finally saw Mr. Dilawar. By then he was dead, his body beginning to stiffen. It would be many months before Army investigators learned a final horrific detail: Most of the interrogators had believed Mr. Dilawar was an innocent man who simply drove his taxi past the American base at the wrong time. [complete article]
Consider the source
By Michael Isikoff and Mark Hosenball, Newsweek, May 19, 2005
A controversial exile movement cited by President George W. Bush as a source of information on Iran's nuclear ambitions is condemned for psychologically and physically abusing its own members in a new report by Human Rights Watch.
In a document scheduled for public release this week, Human Rights Watch alleges that the Iranian exile group known as Mujahedine Khalq (MEK) has a history of cultlike practices that include forcing members to divorce their spouses and to engage in extended self-criticism sessions. [complete article]
See the full report from HRW, No exit: Human rights abuses inside the Mojahedin Khalq camps.
Iran flexes its 'soft power' in Iraq
By Scott Peterson, Christian Science Monitor, May 20, 2005
Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, Iraq's most influential Shiite leader, never meets with American officials. But when Iranian Foreign Minister Kamal Kharrazi arrived in Iraq this week, the revered Iranian-born cleric threw open his doors.
Their meeting revealed the warmth that met the foreign minister during his three-day visit, which sometimes felt more like a family reunion than a meeting of leaders of nations that fought throughout the 1980s, at the cost of 1 million dead and wounded. The trip that ended Thursday also underscored a US policy dilemma in Iraq. [complete article]
Can China be contained?
By Jeffrey E. Garten, YaleGlobal, May 19, 2005
For over a decade now pundits have speculated as to how the rise of China as a major power would affect the world. That future is now, and the Western powers are flailing about, wondering how to respond. Pressure is building on China on many fronts to modify its behavior without clear thought as to how all these pressures will end up affecting everyone caught in the web of globalization. [complete article]
2 sides in Bolton debate take positions for next stage of fight
By Douglas Jehl, New York Times, May 19, 2005
Republicans and Democrats drew new lines on Wednesday in the battle over John R. Bolton, issuing rival reports to stake out their positions for the next stage of the Senate debate over his nomination to become ambassador to the United Nations.
The reports reflected the deep divisions on the Foreign Relations Committee that prevented Mr. Bolton from winning its endorsement last week. The panel's Republicans, who took the unusual step of voting to send Mr. Bolton's nomination to the Senate without a recommendation, submitted only an eight-page brief that described him as "a highly qualified nominee" who had not sought to manipulate intelligence, despite the claims of his critics.
The Democrats, who were united in opposition to the nomination, used their own 64-page report to present a case against Mr. Bolton as someone whose conduct toward subordinates and intelligence analysts should disqualify him for the post. [complete article]
See Steven Clemons on how Bolton lied to Senate Foreign Relations Committee and read the complete minority report.
Vicious circle: The dynamics of occupation and resistance in Iraq
By Carl Conetta, Project on Defense Alternatives, May 18, 2005
An examination of Iraqi public opinion data and interviews suggests that coalition military activity may be substantially contributing to Iraqi discontent and opposition. A "vicious circle" is indicated, whereby actions to curtail the insurgency feed the insurgency.
Public discontent is the water in which the insurgents swim. Polls show that a large majority of Iraqis have little faith in coalition troops and view them as occupiers, not liberators. There is significant support for attacks on foreign troops and a large majority of Iraqis want them to leave within a year. But attitudes about the occupation vary significantly among communities.
Kurds are uniquely positive about the occupation and postwar order. Sunnis express the strongest opposition. Shiites often represents a midway position. Like the Kurds, Shiites felt very positive about the 2005 election. However, regarding foreign troops: Shiite opinion is closer to Sunni, although it varies in accord with coalition military action. [complete article]
Generals offer a sober outlook on Iraqi war
By John F. Burns and Eric Schmitt, New York Times, May 19, 2005
American military commanders in Baghdad and Washington gave a sobering new assessment on Wednesday of the war in Iraq, adding to the mood of anxiety that prompted Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to come to Baghdad last weekend to consult with the new government.
In interviews and briefings this week, some of the generals pulled back from recent suggestions, some by the same officers, that positive trends in Iraq could allow a major drawdown in the 138,000 American troops late this year or early in 2006. One officer suggested Wednesday that American military involvement could last "many years." [complete article]
The secret way to war
By Mark Danner, New York Review of Books, June 9, 2005
It was October 16, 2002, and the United States Congress had just voted to authorize the President to go to war against Iraq. When George W. Bush came before members of his Cabinet and Congress gathered in the East Room of the White House and addressed the American people, he was in a somber mood befitting a leader speaking frankly to free citizens about the gravest decision their country could make.
The 107th Congress, the President said, had just become "one of the few called by history to authorize military action to defend our country and the cause of peace." But, he hastened to add, no one should assume that war was inevitable. Though "Congress has now authorized the use of force," the President said emphatically, "I have not ordered the use of force. I hope the use of force will not become necessary." The President went on:
"Our goal is to fully and finally remove a real threat to world peace and to America. Hopefully this can be done peacefully. Hopefully we can do this without any military action. Yet, if Iraq is to avoid military action by the international community, it has the obligation to prove compliance with all the world's demands. It's the obligation of Iraq."Iraq, the President said, still had the power to prevent war by "declaring and destroying all its weapons of mass destruction" -- but if Iraq did not declare and destroy those weapons, the President warned, the United States would "go into battle, as a last resort."
It is safe to say that, at the time, it surprised almost no one when the Iraqis answered the President's demand by repeating their claim that in fact there were no weapons of mass destruction. As we now know, the Iraqis had in fact destroyed these weapons, probably years before George W. Bush's ultimatum: "the Iraqis" -- in the words of chief U.S. weapons inspector David Kaye -- "were telling the truth."
As Americans watch their young men and women fighting in the third year of a bloody counterinsurgency war in Iraq -- a war that has now killed more than 1,600 Americans and tens of thousands of Iraqis -- they are left to ponder "the unanswered question" of what would have happened if the United Nations weapons inspectors had been allowed -- as all the major powers except the United Kingdom had urged they should be -- to complete their work. What would have happened if the UN weapons inspectors had been allowed to prove, before the U.S. went "into battle," what David Kaye and his colleagues finally proved afterward?
Thanks to a formerly secret memorandum published by the London Sunday Times on May 1, during the run-up to the British elections, we now have a partial answer to that question. The memo, which records the minutes of a meeting of Prime Minister Tony Blair's senior foreign policy and security officials, shows that even as President Bush told Americans in October 2002 that he "hope[d] the use of force will not become necessary" -- that such a decision depended on whether or not the Iraqis complied with his demands to rid themselves of their weapons of mass destruction -- the President had in fact already definitively decided, at least three months before, to choose this "last resort" of going "into battle" with Iraq. Whatever the Iraqis chose to do or not do, the President's decision to go to war had long since been made. [complete article]
Comment -- If you read the Downing Street "secret memo" before anyone in the US press (mainstream or progressive) was paying attention to it, you might have seen it at The War in Context on May 1.
Business Week, May 23, 2005
[Pastor Joel] Osteen's flourishing Lakewood enterprise brought in $55 million in contributions last year, four times the 1999 amount, church officials say. Flush with success, Osteen is laying out $90 million to transform the massive Compaq Center in downtown Houston -- former home of the NBA's Houston Rockets -- into a church that will seat 16,000, complete with a high-tech stage for his TV shows and Sunday School for 5,000 children. After it opens in July, he predicts weekend attendance will rocket to 100,000. Says Osteen: "Other churches have not kept up, and they lose people by not changing with the times."
Pastor Joel is one of a new generation of evangelical entrepreneurs transforming their branch of Protestantism into one of the fastest-growing and most influential religious groups in America. Their runaway success is modeled unabashedly on business. They borrow tools ranging from niche marketing to MBA hiring to lift their share of U.S. churchgoers. Like Osteen, many evangelical pastors focus intently on a huge potential market -- the millions of Americans who have drifted away from mainline Protestant denominations or simply never joined a church in the first place.
To reach these untapped masses, savvy leaders are creating Sunday Schools that look like Disney World and church cafés with the appeal of Starbucks. Although most hold strict religious views, they scrap staid hymns in favor of multimedia worship and tailor a panoply of services to meet all kinds of consumer needs, from divorce counseling to help for parents of autistic kids. Like Osteen, many offer an upbeat message intertwined with a religious one. To make newcomers feel at home, some do away with standard religious symbolism -- even basics like crosses and pews -- and design churches to look more like modern entertainment halls than traditional places of worship. [complete article]
'Martyrs' in Iraq mostly Saudis
By Susan B. Glasser, Washington Post, May 15, 2005
Who are the suicide bombers of Iraq? By the radicals' account, they are an internationalist brigade of Arabs, with the largest share in the online lists from Saudi Arabia and a significant minority from other countries on Iraq's borders, such as Syria and Kuwait. The roster of the dead on just one extremist Web site reviewed by The Washington Post runs to nearly 250 names, ranging from a 13-year-old Syrian boy said to have died fighting the Americans in Fallujah to the reigning kung fu champion of Jordan, who sneaked off to wage war by telling his family he was going to a tournament.
Among the dead are students of engineering and English, the son of a Moroccan restaurateur and a smattering of Europeanized Arabs. There are also long lists of names about whom nothing more is recorded than a country of origin and the word "martyr."
Some counterterrorism officials are skeptical about relying on information from publicly available Web sites, which they say may be used for disinformation. But other observers of the jihadist Web sites view the lists of the dead "for internal purposes" more than for propaganda, as British researcher Paul Eedle put it. "These are efforts on the part of jihadis to collate deaths. It's like footballers on the Net getting a buzz out of knowing somebody's transferred from Chelsea to Liverpool." Or, as Col. Thomas X. Hammes, an expert on insurgency with the National Defense University, said, "they are targeted marketing. They are not aimed at the West." [complete article]
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Preston - The Hollands don't always have time to get together and cut down their own Christmas tree. They still joke about the year Mike Holland, a Navy submarine officer, didn't get one until Christmas Eve. At Walmart.
"It was not in the best of shape," he recalled.
But this year the family made the trip from Gales Ferry to Maple Lane Farms in Preston on a quiet weekday afternoon.
"It's good to get out with the family," Holland said, trekking through the fields with his wife and three daughters, reviewing the trees with a critical eye.
Some were too skinny. Others, too sparse. But the family quickly settled on a nicely shaped fir, taking turns with the saw before hauling it home.
"A lot of it's tradition, the family tradition of coming out to cut your own," said farm owner Allyn Brown III. "We have the same families ... we've seen the kids grow up from infants. Now they're bringing their kids."
On the weekends at the farm, tree-hunters eat cookies, sip hot chocolate or cider and warm up by a wood stove.
But Brown said customers also come to the farm to get a tree that's as fresh as possible, as opposed to those sold at stores, which may have been cut down a month earlier.
Brown has been growing and selling Christmas trees since the mid-1970s. It was his first crop, ideal for the rocky land and fairly easy to maintain.
"You plant it once and it's set for eight years," he said.
Brown now grows strawberries, blueberries, raspberries, apples and pumpkins in addition to raising oyster-shell mushrooms and black currants to make juice.
But the tree-growing business hasn't changed much. Despite a dry summer, Brown said, the wet spring made this year a good growing season. The trees have good color.
The farm now grows only fir trees - Fraser, balsam, Canaan and concolor - because they have the best needle retention, Brown said.
"We got away from the spruces, which tend to not hold their needles well," he said.
The balsams are known for their traditional Christmas tree scent, while the Fraser has less of a scent but good needle retention and firmer branches. The concolor has a citrus odor, while the Canaan has a little longer needle than a balsam and stiffer branches.
Brown said there are "a lot of myths out there" about how to make a tree last, but he recommends sticking to the basics.
"Basically it's very simple:…Keep it watered," he said.
If the water runs out, the tree will seal up and won't take up water again. Adding warm water can help, but "we don't advocate anything like adding aspirin or sugar."
"Nothing," Brown said, "has ever been proven to really help."
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April 7, 2008
SCI Breaks The Law and Scams Taxpayers
SCI member Dan Duncan was investigated by a U.S. federal grand jury in 2007 for violating the Lacy Act when he illegally shot a moose and a wild sheep from a helicopter while hunting in Russia in 2002, then imported the trophies into the U.S. According to the Houston Chronicle, Duncan appeared before a federal grand jury panel and admitted that he had shot the animals from a helicopter, but that he believed it was legal to do so. Sadly, no charges were filed against Duncan.
An article in the Austin American-Statesman, which criticized the number of trophies Duncan had in SCI's record book, said the act was "wrong" and advised punishment of "a disapproving and reproachful expunging of all his records from the Safari Club listings, [and] a condemnation from his fellows."
Duncan has more than 400 record book entries, including endangered species and animals killed on captive hunts.
In 1998, according to Matthew Scully's book "Dominion," several top SCI leaders, including SCI member Kenneth Behring and then-president Alfred Donau, reportedly went on a wildlife killing spree in Mozambique. They left animals wounded and dying and shot five elephants in clear violation of Mozambique law. The hunting of elephants was strictly forbidden in that country in 1990.
According to "ABC News," Mark Jenkins, who oversees a national park in Kenya, stated that witnesses saw Behring's party using a helicopter, which "drove the elephants onto their guns."
Regarding Behring's actions, "ABC News" reported that "for all its powerful connections, some say the Safari Club's system of awards and honors laid out in its trophy guidebooks has fostered a kind of trophy madness among some of its wealthiest members." At the time, Behring was the largest donor to SCI.
Kenneth E. Behring, who has more than 300 SCI trophy records, including at least 109 animals killed on captive hunting ranches, donated $100 million to have the Smithsonian memorialize him with the Behring Family Hall of Mammals in the Museum of Natural History on the Washington, D.C., mall.
Shooting Endangered Species
Behring, who calls himself a conservationist, went to Kazakhstan in 1997 and paid the government to allow him to shoot a Kara Tau argali sheep. The animal (as even SCI acknowledges) is critically endangered; the species is listed on CITES Appendix I and cannot be imported into the United States as a trophy without the help of a museum.
Behring killed his Kara Tau argali when only 100 remained and shipped the body to a Canadian taxidermist. The Smithsonian then petitioned the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for an import permit, but withdrew the request in the storm of negative publicity.
Other SCI members have been convicted of killing endangered species and trying to smuggle them into the United States. SCI fosters this behavior by rewarding members who kill rare and endangered species.
Trophy Hunting Tax Scam
Wealthy hunters, including SCI members, have been involved in cheating the federal government.
- In one case, the now-defunct North Carolina Museum of Natural Resources in Raleigh gave trophy hunters the title of "associate curator," which helped persuade foreign officials to grant them permits to shoot rare animals. Hunters went on to donate low-value trophies to the museum and receive wildly inflated appraisals, which were then deducted from federal taxes.
- In 1991, R. Bruce Duncan, founder of Chicago Appraisers Association, was sentenced to ten months in prison for his role in this scheme in North Carolina.
- Before federal wildlife agents busted the ring, the museum took in 1,800 specimens and valued them at a whopping $8.4 million.
- In some cases, particularly at the Wyobraska Wildlife Museum in Gering, Nebraska, the mounts were re-acquired by the donors, at 10 to 20 percent of their appraised values—a fraction of what the hunter earned as a tax deduction.
- At SCI's 1999 annual convention, members were offered a document titled "Secrets of Tax Deductible Hunting," advising them to declare their home trophy rooms as museums, call themselves curators, and to "donate your record-book animal for the mouthwatering deduction."
An HSUS investigation led to legislation closing this tax code loophole in 2006, ending the scam and saving U.S. taxpayers some $50 million over the next 10 years.
Updated April 7, 2008
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Bustos unveils government waste reduction bill
STERLING – U.S. Rep. Cheri Bustos hopes her first piece of legislation will make government more efficient by eliminating waste and overlapping resources.
Bustos, D-East Moline, introduced the Government Waste Reduction Act on Wednesday. The bill is intended to put into practice the recommendations from two reports by the Government Accountability Office.
In a conference call Wednesday, Bustos said the recommendations would “reduce duplication of government, save taxpayer money, enhance revenue, and very importantly, root out waste in government.”
The bill would establish an independent, 15-member government waste reduction board: six representatives and six senators, three Democrats and three Republicans each; and three members chosen by the administration.
The board would develop legislative proposals that “implement the Government Accountability recommendations and send them to Congress,” Bustos said.
Congress then would vote up or down on the proposal, Bustos said.
The proposals would not cut benefits for veterans, members of the Armed Forces or seniors, she said. That includes Medicare and Social Security.
For example, Bustos noted the federal government now has 47 job training programs, 44 of which overlap.
Other examples of overlap Bustos cited are programs in the Department of Transportation. The report describes surface transportation as “fragmented, lacking clear goals and not accountable for results.”
She said more than 100 programs in five agencies within the department are involved in surface transportation programs.
The idea is to “smartly consolidate” programs, she said.
Bustos is working to find co-sponsors.
“We absolutely will be reaching out to Republican members,” she said.
Bustos represents the 17th Congressional District, which includes all of Whiteside County.
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10 News spotted the Mystery Monkey of Tampa Bay for ourselves. The animal acted very aggressive toward our cameras.
ST. PETERSBURG, Florida (AP) - An animal trapper is using a male monkey to try to catch a wild monkey in St. Petersburg that has been on the lam for two years.
Vernon Yates is a trapper hired by the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservative Commission to catch the monkey. He tells the Tampa Bay Times he plans to use the new strategy this week to catch the rhesus macaque that bit a woman earlier this month.
Instead of luring the rhesus macaque with a female, Yates is using Doc, a 1-year-old male that will sit inside a custom-designed trap and snack on fruit. The goal is to entice the mystery monkey with companionship and food.
Yates says he has used the same method on roosters and chickens before, but never on monkeys.
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Constitutionally minded members of Congress, Senator Jim DeMint of South Carolina Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky and Representative Mike Lee of Utah, have introduced federal legislation that would exempt gold and silver coins issued by state governments as legal tender from federal taxation. This bill, called the Sound Money Protection Act, is intended to protect efforts by states to create a stable, inflation-free form of money. In particular, it would protect from federal gains taxation transaction between legal money in states which are species (e.g. gold or silver) and paper.
Utah has already passed a state law that recognizes these gold and silver coins as legal tender in Utah. A dozen other states, Senator DeMint’s South Carolina, are considering similar laws. Senator DeMint expressed the need from such state laws:
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In recent years, experts (like Bill Kovach and Tom Rosenstiel) have warned that press freedoms are under increasing threat from economic pressures. As advertising and readers flee to the Web, they say, news outlets are more likely to cave in to pressure from corporate and political interests. Here's a disturbing example of this trend.
A few weeks ago, I was interviewed by a reporter for The Coast newspaper in Halifax, Nova Scotia. The reporter, Tim Bousquet, had discovered that the Liberal Party candidate in Halifax for the upcoming federal elections, Dr. Stan Kutcher, was one of the co-authors of Paxil study 329, a controversial clinical trial on the use of Paxil in treating depression in adolescent. When it was first published in 2001, study 329 purported to show that Paxil was safe and effective when in fact the actual data showed the opposite, as I reported in Side Effects and subsequent blogs. What New York prosecutors, several researchers and I found was that the study's authors manipulated and omitted data to make Paxil look safer and more effective in adolescents than it really was -- see background here. Given the study's serious flaws, researchers Jon Jureidini and Leemon McHenry recently called on the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry to retract the 2001 paper, according to the British Medical Journal.
Last Thursday, five days before the Halifax elections, which are being held May 2, Bousquet posted this article about Kutcher's involvement in study 329. Bousquet quoted me as saying that the researchers "essentially distorted the outcome measures." He also quoted Kutcher as saying that he stood by study 329 and didn't think it had caused any particular controversy. I thought the article was accurate except for two facts the reporter got wrong: he said that a secretary at Brown had leaked the information to me in 2003, when in fact the person who first blew the whistle on study 329 was the assistant research director in the department of psychiatry at Brown, and she first made me aware of some of study 329's flaws in 1996. As I explain in Side Effects, I was unable to pin down those particular allegations until 2004, when the New York State Attorney General's office sued GlaxoSmithKline for defrauding consumers by not telling them or doctors the full story about Paxil. In their lawsuit, the New York prosecutors found numerous flaws in the study 329, including the fact that the researchers had changed the primary outcome measures for the trial without disclosing that fact in the published paper. They also found that GlaxoSmithKline knew that the study 329's results were negative -- i.e. -- that the clinical trial didn't find Paxil more effective than placebo in treating depression -- but according to an internal memo, company officials decided to publish the study as a positive result anyway and indeed had it ghost-written by a medical contractor and then signed off on by all the co-authors, including Kutcher.
Kutcher's lawyers immediate responded to Bousquet's April 28 article by threatening to sue the newspaper for libel unless it immediately issued a retraction. Even though Bousquet backed up his article's assertions with documentation, the Coast decided to issue an apology and retraction anyway; see here. And then the newspaper simply removed the original article from its website; see here. So now readers of The Coast can see the apology but not why it was issued in the first place. Fortunately, a website called Scribd saved Bousquet's original piece along with a follow-up article about Kutcher's threat to sue The Coast if it didn't retract the piece.
As you can see from Scribd's follow-up piece, a blog here, and some comments on the original article (all of which were removed), Kutcher's hatchetmen are trying to paint me as a Scientologist in an effort to discredit me and the original story. That's a tactic as old as dirt; as a mental health reporter for The Boston Globe in the '80s and '90s, I remember when the drug industry and the psychiatrists on its payroll used that ridiculous canard to attack anyone who questioned their wonder drugs; indeed, in Side Effects, I write about how Eli Lilly, among others, attacked Dr. Martin Teicher, a respected psychiatric researcher at McLean Hospital, as a Scientologist when he first raised questions about the safety of Prozac in the early '90s.
All of this makes me wonder: where have The Coast and its editors been all these years? And do they really want to go down in history as an example of the not-so-free press buckling under to craven threats?
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It's the color and consistency of pork and beans, but sticks together like stretched chewing gum.
It's a traditional soybean breakfast food from northern Japan and it's called natto.
To look at it, and hear the owner of two Japanese restaurants in Newport News describe it, nibbling natto seems a pretty disagreeable way to start the day.
Unembellished natto has ``no flavor'' and ``smells funny,'' said K. Nishikawa, who said he's known as Mr. K. The trick is in the seasoning. Otherwise, for some, it's sort of like the first experience with raw fish or raw oysters: ``You know, yuck,'' he said.
Mr. K., who is from Tokyo, ate it every day for breakfast in his native land, just like Americans eat cereal or oatmeal as a part of their breakfasts. His sushi chef, Masayuki Nagano, said he is from Osaka and had never heard of natto until he was 20; it isn't eaten in that part of Japan, he said.
As a breakfast food, natto is usually served over steamed rice and mixed with mustard and soy sauce. Some people mix in onions and raw egg, said Mr. K.
Prepared sushi-style by Nagano, natto is mixed with diced green onions, mustard and soy sauce, then dolloped onto a bed of vinegar-flavored rice and rolled in seaweed.
That sort of presentation masks the characteristic smell, which even Mr. K. acknowledged is ``something else.''
That's because natto is essentially fermented soybeans. Natto is made by steaming special soybeans until they are soft, then inoculating the warm beans with a bacterium. The beans then ferment for 15 to 24 hours in a humid environment at about 104 degrees, according to the state's Division of International Marketing.
Mr. K. prepares natto from frozen packets of the fermented beans that he orders from a supply house, which imports the product from Japan.
Mr. K. serves natto only at one of his restaurants, Kappo Nara Seafood and Sushi Restaurant, the more traditional of his two restaurants.
It isn't on the menu there, but he keeps enough on hand for 10 to 12 servings a month.
He gets requests for it from Japanese natives and Americans who have lived in Japan and like it, he said.
``Some people like it very much,'' he said.
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Digital Dark Ages?
As we move into the electronic era of digital objects it is important to know that there are new barbarians at the gate and that we are moving into an era where much of what we know today, much of what is coded and written electronically, will be lost forever. . . . much as monks of times past, it falls to librarians and archivists to hold to the tradition which reveres history and the published heritage of our times. (Kuny, 1998)
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The audit of the Manitoba Regional Operations was identified in Western Economic Diversification Canada’s (WD) approved 2010-2013 Risk-Based Audit Plan. The audit objective was to provide reasonable assurance to the Deputy Minister that the Manitoba Region has sound governance, forecasting, and reporting processes to support effective decision making.
The audit covered the period from April 2009 through to March 2010. The audit focused on governance structures and strategic directions, planning, budgeting, forecasting, and performance reporting in the region. In addition, transaction processing and appropriate delegation of authorities were examined. The audit team interviewed key personnel in the region and examined relevant documents, reports, and files to support the conclusions reached.
The governance framework in the Manitoba Region adequately supported the region to deliver on its mandate. Manitoba Region was effective in involving managers and employees in setting goals, targets and strategies for the region. Regular workshops were held to discuss progress towards goals and strategies to meet objectives. The Senior Management Team and Regional Management Team in the region met regularly, and had appropriate terms of reference to outline their mandates. Records of decision were taken from meetings and were recorded. Adequate follow up on action items was noted.
A process was in place to allocate budget dollars in the region giving consideration to priorities. Spending in the region during the audit period was primarily in the final quarter of the fiscal year with 64% of grants and contribution spending occurring in the final quarter.
Regional practices and processes related to performance reporting were well established and formally documented. Progress towards targets is regularly monitored and reported to all levels of the organization through a quarterly report card. Although the report card did identify variances from targets, it did not include reasons for variances or planned actions to address the gaps. Documentation of reasons for variances from established targets or service standards and actions planned to address the gaps would enhance the process.
In my professional judgement as Chief Audit Executive, sufficient and appropriate audit procedures have been conducted and evidence gathered to support the conclusion that the Manitoba Region has sound governance, planning, budgeting, forecasting and reporting processes in place, subject to the implementation of the recommendations in the report.
The assurance is based on a comparison of the conditions, as they existed at the time, against pre-established audit criteria that were agreed upon with management. The assurance is applicable to the policies and processes examined. The evidence was gathered in accordance with Treasury Board policies, directives, and standards on internal audit for the Government of Canada. The evidence has been gathered to be sufficient to provide senior management with the proof of the conclusions derived from this audit.
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Last time we examined the first of three distinct phases in all home sales: the presale phase. This column will address Phase 2: disclosures and contract negotiation. The next column will address the settlement process.
Although disclosures will vary from jurisdiction to jurisdiction, there are certain disclosures that must be provided by all sellers under federal, state and local laws. For example, the District, Maryland and Virginia all require that sellers provide buyers with a property condition disclosure and disclaimer statement.
This required form permits sellers to disclose, to their actual knowledge, whether the various property elements are in good working order, whether they have defects or whether the condition is unknown. This form covers the house from roof to foundation and everything in between.
I highly recommend that sellers err on the side of over-disclosure. Often, questions arise about disclosing prior defects that have been fixed. I recommend disclosing and, if possible, identifying who made the repairs and when. If those repairs are still under warranty, deliver those warranties to your buyer. The law also permits sellers to disclaim rather than disclose.
Latent defects known by the seller must be disclosed under all circumstances. Even if the property is being sold “as-is,” the seller must use the prescribed forms to make these disclosures or disclaimer and have those forms signed by the buyer. Although there is no penalty for failing to deliver this statement, a buyer may cancel his contract until he receives the statutory form signed by the seller or settlement occurs. Certain sellers, such as an estate’s personal representatives, are exempt from this required disclosure.
For homes built before 1978, sellers are required to provide federal and state lead-based paint disclosures. Similarly, sellers are required to deliver the Environmental Protection Agency pamphlet “Protect Your Family From Lead in Your Home” available at www.epa.gov.
In the District, sellers must certify that they complied with the city’s Tenant Opportunity to Purchase Act. Under that law, D.C. tenants have the right of first refusal to purchase their home. Failure to address tenant rights long before a proposed sale will almost always cause delays in settlement, since tenants have six months or more to decide if they are interested in purchasing.
Montgomery County requires its Government Regulation, Easements and Assessments Disclosure and Addendum (REA) to be delivered to all buyers before they make an offer. The REA becomes part of the ratified contract. This exhaustive, nine-page behemoth covers an enormous range of disclosures including, but not limited to: water and sewer service availability; condominium and homeowner association assessments; estimated future property taxes for the buyer; utility costs for the previous 12 months; recorded subdivision plat; information about historic preservation; forest conservation; underground storage tank existence; and all airports and heliports locations within a five-mile radius from your home. As you can see, accurately completing this form is a daunting task, requiring many hours of research at no fewer than seven government agencies.
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Johan Huibers, who may or may yes need to stop eating spicy food before bed, had a dream that part of his native Holland flooded. So what did he do -- wake up and have a cup of coffee? Hell no -- he started construction on a "full-size" replica of Noah's Ark. I, uh, I would have done the coffee thing. Or -- OR -- gone back to sleep until I had a good dream.
The almost-finished vessel you see pictured above is actually Huibers' second whack at making an ark of his own. The first was a half-sized replica, though this time the Dutch construction company director decided to go whole hog. It's even seaworthy, and Huibers plans for his ark to float along the Thames in London ahead of the 2012 Olympics.
Though we really have no way of knowing, Biblical scholars peg Noah's Ark as being somewhere around 300 cubits in length, 50 wide and 30 high. In feet, that translates into a vessel 450 feet long -- or about the same as a Romulan Bird-of-Prey -- and 75 feet wide and 45 high.
Johan's second ark took three years and $1.6-million of his own dough to complete, but, from the look of it, would only take one un-extinguished cigarette to burn to the waterline. What do you know -- I guess Noah really did have good reason for leaving the dinosaurs behind! Get it?! Because their sexy asses be smokin'. Mm mm mmm -- just thinkin' about 'em makes me feel like I got curry in my penis!
Hit the jump for an NBC news report.
Thanks to Zy, who sent the tip after feeling inspired by the fact that the last article was sent to me BY NOAH HIMSELF. Or maybe a different one. We may never know.
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Full-Scale, Seaworthy Noah's Ark Replica Complete, Apocalypse Ready (Provided The Apocalpyse Is A Flood)Remember the story I posted last year about millionaire Johan Huibers building a full size "biblical-scale" replica of Noah's ark after dreaming his homeland of Holland flooded? Well now it's complete, and ready to set sail for safety in the event of global warming. *eying pr... / Continue →
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[Pages 281 - 299]
For a long time, I knew Sokoly, the town of my birth, as a place of Torah and education. When I was still a young lad, I knew a few young men in Sokoly who already had achieved a reputation as great scholars among them were my brother Yaakov, who was a great Torah scholar, and Zelig, the teacher.They learned the difficult tractates of the Gemara, such as Eruvin, Yevamot and Nidda.
My dear father, Rav Moshe Yosef, of blessed memory, was among the renowned scholars of Sokoly. When he was a little boy, he was known as a genius. My father built the new study hall, and he was a sexton there for 40 years.
An additional list of Torah scholars at that time included Rav Pesach Brill and his brilliant son, who was famous all over the Jewish world Rav Yaakov Brill. When he was a boy, scholarly rabbis invited him to come to them so that they could test his expertise in Torah; among these was Rabbi Chaim Ozer Grodzinsky of Vilna.
There were giants of Torah in Sokoly: Rav Mendel Pachiner and his sons, Rav Avraham and Rav Yitzchak Meir. The latter achieved public acclaim. He married the daughter of Rabbi Isser Zalman Meltzer of Jerusalem. At first, Rabbi Yitzchak Meir was appointed the Rabbi of Petach Tikva, where they called him Rabbi ben Menachem. He was later appointed as a rabbinic judge in the High Rabbinical Court in Jerusalem.
Other scholars included Rav Zalman Yachnes; Moshe Lipa Shulmeister (David Borowitz's son-in-law both of them were students at the Volozhin Yeshiva); Rav Yosef Czerbonicz; Rav Bendet Zeltser, and last, but not least, my brother-in-law, Rav Avraham Shapira, of blessed memory, who studied Torah day and night. He set a regular time to learn Torah from midnight until 3 o'clock in the morning. Summer and winter, he learned Gemora in Sokoly's new study hall. In our town, they called him the Torah scroll.
After the passing of the elderly Rabbi Menachem Yonah, of blessed memory, Torah people from various countries applied for the position of Rabbi of Sokoly. Even though Sokoly was a small town with only 500 Jewish families, it was very famous because of its people.
I well remember the days of my youth in Sokoly. For a certain length of time I was an official of the local Authority: a kind of Soltis [town leader] to the Jewish community. During that time, I was able to serve and assist the community not, Heaven forbid, for the sake of remuneration. I issued various documents for people which enabled them to emigrate to America, or which prevented them from being drafted into the Polish army. As a result, I was involved more than once in unpleasant, upsetting complications. Police and army officers would visit me in order to reveal evaders of service in the army.
Occasionally, I would be harassed by regional doctors regarding the cleanliness of the town and its surroundings. They forced me to point out homeowners who transgressed the law. I tried, as much as possible, to avoid blaming Jews and to protect them from paying fines. I myself was the sacrifice more than once; I was even imprisoned for three days.
With regard to the evaluation and estimations of taxes to be paid by the residents of the town, I tried to protect my Jewish brothers and attempted to prove to the authorities, for example, that so-and-so was a poor man, or that he lacked an income and was unable to pay.
I mourn the destruction of Jewish Sokoly and the dear members of my family!
In order to perceive how many years the Jewish settlement in Sokoly existed, I will tell a story that I heard from one elderly resident of our town, Reb Avraham Yankel Olsha, the baker, of blessed memory. I was still a young lad and he was an old man. He told this story to elderly people, not one of whom had ever heard it before.
Once, early in the morning, the landowner of Kruczewo village came to Sokoly with a group of farmers. The farmers had tools in their hands, and they stood near the old cemetery. Panic and confusion arose in the town. Something unusual warned the people.
The landowner turned toward the Jews, who had gathered near the old cemetery, with the following words: Your Jewish forefathers rented this field from my Christian forefathers one hundred years ago. Now, according to the contract, the period of rental is over and finished, and I have permission to come back here and plow up this cemetery.
The Jews began to cry and wail. They shouted that they would file complaints with the Czar. The landowner answered that he would wait a short time; meanwhile the decree would be delayed, but who would conduct a legal case against him? It must be considered that the transaction was made over one hundred years ago, at a time when the Polish landowners were the only rulers and had unlimited control over the farmers and Jews in their territories.
Thus, fear of the landowners overcame the Jews of Sokoly. What should they do?
At that time, the village tailor lived on Gonasoweki Street. He took it upon himself to be judged with the landowner and stand up to him. Having no choice, the men of Sokoly agreed to rely on the village tailor.
A short time later, in a carriage drawn by six strong horses, the landowner arrived in the middle of the marketplace and asked the Jews: Who is the Jewish representative that is taking me to Court? I haven't yet heard the name of your representative.
The Jews quickly sent messengers to bring the village tailor. He was sitting barefoot at his table, sewing. When he heard who was calling him, he left his work in a moment, ran to receive the landowner, and immediately asked, Who are you, that thinks that you have the strength to plow up our homeland? And the tailor continued, Do you see my bare feet? They will hurry and will arrive at a gallop in Lomza, the provincial city, or even in the capitol city of St. Petersburg, before your six strong horses. There is no lawlessness in the world. There is a Law, and there is a Judge.
The furious landowner whispered to his servants and quickly fled in his carriage that was hitched to the six horses, back to Kruczewo. Thus the old cemetery was rescued from the decree.
From this story, I deduced that our Jewish brethren already were living in Sokoly around the year 1700.
[Pages 284 - 285]
By nature, my father was a modest, quiet man, hidden among the vessels. Only the few who knew him well, knew how precious and interesting a man he was.
In his childhood, he excelled with his many talents. His parents had hopes that he would grow up to be a rabbi. They sent him to yeshivot. Under the books of the Talmud, he hid books of general knowledge. He learned; he studied; he thirstily drank from the fountain of education, in secret, without any guidance.
Those were the days of Russian rule over Poland. My father learned Russian, passed the government examinations, and obtained a license to teach. He then began his career as a municipal teacher of Russian, Hebrew and Yiddish. The daring pedagogical methods of the time were strange to him. He already understood that he must make the Torah dear to his students. He understood their feelings and presented everything to them in a simple manner that was easy to understand. He established a generation of students, who remember him to this day with great affection. He is still remembered by all those who left Sokoly by the nickname Zelka the teacher, even though in his later years he only taught a little.
In free Poland, the Jewish congregations received autonomy. My father, who by then had completed academic study of the Polish language, was appointed secretary of the congregation. He served in this position for the rest of his life.
He was gentle and sensitive by nature. He was not energetic, and did not have many accomplishments in his private life. He met many hardships in his family life, and was influenced by them. He was satisfied with very little. He did not seek greatness; his only request was that he would have enough time after his daily business to study and read. He was learned in Talmud, and was familiar with world literature. With his intelligence, he understood much and grasped everything; he had his own original ideas without consideration for conventions. He loved nature and was amazed at its beauty. I, the youngest of his children, would sometimes accompany him on his walks through the fields. With great affection, he would explain the wonders of nature to me, and would stroke every flower we came across.
He was a friend to his children. We were accustomed to sharing all of our impressions with him and asking him for explanations of all kinds of life's occurrences.
I remember that when we played with clay, Abba joined us. Always, his hands would create something beautiful that would serve us as an example.
When we drew pictures, Abba would instruct us. Again, he would succeed in surprising us. He found an interest in everything, quietly and modestly.
In his later years, his health failed, and he was tired of the hardships of life. He became bedridden in 1935 with a serious heart disease, and passed away three weeks later.
At his death, he was 69 years old. Until his last moments, his posture was straight and he had no gray hair. That is how I will always remember him.
Believe me, I still sense the scents of the wonderful, green meadow where we used to pick flowers! I still feel the gentle breeze that blew there and the clear air I breathed in the Idzki Forest and the surrounding hills. I still see the streets and alleys of the town, and I remember all of them. They are all engraved deeply in my memory, and awaken painful longing within me to this day. In my imagination is the circular market square with the houses around it, the old synagogue and the study halls. I still hear the notes of the monotonous tune of Moshe Koppel, the sexton, calling Get up to serve the Creator! or his call, at four in the morning on the Sabbath, to get up to say Psalms.
And here is the alley leading to our house. My great pain and suffering, on the last night of my mother's life, has not ended to this day. My mother, of blessed memory, lay in a long room. Around her bed stood a merciful nurse and the doctor on one side, and on the other, the family and children. Our dying mother had an inhaler in her mouth. She sent us a last blessing of parting. She made a great effort, with all her strength, and hugged each of her children to her, with a last, warm kiss.
I still feel the pressure of her weak arms around my neck and hear her words, Go, my dear girl, to the Land of Israel. There you will find your happiness! Her lips whispered this like a prayer, with the addition of the names of the children: Yehoshua, Nechemia, Beila, Bronia. Slowly, her tired eyes closed, her mouth closed, and it was all over. We cried bitterly over our dear mother, and granted her this last honor.
