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To wild applause, he labeled this alleged tumor of "community" the supposedly evil "progressivism" -- and he told disciples to "eradicate it" from the nation.
The lesson was eminently clear, coming in no less than the keynote address to one of America's most important political conventions. Beck taught us that a once-principled conservative movement of reasoned activists has turned into a mob -- one that does not engage in civilized battles of ideas. Instead, these torch-carriers, gun-brandishers and tea partiers follow an anti-government terrorist attack by cheering a demagogue's demand for the physical annihilation of those with whom he disagrees -- namely anyone, but particularly progressives, who value "community."
No doubt, some conservatives will parse, insisting Beck was only endorsing the "eradication" of progressivism but not of progressives. These same willful ignoramuses will also likely say that the Nazis' beef was with Judaism but not Jews, and that white supremacists dislike African-American culture but have no problem with black people.
Other conservatives will surely depict Beck's "eradication" line as just the jest of a self-described "rodeo clown" -- merely the "fusion of entertainment and enlightenment," as his radio motto intones. But if Beck is half as smart as he incessantly tells listeners he is, then he knows it's no joke.
What he's describing, of course, is the very subject of my last book, The Eliminationists: How Hate Talk Radicalized the American Right:
What motivates this kind of talk and behavior is called eliminationism: a politics and a culture that shuns dialogue and the democratic exchange of ideas in favor of the pursuit of outright elimination of the opposing side, either through suppression, exile, and ejection, or extermination.
Rhetorically, eliminationism takes on certain distinctive shapes. It always depicts its opposition as beyond the pale, the embodiment of evil itself, unfit for participation in their vision of society, and thus worthy of elimination. It often further depicts its designated Enemy as vermin (especially rats and cockroaches) or diseases, and disease-like cancers on the body politic. A close corollary—but not as nakedly eliminationist—are claims that opponents are traitors or criminals and that they pose a threat to our national security.
Eliminationism is often voiced as crude "jokes," a sense of humor inevitably predicated on venomous hatred. And such rhetoric—we know as surely as we know that night follows day—eventually begets action, with inevitably tragic results.
I compiled the video above with a sampling from the past nine months. In it, you can see Beck call progressives a "cancer" (multiple times), "the disease that's killing us," a "virus," a "parasite," "vampires" who will "suck the life out" of the Democratic Party, and claim that progressives intend the "destruction of the Constitution" and will strike it a "death blow".
As Sirota notes, Beck is taking us down a certain path with this kind of rhetoric, and it always, as Beck himself puts it, "ends badly."
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Aged Care - Sanctions and Notices of Non-Compliance
This site provides information about Sanctions and Notices of Non-Compliance imposed on or issued to approved providers (operators) of Australian Government subsidised aged care services by the Department of Health and Ageing.
SanctionsSanctions are imposed by the Department on approved providers where there is an immediate and severe risk to the health, safety or well being of care recipients or where there is continued non-compliance. The decision to impose sanctions is not taken lightly and includes consideration of issues such as whether the non-compliance is minor or serious, whether it has occurred before and whether it threatens the health, welfare or interests of the care recipients.
Different Sanctions may be imposed, depending on the circumstances of the non-compliance. In all cases, care recipients of the affected service receive a letter telling them about the problems that caused the sanction and what the service must do to fix these problems. The service is also expected to meet with care recipients, tell them about the identified problems and explain what the service will be doing to fix them. The Department closely monitors the service to ensure that problems are fixed quickly and that care recipients are supported during this challenging period.
The information published about Sanctions on this site includes the names and addresses of services, the names of the relevant approved providers, the actions taken by the Department under the Aged Care Act 1997, the reasons for those actions, relevant dates and the status of the services. Sanctions information is moved from the current to the archived list once a sanction is lifted by the Department. Once Sanctions information is moved to the archived list it remains there.
Notices of Non-complianceNotices of Non-Compliance are issued by the Department when an approved provider has not complied with its responsibilities in providing required care and services but where this has not caused an immediate and severe risk to care recipients’ health, safety or well being. The Notice issued to the provider makes clear what problems need to be addressed and by when. The provider is expected to meet with care recipients, tell them about the identified problems and explain what it will be doing to fix them.
The information published on Notices of Non-Compliance includes the names and addresses of services, the names of the relevant approved providers, the reasons for the Notice and the date of issue. Information is moved to the archived list when either the provider has addressed the non-compliances or has a sanction imposed on it.
- Note - When a Notice of Non-Compliance is issued the approved provider may have up to 14 days under the Aged Care Act 1997 to make a written submission in response to the matters raised in the notice. After the Department has considered the submission, information regarding the Notice may be published on this website.
If a written submission is not received within the timeframe specified in the Notice of Non-Compliance, the Department may publish details of the notice on this website.
A Notice may appear on the Current Notices of Non-Compliance web page until the approved provider has addressed the non-compliance. Once this has been verified by the Department, the Notice will be moved to the Archived Notice of Non-Compliance web page where it may remain for a period of two years from the date it was sent.
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Businesses Should Close Mobile 'App Gap'
CREDIT: Mobile Applications Image via Shutterstock
Businesses have made the leap into the brave new world of mobile devices and the use of personal mobile applications in the workplace, but they're still not moving fast enough to develop and deploy the mobile apps they need, a new study shows. They may think think they're "locked and loaded" and ready for the next skirmish. But if they check their ammunition clips, they'll find they're still only shooting blanks when it comes filling the "app gap."
It's not for lack of belief in mobile, though. A study of 600 organizations found that 95 percent have employees whose use personal mobile devices for work and who trust that mobile technology will improve business outcomes and applications. The study was sponsored by Progressive Software, a global software systems provider.
In fact, 92 percent of organizations believe that adopting mobile apps will not only give them a competitive edge, but believe that that failure to adopt such apps will put them at a competitive disadvantage.
Despite the proliferation of mobile devices, application use and beliefs that mobile technology will benefit business, only around a quarter (29 percent) of respondents have already begun a formal mobility project, though 42 percent plan to do so in the next year. In addition, only around half (51 percent) of organizations interact with their employees using mobile apps and even fewer (45 percent) use mobile apps to interact with customers.
As organizations make plans to fill the app gap, they face some roadblocks. According to the research, perceived risks to implementing formal mobility strategies include security (54 percent), the additional investment required (48 percent) and the need for ongoing support (47 percent).
In addition, more than half of companies (56 percent) are concerned that they lack the skills to develop an appropriate application and application interface across myriad mobile devices and platforms.
"There’s little doubt that providing employees with the ability to work across mobile devices can increase a business’ productivity and collaboration," said John Goodson, senior vice president of products with Progress Software. "In an effort to increase operational efficiencies across the enterprise, IT organizations need to rely on trusted development environments that provide them with the security and control they’re used to with the ability to easily develop apps for multiple mobile operating systems."
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- THE MAGAZINE
- VERTICAL SECTORS
- Critical Infrastructure
- Stadiums/Arenas/Large Public Venues
- Supply Chain/Distributing and Warehousing
- Retail, Convenience Stores, Banks, Gas Stations
- Ports, Terminals and Transportation
- Construction, Real Estate, Property Management
- Healthcare/Hospitals/Pharma/ Medical Centers
- Government Data Center Security
- Casino Security
- Government (Federal, State and Local)
Everyone has the ability to influence. Bill Cunningham, previously spotlighted by Security magazine for his accomplishments, has helped better define the need for private-public partnerships. “The combination of increased demands and stagnant or declining police resources makes it clear that, now more than ever, law enforcement agencies must pursue all avenues for collaboration with the security industry, as well as with each other.”
This issue of Security magazine features the most influential people in security. An annual spotlight, the list boasts the best and brightest.
But anyone can be influential, one way or another. Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another, said Napoleon Hill, the author of many success books. A Time magazine poll of the most influential people recently found Filipino boxer Manny Pacquiao on top. If you know him from the boxing ring, his influence spread wider last year when he won a seat in his country’s Congress — and won it by a landslide.
Who knows what efforts impact others?
I don’t always but, after three decades in this business, my guess is that Bill Cunningham has, overtly and covertly, done an awful lot, in a very good way. I know and honor those people identified in this issue, and Cunningham was a Most Influential in a previous issue.
A Matter of Numbers
But, when it comes to the evolution of enterprise security leaders and the importance and impact of this group, this leader and his accomplishments mark three important security industry realizations. In sheer numbers, ability, and training, private security – whether within enterprise or contracted – is often the first responder as compared to law enforcement, fire fighters and EMTs. In sheer dollars, enterprise security and its government colleagues purchase billions of dollars of technology and services. And, third, partnerships between public and private are ongoing and contributing to the protection of society.
There was a time, some of you might remember, when security directors often came from the ranks of retired law enforcement. That may still be the case with some organizations. But there and elsewhere, the bar has been set higher, thanks in great measure to folks such as ASIS International and the Security Executive Council.
The founder of Hallcrest Systems, Cunningham authored two of the most influential books to impact the security profession. For the first time in a definitive manner, he drew a detailed picture of private security operations, technology, trends and comparison to law enforcement.
“Security is a force multiplier,” said Cunningham, when he was picked as a Most Influential. “The 9/11 Commission confirmed just how dependent the nation is on the security industry. More than two million persons are believed to be employed in private security in the U.S. This is roughly three times the number of state and local law enforcement officers. Viewing private security – technology and human resources – as a force multiplier does not ignore differences between police and private security in legal authority or accountability.
“Rather, this viewpoint acknowledges that security works in certain critical areas that police simply cannot cover because of a lack of human resources, a mandate and/or technology; and security is a growth industry, since local and state law enforcement is not projected to grow significantly in the future,” he said.
That still is the case.
As dollars continue to tighten on the federal, state and local levels, agencies are not growing their first responder ranks and in some cases cutting back. In some cases, local city police departments have disappeared as county sheriff forces take over. Uniquely, technology, especially security cameras, has proved a way for public-private partnerships. Cities as varied as New York, Chicago and Lancaster, Pa., are blending private and public cameras into a bigger, more powerful network for situational awareness and forensics. In Lancaster, for instance, the business community established and helps monitor cameras on the street.
Influence is relative, of course.
Still there are numerous people who have touched others and moved this profession forward, including those noted in this issue. In their own way, everyone can influence. Remember: let no man or woman imagine that he or she has no influence. Whoever he may be, and wherever he may be placed, the person who thinks becomes a light and a power.
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Ford Chennai plant is the first in the world to use eco-friendly 3-wet paint technology
In the world of automotives, Ford has created a deep, spectacular and lasting impression. It has continuously been a buyers’ delight. Many opt for the cars of this brand for the best experience they have along with good times with the vehicles that equip them to maintain velocity at par with the fast life nowadays. Being a subsidiary of the Ford Motor Company, Ford India Private Limited is headquartered at Chengalpattu, Chennai in the southern state of Tamil Nadu.
In the company of something new
Ford Chennai plant is the first in the world to use eco-friendly 3-wet paint technology. Three layers of paints are applied consecutively before the previous layers are cured, and hence the name 3-wet process. Stand alone primer application is eradicated with this process. The primer, the base coat and finally the clear coat are the three layers which need to be applied before the previous layer is dried. What noteworthy here, however, is that no significant interference between the application takes place, leaving the blending fine in all aspects. The look it gives is highly prized for its uniqueness and the touch and feel is exceptionally smooth. Being wholly eco-buddy, it remains always worth preferring for the automobile owners who want it different. And better. In no way, the shades are compromised following this newer and more efficient way and therefore, the buyers don’t have to compromise for the quality. Instead, this that made the features more enhance and the motors more dependable. The cars have retained the age-old quality nurtured by the true Ford way.
Analysis of the figures
The company is reported to being increasing this unique technical capacity by 50 % with the onset of this year. The technology is also being made into use in its 4 plants more in 3 continents. Initially, the solid solvent based process was applied, particularly during 2007 and onwards. However, that was caustic to the environment being highly synthetic chemical based and toxic. In addition, it differed from the newer way as the layers were allowed to get fully dried before layering could be carried out any further. And during this stage, usage of diesel had remained a big challenge. Such paints are highly durable and are capable of passing any test of time and ruggedness with flying colors. In addition to that, they are scratch resistant and hence bring delight to the stakeholders-both sellers and the customers in all possible manners.
The outcomes are very much favorable. As a result of implementation of this fresher and better technology, the carbon dioxide emission of the plant has been phenomenally reduced by 21 % which is a large percentage so far as cutting of CO2 emissions are concerned globally with respect to the other industries. Scientists and geologists have cited the possibility of containing the jeopardy of global warming at an exponentially higher pace, should other plants and industries carry out production the same way. They are also very much optimistic with respect of implementation of the painting process which promotes environmental ethics and which has the potential to render the planet much cooler and greener. The step has been highly welcomed and praised globally. Apart from this, the organization is expecting a tremendous rise in preference among the customers who love innovation and freshness who like to stay ahead and high in the high automotive purchase and possession race. The company is also expecting hikes in revenue and the subsequent profits this year. Currently being the 6th largest in India after Maruti Suzuki, Hyundai, Tata, Mahindra and Chevrolet, it is estimated that it will be having a better stance in the market with the coming times and with global support for this eco-friendly earnest endeavor of it.
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Now if Buddha comes, nobody is going to pay respect to him, because he will not be running a school or a hospital. He will again be sitting under a bodhi tree, just sitting silently. Not that nothing is done by him – tremendous vibes are created by his being, but they are very subtle. He transforms the whole world by sitting under his bodhi tree, but to look at those vibrations you will have to be attuned, you will have to grow. To recognize a buddha is to be already on the path. To recognize a Mother Theresa is very easy. There is nothing much in it. Anybody can see that she is doing good work.
To do good work is one thing, and to be good is totally another. I’m not saying don’t do good works. I am saying: let good works come out of your being good.
First attain to the receptive mode, first attain to the passive, first attain to the nonactive. And when your inner being flowers and you have come to know the integration inside – which is always there, the center is always there – when you have recognized that center, suddenly death disappears for you. Suddenly all worries disappear because you are no more a body now, and no more a mind.
Then compassion arises, love arises, prayerfulness arises. You become a showering, a blessing to the world. Now, nobody can say what will happen to such a man – whether he will go and become a revolutionary like Jesus and chase the moneylenders from the temple; or whether he will go and serve poor people; or whether he will just continue sitting under the bodhi tree and spreading his fragrance; or whether he will become a Meera and dance and sing the glory of God. Nobody knows; it is unpredictable.
You ask me, “How to become integrated?”
My whole effort here is to make you aware that nothing is needed, nothing more is needed. You have it already there, existing inside you. But you have to make approaches. doors, ways to discover it. You have to dig for it; the treasure is there.
So it is not a question of how to become integrated. “How to know that I am already integrated?” is the right question.
The question comes from Nisagar, and I can understand why it comes from her. She has been related to Gurdjieff work in the West. Gurdjieff had a very strange idea; meaningful, but still strange. He used to say to his disciples, “The soul does not exist. The center does not exist; it has to be created. Man is not born with a soul”…a very strange theory. But I can understand what he was emphasizing: man is not born with a soul, he has to crystallize his soul by effort. Hence Gurdjieff’s whole system is called “the work.” It is work and work and work. It is effort – again the action mode.