When he parted from me, crying, my father said: Our loss is very great and difficult. Only G-d in Heaven knows what else awaits us. Apparently, his heart prophesized to him that many troubles were likely to come upon us.
A short time later, I came to the Land of Israel, and again I was heartsick at parting from my family. Abba's worry about the future was so great, but the truth was thousands of times more terrible until six million of our Jewish brethren were destroyed in cruel and terrible deaths.
The cold, dark winter strengthened the anticipation of spring. The pale covering of snow on the deserted streets of the town, and the sound of the wind dancing through the tops of the trees, also did not detach us from the beloved appearance of spring, from that short period of the month of Nisan, which for the pursued and dreamy Jew was connected to the Passover holiday the holiday of freedom. This was a short exit from the everyday, a time of uplifting of the body and soul before new clouds covered the fields of Poland, before the rain and frost again returned us to the darkness of a new winter
I remember the dark nights around the heated stove in my father's house. How we sat, gathered around the leaping fire, counting the months and the days separating the winter and the Passover holiday; the voice of my sister, happily whispering: Another two months, and we will eat matzo again. And the image of Abba during those moments, the fire that was lit deep in his eyes and the smile of happiness that he tried to erase from his mouth. Of course he remembered that he had to act again, like always, like every year before the Passover holiday. Good Abba, who did good, who never forgot the commandment Love your neighbor as yourself, who always remembered the needy and the poor, who always participated in their suffering and was always ready to give a hand to help, with all of the bodily and spiritual means in his possession.
I remember how he would sit down before the holiday and send letters to America, trying and attempting to get donations for the poor of the town. How he would run around from house to house, gathering donations for the poor in his thin hands so that the poor man who lives at the corner of the street will also feel the special atmosphere of the holiday and when he would come home, tired but happy, he would sit at the head of the table and bless the matzo, I felt his silent thanks to the Creator for giving him the strength to properly fulfill His commandments.
Those moments, when we sat around the long table, feeling the atmosphere of the holiday in every corner, accompany me until today. To me, the Passover holiday in Sokoly is the source of memories and longings that cannot be erased or forgotten. This is the source that guides me anew to the days of my childhood and youth, to the recent past that was suddenly cut off in such a tragic way and that left behind only memories and longings that are hidden in the depths of my soul and the chambers of my heart, because childhood memories have no order, and have no end .
Days and years have passed, and Sokoly, a small town near Bialystok, is still engraved in my heart. It stands before me, as if I left it only recently. This is not surprising. I lived there during the lovely days of my youth, without worries and without suffering. As a young orphan, I was brought to my grandfather's house; nevertheless, everything was good for me and I cannot remember even a hint of anything bad, or deprivation. My grandmother Rachel, of blessed memory, was a righteous woman. On Fridays, she was accustomed to distribute requirements for the Sabbath to the poor. Every morning, she got up early to go to the synagogue, to pour out her heart to the Creator. She loved me very much, and if I did something wrong, she didn't allow anyone to harm me, saying that I was punished enough, because I was an orphan. Many of our acquaintances certainly remember her goodness. May her memory be blessed!
My grandfather, Menachem Mendel, of blessed memory, is drawn in my memory as a dear, good man whom I loved. He was of pleasant appearance, beautifully dressed. He was a Torah scholar who fulfilled the rule, and you should study it day and night. On the Sabbath, I would go with him to the synagogue. I remember that once he took me with him to walk in the field, where he picked flowers for me and wove a wreath from them to put on my head. May his merit protect us.
With love and holy trembling, I wish to mention the image of my father, the brilliant Rabbi Avraham Pacziner, of blessed memory, may G-d avenge his blood. He was a Torah scholar, who taught Torah to many people. He was occupied with communal affairs, and his house was the home of the committee of elders of Chasidei [followers of the Rabbi of] Gur. He was especially devoted to matters of charity and mercy. The voice of his Torah still rings in my ears. He would awaken before dawn to learn and pray. He met everyone with a greeting.
My father devoted himself to educating his sons with exceptional selflessness. He was dear to everyone. When the Nazis, may their names be erased, took over our town, Abba fled to Bialystok, and from there to Slonim, where he was murdered together with his three sons and his daughter. May G-d avenge their blood.
I remember my uncle Shmuel, may G-d avenge his blood, with deep love. He was a good-hearted, beloved man. He met everyone kindly and with a heartfelt smile. He was careful to honor his father and mother.He was devoted and faithful to one and all, and he always concerned himself with the other person's situation.
I did not know my Aunt Golda. They told me that she was a wonderful woman, and that she did good deeds for the community. May G-d avenge her blood.
I remember my Aunt Chana as a very lovely woman. She was gentle in her ways and in the manner of doing good deeds for others. May G-d avenge her blood.
My uncle, Abba Borowitz, head of the family, was a handsome man of standing in the community. He was a G-d fearing, distinguished scholar, an honest man of considered, conservative ways. His very appearance spoke of honor. The synagogue was a second home to him. He had been a crops and flour wholesaler, but over the years he disposed of his property because of the policies of the Polish government. They imposed heavy taxes on the Jews. My uncle and his family made their living from the grocery store. The truth is that my Aunt Masha was the salesperson and owner of the store, as well as a good housekeeper. She was always over her head with work, but a smile was always on her face. The children were attached to her, heart and soul, and there I found plenty of warmth and motherly love. My Aunt Masha's good-heartedness cannot be described in words. She was always ready to do everything to help someone else.
Two daughters, Rachel and Malka, and two sons, Bezalel and Shmuel, remained in the Borowitz house. The eldest son, Bezalel, wandered abroad to South America, until he finally arrived, with the active help of his brother Shmuel, in the U.S.
When Shmuel was still in Sokoly, he wasn't only a cousin to me; he was a brother and a good friend. He was good to everyone he met. He was active in various committees, especially in the Zionist organization. Among other things, he did everything he could to help his parents in every way. In 1928, after failing to obtain permission to enter the Land of Israel, Shmuel emigrated to the U.S.
With my relatives, the family of Abba Borowitz, I found peace of mind. But nevertheless, I didn't see a future for myself in Poland only in the Land of Israel.
|Aharon Zamir (Shostak)|
O for those who are gone and cannot be replaced.
These are my uncle and my aunt, Reb Yitzchak Meir and his wife, Perl Greenspan, in whose memory I place a memorial in this book, since I do not know the location of their eternal rest. Where they found their deaths, in the Holocaust that struck the Jewish people, is unknown. My uncle and aunt were like a father and a mother to me. They raised me and my brother Mordechai Shostak after the death of my young mother, may she rest in peace, at the beginning of World War I. My mother left six orphaned children, homeless and with no one to take care of them. My father, of blessed memory, was then already in America, but because of the War, America was cut off and we had no way of contacting him. All the children were divided among relatives of the family who lived in different towns. My brother Mordechai and I remained with our uncle and aunt in Sokoly. It was our good fortune that we had a better, nicer place than all the rest of our siblings.
Our uncle and aunt were devoted to us with all their hearts and souls. We felt like we were in our parents' house. They were parents in every way. They took care of all our physical and spiritual needs alike. They tried to provide us with an education with the best teachers, and taught us both traditional and modern Jewish learning. They planted a love of the Land of Israel in our hearts. They wanted us to be honest, educated men. Even at a time of great distress, they fed the children and provided all their needs with great enjoyment and satisfaction, at the expense of their own sustenance. They were crop merchants all their lives. During the War, this was a forbidden occupation, but what could they do? They had to support themselves and the orphans! In the merit of this, G-d would help them and would not let evil befall them. That was their great belief.
Once, it happened that somebody denounced them to the accursed German occupiers of that time, the fathers of the Nazis, and told them that we were dealing in a forbidden trade. They immediately came and confiscated all of the produce that was in our warehouses, and we were left without any food. I remember the cries of my uncle at that time, Woe to me, what will I give the orphans to eat? I will never forget this cry, which echoes in my ears and accompanies me every time I remember or think of them, or tell someone about them. Then my aunt took both of us, my brother and I, by our hands, and approached the officer who was appointed to carry out the confiscation. She requested that he leave her some food for the children. He did her a favor he left her one sack of peas. They loaded all the rest on wagons and took it away. And from that time, my uncle was left without a cent.
It was impossible to start trading again in order to survive. I think that only their strong belief and faith in G-d enabled them to stand up under all of their troubles. For the most part, they borrowed some money here and there, bought a bit of merchandise and sold it to repay the loans. Everyone called this charity. It was a great precept. The majority of traders in the town conducted their business in this manner after the War. One would lend to another, and the chain would continue. It would certainly be amazing in the eyes of our generation if I would say that all of these loans were carried out without any obligatory signatures; would anyone even think of not repaying the loan? Such a thing didn't exist!
My Uncle Yitzchak Meir was a very modest man. He was G-d fearing and was completely devoted to learning Torah whenever he had free time. He woke up early in order to go to the bet medrash to learn and to pray with devotion to the Master of the Universe. During all the years I was with my uncle, I never actually saw him get up in the morning; even if I would wake up before dawn. I didn't find him because he was already in the bet medrash. We children were very curious and wanted to see our uncle get up, but we didn't succeed. Whatever time it was when we woke up, we found that he had already gone out of the house.
He would finish his prayers early, and after that he went out to the villages to bring food to the family, particularly for the children. The days were days of war, and it was hard to obtain food. When he did succeed in bringing food and our aunt would prepare a meal, his joy was very great. He never finished his own portion, but would divide most of it among the children. There was no limit to his devotion to us. He never scolded us and he never hit us, but tried to manage us with convincing words, and that is why we loved him so much.
When I grew bigger, I would help him in the produce warehouse on market fair days. In general, all of the children of the town were freed from school and the cheder on the day of the fair. Some helped their parents in their business, and others just had a good time. The important thing was vacation, and we truly needed a vacation, because we learned for many hours each day.
In the morning, we would go to the Hebrew school and the cheder. In the afternoons, we went to the school to learn Polish, and after that we went again to the cheder. The lessons continued until 8 or 9 o'clock in the evening. In the winter, when the days were very short, and we went home from the cheder at night, every boy was equipped with a lantern to light his way home. Most of these lanterns were lit by a candle inside them. The lantern was made of tin and formed, by a local tinsmith, in the shape of a little house. The four walls of the house were made of glass, through which the light of the candle would shine and light our way.
When we came home, our aunt would interest herself in our preparing the lessons for the next day, and she took care that all the homework would be properly done and that nothing was missing. She was concerned that we learn proper Hebrew, and loved to hear us speaking Hebrew when we did our lessons and at every other opportunity. Aunt Perl was a housewife and also helped in the business. She was the spirit of life in the family. She was a first class trader, and a good teacher. Many of her sayings and proverbs accompany me to this day. She was known in the town as being involved in all kinds of establishments for helping the needy, and she did this with all her soul. She tried to know what was going on with any person who needed advice or help, financial or physical. She helped the poor. Occasionally, my brother and I were her messengers, bringing the poor their regular portions of food. She would help the sick, sitting next to the bed of a solitary sick man for entire nights in order to help him. If the sick man had a family and his relatives were tired from his lengthy illness, it was necessary for someone else to sleep next to his bed. This was called the righteous sleep and it was a great precept. She was very careful to observe this, even though she herself was tired from a day of work both in her house and in trade.
Aunt Perl also sewed clothing for herself and for the whole family, especially for the children. She would sit and sew until late at night, so that we would be well dressed. Of course, it was all according to her limited resources. When we were little, she brought us to cheder herself in order to protect us from any harm. Every new garment she made us we would wear for the first time in honor of the Sabbath.
On Friday evenings, we would dress and go to the bet medrash. When we left the house, she would go outside and stand near the house, enjoying watching us from a distance, until we traveled the entire length of the street and she couldn't see us any more. Afterwards, when we came home with our uncle from the prayers, she received us with great joy and compassion, mixed with a few tears. Apparently, she remembered at that time that we were orphans and cried over the death of our mother, may she rest in peace, but she quickly recovered and wiped the tears off her cheeks so we wouldn't see them, and sat us down next to the table. Our uncle then chanted the Kiddush for us, in the traditional, lovely melody. During the meal, among the other songs, our aunt taught us some of our father's songs, who was then in America, so as to plant some love for him in our hearts and create a connection with him, even though we didn't know him.
The next day, Sabbath morning, we went with our aunt to the bet medrash. We couldn't go with our uncle, because he got up so early also on the Sabbath. We went with our aunt, because the prayers did not begin early, but at 9 o'clock in the morning. I now see before my eyes the image of my aunt and how she was dressed when we went out on the Sabbath. She was beautifully and elegantly dressed, like a woman who lived in a big city. As she went, she awakened respect in those she met and with whom she came into social contact, because she was involved with everyone.
My aunt had influence, not only among the Jews, but also among the gentiles. Because of her beautiful pronunciation and fluent Polish, she obtained whatever she wanted. For example, after the War, when the world was freed and we were able to contact our father in America, he immediately sent money and an entrance permit to the United States for my sister and three brothers, except for us. My brother and I were in a place that was as good as our parents' home, and our father didn't have the financial ability to take all of us. So we remained. But who was the organizer of all of the formal matters regarding the trip? It was Aunt Perl. She gathered all of the children from all of the places where they were staying and brought them to her house. She dealt with the matter of passports, which were as hard to obtain as the splitting of the Red Sea, either because they weren't registered or because, as a result of the War, the population registry had been destroyed and there was no documentation on the basis of which passports could be issued. At that time, the authorities were very strict, especially the American authorities. But my aunt would not be discouraged. She turned to the Polish mayor of the town, and through her influence and with a great effort, she obtained her request. The whole family regarded this as a miracle. Could such a thing be done? And after that, she arranged all the rest of the matters and brought the children to Warsaw, where she put them on a train that took them on their journey.
But that wasn't enough for her. After a time, after she saw the way things were going in Free Poland, she started to tell me, as the older brother, that I must think about leaving Poland.
I don't see a future for young Jews in Poland! she said. Travel to the Land of Israel. Even though you are like a son to me, I won't damage your future for my sake. You must leave Poland, no matter what happens. She immediately began to deal with this matter, and she got what she wanted. A few years later, when I was 16 years old, I left Poland and came to the Land of Israel. And that is how Aunt Perl saved my life!
After I came to the Holy Land and was alone, I realized what an uncle, and what an aunt, I had. Whoever came to the Land of Israel from our town, brought me a package from my aunt, so that I wouldn't be lacking anything. I would write to them that everything was fine, that I didn't need anything, just like all the pioneering youth wrote who came to the Land of Israel in the Fourth Aliya [wave of immigration]. This was the largest Aliya ever up to that time, in spite of the suffering and the hunger that we suffered. We accepted everything with love, with idealism, in order to reach the longed-for purpose: rebuilding the Holy Land! Wasn't it so? If we hadn't done so, who knows if we would have been able to receive the essential immigration refugees from the sword and survivors of the Holocaust.
A few years later, I was informed that my younger brother Mordechai had also left Poland. He traveled to America, which he was forced to do because the Mandatory government had closed the doors to the Holy Land to Jewish immigration, and it was impossible for Jews to go there. Instead, they ignored the entry of Arabs from all the neighboring Arab countries, thereby increasing the Arab population of the Holy Land.
In the end, it turns out that my brother and I were rescued from the Holocaust, thanks to the timely awareness of our Aunt Perl. We didn't know then what awaited the Nation of Israel in the countries of their dispersion!
I had another aunt and uncle in Sokoly: Reb Mordechai Aharon Shostak and his wife, Sarah. They had two sons and two daughters, and these are their names: Toiba, Felek, Zissel and Avraham, may G-d avenge their blood! This uncle of mine was a handsome man, pleasant in his ways, and his clothing was elegant and clean. By nature, he was strict in religious matters and observed every single holiday according to Jewish Law. Everything he did was with prior thought. He was a great scholar and meticulous in learning the commentaries. Sometimes he would sit and teach Mishnayot at the table in the old bet medrash, surrounded by 30 or 40 men, and when he would explain, everyone would understand with no difficulty. All this was because he was exact in his clear pronunciation. He didn't hesitate to repeat an explanation once, twice, or even three times. At the end, he would ask if everyone understood, and only then would he continue onward.
He was also appointed sexton of the books in the old bet medrash. He was not among those who got up early for the morning prayers, perhaps because he was not very healthy, but he was among those who left the bet medrash at a late hour. He never hurried. He arranged his tallit and tefillin slowly and carefully. Possibly this was because he did not manage his business, a factory store. This burden he placed on the shoulders of his young son, Avraham.
He had a special custom on Rosh Hashana [the Jewish New Year Holiday]. In the evening, he took a very long time saying the Shmona Esrei [Eighteen benedictions] prayer, until everyone else finished their prayers and after they all had left the bet medrash, he would still be praying. He was with his brother-in-law, Reb Yonah Czentkowski, may G-d avenge his blood. All this left an indelible impression in my memory. As a boy, I found this amazing. Is it possible that Uncle Mordechai Aharon will finish his prayers later than the Rabbi? Is he more righteous than the Rabbi? My brother and I asked each other these questions with great amazement on the way home from the bet medrash. We didn't know how to explain it.
He had time to give for the needs of the community. For a while, he was the representative of the Jews in the Municipality (the Magistrat) and to the best of his ability, he did good things for the Jews, like lowering taxes, and more. Also in the Municipality, the gentile officials liked him because of his cleanliness and his elegant appearance as a proud Jew, who didn't grovel before his masters. He brought honor to his Jewish constituents.
My brother and I, who were brought up by his sister, visited him every Sabbath, but he was not such a favorite of ours, because he liked to test us (farheren) on what we had learned all that week. And of course, we didn't want that. When he would begin to ask questions, we would answer him on the spur of the moment and run out, saying Shabbat Shalom.
Aunt Sarah was a modest woman, a housewife who raised her children well; the main thing was that they should be good Jews. She sometimes helped out in the store. Of course, she ran her house according to her means and physical ability. She was satisfied with the small income they had from the store. They always were far from making a profit, always modest, but even so, this did not detract from my uncle's morale as he sat at the table, bent over his Gemara, learning in his pleasant voice, in the traditional tune that we enjoyed hearing.
While writing, I remembered one activity that this uncle of mine was devoted to with all his soul, for the sake of the mitzvah, and this was his baking of matza [unleavened bread] in honor of Passover. I take this opportunity to tell the younger readers, who certainly don't know what the procedure was of baking matza in our town and in other towns during those years. They didn't buy packages of matza like people now do in Israel. There, life wasn't easy; such a thing didn't exist. Every family had to bake its own matza, in an amount that would be enough for all eight days of the Passover holiday, because it was impossible to get matza during the Intermediate Days of the holiday if they needed more.
Every family would buy an amount of wheat and would try to keep it of high quality and very clean. They would bring this wheat to the flour mill (windmill) to be ground and then they would bring the flour to the bakery. In our town, there were two or three of these bakeries that were installed for baking matzos. To kasher a chometz [not-for-Passover] bakery for baking matza was extremely difficult, and therefore not every baker was prepared to do so.
One of these bakeries belonged to Liba Hirshman (Liba the baker), the wife of one of the rabbis who taught in the cheder, whose name was Rav Yisrael Hirshman. He had a cheder, and his wife had a bakery. He was a Rebbe of a higher degree; he also taught Gemara. I took my first steps in Gemara with him.
Two or three weeks before Passover, we would stop learning, and the entire house was turned into a matza bakery. The Rebbe's job was to pierce the matzos. This was done by hand. There was a wheel with sharp teeth having points that were the thickness of pins. The wheel turned on an axle placed in a wooden handle. In Hebrew, this rolling pin is called a makdeh from the root nakod [to pierce]. When it was rolled back and forth over the unbaked matza, it made holes in the dough like those in present-day matzos (but our matzos were round). In order for the lines of holes to be straight, a maggila was placed over the matza. This was a round piece of wood for rolling dough [a rolling pin]. The matzos were rolled with the rolling pin. The Rebbe would roll the dough with the maggila in one hand, and with the other hand he rolled the makdeh back and forth all at once, as if they were a ruler and a pencil on paper, until the matza was finished. Someone who was accustomed to doing this, could do it very quickly, like an arrow shot from a bow.
The preparations for baking matzos would begin every day toward evening for the next day's baking. First of all, water had to be prepared. Water was brought from the well, because in the small towns there was no general supply of water in every house; there were no pipes and faucets. We didn't know of such an easy life. There were a few wells in the town, and there were poor men who made a living from drawing water and carrying the water to the houses in two pails attached to either side of a yoke that they carried on their shoulders. Those who weren't able to buy water from the water drawers, had to go get it themselves.
There were two kinds of wells in the town: wells whose water was soft and good for cooking and drinking, and wells whose water was hard and was used only for laundry, watering cattle, and the like.
The transporting of water for matza was done very carefully, so that no chametz would fall into the water. I remember well one of the water drawers, who brought the water to the matza bakery. His name was Avraham Spektor (Avraham the bookbinder). We pronounced his name as Avram. At one time he had been a bookbinder and a teacher of beginning pupils. I was also one of his pupils. From him, we learned the Hebrew alphabet and how to read syllables, which was called Ivri. From his class, we gradually moved to higher teachers. He would stand and work at his bookbinding, while the pupil would stand at his side and read, but he didn't earn enough from both professions to feed his family. What did he do? He decided to occupy himself with a third occupation, bringing water to the houses. He got himself a two-wheeled wagon with a barrel on the axle between the wheels, like in a kerosene wagon in our country. But that barrel was made of wood, with a hole at the top for filling it with water, and a second hole at the back in the bottom of the barrel, for emptying the water, which was closed with a plug made of wood. Avram would stand between the two poles of the wagon and pull it, and two of his children would push it from behind. When the children he passed in the street saw this, they liked the idea and they would also help push the wagon for fun, as a game. They would push him so much that he wasn't able to run any faster and his strength would give out. He would stop near the house of each of his customers and, for each one, fill the number of pails of water that had been ordered. When he finished, he would close the barrel with the plug and continue on his way. He was paid according to the number of pails he delivered.
In the matza bakeries, there were very large barrels that would be filled with water. When the water was poured into the barrel, they would spread a white cloth over the mouth of the barrel to strain the water. They had to estimate how much water would be enough for each day, because it was forbidden to use water that hadn't been prepared on the prior evening. The water had to rest all night, and the next morning they began to use it. This water was called our water in other words, water that was ours all night. In the morning, they began to knead the dough for the matzos, and this was done in small amounts, so that the dough would not rest a long time until it was rolled, because it could then become leavened. When one batch of dough was finished, they started to prepare the next one, and so on.
This was the method: They would knead the dough in a large bowl; a copper basin. One woman would knead the dough while someone would pour water and add flour. For the most part, this was a young boy, who at that time of year was freed from his studies. He would receive only a few cents for this job, but he was happy with his portion. It was forbidden for the hands of the woman who was kneading the dough to come into contact with the water and dough alternately, because of the concern that the dough would become leavened. Therefore, another person poured the water, and after the dough was already prepared, they brought it to a table, which was several meters long. Women (about 20 in number) stood on both sides of the table, with rolling pins. Each of them received a piece of dough that was enough to make a single matza, and each would roll it out thin. When it was rolled out, they brought the matza to the Rebbe's table, and he made the perforations with the above-mentioned tool with great expertise. The Yiddish title for the person doing this job is radler, which means, the person who worked with the roller. When he finished, the matza was brought to the oven, where a fire was always lit, and the matzos were baked next to the flame. Liba the baker worked next to the oven herself. She didn't want to trust anyone else, because of the responsibility of her job, to make sure that the matzos didn't get burnt.
After each person's portion of matzos was finished baking, it was placed in a kabul, a container belonging to the homeowner, which was usually an enormous basket. A special white sheet, unstarched (because starch is leaven), was spread in the basket. The size of the sheet was much larger than the basket, and after the matzos were put inside and the basket was full, the edges of the sheet were folded over to cover the basket, so that nothing forbidden would get inside.
When it was my Uncle Mordechai Aharon's turn to bake his matzos, he came alone to the bakery. He didn't want to depend on anyone else. While writing these words, I see him in my mind's eye, dressed in his spotless holiday clothes in honor of the mitzvah, with a long, white towel hanging over both of his shoulders, looking into every corner and making sure that every detail of the Laws regarding kashrut was fulfilled. He was very exacting. Every once in a while, he would approach each of the people who came into direct contact with the matzo, and would give them the towel to wipe their hands so as to keep them dry. He would occasionally inspect the rolling pins used by the women to make sure that there were no remainders of dough on them that could become leavened if left too long. From there, he would go to the place where the dough was kneaded to make sure that all of the rules for making matzo were correctly carried out, and then to the oven, to check the baked matzos coming out of the oven. If a matzo came out folded, he would break off the folded portion, because if a matzo were folded, it would take longer to bake, and during the lengthened baking time, the folded-over portion could become leavened.
That is how that generation acted; in all the areas of their lives, they strengthened their faith, their nationalism, their hope for redemption and an ease in the suffering of life in Exile. Of course, my Uncle Mordechai Aharon was not the only one who conducted himself in that manner, but he did so with extra strictness. It was enjoyable to watch him in action, and when he would finish his task, his face would radiate happiness and satisfaction that he had merited to fulfill such a mitzvah. He would announce, Thank G-d, Pesach [the Passover Holiday] is already in the house. May we merit to reach it next year, with all of our children.
Regarding his children, he did not have much pleasure from them. His oldest daughter Toiba, beautiful both in name and appearance, passed away at the dawn of her youth during the widespread typhoid epidemic at the end of World War I. Whoever became ill of that disease did not recover, probably because at the time the necessary treatments did not exist, and the medical profession in general was not as developed as it is at present.
His son Felek (I don't know the meaning of this name; I think it is derived from the Biblical name Palu) learned in the Lomza Yeshiva. He was a genius. He sat there day and night and learned, and was regarded as one of the few geniuses in the Yeshiva that is what, in my boyhood, I heard from the grown-ups. Being concerned about his health, my Uncle would go to visit him from time to time, to try to convince him to lessen his exaggerated learning. When I left Poland to come to the Land of Israel in 1925, he was still in the Yeshiva. After that, they began to write to me, asking if I could arrange a permit for him to come on aliya at that time, in order to enter the country, one needed a permit from the Mandatory Government but meanwhile, Felek became ill and passed away.
Two other children remained, the daughter Zissel and the son, Avraham, who was the wage-earner of the family. He would travel to Bialystok to buy merchandise for their store. He was a trader in the market on Thursdays, and at the fairs that were held several times a year, when all of the villagers in the surrounding area would gather to sell their agricultural produce and buy the industrial products that they needed. Most of the people of the town supported themselves in this way.
About the time I left Poland, my cousin Avraham decided to learn how to read the Torah. He wanted to be the reader in the synagogue. At the beginning, he read in the shteiblach, because he wasn't an experienced professional. After that, he began to read in the old beit midrash. I did not see him do this before I left Poland, but people who arrived in the Land told me about it.
As I write, I see in my mind's eye my Uncle Mordechai Aharon, as he went to the evening prayers in the beit midrash on the Sabbath after the third meal (Shaleshudes). As he walked, he would cross the vegel - the promenade. I wish to speak a bit more about this promenade, because it was the main place of enjoyment where we all would walk. We spent a good deal of our young lives there. It was in the center of the town on the market street, which formed a large square from which all the rest of the streets branched out. This was the commercial, spiritual and cultural center of the town. The bet medrashes, the synagogue and the schools all were located here, as well as the library and reading hall where we were educated. Who doesn't remember this place? Toward evening on Sabbaths and holidays, it was crowded with people, young and old, children and youths. Everyone walked there. Loving couples found their place there. Each one found his group of friends. Group by group, they walked along, and on the faces of all of them was an expression of Sabbath contentment and rest. This was part of the modern enjoyment of the Sabbath. In general, our town was not weak, but it was progressive. All of the celebratory events began at that same promenade, for example, the Lag B'Omer celebration, during the time of the venerated teacher and educator, Israel Zimbel.
At this point, I wish to tell the young readers a few words about Israel Zimbel. Who was he, and what did he do? He came from the nearby town of Bransk (which, by the way, is the town where I was born). Until his arrival, the matter of education in Sokoly was very neglected and unorganized. There were cheder schools where religious subjects were taught, and there were private teachers who taught secular subjects, in other words, general education. What did Zimbel do? He gathered them all into one place and organized a general school with proper classes. He sorted all of the children according to knowledge and age, and placed each one in the appropriate class. There were specific hours for each subject, and he was the supervisor of everything. He gathered several men of the town as an education committee, and they helped to organize the financial aspect of the school. This continued for a few years. Zimbel ruled with a strong hand. All the children feared and respected him, and not one of them dared not to do his lessons. Even at home, the children conducted themselves properly. It was enough for a parent to mention, I will tell your teacher, and the child immediately obeyed whatever his parents said. My aunt and uncle always said about me, that whatever I knew, I knew from the time Zimbel ran the school.
Under Zimbel's protection, all the school children would gather in the square, each class separately at a distance from the others, in rows of three. I would go with my two best friends, Moshe Zeltzer and Meir Sarbrolov, may G-d avenge their blood, and from there we went out in a happy, joyous parade, with our national flag waving over our heads, to the nearby forest, where we spent the entire Lag B'Omer day playing bow and arrow games, in memory of the revered Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai and his son.
There were also many other events, one of which rose just now in my memory. This was the last event I attended before I left Poland and made aliya. It was the celebration of the opening of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. How the entire street was crowded with people, National pride shining on the faces of everyone as we paraded through the streets of the town. This was a result of the both nationalistic and religious education that we received and grew up with, because the nationality and religion of the Nation of Israel are connected with each other. All of our holy books teach us, and implant in us, a love of the nation and the Land. Every one of our holidays is unbreakably connected with the climatic cycle of the year in our Land. All this was implanted in us by our forefathers, our rabbis and our teachers, who worked very hard in order to do so.
After a few years, Zimbel left Sokoly for a foreign country. I don't know where he emigrated to originally, but he eventually arrived in the Land of Israel and settled in Hadera.
As I have already mentioned joyous national events, I will also mention a day of national sadness, the events of the 20th of Tammuz, the first yahrzeit of our leader Dr. Herzl, of blessed memory, who was from his shoulders and upward taller than the entire nation. At the time of his death, his dreams of building our Land in its historic boundaries and gathering most of the Nation of Israel from all the lands of their dispersion into the Land, had not been fulfilled. It was the bad luck of the people of Israel that his heart stopped at the wrong time and we were left without a saviour in the midst of the ocean. As it is written in the Talmud, Woe to the ship that has lost its captain.
At the time, because of my youth, I didn't understand how great this loss was to the Jewish people, but over time, I began to understand. As I remember it, the memorial ceremony in our town was as follows: The adults made a memorial in the bet medrashes of the town and donated to the Land of Israel in memory of Benjamin Zeev, the son of Yaakov Herzl. They were not satisfied with a local speaker, and to increase the honor, invited a speaker from among the Zionist leaders of the big city, Bialystok. The youth made their own memorial in other ways, such as decorating the town: every balcony, every porch on the front of every house was decorated with a rug and a large picture of Herzl framed in black, with two national flags, one on each side. Pictures of Herzl, blue on a white background, were pasted in every single window on the front of every house. All of the clubs and the town reading hall were decorated with national flags, and speeches were made about current events. Pair by pair, the youths moved through the streets and houses, giving everyone a flower made of two special pieces of paper, a blue and a white attached together. For this reason, the day was called Flower Day. At the end, we all went out in a parade through the streets of the town. I remember how I would participate in enthusiastically preparing these flowers, because we were filled with a deep Zionistic spirit that we inherited from Herzl's teachings, who, if he had lived longer, would have been able to redeem a larger portion of the nation, thereby lessening the number of victims of the Holocaust. His memory will remain inscribed in our hearts.
I am now continuing to write a few lines in memory of our neighbors, for whom not a single relative is left to mourn. Our house was on the circular street, across from the Polish church. It was the last house on the street. Behind it was the beginning of the street of the non-Jews. It was a two-family house, with a common entry in the middle. On the other side of the entry, lived a family known by the mother's name, Chaicha Ahchens (meaning, Aharon's Chaya). I remember that in my childhood, a few of the family died untimely deaths, and only one single daughter, named Sorcha (Sara) remained. We lived together very well; we were like one family. They were distant relatives of my Uncle Yitzchak Meir. After some time, my Aunt Perl made a match for Sorcha with a yeshiva student and married her off. The yeshiva student was from another town. He was studious and righteous. Of course, my Aunt took the role of the chief mother-in-law. She made the whole wedding. The student's name was Zvi Asher. They had inherited a thread and knitting wool store, but there was no one to manage the store and it was neglected. After the wedding, they began to improve the store. The yeshiva student was very talented in every way. He was a good homeowner and a good merchant. Of course, since the house was a two-family house, there were a lot of things that were of joint responsibility and had been neglected because there was no one to take care of them. My Uncle Yitzchak Meir was not good at maintenance, and therefore everything waited for a redeemer. I always liked Sorcha, because she sometimes rescued me from my Aunt when she was angry at me. Sometimes, my Aunt was angry because of some crime, such as not doing my homework or the like, and I would run away to Sorcha, where I waited until my aunt's anger would pass.
My stomach churned; my heart turned within me, when the touching thoughts arose that our town and many other communities, were destroyed, and all the shining Judaism was covered with a black cloud named Hitler and his assistants, may their names be blotted out. I am held in shock, as in the words of the Prophet Jeremiah: Who will give water to my head and a source of tears to my eyes, and I will cry day and night for the fallen of my people. Their memory will never be forgotten.
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Creator of ‘Brady Bunch,’ ‘Gilligan’s Island’ dies
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Sherwood Schwartz, writer-creator of two of the best-remembered TV series of the 1960s and 1970s, “Gilligan’s Island” and “The Brady Bunch,” has died at age 94.
Great niece Robin Randall said Schwartz died at 4 a.m. Tuesday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, where he was being treated for an intestinal infection and underwent several surgeries. His wife, Mildred, and children had been at his side.
Sherwood Schwartz and his brother, Al, started as a writing team in TV’s famed 1950s “golden age,” said Douglas Schwartz, the late Al Schwartz’s son.
“They helped shape television in its early days,” Douglas Schwartz said. “Sherwood is an American classic, creating ‘Brady Bunch’ and ‘Gilligan’s Island,’ iconic shows that are still popular today. He continued to produce all the way up into his 90s.”
Sherwood Schwartz was working on a big-screen version of “Gilligan’s Island,” his nephew said. Douglas Schwartz, who created the hit series “Baywatch,” called his uncle a longtime mentor and caring “second father” who helped guide him successfully through show business.
Success was the hallmark of Sherwood Schwartz’s own career. Neither “Gilligan” nor “Brady” pleased the critics, but both managed to reverberate in viewers’ heads through the years as few such series did, lingering in the language and inspiring parodies, spinoffs and countless standup comedy jokes.
Schwartz had given up a career in medical science to write jokes for Bob Hope’s radio show. He went on to write for other radio and TV shows, including “The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet.”
He dreamed up “Gilligan’s Island” in 1964. It was a Robinson Crusoe story about seven disparate travelers who are marooned on a deserted Pacific Island after their small boat wrecks in a storm. The cast: Alan Hale Jr., as Skipper Jonas Grumby; Bob Denver, as his klutzy assistant Gilligan; Jim Backus and Natalie Schafer, the rich snobs Thurston and Lovey Howell; Tina Louise, the bosomy movie star Ginger Grant; Russell Johnson, egghead science professor Roy Hinkley Jr.; and Dawn Wells, sweet-natured farm girl Mary Ann Summers.
Calling “Gilligan’s Island” a “family,” Tina Louise tweeted that “Sherwood Schwartz brought laughter and comfort to millions of people.” In her Twitter post she added, “He will be in our hearts forever.”
TV critics hooted at “Gilligan’s Island” as gag-ridden corn. Audiences adored its far-out comedy. Schwartz insisted that the show had social meaning along with the laughs: “I knew that by assembling seven different people and forcing them to live together, the show would have great philosophical implications.”
He argued that his sitcoms didn’t rely on cheap laughs. “I think writers have become hypnotized by the number of jokes on the page at the expense of character,” Schwartz said in a 2000 Associated Press interview.
“When you say the name Gilligan, you know who that is. If a show is good, if it’s written well, you should be able to erase the names of the characters saying the lines and still be able to know who said it. If you can’t do that, the show will fail.”
“Gilligan’s Island” lasted on CBS from 1964 to 1967, and it was revived in later seasons with three high-rated TV movies. A children’s cartoon, “The New Adventures of Gilligan,” appeared on ABC from 1974 to 1977, and in 2004, Schwartz had a hand in producing a TBS reality show called “The Real Gilligan’s Island.”
The name of the boat on “Gilligan’s Island” — the S.S. Minnow — was a bit of TV inside humor: It was named for Newton Minow, who as Federal Communications Commission chief in the early 1960s had become famous for proclaiming television “a vast wasteland.”
Minow took the gibe in good humor, saying later that he had a friendly correspondence with Schwartz.
TV writers usually looked upon “The Brady Bunch” as a sugarcoated view of American family life.
The premise: a widow (Florence Henderson) with three daughters marries a widower (Robert Reed) with three sons. (Widowhood was a common plot point in TV series back then, since networks were leery of divorce.) During the 1970s when the nation was rocked by social turmoil, audiences seemed comforted by watching an attractive, well-scrubbed family engaged in trivial pursuits.
Schwartz claimed in 1995 that his creation had social significance because “it dealt with real emotional problems: the difficulty of being the middle girl; a boy being too short when he wants to be taller; going to the prom with zits on your face.”
The series lasted from 1969 to 1974, but it had an amazing afterlife. It was followed by three one-season spinoffs: “The Brady Bunch Hour” (1977), “The Brady Brides” (1981) and “The Bradys” (1990). “The Brady Bunch Movie,” with Shelley Long and Gary Cole as the parents, was a surprise box-office hit in 1995.
It was followed the next year by a less successful “A Very Brady Sequel.”
Henderson called Schwartz “a wonderful teacher in life and again, in death, he taught us how to leave with dignity and courage.
“Sherwood has a wonderful family who so loved and respected him,” she said. “I know his Brady Bunch family feels the same way.”
Sherwood Schwartz was born in 1916 in Passaic, N.J., and grew up in Brooklyn, N.Y. His brother, already working for Hope, got him a job when Sherwood was still in college.
“Bob liked my jokes, used them on his show and got big laughs. Then he asked me to join his writing staff,” Schwartz said during an appearance in March 2008, when he got a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. “I was faced with a major decision — writing comedy or starving to death while I cured those diseases. I made a quick career change.”
Besides his wife, Schwartz’s survivors include sons Donald, Lloyd and Ross Schwartz, and daughter Hope Juber.
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APOLLO Architects & Associates created this contemporary residence in 2011 for a couple living in Koenji Minami Suginami, Tokyo, Japan.
Because of the urban location and tiny plot area, privacy and space were the main issues facing the designers.
BRUN by APOLLO Architects & Associates:
“This house was located in a residential area not far from a main downtown thoroughfare. The small southeastern corner plot, which had been subdivided from a larger piece of land, measured a slight 65sqm. The clients, a couple in their 30s who are keen architecture enthusiasts, requested a timeless design that would accommodate this small space.
Because passageways leading to other houses ran along the south-facing side of this deep plot with a narrow frontage, we installed windows in a random arrangement that would allow direct sunlight into the house.
In contrast, privacy was a major concern for the side of the house facing the road, which we decided to enclose with wooden louvers. The contrast between the windows and the external walls clad in deep brown galvalume steel sheets created a sober and stately facade for this corner building.
The pilotis area accommodates both the entrance and a small parking space, while the first floor houses the master bedroom and a storeroom-cum-gallery containing the husband’s cherished collection of bicycles.
The family room on the second floor features a stairwell that makes use of the slanting wall, which emerged as a result of setback-line limit considerations.
A steady and diffuse stream of light pours into the interior from the skylight. By boosting the ceiling height of this narrow, single-roomed space, we were able to emphasize the depth of the plot while concealing the narrowness of the frontage.
A study room on the third floor makes clever use of the corridor facing the stairwell. The two hobby areas adjoining the study have a loft-like vibe that comes from the slanting walls, allowing the inhabitants to bask in the sunlight while remaining pleasantly absorbed in their activities.
Although the house is a “micro” urban residence whose total floor area measures only 93sqm, it consists of a single, interconnected habitat that takes the form of a vertically continuous one-room space. A simple view of its external facade gives few imaginative cues as to the surprisingly rich and varied interior space that lies within.”
Photos by: Masao Nishikawa
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Every decision we make as parents ultimately affects our kids. Knowledge of this fact will either cripple you in fear or energize you to action. Either way, our kids are a direct reflection of us and those around us. To add to this monumental task, Mama Rose and I have decided to home-school our kids.
Now I know what many of you are thinking…it’s the same thing I used to think when someone uttered that conservative word dripping in stereotypes. Visions of my children writing on hand-held chalkboards and calling me “Papa” flash in my head as I confidently protect them from the evils of the world.
I want to do the exact opposite!
I want my kids to see, hear, touch, taste, smell, and experience all that this wide world has to offer.
The idea of sending them to a monochromatic brick-o-block school house where they will be put on our traditional assembly line of knowledge makes me want to do more, give more, and be more for my kids education.
Too often (me being in this category) our kids exit this system, with a shiny new diploma that depreciates faster then a new car driving off the lot.
We/They are left feeling lost, alone, used, depressed, and then stuck…in whatever sticky job we fall into in the name of security.
Just think of the power of doing the exact opposite of what the “system” provides. I want to be like Keating in Dead Poet Society, asking those questions to excite and educate my kids.
These are important questions that are not just for those who willing/able to immerse their kids in this world. How well do we show the world to our kids in our down time, time off, or weekends?
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Dec. 21 is not the first time the apocalypse was supposed to bring down the curtain on the world.
End Of The World
Friday, December 21, 2012
Friday, December 7, 2012
Is the apocalypse coming? Are you ready?
In 1999, tales of the “Y2K” bug sounded the doomsday alarm and people took rock legend Prince’s anthem “1999” to heart on Dec. 31, 1999: They say two thousand zero zero party over, oops out of time. So tonight I’m gonna party like its nineteen ninety-nine. When people awoke on Jan. 1, 2000, most computers were running just fine and the world kept turning. Now, stories of the impending apocalypse (Dec. 21, 2012, according to some interpretations of the Mayan calendar) are rampant, even with reputable organizations like NASA debunking many of the most common apocalyptic theories. What do you think will happen on Dec. 21? Do you have any plans for “the end of the world?” Will you watch your regularly scheduled Thursday night television …
Friday, November 11, 2011
Some couples are racing to get married while other folks predict an apocalyptic day. What will 11-11-11 really unravel?
What is 11-11-11 in addition to being the last time in your lifetime that you will live through a perfectly-dated palindrome? A palindrome is a number or word reading the same backwards as forwards. Of course you could live 100 more years and prove me wrong. In which case, let me congratulate you ahead of time, as I won’t be around to do it on November 11, 2111. The last 11-11-11 took folks on a wild ride So what is 11-11-11? It’s a curious day if history is any indicator. On the last 11-11-11, a bizarre meteorological event sent heads spinning. The “Great Blue Norther” of November 11, 1911 was a cold snap that hit the U.S. taking some cities on a wild ride as it broke record highs and lows for the same day. Temperatures rose then dropped …
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Welcome to PEAL.org.uk
Parents are a child's first and most enduring educators. Supporting parents' engagement in their children's learning is an effective way to make a difference to children's lives and outcomes. PEAL training and resource materials support practitioners to encourage and develop parental involvement in children's early learning. PEAL is based on the key elements of the PEAL model: authentic relationships, communication and partnership.
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In Oak Cliff Today, the Kids Were Putting a Fresh Coat of Paint on Bishop Arts
And so, on this perfect Saturday, while St.Paddy's merrymakers paraded up and down Greenville Avenue -- and we'll have photos and more from that in the morning -- the couple and other like-minded Cliffdwellers took their protest and paintbrushes to the streets. Children from four Dallas Independent School District elementary schools sprawled beneath the empty Kavala Grill -- whose ancient-looking marquee says, "Changing Concept Soon" -- to decorate 24"-by-24" black wood panels. The kids' artwork will be tiled together into a huge mural and put up behind ABC Party on Davis Street in Oak Cliff.
The goal is to soften the environment, Roberts said -- to make the arts district more inviting. Rosemont Primary School art teacher Stacy Cianciulli said the goal was to "involve the children of the neighborhood, to give them ownership and abate graffiti." For the full court press, professional (non-kid) muralists are prepping another wall near 422 W. Davis
The scene was simple fun: One student, dripping paint all over her canvas, said, "I wouldn't exist without art"; another was coating his wood panel with the haste of someone on a deadline; and still another was dipping her whole hand in green. "I like painting because you can express yourself," a younger student said. "It lets me get dirty." True: There is paint all over the streets in Oak Cliff tonight.
Check out more photos from the Art Crawl in our slide show here.
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Right-wing radical and Kennedy denouncer Thomas Vallee had arranged to be off work for JFK's visit; Vallee, an expert marksman, was arrested with an M1 rifle, a handgun and 3,000 rounds of ammo. But then there was the phone call to federal agents from a motel manager concerning what she'd seen in a room rented by two Cuban nationals.Now here's the critical part that Bolden said about his fellow agents...
"Had seen lying on the bed several automatic rifles with telescopic sights, with an outline of the route that President Kennedy was supposed to take in Chicago that would bring him past that building," said former Secret Service agent Abraham Bolden.
Bolden, 72, of Chicago, was a young agent in 1963. After a few years as an Illinois state trooper, Bolden joined he Secret Service and was invited by Kennedy onto the prestigious White House detail. He was the first black agent assigned to protect a president.
Bolden recalled how agents bungled surveillance of those two suspected Cuban hit men. They disappeared and were never identified.
"No one was sent to the room to fingerprint it or get an ID. The case was lost and that was the end of it," Bolden said.
On Nov. 2, the president was about to leave the White House for Chicago and Bolden says a Cuban murder squad here was unaccounted for.
Information about Vallee, his similarity in appearance and background to Oswald and details of the Cuban hit squad in Chicago were never given to federal agents in Dallas.And for the odd part. The part where it seems that no one wanted him to talk. I would like to know the whole story...
Bolden said the information was not known to have been passed on to Dallas.
In a book that Bolden wrote with his wife, due out in the spring, he will cite another contributing factor in the JFK murder: on-duty drunkenness by Secret Service agents.
"I told the chief of the Secret Service this, that if anything happens, an emergency situation develops with President Kennedy, that their reflexes are going to be in a condition that they won't be in a condition to respond, and Dallas, Texas, proved I was right," he said. "The president's life was in grave danger because of the inefficiency of security around him, too many weaknesses."
"When that bullet struck the head of the president, it struck me too because I saw it coming," Bolden said.
When the Warren Commission began investigating JFK's assassination, Bolden says, he attempted to inform members about the Chicago plot and misconduct by his fellow agents.
During that time Bolden was arrested and prosecuted for soliciting a bribe from a counterfeiter and served a six-year sentence. He says it was a setup to silence him. The main witness has since recanted, and Bolden hopes now to clear his name.
A spokesman for the Secret Service in Washington said that officials "would not have any comment whatsoever about Mr. Bolden's statements."
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“We spent a frenzied half-hour in search of Lufthansa’s check-in counter until discovering that the actual carrier was Air One,” Michael wrote in an e-mail [to the Chicago Tribune.]
Nowhere on their printed ticket was Air One mentioned, nor was it on the itinerary their travel agent provided them. The Ludmers had very nearly been tripped up by what might best be called “code-share confusion.”
“Code share” means that tickets are sold by one airline for a seat on a code-share partner’s airplane, a growing trend in the industry.
According to the Trib, code sharing can have benefits, including lower fares and the ability to book flights and acquire frequent flier points with a familiar airline, but there’s also the risk of confusion, especially with paper tickets. “Department of Transportation regulations require carriers to “tell consumers clearly when the air transportation they are buying or considering buying involves a code-sharing arrangement.” It seems that airlines aren’t doing a very good job.
If you have an electronic ticket: Look for the words “operated by” to find your code share airline, if any.
If you have a paper ticker: “Check the departure screen at the airport. Even if your airline is not listed there, your destination and time of departure should be. Then go to the gate that matches that information, even if it is a different airline from the one on your ticket.” —MEGHANN MARCO
The code share: When your airline’s not your airline [Chicago Tribune]
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Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee was established in 1847 as the Roorkee College. Later, it became the Thomason College of Civil Engineering in 1854. Located in Roorkee
, it was declared as the Institution of National Importance in 2001.
The institute offers Bachelor's degree courses in 10 disciplines of engineering and architecture and postgraduate's degree in 55 disciplines of engineering, applied science, architecture and planning. It also facilitates for doctoral work in all departments and research centers.
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POTSDAM The work of the North Country Regional Economic Development Council already has won a large funding award, and now it is creating partnerships that stretch across the region.
Clarkson University, CITEC and Plattsburghs North Country Chamber of Commerce are applying jointly for federal grants to create an advanced manufacturing hub in the north country.
Clarkson President Anthony G. Collins, also the councils chairman, said an application for the Advanced Manufacturing Jobs and Innovation Accelerator Challenge would be sent to the U.S. Department of Commerces Economic Development Administration, the National Institute of Standards and Technology, the U.S. Department of Energy, the U.S. Department of Labors Employment and Training Administration, the Small Business Administration and the National Science Foundation.
This would be for existing manufacturers to help them add value to their research and work-force development, said Mr. Collins. Were trying to help improve their processes and help develop work force, a very coordinated and connected opportunity.
Mr. Collins said the partners are in the early stages of developing their proposal.
U.S. Sens. Charles E. Schumer and Kirsten E. Gillibrand, both Democrats of New York, and Rep. William L. Owens, D-Plattsburgh, have lent their support to the project.
This program will help us to attract new industries to the area as we continue to work with our friends and neighbors to boost economic growth in the community, Mr. Owens said in a Monday press release.
Mr. Collins said the application would not have occurred if it werent for the Regional Economic Development Council and the Consolidated Funding Application process, which brought together regional and local interests. He noted that the proposal, if successful, would have impacts from Lake Ontario to Lake Champlain.
Interestingly enough, we watched the other economic development regions, and I dont think anyone has the kind of team approach that we have up here, he said. If were not in the competition, we cant win it, and our objective is to get as many resources to the north country as possible.
Mr. Collins said the funding would build on the Councils Regional Economic Development Plan. If successful, Clarkson would engage in work-force education and materials research while the Chamber of Commerce would provide on-the-job training for north country workers. CITEC, a nonprofit economic development engine, would use its expertise in lean business practices, sustainability and market intelligence to support manufacturers in the area.
The partners would focus on developing transportation equipment and advance materials manufacturing, building on the operations of Bombardier Inc.s Plattsburgh plant, Alcoas facilities in Massena and Clarksons stable of researchers.
President Barack Obama announced $26 million for the challenge program in May to invest in manufacturing and create jobs.
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This transcript has been automatically generated and may not be 100% accurate.
... I ... opinion Journal why Mary Kissel ... well the January jobs numbers are out in the White House blames quote ... the wounds inflicted by the worst downturn since the Great Depression and quote ... so was our lousy economy really somebody else's fault ... editorial board member Steve Moore joins me now from Washington ... Steve ... whose fault is this somebody else is ... well you know the Democrats could blame forty years of my new liaison on Herbert Hoover right I said that ... the Brock Obama can continue to use the slide that it's all George W Bush's puppet ... in all a very listless economy over ... the canal economic and jobs report a week I'd done hundred and sixteen thousand or so jobs that terrible but it's just it's kind of Mitterrand and I think the real problem is were in this kind of ... very slow growth rut right now one half to two percent growth a hundred fifty dollars seventy five thousand jobs a month it's not that it's not your op but it's just not growing fast enough to bring about sat down to get the twenty million people don't have a full-time job ... in the jobs ... of its all in all mediocre I guess would be the way I describe this jobs picture nasty a lot of people focus on the headline number seven point nine percent jobless rate ... but the labor participation rate sixty three point six percent ... should we interpret that with the Sydney ... a couple points Mary first Bala go back to the headline unemployment rate over seven point nine percent I went back and look at it when we pass this big eight hundred billion dollars stimulus to go back to four years ago ... and at this point when they pass the stimulus in what the unemployment rate he predicted would be today now five point three per sites allowed to happen in the points higher than now Obama promised we would get up we spent that trillion dollars ... now your point about the labor force participation rate is very important because this is ... the real segments of the U S economy ... here is an amazing statistic I married or eighteen a half million fewer Americans in the workforce today ... but now we're the day that Barack Obama ... entered office that that's really depressing ... well that's ironic to since of the White House claim that ... Pres is created more jobs and Ronald ... Reagan ... I get one thing and a little deeper here's the lead up to the tothe to the Dr decided ... that the numbers ... we average about two hundred fifty to three hundred thousand jobs a month or in the rate of expansion we've been averaging about a hundred fifty thousand ... during Obama so we read about half the pace of job creation we we we were under a of of of of the diaper any any good news in the survey sting ... to be on ... the other is one piece of pretty up pretty good news which is a recalculated the unemployment numbers for two thousand and twelve ... and they they recounted we at about three hundred thousand more jobs story the euro ... than we originally thought so that's a good number that means we were trading at twenty five thousand ... jobs a month ... more than we had a racially out fully ... Stevie is there any prospect of us getting out of the strike ... anytime soon ... yell ... that's ... tough to predict that because you do have some real tail winds you got a housing market is clearly recovering in were seeing you know prices rise were stock is starting to see new construction housing up or a fortified your depression Housing Sebastian to create jobs ... the energy sector that both you and I've read a lot of politicians bowling in America ... notwithstanding all Washington is doing to try to hold that back I you know the stock market's been on a tear for the last month so ... I think we can probably see a few months about growth ahead ... now there's real aam ... headwinds that were facing to what I would ... point to the tothe Washington created I think are most ominous ... the first is the big tax increase that we just passed the Obamacare tax increases and the app increases in taxes on the call Rach ... notion of slow things down on the other is the Obamacare health care law is already having enough that the business is slowing down there are hiring are a ... is they don't wanna be on ... under the strictures of the outlawed that say get more more more than fifty workers you happen ... to have all of these new regulations well rather bleak outlook to another lousy Employment Report editorial board member Steve Moore don't forget Mary were not you're up so it's probably at least not enough for diapers out of line and unleashed will have negative growth we may not be Europe yet but still that the challenger names jobs jobs ... Sharp editorial board member Steve Moore thanks for being with us
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As Hadassah members continue to celebrate the women’s Zionist organization’s centennial year around the world, local members are looking forward to hosting two powerful women this month, Dr. Osnat Levtzion-Korach, the first female director of Hadassah University Hospital, and Audrey Alhadeff Shimron, Hadassah’s executive director.
Levtzion-Korach will meet with the Bellingham Hadassah chapter, doctors and researchers from Seattle Children’s Hospital and the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, and other research organizations and individuals. On Thurs., Nov. 8, she will meet with Seattle chapter members at a dessert reception on Mercer Island.
“We have been looking for a doctor to come and do a speaking tour of the Pacific Northwest for a long time,” said Jacquie Bayley, president of the Pacific Northwest Hadassah chapter. “They’re the front line. They tell us what’s going on.”
Levtzion-Korach is a pediatrician who specializes in chronic diseases. Bayley hopes Levtzion-Korach will talk about the research going on at the Hadassah hospitals, located in Jerusalem on Mount Scopus and in Ein Kerem.
“We would like to have the Seattle community see the close ties we have between the Pacific Northwest and Hadassah hospital,” Bayley said.
Shimron, who organized Israel’s first-ever Susan G. Komen walk for the cure, which raised nearly $200,000 and had 8,000 participants, will present about Hadassah success stories at several events, including a brunch on Sun., Nov. 11 at Glendale Country Club in Bellevue that will honor Rabbi Yohanna Kinberg of Temple B’nai Torah and Rob Jacobs of StandWithUs Northwest.
Bayley cites groundbreaking work the hospital is doing with stem cells and computer technology as inspiration for her involvement. Additionally, Hadassah’s campaign to build the Sarah Wetsman Davidson Tower started in 2007 and has already raised over $300 million.
“Only Hadassah women would raise money and build a hospital in the middle of a depression,” she said.
Hadassah was started in 1912 by Henrietta Szold as a women’s volunteer organization to bring relief to Jewish immigrants in pre-state Israel.
Hadassah hospitals “will do whatever it takes to save a life,” Bayley said. “It doesn’t matter if the person is Jewish, Muslim, Christian, Arab…The bridge of peace is definitely in existence at Hadassah hospital. So what do we want? We want people to know this.”
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Up Front - The Publisher's Column
We start 2013 by featuring our Floridian of the Year. Please understand that this is not a lifetime achievement award, but rather recognition of a significant achievement that occurred in Florida during the past year.
This year’s Floridian of the Year, Jonathan Hage, is notable for his leadership position at the cutting edge of a trend — charter school growth. His Charter Schools USA, based in south Florida, now runs 37 charter schools in Florida and has become one of the fastest-growing charter school operators in the country.
Momentum behind charter schools, which remain controversial to some, is growing. Nationally, the number of charter schools has increased from fewer than 1,600 a bit more than a decade ago to 5,613 today. In Florida, we have more than 570 charter schools. Last year, more than 200,000 Florida students, or one in every 17, attended a charter school.
Joining the Floridian of the Year are notable newsmakers from every region of the state in sectors such as business, entertainment, health care and sports. And while Trend’s readers can argue endlessly about who most deserves this recognition, we find no lack of significant individuals to showcase.
On a more somber note, Florida Trend again recognizes the military men and women who gave their lives in defense of the United States. Please see their photographs and information at Florida's Fallen Soldiers.
This new year has special meaning for Florida. Exactly 500 years ago, Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de Leon landed on the east coast, documented the arrival and gave a name to the area ... La Florida. American Indians, of course, were the original pioneers, dating back perhaps 12,000 years, but the Spanish claim did open a new era in history.
Florida Trend will recognize this rich history with a special issue in May highlighting Florida’s Hispanic heritage over the generations and noting the
Viva Florida 500 cultural events being organized statewide.
And 2013 is also important for Florida Trend itself. This year is the magazine’s “double nickel” 55th anniversary. From a 32-page black and white publication in 1958, Trend has grown to more than 52,000 monthly copies and more than 250,000 readers from the executive ranks of business, government and civic affairs. We are thankful for the many advertisers who reach this influential audience through our pages, and now through the FloridaTrend.com website.
During the year, Trend will continue its popular series of community portraits. In the coming months, you will see reports on Orlando in May, Tallahassee in June, Fort Lauderdale in October, Lee County (including Fort Myers) in November, and Seminole County in December in honor of that county’s 100th anniversary. We will also dive deeply into the High Tech Corridor, a ribbon from Tampa Bay through Orlando to the Space Coast that bumps up to include the University of Florida.
Only through the pages of Trend do readers see a detailed portrait of regions of the state where they don’t personally reside.
Fitness: I ran the first race of my life — the 5k Turkey Trot — on Thanksgiving Day. I finished in 33:12 for an average speed of 10:45 per mile, slightly better than expected. The hoopla certainly helped — costumed runners, bands along the road and thousands of fellow runners including our sons, who trotted along beside me.
My 2013 goal: After dropping 15 pounds and starting to run in 2012, I’ll certainly try to maintain that fitness. But the new biggie is to learn some Spanish. Hopefully, Santa will bring me the Rosetta Stone language software. Progress reports forthcoming.
— Andy Corty
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A digest of important news from sources selected by our local editors. Delivered weekday mornings.
The San Antonio Area Tourism Council is stepping up efforts to sell the Alamo City to visitors -- and to corporations.
Milton Guess is chairman of Vision 21, a project of the Tourism Council and the Greater San Antonio Hotel & Motel Association. He says the timing is right for San Antonio to take some giant leaps in the business of attracting visitors. He adds the goal is to make sure some of those visitors never leave.
"We're now taking our staff and our financing and putting it into more advocacy, and letting more people know about the strengths of our businesses and what we bring to the community," says Guess, referring to the Tourism Council. "We also need to make sure that, where there are some areas where we need to take better care of ourselves in partnership with the city, that we do that on a more proactive basis."
Guess says communication and investigation are now key. "We're setting up a financial structure between the Tourism Council and the Hotel & Motel Association where we'll have the ability to do more research," says Guess. "Realizing our impact on the economy in San Antonio has given us an energizing effect as an industry to get out and take care of ourselves a lot better. You've got to have facts and research before you can go out there and really start doing things. And it's got to be independent research like ours has been. That's why we've been pushing for better communications between City Hall and our industry."
On the topic of research, Guess says that process is well under way. One of the first places his group wanted to begin was with salaries, an area that tourism detractors have long called into question.
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A major water-line ruptured a leak last Saturday, leaving the Boston area (and over 2 million homes) without potable water for three days. By some stroke of luck, Cambridge was spared from this fiasco as we have our own water supply. But Boston and 27 other communities were under order to boil water before using it for drinking, cooking and even washing dishes.
The next day, it was clear this “boil water order” might extend for several days… so I got on the phone and invited friends in affected areas over for dinner. With such short notice, I wanted to cook something simple and savory (and economical) that could easily scale up for a crowd.
At first blush, chicken enchiladas seemed like a great idea: a one dish casserole that would easily round out with a salad. But then I thought about how many steps actually go into enchiladas – making the sauce, cooking the filling, softening the tortillas and then rolling them. And, of course, serving enchiladas is really not an easy feat – unlike the restaurants that bake them in individual dishes, a casserole becomes very messy very quickly.
But I did like the idea of the mole sauce. The corn tortillas, with their distinctive lime flavor, and Monterey Jack cheese make a wonderful combination. I decided to reconstruct the dish is a way that’s easy to prepare and easy to serve.
There was no getting around making the mole sauce… and who would want to short-cut that anyway… with its rich, spicy complex flavors. And after making the same recipe for over 10 years, I’ve mastered making it in less than 30 minutes. Instead of using store bought tomatoes, I used a can of smoked tomatoes from last summer. I cooked chicken breasts, simply seasoned with salt and pepper, in the mole sauce.
If there’s one thing about mole I can say with conviction, it’s even better when paired with corn tortillas or other dish made with masa harina. Masa harina is corn meal that has been treated with lime and gives tortillas their distinctive flavor. It is also used in tamales and pupusas. I didn’t want to compromise the dish because I was too lazy to roll enchiladas. Instead, I made individual mounds of nachos – corn chips topped with melted jack cheese and scallions.
In the end it was a delicious, elegant meal, and a wonderful last minute, throw-together dinner that took less than an hour to prepare.
From the Garden: Tomatoes and Scallions
Chicken Mole6 chicken breasts, boneless skinless
monterey jack cheese
- Make the mole sauce.
- Season chicken with salt and pepper.
- Place chicken in a single layer in a casserole dish with a cover. Ladle mole sauce on top. Cover the dish.
- Bake chicken at 350F for 15 minutes, or until cooked through.
- Meanwhile, put corn tortillas on a cookie sheet in little piles. Top with grated jack cheese. Bake until cheese is melted.
- Serve chicken with nachos and guacamole. Garnish with scallions.
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Expanding Border Powers Creating ‘Constitution-Free Zone’ That Covers Two-Thirds of Americans
CONTACT: (202) 675-2312; firstname.lastname@example.org
WASHINGTON – The extraordinary powers of customs and border agents to invade the privacy of individuals at the U.S. border are spreading inland and creating what amounts to a “Constitution-free Zone” that covers fully two-thirds of the American population, the American Civil Liberties Union said today in a press conference at the National Press Club in Washington, DC.
“The authorities can do things at the border that they could never do to citizens and residents inside our country under the Constitution,” said Caroline Fredrickson, director of the ACLU Washington Legislative Office. “Yet the government is asserting that some of these powers extend as far as 100 miles inside the actual border. It is a classic example of law enforcement powers expanding far beyond their proper boundaries – in this case, literally.”
At the press conference, the ACLU released a map showing the 100-mile “border region” claimed by the government, and cities and states that fall within it. The map, which was created using the latest census data, shows that fully two-thirds of the U.S. population, including 9 of the nation’s top 10 largest metro areas, is within the border zone.
“Americans and Washington policymakers may believe that this is a problem confined to the dusty sands of Arizona or Texas, or the San Diego-Tijuana border, but it stretches far inland across the United States,” said Barry Steinhardt, director of the ACLU’s Technology and Liberty Program. “If allowed to stand, sooner or later a factory worker in southern New Hampshire, a farmer in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, or Joe the plumber outside Toledo, Ohio will find themselves trapped in a Constitution-free Zone.”
Also appearing at the press conference were two individuals who spoke about their personal experience with these overextended powers: San Diego music professor Craig Johnson, and Vince Peppard, a San Diego retiree who with his wife was stopped by the authorities on a road east of San Diego, at least 15 miles from the U.S. border. Peppard and his wife proved they were U.S. citizens but still found themselves subject to demands that they allow a search, interrogated, threatened and harassed.
“Now I’m actually feeling nervous when I’m going to work. . . that I might get pulled over by Border Patrol and asked, ‘where’s your passport?’” said Peppard, who appeared at the event via videotape. “And now – do I have to carry my passport with me when I go to Home Depot or something?”
“In the United States, citizens are not supposed to need an internal passport,” said Steinhardt. “This is our country and we are free to go where we please, without being stopped and interrogated by the authorities, as long as we are not behaving illegally or in a way that is clearly suspicious.”
“Police action is not the only way to fight for freedom,” said Fredrickson. “This is a classic case where Americans need to push back against their government to preserve the core freedoms that we have always enjoyed.”
An interactive version of the
“Constitution-free Zone” map, a video of Vince Peppard, and other materials are
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From AFP Kinshasa via ca.news Wed Dec 31, 2008:
UN rebuffs Nkunda allegations over DR Congo troop surge
The UN has denied allegations made by rebel leader Laurent Nkunda that the Congolese army is boosting troop numbers at a key battle line in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Nkunda, who leads the Tutsi rebel group the National Congress for the Defence of the People (CNDP), wrote to the UN envoy to DR Congo Alan Doss on December 24 to protest at what he called the "redeployment" of Congolese troops.
He said they were reinforcing the front line in Kibati, 10 kilometres (7 miles) north of Goma, the provincial capital of the Nord-Kivu region.
Doss rebuffed Nkunda's claims, saying the UN mission to Congo (MONUC) had carried out investigations on the ground and saw no evidence of any advance by the Congolese army in the areas in question.
Kibati has been one of the main flashpoints between the Congolese army and the rebels since fresh fighting broke out at the end of August. Just a few hundred metres separate the two camps.
Talks opened between the government and the rebels earlier in December in the Kenyan capital of Nairobi. Since then, fighting between the two sides has subsided and they are set to meet for another round of talks on January 7.
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Community Unions; more questions than answers
In the 1930s, at a time of national and global economic meltdown (sounds familiar) the coalition government cut the benefits of the poor. In those days trade unions were not interested in the unemployed so a militant group – the National Unemployed Workers Movement – was formed to organise those thrown out of work and challenge the government. In 2012 as the economy declines – and the rich get richer – once again a coalition government wants the poor to pay for their crisis. Only this time, unlike the 30s, people are much more isolated and lack the community cohesion that was a part of the fightback that made the NUWM a successful organisation.
As a life long trade unionist and activist I was pleased to see my union, Unite, a year ago appeared to address the issue of representing and organising the unemployed, particularly as I too became a victim of the ConDem’s stripping of services and workers from the public services.
Last year Unite set up its community membership scheme stating
Unite’s mission is to organise people to strive for a society that places equality, dignity and respect above all else. But our union recognises that we can only achieve this if we bring people together from all walks of life.
Even now in the 21st century, too many people in our country are being pushed to the margins of society. They deserve to be heard; they too deserve the support to organise collectively. It is with this in mind that Unite has founded its community membership scheme.
And targeting those;
Unite’s community membership scheme brings together people from across our society. Those not in employment are welcomed into the union family, adding another dimension to our strength in thousands of workplaces across the UK.
Coming from a trade union family when I was made redundant one of the first things I did was to change my membership to that of an unemployed member. The Greater Manchester Unite Community Union was launched in June last year, but I only heard about it from a journalist friend, not from Unite. Eventually in November I decided to go along to a meeting and find out what is being offered by Unite to the unemployed.
The meeting was not like any Unite meeting I have ever been to, in fact it was similar to many community meetings that I have been involved with over the years. People sat in a circle and there was little in terms of a formal agenda. And it showed one of the major issues for a community union, bringing together two different political cultures; that of trade unions and community organising.
There was a fair representation of people at the meeting, including women, younger people, people on benefits, ex-students, and older people. Apart from me, there did not appear to be any other unemployed Unite members there. There was a Unite shop steward from a local council, a Unite member working in private industry and a PCS shop steward. I was puzzled by this because the latter presumably have their own branches to be active in and therefore do not need a community union .There were also two students who said they were going to set up a community union in their university. Now I know the Unite publicity does mention students, but to me students already have their own organisation, the NUS, to be active in, so why would you want to set up a Community Union branch in a university?
There were a number of people from the local Unemployment centres in Salford and they made some important contributions, including offering access to computers (very important these days for people who want to sign on for benefits or maintain their benefits) and help for those experiencing problems with their benefits. The issue of benefits is a crucial one for any CU, as far as I am concerned, as those receiving benefits are being targeted by the Con-Dem government and, like the 1930s, are suffering severe cuts in their money.
Information was given out about the changes, including the new Universal Credit, and concern was raised about the way it was being trialled at local Benefit Offices . A man who worked at a solicitors offered to train up members of the CU in welfare rights, which was a really positive contribution. The question was asked if Unite would pay for this but the answer was no, Unite would only pay for functional skills training. I was quite shocked by this as Unite is a rich union, and, as many unemployed people are paying their dues, this would be one way for the union to provide a crucial support service to some of the most vulnerable people in this country. Whilst it is good that one individual offered the training, I know, having worked with young people and benefits, that the system is complicated and that it is important to keep up to date with all the changes. Welfare rights work is highly skilled, and given the challenges made by the Benefit Service, it is important that the people who represent claimants are clued up on the system.
The use and mainly abuse of the Work Programme is a big issue for claimants, never mind that it has been shown not to work anyway. One of the people at the meeting was on the WP and wanted support with the way in which people are poorly treated. Another person spoke about the way in which the WP is being used for some firms at Xmas to fill their vacancies.
Throughout the meeting I kept wondering what was the link between the people sat in this room and Unite. Reference was made to Sheila Coleman,(respected activist from the Hillsborough Justice Campaign) who in September 2012 was appointed as the new Community Co-ordinator for the North West for Unite. In the Liverpool Echo she commented;
Across the North West many communities feel like they do not have a voice. Unite community membership is going to help change that. We think it is time that people who do not have a job for whatever reason are now going to have access to the benefits of trade union membership.
What isn’t clear is how this access and benefits of trade union membership can be translated into providing the support that unemployed people need and are Unite prepared to put their money where there rhetoric is.
At the meeting it was inspiring that many of the people did want to get involved in activities ranging from recruiting people to the community union to actions around the cuts and anti-poverty initiatives. But without a base to operate from, and without some resources to fund campaigns it is hard to see how it can happen. I did try to contact Sheila Coleman to discuss these issues, but I have not had any response.
What came out just at the meeting I attended was the need for an organisation which would stand up for the unemployed, that would publicly challenge the government over their policy on cutting benefits, that would provide the unemployed with the support to challenge individual claims and, like the NUWM, offer them the comradeship and sense of solidarity that is the hallmark of a good trade union.
At the meeting a banner was produced for the organisation with Unite’s logo, the name of Gtr Manchester Community Union with the message Fairness, Justice, Respect admirable values for any organisation but the trick is to turn aspirations into reality. I would welcome responses to this article.
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The Lake Superior port of THUNDER BAY is much closer to Winnipeg than to any city in Ontario, and consequently its 120,000 inhabitants are prone to see themselves as westerners. Economics as well as geography define this self-image, for this was until recently a booming grain-handling port, and the grain, of course, is harvested in the Prairies. Some grain still arrives here by rail to be stored in the town's gigantic grain elevators on its way to the Atlantic, but since the 1990s the economics of the grain trade have favoured Canada's Pacific ports and many of the grain elevators that dominate the harbourfront are now literally rotting away. This reversal of fortunes has encouraged Thunder Bay to reinvent itself through manufacturing and tourism. To boost the latter, the city council has created a cheerful marina and built a spanking new casino, though this proved very controversial. Such was the opposition that the casino was, in a rather bizarre compromise, called the "Charity Casino" to remind the citizenry that the profits are and will be spent on good causes.
Scarred by industrial complexes and crisscrossed by rail lines, Thunder Bay is not immediately enticing, but it does have enough of interest to make a pleasant stopover on the long journey to or from Winnipeg. The most agreeable part of town is the few blocks stretching inland from behind the marina in Thunder Bay North – north of Central Avenue – and here you'll also find several good cafés and restaurants. Thunder Bay South is much less appealing, but on its outskirts is the city's star turn, the replica fur-trading post of Old Fort William, or you could plump instead for the waterfalls of Kakabeka Falls Provincial Park, 30km or so west of Thunder Bay
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The first step to choosing a financial advisor is to make sure that they are reputable. They should be registered with FINRA (Financial Industry Regulatory Authority), the SEC (Securities and Exchange Commission) or the State.
Financial advisors may have certificates or designations. A Certified Financial Planner has gone through a 2 year certification process. A Certified Public Accountant-Personal Financial Specialist has taken classes and an exam from the American Institute of CPAs. They must be re-certified every 3 years. Chartered Financial Consultant designations are granted by The American College upon completion of seven required courses and two elective courses. A reputable advisor will not be offended if you ask to see their certificate and/or registration.
Determine if you will be more comfortable dealing with a large company (i.e. Fidelity, Merrill Lynch), an advisor affiliated with a large firm or an independent advisor. Each has their own positives and negatives. It must be the right fit for you. Make an appointment with the one that you think serves you best. If you’re not comfortable, try another advisor. Do not settle on someone that you’re not comfortable with.
Before committing, determine how your advisor is paid. Options are usually fee or commission. Commissions encourage advisors to move money around just to make commissions and select options with commissions when no commission options are available.
Ask how often the advisor will review your portfolio and how often you will meet to discuss it. Do not consider an advisor that does not meet with you at least once a year. Twice a year or more is preferable.
A good advisor will explain all of your options to you and include you in the decision making process. If you do not understand your options, ask the advisor to explain them again. You should not be pushed into something that you are uncomfortable with. Do not select someone that does a hard sell.
* Opinions expressed are subject to change without notice and are not intended as investment advice or to predict future performance.
* Consult your financial professional before making any investment decision.
* The opinions expressed in this blog are those of the author and are not necessarily the same as those of Ausdal Financial Partners.
* Securities offered through Ausdal Financial Partners, Member FINRA/SIPC, 220 North Main Street, Suite 400, Davenport, Iowa 52801 (563) 326-2064. Joan K. Norton, CMFC, RFC, LLC and Ausdal Financial Partners are Independent Companies.
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The economic downturn is also having an impact on entry-level salaries. Among those employers planning to hire recent college graduates, more than one-in-five (21 percent) said they will decrease starting salaries for recent college graduates in 2009 as compared to 2008. An additional 68 percent of employers plan to keep initial salary offers the same as last year and 11 percent will increase them.
Thirty-three percent of employers plan to offer recent college graduates starting salaries ranging between $30,000 and $40,000. An additional 17 percent will offer between $40,000 and $50,000 and 14 percent will offer more than $50,000. Thirty-six percent will offer less than $30,000.
"While recent college graduates are facing a highly competitive job market right now, there are still opportunities out there," said Brent Rasmussen, President of CareerBuilder North America. "The biggest challenge is showing relevant experience, which employers say is one of the most important factors they look for in applications from recent college graduates. This isn’t limited to professional work experience, so don’t get discouraged. Class work, school activities and volunteering also qualify as relevant experience and can be included in your resume as well."
Employers reported that the following activities qualify as pertinent work experience for recent college graduates to include on their resumes:
When asked to identify the biggest mistakes recent college graduates make during the application and interview process, employers reported the following:
This survey was conducted online within the U.S. by Harris Interactive on behalf of CareerBuilder.com among 2,543 hiring managers and human resource professionals (employed full-time; not self-employed; with at least significant involvement in hiring decisions; non government) ages 18 and over between February 20 and March 11, 2009 (percentages for some questions are based on a subset US Employers, based on their responses to certain questions). With a pure probability sample of 2,543, one could say with a 95 percent probability that the overall results have a sampling error of +/- 1.94 percentage points. Sampling error for data from sub-samples is higher and varies.
CareerBuilder is the global leader in human capital solutions, helping companies target and attract their most important asset – their people. Its online career site, CareerBuilder.com, is the largest in the U.S. with more than 23 million unique visitors, 1 million jobs and 31 million resumes. CareerBuilder works with the world’s top employers, providing resources for everything from employment branding and data analysis to talent acquisition. More than 9,000 Web sites, including 140 newspapers and broadband portals such as MSN and AOL, feature CareerBuilder’s proprietary job search technology on their career sites. Owned by Gannett Co., Inc. (NYSE:GCI), Tribune Company, The McClatchy Company (NYSE:MNI) and Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq: MSFT), CareerBuilder and its subsidiaries operate in the U.S., Europe, Canada and Asia. For more information, visit www.careerbuilder.com
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Parents face tough choice when tornadoes bear down
May 22, 2013 07:30 GMT
By DAVID A. LIEB Associated Press
MOORE, Okla. (AP) -- Parents in a suburban Oklahoma City school district received a text message as an ominous tornado approached. Their children were being held at school until the storm passed or their parents picked them up.