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This is it! Merry Christmas to all you beautiful Plus readers and listeners from the Plus team! We hope you'll have a marvellously happy 2012! And since Christmas is all about getting together with the folks, here's some family maths. You might not be able to choose them, but at least you can analyse them!
Christmas is a time of mysteries so we thought we'll give you the chance to put your favourite mystery to the experts. Pick a question in the poll on the right — after Christmas we'll answer the most popular question in articles and podcasts based on interviews with physicists and mathematicians who really know about these things.
Apart from the Olympic Games and Alan Turing's centenary, 2012 will see another important event: the 15th birthday of Plus! To get into party mood, here are the 5 most popular Plus articles since current records began. A big thank you to the wonderful and generous people who have contributed these and all other Plus articles!
It's dark and grey this time of year, that's why we cheer ourselves up with lovely sparkly tinsel and colourful baubles. But if that isn't enough for you, here's another chance to bask in some glorious colour.
Plus has been working with lots of fascinating, funny and famous mathematicians over the years. And since we've started producing podcasts in 2007, we can bring their voices directly to your ears. From Roger Penrose and Paul Davies to the science writer Simon Singh and the engineers behind the London 2012 velodrome, find out what they have to say.
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God and the Gangster
A once-made mob man shares his story with Salinas.
Thursday, March 10, 2011
Michael Franzese’s entry into mafia life was greased by his bloodline. His father, John “Sonny” Franzese, was an underboss of New York’s Colombo crime family, one of five ruling families. (The New Jersey branch of the family, says Franzese’s friend Joe Silva, is the basis for The Sopranos.)
“I grew up not liking law enforcement,” Franzese says. “I saw them as trying to hurt my father and my family.”
Although he admits that his father committed terrible crimes and parole violations that landed him in prison well into his 80s, Franzese excelled in school to the degree that he made pre-med at Hofstra University. But in 1970, his father was convicted and sentenced to 50 years on charges of multiple armed robberies, which Franzese says were false. He went to his father in Leavenworth Prison with a plan to drop out of school and get him out.
“He said, ‘If you’re going to be on the streets, I want you to be on the streets the right way,’” Franzese told a TV reporter. “That’s how it started for me.”
The Cosa Nostra “family” brought him in. Soon he was loan-sharking. But that was loose change compared to the next racket – gasoline.
“I devised a scheme to collect tax, from my 18 companies, 30-40 cents a gallon, and not pay it [to the government]. We were providing about 600 million gallons of gas a month.”
That translated to between $6 and $8 million for the family. A week. His bosses were rather pleased.
“In 1975 [the height of the the oil crisis],” he says, “I was called into a room and I got made.”
Some had been waiting 25 years for the blood ceremony, which would give Franzese the name of his second book, Blood Covenant (his first: Quitting the Mob). His life, at 24, escalated.
“I had a Lear jet, a Bell helicopter, homes in Florida, New York, L.A.,” he says. “I built a 7,500 square foot house with a racquet ball court. I had a Chevrolet and Mazda agency, a leasing company, a film production company.”
In a TV report, Tom Brokaw called him, during this period, “handsome and living high, as rich as royalty; a prince of the mafia.” But the kingdom was brittle.
“I became the target,” he says. “I went to trial five times.”
Rudolph Guiliani was his main nemesis. “‘I’m going to give you 100 years,’” Franzese says the former prosector told him. “Luckily I beat that charge.”
In 1984 he met (and soon married) Camille Garcia, a California dancer on the set of a movie he was financing.
She was naive about his business and associates, but that changed quickly. “I had just beaten the case from Guilliani, but they came after me again and I took a plea,” Franzese says. “A 10-year sentence, $10 million restitution, $5 million fine.”
He went to jail for 13 months. When he got out, he violated his own parole and went back in for “29 months and seven days in the hole.” He emerged, with nothing, save the conviction to give his “life to the Lord.”
“I spent 17 years in ‘the life,’” Franzese says. “The night of surrender [to the Lord] was Nov. 13, 1991. I got stripped of everything. My bank accounts, the cars, my house. [It was] the first time in my life I ever experienced hopelessness. Everyone – the government, my wife, my father, the guys on streets, my kids – was mad at me. I said, ‘Lord, I need help. ’Cuz I don’t know how to deal with this.’”
Since then, Franzese has become a model for the redemptive power of God: He made a permanent break from the Family in 1993; two years later he says the FBI invited him to speak to collegiate athletes about the temptations and risks of gambling. “Mike’s talked with NHL, NBA, Major League Baseball players,” Silva says. “He’s like a magnet.”
Now we has widened his audience; he speaks twice at Salinas’ First Presbyterian Church Sunday, March 13. He’ll lead with his powerful story.
“God is brilliant: People are intrigued by the mob,” he says. “But no matter what you’ve done, God extends his grace to everybody. I plant the seed in the heart and the Lord waters it.”
He’s on the road so often he didn’t know much about his engagement in Salinas. But when told of Salinas’ Mexican and Mexican-American gang problems, he says, “I spent eight years in prison on the West Coast and met those young men. I love talking to them. My wife is Mexican so I know the culture. I hope we can fill the church with them.”
When asked where he thinks he might be today if he had attended medical school, he says, “I can’t even think of how… It’s such a distance.
“I don’t know how this is going to end,” he says. “But God has a plan.”
MICHAEL FRANZESE speaks 9am and 10:45am Sunday, March 13, at First Presbyterian Church, 1044 S. Main St., Salinas. Free. 422-7811, www.michaelfranzese.com.
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The Situationist Launches
Posted by The Situationist Staff on January 28, 2007
The Situationist went live this morning. Part of a larger effort, including the Project on Law and Mind Sciences at Harvard Law School (website forthcoming), this blog will provide commentary by social psychologists, law professors, policy analysts, practicing attorneys, and others connected to law and mind sciences. Our posts–several of which are already up–will address current events and law and policy debates, informed by what social scientists are discovering to be the causally significant features around us and within us that we believe are irrelvant or don’t even notice in explaining human behavior, that is “the situation.”
“Situationism” represents a striking contrast to the dominant conception of the human animal as a rational, or at least reasonable, preference-driven chooser, whose behavior reflects stable preferences, moderated by information processing and will, but little else. Different versions of the rational actor model have served as the basis for most laws, policies, and mainstream legal theories, at the same time that social psychology and related social scientific fields have discovered many ways in which that model is wrong.
The Situationist, then, will be a venue in which the powerful, influential, but incorrect conceptions of the human animal come up against more accurate, if surprising and unsettling, realizations about who we are and what the law is and ought to be. Its content will reflect an emerging interdisciplinary trend in legal scholarship, as exemplified by the work of scholars such as Mahzarin Banaji, Gary Blasi, Martha Chamallas, Susan Fiske, Jerry Kang, Linda Hamilton Krieger, Lee Ross, David Yosifon and many others.
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GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) - The Palestinian election commission has started to update voter registers in the West Bank and Gaza Strip to pave the way for new elections - and reconciliation between the rival Fatah and Hamas factions.
Monday's registration drive is taking place both in the Hamas-run Gaza Strip and the West Bank, which is governed by the Fatah-led Palestinian Authority.
The election commission says voter registration will continue until Feb. 18.
Palestinian law requires elections to be held within three months of completing the registration drive. But no date has been set and disagreements between Hamas and Fatah have repeatedly prevented elections from taking place in the past.
Hamas seized control of Gaza from the Fatah-led forces of President Mahmoud Abbas in 2007. The rift is a major obstacle to Palestinian independence.
(Copyright 2013 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.)
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The services provided by the Garth Homer Society are CARF accredited. The Society has completed four successful accreditations (in 2003, 2006, 2009 and 2012). The Society will be accredited again in 2015.
WHAT IS ACCREDITATION?
Accreditation is a peer review process that helps the Garth Homer Society improve the quality of services provided to clients. Every three years surveyors visit our site to determine our compliance to the standards for the employment and community services that we provide.
WHAT IS CARF?
The Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities, or CARF, is a private, non-profit organization that grew out of a need to promote quality programs for people with disabilities.
CARF has surveyors with extensive experience and training in the area in which they survey. The role of the surveyor is to help organizations achieve the goal of assisting individuals with disabilities in achieving their highest human potential.
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In 1991, the City of Alton completed a Master Plan to redevelop the Alton Riverfront. Since the completion of the Master Plan, several attractions have been developed along the Riverfront, including the Alton Marina, the Boat Launch and a new amphitheatre. Previously, pedestrians could not safely access the Riverfront area as pedestrian access to the Riverfront from downtown was limited by four lanes of traffic and three sets of railroad tracks. Furthermore, it was determined that access to the Riverfront would become a greater issue as future development would limit space for parking, which would require the public to park in other areas and walk to the Riverfront District.
To provide improved access to the City’s expanding Marina / Riverfront District, the City of Alton constructed a new pedestrian bridge and walkway that connects downtown Alton to the Alton Riverfront. The walkway includes a 320’ long, 3-span steel truss bridge over US Route 67, Northfolk Southern Railroad and Union Pacific Railroad.
Oates Associates provided structural engineering services for the new pedestrian bridge and associated concrete retaining walls. Phase II engineering services were required for the preparation of contract plans, special provisions and estimates (PS&E).
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Achebe Rejects National Honor Again
The author, who is among 364 nominees would have been honoured with the Commander of the Federal Republic – Nigeria’s third highest honour.
In turning down the offer, Achebe said “the reasons for rejecting the offer when it was first made have not been addressed let alone solved. It is inappropriate to offer it again to me. I must therefore regretfully decline the offer again.”
This latest nomination comes after Achebe in 2004 rejected the same honour by the then President Olusegun Obasanjo. He based his reason then on the dangerous state of affairs in Anambra, his home state and the country in general. In his two-page letter about rejecting the honour published in Nigerian newspapers in 2004, Achebe was most scathing about the situation in Anambra.
“A small clique of renegades, openly boasting its connections in high places, seems determined to turn my homeland into a bankrupt and lawless fiefdom. “Anambra state governor, Chris Ngige was last year kidnapped and forced to write a resignation letter at gun-point”, he had said. He added: “Nigeria is a country that does not work-Schools, universities, roads, hospitals, water, the economy, security, life”.
Achebe had told the media that he hoped that rejecting the Commander of the Federal Republic would serve as a “wake-up call”. It will be recalled that the then Special adviser to President Obasanjo, Femi Fani-Kayode, told the BBC that Achebe had the right to reject the award, claiming that the author had lost touch with some of the events in Nigeria.
Sunday, November 13, 2011
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Without boundaries Apr 17 2009
From an interview by Kicker Studio of London designer Crispin Jones, where he says that the broad definition of design is perhaps not so bad.
On one level design is horribly inarticulate word - it has no real meaning nor way of encompassing all the things that are classed as "design". This weakness however means that the discipline is kind of without boundaries. I think design allows you to engage with the contemporary world and engage in shaping the world: we're living in a golden age of products/services as technology matures and people integrate it into their lives.
You may have picked up on this by reading kottke.org over the years, but I think that designers, architects, entrepreneurs, filmmakers, writers, scientists, et al. are all engaged in doing the same kind of thing, more or less, and that working "without boundaries" and borrowing the best aspects of many disciplines is one of the keys to maximizing your creative potential. (thx matt)
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The Race for BTU
The world's major central banks -- including the Bank of Japan (BOJ), the European Central Bank (ECB), and the Federal Reserve -- appear to have finally won a major battle in the deflationary war that broke out five years ago in 2007. While the ultimate victor is yet to be determined, it now seems likely that a period of nominal growth could ensue for another two years, perhaps even longer.
This will not be high-quality growth. And little of the growth will be real.
Commodity prices will surely eat away at most, if not all, of any gains that may occur in global GDP. Additionally, while non-OECD growth actually has a chance of achieving some GDP gains in real terms, the prospects for the OECD are not as encouraging.
The Race for BTU Has Begun
It’s important to put yourself in the minds of OECD policy makers. They are largely managing a retirement class that is moving out of the workforce and looking to draw upon its savings -- savings that are (mostly) in real estate, bonds, and equities. Given this demographic reality, growth in nominal terms is undoubtedly the new policy of the West.
While a 'nominal GDP targeting' approach has been officially rejected (so far), don't believe it. Reflationary policy aimed at sustaining asset prices at high levels will continue to be the policy going forward.
While it’s unclear how long a post-credit bubble world can sustain such period of forced growth, what is perfectly clear is that oil is no longer available to fund such growth. For the seventh year since 2005, global oil production in 2011 failed to surpass 74 mbpd (million barrels per day) on an annual basis. But while the West is set to dote upon its retirement class for many years to come, the five billion people in the developing world are ready to undertake the next leg of their industrial growth. They are already using oil at the margin as their populations urbanize. But as the developing world comes on board as new users of petroleum, they still need growing resources of other energy to fund the new growth which now lies ahead of them.
This unchangeable fact sets the world on an inexorable path: a competitive race for BTU.
When Oil Can't Take You There
It was not supposed to be this way.
Less than ten years ago, the universal assumption was that liquid BTU would ferry the world through its next phase of growth. The central thesis underpinning these forecasts, of course, was a belief in the large size of the world's total resource base. Because this view was so widely shared by geologists, its soundness was not questioned. It’s critical to understand that within the industry itself, there was a nearly universal assumption that higher prices would make the next tranche of oil resources commercially economic -- and easily so.
For example, when ExxonMobil declared in early 2004 that they could bury the market in oil should prices ever move above $40 a barrel, they believed that forecast very strongly.
Let’s consider that the role of the petroleum geologist in this regard, whose task is to locate and make recoverable these resources. It was not then, nor would it be now, a very appealing prospect for that professional to consider that the next set of resources might be so expensive to develop that many economies and regions might not be able to afford them. You can see such perspectives in books that appeared 4-5 years ago, such as The Myth of the Oil Crisis, which correctly identified the vast oil resources still to be extracted, but missed the slow rate at which these resources would be developed. Indeed, if there is a single concept that trips up experts and laymen alike, it is the changing rate at which many natural resources have started to come to market in the past decade.
And because of this, we've seen a number of forecasts for significantly higher oil production coming from the media and the financial sector during the past few years.
Last autumn, for example, I chronicled the flurry of exuberant calls for US oil independence and showed that a 2 mbpd decrease in US oil consumption had been completely marginalized in favor of a 0.5 mbpd increase in order to deliver a positive headline that the US was becoming less dependent on foreign oil because of increased supply. In Selling the Oil Illusion, American Style, I noted that such an uptick in US triumphalism was likely to accompany high oil and gasoline prices, as a way for the US to tell itself a reassuring story while the pressure increases on politicians and policy makers.
Indeed, Dan Yergin’s There Will Be Oil in last year’s Wall Street Journal was the start, I think, of a campaign to pressure the government to open more lands for drilling in the United States. Since then, high gasoline prices have been all the rage on every blog, talk show, public news radio station, and in the media at large. However, not since those naive days of 2004-2005, when oil first crossed the $40 mark, have I seen such an outlier supply call than the one that came through Citigroup in just the past few weeks.