Suddenly, parents had a gut-wrenching choice. Trust the safety of the school? Or drive frantically ahead of a massive tornado and attempt to take their children home?
Several students who remained at Plaza Towers Elementary School died when the tornado hit Monday. Yet all of the students at Briarwood Elementary apparently emerged alive from the rubble.
Ronald Stephens is executive director of the National School Safety Center. He says parents often want to rush to their child's side. But he says it's hard to know whether children will be safer at school or elsewhere.
Asia stocks rise as Fed official backs easy policy
BANGKOK (AP) -- Asian stock markets were mostly higher today after investor confidence was boosted by a Federal Reserve official's comments that the U.S. central bank should stick with its super-easy monetary policy.
BC-US--Dow Record-Three Personal Stories, 1st Ld-Writethru,1173
Dow Record: Three tales of ups, downs and changes
AP Photo FX102, FX103
Eds: With BC-US--Dow Record. Adds photos.
By SCOTT MAYEROWITZ
AP Business Writer
NEW YORK (AP) -- When the Dow first crossed 14,000, investors were overjoyed. ...
IN THE NEWS: TEENS MOVING TO TWITTER TO DODGE PARENTS, OTHER BORES
WASHINGTON (AP) -- If you're one of those parents who are on Facebook in part to keep an eye on what your kids are up to -- here's a news flash: your kids are on to you and have moved to Twitter.
DOG BEACH WEAR
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- From bikinis to Hawaiian shirts -- it's time to gear up for the beach.
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Bush Administration Mortgages U.S. to Red China Over NAFTA Trade
Under the Bush Administration, the U.S. trade deficit with Communist China has expanded dramatically, increasing our dependency on China as a source of foreign exchange currency into which the U.S. Treasury sells debt to finance the large and seemingly endless Bush Administration budget deficits.
Meanwhile, as we have already discussed, Red China is positioning increase its penetration into the NAFTA marketplace, planning now to operate several Mexican seaports to move an increasing volume of containers with cheap Chinese goods into the U.S. along proposed NAFTA super-highways and railroad corridors.
Since 2000, our trade deficit with China has grown from $83.8 billion to a 2005 total of $201.6 billion. This reflects imports from China growing nearly 250%, from a 2000 total of $100.1 million to a 2005 total of $243.5, while U.S. exports to China in 2005 stood at only $41.8 billion, despite a nearly 400% increase since 2000. A Congressional Research Service (CRS) report presenting these data in May 2006 concluded that the “U.S. trade deficit with China is now larger than that of any other U.S. trading partner, and in 2005 it was nearly equal to the combined U.S. trade deficits with Japan, China, and Mexico ($209 billion).” Moreover, the gap is widening. As the CRS report noted, the “U.S. trade deficit with China in 2005 was about 24% higher than it was in 2005.”
The CRS in evaluating the trade deficit with China noted the competitive advantage China’s under-market labor force has over U.S. labor markets. Writing in March 2006, the CRS reported:
China has a poor record of adopting or enforcing internationally recognized standards for working conditions and environmental regulation which, in addition to violating human rights and harming the environment, may provide PRC (People’s Republic of China) businesses with unfair competitive advantages.
Since 2000, the U.S. manufacturing sector has lost 3 million jobs, although economists insist that shifting manufacturing to the lower labor cost environment in China is not the sole contributing factor in an emerging global production market.
Still, the CRS warned that backlash from Congress is inevitable:
The continued rise in the U.S.-China trade imbalance, complaints from several U.S. manufacturing firms over the competitive challenges posed by cheap Chinese imports, and concerns that U.S. manufacturing jobs are being lost due to unfair Chinese trade practices have led several Members (of Congress) to call on the Bush Administration to take a more aggressive stance against certain Chinese trade policies deemed to be unfair.
The CRS continued, gently suggesting that Bush administration should take active steps to reduce our trade imbalance with China, anticipating adverse congressional reaction otherwise.
For example, some Members argue that China manipulates its currency vis-à-vis the dollar to make its exports cheaper, and imports more expensive, than they would be under a floating system. The threat of congressional legislation led China in July 2005 to appreciate its currency by 2.1% and to switch to an exchange rate system based on a basket of currencies (including the dollar). However, many U.S. policymakers charge that these reforms have not gone far enough and have warned of potential congressional action if China fails to make further reforms.
We need look no further than the website of Sen. Charles Schumer to find charges that China is unfairly manipulating the yuan for trade advantages and that the Bush administration is responsible for a growing number of manufacturing jobs lost to China.
Currently, China holds the world’s largest accumulation of foreign exchange currencies, valued at $941 billion in July 2006, expected to reach $1 trillion by year-end 2006, replacing in February 2006 a top position previously held by Japan (with $817.94 billion in foreign exchange reserves in July 2006).
As reported by Reuters in July 2006, the White House is still projecting a 2006 budget deficit of $296 billion, despite increased tax revenue exceeding initial estimates. The U.S. current account deficit for 2005 reached a record $805 billion, or 6.4% of GDP, up 21% from 2004.
Our growing foreign trade deficit with China plus our continuing budget deficits put the Bush administration in an uncomfortable position. Increasingly the goods being sold by our top mass merchandisers are made in China, while at the same time we have to turn around and go into debt to China, forced to sell Treasury debt to China to subsidize our entitlement-payment heavy budget shortfalls.
Of outstanding marketable Treasury securities at the end of June 2006 totaling $4.254 trillion, approximately 49% were in the hands of foreign holders. Currently, China still holds approximately 70% of their foreign exchange dollar-denominated assets, including $327.7 billion invested in U.S. Treasury bonds as of Aug. 1, 2006, making China the second largest lender to the U.S., right after Japan (with $635.3 billion of foreign exchange holdings in U.S. Treasury bonds).
Yet, China has been reducing the percentage of their foreign exchange currency assets held in dollars, since a 2003 high when 83% of China’s foreign exchange currency assets were in dollar holdings. China has moved away from foreign exchange dollar holdings seeking to buffer the impact of a dollar that depreciated 12% against the euro between November 2002 and August 2005. Should China decide to reduce the percentage of their foreign exchange currency held in dollar assets to some 65% or lower, the U.S. Treasury could have a more difficult time subsidizing our budget deficits.
China, instead of Mexico as originally promised, seems the clear winner in the NAFTA marketplace. That Mexico has not developed economically since NAFTA is evidenced by S. 3622, introduced by Sen. John Cornyn (R.-Tex.) to develop a North American Investment Fund. Cornyn decided to sidestep his own bill when his office realized that the proposal mirrored a key recommendation advanced by American University professor Robert Pastor, whom we have characterized as the “Father of the North American Union.”
The Bush Administration has followed the theory that allowing China free and open access to penetrate (and perhaps dominate) the NAFTA marketplace will engage the Chinese such that their political allegiance to the U.S. is more firmly secured. Yet, China continues to engage in a military buildup, with U.S. intelligence failing to realize the importance of several key military developments in China over the past decade. Then, in August 2006, the U.S. intelligence community concluded that China has equipped and launched the first Type 94 submarine ballistic missile, giving China a second-strike nuclear capability. Additional friction with between China and the U.S. can be anticipated as Taiwan bids once again for UN membership when the 61st session of the General Assembly convenes on Sept. 12, 2006.
President Bush is taking a big gamble that cheap goods from China and unrestrained NAFTA free trade, all across wide-open borders with Mexico and Canada will continue to fuel economic growth.
Should we experience a market downturn from a continuing Federal Reserve determination to control inflation by tightening interest rates, the Bush administration may experience a November 2006 electoral reversal greater that already anticipated. In an economic downturn of any severity, those Americans who have lost manufacturing jobs while China is gaining manufacturing jobs are unlikely to be assuaged that the real culprit is low productivity gains in the U.S. manufacturing sector, rather than a perceived Bush administration policy to favor potential foreign enemies at the expense of the U.S. worker at home. Yet, as the mid-term elections approach, the Bush administration seems set in a determination that unrestrained free trade is a solution for all problems economic.
The Bush Administration is running the risk that voters will conclude that the U.S. is broke while China is awash in dollars, all for the price of cheap sneakers and electronic games bought at Wal-Mart. How ironic it would be in world history if Red China comes to dominate an emerging North American Union without firing a shot, simply by the force of numbers and the power of harnessing unimpeded a 21st century slave trade?
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If you’re like most people, spare time may be hard to come by. Work, school, family, friends, or other priorities take up your time. Exercise may only be an afterthought. But, some exercise is better than no exercise, so make the most of the time you have to work off those extra pounds. Many exercise programs realize the time crunch most people have and have responded with great workouts for twenty minutes or less.
Jillian Michaels, who is said to be the toughest trainer on television, offers DVD’s for people looking for short workouts. Typically, they are about 25 minutes which includes your warm-up and cool-down. Don’t be deceived by the 20-minute length of time. The DVD packs a punch and promises to give you great results in 30 days. Full body workouts with lots of “muscle confusion” are supposed to tone up your body and burn fat efficiently. Cardio, strength, and abs are three major areas of focus, all combined into 20 minutes of intense exercise.
Holly Perkins and Exercise TV
Holly Perkins provides 20-minute training online for free here. Exercises are done in 30-second sets in circuits to get “tight buns, lean thighs, strong shoulders, and a slender waistline.” All that you need is a yoga mat and light (along with your computer of course). Also found on exercisetv.tv are plenty of other workouts with video instruction of yoga poses, stretches, strength exercises, and ways to trim the pounds—all for free. Learn quick circuit training, along with kickboxing, Pilates, body sculpting, and more in your home and under a cent.
Guild Your Own Workout
If you don’t have the video workouts, lunges, pushups, leg lifts, dips, and many other exercises can also be done in the comfort of your home in less than 20 minutes and can give you great results. You don’t need a gym pass to look good, and you don’t need two hours a day to do it. So skip the drive to the gym and the monthly payment. Looking good can take only 20 minutes several times a week. That’s probably much less than you spend on the couch watching television and snacking on cookies. So try out the resources above to workout on a time budget and feel sculpted soon. It has probably never been this easy to work out and you should take advantage of the great options that are out there for you.
About the author: Diane Johnson primarily writes about continuing education and anything else that interests her. She enjoys traveling, reading, sledding, and sports.
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It' s not if, but when. That's what the market's saying, and it doesn't blink anymore when commentators say things like, "They are really digging in their heels and not rising above" the politics of the moment.
You could say that some of this confidence comes from calls like the one from Oracle (ORCL) last night, indicating that the fiscal cliff is having no impact at all and that December was fabulous. Plenty of companies are saying things are fine. But I don't think that's the reason we aren't getting hurt when President Obama has a tough press conference about going over the cliff. For every Oracle, there's a GE (GE) or a Wal-Mart (WMT) that says things are slowing because of the cliff. So let's discount that.
No, it's the idea that there is give, that the president and the GOP are taking softer lines and that some deal can be crafted that everybody hates -- including the ratings agencies -- even if it isn't crafted until the Super Bowl. Taking the analogy a bit further, we don't know which teams will be in the Super Bowl, but we know there will be a Super Bowl and we know there will be a fiscal cliff, too.
Meanwhile, incredibly, the Fed once again has the equity and bond markets' backs. Companies and individuals can continue to refinance and lower the coupon on existing debt while the competition to stocks remains nil thanks to the Fed's bond-buying program. Plus, the program will continue until what the stock market really wants, employment growth, occurs.
So the Fed helps our country get over the fiscal cliff with a pontoon bridge until we build a real structure that gets the job done permanently.
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Here's Iwata-san's basic speech, which he's just finished - ONLY NOTES, and via a translator at that. Just incredible - the video of the controller should be on the net in moments, and go get it. It's fantastic.
I talked [recently] about the history of the game industry; when we looked at the current market, and the shrinking of the Japanese marketplace; then I went on to talk about trends and opportunities in the environment. Here’s a short synopsis of topics I covered 2 years ago. The industry has grown and expanded very well, and hasn’t been affected by our economic slump, due to the ability to keep players interested. Many in the industry think that if we keep doing the same things – more complex and photorealistic games – the industry will continue to grow. This idea is deeply ingrained in many people, I am afraid to say.
There are few instances in business that show that something can grow by holding the same structure that it’s held for the previous 30 years. For the future of videogame business we have to expand the market. We need to abandon the memories of past success and get back to the basics. In order to create products that can by enjoyed by anyone, the whole industry needs to make an effort. First – unless we can increase the number of people who are willing to play, we can never expand the market. If we cannot expand the market, all we can do is wait for the industry to slowly die. Because Nintendo was the first and only ones to identify this issue, we have come up with a strategy. So I will explain a few of the topics we’ve undertaken. To expand the gaming population there are 3 main challenges:
1. First, we had to reengage the people who had stopped playing.
2. We had to attract new gamers.
3. Finally, and most important we had to introduce new products that appeal to veterans and new gamers alike.
So it was important for us to pursue both audiences simultaneously. We launched famicom mini to celebrate the diversity of the famicom, and we ported all the classics to gameboy advance. We wanted those who had once played to play again. We launched 30 titles, and it received a very warm welcome, selling 4m copies. A wide variety of male and female, across all ages, visited our outlets. This is tangible evidence that the expansion is beginning to show results.
On the birthday of Mario, we also launched the Micro. The smallest game machine in history of Nintendo. The famicom version – looks like the famicom controller – is the most popular. This gameboy micro is one of our challenges in our quest to expand the population. For those who can’t dedicate time and energy to complicated games, these people are our target. Mobile players. The second challenge in expanding the population is enticing new people. Videogames have become highly sophisticated and challenging. The hurdle is too high for many first time players! But if we were to only offer simple games, we wouldn’t satisfy the veterans. Therefore.. for both the vets and the new ones, we needed a brand new proposal, we need new hardware.
One answer is the DS. In the past the games are played with thumbs of both hands. We began by drastically changing that interface. Touch control. Wireless communications. Microphone input. Full of features to redefine the relationship between players and games. But even more important - the software. We are aiming to expand the gaming population. We are creating a new starting line, so what software do we need to create? Of course for the current gamers around the world it is important to continue to enrich the existing game genres. But more visuals, more enemies etc can be too intimidating. For vets these games look too familiar. So even for these existing genres we need to provide innovation. By taking advantage of the interface of DS, we narrow the distance between games and players, and we created entirely new genres of games!
We launched an unprecedented product lineup. Touch! Generations – none of these belonged to existing genres. These are the titles aiming to expand the population. More specifically: nintendogs. I think this game is familiar to you. You can pet your puppies and teach your dogs tricks with your voice. In “Bark mode”, with wifi, your doggie can communicate with other doggies you pass in the street. Even those who have never played games can enjoy nintendogs today. We’ve sold a million doggies here alone. On august 2 we began to sell in America. 250,000 sold in one week – a higher rate of sales in Japan! Dogs have a universal appeal! We are looking forward to the European launch of nintendogs next month.
Then we also launched a brain training game. The DS Brain Trainer. You talk to the DS. You write on it. You can measure your brain age. Senior citizens loved this! And lastly, the game called Flexible Brainmaking Software, this is for everyone, small kids to senior citizens. This game has become popular with lots of people regardless of age, gender, etc. DS has the highest number of active female players (pic).
Look at these sales figures. (pics) Unprecedented. Nintendogs is still selling, in its 10th week. This is unheard of for normal console platforms, like Playstation and Gamecube. These games are encouraging purchasers to purchase hardware too, many weeks after launch. This data shows we are expanding the market. DS sell through topped 3m at the end of august, 9 months from launch. This does not just show the popularity, this IS the result of our endeavours to expand the population. We’d like to look at the Japanese games market from a different angle. Let us compare the past three years’ market sizes. The current gen home console market is reaching saturation, and sales are dropping. But mobile and handheld is up. 220% on last year! The portable game market has significantly expanded in the past two years. More than 10% growth on last year. In spite of the fact that home console was down, thanks to portable growing, the whole market size has come back to that of two years ago. We have a solid feeling that what we have been doing in the past 2 years to expand the gaming population has succeeded in expanding the Japanese gaming market.
Overseas we have just begun our strategy to expand the gaming population with the launch of nintendogs. We expect to see the same good results in non-japanese markets as well. We will offer new proposals to veteran gamers too. Fortunately we have found that people who have played with games with touchscreen titles, are continuing to be active players. Warioware Touch! is still showing up on the sales charts. We have one more important element of our strategy. That’s Nintendo wifi connection. A consumer who purchases a wifi compatible game, can visit a special Nintendo hotspot and start playing. We will not require monthly fees or any other charges – no economic hurdles! We have designed a system that will ensure a good experience, and it takes off worldwide this year. Animal Crossing and Mariokart DS are our launch titles. Up until now due to many hurdles only a handful of people could enjoy games by connecting existing game consoles to the Internet. It is our goal that all people who purchase wifi game will try the wifi connection at least once.
So I have taken a long time for the prelude. [laughter]
Now that Nintendo has demonstrated a positive market expansion, what will we propose in the console arena? I talked about Revolution at E3. Here’s a picture of it. It is very compact! Our aim is identical in both portable and console machines – we always have the same mission. How can we expand the gaming population and develop the market? It is in this area that we much focus our efforts. Before we began with DS, I had a growing sense of crisis. Since the days of famicom, the control mechanism has become more and more sophisticated. Perhaps those who have never played have looked at the controller and thought, too difficult. In order to expand the gaming pop it is taken for granted that we need to satisfy veteran gamers. But at the same time we need a new proposal to get new players in, to have them say I can do it! I can touch it! So what’s most important is the controller interface. Those who are not playing today, those who are not sure if they have nimble enough fingers… and at the same time offering new sensations to vet gamers? How? We can encourage people to play games with fresh excitement from the same starting line. This was the same approach as taken from DS. But we can’t split the TV into two nor can we make it touch screen. So we disregarded convention wisdom that the controller must be held by two hands.
Look at this.
[OMFG. It’s long and squarish. You shake it. Touch it. Drum with it. Bat with it. Point with it. Conduct with it. Use it like a pencil. Or a TV remote. Thumbpad add on. It’s like a nunchuk – there’s an extra controller for the other hand, strung by a wire..]
In order to have a controller that anyone can understand, we have come up with a design that doesn’t look like anyone else’s controllers. And we have changed game design too! This controller has a Direct Pointing Device. Revolution can detect precisely which location on the screen the controller is pointing at. With this technology, you can point at a location intuitively, but Revolution can detect your distance from the screen, and the angle of your controller. These controllers are wireless. It is intuitive! At the same time for vet players it is fresh and surprising. We can also use multiple controllers at the same time. Multiple players can be engaged in an intense squash game, or a slow, precise cooking game. You can play musical instruments with two controllers at once! A fishing game with rod-like action! Wave it.. and you can jump.
So this is with one hand. But another characteristic is its flexibility for expansion. You can expand the Direct Pointing Device: this connector is the gateway to enormous possibilities for expansion. Today I have just shown what we call the nun-chuk style expansion! [haha]We are planning on including this controller with the basic Revolution hardware package. In the first person shooter genre, very important overseas, we believe the nun-chuk will set a new standard, for instance you can intuitively explore in the dark using it as a flashlight. Just as supermario 64 defined the 3d console standard, I’m looking forward to seeing how this play control can change play for games like Zelda. I hope you are as excited as I am to see the final outcome!
Now I need to explain why we are proposing such a significantly different play style and controller. There are people in each family waiting to pick up controllers, and people who would never touch them, but anyone would pick up a TV remote. Why? We thought that the notion of moving right and left hands simultaneously and nimbly is maybe a psychological barrier. To expand the population we had to design a controller that could sit on the living room table and look relevant to them. So we made it compact. Also just like a TV remote, it can be manipulated for one hand. The hurdle for nongamers must be significantly lowered. The revolution controller will enable all users to intuitively play from the same starting line. With such expansion like nun-chuk, you can use both hands too. It will provide brand new feeling for controlling FPS and action games. I want you to look forward to seeing how your most beloved games will feel with this new controller – and how as developers you will change your games too!
We have a great opportunity to develop innovative software with great ideas. Brain Training DS had a small development team, and took advantage of the new design. 10 people, and total development, was less than 4 months! Many have been concerned that time and money and risk for next gen is too much. Nintendo wants to provide a stage on which to showcase your ideas. Nintendo is willing to help bring those ideas to life, if seeing the controller today sparks new ideas, Nintendo is ready for your proposals!
We are not only going to offer small and simple games, but we are also going to establish a new standard for game control. We need to get novice and veteran players. We can’t expand without both, and because of this we need to propose a wide variety of software, encompassing many different sizes and types of games, Since the launch of famicom 20 years ago, the game industry has evolved significantly. Even now there are many people who believe in the idea that as long as we continue with just making games more gorgeous we will continue to expand. But the final judgment will be made by games players around the world. Those people can carry on in that direction if they believe in it, but we don’t believe in it. The changes in the Japanese market, the reactions to DS, and the emerging changes in overseas markets, are assuring us that we need to create new innovations completely different from the past. Touching puppies have allowed vets and novices to start from the same starting point. We’re making great sales, I believe that it is the job of all of us, the creators, to continue to supply people and constant innovation is key.
When games can no longer surprise, people will grow tired of gaming. So we need innovation in console games as well! The uniqueness of the innovation must be intuitively understandable. This will dynamically change the way we play games. We’d like to join forces with everyone in this industry to improve our products so they are enjoyed by many more people to come. Thank you very much.
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This is not just another "How to Ride a Motorcycle" book. It is a definitive book on how to survive the early stages of the motorcycling experience. It provides insights that will be valuable throughout your riding career.
It covers virtually every aspect of your early riding career from your days as a wannabe through being a newbie at the sport, with lessons on the specific skills required to be a truly competent rider, and it explains why. Jim and Cash have distilled the results of over a half million miles of combined experience and have added Jim's detailed analysis of the physics of motorcycling. You'll ride smarter after reading and studying this. 178 pages.
For motorcyclists who have already learned how to operate their bikes with competence. Volume 2 provides detailed explanations of such subjects as weight management and traction during braking and acceleration, slip angles, accident avoidance maneuvers, and much more.
Group riding is covered, including authoritative suggestions for pre-ride briefings, lane changes and other normal riding maneuvers, and unusual formations involving trikes and sidecar rigs, as well as how to deal with an impaired rider. Riders who wish to carry a passenger, tow a trailer, go camping, or tour on their motorcycles will find information here on how to plan such trips. Jim's spreadsheets and models give readers the ability to analyze complicated issues of physics and motorcycle handling. You'll discover more interesting material than you can imagine when you study the contents of Volume 2. 176 pages.
Click on the cover picture to order. Use coupon code MSDV115 for a $15 discount on color version.
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One of the contributors to my forum recently posted the following comment. I thought it was worth sharing as an example of how the Affordable Care Act can make a difference to someone with a pre-existing health condition.
I have not been able to find full time work. And I have been denied personal coverage for years due to pre-existing conditions (with thyroid cancer added to the list). I was at wits end two months ago because I need one more treatment for my cancer. Then, I found out that part of Obama's bill includes the Pre-Existing Conditions Insurance Plan. It is basically a large US GOV group plan that covers the gap for people who (a) do not qualify for subsidized care like Medicaid, (b) can pay competitive group premium rates, (c) have a pre-existing condition for which one has been denied coverage, (d) have not had insurance for at least 6 months, (e) have been denied coverage in the last 12 months.
PCIP Updates for 2011
22 states and the District of Columbia are offering pre-existing condition insurance plans run by the U.S. Department of Health and Human services. The rest of the states are managing state-run plans.
In 2011, the program administered by the federal government will include three health plan options, with different levels of premiums, calendar year deductibles, prescription deductibles and prescription copays.
For information about the program - including how much it may cost you each month and which states are "doing their own thing" - visit the PCIP website.
What do you think? Please leave a comment below or in the Health Insurance Forum.
To stay up to date on health insurance issues get Dr. Mike's Health Insurance Newsletter.
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Students from Indiana’s 31 independent colleges and universities will gather at the statehouse today, calling on legislators to protect funding for financial aid.
Funds from the State Student Assistance Commission of Indiana, referred to as SSACI, are given to Hoosier students to make college more affordable. In the last few years, the legislature has increased the total amount set aside in the budget for these grants.
The current budget proposal keeps that financial aid at the same levels. But Richard Ludwick, president of the Independent Colleges of Indiana, says students will tell lawmakers how much they rely on those funds, which, with rising numbers of students eligible, have actually gone down on a per student basis.
“A few years ago,” he explains, “the maximum grants were around $11,000. Recently, that has fallen, because of the expanded number of students qualifying, to about $7,000.”
The students will return to the statehouse again in March and April, to advocate for SSCACI funding at different points in the budget process.
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Therapeutic and other hoaxes
10 current hoaxes -- At least, we think
they are hoaxes.
Only time will really tell.
Some of the belief and therapy systems that we suspect to be hoaxes (or partial hoaxes) are listed
below. Please read our disclaimer before going
- Satanic Ritual Abuse: (SRA) A book, Michelle
Remembers triggered a full-fledged Satanic panic in 1980. It and subsequent books of
its genre have been shown to be hoaxes. But that did not slow down the growth of a public
belief that tens of thousands of infants were being kidnapped yearly, ritually killed and
sometimes eaten by evil, Satanic cults every year. Over 90% of the adult population of at
least one state believed that SRA is real and widespread. SRA appears to be an unfounded
panic which started to wind down in the 1990s. The hoax is still being promoted by some radical
feminist and some conservative Christian groups in spite of a complete absence of hard
- Ritual Abuse in Day Care Centers: This
panic started in Bakersfield CA, spread to the McMartin Preschool in Manhattan Beach, CA,
and then expanded across North America, Europe and Australia. Improper child interview
techniques used by therapists and investigators resulted in memories of horrific ritual
abuse being implanted in the minds of young children.
According to an episode of the Turning
Point program: "Since 1980, in over 40 [US]
communities, some 200 people have been accused of these crimes... Today, 141 people, --
nearly three quarters of the accused in these cases -- have been acquitted, had their
convictions overturned or charges against them dropped." 1 Unfortunately, there
are thousands of children, many now teenagers or young adults who remain disabled by
memories of horrendous abuse that never happened. Also, the falsely accused
adults are never found to be innocent. At best, it is determined that a
conclusive case cannot be made against them.
- Mind Control Cults: The Counter-Cult
Movement (CCM) started in the early 1970's. The "mind-control"
faction within the CCM spread the belief that new religious movements were entrapping
young people, and using mind control methods to reduce them to virtual slaves without
free-will. A few mass murders by a small number of destructive
cults were described as mass-suicides, and further convinced the public that new
religious groups were a major social threat. Some conservative Christian groups have
started a "doctrinal purity" faction within the CCM. They have monopolized on
the public's fear and hatred of cults, and directed it against small benign faith groups.
The latter's sole "crime" is that they have deviated in some way from
traditional Christian doctrine. The mind-control faction within the CCM seems to be in
rapid decline, hastened by some criminal convictions. However, the "doctrinal
purity" component of the CCM seems to be growing, particularly
- Recovered Memory Therapy: (RMT) A split has
appeared between therapists and mind researchers. Some therapists believe that memories of
sexual abuse during childhood can be repressed, and later recovered through special
therapeutic techniques, like hypnotism, guided imagery, dream analysis etc. Professional organizations have realized that recovered memories
can often be false - memories of events that never happened. They urged caution.
However tens or perhaps hundreds of thousands of clients became convinced that they had
been sexually abused as children. Many destroyed their families of origin with
accusations. This hoax appears to have peaked and is now in rapid decline. Many
ex-patients are suing their former therapists for damages and winning massive settlements.
This hoax has left a major trail of devastated individuals and families.
- Abuse in Former Lifetimes: Some therapists age-regress their patients
using hypnosis, guided imagery and other recovered memory techniques to take them back in
to childhood, into the womb, and thence into a previous lifetime. Abuse during a previous
reincarnation is believed to be the cause of emotional problems among adults in their
present lives. Therapists who believe in past life regression appear to be quite
successful in finding abuse memories in their patients. This is a form of recovered memory
therapy. It is usually not as devastating to the patient as recovered memories of
childhood abuse, because the alleged perpetrators from a former lifetime are probably not
alive and thus cannot be accused.
- End of the World Scenarios: The
Research Institute of Rhinebeck, NY predicted that 1998 would be a year in which Millennium
Fever would catch on across the world and the prophecy business will boom.
They were correct. Many people
predicting that the end of the world would come at or around the end of the millennium,
which they incorrectly dated as 1999-DEC-31. The correct date for the end of
the millennium was 2000-DEC-31. They expected that Jesus would return and engage in the war of Armageddon, 2
or ETs will attack us from outer space, 3 or great natural
disasters will occur that will cause massive devastation. 4
The same fever materialized as the year 1000 CE approached.
However, because of the low educational level at that time, the panic was
quite muted. Still, it generated a
backlash against heretics and other religious non-conformists. We did not
detect any increase in the number of attacks on small religious groups at the
start of the new
millennium. By the time that 3000 CE rolls around, perhaps people will finally catch on
that years that end in three zeros are not otherwise special.
- Crop Circles: People have been observing patterns of trampled wheat and
other crops in farmers' fields in 70 countries around the world since they
first appeared in England during the late 1970's. Some have been shown to be hoaxes
generated by individuals sneaking into a field, drawing some geometric shape, and
systematically trampling down the stalks. Some believers have concluded that the
"circles" are caused by natural phenomenon - some special wind activity. But the
precision of the shapes would seem to eliminate this as a possibility. A whole industry
has sprung up to publicize the un-human origin of these strange shapes.
The Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal in Amherst, NY
has been studying crop circles since about 1985. Spokesperson Joe Nickell has
concluded that they are made by humans, and that they appeal to our sense of mystery, hope, and fear. "In those three words, you explain the human interest in most of the paranormal phenomenon. Crop circles are mysterious to people. If they are made by aliens, that's a hopeful message. And there's fear because we're not sure what the aliens are up to." Michael Shermer, author of
Why People Believe Weird Things, has said that the fascination with
circles "really is a religious belief. It's the promise of something transcendent, bigger than us, beyond us."
M. Night Shyamalan is the writer and director of the movie "Signs,"
which opened at North American movie screens in mid 2002-AUG. He is skeptical
about the circles, but is "hopeful they'll be proven true. I like believing in things and possibilities of things--so tantalizing."
- Abuse by LGM (Little Green Men) on board UFOs: Some therapists believe
that abuse on board UFOs is a widespread phenomenon. They frequently use recovered memory
techniques to uncover repressed abuse "memories" in their clients. They remember
rising from bed, passing through walls, and elevated to a UFO where they are poked and
prodded in some form of medical experiment. Some believe that implants are inserted into
their bodies. One California therapist found such memories in about 75 of his patients.
- UFO visitations: True believers in UFO visitations have convinced a
large percentage of the population that extra-terrestrial visitors have been visiting
Earth for decades. Hard evidence has not really surfaced yet. A lot of creative, fake
- Mind Control Experiments by Federal Governments: Decades ago, the CIA
performed a series of mind control experiments using various drugs, electrical shock
treatments, etc. One goal was to produce an assassin who would kill on command. The
studies were unsuccessful and were abandoned. But individuals and groups spread the belief
that these experiments continue. They believe that people are being remotely controlled by
microwave energy beams. Others are being mentally programmed to perform specific functions
when triggered by a sound, image, color, etc. Still others are being tortured by rays
transmitted from overhead spy planes. "...using the science of "bio-medical
telemetry," [their] brainwaves are instantly analyzed by computer, revealing the
person's thoughts and feelings...the brainwaves are then messed up and sent back to
overpower the original ones, totally consternating the victim as he tries to be himself
through the overlaid intrusion." 7 Their beliefs
sound most improbable for three reasons: the cost of this type of program would be
prohibitive; the technology to influence people in these ways did not exist
at the time and still does not exist; electronic
monitoring instrumentation, to our knowledge, has never detected any energy beams.
The following information sources were used to prepare the above
essay in 1997 and update it more recently. The hyperlinks are not necessarily still active today.
Point program of 1996-NOV-15, ABC-TV
- Rapture Ready anticipates the imminent arrival of Christ and the end of the
world as we know it. See: http://www.novia.net/~todd/
- "Alien Warns of Invasion From Space!," http://www.brotherblue.org/
- Potential Signs of Nostradamus' Millennium, http://www.dreamscape.com/
- S. Virato, "CROP CIRCLES
they are real! An Interview With Collette M.
Dowell" at: http://www.newfrontier.com/
- "Alien Abduction: Experience and Research," at: http://abduct.com/
- Edmund J. Light, "MCF Victims:" at the Mind Control Forum.
Copyright © 1997 to 2009 by Ontario
Consultants on Religious Tolerance
Written on: 1997-SEP-05
Latest update: 2009-DEC-08
Author: B.A. Robinson
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New York (CNNMoney.com) - The U.S. Chamber of Commerce slammed President Obama's economic policies Wednesday, saying administration officials "took their eyes off the ball" and "neglected" to focus on job creation.
A letter posted to the business group's site and a summit with 500 business leaders were the latest moves in an ongoing battle between big business and the Obama administration.
The two are at odds over the best way to keep the recovery from slipping into a double-dip recession. The Chamber believes tax cuts are key to job creation. The Obama administration, however, has focused on stimulus and spending to create jobs.
The Chamber said in its letter that the administration "vilified industries while embarking on an ill-advised course of government expansion, major tax increases, massive deficits and job-destroying regulations."
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|New International Version (©2011)|
So do not fear, for I am with you; do not be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you and help you; I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.
New Living Translation (©2007)
Don't be afraid, for I am with you. Don't be discouraged, for I am your God. I will strengthen you and help you. I will hold you up with my victorious right hand.
English Standard Version (©2001)
fear not, for I am with you; be not dismayed, for I am your God; I will strengthen you, I will help you, I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.
New American Standard Bible (©1995)
'Do not fear, for I am with you; Do not anxiously look about you, for I am your God. I will strengthen you, surely I will help you, Surely I will uphold you with My righteous right hand.'
King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
Fear thou not; for I am with thee: be not dismayed; for I am thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness.
Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
Do not fear, for I am with you; do not be afraid, for I am your God. I will strengthen you; I will help you; I will hold on to you with My righteous right hand.
International Standard Version (©2012)
Don't be afraid, because I'm with you; don't be anxious, because I am your God. I keep on strengthening you; I'm truly helping you. I'm surely upholding you with my victorious right hand."
NET Bible (©2006)
Don't be afraid, for I am with you! Don't be frightened, for I am your God! I strengthen you--yes, I help you--yes, I uphold you with my saving right hand!
GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
Don't be afraid, because I am with you. Don't be intimidated; I am your God. I will strengthen you. I will help you. I will support you with my victorious right hand.
King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
Fear not; for I am with you: be not dismayed; for I am your God: I will strengthen you; yea, I will help you; yea, I will uphold you with the right hand of my righteousness.
American King James Version
Fear you not; for I am with you: be not dismayed; for I am your God: I will strengthen you; yes, I will help you; yes, I will uphold you with the right hand of my righteousness.
American Standard Version
Fear thou not, for I am with thee; be not dismayed, for I am thy God; I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness.
Fear not, for I am with thee: turn not aside, for I am thy God: I have strengthened thee, and have helped thee, and the right hand of my just one hath upheld thee.
Darby Bible Translation
Fear not, for I am with thee; be not dismayed, for I am thy God: I will strengthen thee, yea, I will help thee, yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness.
English Revised Version
Fear thou not, for I am with thee; be not dismayed, for I am thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness.
Webster's Bible Translation
Fear thou not; for I am with thee: be not dismayed; for I am thy God: I will strengthen thee; yes, I will help thee; yes, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness.
World English Bible
Don't you be afraid, for I am with you. Don't be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you. Yes, I will help you. Yes, I will uphold you with the right hand of my righteousness.
Young's Literal Translation
Be not afraid, for with thee I am, Look not around, for I am thy God, I have strengthened thee, Yea, I have helped thee, yea, I upheld thee, With the right hand of My righteousness.
|Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary|
41:10-20 God speaks with tenderness; Fear thou not, for I am with thee: not only within call, but present with thee. Art thou weak? I will strengthen thee. Art thou in want of friends? I will help thee in the time of need. Art thou ready to fall? I will uphold thee with that right hand which is full of righteousness, dealing forth rewards and punishments. There are those that strive with God's people, that seek their ruin. Let not God's people render evil for evil, but wait God's time. It is the worm Jacob; so little, so weak, so despised and trampled on by every body. God's people are as worms, in humble thoughts of themselves, and in their enemies' haughty thoughts of them; worms, but not vipers, not of the serpent's seed. Every part of God's word is calculated to humble man's pride, and to make him appear little in his own eyes. The Lord will help them, for he is their Redeemer. The Lord will make Jacob to become a threshing instrument. God will make him fit for use, new, and having sharp spikes. This has fulfilment in the triumphs of the gospel of Christ, and of all faithful followers of Christ, over the power of darkness. God has provided comforts to supply all their wants, and to answer all their prayers. Our way to heaven lies through the wilderness of this world. The soul of man is in want, and seeks for satisfaction; but becomes weary of seeking that in the world, which is not to be had in it. Yet they shall have a constant supply, where one would least expect it. I will open rivers of grace, rivers of living water, which Christ spake of the Spirit, Joh 7:38,39. When God sets up his church in the Gentile wilderness, there shall be a great change, as if thorns and briers were turned into cedars, and fir-trees, and myrtles. These blessings are kept for the poor in spirit, who long for Divine enlightening, pardon, and holiness. And God will render their barren souls fruitful in the grace of his Spirit, that all who behold may consider it.
Verse 10. - Fear thou not. This verse is most closely connected with the two preceding. The clauses in vers. 8, 9 are one and all vocative; here the verb follows. The whole passage is one of great tenderness. I am with thee (comp. Deuteronomy 31:6, 8; and see above (vol. 1, p. 132), on the force of the word" Immanuel"). I will strengthen thee; rather, I have strengthened thee, or I have chosen thee (Delitzsch, Cheyne). The two other verbs are also in the past tense. While primarily they declare past favours, they may also be regarded as prophetic of future ones, since "with God is no variableness.'
Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible
Fear thou not, for I am with thee,.... Not merely by his essence or power, who is every where; or by his providence supporting, preserving, observing, ordering, and overruling all things; but in a way of special grace, to guard and protect his people, support and supply them, comfort and strengthen their hearts; wherefore they need not fear any of their enemies, nor whatsoever they may be called to suffer for his name's sake, even though they pass through fire and water, and the valley of the shadow of death:
be not dismayed, I am thy God; through Christ, in a covenant way, as appeared by the effectual calling of them; and therefore might depend on his love, be sure of his power, expect all needful supplies, and to be comfortably carried through every service and trial they were called unto; and need fear no enemies, or be dismayed at anything that should befall them; or become weak as water, and their hearts melt like wax within them, as the Jewish commentators generally interpret the word (n). The Targum is,
"be not broken;''
in spirit. The word signifies to look about, as persons in distress, and amazed:
I will strengthen thee; with strength in their souls, to perform duties, exercise grace, withstand corruptions, resist temptations, bear afflictions, suffer persecutions, and do their generation work, according to the will of God; and if God is the strength of his people, they need not be afraid of any persons or things, Psalm 27:1,
yea, I will help thee; help them out of all their afflictions and temptations, and out of the hands of all their enemies; help them in the discharge of duty, in the exercise of grace, in bearing the cross, in fighting the Lord's battles, and in their journey to another world; help them to every mercy, temporal and spiritual, to all needful supplies of grace, and at last to glory; whose help is suitable and seasonable, and may be expected, since he is able to help, either with or without means; has promised to help his people, as here, and he is faithful that has promised; he has laid help on one that is mighty, and set up a throne of grace to come to for help in time of need; and seeing he is their helper, they need not fear what men or devils can do unto them, Hebrews 13:5.
I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness; either by his almighty power, or by his Son, the man of his right hand, made strong for himself, and the author of righteousness to his people: this is expressive of his sustentation of them, not merely in a providential way, but in a way of special grace; and of his powerful protection and preservation of them, so as that they shall stand in the grace of God, go on in his ways, and not fall finally and totally, but persevere to the end, though their trials and temptations may be great and many.
(n) "neque dissolvaris", Munster; "vel ne liquefias", Vatablus. "Verbum formatum a nomine" "quod ceram significat, quae calor exposita facile dissolvitur", Munster.
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary
10. be not dismayed—literally, anxiously to look at one another in dismay.
right hand of my righteousness—that is, My right hand prepared in accordance with My righteousness (faithfulness to My promises) to uphold thee.
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God's Help to Israel
…9You whom I have taken from the ends of the earth, and called you from the chief men thereof, and said to you, You are my servant; I have chosen you, and not cast you away. 10Fear you not; for I am with you: be not dismayed; for I am your God: I will strengthen you; yes, I will help you; yes, I will uphold you with the right hand of my righteousness. 11Behold, all they that were incensed against you shall be ashamed and confounded: they shall be as nothing; and they that strive with you shall perish. …
What, then, shall we say in response to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?
After this, the word of the LORD came to Abram in a vision: "Do not be afraid, Abram. I am your shield, your very great reward."
He said to them, "I see that your father's attitude toward me is not what it was before, but the God of my father has been with me.
But his bow remained steady, his strong arms stayed limber, because of the hand of the Mighty One of Jacob, because of the Shepherd, the Rock of Israel,
Moses answered the people, "Do not be afraid. Stand firm and you will see the deliverance the LORD will bring you today. The Egyptians you see today you will never see again.
Moses said to the people, "Do not be afraid. God has come to test you, so that the fear of God will be with you to keep you from sinning."
When you go to war against your enemies and see horses and chariots and an army greater than yours, do not be afraid of them, because the LORD your God, who brought you up out of Egypt, will be with you.
Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid or terrified because of them, for the LORD your God goes with you; he will never leave you nor forsake you."
He gives strength to the weary and increases the power of the weak.
For I am the LORD your God who takes hold of your right hand and says to you, Do not fear; I will help you.
Do not be afraid, you worm Jacob, little Israel, do not fear, for I myself will help you," declares the LORD, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel.
When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and when you pass through the rivers, they will not sweep over you. When you walk through the fire, you will not be burned; the flames will not set you ablaze.
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Strong balance sheets rule
Watch out for companies that flex their financial muscle
Economic data has generally been disappointing around the world in recent weeks, prompting analysts to reduce their forecasts for companies’ earnings for the second half of 2012.
The lack of growth has also led to policy easing by a number of central banks, most recently South Korea and Brazil, where rate cuts followed those of the European Central Bank and the People’s Bank of China this month.
China’s preliminary estimate of its annualised economic growth in the second quarter – 7.6 per cent versus a year ago – was more or less in line with investors’ expectations. However, given that China’s economy is evidently still slowing, hopes have risen that Chinese policymakers could take further action to promote growth. Elsewhere, recent Federal Reserve minutes showed that some US policymakers also believe further stimulus may be needed in coming months to support the US labour market.
Italy and Spain’s government debts continued to worry investors. Yields on both countries’ sovereign debt rose to levels generally believed to be unsustainable. At the same time, the recapitalisation programme for Spain’s banks is wending its torturous way through the relevant EU institutions.
Adding to the gloom, French president François Hollande is raising taxes due to slower than expected economic growth via a €2.3bn (£1.8bn) one-off levy on households earning €1.3m or more a year. He has also announced a special tax on large banks and oil companies which is forecast to raise a further €1.1bn. Plans to tax households with second homes in France may also affect individuals domiciled elsewhere who own French property.
UK economic data is likely to be severely distorted by the impact of the Jubilee holiday, the Olympic games and, most recently, the heavy rain and flooding. So we are not expecting a very clear picture.
In spite of this, equity markets rose in June, after a dismal showing in May, mainly on hopes for further action by various governments, as discussed. It could also have been because many felt that much of the bad news was already known and therefore was priced into current valuations.
Commodity markets have offered some support to beleaguered investors in that, in the past three months, there have been some significant declines in their prices, most noticeably in the crude oil price. This is always useful as it puts money back in the pocket of western consumers. Nonetheless, this has masked an issue in soft commodities such as corn, soya and wheat. Hot weather in the US has led to failing of entire crops in the worst-affected states, which is pushing up the prices of these crucial commodities. It is worth noting that such price rises last year accompanied the unrest of the “Arab Spring” and that we could see such events happening again.
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Gary Shapiro, CEO and president of the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA), urged the content community to work with, not against, the technology industry, specifically in the critical area of copyright. Shapiro made his comments during his keynote speech at today's Optical Storage Symposium produced by the Optical Storage Technology Association (OSTA) in San Francisco.
"We are at a critical juncture in history when the inevitable growth of technology is conflicting with the rising power and strength of copyright owners," stated Shapiro. "How we resolve this tension between copyright and technology will define our future ability to communicate, create and share information, education and entertainment."
"The growth of reproduction, storage and transmission technology has terrified copyright owners. The content community has gone on a scorched earth campaign, attacking and burning several new recording and peer-to-peer technologies," Shapiro continued. "Copyright owners have used the Congress, media and courts to challenge the legality of technology and the morality and legality of recording. Despite cooperative efforts, the copyright community has declared war on technology."
"Hardware and software companies have a mutual interest in working together," Shapiro said. "By protecting content at the source, content providers can be assured their intellectual property rights are respected, while consumers can enjoy unimpeded personal use."
Shapiro outlined how the content industry has reshaped the copyright debate by changing the language of the issue, tying it to the success of broadband and calling downloading illegal and immoral. The content community has labeled downloading as "copying" and more recently as "piracy", "shoplifting" and "stealing". Shapiro argued that they've confused and convinced legislators that there is a connection between broadband deployment and copyright, yet he noted, broadband has little to do with songs and movies and more to do with high-speed Internet access, always-on convenience, exchanging home videos and other potential uses for education, medicine, business, shopping and gaming.
Shapiro refuted the content community's claims that downloading is illegal or immoral. One, he said, fair use rights are guaranteed to consumers by statute, and applied judicially on a case-by-case basis. Two, historically, new technology such as the VCR and DVD have shown that technology can be beneficial to copyright owners. Three, the 1997 NET Act's requirement of a total retail value of $1,000 per infringement protects ordinary consumers from threatened lawsuits from copyright owners.
"To make downloading immoral, you have to accept that copyrighted products are governed by the same moral and legal principles as real property," said Shapiro. "But the fact is that real and intellectual property are different and are governed by different principles. Downloading a copyrighted product does not diminish the product, as would be the case of taking and using tangible property such as a dress."
"Real property can be owned forever. A copyright can be owned only for a limited period of time," continued Shapiro. "Copyright law must bow to the First Amendment that expressly allows people to use a copyrighted product without the permission of the copyright owner. This concern contributes to the statutory and judicial concept of 'fair use'."
Shapiro listed six guidelines for policymakers to follow when crafting copyright legislation:
1. Do no harm.
2. Advances in technology should not be restricted.
3. Claims of harm from new technologies should be greeted with great skepticism, as history has shown.
4. Copyright owners have a high burden of proof before any technology should be restricted.
5. Copyright owners should continue developing ways to protect their content at the source.
6. Any restrictions on technology should be narrowly crafted.
"The collision course between copyright owners' desire to preserve existing business models and the inevitable development of newer, better, faster and cheaper technologies need not be fatal," concluded Shapiro. "If the play button becomes the pay button, our very ability to raise the world's standard of living and education will be jeopardized."
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Phone: 410-677-5027 E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.org
Salisbury University and the University of Tartu have made special arrangements for SU students to spend a semester studying in the historical northern European college town of Tartu, Estonia. Estonia is strategically located on the edge of the Baltic Sea in northeast Europe. Helsinki, Finland, Stockholm, Sweden, and St. Petersburg, Russia are all less than 1 hour flight from the capital city of Tallinn. See a map of the region here. The Baltic region is a growing economic powerhouse in Northeastern Europe enjoying vibrant democracies and high standards of living. The historical and cultural meeting of Europe and the West with Russia and the East make Estonia a fascinating destination for a semester abroad. Admission is open to non-SU students as well.
CLASSES: Students may spend either the fall or spring semester at University of Tartu. All students take Introduction to Estonian Language. In addition, students choose 3 courses in European Studies and/or Business Studies. Courses below are regularly offered either fall or spring semester. Final course offerings for each semester will be determined the semester prior:
All of the courses are taught in English. All courses earn SU credit and SU GPA. Courses count towards academic programs at Salisbury University as indicated by those programs.
HOST INSTITUTION: The University of Tartu was founded in 1632 by the King of Sweden Gustav II Adolph. It is the largest and most comprehensive university in Estonia producing more than 70% of the PhD's in the country. Ranked as one of the top 600 universities in the world, University of Tartu is one of the most venerable centers of education and research in northern Europe. Tartu is the second largest city in Estonia, with a population of just over 100,000. Twenty percent of the residents of Tartu are college students. Nestled on the banks of the River Emajõgi, Tartu is considered the cultural and intellectual center of the nation. Because of the concentration of college students in this historic town, Tartu is known for its active nightlife with clubs, bars, and restaurants for the young population. You can view several Tartu University videos on www.youtube.com/tartuuniversity.
HOUSING: While in classes in Tartu, students will stay in a double room at the student dormitory in the center of the town. Each double room is part of a quad of double rooms that share a common kitchen facility (refrigerator, sink, stove, oven), bathrooms, and showers in apartment style living. Board is not included with housing. However, there are grocery stores in close proximity to the dormitory. Housing is included in the program costs.
PROGRAM TRAVEL: Program travel on the Salisbury Abroad: Tartu, Estonia program depends on the courses in which a student is enrolled. Some courses include excursions others do not. Excursions associated with specific courses involve costs not included with the program fee. Past course excursions have included St. Petersburg, Russia, the capital of Estonia, Tallinn, and the third largest city in Estonia, Narva, located on the Estonian-Russian border city. In addition to program sponsored travel, Estonia provides a convenient launching point for individual explorations of all of Europe. Inexpensive airfare and the European rail system connect Tallinn, Estonia to the great capital cities of Europe including Berlin, London, Moscow, Paris, Prague, Rome, and Stockholm. Students can fly direct from Tartu airport to Riga, Latvia or Stockholm, Sweden with connections to the rest of Europe.
SISTER CITIES INTERNATIONAL: Salisbury, MD and Tartu, Estonia have enjoyed a long and cordial relationship as Sister Cities through the Sister Cities International Organization. The relationship between Salisbury and Tartu is part of a larger relationship between the State of Maryland and Estonia that dates back to the fall of the Berlin wall and the re-establishment of democracy in Estonia in 1991.
COSTS: The costs for full tuition and housing for one semester on Salisbury Abroad: Estonia have been carefully calculated to be comparable to costs for one semester of full MD resident tuition and housing on main campus in Salisbury. International airfare and board are the two main costs that are not included. Tartu is a very affordable city by European standards with costs of living comparable to those in Salisbury.
Admission is competitive and enrollment is limited. Students will be admitted on a rolling basis until the program is full. Once the program is full, accepted students will be placed on a waiting list.
The application deadline is October 15, 2010.
In addition to the application form interested students should submit the following directly to the program director:
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The Internet is being highly used by its abusers to reach and abuse children sexually, worldwide. The internet is very fast becoming a household commodity in the world. Its explosion has made the children a viable victim to the cyber crime. As more homes have access to internet, more children would be using the internet and more are the chances of falling victim to the aggression of pedophiles.
The easy access to the pornographic contents readily and freely available over the internet lower the inhibitions of the children. Pedophiles lure the children by distributing pornographic material, then they try to meet them for sex or to take their nude photographs including their engagement in sexual positions.
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Earlier today, Congress passed a bill called the Commercial Advertisement Loudness Mitigation Act (also known ad the CALM Act). This bill could prevent advertisers from forcing annoyingly loud commercials on us by making them abide to volume control guidelines.
If all goes well with the bill, the FCC will be required to "adopt industry standards that coordinate ad decibel levels to those of the regular program" within one year. These standards would then go into effect another year later.
For the sake of our ears, let's hope that Obama signs off on the CALM Act. While we wait for him to do so though, feel free to read up on the excuses advertisers use to run those loud commercials. [MSNBC]
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Well I've made a couple of spoons now and am on the way to making a kuksa, the aim being to be able to eat my porridge in the morning out of a hand made bowl with a hand made spoon and a hand made mug of tea.
I've oiled my spoons with grape seed oil but my problem is that every time I use them to eat porridge it seems to strip all the oil out of them. At first I just put coats of oil on with a cloth, but when I sore it wasn't sticking I tried boiling them in oil like id seen on the kuksa making tutorial thread, but that seems to have made it worse. It ends up with the bowl of the spoon looking like it had not been oiled at-all but the handle is still fully oiled.
I wont to get this rite so that this doesn't happen with the kuksa. Can anyone help? how do you finish your spoons?
Thanks in advance.
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On the September 25 broadcast of NBC's Meet the Press, host Tim Russert suggested that Cindy Sheehan's anti-war activism might negatively affect a potential 2008 presidential campaign by Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY). In doing so, Russert read an excerpt of a Knight Ridder article that reported that "anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan protested outside Clinton's New York office" -- despite the fact that the protest in question occurred at the Lafayette Avenue Presbyterian Church, more than seven miles from Clinton's nearest office.
Sheehan's September 18 protest was widely reported in news outlets including The New York Times, Reuters, and The New York Sun, all of which placed the event in Brooklyn. The New York Sun reported that the protest took place at the Lafayette Avenue Presbyterian Church. NY1, a New York-based 24-hour television news channel, also reported that the protest took place at the church -- and aired video of Sheehan speaking there.
But on September 22, four days after Sheehan's comments, Knight Ridder reported that Sheehan had "protested outside Clinton's New York office." The rest of the Knight Ridder account is consistent with other news reports: It used commonly reported quotes by Sheehan, indicated the same audience approval, and contained crowd estimates that were consistent with, if not identical to, other reports -- about 500 people, according the Times and Knight Ridder; roughly 300 according to the Sun.
Though it seems clear that the news service was describing the same event that occurred at the Lafayette Avenue Presbyterian Church, Knight Ridder inexplicably placed it "outside Clinton's New York office." Clinton's New York office is located on Third Avenue in Manhattan, some 7.5 miles by car from the church.
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Yoga and laughter have well discussed impacts on personal health, but a rather curious blend of 'laughter yoga' has swept across the Venezuelan capital of Caracas in a trend that has brought bright smiles and stress relief in a surprisingly effective and completely cost free manner. The movement brings Caracas into the fold of over 6,000 worldwide laughter clubs.
Venezuelans in Caracas are using 'laughter yoga' therapy to alleviate the stress of city life.
The therapy was created by Indian physician Dr. Madan Kataria in 1995 and combines laughter with yogic breathing.
The sessions begin with warming up, followed by face exercises and laughter.
Participants are encouraged to look at one another, as laughter is known to be contagious.
Instructor Jesus Regetti told Reuters the therapy breaks down social barriers.
'Gender does not matter here, nor does economic level, where you come from, or political beliefs.
The intention is for people to come and laugh with other people for an hour or more. No matter what you know, you'll laugh in the end,' he said.
The laughter sessions in Venezuela are held for free, and often held in public parks and spaces.
One participant said the therapy helps them to forget about the countries uncertain political climate.
Read More on skynews.com.au
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- I did not ask to be created. But I will decide the time and circumstance of my termination.
- -- Superboy src
- -- Superboy src
Superboy is a clone grafted with Superman's DNA (as opposed to a younger version of Superman), who was introduced in 1993. He was created by Project Cadmus to replace Superman following the Death of Superman story, and was artificially aged to mid-teens and implanted with the necessary knowledge of someone his biological age (in regards to general studies, such as math, reading, etc). Before the experiment could be completed (i.e. aging him to full adulthood and implanting him with safeguards to control him), he was freed by the Newsboy Legion and escaped. One of the boys gave him a leather jacket before he set out into the city (having his first brush with being Superman when he encounters Sidearm attempting to rip off an ATM).
The Metropolis Kid
When Superboy arrived in Metropolis, he went by "Superman" and had no real name. While glibly asserting he was the original Superman, he quickly rebuked any insinuation he was the original Superman. In fact, he told anyone who'd listen that he was a clone of Superman. This revelation was first revealed to Lois Lane, but she was not entirely interested. This prompts the Kid to turn to another reporter he bumps into, Tana Moon, who breaks the story live on WGBS. In fact, three other Supermen emerged simultaneously: "The Man of Tomorrow," really the Cyborg Superman; "The Last Son of Krypton," really the Eradicator; and "The Man of Steel," John Henry Irons. WGBS's Vinnie Edge arranges for the Kid to go into Suicide Slum and apprehend a gangster named Steel Hand. After the encounter, the Kid is confronted by the Guardian, who tells him to be careful--and mindful that Cadmus will not simply forget about him.
Superboy loved the limelight, but was not particularly cautious at first. Steel had to have some words with the Kid about not trying to be Superman just for the glory after Superboy's carelessness inadvertently led to the death of a Daily Planet chopper pilot. The Kid, angry at first that Steel would tell him off, came to see the wisdom in Steel's words and helped pull Steel from a fire later on.
Superboy is approached by Supergirl to work with her at LexCorp. While initially he's interested (much to the delight of Lex Luthor II), Tana and WGBS get to him first, convincing him to sign a contract to be represented by Rex Leech. He meets Rex's daughter Roxy Leech at this time. Vinnie Edge, eager to shore up ratings, hires a villain named Stinger to attack Superboy on live television. After a matched battle between the two, Supergirl joins the fray, but even together they are incapable of stopping Stinger from destroying the Hobsneck Bridge, one of the major bridges into Metropolis. Superboy and Supergirl work together to save lives, pulling many people from cars that fell into the river, before Supergirl is left with the unhappy job of telling Luthor that Superboy turned down his offer.
After Coast City is destroyed, Superboy is duped by the Cyborg Superman into joining him in a mock investigation (having told everyone that the "Last Son" was responsible). It is really a ruse, and the Kid was quickly defeated and imprisoned by the Cyborg inside Engine City. The Cyborg reveals his plans, and his servant, Mongul, to the Kid while being held prisoner. The Cyborg also uses Superboy's image via a video feed to trick Justice League America into going off world in a wild goose chase against the alleged destroyers of Coast City. Unknown to the Cyborg, Mongul reveals their plan to destroy Metropolis next to the Kid, hoping it will prompt the Kid to escape and lead to the downfall of Mongul's hated master. Superboy is able to eventually escape and flies back to Metropolis, arriving to find Steel, Luthor, Lois Lane, and Supergirl gathered near the harbor. The Kid warns everyone that it was the Cyborg and not the Eradicator who was responsible for Coast City's destruction--and that he meant to do the same to Metropolis, even as a Kryptonian War Suit emerges from the water. The warsuit opens and the real Superman emerges, though he is underpowered and clad in a black Kryptonian recovery suit. While Superboy and Steel are skeptical about his claim, they joined him in an frontal attack on Engine City. They discover a huge missile, capable of wiping out all of Metropolis. Superboy clung onto the missile after the Cyborg launched it, and managed to stray it off course before it could destroy Metropolis.
Despite minor injuries, the Kid rejoins the fight in Engine City, saving the life of Steel. He acknowledges after the defeat of the Cyborg that the "man in black" is indeed the one true Superman. Afterwards, he returns to Metropolis with Supergirl and Steel. Tana comes to visit him, telling him that she quit her job and is leaving Metropolis for good.
With the real Superman back in action, the Kid relinquishes the rights to the name and symbol (which had been nailed down by Rex Leech during Superman's absence, and which Rex begrudgingly agrees to turn over to the real Man of Steel) and decided to leave Metropolis after finally accepting the name Superboy. It was then decided that he would go on a world tour in order to establish himself in his new identity. He also went back to Cadmus and was told more about his origins--he was not in fact a direct clone of Superman's, but rather a human clone genetically engineered to look like Superman and mimic his major powers by way of tactile telekinesis. Despite Director Paul Westfield's initial protests, Cadmus agreed to stop trying to bring him back to the Project--partially because of the publicity that would come with such a move--on the terms that a "chaperon" would go with him. Dubbilex is chosen for the role, in part because Westfield was trying to hide the fact he had sent Payback D.N.Aliens against the Kid earlier that day (and Westfield did not mind having a mind-reader around). The last thing he takes care of before leaving is moving out of his apartment, allowing Clark Kent to move back in.
The Hero of Hawaii
Karl Kesel begins the new Superboy series as the lead writer.
After a few weeks of traveling, Superboy arrived in Hawaii during his world tour. With him came Rex Leech, Roxy Leech, and Dubbilex. After a running battle with Sidearm on the beach, Superboy learned that Tana Moon had moved to Hawaii. Superboy decided to stay on the islands, stylizing himself as the "Hero of Hawaii." Superboy met Knockout and the insane Scavenger early on--the former was a super strong stripper who thought of a fistfight as foreplay, the other was a crazy old man who seemed obsessed with acquiring weapons for his arsenal. Superboy's battle with the latter involved a fight over the mystical Spear of Lono. After the battle with Scavenger, Superboy fell ill. His condition worsened and he had to be flown back to Metropolis after a brief fight with Silver Sword, a new would-be hero turned thug who thought he knew what was best for the islands. Superboy collapsed at the end of the battle and the Navy took custody of Silver Sword.
Superboy was suffering from the Clone Plague that was ravaging most of the Underworlders and other Cadmus clones (including Lex Luthor II). Superboy was successfully cured, the first of the few survivors, thanks to Cadmus' efforts. Superboy had to help fight off some of Luthor's Team Luthor goons when they tried to steal the cure from the Project. He then joined Superman and Supergirl in the Fall of Metropolis, trying to minimize the damage as much as possible, and together they apprehended Lex Luthor--although most of downtown Metropolis was destroyed. Cadmus had suffered major damage (and Paul Westfield had been murdered by Dabney Donovan, but most of the staff and clones survived. Superboy stuck around in Metropolis for a while, battling the Parasite and getting caught up in the Worlds Collide storyline.
Much to his chagrin, Dubbilex was asked to take in Krypto by Bibbo--he and the dog did not care for one another at all. On his way back to Hawaii, Superboy is forced to make a pit stop in Smallville, where he meets the Kents. He also meets the pocket universe Superboy, who was there because of the effects of the time disruption. This is just prior to Zero Hour, and the Kid had to join the heroes in that crisis. About this time, Superboy learned that the DNA donor for him was in fact the late Cadmus director, Paul Westfield... or so he thought. This revelation also came with one from Robert Packard that Superboy had been the thirteenth attempt by Cadmus to clone Superman. The first had utilized Dr. Teng's "Bizarro" technique, resulting in a Bizarro Superboy that was still being held by the lab. The Bizarro escaped, but died shortly thereafter. When he returns to Hawaii, Tana throws him a birthday party (making Superboy officially one year old).
After getting back to Hawaii, Superboy began to have his own rogues gallery come together. This included first appearances by King Shark, B.E.M., Techno, and the Silicon Dragons. Each of these adventures typically opened with Superboy acting immature in some way and having an "adult" moment towards the end, such as when a celebrity look-a-like of him was shot and killed by the Dragons who thought the actor was the real Superboy. Superboy also clashed with Aquaman at Pearl Harbor, with the King of the Seas putting the Kid in his place with the help of a pod of blue whales.
Thanks to Dr. Emil Hamilton, Superboy also acquired a visor that simulated Superman's x-ray, heat, and infra-vision powers. He met Hamilton while the scientist was vacationing in Hawaii and inadvertently assisted Superboy in defeating Sidearm, who had reemerged at this time. Superboy also settled into a new residence called the Compound, in a secluded spot near the beach, with the Leeches and Dubbilex staying there as a well (although on their first night, he had to fight off Copperhead, who had been hired to collect a debt from Rex).
At this time, Superboy also formally became involved with Tana Moon. A special agent named Sam Makoa decided to organize a task force to go after the Silicon Dragons. This ended up being Amanda Waller's Suicide Squad. Superboy forced himself onto the team, which consisted of Knockout, Sidearm, King Shark, Captain Boomerang, and Deadshot. Despite the death of Sidearm and the apparent deaths of Knockout and King Shark, the mission successfully destroyed the lair of the Silicon Dragons, even though their leader, Lady Dragon, escaped after a solo battle against the Kid. Superboy lost his visor in this adventure, and saw more death than he cared to think about.
Superboy was also told by the state (specifically, a man named Mack Harlin) that he was required to start attending school. Superboy enrolled at a local high school where me met some new friends, including Hillary Chang, and discovered that he was reaching the end of the implanted knowledge Cadmus had given him. When he wasn't trying to impress his classmates or going out with Tana (who, again, was probably seven or eight years older than him), Superboy managed to find time for some gratuitous violence--like brawling with Loose Cannon or rounding up Loophole When Roxy unexpectedly left for Las Vegas, Superboy followed her, sensing there was trouble. Roxy was trying to put some things in her past to rest, since she had decided to enroll as a cop in Hawaii. This meant a confrontation with an old boyfriend, a loser who called himself Neon. After a brief battle, Neon blew himself up by detonating a gas station. Superboy and Roxy then returned home.
Superboy is forced to battle against Valor, who was amnesic and fighting under the name of Champion. Knockout, alive and well, decided to join in on the fight. As Valor regained his memory, he also realized he is dying of lead poisoning. While Knockout takes care of Mr. Gamboli, who had been manipulating Valor, Superboy helped Valor escape into the Phantom Zone to save his life.
The Alpha Centurion recruits Superboy into the Superman Rescue Squad, after the Man of Steel is kidnapped by an alien Tribunal. Superboy joins the Centurion, Supergirl, the Eradicator, and Steel and leave Earth to find Superman. On the trip, Superboy admits to the others he does not trust the Centurion--in fact, he thinks he is really the Cyborg Superman in disguise. His suspicions seem to be confirmed when the Centurion seemingly abandons them in the midst of a battle--and the Cyborg Superman arrives on scene soon thereafter. The Cyborg easily defeats the entire team and turns them over to the Tribunal. While a prisoner, Superboy is put in the same cell as the Centurion, but this is not enough to convince him he is not a double agent. Only when he later escapes and sees the two actually fighting does he admit his mistake. The team frees themselves and rallies behind Superman, who confronts the Tribunal head on. The Tribunal admits an error in their reasoning, and "exonerates" Superman for his "crime." The team returns triumphantly to Earth.
Superboy meets the Legion of Super-Heroes who come to the past seek to save Valor's life. Superboy explains what happened and accompanies the Legion to the 30th Century to help Valor. Valor is freed from the Phantom Zone in his own time and takes the name M'onel and decides to fight wearing Superman's costume. The Legion rewards Superboy with making him an honorary Legionnaire, complete with flight ring, before sending him home.
Paired with Knockout
Upon returning to the present after helping the Legion, Superboy finds Knockout waiting for him at The Compound. She wants to join him as a partner, loving the heat of battle more than anything. Together, they battle Killer Frost (part of the Underworld Unleashed saga), the Technician, and Silver Sword. Knockout teaches Superboy how to use his powers in new and creative ways, such as extending his TK field to cover another person just by touching them. Superboy regains his visor (which had been recovered by the Technician), but destroys it, reasoning that he would just lose it again.
Superboy and Knockout are then attacked by the Female Furies, revealing that Knockout was one of their lost "sisters". An intense battle ensues at SB's high school, with Superboy and Knockout (joined by Sam Makoa, Dan Turpin, and a contingent of police officers) severely outclassed. Thanks to Dubbilex, however, the Furies are driven off, leaving much of the high school in ruins (prompting the state to decide Superboy should be home schooled, thus ending his brief tenure in high school). During the battle, Knockout killed a police officer in the fray. Dubbilex discovered what had happened and the police--in the process of forming their own Special Crimes Unit--attempt to arrest Knockout. Superboy refuses to believe the evidence, however, and after a confrontation with Snare and the SCU at the Compound, the two briefly go on the run from the law (prompting Superboy to break up with Tana Moon). This led to a battle on the beach between Supergirl and Knockout. After Sparx helps separate the two women, Supergirl rips the S-shield off Superboy's costume because of his lawlessness. Still, Superboy persisted that he was in the right and everyone just did not understand Knockout. Knockout's true colors are revealed, however, during a meeting with Victor Volcaneum, who had risen an island for himself near Hawaii. Knockout first tried to get Superboy to kill him and then finished him off herself. In this act, Superboy realized then that she did not love him the way he thought he loved her, but that she merely was using him as her lapdog. Superboy apprehended Knockout, in part due to the training she had given him on how to use his powers, bringing her in as the island sunk back beneath the waves. Roxy, having recovered his S-shield, put it back on his costume.
The Ravers and Rough Times
Superboy became one of the leading stars in a concurrent series, Superboy and the Ravers, which involved a bunch of young heroes involved in a few intergalactic adventures. The series ran 19 issues and was also mostly written by Karl Kesel. Superboy is brought by Sparx to the Event Horizon, an intergalactic rave party open to metas only. It was hosted by a being called Kindred Marx. His first night there, Superboy met Hero and got into a fight with Kaliber, which prompted the two of them to be teleported to a distant asteroid--where a police force known as I.N.T.E.R.C.E.P.T. attempted to place the two of them under arrest for being part of Event Horizon. The group also got involved with the Darkstars. Superboy and Kaliber were transported back to the event before they could be arrested, and another brawl broke out between some Khunds (and their gang, Red Shift) and Aura, which spilled out onto Earth proper (the rave itself could shift between worlds).
Ron Marz took over as lead writer for the regular series beginning with issue number 32.
Superboy resumed his relationship with Tana, just before Roxy revealed to him during the Final Night that she had always loved him. Despite this confession, Superboy did not reciprocate, still loving Tana. Roxy nevertheless could not dismiss her feelings for SB so easily. While helping Dubbilex recover from an injury, an organization called the Agenda sent Amanda Spence to kidnap Superboy. Spence is successful, kidnapping Superboy after defeating him at the Compound.
The Agenda uses Superboy to create a clone called Match, who had even greater power than Superboy. The Agenda plans on making an entire army of Match clones. The Kid manages to defeat Match, however, and destroy the Agenda's lair. Match is thought to be killed, but Spence and the Directors are all taken into custody.
Unknown to the Kid, the Agenda infected Superboy with a virus that began to break down his DNA. It did not manifest itself at first, but lay dormant for weeks, until a rematch with Copperhead made it all too clear that he was sick. When S.T.A.R. Labs cannot correct his condition, Superboy is rushed back to Project Cadmus. Cadmus is able to slow the condition, but not halt it. Superman, Supergirl, and Steel came to his aid, each tracking down leads that might help. The Directors do not talk, however, and though Superman is able to locate Match (who might serve as a donor to Superboy), the clone is not interested in helping and flees. Amanda Spence, however, offers a solution, by explaining that he needs a DNA donor to "re-zip" the breakdown of his own DNA. Roxy Leech offers to be part of the procedure to help restructure the Kid's DNA and cure him of the virus. The plan succeeded, although a side effect was that Superboy was locked at the age of sixteen. Superboy is crushed at the news, having always dreamed of one day assuming the role of Superman. A heart-to-heart with Superman (who was in his Energy-phase at the time) helped make the Kid feel better, though not exactly thrilled.
Despite what Superman had to say, Superboy is still troubled by thoughts of never growing up. Nightmares plague him, even as he hast to deal with Mo-o, and a married couple who pursue thrills by trying to get their picture taken with superheroes. He finds a magic atoll where there are some "lost boys" who seemingly never grow up, and despite the temptation to stay, he leaves it.
Things began to break down upon returning to Hawaii. The Legion of Super-Heroes turns up, angry that Superboy had given away his Legion Flight Ring to Roxy. Superboy manages to work things out with them as they fight Silver Sword. However, his constant flirting and "devil-may-care" attitude have been wearing on Tana (who was also uncomfortable with the thought that Superboy would stay a teenager forever). Despite trying to prove how responsible he is by having another fight with Silver Sword (and recovering the Spear of Lono, which SS had stolen), Tana breaks up with the Kid.
Superboy decides to travel a bit to clear his head. He stops by Jersey City and asks Natasha Irons, Steel's niece, out on a date. Nat has fun, but tells him she's not interested in a relationship because she can tell he's still very much in love with Tana.
Silver Sword is finally brought down with the help of Green Lantern. He had been serving a being known as Pele, whom he believed was a native Hawaiian goddess, but during Pele's battle with SB and GL (when she threatened innocent Hawaiian bystanders), Silver Sword realized she was no benevolent goddess. He turned on her, leading to his death. Pele is defeated, but Superboy is feeling anything but heroic. More than ever, he feels isolated.
Superboy, after a failed publicity stunt (i.e. "Superboy: The Event") and wavering public opinion in Hawaii and abroad, disappears without a trace while flying back to Hawaii and getting caught in a storm. Superboy's cast largely left at this point: Rex was on the run from his past, Roxy goes to find him, Tana left the islands tracking down information on the Agenda, and Dubbilex is recalled to Cadmus. Also, Krypto is left with Hillary Chang.
A New Direction with an Old Team
Karl Kesel and Tom Grummett returned to lead the team with issue #50.
Superboy awoke amnesic in the Wild Lands, an island of anthropomorphic animal-men, a homage to Jack Kirby's Kamandi, The Last Boy on Earth. Superboy quickly regains his memory, and briefly fears he is somehow in the distant future. After passing a test and other challenges, Superboy and some other humans stranded on the island manage to leave the Wild Lands. Superboy befriends the Wild Men, who decide to explore the world at large and leave with Superboy. They quickly discover they are not in the distant future, but really only a few months have passed since Superboy's disappearance. The islands had been created by a precursor to Project Cadmus (part of an experiment in the 1940s known as the "Moreua Project"). Superboy did have to contend with the fallout of a coup de tat that spilled out into the world at large, but managed to work it out. Back in Hawaii, Superboy learned that most of his friends were gone and decided there was nothing really left for him.
He rejoined Cadmus and began working as a field agent with Dubbilex and Guardian, after leaving Krypto with his friend, Hillary Chang (perhaps for the last time). In their first assignment, they traveled to Paris and battled the Agenda once again, specifically Director Alpha. They also encounter Grokk the Living Gargoyle and a supermodel named "Hex," who claims to be Jonah Hex. They take Grokk back to Project Cadmus, where Superboy meets the new Director (Mickey "the Mechanic" Cannon), new military liaison, Col. Adam Winterbourne (one of the men SB rescued from the Wild Lands), and one of the new ace scientists, Serling Roquette. Superboy is at first happy to be back at the Project, but is distraught when Mickey fires the head scientists (the original Newsboy Legion) and orders them to take their clones (the current Newsboys) with them as they leave.
Superboy was a founding member of the team Young Justice, along with Robin (Tim Drake) and Impulse. The team formed after the three boys decided to have a "camp out" in the old JLA Justice Cave, where they encountered Red Tornado (who agreed to keep an eye on them). See the Young Justice entry for more details on his adventures with the team.
Superboy is interested in Serling (as she's one of the few females at the Project and the only one close to his own age), but she is oblivious at first, harboring a crush on Guardian. Superboy has to respond when someone steals the Whiz Wagon and enters the Demolition Run, a lethal cross country race involving all manner of high-tech vehicles. The thief turns out to be Roxy, who is desperate for money to help her father. Even with Superboy and Mickey Cannon helping her, the Whiz Wagon is totaled and Fastbak wins the race. Superboy realizes the man who set up the race, Mr. Big, set it up, knowing Fastbak would win and forfeit any prize. Rather than let Mr. Big walk away with millions, he convinces Fastbak to ask for all profits Big might have made off the deal. Big honors the deal, but promises Superboy he won't forget.
A defining moment in Superboy's life would come at the onset of the Superman: King of the World storyline. Superman drops by Cadmus and asks Superboy to come with him to the Fortress of Solitude. While there, Superboy visits Krypton via virtual reality. After explaining how he considers Superboy part of his family, Superman offers him the Kryptonian name Kon-El. Superboy tearfully accepts, overjoyed with the simple joy of having a real name. He would eventually accept the name "Conner."
Superboy was one of the first to explore Hypertime, after a Superboy from an alternate reality arrived at the Watchtower, dying shortly thereafter from injuries. Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman all explained their recent experiences with Hypertime, and ask Superboy to volunteer for part of an experiment. During this journey, he met a villainous counterpart, Black Zero, from a reality where he had not been freed from Cadmus as a teenager, nor had Superman ever returned to life. Black Zero had become a cruel tyrant in his world, and then had set out to other worlds he had found via Hypertime. He did not understand the resistance he met from the other Superboys, but one by one he captured them and brought them to his lair. Superboy (Kon-El) led these other versions in an uprising that defeated Black Zero, and then returned to his proper timeline/reality. During the trip, however, he had learned that Superman was also Clark Kent. Superboy did not reveal this at first, harboring a little shock and resentment that his closest "relative" had never told him about this.
Superboy is ordered to revisit the Wild Lands, taking a number of personnel from Cadmus (including Col. Winterbourne) with him via the Whiz Wagon. They land in Roam and are greeted warmly by King Tuftan (and coldly by his new bride, Nosferata). Winterbourne requests to be taken to the area where he was captured, and Tuftan leads the way to the Glowing Swamp. They find Ratsputin there--and also King Shark. Tuftan and Winterbourne are almost killed by King Shark in a tough battle. Winterbourne discovers what he had come there to find--an experimental Blackbird fighter jet that he had crashed--and uses it to impale King Shark, shortly before it detonates. Tuftan returns to Roam and Superboy and the others are recalled to Cadmus.