The Latest Big Call: North America as Oil Giant
Ed Morse leads an energy research team at Citigroup and is well known for accurately calling oil’s price in 2008. But Citigroup's recent call for a potential doubling of North America's liquid petroleum production over the next ten years seems little more than a dream-wish.
Once again, we turn to the Wall Street Journal, which has now shown a definite habit for providing free space to those who call for North American energy abundance and independence. Speaking of Canada, the United States, and Mexico, Mr. Morse writes:
….theoretically total oil production from the three countries could rise by 11.2 million barrels per day by 2020, or to 26.6 million barrels per day from around 15.4 million per day at the end of 2011.
What Mr. Morse fails to mention in his op-ed is that the rate at which Canada, US, and Mexico would have to produce this new oil to meet his prediction would require new oil development and production at a rate of growth seen in the boom-days decades ago, a rate that is simply no longer possible.
Yes, the United States doubled its production of crude oil in 30 years between 1940 and 1970. Yes, from 1970 to 2000, Mexico nearly quadrupled its production of oil. Yes, Canada doubled production from 1980 to 2010. But let’s consider the time span of those periods: They were all 30-year timeframes, not 10-year timeframes.
More important is that for the US and Mexico, the peak of oil production is now in the past. The US peaked in the early 1970’s, and Mexico peaked in the last decade as its singular giant, Cantarell, entered decline. Only Canada has been able to inch up production, but there, too, lies an overlooked barrier: Again, the rate at which Alberta Tar Sands oil is developed and then produced is much slower than conventional oil.
Mr. Morse and the team at Citigroup have made the same mistake that was more prevalent a decade ago. They have mistaken the size of the resource base for the actual flows that are now economically, and geologically, possible.
Have you tired yet of the word rate?
Enrolled members of ChrisMartenson.com read my discussion of the two below charts earlier this year. The charts show two different forecasts, five years apart, of future oil production from Canada -- much of which has depended on growth from the Alberta Tar Sands. However, I am using them again in the face of the Citigroup claims so that a wider audience can see how limited the rate of the growth can be, as we face the next set of oil resources.
Recall, too, that it’s not just Citigroup; many Americans and US politicians believe that Canada is a petro-giant that will easily be able to increase oil production quickly to feed future US demand.
Moreover, lest the implication go unnoticed, Ed Morse’s team did indeed (rather foolishly in my opinion) not only call for a potential doubling of liquid petroleum production by 2020, but went on to claim that this would be enough supply to actually move the price of oil downwards, to $85 a barrel by that time:
Excess Canadian crude oil produced from oil sands is expanding at a rate of one million barrels a day every five years. The more that's produced, the less of a market there will be for oil from Venezuela and some other OPEC member countries with similar-quality oil, requiring them to either curtail production or lower prices. Even if oil prices rise in the medium term, we expect 2020 prices to be no more than $85 per barrel, compared with today's prevailing global price of $125.
It is quite incomprehensible that Citigroup could make such a call. I must be blunt: This is not serious forecasting, and there is no support in current trends -- or those of the past 5-8 years -- that would support such a price call.
Even CERA (Cambridge Energy Research Associates) has logged the explosion in the costs to bring on the marginal barrel of global supply, as has IEA Paris, and other energy teams such as Barclays.
Essentially, the Citigroup team is calling for a price of oil 8-10 years from now of $85 a barrel, which is essentially the price already needed today to bring on a marginal barrel of supply.
From Africa to Brazil, and from Russia to Canada, there is precisely nothing in the trends of the past 10 years that indicates finding and exploration costs for new oil are either set to fall or even level out. Geology and the cost of energy itself preclude such a possibility.
But as I mentioned, it is not just economists who mistakenly project fast rates of development from the domain of stubborn, slow, physical reality of the world’s resources. The following two charts show the forecast of future production from CAPP -- The Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers. The first chart is from 2006, and projects production through 2020:
Basically, in 2006 (which significantly raised the forecast from the year prior), the industry expected Canada to be producing 3.5 mbpd of oil by 2010; 3.75 mbpd by 2011; and 4 mbpd by 2012!
Now here is the second chart, from 2011, forecasting production out to 2025.
However, 2010 saw only 2.7 mbpd of annual production.
More revealing is that back in 2006 (the first chart), the industry expected Canada to be approaching 4 mbpd of production by 2011-2012. However, the latest data shows that the 2011 annual average only reached 2.9 mbpd, with recent months hitting 3 mbpd. In other words, the industry itself, on a five year time-frame, missed its forecast by nearly a million barrels. That is not a small miss for a country producing only 3 mbpd.
But given that this is the nature of new oil resources, we should only be surprised that analysts such as the team at Citigroup should have the bravado to call for future production growth at a rate totally unsupported by the nature of these resources.
The Race for Resources
What the team at Citigroup and other so-inclined geologists and economists are correct about, however, is that human economies will undoubtedly go after the next layer of fossil fuels -- at least until the economics of such a quest beats us back towards some other set of alternatives.
So while North American oil production has virtually no chance to increase, as believed by the cornucopians, there is little doubt that in the quest to gain relief from permanently high oil prices, every possible BTU in North America will be accessed and utilized. More broadly, as the acceptance of the new era of high-priced oil finally (and I do mean finally) broadens out to the wider public, the scramble for solutions will also unfold.
What do I mean by permanently higher oil prices? Well, given that the cost of the marginal barrel has risen so much the past decade and that Asia continues to add to its demand in a relentless fashion, this price forecast from the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) in Washington looks about right to me: (Annual Energy Outlook 2012):
The lower price path offered by EIA is now out of the question. Only a deflationary depression, sustained for more than several years, would allow for such low oil prices.
Because of geology, and because the non-OECD can afford even higher prices, the world faces a price path -- with large oscillations -- between the Reference case and the High Oil Price case.
Transitioning to Other BTU
In Part II: Promising Investments as the Race for BTU Heats Up, I lay out the latest global energy data showing how the world is already trying to transition away from oil and slamming the door shut on the prospect for any new net growth in global oil production and supply.
Are we closer than ever before to a tipping point, a regime change in which acceptance of high oil prices will broaden out in society? Four years of extraordinary, emergency provision of new credit by Central Banks should be sufficient to create a two-to-four-year mini-boom dominated by the world digging up fresh BTU as the realization finally sets in that no more oil is forthcoming.
Finally, I identify areas of investment that will play upon the coming scramble new energy resources.
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May 24 2013 Latest news:
Tuesday, January 1, 2013
ABOUT 20 pregnant and baby rabbits were dumped in a field near a west Suffolk rugby club.
RSPCA bosses, who have so far captured 14 animals, are now trying to round up the remaining rabbits before they starve, are preyed upon or fall victim to freezing night time temperatures.
Deb Williams, rabbit rehoming officer for west Suffolk RSPCA, said she had been called to help on Sunday afternoon after a spectator at Thurston Rugby Club on School Road, spotted the young animals in a patch of wasteland.
Ms Williams, who said that rehoming pets in the recession is “hard”, claimed the rabbits could have been abandoned after their numbers got “out of control.”
She added: “It could be that someone has brought what they think is two boys or two girls, but they turned out to be a boy and a girl. After the first litter the mother can become pregnant the same day so you could get to this situation very quickly. Alternatively, it could be that someone has bred babies for Christmas and that no one wanted them.”
Ms Williams, of Norton, near Bury St Edmunds, said the rabbits were mixed breeds, but are all small and include lops and lion heads.
“They had obviously been in a hutch environment for a little while. There fur was quite matted and needed to be groomed out but they were not in a horrendous state. Their teeth look like they are in a good condition and they are lively and bright eyed.”
She added: “They could make the right people the right pet. It is such a shame that someone thought they would cope by being released into a field like this to fend for themselves.”
The 43-year-old, who is a volunteer for the RSPCA, said that rabbits had been sent to various rescue centres across East Anglia, including eight to Thumpers Rabbit Rescue in Ipswich.
Ms Williams said: “I just want to say thank you to the members of the public who spotted the rabbits in Thurston and contacted the RSPCA and also to Thumpers. Eight rabbits is a lot to take on and we were very relieved when they said they could help.”
For information about rehoming a rabbit, or other rescued animal, visit www.rspcasuffolk.org.uk or phone 01473 623280.
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Massport Executive Director and CEO Virginia Buckingham today announced an initiative to enhance customer service at Logan by providing cots, snacks and bottled water to travelers stranded at Logan International Airport. The program is one of many new initiatives aimed at improving the travel experience and finding new ways to meets traveler's needs at Logan.
"During times when travelers are unexpectedly forced to spend extended periods of time at the airport, it is important that we find ways to meet their immediate needs, for food, water and a comfortable place to rest," said Buckingham. "As we move forward with projects to make Logan more efficient in the long term, we will remain focused on customer service and look for new ways to help the 27 million people a year who pass through Logan."
Massport has purchased 500 cots to be distributed within the terminals for passengers forced to remain overnight. In addition, Massport has purchased bottled water, snack kits, baby supplies and children's entertainment packs. The children's packs will include crayons and a Logan Airport coloring book.
The program may be activated at the request of an airline and by a Massport airport manager. The baseline for determining when to activate the program is more than ten passengers delayed longer than four hours.
The program is designed to supplement airline services in the event of an unusual situation, like a major storm impacting an airline's hub airport. The airlines will still meet their obligations to their customers to provide food and beverages and hotel accommodations when the situation requires it. The Massport services are intended to supplement these programs when the cause of the delay is not the responsibility of the carrier or an unusual situation prevents the carrier from being able to accommodate passenger needs.
Massport joins at least ten other major U.S. airports in offering passengers some accommodation for overnight delays. Unlike most of the other airports, Logan is not a hub airport with the majority of passengers connecting to flights and unable to return home in the event of weather or other delays. Logan is an origin and destination airport with approximately 90% of the passengers living in this area.
Logan is currently ranked the 8th most delayed airport in the country. Massport has proposed Runway 14/32, a new 5,000-foot runway with all arrivals and departures occurring over water. The runway would reduce delays up to 90% on northwest wind days, 45-55% in good weather, and 30% annually.
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Making an Appointment
When your child is sick
If your child is sick, and you are concerned about his or her symptoms, please call our Appointment and Advice line, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. We do not offer drop-in appointments, so this call is important.
When you call, please let the representative know you whether you are calling for advice or to schedule an appointment. If you are not sure, our trained nurses can evaluate your child's symptoms and help determine the type of care he or she needs. Depending on your child's condition and medical history and your preferences, the nurse may:
- Provide advice about how to care for your child at home.
- Send me a message so I can follow up with you directly.
- Schedule a telephone appointment with me or a trusted colleague.
- Make an appointment for your child to be seen in person.
If your child needs to be seen, the advice nurse will make every effort to schedule an appointment with me. However, in the event that your child needs care the same day and I am unavailable, we will schedule your appointment with one of my trusted colleagues.
For well child visits
For additional information on scheduling appointments and what to bring to your visit, please read:
- My office address, maps, and transportation instructions are included in "Offices and Directions."
- Please arrive 15 minutes early to allow time for parking and check-in.
- Please bring your child's Kaiser Permanente medical card and a photo ID, such as your driver's license, with you. Teens should bring their own identification, such as a school ID.
Before Your Child's Visit
Please bring any medications your child uses regularly.
- It is important for us to know which medicines, and how much of each, you child is taking because it influences recommendations for tests or other medicines he/she might need. Our electronic medical record tells us what has been prescribed, but only you can confirm what your child takes every day.
- If your child has a chronic condition, bring any related tools and records you keep at home (e.g., asthma symptom diary and peak flow meter; headache diary).
Think about the issues you would like to discuss.
- It is a good idea to write your questions down and bring them to our visit.
Remember to bring your forms.
- Please bring your child's immunization record.
- For well care visits (check-ups) please bring your completed health questionnaire.
During Your Child's Visit
Before you see me.
- When you check in, you will receive information on your registration slip showing when your child is next due for immunizations and other preventive care.
- You will then meet with my Medical Assistant (MA), who will call you in from the waiting room and take your child's vital signs. My MA may also weigh and measure your child before bringing you to the exam room.
- Additionally, he or she will ask if anyone in your household smokes. If you smoke and are ready to try to quit, we have many services that can help.
If your child is here for a sick visit:
- I'll ask about your child's symptoms. It's helpful to know when they began; how long they've lasted; what you've tried at home; and what, if anything, helps your child feel better.
- I will also do a physical exam to look for signs of injury or illness and order any necessary tests, such as lab tests or X-rays.
- If additional specialty advice is needed while you and your child are in the exam room, I can often call a colleague and get specialty advice immediately.
If your child is here for a well visit:
- Please read additional well child visit information.
Please ask questions.
- It is always good to ask questions and voice any concerns you may have about instructions, lab tests, medications, or treatments. If anything is unclear, please ask me for more information.
After Visit Summary.
- You may receive an After Visit Summary, which is a printed reminder of what we talked about during your child's visit. If your child is under 12, you can also sign up to view your child's After Visit Summary online using our Act for a Family Member feature.
After Your Child's Visit
After your child's appointment, if you have follow-up questions, please feel free to call me at my office in the Pediatric department. You can also sign up to e-mail me with nonurgent issues, whenever it is convenient for you.
In addition, our Appointment and Advice line is available for general medical questions and advice 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Please remember to:
- Make sure you complete any follow-up tests or immunizations I recommended.
- Pick up any medications at the pharmacy.
- Follow your child's care plan at home. The home treatment you provide after you see me is a critical part of helping your child feel better.
- Schedule and keep any follow-up appointments.
- If your child had lab work or other tests done, I'll contact you with the results by letter, e-mail, or phone.
- If your child is under age 12, you can also sign up to view your child's test results online. You will receive an e-mail notification whenever new laboratory results are available. Because those results are available to you immediately, my comments and instructions will usually follow in a separate e-mail.
- If we talked to a specialist by phone during your visit, we will decide if you should follow up with the specialist or with me for additional issues or questions.
- If we schedule you for a specialty appointment, you will receive an appointment reminder.
- If we did not book the specialty appointment during your visit, the scheduler for that department will contact you directly to arrange an appointment.
You can begin to manage your child's care online by requesting access through our Act for a Family Member feature. Once you have added your child to your account, you can:
- View and compose secure e-mail messages.
- Manage your child's prescriptions and refills.
- Schedule well visit and nonurgent appointments.
- View your child's Preventive Services to see whether your child is due for any immunizations or well visits.
- If your child is under 12, you can also view most lab test results and review information about past visits.
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But first, a plot summary:
The narrator Helen, who is a writer (yes yes, more about this later), lives alone in a settled, domestic way next door to her daughter and the daughter's family in a Melbourne suburb. Helen is preparing the spare room for the arrival of Nicola, her friend of fifteen years. Nicola is dying of cancer, but is convinced that her life can be saved by a Melbourne clinic offering 'alternative' treatments that will be fiendishly expensive. Nicola has asked if she can stay with Helen for three weeks while she has the treatments.
Nicola is ill enough to need close attention and periodically intense, full-on nursing, but is still convinced that the clinic's treatment will cure her. In the course of her stay, Helen becomes more and more enraged: by Nicola's behaviour; by the behaviour of the people at the clinic (and by extension the clinic's disgraceful ripoff behaviour, and by further extension all exploitative quackery, and by even further extension all exploitation of other people's weaknesses); by Nicola's impending death (and by extension death in general); and, finally, by her own rage.
Helen's own rage enrages her, and dismays and weakens her. 'The one thing I was sure of,' she thinks later, remembering the afternoon before Nicola was due to fly home to Sydney and back into the care of her long-suffering niece Iris, 'was that if I did not get Nicola out of my house tomorrow I would slide into a lime-pit of rage that would scorch the flesh off me, leaving nothing but a strew of pale bones on a landscape of sand.'
Finally the treatment ends and Nicola goes home to Sydney, not a moment too soon for all concerned; Helen is left not only exhausted but also bewildered and appalled by the feelings that the visit has brought to the surface in her, and the gap between the ideal and the real on several fronts.
This whole novel rests on what's actually a highly unusual set of circumstances. People with stage four cancer are usually not well enough to travel alone, much less to invite themselves to stay with a friend in another city, or to want to do so. Everything that happens in this novel happens because the dying Nicola is in profound denial about her condition.
She is, of course, not well enough to travel alone either, and goes into a state of near-collapse in the airport after what is, for the well, an easy hour-long flight from Sydney to Melbourne. The reason, we discover later, is that she has had, just before her trip, one of the ridiculous-quackery Vitamin C treatments ("High dosage Vitamin C will kill off lumps of cancer -- most doctors don't know this stuff") to which she knows she always has an extreme reaction.
One of the most distressing moments in the book (and there are many) occurs at this point, where the narrator Helen is forced to choose, in a public place, between the distress of a dear friend who is too weak to stand up and the distress of a five-year-old granddaughter:
Nicola couldn't sit up straight ... she was shuddering from head to foot like someone who has been out beyond the break too long in winter surf.
'Bessie,' I said, 'Listen to me, sweetheart. See that lady over there, behind the counter? Past the toilets? I want you to walk up to her and tell her we need a wheelchair. Right away. Will you be a big girl and do that?'
She stared at me. 'What if they don't have wheelchairs in airports?'
'Bess. I need you to help us.'
Nicola turned on her a smile that would once have been beautiful and warm, but was now a rictus.
'But I don't want to go without you,' said Bessie on a high note.
'All right. You stay here with Nicola, and I'll go.'
'Nanna.' She gripped me with both hands.
'We have to get a wheelchair. Go to that lady and ask her. Otherwise I don't know how we'll get out of here.'
I pushed her away from me. She set out along the carpeted hall with stiff, formal steps. I saw her rise on to her toes and try to show herself above the counter's edge.
This is maybe the first moment of rage, though it's not spelled out. Garner has always left spaces in her writing for the reader to come in and feel whatever he or she might feel, to think whatever he or she might think. One of the things that may well be happening for a reader -- certainly for this reader -- here, between the lines of dialogue and its frightful airport silences (for many is the silent moment of horrible dawning realisation that has taken place in an airport lounge) is rage with an adult for allowing the development of a situation in which a child must be pushed to her limits.
A similar moment occurs again when Bessie comes next door into her grandmother's house, where she has never been unwelcome, to do her flamenco dance for her Nanna and her Nanna's friend, and she's a few steps in when they notice her nose is running:
'Oh shit.' Nicola got off the stool and backed away. 'I'm sorry, darling, but you can't come in here with a cold. I've got no resistance left. Helen, you'll have to send her home.' She shuffled as fast as she could down the hall into the spare room, and pulled the door shut behind her.
I picked up a pencil and took a breath to start explaining cell counts and immune systems, but Bessie didn't ask. She stood in the centre of the room with her arms dangling. Her face was blank.
The rage isn't simple and isn't always about Nicola; sometimes it even goes in the opposite direction and manifests as ferocious protectiveness. 'I thought, I will kill anyone who hurts you. I will tear them limb from limb. I will make them wish they had never been born. Almighty God, I thought, to whom all hearts are open.' In a most Garner-like way, she doesn't tell you for what purpose God is being invoked in this prayer, so I looked it up: it's Cleanse the thoughts of our hearts. In this context that unspoken plea is very ambiguous indeed.
Friendship can be far more durable than marriage, and can sometimes involve feelings quite as complex and as strong, but it isn't a relationship that was meant to withstand living in the same house, as everyone who has spent time in shared households knows. This is not to say that no friendship survives it, only that it can be very testing, and the longer the stay the harder the test, even when you are both young and well and have no close family, much less when you are both of an age to be grandparents.
In the flash-forwards at the end of the novel, Helen demonstrates how much easier it is, by comparison, to take it in turns with others to help Nicola through the last stages of her life, and to stay in loving, sardonically realistic postcard-and-email contact with her when they are in different cities: 'I would write to her on a postcard: "I miss you. I'm bored. I'd rather be scrubbing shit off Iris's bathroom tiles."' It's the unrelenting domestic proximity to Nicola and her deluded self-(mis)management that stretches the friendship to its limits, not least because Nicola's delusional state means she needs constant monitoring, chauffeuring and nursing, sometimes all three at once.
We conduct our friendships in accordance with some internalised ideal of what friendship is; and we judge our friends and ourselves by the same ideal. But it doesn't get tested in this kind of extreme way very often. There are probably far more one-off acts of demented bravery or sacrifice performed in the name of friendship than there are protracted episodes of steady, grinding endurance, where our life's work is hijacked, our granddaughters dismayed, our washing machines given a serious workout and our patience worn so thin you could read the paper through it.
Friends make room for each other in their lives, especially when one of them is in desperate need of help, but there will always be strong competing claims. Those sorts of moment-by-moment and inch-by-inch negotiations are the lifeblood of fiction: the way we endlessly shift, this way and that, between the people in our lives, between love and responsibility, between inclination and obligation, making room here, cutting corners there, making unsatisfactory compromises and horrible painful decisions that please no-one.
One thing this book brings out very strongly is the difference between the physical demands of carer-duty -- Helen carries these out gladly, even when they become heavy, as she has always known she would -- and the far more onerous and treacherous burden of one's own feelings about the caree, about her behaviour and her situation.
As so often in her work, Garner sets this conflict up in such a way as to evoke from readers their own similar experiences (like feeling your brain blow up as you stand by in the role of officially designated carer to someone who has been told they must not be left alone after surgery or treatment; say, the sister who reverts to ancient childhood patterns of sibling-rivalry strategies even when drugged to the eyeballs and unable to walk straight, or to the friend, also still full of drugs, who point-blank refuses do any of the things she's been told by the doctor that she must do. Ahem.)
And everyone who's done it knows that the wet sheets and vomit bowls are the least of it, that they are, indeed, nothing: it's the rage, and the helplessness of the rage, in both carer and caree. If you are sick and helpless, you hate the dependence and lash out (though Nicola is not like this; indeed, her sense of entitlement is one of the things that brings this character so vividly to life, though she has moments -- which, again most readers will recognise from their own lives -- of saying with a kind of noble woundedness whenever the carer's exasperation shows, 'No no, this is too hard for you, I'll go and stay in a hotel.'). But as a carer, you cannot yell at a sick person and you feel monstrous if you do. They are already suffering enough, and they will probably cry. And that will make you want to shoot yourself.
You do these things for family because you are, at the deepest level, stuck with them, as they with you. Robert Dessaix, in his review of The Spare Room for The Monthly in April, was harsh in a glancing way about what he sees as the book's implication that if Nicola had got married and had a proper family she wouldn't need to be impinging on someone else's.
But I see it more as a tension that is there in almost everyone's life: the dues to family are monumental and non-negotiable, while those to friends have invisible, expanding boundaries, 'like gold to airy thinness beat'. The boundaries might go on stretching forever. Or not.
Next -- Part 2: FAITH
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Britain's top rating may yet survive
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's top-notch credit rating may survive the threat of a downgrade because economists still believe in London's resolve to erase a huge budget deficit and the central bank's ability to print money.
Rating agency Moody's imposed a negative outlook on Britain's triple-A rating late on Monday -- the first such warning on London's debt since the euro zone crisis -- saying the country's finances were too weak to cope with another big shock.
The stakes for Prime Minister David Cameron are high. Costly bank bailouts and runaway public spending rises under his predecessor Gordon Brown have saddled Britain with one of the developed world's highest budget deficits.
A downgrade of British debt could spook investors and make it much harder for London to raise the tens of billions of pounds of funding it needs to get through the next few years.
Economists and analysts still believe on balance, however, that Britain will get through the crisis without a downgrade. A Reuters snap poll of 10 economists taken after Moody's announcement gave only a median 27.5 percent chance that Britain would lose its triple-A standing.
Moody's issues a negative outlook if there is a one in three chance of a downgrade.
The warning, however, will hurt the coalition government's economic record and fuel a debate here over whether a different policy mix to bring the economy back on track would yield better results.
While a downgrade would deal a major blow to Chancellor George Osborne, who has vowed to erase the budget deficit within five years, some economists doubt it would significantly drive up borrowing costs.
"We do not expect the UK to be downgraded, but believe such an event would still not affect the draw of the gilt market," said Nomura economist Philip Rush.
The fact that Britain had a very strong track record as a debtor, the institutions to raise the money to service its debt and an independent Bank of England should protect the rating. "Credibility is everything," Rush said.
The main reason for Moody's move was the crisis in the euro zone, Rush said. "If the crisis doesn't intensify, we'd expect the negative outlook to fade away over time even if the growth outlook remains a challenge," he said.
Britain's recovery from the steep slump in 2008/2009 has been weak. Unemployment -- already at a 17-year high -- is set to rise further, and Bank of England Governor Mervyn King has warned the way back to growth would be long and arduous.
But Britain is still enjoying near record-low borrowing costs. The reason is that investors still view its bonds as a relative safe haven in the global debt storm despite a deficit worse than that of France, which saw its AAA-rating downgraded by Standard & Poor's at the end of last year.
Britain, which has already had to give up on balancing the books by the time of the next election in 2015, is aiming for a budget deficit of 8.4 percent of national economic output in the 2011/12 fiscal year, falling to 7.6 percent in 2012/13, still much higher than those forecast for France or the United States.
The risks to those predictions are considerable, in particular if the economy fails to recover this year and next.
Vicky Redwood from Capital Economics predicts 10 billion pounds of extra borrowing in the 2012/2013 fiscal year on top of the government's forecast of 120 billion as she sees the economy contracting by 0.5 percent this year.
A more dramatic shock such as a euro zone break up would send Britain's debt spiralling.
Leading fiscal policy think-tank IFS assumed in its euro break-up risk scenario a drop of Britain's gross domestic product by 2.3 percent in 2012, which would send the government deficit back to nearly 10 percent. However, the IFS still saw the debt-GDP ratio still falling by 2017 even in this case.
The IFS also highlighted a more imminent risk.
Most of the nearly 80 billion pounds in government spending cuts are yet to be delivered. While most of the tax increases are in place now, only 12 percent of the planned cuts to welfare and public services have been carried out so far and successful implementation is not guaranteed.
"The impact of the remaining cuts to the services provided is difficult to predict; they are of a scale that has not been delivered in the UK since at least the Second World War," the IFS said in its annual analysis of Britain's public finances.
And while Capital Economics' Redwood sees annual borrowing still at more than twice the government's forecast of 24 billion pounds in 2017, a rating downgrade is not her central scenario.
There are several crucial factors why Britain is seen as safer than most. The average maturity of its debt -- which dictates when the government has to reimburse investors -- is 14 years, much longer than many nations, according to the Debt Management Office (DMO), giving it more breathing space.
And the central bank has just embarked on another 50 billion pound round of quantitative easing purchases. "The Bank of England is still there as the buyer of last resort and it is still buying more gilts than the DMO is issuing," said Monument Securities strategist Marc Ostwald.
Moody's itself noted the Bank of England's key role in safeguarding investors' trust as well as the limited risk of not finding buyers for its debt.
"The UK has the lowest refinancing risk of all the large AAA economies, based on the average maturity of the UK's debt stock, ... its large domestic investor base, and the willingness and ability of its central bank to undertake accommodative monetary policy," Moody's said.
Chancellor Osborne, committed to slashing spending by about a fifth across government departments before the next election in 2015, faces the increasingly tough task of pushing through cuts while steering Britain away from a slump.
Treasury sources indicate that the credit rating must be protected at all costs, a sign that Osborne could even pledge further cuts if needed to keep financial markets on side.
"The government will stick to its plan to meet its fiscal mandate," one source said.
But sources say there are also senior Treasury officials who worry that the rating is at risk and that the government will struggle to deliver its cuts agenda because of the danger of a prolonged economic stagnation. Officials also worry critics will now be able to label the coalition's economic policy a failure and that voters could respond.
(Editing by Jeremy Gaunt and Michael Stott)
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Nevada House votes to reverse marriage ban
May 23rd, 2013
In 2002, the voters of Nevada voted by a two-thirds majority to amend their constitution to limit marriage to heterosexuals. But attitudes shifted and in 2009 – amidst heavy lobbying from the casinos – the legislature passed an all-but-the-name domestic partnership bill.
Last month, the state Senate became the first legislative body to vote for the repeal of an anti-gay marriage amendment when Republican Senator Ben Kieckhefer (R – Carson City) joined eleven Democrats to support Senate Joint Resolution 13. Today the House followed suit. (LVRJ)
Senate Joint Resolution 13 passed the Assembly on a 27-14 vote, bringing the process to get it to the ballot in 2016 to an end for this year. All the no votes were Republicans.
It must pass again in identical form in the 2015 legislative session before it could go to the ballot. Gov. Brian Sandoval’s signature is not required.
The proposal would remove Nevada’s current prohibition on same-gender marriage from the state constitution, and add new language recognizing same-gender marriage.
It also includes a provision to guarantee that religious organizations do not have to perform such unions.
Rep. Michele Fiore (R – Las Vegas) joined 26 Democrats in finalizing the first step of the repeal process.
Assemblywoman Michele Fiore, R-Las Vegas, spoke in support of the measure.
“When we started this floor session, I introduced my mother to this body, proudly,” she said. “What is currently in our constitution does not allow her to get married. You see, my mom is gay. I love my mom with all my heart, and I am who I am today because of her guidance, influence and how she raised me.”
With the rapid pace of change in popular opinion, a 2016 vote seems almost certainly to favor equality.
A poll conducted by the Retail Association of Nevada earlier this year found that 54 percent of voters want the state constitutional ban on gay marriage repealed, while 43 percent want it to stay in place.
House of Commons officially passes marriage equality
May 21st, 2013
The House of Commons has now passed the third reading of the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill by a vote of 366 to 161.
Altogether 133 Tories opposed the bill, along with 15 Labour MPs, four Lib Dems, eight Democratic Unionists and an independent.
So even after all the hand-wringing and fury about Prime Minister Cameron “betraying” the Conservative Party, less than half of the Tories voted in opposition to the bill.
Now it moves to the House of Lords. Expect some rather wacky statements.
SYTYCD supports equality
May 16th, 2013
Kudos to the judges of So You Think You Can Dance for supporting Jessie Tyler Ferguson’s Tie The Knot charity, which either supports marriage equality or the wearing of bow ties (it’s kinda hard to tell, but I think it’s both).