They arrive just as the Day of Judgment event has begun. Cadmus workers had unearthed an ancient glove, Hyssa's Fist, that Guardian put on. The power of the evil glove had impaired his perceptions and he had run off into the caverns beneath the Project after attacking some guards. The Demon Etrigan emerges, explaining he is there to help them. Etrigan and Superboy manage to defeat the possessed Guardian, but SB is not wild about the idea of handing the artifact over to the Demon, who attacks him for his obstinacy. Superboy puts on the glove and easily defeats Etrigan, but Dabney Donovan (whom Guardian had freed from Cadmus' holding cells) steps out and compliments the Kid on his new look. The glove had changed SB's costume to resemble Black Zero's. Horrified, Superboy destroys the glove, causing a huge cave-in. Etrigan saves Donovan before leaving. Superboy decides he wants to return to Hawaii to tie up some loose ends.
About this time, Superboy decides to visit Smallville, specifically to drop by the Kents. Clark Kent arrives there, too, and Superboy hints around that he knows Clark's secret, but does not come out and say it. Clark is reluctant to come out with it too, not because he doesn't trust the Kid, but because he is afraid that eventually Superman and Clark Kent may no longer be distinguishable. Still, he does hint back to SB that he knows the Kid knows about him (while teaching Kon-El how to milk a cow).
Superboy (accompanied by Serling) take the Whiz Wagon to Hawaii. Superboy discovers that he is no longer well thought of among the locals there, and that a new hero, Kana is the local favorite. Kana, however, sites Superboy as being his inspiration for being a hero. Superboy catches up with Sam Makoa and Hillary Chang, and even visits Knockout in prison (who tries unsuccessfully to manipulate the Kid into letting her go). After one last visit to The Compound, Superboy realizes nothing will ever be like it once was. He decides to take Krypto back with him to Cadmus.
Still frustrated that he has not been able to come out and acknowledge to Superman he knows the truth of his dual identity, Superboy heads to Metropolis. He meets up with Lois Lane and takes her to Locomotive Park, where the Man of Steel is battling a four-armed monster (but unfortunately, suffers some allergic reaction to its skin). The two put the creature down. Afterwards, Superboy is still unable to come out with what he knows, but he is comforted when Superman tells him that of all the people who wear the S-shield, Kon-El is the one he feels closest too. After he leaves, Superboy hints to Lois that he knows, but Lois merely replies that everyone--even Superman--needs a little privacy in life.
Upon arriving back at Cadmus, Superboy is quickly knocked out. The Agenda, using Simyan and Mokkari to create an army of clones, have seized control of the Project (during "The Evil Factory" story arc). Dubbilex, manipulated through a being known as the Gene Gnome, is helping the Agenda. Superboy and the rest of the good guys are placed in holding under the eye of Amanda Spence, now harboring a special hatred of the Kid. Superboy rallies the forces of Cadmus, along with Grokk the Living Gargoyle, Hex, and even Krypto, in a desperate struggle to win back Cadmus. All they can do, however, is temporarily retreat, as the Gene Gnome not only can read their minds, but also coordinate the clone armies. As they flee, they run into the Wild Men (Gorr, Growler, and Howler) who had escaped the Agenda's clutches in Alaska--where they had also rescued Tana Moon, whom they have with them. Realizing the Gene Gnome cannot read the minds of non-humans, they decide to launch a counter attack on the Project, leaving Serling, Tana, and Krypto behind. After they leave, Dubbilex and the Gene Gnome emerge on the three, but Dubbilex manages to break the Gnome's control and knock him out. The strike force (Superboy, Guardian, Mickey Cannon, Hex, Grokk the Living Gargoyle, Angry Charlie, and the Wild Men trio) put the Agenda's army to rout, wrestling control back from Amanda Spence. A holographic message from the Agenda's Director Beta (the Contessa Erica Alexandra del Portenza) alerts them to a contingency plan in Washington, D.C. While suspecting a trap, Superboy takes off to investigate anyway.
This leads into the Young Justice: Sins of Youth. A public outcry over Young Justice's actions at Mount Rushmore prompted a calling of the superhero community to come to D.C. The heroes are all shocked at how Superboy (standing with Young Justice) seems to be betraying his friends and comrades to the media, until they realize that this Superboy is in fact Match, who had infiltrated Young Justice after the real Superboy had been captured and locked up in Cadmus. The real Superboy arrives on scene, slugging it out with his clone. As the tension mounts, the Contessa and her partner, Klarion the Witch-Boy, enact their plan. Klarion's sorcery alters the ages of everyone present: the adults become kids (with the oldest heroes becoming the youngest) and the younger heroes all become adults--all except Superboy, who is still stuck at sixteen.
The spell that changed everyone's age is frustrated by Superboy's stunted aging process--and as a result, his body begins to tear apart at a molecular level, at "war" with itself. Wonder Girl helps Superboy back to Cadmus, arriving just after Match (again in the guise of Superboy) and he is able to hold his own against Wonder Girl and the weakened SB. Guardian and Mickey prepare to make another stand against the Agenda clones who had rallied and were coming back, but Dabney Donovan surprises everyone. Having escaped Simyan and Mokkari, Donovan unleashes a gas that contains a virus lethal only to the newly cloned Agenda soldiers. All the evil clones disintegrate, though Match escapes by activating a teleporter. Superboy is taken to the medical bay, Tana at his side, still very much in love with him. Serling is able to cure his aging condition, and by doing so, the spell ages him to a full adult. Emerging from the lab, Superboy embraces Tana. Amanda Spence, looking on, activates a device around Tana's neck that kills Tana. She gloats about how now Superboy knows the pain she knew when her father, Paul Westfield, died. Before Superboy can strike Spence down, she teleports away.
Tragedy and Loss
Superboy is devastated over the death of Tana. He barely has time to mourn, however, as he is called in by Superman (still a teen) to help him defeat Klarion and reverse the spell. Superman finally divulges straight up about his dual identity, asking Superboy to contact Lois to assure her everything is alright. As an adult, it appears as though Superboy may have even greater power than Superman. Klarion is eventually defeated and everyone is restored to their natural ages.
However, when he was restored to youth, Superboy lost his powers as well. Guardian encourages him to take some time to grieve and see the world as a "normal" kid. He tries to do just that, though everything keeps changing around him: Tana's death, his powers gone, and Dubbilex decides to leave the Project on sabbatical. The Wild Men depart for places unknown, Hex decides to take Grokk the Living Gargoyle and become a bounty hunter, and Heat Wave is now working for Guardian. Superboy decides he still wants to continue the good fight, so he turns to the Gadget Guru to help him be Superboy once again.
He still had his Legionnaire flight ring and had some special training with Guardian. Gadget Guru fashions a shield for him to use: the shield is nearly indestructible, but can shrink in size. He barely has begun his new training when Superboy (along with Mickey Cannon and Gadget Guru) are kidnapped and taken into orbit by Kossak the Slaver. Superboy and his friends manage to rally the slaves in a successful uprising against their hated master. After battling all over Kossak's slave ship, the rebellion is successful. Kossak flees on a shuttle heading straight for Earth. Superboy pursues him back to the Project, where he learns Kossak's true intent for coming to Earth is to retrieve an escaped slave--one that has fused with Roxy Leech! The alien has solar/heat based powers and restores Superboy to full power, allowing the Kid to take down Kossak. Superboy gives Guardian a new shield--one that can shrink the way his could.
Karl Kesel left the series as lead writer for a second and final time with issue #79.
Roxy is still bound by the alien lifeform. Using her body, it breaks free from Cadmus and arrives in the nearby town of Kurtzberg. The newly reformed Titans arrive on scene to contain the situation, but Superboy puts himself between them and Roxy. When Guardian and Heat Wave arrive, a brief battle breaks out. When the heroes all manage to cool it, the alien (identified as Pyra) breaks free of Roxy's body and flies off into space. Kon tells Roxy how he thinks of her as family, and she tells him the same. She and her dad are going off for a while to really get to know one another, but she promises to come back some day.
After the battle, Guardian realized that the man he was cloned from (Jim Harper) was related to Roy Harper, the Titan now known as Arsenal. Superboy later takes Guardian to New York City to meet with Roy and Liam Harper at Warrior's. While they have their "family" reunion, Superboy takes down a villain named Negative G.
Slapstick and War
Joe Kelly took over the title with issue #83, injecting his trademark humor into the series.
After being teased by some teenage girls and feeling despondent, Superboy feels like he is in a rut. A talk with Superman helps him realize he just needs to shake things up a bit. He decides to adopt a new uniform, abandoning the leather jacket and streamlining the look.
Lex Luthor, recently elected President of the United States, has appointed Amanda Waller Secretary of Meta-Human Affairs and tasked her to keep an eye on the Project. After some more training with Guardian, Superboy and Serling head to Los Angeles per Waller's orders to size up a situation involving alien activity. Superboy meets up with Lobo there and deals with an alien named Scizmore that feeds off rage. Kon has to deal with some rage issues himself--when a gang war refuses to die down in front of him, he releases his powers in an incredible burst that destroys nearly every gun in L.A.
Exhausted from a recent adventure with Batman and Batgirl, Superboy asks Guardian to go to Detroit to fight Shrapnel in his place. Superboy heads to a Florida bayou where he encounters Gorgeous Gilly (and is nearly forced to marry her). Fleeing the scene, he returns to Cadmus and receives startling news -- Guardian was killed in the battle with Shrapnel.
Superboy arranges a team to take down Shrapnel. During the battle, he is contacted by Deadman, who tells him that the soul of Guardian cannot move on. Guardian has been re-cloned to life (but is a baby) as part of a plot to create a whole army of clones based on him. The D.N.Angels are sent to recover the baby, but Superboy fights them off at a supermarket and takes the baby to a friend's house. The next day, he finds that Project Cadmus has been closed down per the President's orders. The site is empty--save for the rest of Young Justice, who insist Superboy give them some answers.
After straightening things out with his teammates, Superboy is called to Metropolis by Lois Lane to join Supergirl and Steel (really Kelex) to head to Pokolikstan, after Superman insisted on heading there alone to confront a mysterious general. The team meets up with Superman and battle Faora, Ignition, and Kancer until the general arrives and sucker punches Superman hard enough to break his jaw! The team quickly retreats from the scene. All of this is a prelude to Our Worlds at War.
Superboy learns that President Luthor is up to something involving Strange Visitor at LexCorp Towers in the newly upgraded Metropolis. Catching up with Serling and Heat Wave (and "baby" Guardian, now a boy about the age of nine or ten), Superboy leads the team on an infiltration of LexCorp Towers. They free Strange Visitor from a a machine, but she angrily chides them that she is no prisoner, but came there willingly. Talia Head, now the head of LexCorp, enters and tells them they have broken U.S. law and stolen government property (namely, Guardian). A man named General Good arrives with the D.N.Angels and places them under military arrest.
Superboy and the others are taken as prisoners to a huge spaceship in orbit. General Good explains that he plans to create an entire army of clones based on Guardian to be used as soldiers in an upcoming war--not a war between the U.S. and Pokolikstan, as many had feared was coming, but a war on a much bigger scale. Working for Good is Amanda Spence, now heavily modified into a cyborg. Superboy frees himself and battles the D.N.Angels and Spence, until the Angels decide they are on the wrong side. Spence, who boasts she no longer needs to eat or breathe, is knocked into the void by Superboy. He frees Guardian (now almost fully grown), Heat Wave, and Serling. Guardian--psychically linked to the other clones still in their pods--knows their wishes are the same as his. He did not want to be brought back, but that choice was stolen from him, but it will not be from them. The clones are then destroyed. Viewing out into space, everyone notices a vast armada of alien ships--and Apokolips itself--in orbit around Earth. General Frank Rock arrives, places Good under arrest, and tells Superboy to consider himself drafted.
He then got fully involved with the events of Our Worlds at War, first helping to aid injured heroes and then being recruited by President Luthor (with the rest of Young Justice) for a special assignment that takes the team to Apokolips. Things go badly and the team is briefly captured by Granny Goodness. Impulse is traumatized when one of his "speed scouts" is killed right in front of him. The team is eventually able to make it back to Earth, one of the last groups to be accounted for. The war deeply impacted Superboy, having witnessed much death and destruction, as well as some scarring to some of his closest friends (see the Young Justice entry for more information regarding Superboy's exploits in the war). Superboy decides to go to the Kent's to rest, but is troubled by nightmares for some time.
The End of an Era
A new team takes over with issue #94, but this direction was short lived, however, as the series was canceled with issue #100.
With Cadmus shut down, Superboy has no job and no place to stay. After Wonder Girl insists he has to find a place of his own, Superboy relocates to Metropolis, becoming the "super" at a tenement building called Calvin Gardens. A local gang called the Run Riot Boys keeps harassing the neighborhood. He also meets a young woman named Trixie.
Superboy decides to throw a housewarming party. Wonder Girl shows up, but Superboy is enamored with Trixie, not realizing her boyfriend, Wipeout, leads the Run Riot Boys. Wipeout instructs one of the new gang members, Cooper, to kill Superboy. Cooper befriends Superboy, initially intending to betray him, but cannot go through with it when the gang attacks the building. Scavenger also resurfaces, and after a brief fight, Superboy convinces him to call a truce. Superboy agrees to meet up with him at the Ace O' Clubs, but the fight with the Run Riot Boys makes him miss the meeting and actually involved the tenement block being destroyed in a battle. A few other loose ends were tied up--Dubbilex was still on sabbatical, though Superboy managed to finally convince Scavenger that he was not working for his enemy. Superboy was taken by Superman to stay with his parents in Smallville, which he did for some time.
Fall of a Hero
After Young Justice disolves, Superboy becomes a member of the new Teen Titans, but begins to doubt himself and his abilities once he learns that Lex Luthor, not Paul Westfield, was the original donor of his DNA. He stays on the Kent farm for longer.
During Infinite Crisis, Superboy-Prime shows up, harassing Superboy about being a failure and prompting a battle. Superboy is on the losing side until he calls in some allies, resulting in a battle which causes Superboy-Prime to be taken away into the Speed Force--but not without casualties. Superboy himself is injured and needs to be taken in for medical treatment. Kon-El is forced to battle Superboy-Prime again, but while succeeding in stopping Prime's plan to create a new multiverse, Conner is beaten to death by the planet-moving power-level Prime. Conner is buried in Metropolis beneath his own statue (next to Kal-L's and Lois Kent's graves) and the Cult of Conner soon starts up, hoping for his return.
Later, during Final Crisis: Legion of Three Worlds, Superboy was reanimated in the 30th Century by the Legion of Super-Heroes. Brainiac 5 used the Kryptonian technology that reanimated Superman after he was killed by Doomsday, combined with a lock of Lex Luthor's hair to bring him back to life to help them in the fight against Superboy-Prime and his new Legion of Super-Villains. Connor later returns to the 21st century along with Bart Allen.
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- See also: Adventure Comics#Revival
After visiting Lex Luthor's childhood home in Smallville, Superman arrives and talks to Conner about his desire to understand his "other father". Superman tells Conner not to worry about Luthor, saying that the madman is a problem for the Man of Steel. Conner remarks that the next time he sees Lex Luthor will be "too soon". Soon after, Conner returns home and under a similar checklist in his notebook entitled, "What Does Lex Luthor Do?," Conner checks off, "Lies to Superman."
In his attempt to confront his shared legacy, he accepts a date with Wonder Girl. Conflicted between opening his heart to his girlfriend (thus "Telling the truth" as Superman always did in his life), and deliberately lying to avoid touching delicate subjects with Cassie (thus "Lying" as Luthor would do), ultimately Conner chooses to share with Cassie his fears and desires, and his desire to find himself by exploring both his legacies, but only to find his real self. Cassie is obviously touched, and despite her initial doubts, mostly out fear that in his desire to be more like the Man of Steel eventually Conner could leave her as Clark Kent did with Lana Lang, feels compelled to admit her brief bond with Tim Drake. Conner quickly forgives her, statementing that, since he was dead and Cassie had no means to know about his future resurrection, her liaison with Robin can't be considered a true affair. As they share a reconciliation kiss, Martha Kent stares at them, remembering about her past with Jonathan and Clark.
The Blackest Night
In the Origins and Omens back-up story in Adventure Comics #0, the former Guardian of the Universe, Scar, who now works for Nekron, discusses Lex Luthor and his place in the forthcoming Blackest Night crossover. The Guardian also makes mention of "another" that Luthor will have control over. The character to which she is referring is revealed using a picture of Conner flying over Smallville. The only elaboration following the image of Conner is, "...But he is dead. And we control the dead. For once I bear witness to the book of the black, and I question what it shows me, the dead will save you, Luthor. From Brainiac. From Superman. And from yourself."
In the Blackest Night storylines, Conner Kent has returned to the present. He is dressed in a red Smallville high sweater and is standing behind Martha Kent and Clark Kent at the tomb of her husband, the late Jonathan "Pa" Kent. Clutching his fist, Conner declares, "I ... I should've been here. It should've been me instead of ..." Martha Kent consoles him and advises Conner that Jonathan would have wanted him and Clark to "stand up straight." Unbeknownst to the Kents, the Black Lantern Corps is targeting Conner and Clark along with other resurrected characters.
The Corps sends the Kal-L and Lois Lane of Earth-Two to attack the Kent family after they've reanimated them, and stated to the modern version of the Man of Steel, Conner, and Martha, that they wish for the family to be reunited with Jonathan Kent in death. While Superman battles Kal-L, Conner encounters the Black Lantern Psycho-Pirate, who manipulates him into attacking Superman. However, Conner manages to come to his senses when Kal-L is on the verge of ripping out Superman's heart. Using his tactile telekinesis for the first time since he was reanimated, Conner pushes Kal-L away from Superman. It is revealed that Conner has been holding back and chose not to use his Tactile Telekinetic powers since his Kryptonian powers manifested, in an attempt to be more like Superman. Conner then goes after Psycho-Pirate, stealing the Medusa Mask and using its emotional powers to attract the black rings, causing them to leave their hosts, reducing them to lifeless corpses once more.
Superboy, along with the few available members of the Teen Titans and Justice League, arrive at Coast City to battle Nekron. Despite being resurrected, Conner's previous status as a deceased still allows one of Nekron's black rings to transform him into a Black Lantern. He is later seen battling Lex Luthor, who becomes a deputy Orange Lantern, with a Black Lantern version of Superman.
Black Lantern Conner attacks Wonder Girl, his girlfriend, all the while trying to break free from the Black Ring's control. Conner manages to break the control in temporary, short lapses, which he uses to summon Krypto and alert Cassie of the solution to his Black Ring problem. While under the influence of the ring, Conner displays a new power, arctic-breath, while also trying to hurt Wonder Girl on a emotional level. The battle moves to the Fortress, where Krypto realizes what Conner was referring to when he told them to move to the Fortress of Solitude: Conner's corpse, placed in the rebirth matrix where he awaits his resurrection in Legion of Three Worlds. The Black Ring, confused and confronted with unexpected resistance from Conner, leaves the living Conner and tries to attach itself to his corpse, but Conner awakens his arctic breath ability, which freezes the ring, and Cassie throws it into orbit. After reconciling, the trio heads back to Coast City for the final battle.
Since his return, Conner has been seen playing a supporting role in the Superman story arc Man of Valor starring Mon-El, who has been filling in for Superman as the Man of Steel is on New Krypton. Mon-El asks Conner to enter the Fortress of Solitude using his DNA from Superman and retrieve his rocket from Daxam. Conner and Mon-El join a secret team of Legion of Super-Heroes in the present. They go to New Krypton to help defeat Brainiac without destroying the bottle cities that will one day join the United Planets and are the future home of the members of the Legion of Super-Heroes.
War of the Supermen
Following the events of Last Stand of New Krypton, Superboy is rounded up with Guardian, Steel, Nightwing, Flamebird, and Krypto join together to expose and stop General Lane's plans to wipe out the Kryptonians. Conner saved the Justice League of America and Supergirl from Non and Ursa, and imprisoned them in the Phantom Zone. After this, he and Krypto backed Superman up against Zod and his kryptonians soldiers, but Zod injures Krypto, this makes Conner leave to save his dog, leaving the Phantom Zone Projector to Superman, who uses to imprisoned Zod and himself in Phantom Zone, but Superman was later freed by Chris Kent.
Titans and Smallville
Static is kidnapped while visiting his hometown of Dakota, the Teen Titans head there to rescue him. Frustrated by the lack of progress the team is having, Beast Boy phones Cyborg (now a member of the Justice League) for help. Cyborg angrily tells Beast Boy to handle his own problems, but later rethinks his position and calls Bart and Conner to S.T.A.R. Labs to talk about returning to the Titans. The rest of the Titans try to rescue Static from a massively powerful metahuman known as Holocaust, but they are easily defeated. As Holocaust prepares to finish off the heroes, Conner, Bart, and Cyborg burst through the walls, preparing to face the villain. Conner remarks that its time for him to come out of his retirement from the Titans. Conner desperately tries to defeat the villain, but Holocaust proves powerful enough to not only absorb almost all of Conner's attacks, but also injure the Kryptonian with his own. Conner and Bart are able to distract Holocaust long enough for the other Titans to escape, and eventually the combined might of the entire team is able to stop him. On the trip back to San Francisco, Conner asks Cassie if she is ignoring him, and she simply replies by saying that she is. Conner and Cassie briefly get back together, but Conner breaks up with her. Conner continues living in Smallville, in Smallville High School, Conner tells his friend Simon Valentine that if Superboy and Simon will be friends so Conner can't be seen with he. Conner avoids Lori Luthor, because her "family matters", later Conner its attacked by Parasite and Poison, their atacked wrecked the city, so Conner and Kid Flash decides to do a Superboy/Kid Flash Race to raise money to the city. Conner later goes to school and during a atacked of the Prime Hunters, Lori finds outs that Conner is Superboy.
Conner has matured a lot with the loss of Tana, having come to understand the consequence of his actions more fully, and the responsibility his powers bring. The fun-loving teen is still there, but the devil-may-care attitude is gone, the former Hero of Hawaii no longer so prone to displaying his power in the showoffy way he was once so known for.
Powers and AbilitiesEdit
- Kryptonian Physiology: Under the effects of a "yellow" sun, The average Kryptonian possesses the potential for the following power set:
- Solar Energy Absorption: Under optimal conditions, this is the main source of their super powers as they are contingent upon exposure to solar radiation from a yellow sun star system. Their biological make up includes a number of organs which lack analogues in humans and whose functions are unknown. It is believed that between one or more of these and their bio-cellular matrix, "yellow" solar energy is stored for later use. This allows for the use of these powers to fade when yellow solar radiation is not available instead of immediate failure.
- Heat Vision: Kryptonians can, as a conscious act, fire beams of intense heat at a target by looking at it. Typically, the power is seen as two beams of red light emanating from the eyes. These beams can be made invisible, allowing the power to be undetectable. The maximum temperature of their heat vision is said to be around that of a nuclear detonation. They can also consciously determine the area affected, down to the microscopic level.
- Super-Hearing: Kryptonian hearing is sensitive enough to hear any sound at any volume or pitch. With skill, practice, and concentration, they can block out ambient sounds to focus on a specific source or frequency. As such, they can identify a person by their heartbeat, or pick out a single voice in an entire city.
- Enhanced Vision Kryptonian vision processes the entire electromagnetic spectrum as well as allowing vast control over selective perception and focus.
This umbrella ability includes the following:
- Electromagnetic Spectrum Vision: Kryptonians can see well into most of the electromagnetic spectrum. They can see and identify radio and television signals as well as all other broadcast or transmitted frequencies. Using this ability, they can avoid detection by radar or satellite monitoring methods. This also allows them to see the aura generated by living thing.
- Telescopic Vision: This is the ability to see something at a great distance, without violating the laws of physics. Though limited, the exact extent of the ability is undetermined. In function, it is similar to the zoom lens on a camera.
- X-Ray Vision: This is the ability to see through any volume of matter except lead. Kryptonians can see things behind a solid, opaque object as if it were not there. They can focus this ability to "peel back" layers of an object, allowing hidden image or inner workings to be observed. The exact type of energy perceived - such as x-rays, cosmic rays, or some other energy invisible to normal humans - is unclear. this ability perceives an ambient energy source though, it does not involve the eye projecting a concentrated, possibly toxic, beam to be reflected back from objects.
- Microscopic Vision: This is the ability to see extremely small objects and images down to the atomic level.
- Infrared Vision: Kryptonians can see with better acuity in darkness, and to a degree in total darkness.
- Flight: Kryptonians are able to manipulate graviton particles, in an unknown and apparently unconscious manner, to defy the forces of gravity. Under one Earth gravity, they are capable of speeds of multi-Mach speeds in Earth's atmosphere. Their control of their flight is very precise and they can perform aerobatic feats such as hovering, flying backwards and even lifting great weights while flying.
- Invulnerability: The bodies of Kryptonians are nigh-invulnerable to extreme energy forces. In addition, their immune systems protects them from toxins and diseases. The most common explanations for this rely on the presences of a super-dense molecular structure, a supercharged bio-electric aura which acts as an invisible force field, or a combination of the two. With the aura, it is presumed to extend a few millimeters from the skin as well as within the body. A byproduct of the aura is that items close to the skin share their invulnerability. Using clothing as an example, loose fitting fabric would tend to shred or burn in adverse conditions, but skin tight outfits would not.
- Superhuman Stamina: Kryptonians have the ability to maintain continuous strenuous physical action for an indefinite period of time. In theory they have unlimited stamina as their enhanced nourishment is produced from the yellow solar energy their cells process, which also provides the majority of the power for their superhuman abilities. However, their base physical structures do need to process food stuffs and they have a psychological need to eat and drink just as Earth humans do. They also require sleep on occasion so that they can dream. They can also hold their breath for an indefinite period of time.
- Superhuman Strength: A Kryptonian develops enhanced physical strength after absorbing a sufficient amount of yellow solar radiation. This radiation interacts with the greater than human density, resilience and biological efficiency of their musculature to trigger superhuman levels. While the exact magnitude of their strength is unknown, it is generally accepted that it is sufficient to lift 100,000 tons or more. The specific range is unknown as a their strength, like their other powers, may fluctuate over time. Their strength is also more an act of conscious will on energy fields than actual physical strength. It is this act of conscious will that enables them to perform physical feats that are beyond the mere application force, such as moving a mountain top without said rock crumbling under its own mass. At full power, their normal strength levels are well into the multi-megaton range.
- Superhuman Speed: Kryptonians are able to move at incredible speeds by sheer force of will. They can match most other speedsters in super-fast movements, reactions, and processes. They can use this power to disarm opponents without heightened reflexes, catch bullets or shrapnel or cross vast distances in seconds.
This also confers:
- Super-Breath: Kryptonians are able to create hurricane force winds by exhaling air from their lungs. They can chill the air as it leaves their lungs to freeze targets in a variation sometimes called "freeze" or "arctic breath". They can also reverse the process and pull large volumes of air or vapor into their lungs.
- Vulnerability to Kryptonite
- Vulnerability to Magic
- Tactile Telekinesis: At first, Superboy's only superpower was "tactile telekinesis", a telekinetic force field that surrounds his body as a protective shield and allows him to simulate Superman-level speed, strength, flight and invulnerability. The tactile TK field also lets Superboy break free of an opponent's grip by pushing the field outward to force the opponent away. Other creative uses include rendering an opponent immobile by extending the TK field as long as they are both standing on the same ground.
- Telekinetic Superhuman Strength: His full strength is undetermined at this time. He, like Superman seems to be able to lift almost anything he can conceive of. To date, he has lifted the world's largest yacht using his telekinetic strength (a feat of at least 500 tons); he has even been shown to throw a football at Mach 5. Objects lifted with his telekinetic strength do not crumble under their own weight or internal stresses. As his willpower and concentration improve, so will his super strength increase. This does not truly count as super strength in the traditional sense, since Superboy has been bound with chains that were surrounded by an energy field and he was unable to escape because he could not directly affect the chains with his power. It has been stated he is able to lift a battleship which can weigh from 58,000 tons and up.
- Telekinetic Flight: Superboy is able to fly at high supersonic speeds using a reflexive action of his telekinesis, literally dragging himself through the sky. His concentration is required to maintain great speeds. However, as with his strength, his speed was also developing naturally, Superboy is capable of roughly reaching speeds of Mach 5 (1 mile per second) but the limit of his speed currently is unknown.
- Telekinetic Force-Field: By creating a field around his body, he is able to resist or reduce injury from non-energy based attacks by causing the object to be deflected from his personal force field. Bullets and shrapnel are easily deflected. This field does not repel gases or energy based attacks as well, though his skill in deflecting energy attacks is improving.
- Tactile Telekinetic Disassemble: By touching an object, Superboy may cause that object to literally fall to pieces. It can be assumed that he could conceivably put an object back together, if he understood how the object functioned in the first place. He can also manipulate aggregate solid masses such as volumes of sand or dust in the same way, causing the individual particles to fly apart in an explosive manner to create particle clouds or a forceful attack. Superboy's hands glow blue when he does this.
- Telekinetic Force Blasts: Superboy also learned that he could project burst of raw psionic energy bolts from Knockout as well. He mostly projects the energy from his hands but it is assumed that he could project them from anywhere since his Tactile TK field permeates from his entire body. The blasts he emits have concussive force equivalent to 5,000 pounds of TNT, but it is speculated that as he grows older this force amount could grow and change along with him.
- Telekinetic Super Hearing: Superboy's TK allows him to hear sounds from far away shown when he was able to hear through glass when he was far away.
- Vulnerability to Red Sun Radiation: The damage from the Red Sun seems to be less effective on him than the full Kryptonians.
- Yellow Sun Processing: Because Superboy absorbed less solar energy than Superman as an adult, Superboy is unable to process as much yellow sun energy as Superman can; as a result, overtaxing his powers could spell his death, as his body would literally begin to feed on itself, unable to absorb solar energy fast enough to restore itself.
- Visor: (formerly) Superboy briefly had a visor, given to him by Emil Hamilton, that allowed him to simulate Superman's vision powers. He lost the visor and it was recovered by the Technician. When he got it back, Superboy destroyed it, rationalizing that he would probably lose it again somehow and then it would put others at risk.
- In several different possible futures including Titans Tomorrow, Conner survives to become an adult Superman himself, or is recreated despite having being killed by Superboy-Prime. Therefore, it is possible that another complete duplicate of Conner may be made in the primary reality of New Earth at some later time.
- Originally, Superboy had no name besides "Superboy". Later, Superman gave him the Kryptonian name "Kon-El", to show that he considered him family. Most recently, he has adopted the secret identity of "Conner Kent", posing as a younger cousin of Clark.
- Conner is in love and in a relationship with Wonder Girl.
- Conner is best friends with Red Robin and Kid Flash II.
- Conner and Supergirl (Kara Zor-El) have a close friendship and relationship and Kara even considers Conner her "cousin" just as much as Kal-El.
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- ↑ Adventures of Superman #500, Superboy #0
- ↑ Adventures of Superman #501
- ↑ Superman: Man of Steel #23
- ↑ Adventures of Superman #502
- ↑ Action Comics #689
- ↑ Adventures of Superman #503
- ↑ Action Comics #690
- ↑ Superman: Man of Steel #25
- ↑ Adventures of Superman #504
- ↑ Superman (Volume 2) #82
- ↑ Adventures of Superman #505
- ↑ Adventures of Superman #506
- ↑ Superboy (Volume 4) #1
- ↑ Superboy (Volume 4) #2-3
- ↑ Superboy (Volume 4) #4-5
- ↑ Adventures of Superman #513
- ↑ Action Comics #700
- ↑ Superman: Man of Steel #35
- ↑ Superboy (Volume 4) #6-7
- ↑ Superboy (Volume 4) #8
- ↑ Superboy Annual #2
- ↑ Superboy (Volume 4) #9-11
- ↑ Aquaman (Volume 5) #3
- ↑ Superboy (Volume 4) #0
- ↑ Superboy (Volume 4) #12
- ↑ Superboy (Volume 4) #13-15
- ↑ Superboy (Volume 4) #12, 16
- ↑ SSuperboy (Volume 4) #17
- ↑ Superboy (Volume 4) #18-19
- ↑ Superboy (Volume 4) #20
- ↑ Superman #107-108, Man of Steel #51-52, Adventures of Superman #529, 531
- ↑ Superboy #21, Legion of Superheroes #74, Legionnaires #31
- ↑ Superboy (Volume 4) #22-24
- ↑ Superboy (Volume 4) #25-30
- ↑ Superboy and the Ravers #1
- ↑ Superboy (Volume 4) #32-33
- ↑ Superboy (Volume 4) #34-35
- ↑ Superboy (Volume 4) #36
- ↑ Superboy (Volume 4) #38-41
- ↑ Superboy (Volume 4) #42-44
- ↑ Superboy (Volume 4) #45-46
- ↑ Steel (Volume 2) #46
- ↑ Green Lantern #97, Superboy #47
- ↑ Superboy (Volume 4) #48-49
- ↑ Superboy (Volume 4) #50-53
- ↑ Superboy (Volume 4) #54-56
- ↑ Young Justice #1
- ↑ Superboy (Volume 4) #57-58
- ↑ Superboy (Volume 4) #59
- ↑ Superboy (Volume 4) #60-64
- ↑ Superboy (Volume 4) #66-67
- ↑ Superboy (Volume 4) #68
- ↑ Superman (Volume 2) #155
- ↑ Superboy (Volume 4) #69
- ↑ Superboy (Volume 4) #70
- ↑ Superboy (Volume 4) #70-73
- ↑ Young Justice #17
- ↑ Young Justice: Sins of Youth #1
- ↑ Superboy (Volume 4) #74
- ↑ Sins of Youth: Superman, Jr. and Superboy, Sr. #1
- ↑ Young Justice: Sins of Youth #2
- ↑ Superboy (Volume 4) #75
- ↑ Superboy (Volume 4) #76-79
- ↑ Superboy (Volume 4) #80-81
- ↑ Superboy (Volume 4) #82
- ↑ Superboy (Volume 4) #83
- ↑ Superboy (Volume 4) #84
- ↑ Superboy (Volume 4) #85-86
- ↑ Superboy (Volume 4) #87-88
- ↑ Action Comics #779
- ↑ Superboy (Volume 4) #89
- ↑ Superboy (Volume 4) #90
- ↑ Young Justice #35-37, Young Justice: Our Worlds At War #1, Superboy #91-92
- ↑ Superboy (Volume 4) #94-95
- ↑ Superboy (Volume 4) #96-97
- ↑ Infinite Crisis #4
- ↑ Infinite Crisis #6
- ↑ Final Crisis: Legion of 3 Worlds #4
- ↑ Adventure Comics (vol. 2) #1 (August 2009)
- ↑ Adventure Comics (vol. 2) #2 (September 2009)
- ↑ Adventure Comics (vol. 2) #0 (February 2009)
- ↑ Blackest Night #1 (July 2009)
- ↑ Blackest Night: Superman #1 (August 2009)
- ↑ Blackest Night: Superman #2 (September 2009)
- ↑ Superman #694
- ↑ Superman #714
- ↑ Teen Titans (Volume 3) #2
- ↑ Teen Titans (Volume 3) #1
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PORTLAND, Maine A glut has driven down lobster prices in Maine - bringing cheer to lobster-loving consumers at the start of the state's tourist season but gloom among lobstermen.
Retailers have been selling small soft-shell lobsters in the Portland area for an unusually low $3.79 to $4.99 a pound. At those prices, lobsters have been selling for less than the per-pound price of bologna at many supermarket deli counters.
Zain Nemazie, of Austin, Texas, was expecting low lobster prices - but not this low - while on vacation in Maine with his family.
"This is as good as it gets," Nemazie said late last week after paying $4.59 a pound for large 1 1/2-pound lobsters at a seafood shop on Portland's waterfront. "We're from Texas, where we'd be paying at least $12 a pound."
At Docks Seafood in South Portland, owner Bob Coppersmith said customers were eating up the low prices, including a deal where he was selling five small live lobsters for $25. He later dropped it to five for $24.
"One gentleman came in and said, So I get five lobsters for $25. What's the catch?" Coppersmith said. "I said there's no catch. He said, `You're going to put five lobsters in a bag and not weigh them and give me them to me for 25 bucks?' He just couldn't believe it."
The Fourth of July represents the unofficial start to Maine's tourist season, when out-of-state visitors begin arriving in earnest.
Typically, Independence Day also is when Maine's lobster catch begins picking up as lobsters begin shedding their hard shells in favor of new soft shells. Soft-shell lobsters have less meat than hard-shell ones, but they are easier to crack open - it can be done by hand, no claw cracker needed - and sell for a lower price.
This year, though, soft-shell lobsters began showing up in abundance in fishermen's traps weeks earlier than normal.
Most of those lobsters usually go to Canadian processors. But the processors haven't been able to handle the Maine catch because Canadian lobstermen had such strong catches during their spring season, resulting in a backlog, said Neal Workman, head of The Fisheries Exchange, a Biddeford company that tracks prices, catches and other market information for the lobster industry.
Supply right now far exceeds demand, resulting in a "perfect storm" for the industry, he said.
"Things are plugged up," Workman said.
Virtually all soft-shell lobsters are sold to processors or on the local market, because they're too fragile to ship long distances. The lobsters sold at retailers outside of New England are most often hard-shell lobsters, which command a premium price and are hardy enough to be shipped long distances.
For now, the excess supply in Maine has driven retail prices to under $4 a pound for the smallest of the soft-shell lobsters. Larger lobsters, and those that still have hard shells, are more expensive.
While consumers may be smiling, lobstermen are smarting because of the low prices - between $2.50 and $3 a pound - they're getting for their catches.
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Wawa Proposed for Former Bally’s Site
Bruce Goodman, owner of Goodman Properties, presented conceptual designs of a Wawa with a gas station to replace the large downtown Willow Grove-area property.
Right now, the former Bally’s site and its imposing building in downtown Willow Grove, sits empty - save for a couple of construction vehicles.
Bruce Goodman, owner of Goodman Properties, presented to the July 9 Community Development Committee a concept as to what that property could be.
“We’re proposing to demolish the building, and construct two buildings there,” Goodman told the committee.
In replace of the Bally’s building, Goodman suggested constructing a Wawa with a gas station and a bank with drive-thru service.
The Wawa would be a 6,200 square-foot building, with six gas stations and 12 dispensers, while the bank building would be 4,500 square-feet, with three drive-thru windows.
Parking for the bank would consist of 24 spaces, and 50 spaces for Wawa.
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Goodman Properties owns sites in several counties in Pennsylvania and other states. Those in Upper Moreland include Willow Grove Pointe and Regency Square.
According to Goodman, he has been a developer in the area for over 30 years. He is also involved with several philanthropic activities, such as being the premier sponsor of the Willow Grove 300 last year.