It’s probably not a huge risk, as the audience for SYTYCD is probably pretty supportive, but it’s appreciated anyway. And as equality becomes ever more stylish and status quo, the easier it is to point out how treating each other with dignity and respect benefits us all, and how barriers and discrimination eventually leave us outside in bitterness wondering why the world rejected our pretenses of superiority.
(Oh, and Brian Brown, I did NOT call you a bigot. That was the voice inside your head)
Brazilian Council declares nationwide marriage equality
May 14th, 2013
The National Council of Justice, which oversees the Brazilian judicial system and is headed by the chief justice of the Supreme Court, said government offices that issue marriage licenses had no standing to reject gay couples.
The Supreme Court “affirmed that the expression of homosexuality and homosexual affection cannot serve as a basis for discriminatory treatment, which has no support in the Constitution,” said Chief Justice Joaquim Barbosa on the council’s website, referring to a 2011 ruling by the top court.
Barbosa also said there was no reason for the government’s marriage licensing offices to wait for the Brazilian Congress to pass a law authorising same-sex marriage.
Currently a same-sex couple can create a union in any state in the nation. They then can have a judge rule that union to be a marriage. In 14 of Brazil’s 27 jurisdictions, a marriage license can be provided directly, without the two step process. This appears to resolve the remaining jurisdictions and allow same-sex couples in any state to marry without an extra burden.
The decision can be appealed to the Supreme Court. But as the Supreme Court’s chief justice announced the ruling, I am not clear as to whether such an appeal would be made or has any likelihood of success. So it may be that Brazil is the 15th country to offer nationwide offer marriage equality.
The countries which currently provide marriage equality are:
South Africa (2006)
New Zealand (2013)
And Delaware Makes Eleven
May 7th, 2013
The Delaware Senate voted for marriage equality today. While it was predicted to be a squeaker, the final vote of the 21 member body was 12 to 9. Governor Markell has pledged to sign the bill, so Delaware makes eleven:
2010 New Hampshire
2011 New York
2013 Rhode Island
2010 District of Columbia
And now over 50 Million Americans live in a state that has full equality.
Update: Gov. Jack Markell signed the bill this evening. Marriage equality goes into effect on July 1.
Minnesota House vote on marriage this Thursday
May 7th, 2013
From the Pioneer Press
A bill that would legalize gay marriage will get a vote on the Minnesota House floor Thursday, signaling supporters have the votes to pass the legislation.
As House Speaker Paul Thissen has said that he won’t schedule a vote until he is sure of success, this bodes well. The Senate also seems to be a sure thing.
In anticipation of the response I predict Brian Brown of National Organization for (limiting) Marriage will say:
“Minnesota is not a trend. It’s just a blue state. That doesn’t mean anything, I still have Alabama!! I’m going to win. I am. I am. I am. My Cardinal told me so!”
Minnesota DFL representative Rev. Tim Faust cites religious freedom for his position on marriage bill
May 6th, 2013
Rev. Tim Faust is the pastor of Zion Lutheran Church in rural Minnesota. Faust is also the local representative to the Minnesota House. And he’s been one of the DFL (Democratic) reps from a conservative district about which there has been uncertainty as to how he will vote on marriage. His district supported the (failed) anti-gay marriage amendment last year by about 60%.
Now Faust has decided that it is important to consider religious freedom in the upcoming bill: (SeattlePI)
“We have churches that want to bless legal gay marriages. The only way to give them that option is to pass this bill,” Faust said.
So Faust will be siding with religious freedom and supporting equality. I don’t know if Faust’s church will be one that blesses legal gay marriages, but he is affiliated with Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, and ELCA gives its member churches that choice.
Movement in Minnesota’s marriage bill
May 6th, 2013
There’s movement today on the Minnesota marriage bill, but it may be movement sideways. The StarTribune is reporting an impromptu committee hearing:
The House Ways and Means Committee is scheduled to review the legislation Monday. That’s after a state analysis showed a small impact on Minnesota’s general fund.
The analysis by Minnesota’s budget office predicts that if gay marriage becomes legal, 114 state employees would enroll in state benefits for their married partners. That would cost the state about $688,000 a year. But it would be partly offset by about $190,000 from same-sex couples buying marriage licenses.
Minnesota lawmaker chooses integrity
May 3rd, 2013
From CBS Minnesota:
A freshman Democratic state representative from a socially conservative district said Friday that he’d support the bill to legalize gay marriage in Minnesota, a key pickup for supporters as votes on the issue get closer at the Capitol.
Rep. Joe Radinovich, of Crosby, had been undecided. He said he decided more than a decade ago that he personally supports letting same-sex couples legally marry, but was conflicted knowing that many residents of his Brainerd-area district are more skeptical.
“This was not an easy decision, but at the end of the day I’d rather protect my integrity than my job,” Radinovich told The Associated Press. The 27-year-old lawmaker won his seat by just 323 votes last fall.
I believe that by the time he runs again, this vote will likely not cost him. However, we can’t know that so he’s showing courage today. And regardless of the outcome, he gets to hold his head high.
Civil Unions come to Colorado
May 1st, 2013
At Midnight, Anna Sher and Fran Simon became the first couple in Colorado to become civil unioned (civilly unioned?). They were one couple of many that have been waiting for a long time to have the state recognize their relationship and it is a joyous day. Mazel Tov!
April 30th, 2013
In the map above, the dark green nations offer marriage equality. The light green nations are either those which offer civil unions or some variation of partner recognition or those in which some but not all portions of the nation offer marriage or civil unions.
A look at marriage in Brazil
April 30th, 2013
Brazil has an interesting approach to marriage. Since 2011, same-sex couples have been able to register their unions across the nation. And once registered, they could petition a judge to convert that union into a marriage.
However, many of Brazil’s states have eliminated the two-step dance by allowing marriage licenses to be granted directly to same-sex couples. Two more passed marriage equality bills yesterday, bringing the total to 14 of the 27 jurisdictions: the states of Alagoas, Sergipe, Espíritu Santo, Bahía, Piauí, São Paulo, Ceará, Paraná, Mato Grosso do Sul, Rio de Janeiro, Rondônia, Paraíba, and Santa Catarina along with the Brazilian Federal District.
Nine of those were enacted within the last six months (four this month alone).
Delaware Senate Executive Committee votes on Equality tomorrow
April 30th, 2013
The Delaware Senate Executive Committee will meet on Wednesday, May 1, at 2:30. The only item on the agenda is a vote on House Bill 75, the marriage equality bill. Three of the six committee members are sponsors and another has stated his support for the bill, so it is expected to pass.
Equality to come to Rhode Island on Thursday
April 30th, 2013
The Rhode Island House of Representatives will vote on Thursday to approve the minor changes made to the marriage equality bill by the Senate. Gov. Lincoln Chafee has announced that he will sign the bill on Thursday evening at 5:45 PM. Rhode Island will become the tenth Equality State.
Northern Ireland narrowly rejects equality
April 29th, 2013
Northern Ireland leaders in the Assembly have narrowly voted against same-sex marriage today (29 April).
Out of the 97 members of the legislative assembly, 47 voted in favor while 51 voted against.
That’s a lot closer than I would have projected. And as Ireland changes its constitution to include equality and as the rest of the United Kingdom enacts civil marriage, soon Northern Ireland will feel the discomfort of fitting nowhere.
History to be made in Rhode Island
April 23rd, 2013
Freedom to Marry is reporting that a new threshold is about to be crossed.
Today all five Republicans in the Rhode Island Senate announced their support for S38, the marriage bill to end the statewide exclusion of same-sex couples from marriage, and their intention to vote for it on the floor. The bill passed easily in the Rhode Island House of Representatives in January, and the state’s Senate Judiciary Committee is expected to hold a vote on it today. This will be the first time ever that a party caucus in a legislative branch — Republican or Democratic — will have voted unanimously in favor of freedom to marry legislation.
If the National Organization declares war on these Republicans – and they will – they are going to seem even less relevant in New England than they already do.
Delaware marriage bill moves to House
April 17th, 2013
Today a House Committee in Delaware met to review the marriage bill.
The legislation, which Gov. Jack Markell has pledged to sign if passed by lawmakers, was scheduled for discussion Wednesday in the House Administration Committee.
The committee approved the bill by a vote of 4 to 1. It now goes to the House floor.
Remember just a few years ago when a story like this one would be the lead in every newscast in the country?
Patti Davis: Nancy Reagan supports gay marriage
April 17th, 2013
“She does,” Davis said in response to the question. “I’m hesitant to speak for anyone else, and she’s not comfortable going out in the public eye and getting in the firing line of anything. So, you know, I want to be cautious about speaking on someone else’s behalf. But let me put it this way: I think if she had disagreed with what I said publicly about my father she would have said something publicly.” Davis chuckled and added, “Let’s just put it that way. That’s the most sort of politically correct way I can answer that question.”
I heard Nancy Reagan recently on CNN speaking to Anderson Cooper about Margaret Thatcher’s death. And while she sounded very old and frail, she had her wits about her. So it will be interesting to see if she acknowledges Patti’s comment or in any way responds.
Colombia debates equality
April 17th, 2013
After a bumpy start, the Colombia Senate will open its debate on a proposed gay marriage bill on Wednesday, April 17.
It’s uncertain how things will go. But whatever the vote, the Colombian Supreme Court has determined that same-sex couples will have the right to marriage on June 20th. This is the Senate’s chance to establish the means, method, and parameters.
UPDATE: the debate has been postponed until Tuesday, April 23rd.
Ireland moves towards equality
April 17th, 2013
For years, Ireland’s politicians have said, “I support gay marriage, truly I do, but the constitution won’t let me vote for equality.”
That’s changing: (CS Monitor)
Ireland’s Constitutional Convention, a body set up by the government to propose wide-ranging changes to Ireland’s Constitution, voted Sunday, with 79 percent in favor of extending marriage rights to same sex couples.
The next step is likely a referendum. The Irish, living in a good Catholic country, overwhelmingly support equality.
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African Series Sample Documents
Volume VIII: October 1913--June 1921
Marcus Garvey to Frederic George Kenyon^1
176 Borough High Street, S.E.
[London] Oct. 8, 1913
Re my letter of the 6th inst^2 making application for admission to your reading room I further beg to inform you that the special purposes for which I would like to use the said room are "Reading the works of the late Dr. Edward Blyden LL.D^3 and other works that are not obtainable in any of the other libraries of London, as also to scan certain copies of old journals that are /not/ obtainable elsewhere.["]
Knowing your willingness to assist those in need of that knowledge that is under your keeping I now feel assured that you will consider my purpose befitting the condition under which your department is seen.^4 Yours faithfully
[Endorsements:] Let me see previous papers
1 month call R/R Adm 1 month 11.10.13
Call 10/10/13 F. G. Kenyon
BM. ALS, recipient's copy. Handwritten endorsements.
1. Sir Frederic George Kenyon (1863--1952) became director of the British Museum in 1909 and published a variety of works on its manuscript collection (WWW).
2. On 6 October 1913, Garvey wrote to Kenyon requesting "to be admitted as a permanent reader in the Reading Room of the Museum for the purpose of research and reference." He described himself as "a journalist and student." Garvey's letter was accompanied with a testimonial by Dusé Mohamed Ali, editor of the African Times and Orient Review (MGP 1:25--26).
3. Edward Wilmot Blyden (1832--1912), West Indian author, minister, teacher, and strong proponent of pan-African repatriation, had a long political career in Liberia. Born in Saint Thomas, Virgin Islands, at eighteen he visited the U.S. in search of a theological education. After being refused admission to Rutgers University, he moved to Liberia. By 1857 he was editor of the Liberia Herald and had published the first of many articles on Africa and pan-Africanism. In 1858 Blyden was ordained a Presbyterian minister and became principal of Alexander High School. In the early 1860s he visited Britain and the U.S. as Liberian commissioner and emigration propagandist. He served as professor of classics at Liberia College from 1862 to 1871; as Liberian secretary of state from 1864 to 1866; and as Liberian ambassador to Great Britain from 1877 to 1878. In 1880 he became president of Liberia College, as well as minister of the interior. After running unsuccessfully for the Liberian presidency in 1885, he made Sierra Leone the base of his activities. His last important public service was as Liberian minister plenipotentiary to London and Paris in 1905.
Christianity, Islam, and the Negro Race, Blyden's greatest work, was published in 1887. His thought---especially his ideas concerning the "African personality" and the desirability of return to Africa---had a great impact in his own time and on pan-Africanist thinkers of the twentieth century, Garvey among them. In fact, Garvey's pamphlet "A Talk with Afro-West Indians," his first publication after launching the UNIA in 1914, contained a four-page extended quotation from Christianity, Islam, and the Negro Race (Hollis R. Lynch, Edward Wilmot Blyden: Pan-Negro Patriot, 1832--1912 [London: Oxford University Press, 1967]).
4. Garvey was granted a reading ticket (no. 11199) for one month, dated 11 October 1913.
Major F. Hall^1 to T. C. Macnaghten,^2 Colonial Office
WATERLOO HOUSE, 16, Charles St,
Haymarket, London, S.W.
16th March, 1917
I forward the attached copy of a letter intercepted by the Censors,^3 for such action as you may consider necessary.
The addressee of the letter is a SOUDANESE and editor of the "African Times and Orient Reviews,"^4 a monthly magazine devoted to the interests of the Coloured Races. Yours very truly,
PRO, CO 554/36. TLS, recipient's copy.
1. The War Office List for 1917 includes a Captain (temporary Major) F. Hall, who was a general staff officer, 2d grade, in MI5D, the branch of British Military Intelligence responsible for conducting counterespionage throughout the British dominions and colonies. It worked through official correspondents, which usually included governors, colonial secretaries, and local chiefs of police ("Report on 'Special Intelligence' Organization in the Self-Governing Dominions and Colonies in Conjunction with the Central Special Intelligence Bureau," October 1917 [Confidential and Secret Correspondence], JA, CSO 1B/5/829; Judithe M. Blacklaw, British Ministry of Defence, London, to Robert A. Hill, 29 September 1993).
2. Terence Charles Macnaghten (1872--1944) was appointed first class clerk in the Colonial Office in 1904 (DOCOL, 1917; WWW).
3. British Military Intelligence was divided into two branches. The first branch (MI1, MI2, MI3, and MI4) collected positive intelligence from the war zone, foreign countries, and the British secret service. The second branch was responsible for the collection of negative intelligence; in addition to MI5 (counterintelligence), it included MI6 (war-trade data), MI7 (press control and propaganda), MI8 (telegraph and cable censorship), and MI9 (postal censorship) ("Report on 'Special Intelligence' Organization in the Self-Governing Dominions and Colonies"; Winston S. Churchill, secretary of state for war, "Reduction of Estimates for Secret Services," 19 March 1920, Lloyd George Papers F9/2/16; John Bulloch, M.I.5: The Origin and History of the British Counter-espionage Service [London: Arthur Barker, 1963]).
4. The African Times and Orient Review (ATOR), which for a period in 1913 employed Marcus Garvey in its editorial office on Fleet Street, was edited and published in London by Dusé Mohamed Ali. He initially intended it as a trade magazine serving West Africa and used its columns to promote his own business ventures in the region and to support the political cause of Africans and colonial peoples in their confrontation with European imperialism.