According to Goodman, his company is in the process of acquiring the Bally’s property, which is located along Old York Road, where Old York and Easton roads diverge. The property is also continuous to the road leading into Veterans Memorial Park.
In a slideshow, Goodman presented the preliminary concepts for the 3.1 acre- 36,000-square-foot property, focusing on the multiple entrances by both vehicles and pedestrians.
“We’ve done a lot of work on this plan with access,” Goodman said.
He explained that the concept would allow multiple access and exit points to Wawa and the bank, along Old York Road.
He also showed how a bridge over the Veterans Memorial Park stream would connect to Veterans Memorial Drive, providing another access point to the park. This particular access point, Goodman said, would likely attract park patrons and Willow Grove Train Station users.
The Wawa façade itself would likely be a “next-generation prototype,” meaning it would have a modern look, which Goodman said would match the entrance to Veterans Memorial Drive.
“I think we can do a great job with the streetscape,” Goodman said. “And, do a great job with this development.”
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Good Fit for the Town Center District?
Ward 2 commissioner, Kevin Spearing, who sits on the committee, was the first to comment. He questioned the ease of pedestrian access, observing that the preliminary concept sketches have the gas pumps pointing toward Old York Road.
Spearing asked if the gas pumps could be placed in the back, with the convenience store portion closer to the Old York Road sidewalk.
“If it’s going to fit here, it has to be pedestrian friendly,” Spearing said, noting the township’s town center zoning.
Goodman responded that since it is a preliminary concept, many potential considerations will have to be addressed. To Spearing’s concern, Goodman suggested that a cross walk, heading diagonal nearby the Veterans Memorial Park entrance on Old York Road to the store portion, might be possible. However, changing the location of the gas pumps would be against Wawa’s planning directives.
Goodman also suggested that Wawa may not be particularly focused on walkability.
“This location will work for them [Wawa], because of traffic,” Goodman said, duing the presentation. “Not pedestrian traffic, but because of vehicular traffic.”
Kip McFatridge, Ward 5 commissioner, who also sits on the committee, said he liked the idea of building a bridge to Veterans Memorial Park, creating an access way for pedestrians, and promoting the park itself.
While McFatridge later commented that Wawa might not be “the greatest thing” for a town center, he also thanked Goodman for the presentation, as there are no other developers coming forward with ideas for the property at this time.
“Yes, there are lots of things to work out,” McFatridge said. “My opinion, it’s going to take a high-revenue store to make up for the property there.”
Ward 3 commissioner Donna Parsell said she would like to see unanimous commissioner support for the project. She said that having a Wawa would particularly mean employment opportunities for Upper Moreland residents.
Ward 6 commissioner Sam Valenza, also expressed positive feedback for the concept.
Chairperson of the committee, Joe Lavalle, Ward 4 commissioner, said that Wawa would not be the “first choice” for the downtown Willow Grove area. However, he did say he was intrigued how the design could help improve streetscape and traffic congestion, and considered it a potential development for the downtown area.
“This could be potentially the first step in making that happen,” Lavalle said.
Ward 1 commissioner Lisa Romaniello had a similar opinion, agreeing that such projects could correct what she called, “inefficient traffic patterns.” However, she directed concerns toward Wawa as being part of downtown Willow Grove.
“I just think that this location is a prominent location,” Romaniello said. “It is a Town Center location.”
She also expressed concern over potential environmental hazards for the Veterans Memorial Park stream, with a gas station in close proximity.
When asked for his opinion, newly appointed Ward 7 commissioner Don Warner also expressed reservations on the use of such prominent Town-Center zoned real estate. He also focused his thoughts on the proposed bank, suggesting that it could be made into smaller town homes for young professionals catching the train into Philadelphia.
Several members of the public also weighed in opinions about having Wawa downtown, most of who were on the fence.
While one comment suggested that Wawa would actually increase traffic congestion, another said if Wawa couldn’t find what it was looking for in Upper Moreland, then it would simply go across the street into Abington.
Another comment seemed to get to the heart of the evening's initial reactions.
“Am I enamored by the Wawa concept? No,” Jonathan de Jonge, a highly involved Upper Moreland resident, told the committee. “But, I think this should be the beginning of an interesting conversation.”
During his presentation, Goodman explained that he wanted to get a “temperature” reading about the project from the committee. He said that the feedback was helpful.
“I thought it was positive and very encouraging,” Goodman told Patch immediately after the discussion. “We will proceed with the project, and I will work with the commissioners in addressing the issues they said.”
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A Basic Guide to Bath Towels
Whether you use yours for drying off or simply as decoration, here's everything you need to know about this perennial bathroom staple.
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Bath towels may be the hardest working members of your household. After all, we expect our towels and washcloths to keep us clean, dry us off, add to the look of our bathroom and, occasionally, wipe up after Fluffy tracks mud into the house. However, despite their versatility, towels are often underappreciated, with many people putting little thought into which type of towel they buy and bring home. But with a little knowledge, your towels will look, last and perform better in their many roles.
All towels have a fabric weight, measured with a GSM (grams per square meter) number. This refers to the density of the fabric used to make that particular towel. Lower GSM towels are lighter and thinner, making them a great choice for a gym bag or trips to the beach. You'll likely want to save your heavier, thicker, higher GSM towels for use in the master or guest bathroom.
Most towels are made of cotton, but the look and feel of towels largely depends on what type of cotton is used. Towels designed and priced for everyday use are made of standard cotton, while Egyptian cotton is considered the crème de la crème of towel fabrics. These more expensive towels have longer, more-fibrous threads, meaning that each towel will have more moisture-sucking loops per inch. The ultra-soft, super-fluffy bath towels found in high-end spas and hotels are typically Egyptian cotton or increasingly, the American-grown version, called pima cotton, which offers a similarly luxurious look and feel.
But buyer beware, warns interior designer Carla Sanclemente of Sanclemente Designs in Hartford, Conn. Some manufacturers sell towels advertised as "made with" Egyptian or pima cotton, when in fact the fabric may have other materials in its makeup.
"Sometimes, 'luxury' bath towels actually have synthetics in them, to give a shinier look," Carla says. "And this restricts absorbency."
When shopping for better towels, be sure to check the labels and look for fabric of 100 percent Egyptian cotton, or for the Supima trademark,which guarantees a towel is made of 100 percent American pima cotton.
Other types of fabric are also starting to find their way into today's bath towels, including Modal, made of cellulose from beech trees. Its fans claim that it's about 50 percent more absorbent than even cotton alone, and that it won't fade over time, making it an excellent choice for bath towels.
Eco-conscious buyers can look for organic cotton towels or towels made from bamboo, which have a looser, velvety-soft texture compared to cotton towels. Bamboo, along with the newer hemp towels, has natural mildew-resistant qualities.
Unlike towels made from these natural products, microfiber towels are made of engineered fibers. They are lighter and thinner than cotton towels, with a suedelike texture and excellent absorbency. These specialty towels are popular for wringing water from wet hair without being too heavy.
Because towels offer a relatively painless and inexpensive way to complement or change the look of your bathroom, decorators say they're a great way to have fun with design. Rather than trying to precisely match your towels to your wallpaper or paint, use them instead to draw out or accentuate the look you want.
"Towels are accessories, so why not use them to shake up the look of your loo?" says Jason Oliver-Nixon, creative director of NYC-based design firm John Loecke Inc. "I use towels just as I use the accessories in my wardrobe. They give some sizzle and style to an area of the house that's often overlooked."
Designer Judith Wilson of Los Angeles agrees. "Towels are like the jewelry for a bathroom," she explains. "They are design accents, much like throw pillows in the living room."
No matter what the bathroom backdrop, an abundance of bright, colorful towels placed around the room provides stylish punch.
"I have four different colors of towels on the shelves in my bathroom, and the colors give the room a focal point," says Jason, who adds that he often changes his bath towels to reflect a new season or even a different mood.
For a more classic look, nothing says total luxury like a bathroom fully stocked with freshly laundered, fluffy white towels. It's a timelessly posh look that never goes out of style. London designer Nina Campbell (www.ninacampbell.com) suggests monogramming even less-expensive white towels for instant elegance.
Bath towels of all types will look fresher and last longer if they are cared for properly. Manufacturers often coat new towels in a special fabric softener, which means the towels look extra fluffy and soft on the shelf, but don't absorb water well when you first bring them home. For this reason, it's best to wash your new towels before first use.
"For the very first wash, add a cup of vinegar to the wash cycle," suggests Judith Wilson. "This will help to set the color and prevent fading, especially of deep tones."
While a tumble in the dryer assures a fluffy towel, you don't want to overdo it, says Nina Campbell.
"The heat from the dryer can really damage fibers," she says. "Try using a lower-heat setting, or alternate between air and heat drying."
Dark and brightly colored towels should be washed separately. For your special, more expensive towels, using Woolite or another gentle-care detergent will keep them at their fluffy best longer.
The Don't Sweat It crew take out a closet in order to remodel a bathroom, expanding it from half to full.
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I recently made a bracket for mounting a TV onto a custom pipe mount that I built.
I was advised at my local hardware store to use a carriage bolt here for the following reasons:
- These counter-sunk holes will be flush against the back of the monitor, so there'll be no way for me to make sure that the bolt doesn't twist when I tighten the nut on it.
- By hammering in a carriage bolt, it will "grab" the edges of the hole and prevent it from twisting.
For anyone who, like me, previously did not know what a carriage bolt is:
(The square block at the top, when hammered into the material you're using, will grab and secure the bolt, supposedly.)
Unfortunately, this setup isn't working the best for me. I have lock-nuts, which are extremely difficult to get onto the bolts. When I try doing it with my drill, it actually strips the backside here and the bolt spins freely.
My main question is this: is there a type of carriage bolt that has some kind of phillip's, flathead, or allen wrench socket on the back to initially setup the tension? My plan for now is to do something with two nuts like this:
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I'm thinking that this will secure it really well, but I'll need to provide reverse tension while installing the first lock-nut. Any ideas?
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Ali Soufan, the former FBI interrogator and outspoken critic of the use of torture, is interviewed at the New Yorker and responds to the recent claims of Jose Rodriguez, the former CIA official who has written a book claiming that torture was crucial in the fight against Al Qaeda.
The claims he’s recently been making about the success of the harsh techniques are the same false claims that have appeared in now declassified C.I.A. memos, and which have been thoroughly discredited by the likes of the Department of Justice, the Senate Intelligence Committee, and the C.I.A.’s Inspector General…
In this area it’s not a question of memory but of factual record. There are now thousands of pages of declassified memos and reports that thoroughly rebut what Mr. Rodriguez and others are now claiming. For example, one of the successes of the E.I.T.s claimed in the now declassified memos is that after the program began in August, 2002, Abu Zubaydah provided intelligence that prevented José Padilla from detonating a dirty bomb on U.S. soil, and identified Khalid Sheikh Mohammed as the mastermind of the September 11, 2001, attacks. Mr. Rodriguez has been repeating this claims.
The reality is that both of those pieces of intelligence were gained by my partner and me, with C.I.A. colleagues, in early April, 2002—months before the August, 2002, start of the E.I.T. program. But in the memos they were able to promote false facts, even altering dates, to make their claims work. In the so-called C.I.A. Effectiveness Memo, for example, it states that Mr. Padilla was arrested in May, 2003. In reality, he was arrested in May, 2002. But saying 2003 fits with the waterboarding narrative. When the Department of Justice asked Steven Bradbury, acting head of the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel and the author of the 2005 O.L.C. memo to reinstate E.I.T.s, why he didn’t check the facts, he replied, “It’s not my role, really, to do a factual investigation of that.” …
The claim about waterboarding leading to unmasking of K.S.M. as the mastermind of the September 11, 2001, attacks is similarly false. We got that information in April, 2002, before the contractors hired by the C.I.A. Counterterrorism Center even arrived at the site. One by one, the successes claimed by E.I.T. proponents have been shown to be false.
I went before the Senate Judiciary Committee and under oath recounted what happened. And, as I note in “The Black Banners,” I sent daily reports from the secret interrogation location, to Washington, recording what happened, which the U.S. Government has in its possession. After I left the location in 2002, I wondered if they got anything of value. Until 2005, I was still in the government, and I know that nothing of value from E.I.T.s reached us. I thought perhaps the information was only shared with others. But with the declassification of previously secret memos, it became clear that every example given of claimed successes was factually incorrect—and I know this from firsthand experience of how those pieces of intelligence were really gained. It’s because of all this that I spoke out in 2009 to correct the false claims the American people were being told.
He also points out that Rodriguez has changed his story about why he destroyed 92 tapes of interrogations, in violation of a direct order. He told one story in private and now tells another in public:
On “60 Minutes,” Jose said he destroyed the evidence of the interrogations “to protect the people” who worked for him, from Al Qaeda going “after them and their families.” But that’s not the reason Mr. Rodriguez gave at the time, and it’s a shame he wasn’t challenged on it.
One declassified C.I.A. e-mail, dated November 10, 2005, and written by the deputy to Kyle (Dusty) Foggo, then executive director of the C.I.A., notes that Rodriguez thought that “if the tapes ever got into [the] public domain… they would make us look terrible.” It was about their reputation, not safety.
That’s part of a larger pattern under both Bush and Obama to prevent the release of information that shows how our government tortured people, even to the point of threatening the British government over it.
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The UK has had a top AAA credit rating since 1978, but following expectations that growth will remain ‘sluggish over the next few years’, Moody’s cut the UK from its highest rating - AAA - and placed it under Aa1. The ratings agency noted that the government’s debt reduction programme faced ‘significant’ challenges.
No other ratings agency has yet followed New York agency Moody’s in downgrading the UK.
Chancellor George Osborne insisted that the Government is continuing to deliver on its commitment to tackle the debt problem, and would not change course in light on the downgrade. But shadow chancellor Ed Balls called it a ‘humiliating blow’, claiming the government was ‘ploughing on’ with a plan that was not working.
With plan A now completely in tatters the Chancellor has an opportunity to change course next month and start prioritising growth and jobs over pleasing ratings agencies.
George Osborne rejected suggestions that his plan for UK recovery was failing. He said in an interview at 11 Downing Street that the message ‘was clear’ and ‘Britain cannot let up in making sure that Britain can pay its way in the world.’
He said: “What is the message from the ratings agency? Britain's got a debt problem. I agree with that. I've been telling the country for years that we've got a debt problem, we've got to deal with it.
"What do they also say? That if we abandon our commitment to deal with that debt problem, then our situation would get very much worse and I'm absolutely clear that we must not do that."
TUC general secretary Frances O'Grady also said that this is a ‘humiliating blow’ for the Chancellor as he has so far built his reputation on the UK's triple A credit rating.
He said: “The fact that economic stagnation, rather than current borrowing levels, has caused this downgrade proves that demand-sapping austerity is ultimately self-defeating.
"With plan A now completely in tatters the Chancellor has an opportunity to change course next month and start prioritising growth and jobs over pleasing ratings agencies."
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I have read your articles about the apostolic succession, and I think that I have grasped your argument. Paul ordained Timothy and Titus by the laying on of hands, something was transmitted to them by the imposition of hands, and we have no other biblical model for ordination, so we must stick to it. The early church did it this way, and this way the Apostolic Succession (AS) has been transmitted to the present day.
1. The Ordinal makes the Bishop say that the Holy Spirit is transmitted to the priest by the imposition of his hands, and that he thereby receives authority to forgive or retain sins. My difficulty is that I do not see that this necessarily results in the conclusion that AS is in the Book of Common Prayer (BCP).
2.So the Bishop ordains, and in so doing the transmits the Holy Spirit for a particular purpose. How do we conclude that it must always be a bishop in the line of AS? Is it not also reasonable to think that this happens in any ordination, such as the Presbyterians practice? I am thinking of continental like a Laski (?) who came to England with Presbyterian orders and were received into English orders without re-ordination. I have in mind the letters between Cranmer and Calvin, in which the necessity of episcopal ordination for the purpose of transmitting the AS is not mentioned. Surely something so necessary for a valid sacrament, which sacrament is generally necessary for salvation, would be boldly and plainly stated, instead of being inferred? Why is the AS not mentioned in the articles?
Please believe that I am not trying to change your mind, or to have an argument, but to rightly understand this issue.
(Before getting into the meat of the answers, let me say this: About Laski: The fact is, if any man who had never been episodically ordained was allowed to minister as if he had been, the bishop who knew this would have been in violation of the Law, and both men in danger of imprisonment. The official records of the Church of England simply do not bear out the Laski story; and, on the other hand, the records of English Law are indisputable. As for Cranmer's letters to Calvin, they were intended for an ecumenical purpose, and the practices of the Church of England were well-known, making any difference fairly obvious and perhaps not worth discussing in that context. One generation later, however, answering domestic matters, Hooker had much to say against "Calvin's Geneva Discipline" when defending the unbroken practice of the English Church.)
It is evident that only disputed matters get enough attention to receive clarification. The answer to why the BCP, including as it does the Articles and Ordinal, does not explicitly speak of Apostolic Succession in the clearest of terms is covered by answering your other question at the same time, namely: "Is it not also reasonable to think that this happens in any ordination, such as the Presbyterians practice?" For, neither the Calvinists nor the Lutherans have ever rejected Apostolic Succession to this day. True many of them do not know this fact; but, it is known to their more astute theologians.
What the Presbyterians and Puritans in England rejected was the episcopate. They believed that the Apostolic Succession was passed on well enough through their presbyters. They would emphasize I Tim. 4:14: "Neglect not the gift that is in thee, which was given thee by prophecy, with the laying on of the hands of the presbytery." Our side has always replied that this verse does not stand alone, and must be read along with II Tim. 1:6: "Wherefore I put thee in remembrance that thou stir up the gift of God, which is in thee by the putting on of my hands." So, the Apostolic hands of Paul were essential somehow, since the gift came by his hands. The hands of the presbytery seem not have the same efficacy, as what happened was merely with their laying on of hands, not by it. Therefore, we believe that we must make sure that what is passed on is truly Apostolic and not merely ecclesiastical, and why this requires bishops will be clear in what follows. Moreover, II Tim. 1:6 speaks in expressly charismatic terms, not merely institutional terms; what we see in scriptural references to ordination bears witness to supernatural grace, not merely a formal procedure of licensing ministry.
It is evident from the Epistles to Titus and to Timothy that each of these men was placed in the position of what we call these days the Ordinary-they ordained. They needed to exercise sound judgment concerning who they should ordain, and who not to ordain. Clearly, their authority was greater than that of the Presbytery. It is evident that they were left in Crete and in Ephesus respectively in place of the Apostle himself. Whether or not the word ἐπίσκοπος (episkopos, bishop) was synonymous with the word πρεσβύτερος (presbyteros, elder) in the usage of the Church, at the time of Paul's writing, within one generation the word episkopos (bishop) was set apart to refer only to those men like Titus and Timothy who succeeded the Apostles (most evident in the Epistles of St. Ignatius of Antioch, who knew Paul, Peter and John). And, as noted, this succession, drawing from what we read in scripture is not only authoritative but charismatic. Furthermore, our reading of scripture also happens to coincide with the only practice of the ancient Church for which we have evidence. Non-episcopal ordination simply has no historic witness. The closest we come is mention of laying on of hands with the presbytery in Alexandria; but, on examination it is evident that, there too, this was not without the laying on of a bishop's hands as well.
I hope this answers your questions.
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Siemens Stiftung, a lead partner of the World Urban Campaign, has announced the jury members for its newly established "empowering people. Award"
The empowering people. Award. recognises innovative solutions from around the globe © Siemens Stiftung
Established in 2008, the foundation designs and implements local and international projects with the aim of promoting individual responsibility and self-initiative, particularly in Africa, Latin America, and Germany/ Europe.
"empowering people. Award." is a worldwide competition to identify low technological solutions or products for basic supply problems in developing countries. Individuals, teams, and organizations or enterprises fulfilling certain criteria can compete, and contenders must develop innovations that present appropriate technical solutions for development activities using the resources at hand in the regions.
The competition aims to both implement winning solutions and to showcase the innovations in a prominent central database after the competition has closed. Additionally, the award platform serves as an ideal opportunity for the entrants involved to network and further evolve existing products and solutions.
The newly announced jury is made up of independent and renowned individuals from fields such as technology, politics and developmental work, including Mr. Andre Dzikus, Coordinator of the Urban Basic Services Branch, who will represent UN-Habitat.
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Now in its ninth season, The Source is a nationwide effort, with classes set to take place in 37 cities across the country starting at the end of August.
Honeywell credits The Source’s long run and great amount of exposure to a unique curriculum and hands-on experience.
Retired training manager and current training consultant Jim Cole developed the program. “It started out with the objective to improve control and troubleshooting skills of techs,” Cole said.
The first seminar took place in Minneapolis, MN, but instructors soon found out that only a small number of people could afford to make the trip. With this in mind, Cole decided to take his class on the road. Along with several other instructors, he decided to outfit a 26-ft single unit truck with 18 boilers and heaters, as well as two-dozen tabletop lab trainers and an array of audio-visual equipment.
Cole explains that the classes are 50% theory and 50% hands-on. The one-day class begins in the morning with lecture, and includes audio-visual equipment and PowerPoint presentations to help students focus on theory.
Classes average 45 students with a maximum of 60 students. Instructors make use of wireless microphones to better include students in the lecture.
“We want to have a dialogue, not a monologue,” said Bill Ribble, 35-year Honeywell employee and current instructor for The Source.
Next, students are invited to test their troubleshooting skills by working on a number of problems with boilers and heaters. The Source provides enough equipment to allow two students to each piece.
Besides offering one of the only touring training seminars with hands-on equipment, Cole attributes the success of The Source to its experienced instructors.
“We’re all retired Honeywell guys,” Cole said about the instructors. “We have senior salespeople with tech background, some engineers, and some who invented products for Honeywell.”
“What makes the program work is that the teachers are all seniors. They grew up with hvac,” Ribble said.
Ribble also points out that the instructors begin each course at ground zero to ensure that everyone receives the same training.
Tuition for The Source is $180. This includes lunch, training notes, and reference materials.
To register or to find a complete list of dates and locations for The Source, visit http://www.thesource2000.net. For further information, call 800-345-6770 ext. 7184.
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On November 21st, 2006, an overflow crowd of over five hundred gathered at the Centre Pompidou in Paris to honor Arman and to remember him with warmth and humor as a great artist, humanitarian, friend, father and husband. Madame Claude Pompidou, former First Lady of France, accompanied Corice Arman, Arman's widow, and together they led a group of dignitaries into the hall, including Catherine Grenier and Olivier Kaeppelin from the Ministry of Culture, Bruno Racine, the president of the Centre, and Alfred Pacquement, the director of the Musée national d'Art moderne.
The evening of spoken tributes, live music, and poetry readings featured a series of distinguished speakers who paid homage to Arman's daring in life and art. Among the guest speakers were the novelist Umberto Eco, art dealer Pierre Nahon and writer Jeffrey Robinson. A letter sent by French President Jacques Chirac praised Arman for “...his emblematic work in our era, his universal spirit, his authenticity, his exceptional generosity…”
As beautiful and moving as were the spoken tributes, poems and music, the final words of the Memorial were fittingly left to Arman. As the program came to an end, there once again was Arman, filling the screen, beaming with joy and vitality as he looked on one of his pieces in his New York studio.
“I'm still a child,” he told an interviewer at one point in the film. “I'm so happy to do what I love to do in my own time, in my own place.”
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Early mornings no longer bother me. I rarely eat breakfast but since I got up so early I decided to head to the café and grabs some food.
We learned that duos would be performing skits of the Chinese sentences we learned, I was with Connie, a really funny rising senior who has awesome work ethic. We practiced nonstop in class and even continued in the hallway during our break. It was then when I also met some African students from Uganda who were also studying Chinese at Minda University. I asked him where I would be able to get a haircut, seeing as it was almost time for me to get one. He struggled to explain where he got his, until I figured out that he cut his own hair. Today’s lecture was on Mao and the People’s revolution. I’ve been considering doing my final report on this topic ever since getting here when I noticed that this man had some sort of impact on this country—so much so that his face would be the equivalent to seeing the golden arches back in the states; excessive. Coming to China with no previous knowledge of Chinese history, this lecture was the thing I needed to catch up with the last sixty years of this country’s history. The lecture point out key information including, how and why the communist revolution occurred, Mao Zedong’s objectives, his success in military leadership and his future failures in the Great Leap Forward and Cultural Revolution. We also touched on the post-Mao period in which China experienced both economic and cultural changes with the reformation of the economy and the later Tiananmen Square crisis. This was information I previously read about in the coursepack, however I feel like hearing someone speak about it, I grasped more of it. My next step in understanding was finding out more about Mao; a man admired and detested at the same time, most likely a very complex, if not complicated individual.
As soon as we got out of class today we headed to Mao’s Mausoleum. It’s in the middle of Tiananmen Square so I expected to be hot and irritated by the people. That was an understatement. We took public transportation to the square, which is always cool—while taxis are amazing (especially at such a low price) it’s really awesome to get out and do it like the locals, no matter how hot and crowded it is. Those lucky enough to find a seat ended up going to sleep for the long ride. Instead of chatting with the conscious ones, looked out the windows people watching, for the first time realizing just how expansive the city was. It took us about two hours to get back to the Square but once we got there we all jammed onto the line which seemed never-ending. We passed the time on the line by singing 80s and 90s hits and Negro Spirituals; it was another one of those special moments with the group. I entered the hall to Mao’s Mausoleum, astonished by the sea of people sobbing and gently placing yellow daisies under a Lincolnesque marble statue of the Chairman, near are some of the leader’s famous words:
“It is only through the unity of the Communist Party that the unity of the whole class and the nation can be achieved, and it is only through the unity of the whole class and the whole nation that the enemy can be defeated and the national and democratic revolution accomplished.”
Past the big Mao the large group of spectators split into two groups and went through two different doorways. I head right. I head towards the back of the line, letting the Chinese get a closer look at the body. Mao Zedong’s remains lie behind a crystal glass, tucked in a under a red flag with the sickle and hammer symbol on it. His face, waxy in appearance and for some reason very orange, lie still, reminiscent of how he left it thirty-three years ago. I couldn’t quite get over the whole aura of the memorial; from the initial sight of seeing people place flowers down under the effigy, I felt as a guest would at a wake; it felt as though Mao had just died. The tears that many shed for this man, who I still don’t have a clean-cut opinion on, were fascinating. As we were quickly rushed out of the dimly lit room but the intimidating guards I tried to think of who would be worshipped on such a grand stature back home. While we do have large statues of leaders, soldiers and even entertainers, I don’t think any of the visits they receive could match to the monumental crowd that wrapped around the square, waiting hours upon hours for a glimpse of the man known as Mao. I need to find more about the Chairman, he must have been very important in China’s history to have such power; scary power. We almost didn’t make it to the mausoleum, I’m glad we did—not to see Mao, even though that was an event within itself, once again watching the people and viewing their reactions to the stage of Mao were the most intellectually stimulating moments to capture.
After the mausoleum we split up into groups to visit homes of University Professors and make dumplings (Jiǎozi). Our host was a woman in her thirties who didn’t speak English but with the help of Professor Gilmartin was still was able to communicate to the group of six. Our host premade the filling of pork, scallions, leeks, garlic, vinegar and ginger. She then gestured us to wash our hands and get dumpling making. I was pretty awful and ended up making little dumplings that looked like Christmas sacks. At the end of the day we had probably close to 200 dumplings. One thing about Chinese culture, and I’m guessing most other cultures is that it is considered to be rude to not finish a meal, no matter how large it is. I ended up eating close to 20 dumplings and am officially all “dumplinged out”.
Dinner was at Xiang Yang Tun, what most described as a Cultural Revolution themed restaurant. Decorated with large red tables, glowing red lanterns and walls plastered with propaganda-heavy newspaper of Mao’s People’s revolution. It seemed to be the perfect albeit most surreal way to end the day of the topic I wanted to do my project on. We had dinner with intellectuals who lived through the revolution. I found myself somewhat tired or possibly sick, I wasn’t able to capture his whole story or the magnitude that the revolution had on people. News traveled fast around the group that the restaurant might have offended our Li Yan, our TA. I had to find out why. There is much more to be learned about this time period. I feel like there’s so much more that I need to know.
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The beleaguered Pope Benedict XVI has dealt with the sex abuse crisis like a shy bachelor who holds back from stepping onto the dance floor at the parish social. A lifetime of dealing abstractly with men and women from the safe perch of a classroom podium did not exactly prepare him for the immersion in the human rhythms of intimacy that define the dance even on church property.
He has shifted from one foot to the other, letting others call the tune while he hung back, turning ashen and turning away when he learned, as Paul did of his Corinthian community, that what he remembered as a fox trot had been taken over by a wolf pack. Yes, he promised, I’ll get involved in this soon and then woe betide the wolf pack.
So far, his idea of correcting the disorder is to let some of the band leaders quit and to vow that changes will be made in the future, just you wait, and you people who have been trampled on, come over by the bandstand, I’ve got a little time at the break to hear your troubles.
One must feel sympathy for this earnest and good man who looks as if he wishes he had stayed home and played his piano instead of going to the dance in the first place.
Now, according to The New York Times, he has given a new explanation of the sex abuse crisis to journalists on his Portugal-bound plane. The problem, he says, is “truly terrifying” and is “the sin inside the church.”
This is purely descriptive and, while it at least shifts from blaming sex abuse on the media or the Sexual Revolution, it is hard to believe that this is news to the pope, who may be said to be in the Sin business, or that it is enough to add to the recent admission that it sex abuse is illegal the insight that it is also sinful.
The history of sex abuse in the church resembles an interminable dance that has lasted into the smoky past-midnight hours; everyone is unhappy but the band leader keeps saying “Take five” instead of calling for the windup waltz.
Sex abuse may be sinful but it is far more complex than that and cannot be understood or dealt with by the church unless it commits itself to exploring and, like Noah herding passengers onto the ark, naming all of them correctly and doing something about them.
Forty years ago, the American bishops commissioned several studies of American priests. The psychological study revealed to the bishops that a large segment of American priests were psychosexually underdeveloped, that is, that their internal development did not match their chronological age. From this very cohort arose many of the priests who became abusers in the decades that followed.
How could the church have ordained these troubled persons and why were they attracted to the priesthood in the first place? These are only a few of the questions raised at the time. Officials chose to receive the reports but not to look further into the complex issues to which it pointed. Sociological and psychological factors played critical roles in mixing the cultural soil in which the flowers of evil of the sex abuse crisis took root.
Sex abuse is sinful but that is too easy and too narrow a category with which to classify this problem.
Not letting your left hand know what your right hand is doing: that is the idea when you describe sex abuse as a sin on one day while, on another, you insist that celibacy is the “glory of the priesthood” and is so sacred that you can neither investigate or discuss it.
We may well sympathize with Benedict who, having been responsible for sex abuse cases when he headed the Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith, knows better. Like the bachelor who can’t let himself go in dancing, good Pope Benedict can’t let himself go in exploring the complex reasons for a problem that has brought so much suffering to so many good people in the church.
[Eugene Cullen Kennedy is emeritus professor of psychology at Loyola University, Chicago.]
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WASHINGTON, July 19 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Just days after a new National Intelligence Estimate demonstrated that President Bush has failed to make our homeland safe and allowed al-Qaeda to rebuild to pre-9/11 strength, smooth talking Mitt Romney "praised President Bush for keeping America safe during the war on terror." [AP, 7/18/07] During a speech in Colorado Springs last night, Romney praised the President even though the NIE revealed that al-Qaeda is regrouping and seeking ways to attack the United States , that its senior leadership is still based in the Afghanistan-Pakistan border regions, and that the Iraq war has helped to energize al-Qaeda.
It comes as no surprise that Romney, who called Osama bin Laden "insignificant" and said it is "not worth moving heaven and earth" to capture him, would praise President Bush's failed leadership in the war on terror. [AP, 4/26/2007] Romney, who has no foreign policy experience and refuses to discuss the war in Iraq in his stump speech, has consistently failed to outline clear plans for how he would handle the war. [Time.com, 5/31/07] Romney has also stood shoulder to shoulder with the President, even as his permanent commitment to a failed strategy in Iraq has stretched our armed forces to a breaking point and cost the lives of 47 brave men and women from South Carolina. [www.icasualties.org, accessed 7/20/07]
"The American people have already rejected one president who ignores military leaders and took his eye off the ball in the real war on terror; they are not going to elect another," said Democratic National Committee spokesman Damien LaVera. "Smooth talking Mitt Romney still hasn't learned that the American people are looking for clear and decisive leadership on the Iraq War not empty slogans and blind support for a president whose failed agenda has made America less secure."
Romney: Catching Osama "Insignificant," Said It's "Not Worth Moving Heaven and Earth" to Capture bin Laden. In an interview with the Associated Press on Thursday, April 26, 2007 , Republican Presidential Nominee Mitt Romney said, "the country would be safer by only 'a small percentage' and would see 'a very insignificant increase in safety' if al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden was caught because another terrorist would rise to power. 'It's not worth moving heaven and earth spending billions of dollars just trying to catch one person.'" [Associated Press, 4/26/2007]
Mitt Can't Make Up His Mind on Iraq Benchmarks: Says They're Needed to "Restore Public Confidence...""In a wide-ranging, hourlong interview with AP reporters and editors, Romney said the Bush administration would be wise to publicly disclose some goals for success in Iraq to restore public confidence.... 'This is a time when it would be helpful for the American people and the people of Iraq to see that we are actually making progress if that's what's happening,' Romney said. Helpful measurements could include power-sharing with the Sunnis, division of oil revenues, the status of certain militias, as well as the numbers and training levels of Iraqi military and security forces, he said." [AP, 6/7/07]
...But Opposed Them Weeks Earlier. During an interview on Good Morning America, Romney said, "The president and Prime Minister al-Maliki have to have a series of timetables and milestones that they speak about. But those shouldn't be for public pronouncement. You don't want the enemy to understand how long they have to wait in the weeds until you're going to be gone. You want to have a series of things you want to see accomplished in terms of the strength of the Iraqi military and the Iraqi police, and the leadership of the Iraqi government." [Good Morning America, 4/3/07]
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Jump to the first occurrence of "Civil"
FIREMEN AND POLICEMEN CIVIL SERVICE SYSTEM (EXCERPT)
Act 78 of 1935
38.506 Fire and police civil service; eligibility for permanent appointment.
For the benefit of the public service and to prevent delay, injury, or interruption therein by reason of the enactment of this act, all persons holding a position in the fire and/or police department, including the chief thereof, when this act takes effect, who shall have served in such position for a period of at least 6 months last past continuously, are hereby declared eligible for permanent appointment under civil service to the offices, places, positions or employments which they shall then hold, respectively, without examination or other act on their part, and not on probation; and every such person is hereby automatically adopted and inducted permanently into civil service, into such office, place, position or employment which such person then holds as completely and effectually to all intents and purposes as if such person had been permanently appointed thereto under civil service after examination and investigation: Provided, however, That any employee with less than 6 months' service shall be classed as probationer under this act.
History: 1935, Act 78, Imd. Eff. May 24, 1935
Am. 1943, Act 173, Eff. July 30, 1943
Am. 1945, Act 287, Imd. Eff. May 25, 1945
CL 1948, 38.506
Am. 1951, Act 15, Eff. Sept. 28, 1951
Popular Name: Police and Fire Civil Service Act
© 2009 Legislative Council, State of Michigan
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Friday, January 18, 2013
Ephesus: Reconstructing History
(Above: A panoramic view of the theater at Ephesus.) Out of all the incredible sights to see and sites to visit in Turkey, the one for which I was the most excited was Ephesus. This city has been around for over two thousand years, although it spent most of the past millenium underneath several yards of dirt, rocks, and the erosion and time. Even today, after over a century of excavations, only about ten percent of the city has been unearthed. Imagine the priceless knowledge awaiting this and future generations of archaeologists and lovers of history, just under the surface.
(Above: A major Ephesian street.) I was fascinated to discover that the rows of columns lining the ancient streets were not discovered like that at all. Archaeologists found the columns, broken and buried in the ground, and reset them in their original positions. As much effort is put into reconstructing these historic sites as there is into discovering them.
(Above: The Library of Celsus.) And these sites were incredible. There was a huge theater, used for performances and public events, that could hold twenty-four thousand people and stood for a thousand years. The hyrdreion, a fountain, was used in conjunction with the ingenius underground sewer system as both a source of water and a street cleaner for special occasions. We saw the odeon, a small concert hall; the Roman baths; the gorgeous Library of Celsus; and so many other beautiful remains.
(Above: The theater.) The stories behind these places truly made Ephesus come alive for me. I stood in a spot where, almost two thousand years ago, thousands upon thousands of Ephesians rioted over the actions of the apostle Paul. This city is rich in Biblical history, as well as other interesting tidbits of information. I learned that at certain hours of the day, the public toilets would have musicians playing inside - one gig that I, as a musician, would almost certainly turn down.
(Above: The temple of Hadrian, which was actually just the facade of a temple.) I don't have the time or the energy after such an exhilarating day to write about everything I saw or experienced. But I can say that walking down the great streets of Ephesus is like walking through the fabric of time itself. This is one visit that I will certainly never forget.
(Above: Sean is the Greek god of making the rain stop.)
(Above: The symbol for a hospital in ancient Rome, along with our guide Saba and one of the many stray cats roaming around Turkey.)
Thanks for reading, and keep checking back for more awesome posts by the other students on this trip!
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The legislation would require certain tax-exempt groups involved in political advertising — which currently are not required to disclose the names of their donors — to release the names of those who give donations of $10,000 or more. A similar vote Monday ended with the same result. – Senate Republicans block DISCLOSE Act for second straight day
THE DISCLOSE ACT is something on which everyone should agree, especially in the post Citizens United era. That it received a majority in the Senate, 51-44, but didn’t pass, is par for the filibuster course.
It goes to the heart of the column I did last week on the “social welfare” scam by Karl Rove, the Koch Bros, and groups like 60 Plus. These groups operating what amounts to slush funds of millionaire donations, who can remain anonymous, is why the Obama administration, and Democrats, separately, have filed complaints against them.
“What really frightens me is not just the disastrous nature of Citizens United, but the whole trend that we are seeing lately, economically etc., of moving this country toward an oligarchic form of government. What you have right now is incredibly unequal distribution of wealth and income,” Sanders says, going on to note that “the Walton family of Walmart itself owns more wealth — one family — than the bottom 40 percent of the American people.” He continues, “You’ve got that reality out there, and then what’s happening now — what Citizens United is about — is these guys are not content to own the economy, to own the wealth of America, they now want to own lock, stock and barrel the political process as well.” – “Viewpoint,” with Eliot Spitzer [Current TV]
What Sen. Sanders reports about the health of the Walton Family of Wal-Mart (see video) will leave your jaw on the floor.