ATOR was intended to fill the need "for a Pan-Oriental Pan-African journal at the seat of the British Empire which would lay the aims, desires, and intentions of the Black, Brown and Yellow races---within and without the Empire---at the throne of Caesar" (foreword, ATOR 1 [July 1912]: iii). At the same time, ATOR's editorial policy took care to express its essential loyalty and a professed belief in racial harmony. ATOR appeared as a monthly from July 1912 to December 1913, and as a weekly from 24 March to 18 August 1914. Publication was suspended because of World War I for over two years, when the journal was banned in India and the British African colonies, but it was resumed on a monthly basis from January 1917 until October 1918. After another suspension of publication, the journal reappeared under the title Africa and Orient Review from January to December 1920. In June 1928 a final single issue was published in New York under the title Africa.
The official British attitude toward the publication was summarized by the recollections of two British colonial officials in November 1917. One noted that "in the old days the magazine was considered to be of doubtful loyalty, owing to Dusé Mohamed's pan-Ethiopian programme"; the other commented that "Dusé Mohammed, the editor of the African Times and Orient Review, is a rather doubtful character whose paper, before the war, was suspect, being inclined to the Ethiopian movement and believed to be in touch with undesirable elements in India and Egypt" ("African Times and Orient Review, and Dusé Mohamed Ali," PRO, CO 554/35/55259). ATOR's "pan-Ethiopian"---i.e. Pan-African---character was reflected in the magazine's agents: Rev. Attoh Ahuma, West Africa; John E. Bruce, U.S.; H. C. Solomon, Panama Canal Zone; and F. Z. S. Peregrino, Cape Town, South Africa. ATOR was represented in Jamaica, its only West Indian base, by the Jamaica Times.
Enclosure: Transcript of Letter from
S. O. Logemoh^1 to Dusé Mohamed Ali^2
206 East 95th Street, New York City,
U.S. America. 22nd February, 1917
My Honoured Friend,
I was delighted to have received your last letter in reply to my last to you, and I appreciate your kind sentiments expressed, but believe me, when ever I meet any one who is ready to champion the cause of this ill-used race of ours, I never consider any sacrifice too great to do, even with it I have to loose dear life itself. Except those who do not know, but those who know, must realize how the whiteman with one concerted mind has planned the annihilation of the Negroes all over the World on account of material aggrandizement---even the once exalted England whose sense of justice and humanitarian principles has never been reached by any nation before, particularly in days of Gladstone^3 and those highly Christianed statesmen, but today the tendency is rather to fool the Negroes with Heaven paved with Gold and brutalize and bruise his soul in this world for the gold here. However[,] now that Europe has been put on the balance let us venture to hope that, that one time righteous England may be made to realize the power of God above all things else which will make her decide as before "justice and right" for all millions of black subjects that have been entrust[ed to] her, then shall she come out victorious in this conflict of nations. I pass on---Really until a people can dev[e]lop along Commercial lines they are never considered any consequence---the Africans at least one or two who in the past endeavoured to bridge the difficulty have always met with over-whelming forces^4 which naturally paral[y]ze their attempt and all this wicked device is to make the African remain forever, "hewers of wood and drawers of water" but a new age is dawning, and a soul of another King is beginning to rouse the slumberer, in another 20 years there will be an astounding result of this much ill-used African Race. What the African wants all-over is Education, particularly Industrial Education.^5
The American Negro is not yet awake from sleep, I have met a Russian Jew with whom I am engaged in business in West Africa---of course the Negro cannot yet realize the value of co-operation.
We are organizing an Industrial Mission in Africa with some West Indians who have acquired useful experience, of course we shall go without any noise until we are firmly established.
I may at times want to forward some parcels to West Africa and will forward to you as there is no direct parcels post from here.
We are looking forward to the re-appearance of your valuable journal and I shall not relax my interest and will do all my best to further its interest.
I should be obliged if you can please let me have the addresses of Lawyer Merriman,^6 and Mr. J. Eldred Taylor^7---apologising for long writing. With sentiments of best regard, yours
SD. S. O'KAGOO LOGEMOH
P.S. (On separate slip of paper). The Rev. Norman Wilson will be glad to know the price of the Koran published by you.^8 With thanks in advance. Sd. S. O. Logemoh.
PRO, CO 554/36. TLT.
1. S. O. Logemoh, a Liberian entrepreneur usually referred to in Monrovia as "Professor," became director of the African Industries Company in 1922. He had been involved in plans for an African Steamship and Sawmill Company to operate between Monrovia and Philadelphia two years before. In 1932 the Liberian government sent him to Gbanga, in the interior, to persuade local chiefs to reject a League of Nations plan for white district commissioners (Logemoh to John E. Bruce, 5, 15, 22, and 24 June 1922, NN-Sc, JEB; Svend Holsoe, Institute for Liberian Studies, Philadelphia, to Ibrahim Sundiata, 18 November 1985; MGP 6:520--521 n. 1).
2. Dusé Mohamed Ali (1866--1945), Pan-Africanist editor of the African Times and Orient Review (ATOR) and early mentor of the young Marcus Garvey, was born in Alexandria, Egypt. The son of a Sudanese mother and, reputedly, an Egyptian army officer, he was brought to England at a young age by a French officer friend of his father. He established a stage career as a touring Shakespearean actor, performing in North America and the English provinces. By 1902 he had abandoned the stage for a financially uncertain career in journalism, acquiring a reputation as a fearless critic of European imperialism and a champion of the Muslim faith. He was associated with the Fabian weekly New Age, at that time edited by Alfred Richard Orage (1873--1934), but the two parted company when it was revealed that Ali's widely acclaimed nationalist account of Egyptian history, In the Land of the Pharaohs (1911), was plagiarized from other works. Despite this scandal, the book was well received by black scholars of the time in West Africa and the U.S., and on its strength Ali was elected a corresponding member of the New York-based Negro Society for Historical Research, founded by Arthur Schomburg and John E. Bruce. Ali developed a personal and professional relationship with Bruce, sharing with him an interest in the commercial as well as political advancement of the black race. Ali also helped with the arrangements for the Universal Race Congress held in London in 1911 and met a number of prominent West African merchants and professional men, including Joseph E. Casely Hayford and J. Eldred Taylor.
A newspaper venture with Taylor fell through, but with the assistance of Taylor and other West Africans, Ali launched ATOR in July 1912. The journal earned Ali considerable renown among the colonial and black American intelligentsia but did little to advance his own business aspirations. Moreover, his attacks on colonial policy and his espousal of Turkish and Indian nationalism---together with his support of "Ethiopianism"---branded him a political subversive in British official circles. Ali became acquainted with Garvey in London in 1912, employing him for a few months as a messenger at the ATOR office. He then dismissed Garvey because of alleged laziness and poor character. Relations between the two then remained cool for a decade. A letter from Ali attacking Garvey's character is reported to have been read at a UNIA meeting in New York in 1917, nearly wrecking the fledgling movement.
From 1911 to 1919 Ali played an active part in several organizations with an Islamic or pro-Turkish stance. He was also active in the League of Justice of the Afro-Asian Nations and the African Progress Union, an association of West Indian and African exiles founded in London in 1918. Technically a Turkish national, he came under increasing suspicion when the Ottoman Empire entered World War I on the German side. He also became involved in wartime charities directed toward the relief of war-wounded Indian Muslim soldiers and volunteered to join the British army. Skeptical British officials rejected this offer, as well as his bids to tour West Africa in 1914 and 1917 to raise a war loan among the African populace---and to pursue his own business schemes at the same time.
Even before ATOR collapsed in December 1920, Ali's attention had turned to business ventures. Characteristically, these combined racial advancement with self-interest. To further the interests of his Africa and Orient Trade Exchange, he paid his first visit to West Africa in July 1920. He spent several months in Lagos, Ibadan, and the Gold Coast in an unsuccessful attempt to interest local entrepreneurs in banking and produce-buying ventures, though at Ibadan he was sympathetically received by J. Akinpelu Obisesan. Around this time he also sought unsuccessfully to persuade President C. D. B. King of Liberia to accept an international loan from a black American consortium rather than from European or white American sources. None of these schemes materialized, and at the end of 1920 Ali became a director of the London-based Inter-Colonial Corporation. It was on behalf of this company that he traveled to the U.S. in mid-1921 to arrange a cocoa-purchasing deal. Ali claimed that his Gold Coast partners cheated him and left him penniless in New York. He survived by giving public lectures, and when another business venture, the American African Oriental Trading Company, collapsed, he turned in desperation to his pan-Africanist contacts and through John E. Bruce met up again with Garvey.
In July 1919 Garvey had written Ali, asking him to book London's Royal Albert Hall and several provincial venues for a proposed tour of England in order to promote the UNIA, but Ali had ignored the request. Despite their earlier ill will, the rapprochement with Garvey was of advantage to both men. By 1922 Ali was a regular contributor to the Negro World, was appointed head of its Africa section, and was named UNIA foreign secretary in a petition to the League of Nations that year. Garvey, meanwhile, benefited from Ali's connections in Africa and the Middle East and from his association with Pan-Islamic circles, his business networks, and his reputation as a journalist, as well as his subscription lists for ATOR. Ali drifted away from the UNIA by 1924, but his attitude toward Garvey did not seem negative. His portrayal of Garvey (as "Napoleon Hatbry") in his autobiographical novel, Ere Roosevelt Came, was sympathetic (in marked contrast to his treatment of W. E. B. Du Bois), and his obituary notice for Garvey printed in the Comet was generous.
Ali remained in the U.S. for several years after leaving the UNIA, maintaining his interest both in pan-Africanism and trade with West Africa. When his American African Oriental Trading Company collapsed like all his previous ventures, he formed another short-lived company, the America-Asia Association, in 1926, combining a commercial consulting service with cultural functions. Ali held office in the Native African Union of America in the late 1920s and became involved in promoting the grandiose business plans of the Gold Coast businessman Winfried Tete-Ansa.
Ali then returned to West Africa as an agent for a New York cocoa buyer. Denied entry to the Gold Coast, he and his wife turned up virtually penniless in Lagos in August 1931; there they were also prevented from disembarking. In desperation he wrote a note from the ship to Herbert Macaulay, then Nigeria's leading nationalist politician, seeking his help. Ali had met Macaulay in England in 1920 and had also written him in 1928 promoting Tete-Ansa's business schemes. Macaulay persuaded Dr. C. C. Adenyi-Jones, a close friend and political ally, and Dr. J. C. Vaughan (1833--1937), a popular medical practitioner, to provide the necessary bonds to enable Ali and his wife to come ashore. Predictably, Ali's business plans collapsed, but his friends found him work in local journalism.
Initially employed as a columnist on the Nigerian Daily Times, he became managing editor of the Nigerian Daily Telegraph in February 1932. Finally, with the financial support of his friends and admirers in Lagos, he was able to acquire his own newspaper, the Comet. One of his financial guarantors was A. S. W. Shackleford. The paper, initially a weekly, was moderately successful financially, building up a circulation of three to four thousand. By 1936 it had acquired its own printing press. Because of Ali's technical and literary accomplishments the Comet was regarded as the best-produced newspaper in Lagos at the time. Nnamdi Azikiwe, then a rising politician and newspaper proprietor, obtained a controlling share of the Comet in February 1945 and full ownership following Ali's death on 26 June that year (Agent 800 [James W. Jones] to G. F. Ruch, Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., 14 October 1921 and 3 March 1922, DJ-FBI, file 10537; cable from Wright, London, to secretary of state, Washington, D.C., 6 April 1921, DNA, RG 59, file 811.108G 191/3; Ali to Bruce, 12 September 1919, enclosing Garvey's letter to Ali, 18 July 1919, NN-Sc, JEB; PRO, CO 554/35/55250; PRO, FO 371/3728/316; General Correspondence 1931, IU, HM, box III, file 10; Ian Duffield, "Dusé Mohamed Ali and the Development of Pan-Africanism, 1866--1945" [Ph.D. diss., University of Edinburgh, 1971], 2:660--678; Comet, February--October 1934; Dusé Mohamed Ali, "Leaves from an Active Life," Comet, 12 June 1937--5 March 1938; Ian Duffield, "Dusé Mohamed Ali: An Example of the Economic Dimension of Pan-Africanism," JHSN 4, no. 4 : 571--600; Robert A. Hill, "The First England Years and After, 1912--1916," in Marcus Garvey and the Vision of Africa, ed. John Henrik Clarke [New York: Random House, 1974], pp. 38--76; Claude McKay, Harlem: Negro Metropolis [New York: E. P. Dutton, 1940], p. 147).
3. William Ewart Gladstone (1809--1898) was prime minister of Britain from 1868 to 1874, 1880 to 1885, in 1886, and from 1892 to 1894. Edward Wilmot Blyden had begun corresponding with Gladstone in 1860 because of their mutual interest in classical literature. The two men met the next year in London, and Gladstone offered to support Blyden in a British university; Blyden declined, however, because he felt unable to commit the time necessary for full-time study outside of Liberia. In 1866 and again in 1871 Blyden visited England, where he was Gladstone's guest at the House of Commons and through him met many influential scholars and clergymen (Hollis R. Lynch, Edward Wilmot Blyden: Pan-Negro Patriot, 1832--1912 [London: Oxford University Press, 1967], pp. 14--15, 26--27, 174, 180; WBD).
4. From the early part of the century a number of commercial efforts were launched by Africans and African Americans to develop economic and trade ties for their mutual advancement. The most spectacular, even though it ended in tragic failure, and the one that could be considered the legitimate forerunner of the Garvey movement, was the Akim Trading Company, established in 1911 by Chief Alfred Charles Sam of the Gold Coast. It successfully purchased a ship and returned to the Gold Coast with a party of 114 African-American colonists, arousing strong opposition from the British government and the Gold Coast colonial administration. Chief Sam's attempt at African-American colonization, however, was from the outset supplementary to the goal of establishing trade. While the Akim Trading Company appealed for assistance among both Africans and African Americans, it extended a special inducement of stock "for our brethren in Africa to get into this movement" (Office of the Secretary of State, Albany, New York, Certificate of Incorporation of the Akim Trading Company, Brooklyn, New York, 21 July 1911).
Sam's main body of support was the U.S. African-American community, particularly after the company's land acquisitions in the Birim Valley region of the Gold Coast came to the attention of black leaders in Oklahoma in 1911--1912 through advertisements by the African League. At this point the company's original character as a commercial enterprise changed to encompass the aim of African-American immigration to Africa. Official hostility, combined with severe logistical problems in meeting the needs of the eventual colonists, many of whom died in Africa, led to the movement's ultimate collapse in 1915 and 1916.
There were several other less well known attempts at establishing commercial ties between Africa and the U.S. African-American community. In March 1902, for example, W. E. B. Du Bois was involved as secretary in a Philadelphia-based venture calling itself the African Development Company whose purpose was to raise fifty thousand dollars in capital stock to be used, among other aims, "to acquire land in East Central Africa to be used for the cultivation of coffee and other products." The prospectus also stated the company held "contracts with certain native chiefs for valuable concessions of land" (quoted in Herbert Aptheker, "W. E. B. Du Bois and Africa," in Pan-African Biography, ed. Robert A. Hill [Los Angeles: African Studies Center, University of California, Los Angeles, and Crossroads Press, 1987], p. 100). It is not known if it reached the stage of actual incorporation.
The New York and Liberia Steamship Company was promoted in 1904 by James Robert Spurgeon, formerly U.S. chargé d'affaires in Monrovia, Liberia, and Augustus C. Faulkner, late machinist in the U.S. navy, with the aim of running a line of steamers between New York and Liberia. Potential stock buyers were urged to "rally and seize the extraordinary opportunity to establish yourselves firmly in the commercial and shipping life of New York and foreign parts of the globe" (Colored American Magazine 7, no. 11 [November 1904]: 702).
The African Mining and Real Estate Company of America was organized in Brooklyn, N.Y., by E. E. Pettis, later secretary of the Akim Trading Company; among its board of directors were Bishop Alexander Walters (chairman), Bishop Henry McNeal Turner, and John E. Bruce.
The Chas. W. Chappelle Company of Brooklyn, N.Y. began trading in Africa in 1910. In 1912 its founder, Charles Ward Chappelle, an engineer and architect from Pittsburgh, visited the Gold Coast; upon his return to the U.S., he organized the African Union Company in December 1913, which absorbed the earlier firm and became incorporated in New York State in March 1914. The company reportedly controlled substantial amounts of mahogany in the territory of the Gold Coast. Chappelle relocated to Sekondi, Gold Coast, in April 1914, where he established himself as a mahogany merchant. Among the officers of the company was Emmett J. Scott, secretary to Booker T. Washington and the Tuskegee Institute.
In 1915 the African Steamship and Sawmill Company was established by Rev. Lewis Garnett Jordan (1853--1939), president, and Bishop W. H. Heard, treasurer, of the Baptist Foreign Mission Society of Philadelphia. It was financed by members of the Baptist and AME churches and chartered under the laws of the state of Delaware. In March 1919, the company was reorganized through the efforts of S. O. Logemoh, who attempted to negotiate with the U.S. Shipping Board for purchase of a vessel.
In the fall of 1917, one year after Garvey's arrival in the U.S., the African Industries Company was launched in New York, with the aim, according to William H. Ferris, of "laying plans for the commercial development of West Africa and urging black men to co-operate with each other" (New York Amsterdam News, 11 February 1925).
Garvey's Black Star Line, organized in 1919, also had the goal of linking America, Africa, and the West Indies. Its problems of undercapitalization, technical inexperience, and poor logistical planning were similar to these earlier efforts at achieving self-supporting economic and trade relationships between the various parts of the African world (Colored American Magazine 7, no. 12 [December 1904]: 735--742; New York News, 2 April 1914; Jamaica Times [Kingston], 3 October 1914; African Telegraph [London], December 1914; Crisis 20, no. 5 [September 1920]: 239; Mission Herald [Philadelphia] 24, no. 15 [October 1921]; John O. Garrett, "Part Played by Negroes in Ancient and Modern Shipping Graphically Told," NW, 14 July 1923; "Alfred Charles Sam and an African Return: A Case Study in Negro Despair," Phylon 23, no. 2 : 178--196; A. G. Hopkins, "Economic Aspects of Political Movements in Nigeria and in the Gold Coast, 1918--1939," JAH 7, no. 1 : 133--152; J. Ayodele Langley, "Chief Sam's African Movement and Race Consciousness in West Africa," Phylon 32, no. 2 [summer 1971]: 164--178; Ian Duffield, "Pan-Africanism, Rational and Irrational: Review Article," JAH 18, no. 4 : 597--620; Robert A. Hill, "Before Garvey: Chief Alfred Sam and the African Movement, 1912--1916," in Pan-African Biography, ed. Hill, pp. 57--77; Allister Macmillan, ed., The Red Book of West Africa [1920; reprint, London: Frank Cass, 1968], p. 215; William E. Bittle and Gilbert L. Geis, The Longest Way Home: Chief Alfred C. Sam's Back-to-Africa Movement [Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1964]).
5. While schools devoted to teaching African Americans manual trades emerged as early as 1864, the first institution to devote its educational mission to industrial and agricultural subjects was the Hampton Institute, founded in Atlanta in 1868 by Samuel Chapman Armstrong. Booker T. Washington, who had taught at Hampton, brought such teaching to national preeminence at Tuskegee Institute, and it was given further support by the million-dollar John F. Slater Fund, established in 1882, for schools which gave instruction in manual trades. In the eyes of many whites, training in manual trades would instill "morality," encourage "self-help," and provide a steady supply of labor. Furthermore, the narrow emphasis on trades, at the expense of any liberal arts curricula, served southern whites in limiting the access of African Americans to business and politics (August Meier, Negro Thought in America, 1880--1915 [Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1963], pp. 85--93; Kenneth James King, Pan-Africanism and Education [Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1971], pp. 1--9).
6. Probably a reference to Augustus Boyle Chamberlayne Merriman-Labor of Sierra Leone, otherwise known as Augustus Merriman (alias Ohlohr Maiji), lawyer and author of Britons through Negro Spectacles; or, A Negro on Britons, with a Description of London (London: Imperial and Foreign Co., 1909) and several collections of lectures and papers. His book was said to contain amusing but "shrewd comments on English manners and customs from the point of view of an educated African" ("Through Negro Spectacles," Jamaica Times, 23 October 1909). A Creole, Merriman-Labor was employed for a number of years as a clerk in the colonial secretariat in Sierra Leone, and was the editor of the Handbook of Sierra Leone for 1901 and 1902 (Manchester, England: John Heywood, 1902). From 1910 to 1915 he was a barrister-at-law at 31 Chancery Lane, London. In 1913 he assisted the British Anti-Slavery and Aborigines Protection Society in organizing a conference with Africans in England. During World War I he worked as an examiner at Royal Engineers Stores, in Woolwich, England (African Telegraph, April 1919; ATOR, n.s., 1, no. 4 [14 April 1914]: 84; Christopher Fyfe, A History of Sierra Leone [London: Oxford University Press, 1962], p. 581; PAM, p. 294).
7. John Eldred Taylor, West African editor, businessman, and pan-African activist, was the son of the Rev. Eldred Taylor, government chaplain of the St. George's Cathedral, at Freetown, and thus was born into the upper echelons of Krio society. Although born in Sierra Leone, he claimed to descend from Nigerian royalty. His brother, Henry Ernest Warren-Hastings Taylor, was the manager of a London trading company in Accra; his sudden death at the age of thirty-six prompted the largest African funeral in London to date. John Eldred's business interests extended throughout British West Africa. A small-business promoter with little capital and high ambitions, he attempted to raise West African capital to develop West African resources at a time when merchants and farmers were being squeezed out by giant firms, such as Lever Brothers. He claimed to be the only African in London at that time who had studied stockbroking and "worked in the offices of London bankers" (African Telegraph, April 1919). According to his description, he was not involved in trade, but only in making investments in stock markets.
In 1911 Taylor was in London on business, as well as to protest to the Colonial Office against what he regarded as the bullying of the Lagos newspaper, the Nigerian Times, by colonial authorities. He initiated the publication of the African Times and Orient Review (ATOR) in July 1912, inviting Dusé Mohamed Ali to edit it. When Taylor failed to meet operating expenses, a group of infliuential West Africans in London took over its publication, to Taylor's disapproval.
In November 1914 Taylor founded and edited a second magazine in London, the African Telegraph. During World War I he assumed an ultraloyal posture toward the war effort, but with the armistice he reopened an editorial attack which he had begun in ATOR on the practice of flogging in British West Africa. The African Telegraph also covered the 1919 race riots in Great Britain extensively. In 1918 Taylor and others founded the Society of Peoples of African Origin (SPAO), a pan-African pressure group based in London, whose stated goals were the furthering of the general interests of black people everywhere and the promotion of closer commercial ties between black people in the metropole and the colonies. The African Telegraph became the SPAO's official organ. Both the society and its newspaper seem to have folded in 1919 because of financial difficulties. Also in 1919, Taylor formed an organization for the "Abolition of slavery in South Africa," enlisting the support of white liberals in London and holding meetings and circulating petitions in connection with the SANNC delegation in England at that time.
Taylor represented the Society of Peoples of African Origin at the 1919 Pan-African Congress in Paris, and he attended the London session of the 1921 congress, at which he spoke highly of British rule in West Africa. In August 1921, just before his departure for England, Taylor published a pamphlet in Accra entitled He That Would Be Free. Described as "an unusual document," it was viewed by a number of prominent citizens as the work of "a stranger meddling in their politics and which is supposed to strike at the basic routine of the political aspirations of the people of Accra" (Gold Coast Leader [Cape Coast], 20 August 1921). He also took part in the 1923 session of the NCBWA in Freetown. In 1945 he participated in the Fifth Pan-African Congress in Manchester, England (Daily Mirror [London], 8 November 1919; African Telegraph, April, July--August, and December 1919; SLWN, 17 January 1920; Gold Coast Leader, 21--28 February 1920; Ian Duffield, "Dusé Mohamed Ali: An Example of the Economic Dimension of Pan-Africanism," JHSN 4, no. 4 : 571--600; idem, "John Eldred Taylor and West African Opposition to Indirect Rule in Nigeria," African Affairs 70, no. 280 [July 1971]: 252--268; W. F. Elkins, "Hercules and the Society of Peoples of African Origin," Caribbean Studies 11, no. 4 : 47--59; PAM, p. 401; Leo Spitzer, The Creoles of Sierra Leone: Responses to Colonialism, 1870--1945 [Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1974], p. 177).
8. As late as 1911 Dusé Mohamed Ali spoke no Arabic and was basically nonreligious. Yet starting around 1913, he began to get more involved in the religious life of London's Muslim community, becoming "Vice-President for Egypt" of the Islamic Society. Although there is no indication that he published a Koran, he perhaps supplied them through "The African and Oriental Bureau and Buying Agency" which advertised its services with the motto, "nothing is too small and nothing is too large" (ATOR, n.s., 4, no. 2 [February 1917]; Ian Duffield, "Dusé Mohamed Ali, Islamic Politics and Pan-Africanism in Early-Twentieth-Century London" [paper presented at annual meeting of African Studies Association, New Orleans, November 1985]).
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The proposed deer management plans for the Gunnison Basin will be discussed for the first time before the Colorado Parks and Wildlife Commission at its December meeting in Colorado Springs.
It was decided by Parks and Wildlife staff in Denver last week that the plans would be discussed at the commission's meeting Dec. 6-7 rather than the Nov. 8 meeting in Yuma.
The change was made because of a full agenda for the November meeting. The change will also make it more convenient for hunters from Gunnison and other areas in western Colorado to attend the meeting.
The December meeting agenda will be set in mid-November and posted on the Parks and Wildlife web site.
The draft management plans can be viewed at http://wildlife.state.co.us/Hunting/BigGame/.
The plans will provide the framework for how deer populations and hunting are managed in specific geographic areas in the basin. The three plans are for the Taylor Park herd, Game Management Units 55 and 551; the Powderhorn herd, GMUs 66 and 67; and the West Elk herd, GMU 54.
Early in the summer Colorado Parks and Wildlife posted surveys for each of the plan areas on its website to solicit comments from hunters and others interested in deer in the Gunnison Basin. More than 900 comments were received and taken into consideration for the draft plans. The public can continue to comment on the plans on the web site through Nov. 16.
Final approval to the plans will be made by the Parks and Wildlife Commission at its January meeting.blog comments powered by Disqus
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The schism of Core and his adherents: their punishment.
And behold Core the son of Isaar, the son of Caath, the son of Levi, and Dathan and Abiron the sons of Eliab, and Hon the son of Pheleth of the children of Ruben,
Rose up against Moses, and with them two hundred and fifty others of the children of Israel, leading men of the synagogue, and who in the time of assembly were called by name.
And when they had stood up against Moses and Aaron, they said: Let it be enough for you, that all the multitude consisteth of holy ones, and the Lord is among them: Why lift you up yourselves above the people of the Lord?
When Moses heard this, he fell flat on his face:
And speaking to Core and all the multitude, he said: In the morning the Lord will make known who belong to him, and the holy he will join to himself: and whom he shall choose, they shall approach to him.
Rose up: The crime of these men, which was punished in so remarkable a manner, was that of schism, and of rebellion against the authority established by God in the church; and their pretending to the priesthood without being lawfully called and sent: the same is the case of all modern sectaries.
Do this therefore: Take every man of you your censers, thou Core, and all thy company.
And putting fire in them tomorrow, put incense upon it before the Lord: and whomsoever he shall choose, the same shall be holy: you take too much upon you, ye sons of Levi.
And he said again to Core: Hear ye sons of Levi.
Is it a small thing unto you, that the God of Israel hath spared you from all the people, and joined you to himself, that you should serve him in the service of the tabernacle, and should stand before the congregation of the people, and should minister to him?
Did he therefore make thee and all thy brethren the sons of Levi to approach unto him, that you should challenge to yourselves the priesthood also,
And that all thy company should stand against the Lord? for what is Aaron that you murmur against him?
Then Moses sent to call Dathan and Abiron the sons of Eliab. But they answered: We will not come.
Is it a small matter to thee, that thou hast brought us out of a land that flowed with milk and honey, to kill us in the desert, except thou rule also like a lord over us?
Thou hast brought us indeed into a land that floweth with rivers of milk and honey, and hast given us possessions of fields and vineyards; wilt thou also pull out our eyes? We will not come.
Moses therefore being very angry, said to the Lord: Respect not their sacrifices: thou knowest that I have not taken of them so much as a young ass at any time, nor have injured any of them.
Very angry: This anger was a zeal against sin; and an indignation at the affront offered to God; like that which the same holy prophet conceived upon the sight of the golden calf, Ex. 32. 19.
And he said to Core: Do thou and thy congregation stand apart before the Lord tomorrow, and Aaron apart.
Take every one of you censers, and put incense upon them, offering to the Lord two hundred and fifty censers: let Aaron also hold his censer.
When they had done this, Moses and Aaron standing,
And had drawn up all the multitude against them to the door of the tabernacle, the glory of the Lord appeared to them all.
And the Lord speaking to Moses and Aaron, said:
Separate yourselves from among this congregation, that I may presently destroy them.
They fell flat on their face, and said: O most mighty, the God of the spirits of all flesh, for one man' s sin shall thy wrath rage against all?
And the Lord said to Moses:
Command the whole people to separate themselves from the tents of Core and Dathan and Abiron.
And Moses arose, and went to Dathan and Abiron: and the ancients of Israel following him,
He said to the multitude: Depart from the tents of these wicked men, and touch nothing of theirs, lest you be involved in their sins.
And when they were departed from their tents round about, Dathan and Abiron coming out stood in the entry of their pavilions with their wives and children, and all the people.
And Moses said: By this you shall know that the Lord hath sent me to do all things that you see, and that I have not forged them of my own head:
If these men die the common death of men, and if they be visited with a plague, wherewith others also are wont to be visited, the Lord did not send me.
But if the Lord do a new thing, and the earth opening her mouth swallow them down, and all things that belong to them, and they go down alive into hell, you shall know that they have blasphemed the Lord.