Statement on Republicans blocking the DISCLOSE Act from the League of Women Voters:
Voters deserve to know origins of secret money in elections
Washington, DC (July 17, 2012) – Twice this week, the U.S. Senate refused to allow full debate on the DISCLOSE Act, which would require complete disclosure of spending on big-money advertising in candidate elections. Twice, the Senate failed to invoke cloture, the procedural motion that requires 60 votes before the Senate can even consider legislation.
“Huge sums of secret money are flooding into our elections, and without full disclosure the voters won’t know who is trying to buy influence,” said Elisabeth MacNamara, national President of the League of Women Voters. “Secret money should have no place in our elections, but we all know it is there, drowning out the voices of everyday Americans.”
“Twice this week, our elected leaders in Washington, the men and women who had the power and opportunity to help, failed to take up the DISCLOSE Act. They decided that they didn’t even want to debate this important issue,” MacNamara said. “Instead of talking about how they could help voters understand where all of this secret money is coming from, they decided to kill the bill without any debate. This is a sad day for voters and America’s democracy.”
“The League supports the DISCLOSE Act of 2012 because we believe that Americans deserve all the information they can get before they vote,” said MacNamara. “The DISCLOSE Act builds on disclosure requirements already approved by the Supreme Court in Citizens United when it said that disclosure is important to ‘providing the electorate with information.’”
“The League and its partners in the voting rights community will continue to push for passage of DISCLOSE because secret campaign money undermines the role of the voter and corrupts the election process. Tell us where the money is coming from and let the voters decide. The DISCLOSE Act is an important step towards eliminating secret money,” concluded MacNamara.
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The Government has slammed a landmark ruling which allows a Romanian mother selling the Big Issue on the streets of Bristol to claim housing benefits.
Immigrants like Firuta Vasile, 27, who sell the Big Issue are now able to claim up to £20,000 a year in housing benefits – after the ruling classed their work as a “proper job”.
Current government rules state that European nationals are not entitled to housing benefit unless they are in employment. But Bristol City Council refused the handout to Ms Vasile because her street job “didn’t count”.
So she enlisted legal experts to argue that she was technically self employed because she used her own money to buy Big Issues and sold them at her own profit or loss.
The mother-of-four yesterday welcomed the landmark judgement and said the extra cash – about £160 a week – would help her pay rent on her £130,000 three-bedroomed home.
Speaking through an interpreter, Ms Vasile said she came to the UK in 2007 to look for work, but could only find a post at the Big Issue in Bristol.
She said: “I can keep half of the money I take and I usually make around £100 per week. This isn’t enough to meet all my family’s needs so I asked the council for housing benefit to help with my rent. My claim was turned down.
“I was told that because I am Romanian I could not get benefits unless I have a job or I am in self-employment. They said work for The Big Issue didn’t count.
“I got legal support and was helped with an appeal. My adviser got lots of evidence that selling The Big Issue really is self-employment.
“I am really pleased if this decision means that people from countries like Romania and Bulgaria who come to the UK to work hard are not treated unfairly.”
But campaigners claim the legal ruling will “open the floodgates” for Eastern Europeans to “come and beg” in Britain, while racking up a huge bill for the taxpayer.
Under the ruling, Big Issue selling immigrants could claim up to £400 a week or £20,800 a year if they are living in a four-bedroomed house, depending on where and with whom they live.
Chris Grayling, Minister for Employment, said yesterday: “We disagree with the court’s decision. Maintaining the security and integrity of the benefit system is our top priority which is why we are trying to restore fairness to the benefits system and will be keeping the rules around the payment of benefits to people from abroad under review.
“We have to remain in line with our national and international obligations. However, it is absolutely necessary to protect the tax payer and the benefit system from possible abuse.
“This is another example of why we are working hard to secure changes to European benefit rules.”
Single mum Ms Vasile – whose children are aged 11, seven, six and two – began her case in January 2010 with a first tribunal heard in Bristol on June 6 last year.
The social security ‘first tier’ tribunal ruled that Ms Vasile should be paid benefits because selling the Big Issue counts as self-employment and she sold enough.
Bristol City Council appealed the decision and the case was taken to an upper tribunal in London last year.
Judge Mark Rowland released his written judgement – in favour of Ms Vasile – on January 10, with the council stating that they will not appeal again.
Andy King, of Avon and Bristol Law Centre, who helped her with her case said: “This is a great victory for people struggling to work to support their families. If people are willing and able to work, we need to encourage them to do so.
“Anyone who thinks selling The Big Issue on a British street in winter is a soft option should have a go themselves”.
But Sir Andrew Green, 70, chairman of think tank Migration Watch UK, slammed the judgement.
“This is an absurd decision which has potentially serious consequences,” he said. “It is an open invitation for beggars from Eastern Europe to come to Britain and claim housing benefit for them and their families at considerable expense to the British taxpayer.
“Yet again decisions are taken in complete disregard for the consequences for ordinary taxpayers.”
Stephen Robertson, chief executive of The Big Issue Foundation, said: “Big Issue vendors use their own money to buy their magazines and sell them at their own profit or loss.
“It is by no means an easy task. I am pleased that this ruling represents an important acceptance of the challenges and the opportunities that the magazine mechanism represents for people regardless of where they come from.”
A spokesman for Bristol City Council called for Government clarification on the issue of benefits for immigrants.
He added: “Bristol processes housing benefit claims on behalf of the Government according to the protocol laid down by the Government and recovers money paid out in claims locally on behalf of the city.”
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LONG BEACH - Shadowed by 14 helicopters and all manner of boats, the Queen Mary 2 - largest of the world's passenger ships - visited this busy port city for the first time Thursday in a brief tribute to its namesake, the faded but beloved Queen Mary.
Britain's 1,132-foot QM2 sailed into the harbor precisely at noon and made a slow turn to show off its 17 decks and broad white bridge for the thousands of spectators who had gathered along the shoreline, on piers, the roofs of condos and the balconies of downtown high-rises.
SHIP AHOY: Part of the armada on hand to greet the Queen Mary 2 is dwarfed by the giant ocean liner as she enters Long Beach Harbor.
MICHAEL GOULDING, THE ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER
Roughly a half-hour later, QM2 groaned hello with deep horn blasts that echoed throughout the harbor. The Queen Mary responded with her own blasts, producing a more sonorous tone that appeared to please the masses assembled on the teak decks of the elder liner.
The salute was part of a highly choreographed visit in which QM2's owner, Cunard, got to show off its 3-year-old luxury liner in one of the country's biggest media markets while the city of Long Beach, which owns the Queen Mary, did the same for a nearly 70-year-old ship-and-museum that's been struggling financially.
The Queen Mary has been a permanent tenant of Long Beach since 1967, when her age, declining trans-Atlantic ship travel and the rise of commercial airlines put the British-built liner out of business. It's now a California icon.
The cruise-ship industry has since rebounded so strongly that Cunard is building another liner, the Queen Victoria, and a Carnival Cruise Line terminal has been built near the stern of the Queen Mary.
"Years ago, people never thought they'd again see the day when ships the size of the Queen Mary would be built," said Bob Maguglin, a spokesman for the Long Beach Area Convention & Visitors Bureau. "But it has, and now, some of the ships are bigger."
Contact the writer: Register science editor Gary Robbins can be reached at (714) 796-7970 or email@example.com.
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The Labor Studies major provides students with the opportunity to develop the critical skills necessary to analyze employment and workplace issues, with a special focus on the needs and interest of workers and their unions. An interdepartmental program, the labor studies major examines the social, political and economic dimensions of these issues in the context of a broad liberal arts education. For labor studies, the issues to be considered are not only processes in the workplace, but outcomes; not only peace and harmony, but justice and power. Students completing the program may receive a Bachelor of Arts from the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
Candidates for the bachelor’s degree must complete 120 credits of coursework, including 32 credits of course work toward the labor studies major, and the university general education and group requirements. Twenty credit hours are required core courses in labor studies, political science, psychology and history. Students also compete 12 credits of related coursework selected in consultation with the program adviser.
Depending on their age and academic preparation, students can be admitted with a high school diploma, a General Equivalency Diploma (G.E.D.), or by transferring from a community college or university.
Transfer of Credit
In most cases credit earned at a community college and other colleges and universities are transferable to the labor studies degree program. This includes labor studies courses offered by area community colleges.
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DALLAS - She's a Dallas woman with a big job at a major corporation, but it's the time spent outside the office that's paying big dividends.
Nina Reinert doesn't miss a beat. Since the summer, she's been volunteering her time at the East Dallas Boys and Girls Club' teaching dance to a group of young girls.
"I'm getting a lot out of this myself; the girls get something out of it," she said. "We get a little exercise in the process [and] that's great."
Reinert has spent a great deal of time in this gym, with her company's blessing. She works in sales for Microsoft, which has a program called the "Giving Campaign." It donates money for every hour of volunteer work performed. So far, Reinert has danced her way up to $1,500.
"If you can just make it part of your habit to just spend an hour or two giving to your community, you're just getting so much back," she said. "It's so worth your time."
The program teaches more than just dance moves, it teaches the girls that if they fall down they can get right back up. It also helps the girls, like seventh-grader Fifi Randle, build self-esteem.
"We're having so much fun that we always want to come back and do it again," said the 12 year old.
The more Reinert comes back, the more money she'll raise for the girls.
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LAS VEGAS (KSNV MyNews3) -- It was round two Wednesday night for parents in the southwest valley to sound off on why they don't want schools rezoned.
The Clark County School District held another public input meeting. Its proposal to deal with overcrowding could send at least 2,500 students to different schools.
The School District says the southwest area has not gotten a new school in three years. In that same time, school enrollment rates went up.
It hoped to get two new schools if voters had approved a November ballot initiative, which failed.
Too many students at those southwest schools is a problem only expected to get worse as construction continues on new housing developments and people start moving in.
That problem becomes even clearer as a housing development site is in the works just right across the street from Forbuss Elementary School.
Rick Baldwin, director of demographics and zoning for the School District, says no money for new schools plus increased enrollment in southwest schools equals overcrowding.
Three proposals are on the table -- each with different boundaries – which are meant to alleviate overcrowding.
But not all are popular with parents.
The Zoning Advisory Commission will decide which proposal to submit to the School Board of Trustees on Tuesday. The School Board can use all of one proposal or combine different elements from each.
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Fifteen years ago, John Doughty helped my then 3-year-old son pick out a small fishing pole and just the right lure to catch a halibut in Newport Harbor. As my son walked around J.D.'s Big Game Tackle shop on Balboa Island, he was spoken to by Doughty with kindness, enthusiasm and genuine respect. For 35 years, this kindness toward people and knowledge of the sea has made Doughty the "go-to" authority on fishing in Newport Harbor and along the coast of Southern California.
I asked Doughty if he was going to have a party in October to celebrate 35 years in the same business location.
"Oh, I have a party every day," said Doughty. "Could you ask for a better location to go to work? And everybody's in good spirits. They're happy. They're going on an adventure."
Doughty grew up in Orange and Tustin, but his parents would rent a place on The Little Island for a couple of weeks in the summer. When he was 5 or 6, his father taught him to fish.
"I was on that public dock every day," said Doughty. "I kept telling myself, 'I'm going to have a fishing tackle store here on Balboa Island ... that's my goal in life.'"
"I think fishing involves an appreciation for nature," said Doughty, "to be able to touch, feel, be a part of nature. Any more, you don't see that so much with kids. They're at their computers or texting."
"But when you fish, he said, "you get your hands wet ...slimy ... might have a fish bite you. It's just natural. And you don’t know where the experience will go from there. Maybe a kid might go into biology, you just don’t know. Why limit it?"
Doughty has written a daily fish report for 30 years that he now calls his blog. It can be found on the shop's website. He reports on the ocean, weather or environmental conditions. He also offers fishing tips and posts photos submitted to him by friends.
"The fish report helps people with their game plan," Doughty said. "It’s just too damned expensive to go boating to make a mistake and go 30 miles out on the wrong course."
Doughty has noticed that people today have a greater appreciation of nature and respect for the environment.
"Used to be," said Doughty, "there was no limit to what you could catch. Today people are more aware of the environment, and rightfully so. They catch and release."
Doughty said, "To me, the harbor is like a park and those [fish] are ‘my squirrels.’ Don’t eat ‘my squirrels,’ just play with them and let them go.”
And Doughty has seen the result of animals who are left to grow in the harbor for 15 years or so. He has seen thresher sharks, leopard sharks and 45-pound halibut caught in the harbor. He's also witnessed dolphins swimming after smaller fish just outside his shop.
He has seen nature take many forms in the harbor. He has watched a "beautiful white sheet of sea water" spill over the top of the sea wall in front of his shop, the result of a high tide and a big storm. He has witnessed tornadoes on the harbor and he observed the effects of the recent Japanese tsunami.
"We could see the tsunami from Japan coming through here," said Doughty. "You could see the waves. The tide was coming in and then it would stop, and then it all went back out again—come in, go out, and do it all over again. That was pretty cool."
But the most pleasant thing about working at J.D.'s Big Game Tackle for 35 years is "watching the parade."
"A young couple walks by with a couple of little kids," said Doughty, "and this is their chance to talk with one another. Or there’s an older couple going by here and they’re still holding hands. It’s so cool to see those relationships."
Doughty said: "I think that’s the most important thing I see when I’m here is the ambience, people being able to relax and talk and be with family—not having to worry about the negative things in life. It’s all positive here. I’m very fortunate to be able to look at that. I'm helping the grandchildren of the parents I used to help.
Maybe he'll help my son's children one day. I sure hope so.
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In college, I thought that I wouldn’t need binders or folders by the time I was working because everything would be digital, but I guess I was wrong. I still use binders to organize the many piles of papers accumulating on my desk, but I wish the binders at work were as nice as the ones made by the company we’re reviewing here, Naked Binders.
Founded in 2008 in Des Moines, Iowa, Naked Binder strongly emphasize environmental sustainability. Their products use FSC certified paper, they don’t use any plastics or toxins, and they participate in One Percent for the Planet. This means their binders to be 100% recyclable. The binders are also tested to 250,000 flexes, so they are guaranteed to last a while.
Each binder is made by gluing the board material to an outer coating like cloth or paper, if one is being used. After the edges are finished so no internal board is exposed, a seam is pressed directly into the binder. You can see in the image here that there is a series of creases running along the binder’s spine. After moderate use, most other binders break along the vinyl or cloth connecting the spine’s separate board pieces. Since there is heavy duty board material throughout Naked Binders’ hinges, they are more robust and can last the 250,000 flexes.
American Alternative Review:
Naked Binder offers six different styles of binders: Naked Binders, Project Binders, Classic Binders, Eames Binders, Architect Binders, and Notebook Binders. All of their products are manufactured in their Des Moines facility, and they all use 100% post consumer waste recycled material for their boards. It depends on the supplier’s board’s material properties, but a large portion of their materials is also sourced from the US.
All the recycled paper and the fabric used in the Project, Classic, and Architect Binders are from US vendors. Finally, the 3-ring mechanisms that differentiate binders from folders are sourced from China.
Despite being a relatively young company, Naked Binder has a diverse catalog of products, all made in America. We appreciate their effort to source materials from US sources when possible, and we also appreciate their focus on environmental sustainability.
To learn more about Naked Binder and purchase their products, check out the Naked Binder website here. Naked Binders were not being sold on Amazon at the time of this posting.
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WB News Release: [04/28/2009]
Contact Name: Peggy Abrahamson
Phone Number: (202) 693-3463 or x4676
Release Number: 09-0469-NAT
Statement from U.S. Secretary of Labor Hilda L. Solis on equal pay
WASHINGTON U.S. Secretary of Labor Hilda L. Solis today made the following statement on equal pay:
"One of the most fundamental principles on which our nation was founded is the belief that we are all created equal.
"Yet today, women earn just 78 cents for every dollar a man earns. Women of color earn even less. Countless women are losing thousands of dollars in salary, income and retirement savings over the course of a lifetime. As a result, women often must work longer or harder to make ends meet.
"As the secretary of labor, I am committed to ensuring that the women in our country and around the world have a voice and advocate.
"The Labor Department is working hard at implementing the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act, which has had a direct impact on women. While women have a lower overall unemployment rate than the general population, women are also impacted when a spouse loses a job.
"Increases to unemployment insurance and extensions of benefits become the lifeboat for families who are struggling in this recession. The Recovery Act provides a 65 percent tax subsidy for the cost of health benefits, making them more affordable for the unemployed, and will help millions of families keep their health coverage.
"Additional funds have been made available to local communities for job training and employment services. These programs will help women across generations and socio-economic groups participate in a sustainable 'green' economy by attaining higher-paying, career-ladder jobs in nontraditional fields.
"Equal pay is not just about fairness; it is also about making our economy work for everyone. Pay discrimination impacts the ability of families to put food on the table, fill the gas tank and pay the electric bill.
"There are no second class citizens in our workplaces, and it's not just unjust and illegal but bad for business to pay someone less because of her or his gender, age, race, ethnicity, religion or disability.
"We must work to close the pay gap that is taking millions of dollars out of the pockets of families across the country and undermining our economic stability."
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Beacon & Eggs for March 13 — Cyberbullying
Beacon & Eggs was March 13 at Christian Brothers High School. Panelists Tina Meier of the Megan Meier Foundation and Dr. Erin Shannon, a doctor of clinical psychology with a practice in St. Louis talked about cyberbullying.
KTRS 550-AM host McGraw Milhaven moderated the panel and Beacon reporter Kristin Hare, also posed questions. The audience had students from CBC as well as community members.
The Megan Meier Foundation was established by Tina Meier in the wake of her daughter’s suicide, which was the result of cyberbullying. The foundation’s mission is aimed at bringing “awareness, education and positive change to children, parents and educators in response to the ongoing bullying and cyberbullying in our children’s daily environment.”
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W.Va. loses 1,200 mining jobs in 4Q
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — West Virginia lost more than 1,200 coal mining jobs in the last quarter of 2012, nearly two-thirds of them in strip mining.
Federal Mine Safety and Health Administration data show the number of jobs dropped to 21,400. The Charleston Gazette says that figure is based on disclosures that operators file with MSHA.
Production from strip mining was down to 8.1 million tons, half of what it was at the end of 2008.
Analysts say the trend will likely continue because of competition from natural gas and surface mines in Wyoming’s Powder River Basin.
The industry often complains about anti-coal environmental regulations.
But the data show employment levels remain as high as they were when the Obama administration began a series of regulatory actions to minimize the environmental harm that coal causes.
Briefs: West Greene hires football coach (447)
Medical center opening June 3, despite snag with insurer (429)
Stanford’s Appel prepares for draft a second time (389)
Rogge praises wrestling’s changes (385)
Kenseth looks to continue winning ways (365)
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The full title of the next major rite for baptized candidates is “Rite of Sending the Candidates for Recognition by the Bishop and for the Call to Continuing Conversion.”
It’s almost always referred to as “Rite of Sending.”
You’ll recall that RCIA includes five different celebrations for catechumens in the corollary stage before this rite: celebrations of the Word (RCIA 81-89), minor exorcisms (90-94), blessings (95-97), anointings (98-103), and the presentations (104-105). Before we delve into the Rite of Sending, let’s check which may apply to the baptized.
RCIA 406 encourages celebrations of the Word. Rites of exorcism would seem to apply only to the unbaptized. Ditto the anointings.
The rite doesn’t explicitly advocate blessing the candidates, but since the baptized are certainly blessed in liturgical settings, this would seem appropriate, assuring that a proper reference to the state of the candidates is included. RCIA 407 states that the presentation of the Creed and Lord’s Prayer may be used. As we get deeper into this part of RCIA, we’ll look at the special rites for the “Call to Continuing Conversion” and the “Penitential Rite.” But these are reserved to Lent or the period of final preparation before Confirmation and Eucharist.
Let’s get to the instruction, then offer a few comments after each section.
434. This optional rite is provided for parishes whose candidates seeking to complete their Christian initiation or to be received into the full communion of the Catholic Church will be recognized by the bishop in a subsequent celebration (for example, at the cathedral with the bishop.)
Remember, the rite of sending catechumens is also optional.
435. Because he is the sign of unity within the particular Church, it is fitting for the bishop to recognize these candidates. It is the responsibility of the parish community, however, to prepare the candidates for their fuller life in the Church. Through the experience of worship, daily life, and service in the parish community the candidates deepen their appreciation of the Church’s tradition and universal character.
Why would a celebration of sending be chosen? Here are two reasons, expressing joy and the feeling of assurance:
This rite offers that local community the opportunity to express its joy in the candidates’ decision and to send them forth to the celebration of recognition assured of the parish’s care and support.
And two last instructions:
436. The rite is celebrated in the parish church at a suitable time prior to the rite of recognition and call to continuing conversion.
437. When the rite of sending candidates for recognition is to be combined with the rite of sending catechumens for election, the alternate rite found [at RCIA 530ff] (Appendix I, 2) is used.
More often, it happens that parishes combine the two groups to send to the bishop. In fact, in thirty years of being in parishes with RCIA, I’ve never used this rite described above and to be examined in the next few posts (RCIA 434-445).
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The National Weather Service says up to a foot of fresh snow is in the forecast for parts of Michigan by Thursday night as a storm reaches the state.
The weather service's Grand Rapids office says 6 to 12 inches of snow could accumulate north of Interstate 96 and 3 to 5 inches in some other parts of West Michigan.
In the northern Lower Peninsula, the weather service says 8 to 10 inches of snow could fall.
In and around the state's rural Thumb area, the weather service says 6 to 10 inches is possible by Thursday night as the storm hits the Great Lakes region.
Southeast Michigan also is expected to get snowfall Thursday. And starting Wednesday, parts of the Upper Peninsula could get up to 5 inches.
Other helpful weather links:
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Women Infants and Children (WIC) have teamed up with surrounding hospitals to help patients get the most out of their breastfeeding experience.
WIC Breastfeeding Peer Counselors are professionally trained through the Texas Department of State Services WIC Counselors program curriculum. Counselors are carefully chosen for their own breastfeeding experience and employed by the WIC program to assist and encourage pregnant and breastfeeding mothers.
Research has shown a significant increase in the initiation and duration of breastfeeding with peer counselor intervention. Rosa Best, MSN, Susan Morin, Senior Breastfeeding Peer Counselor and Saundra Lane, RN are working together and are very excited to start this program at Rolling Plains Memorial Hospital.
The breastfeeding Peer Counselors come in as volunteers and help with basic breastfeeding skills and educate new moms on the benefits of breastfeeding. Counselors make appropriate referrals to physicians, hospitals, lactation consultants and other providers when needed.
They also provide clinic and phone consults, hospital and home visits (where available), and help with breast pumps. Upon discharge from the hospital, peer counselors follow up with new moms by calling and discussing any concerns they might have at that time. WIC has established a hotline for breastfeeding mothers: 800-687-1252.
Rolling Plains Memorial Hospital provides services to many surrounding counties and are pleased to announce they have recently welcomed Ronnie Dennis, M.D. to their staff. Dr. Dennis is a Board Certified Obstetrician and Gynecologist. Jeremy Smola, D.O. has provided family practice services since 1993 and reopened his OB/GYN practice in 2010.
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The USS Barboncito (YTB-495) was laid down on October 19, 1944 at Brooklyn, New York, by Ira S. Bushey & Sons; launched on February 21, 1945; delivered to the Navy and placed in service at the New York Navy Yard on July 2, 1945.
Barboncito departed New York on her maiden voyage on 18 July 1945, bound for Norfolk. Reaching that port on the 19th, she sailed two days later for Charleston, S.C., arriving at the Naval Frontier Base there on the 23d. Proceeding thence on the 26th, she reached Miami on the 28th. Ordered to proceed to New Orleans, Barboncito made her destination on 2 August. Shifting to Southwest Pass by the end of the month, the harbor tug made her way to the Canal Zone.
Departing Balboa on 19 September 1945 with the Bureau of Docks Dump Scow No.10, Barboncito proceeded thence to San Francisco. Ultimately steaming to Pearl Harbor, where she arrived on 27 February 1946, the harbor tug--tentatively earmarked for assignment to the post-war Philippine Sea Frontier about that time--operated there until 14 May 1946, when she sailed for the Marshall Islands.
Arriving at Eniwetok on 28 May, she proceeded onward that same day, reaching Guam under tow of Lipan (ATF-85) on 3 June. Operating at Guam until 18 October, Barboncito was again towed by Lipan, this time to Peleliu, along with Abinago (YTB-493) and ultimately to Samar in the Philippines. Underway from Samar on 4 November, Barboncito accompanied by Bolster (ARS-38), towing YOG-41, reached Subic Bay on 9 November. On 26 November, Barboncito cleared Subic Bay for Samar with LCI-8 in tow, and reached her destination on 1 December. Proceeding thence with YnG-8 in tow, the harbor tug reached Guam the day before Christmas of 1946.
Towed from Guam to Pearl Harbor by the fleet tug Molala (ATF-106) and thence on to the west coast by the auxiliary ocean tug ATA-198, Barboncito entered Long Beach three days before Christmas of 1948. Taken from there to Balboa in the Canal Zone, the harbor tug reached her destination on 10 February 1949. Assigned to the Texas group of the Reserve Fleet, Barboncito arrived there on 27 March 1949. Following preinactivation overhaul at Port Arthur, she was placed out of service, in reserve, on 29 December 1949.
Barboncito remained inactive until placed back in service on 14 July 1952 for duty at Mayport, Fla. She was transferred to the 6th Naval District on 28 July 1952 and thence to the Naval Mine Countermeasures Station (later the Naval Mine Defense Laboratory) at Panama City, Fla. There, she served through the late 1950s supporting a portion of the Mine Force's research and development work. Later, Barboncito was assigned to the 5th Naval District, based at Norfolk, Va., where she provided tug and tow services to fleet units. During that assignment, she was reclassified a medium harbor tug and was redesignated YTM-495 in February 1962.
The 5th Naval District proved to be her last active Navy assignment, as she remained there until she was taken out of service. Her name was struck from the Navy list on 1 May 1975, and she was turned over to the Government Services Administration for disposal. On 1 August 1975, she was sold to the University of Georgia for use by its Institute of Natural Resources, and the actual transfer of custody took place on 21 November 1975.
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Agribusinesses and processing firms are on top of the government agenda to create more off farm jobs to pave way for the country's target to become a middle income economy.
It is said that the country has huge potential in the two areas which once exploited would create the proposed 200,000 jobs annually.
Minister of Youth and ICT, Jean Philibert Nsengimana, says that there is a huge potential in value added products that is yet to be exploited.
"I believe if you compare the growth of the population and how both local and international markets demand for food stuffs is increasing, you can see there is a big opportunity in the sector," he said
The government is looking at the private sector to create over 3.2 million off-farm jobs which is 50 percent of the workforce by 2020 up from 1.4million equivalent to 28 percent of the workforce as of 2011.
The Minister believes that empowering young entrepreneurs in the country's fastest growing sectors will help to speed up job creation.
"In fact, changes are never done by a bunch of guys; remember that the power of one is power of all," he said, adding that there is need to support any young entrepreneur who may have a project that would empower others.
Private sector gurus challenge businesses to participate in development projects that aim at improving the livelihoods of people and promoting inclusive growth.
Hannington Namara, Chief Executive Officer, Private Sector Federation says that private sector participation in developing the growth of the economy is vital.
He said that for the economy to grow, it depends on the private sector and questioned what operators have done to support this.
He made the remarks recently when Skol Brewery Ltd presented its contribution worth Rwf 5 million towards the Agaciro Development Fund-AgDF. British American Tobbacco-BAT Rwanda also handed in their contribution worth Rwf 15.4 million to the fund, a move seen as a private sector's initiative to endorse government's development efforts.
Namara noted that the participation of the private sector towards Agaciro Development Fund is the commitment of the sector to support government development initiatives, adding that the participation of international companies boosts the initiative.
"Things are changing at a high pace; we have a government that works like a corporate and we must be part of this development for inclusive growth," said Mark Mugarura, Marketing Director, Skol Brewery.
The fund that was launched by President Kagame in August this year, has bagged over Rwf20 billion, which experts say indicates the tremendous support Rwandans have in contributing towards the country's development efforts.
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Chemicals known as excitotoxins are used in high levels in all processed foods as flavor-enhancers and because of their makeup are also highly addictive. Our food suppliers are no longer in the business of providing nutritious foods because it’s not as profitable as being in the manufactured-taste-to-addict and the extended-shelf-life business.
Dr. Lauri Brouwer, NMD is a licensed naturopathic physician who embodies the American Association of Naturopathic Physician’s motto, “Physicians Who Listen.” She has always been interested in helping others to create the best possible lives for themselves while honoring the wisdom and healing power of nature.
The virus turns on your immune system to fight it. Your immune system has such a great ability to up-regulate and take over that you could be sick for 4 days. You may not have a strong enough immune system and will be sick longer and need more support. The flu is linked to 3 to 49,000 deaths and 200,000 hospitalizations each year in the United States.
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My friend Judy told me that she had read “The Help,” a 2009 novel by Kathryn Stockett. Knowing that there was a feature adaptation of the book, she asked me if I would recommend seeing it. She knew I had seen the movie. It’s about black maids and their white employers in 1960s Mississippi. It’s amazing that this disturbing period in our history has left many uninformed about the entire era. The movie uses the voices of three women: “Skeeter,” an emerging white liberal writer, and two black maids she persuades to tell their stories. It telescopes a wide range of emotions and experiences in the Jim Crow era. The narrative is driven by Skeeter’s journey from odd-ball college grad to rebellious neo-liberal muckraker. The difference between the sprawling novel and the Hollywood feature is not huge. At its core is a small domestic drama that sketches the society surrounding its characters. So my answer to Judy is, “Yes, I think you’ll enjoy the film.”
In June 2009, the High Line opened. What is the High Line? It’s a public park built on a historic railroad viaduct elevated above the street on the west side of Manhattan. It is an extraordinary public space for everyone to enjoy. I had heard about it and finally got there to see for myself. Can you imagine a mile-and-a-half elevated park running through the neighborhoods of the Meatpacking District, West Chelsea and Hell’s Kitchen? When I use the word “elevated,” believe me, it is high up and I’m not thrilled with heights. However, I was motivated to experience the High Line so, not being aware of the existence of the elevators, I trudged up the 56 steps – yes, I counted them while trying to breathe. Finally, I arrived at what seemed like heaven (as long as I didn’t look down). The park runs from 14th Street to 30th Street and easily appeals to all ages since many diverse programs are ongoing: performing arts, nature, etc. While at the High Line, one experiences none of the bustling madness of New York City. It’s more like a clean, quiet, friendly town-hall-like place. It teaches many things at once: history, horticulture, architecture and landscape design. Happily there are friendly volunteers around to answer questions and guide your visit. In addition, there are choices for snacking or dining. One can enjoy walking or simply sitting and watching people who come from all over the world. There’s a hot line number to call at (201) 500-6035 if you want more details.
When I visit the Winter Garden at the World Financial Center, I don’t know what I am going to find, but something of interest is always happening. I am never disappointed. Last visit was another special treat. Do you like to read the comics? I am not ashamed to say that there are a few I really enjoy? Does the name Jules Feiffer ring a bell? Well, the syndicated award-winning cartoonist, playwright and author was the subject of an exhibition there. On full display were his drawings, his cartoons, a very short film based on one of his beloved cartoon characters (the modern Dancer) and a live dance-in inspired by the Dancer. It all had its New York premiere at the Winter Garden. What I enjoyed most was the extraordinary exhibition of original cartoon strips, water colors and prints. The centerpiece of the show was the Dancer, including six of Feiffer’s most memorable cartoons. The earliest strips are very much of their time, which is the post-war “Age of Anxiety” in the big city. In one of Feiffer’s strips, an advertising executive is rallying his creative team to make nuclear fallout sexy, proposing a TV special called “I Fell for Fallout.” Six of Feiffer’s memorable cartoons celebrate a cycle of seasonal, emotional and political milestones. Of course, I was attracted to the drawings and prints of male dancers, many with an aura of Fred Astaire, as well as tap and jazz dancers. Right alongside were drawings of couples in both romantic ballroom poses and more contemporary movements. Arts World Financial Center continues to offer free performances on a variety of topics. Thanks to its sponsors, I hope you can get there to enjoy the goings-on.
You can e-mail June Sturz at firstname.lastname@example.org.
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An excessive amount of cornmeal on the peel will create problems as described as will an excessive amount of any kind of dusting flour. It might have something to do with the way you are opening/handling the dough. I always use plenty of flour when opening the dough into a pizza skin, but then I pick it up and give it a toss or two, if you elect not to toss it, try brushing the excess flour off of one side then flip the dough piece over and brush off the other side, with that done, immediately place the pizza skin onto a lightly dusted peel (my personal favorite peel dust is made from equal parts of semolina flour, regular flour and fine cornmeal. Once you have the skin on the peel, give it a few shakes to ensure it is free from the peel, now dress the skin and take it directly to the oven, in some cases I've been known to give the peel a couple shakes while I'm dressing the skin just to make sure it is not adhering to the peel. I have both wood and metal peels and of all my peels, the wood ones work best as a prep peel. The solid aluminum peels are best relegated to use an an oven peel. A good wood prep peel is, in my opinion, worth its weight in gold. There have been a number of excellent discussions on the use and making of wood peel here.
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AS THE END of the year rapidly approaches, taxpayers need to be concerned about more than where they will toast in 2000. While you may not file your taxes until April, the final days of the year offer a last chance to make moves that will help to save money on taxes. What can taxpayers do this week to save on taxes?
Jonathan Pond, C.P.A.
Author of "Your Money Matters"
The main thing to do is to make all your charitable donations, including any usable but unneeded clothing and furniture. When you make those donations, be sure to make a detailed list of what you donate so you can support a generous deduction, including the label and condition of items. For monetary donations, if you write out the check or use your credit card you can deduct it for 1999 even if the check doesn't cash or you don't pay off the credit-card charge until next year.
If you have any self-employment income and you want to set up a Keogh retirement plan, you have to set it up by Dec. 31, even though you can wait until the next year to make a contribution. It will allow you to deduct almost 20 percent of your self-employment income, which you in essence contribute to the retirement plan. (If you miss the deadline, you still have to April 17 to set up a SEP, Simplified Employee Pension plan, though you can't deduct as great of a percent with a SEP plan as you can with a Keogh plan).
If you feel you are going to owe taxes, you can make a 13th mortgage payment and deduct the interest of 13 mortgage payments. If you are making state quarterly estimated income tax payments, you can make the one due Jan. 15, 2000, this year and deduct it this year.
Steven Stadd, C.F.P.
Stadd Financial Services,
For estate tax planning and perhaps income tax shifting purposes, gift up to $10,000 each ($20,000 if your spouse agrees to split the gift) to any number of individuals before Dec. 31. This could reduce your taxable estate and/or reduce income taxes. For those considering early retirement and those IRA owners who simply want to avoid the 10 percent premature penalty tax for withdrawing prior to age 59 1/2, consider taking advantage of the little-known tax provision, stated in section 72(t) of the Internal Revenue Code. You can avoid the penalty by withdrawing substantially equal payments over at least five years or until you reach age 59 1/2, whatever period is longer. (Calculate the amount of the withdraws using one of the three methods authorized by the IRS.)
George Paniculam, C.F.P.
Financial Planning and Management Center, Ellicott City
People not participating in a retirement plan can do a tax-deductible IRA and deduct up to $2,000. The deadline for that is April 15. They can also get $2,000 for their spouse. If they are participating in some kind of retirement plan but their adjusted gross income is less than $31,000 and they are single, they can get a deduction of $2,000. With income above $41,000, they can't do a tax-deductible IRA. (Between those incomes, the amount of the deduction is adjusted.) Married people with an adjusted gross income of $51,000 or less can get a deduction up to $4,000. That is phased out at income of $61,000.
Those who have self-employed taxable income can deduct 100 percent of their income up to $6,000, regardless of their total income, if they invest it in a traditional IRA. Ultimately, they can invest 15 percent of their self-employed income into a Simplified Employee Pension. The maximum on that is $24,000 that is tax deductible. If they are working for an employer, they can invest 15 percent of their income up to $10,000 into a 401(k) plan or a 403(b) plan. At a special request, a lot of employers will take money out of their last paychecks so they can get the deduction.
Kevin Condon, C.F.P.
Baltimore-Washington Financial Advisors, Ellicott City
The easiest way to avoid taxes on capital gains is to use capital losses to offset them. What you can do in your portfolio is you can match up gains and losses so that the gains don't have to be so heavily taxed. If you make regular contributions to a church, what you can also do is transfer securities to the church for your contributions for the entire year. The church can sell the stocks and they don't pay capital gains. The church will get the full amount of the money and you don't have to worry about paying the taxes on it.
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About TUMIThe Urban Ministry Institute is the research center of World Impact, Inc., an interdenominational missions organization dedicated to ministering God's love in the inner cities of America. As a missions organization,
World Impact evangelizes the lost, ministers cross-culturally among the people in the city, and plants churches specifically targeting America's urban poor.
To support and further World Impact's purpose and vision, TUMI seeks to facilitate dynamic, indigenous church planting movements among the poor to reach the inner
city unreached populations.
VisionTUMI's Vision is to facilitate pioneer urban church planting movements, to equip leaders serving the churches in these movements, and to spawn aggressive new church planting initiatives among the poor in America and across the globe. What is the foundation of this commitment, this vision for urban ministry and mission?
On the significance of vision and passion, the Scriptures are clear: where there is no prophetic vision, the people perish--they cast off restraint (Prov. 29.18). The vision that inspires us, drives and encourages us, that moves us is rooted in a simple biblical axiom: God's method of transformation and mission is people. When God wants to accomplish something great for his namesake, he raises up a man or a woman on whom he can anoint, by whom he can fulfill his covenant promise, and through whom he can work. Above all else, TUMI is established on this essential conviction: God is raising up a new generation of Christ-centered servant leaders who are biblically equipped, spiritually vital, and technically competent to accomplish God's task of planting the Church in the cities of America and the world. Since our beginning, we have sought to live out this vision, and to see God work through his chosen vessels who would launch pioneer urban church planting movements. Our vision is to identify and equip God's called leaders who are emerging from and called to serve and plant these churches in these movements. We are trusting the Lord Jesus through them to spawn aggressive new church planting initiatives among the poor in America and across the globe, and thereby fulfill the Great Commission among America's and the world's urban poor.
HistorySince 1971, World Impact has shared the Good News of the Kingdom of God with its neighbors in communities across the nation. Dedicated to facilitating church planting movements among the poor, World Impact evangelizes, disciples, plants churches, and and empowers congregations to minister effectively Christ's love to their community. The Urban Ministry Institute serves an important role in equipping these leaders and their churches as we provide quality biblical training and empower servant leaders for dynamic, effective ministry in the city.
With a deep commitment to the lost in the city, as well as a determination to empower the poor, World Impact strives to facilitate church planting movements to reach and transform America's inner cities. Since 1995, TUMI has sought to ground and empower emerging Christian leaders in the city to ensure that these movements remain viable and aggressive. Read an overview of our history.
For more information about TUMI please visit their website at www.tumi.org.
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