And immediately as he had made an end of speaking, the earth broke asunder under their feet:
And opening her mouth, devoured them with their tents and all their substance.
And they went down alive into hell the ground closing upon them, and they perished from among the people.
But all Israel, that was standing round about, fled at the cry of them that were perishing: saying: Lest perhaps the earth swallow us up also.
And a fire coming out from the Lord, destroyed the two hundred and fifty men that offered the incense.
And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
Command Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest to take up the censers that lie in the burning, and to scatter the fire of one side and the other: because they are sanctified
In the deaths of the sinners: and let him beat them into plates, and fasten them to the altar, because incense hath been offered in them to the Lord, and they are sanctified, that the children of Israel may see them for a sign and a memorial.
Then Eleazar the priest took the brazen censers, wherein they had offered, whom the burning fire had devoured, and beat them into plates, fastening them to the altar:
That the children of Israel might have for the time to come wherewith they should be admonished, that no stranger or any one that is not of seed of Aaron should come near to offer incense to the Lord, lest he should suffer as Core suffered, and all his congregation, according as the Lord spoke to Moses.
The following day all the multitude of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron, saying: You have killed the people of the Lord.
And when there arose a sedition, and the tumult increased,
Moses and Aaron fled to the tabernacle of the covenant. And when the were gone into it, the cloud covered it, and the glory of the Lord appeared.
And the Lord said to Moses:
Get you out from the midst of this multitude, this moment will I destroy them. And as they were lying on the ground,
Moses said to Aaron: Take the censer, and putting fire in it from the altar, put incense upon it, and go quickly to the people to pray for them: for already wrath is gone out from the Lord, and the plague rageth.
When Aaron had done this, and had run to the midst of the multitude which the burning fire was now destroying, he offered the incense:
And standing between the dead and the living, he prayed for the people, and the plague ceased.
And the number of them that were slain was fourteen thousand and seven hundred men, besides them that had perished in the sedition of Core.
And Aaron returned to Moses to the door of the tabernacle of the covenant after the destruction was over.
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Mon March 19, 2012
Statehood Debate Key As Romney Wins Puerto Rico
STEVE INSKEEP, HOST:
It's MORNING EDITION from NPR News. I'm Steve Inskeep.
DAVID GREENE, HOST:
And I'm David Greene.
Mitt Romney scored a landslide victory in yesterday's Puerto Rico presidential primary. Returns showed him easily beating Rick Santorum, his closest rival. Romney got much more than the 50 percent of the votes needed to win all 20 of the delegates at stake in Puerto Rico. Both men campaigned in the Caribbean territory last week. And for each of them that meant having to take a stand on the hot-button issue of statehood. Doing that may have sealed Santorum's defeat. NPR's David Welna has this report from San Juan.
DAVID WELNA, BYLINE: Many of the streets were closed off yesterday here in the Puerto Rican capital. It was hard getting around, but still a lot of people showed up for a race that's become well known as a grueling test of endurance.
(SOUNDBITE OF CROWD NOISE)
WELNA: This race was actually the annual Iron Man Triathlon in Puerto Rico. It produced a clear winner, just as Mitt Romney came out on top in the latest heat of that political marathon known as the GOP presidential primary. Newt Gingrich and Ron Paul did not even bother to campaign here. But Rick Santorum did come for two days last week, and it could be that his campaigning achieved exactly the opposite of its desired effect. Santorum, while here, stepped on the landmine of language.
Asked by a local newspaper about his support for Puerto Rican statehood, a cause many local Republicans embrace, Santorum said Puerto Ricans would first have to learn to speak English.
RICK SANTORUM: And we are not doing anybody on this island a favor by not following the law, which is that this is a society that will speak English in addition to speaking Spanish.
WELNA: That offended many Puerto Ricans, who correctly pointed out that in fact there is no law requiring that English be spoken as a condition for statehood. Even Puerto Ricans fluent in English, who are perhaps a fifth of the island's four million inhabitants, thought that while Santorum's stance may please English-only supporters back on the mainland, it was a surefire way to lose yesterday's primary.
UNIDENTIFIED MAN: (Spanish spoken)
WELNA: At a polling place in San Juan's Miramar neighborhood. 77-year-old Erise Ocasio(ph) says she was earlier willing to give Santorum her vote, but not any longer.
ERISE OCASIO: He says that we have to speak English as our first language. And we speak the two languages - Spanish and English. So I don't like that.
WELNA: I also asked a 60-year-old physician named Wildo Vargas(ph) whether he had considered voting for Santorum.
WILDO VARGAS: Yes. At first, yes. But then when I start to hear him talk, I discarded him.
WELNA: Both of these people ended up voting for Romney. Even one of Santorum's delegates declared he could no longer support the former senator from Pennsylvania. For Mitt Romney, who arrived here to campaign the day after Santorum left, the flap over language was a political gift. It let him play the good cop, making Santorum look even more like the bad cop, trying to get this island populated by U.S. citizens to follow a law that does not exist.
Last night while campaigning in Illinois for its primary tomorrow, Romney told supporters that CNN had declared him the winner in Puerto Rico based on very partial returns.
MITT ROMNEY: Apparently the reason they were able to make the call was that with only 20 percent in, 83 percent of the people of Puerto Rico, of those who voted, voted for me. So that's a pretty good start.
WELNA: And yet the boost Romney got yesterday in Puerto Rico is as much help as he can expect to get from the commonwealth in his quest for the presidency. While Puerto Ricans can help decide who gets the presidential nomination, they cannot actually vote for president.
Still, yesterday's results did give Romney probably the biggest proportion of Hispanic voters he'll get this year. It also handed victory to a Mormon from a population that's 85 percent Catholic.
And while Santorum's stance on English likely hurt him here, it could also win him support on the mainland. And Romney's pledge of support for statehood, should Puerto Rico pursue it, could end up costing him votes as this marathon continues.
David Welna, NPR News, San Juan, Puerto Rico. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright National Public Radio.
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BA province gov't summons teachers for Tuesday meeting
Teachers’ unions are still demanding a basic salary of $3,100 pesos, but so far the Buenos Aires province government has offered $2,860 pesos.
Since conversations stalled, teachers have already called a 72-hour strike in the first week of the school year, and another 48-hour strike last week.
The Buenos Aires Teachers’ Union (UDOCBA), which is asking for basic salary of $3,900 pesos, has ratified a 48-hour strike schedule for Tuesday and Wednesday this week.
The union’s secretary general Miguel Díaz said the protest remains in place due to the “surprising delays in coming up with a new salary offer and the stalling of collective bargaining talks.”
Córdoba, Santa Fe and the Buenos Aires metropolitan area are also dealing with a similar conflict.
In every case, all measures have been placed on hold while unions await to see if negotiations move forward, especially in Córdoba, where the Government has ordered mandatory conciliation until March 21st.
On a national level, teachers are asking for a salary floor of $3,000, while the Government suggested a 19.7% increase, which would take the salary floor to $2,800 pesos.
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Python Search Ends Up With Two Men Getting Lost In The Florida Everglades
Fox News reported that Broward County sheriff's office was responding to a call about two young men being lost and possibly suffering from disorientation in the Florida's Everglades were they were searching for python's. The men were reportedly from the Tennessee area and in search of hunting python's in the Everglades.
They were rescued by the Air rescue units in about 1/2-hour after the rescuers began their search for the men. The men were located in an area 15-miles west of U.S. 27 at the northernmost border of the county.
Rescue units were waiting for the men as a Air rescue unit helicopter landed and the men were transported to safety. The men were complaining of weakness and exhaustion. They were found to be suffering from heat exhaustion and dehydration. The men were treated and they refused to be transported to a local hospital.
I cannot imagine the fear these men must have been feeling as they knew they were lost and stranded in the dangerous Everglades which is full of all types of critters lying in wait for prey? The men were in a very dangerous situation if they had not been located when they were.
The sun dehydrates people quickly; and if they should've possibly passed out, they could have come under the attack by an alligator or some other vicious critter and they would not have been able to defend themself.
Fifty Burmese python's have been captured by approximately 1,500 participants in a month-long hunt being held in the Florida Everglades.
People who are inexperienced and not well-trained about the Florida Everglades should not hunt for python's unless they're with others trained to the area. No-one should take it upon them to go into the Everglades if they're not properly trained to do so. Life is short and a python find is not worth a life.
Barbara Kasey Smith is the sole writer of this article.
Taken from the Fox News.Com
Tags: U.S. News , Lifestyle , Hunt , Python's , Florida Everglades
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 3.0 License.
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The disc golf course at Central Oregon Community College is closed temporarily but could close for good. COCC says the immediate closure is due to the high fire danger in the region. It's the first time COCC has closed the disc golf course since it opened in 2001. The course is located on the COCC campus in Bend in a dry wooded area on the west side of the campus.
College officials say there is a serious problem with smoking, drinking and littering on the course. “At this point, our intent is to reopen the course once the fire danger has come down,” said Alicia Moore, dean of student and enrollment services at COCC. “However, when we reopen the course, we will be monitoring closely and are asking all participants to follow college rules related to not smoking, drinking and littering,” she said. “All are against our policies and we will be forced to close the course permanently if the situation does not improve.”
If there is no change in behavior at the course, COCC says it may close it for good.
There will be STRICT monitoring of the situation on site by the REBELS and others (Pine Mountain Sports)
PLEASE remember that this couse is on SCHOOL PROPERTY and the is NO DRINKING, NO SMOKING and NO DOGS allowed at any time.
Continued violations of these rules will cause the course to be pulled permanently.
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I'm an 18-year-old girl from Brooklyn who is determined to alter the course of this year's presidential election. I'm going to do it by getting everyone I know and everyone they know to ask President Obama and Governor Romney not to forget ed. Not forget who? Ed, as in education.
Campaigns and the press that cover them always highlight the issues that polls suggest are the most important. Today those issues are, understandably, creating new jobs and generating economic activity. Of course the candidates must tell us how they would put more Americans back to work and get our main streets buzzing again. We need their leadership on how to promote a strong economic recovery. But will they also tell us how they would stage a strong education recovery?
We desperately need one. American students rank 21st in science and 25th in math when compared to students in 30 industrialized countries. Twenty first place and 25th place? Imagine if American athletes placed 21st or 25th in Olympic medals in London. The outrage would be deafening. Demands for reform would be heard on every corner. Yet we have tolerated a steep decline in the ability of students like me to compete against the best and the brightest from other countries with barely a peep.
We can no longer afford to sit back and settle for the decline of our educational competitiveness. A good education is the key to the very things Americans care about most: economic growth, innovation, opportunity. Either we improve our schools or we watch other countries pass us by. It is that simple.
It's not that President Obama or Governor Romney don't understand the value of education. They do. Just look at the degrees both of these men obtained before they went on to great careers. But we have to let them know that leading in education is our top priority for the nation's future, and we must debate their plans for an educational recovery no matter what other issues they address on the campaign trail.
I graduated from Manhattan's LaGuardia High School in May. The school is known for inspiring the hit movie and TV show Fame. They even pipe the theme song through the AV system every morning during announcements to remind the talented and ambitious students of what they can do. But most of us will probably never be famous. Instead, we will be vying for jobs against kids like us from all over the world.
Whether we win those jobs comes down to the quality of our education. It does not take a PhD to figure out what will happen in a global economy if other countries invest more in their schools to prepare their youth for jobs. America will fall further behind unless we tell the candidates: Don't Forget Ed.
Read Entire Story: Politics on HuffingtonPost.com
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I think it's safe to say that the Barrymore's building, formerly known as the Imperial Theater, is in great need to TLC. Doesn't it look sad? Every time I walk in front of it on Bank Street, I can't help but think "I wish I could help fix it. It has so much potential, it just need some TLC". The peeling paint, the dangling wire, the bird poop, the boarded up windows, the broken or missing reliefs, the mismatch signage and facing,etc. All of that can be fixed before it's too late. It just needs a bit of tender loving care.
Below is how the building used to looked like back in 1938. Notice the two large windows on either side of the giant signage. Now they've been boarded up like an abandoned building. It looks like the middle window was replaced and the large vertical signage was removed, leaving a large gaping hole above the Barrymore's signage, for pigeons to nest in perhaps? I don't think it needs to look the way it did back in the days, but even for a modernist like me, I think it would be nice to restore some parts and modernize other parts in a way that will respect its history,after a good clean of course.
If it was up to me this is what I would do.
Wouldn't it be nice if this building was restored to it's former glory in a modern fashion? I had a chance to visit New Orleans earlier this year and was amazed to see how their older buildings were preserved and restored (especially considering Hurricane Katrina). One particular building that I think would be a great benchmark for Barrymore's building is this beautiful police station in the French Quarter with black framed windows.
There was also this dramatic and impressive a hotel called "Le Pavillon". It's a big white building with a lot of architectural details, but the fact that it's all white makes it modern and really showcase the relief of the building. Doing something similar to Barrymore's building would emphasize the neat sculptures left on the building. I also really like the way they designed the signage.
A portion of the building is currently for lease. This is a great opportunity for a major and relatively affordable fashion retailer such as H&M, Guess, Parasuco or Mango to move in this developing area, but it's just not attractive enough for these retailers. At least not yet. It's too bad because their customers have already moved in the neighborhood in new condos such as Mondrian, Hudson Park, the Pinnacle. And more will move in soon considering other condo projects such as Central, Gotham, Soho. Another great idea (if it's still profitable nowadays), would be a movie theater that would hopefully feature films well into the night. Only time will tell. I'm keeping my fingers crossed.
FORMALLY KNOWN AS THE IMPERIAL THEATER
Labels: NEEDS SOME TLC
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The Rosa L. Parks Scholarship Foundation
Our Mission: The Rosa L. Parks Scholarship Foundation is dedicated to awarding scholarships to Michigan high school seniors who hold close to Mrs. Parks' ideals while demonstrating academic skills, community involvement and economic need.
Our Vision: To be the leading force in empowering and inspiring youth to reach their highest potential and advance the legacy of Rosa L. Parks
Since it was founded by The Detroit News and Detroit Public Schools in 1980, The Rosa Parks Scholarship Foundation has awarded over $1,800,000 in scholarship money to more than 900 high school seniors. The Foundation awards approximately forty $2,000 non-renewable scholarships annually.
"Rosa Parks devoted her life to creating access and opportunities for everyone, and the Rosa Parks Scholarship Foundation's goal is a reflection of that," said Delora Hall-Tyler, President of the Foundation. "With the passing of Mrs. Parks (in 2005), we feel it is more important than ever to continue her legacy by helping young people meet their educational goals, which in turn allows them to achieve a better life."
Are you, or do you know a Rosa Parks Scholarship Foundation alumni? If so, please contact us.
The Rosa Parks Scholarship Foundation is an autonomous entity and is not affiliated with the Raymond and Rosa Parks Institute for Self Development.
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I started this post probably two years ago (like so many ZD drafts, it then disappeared into the depths of our queue), but a few incidents in recent weeks have inspired me to come back to it. These are some tips (some composed with the help of my co-bloggers) which I hope will be helpful for those participating here. They’re probably unnecessary for the majority of our commenters, but they might be worth mentioning for those who are less familiar with our style and assumptions.
(Reading through this again, I realize that it might come across as bashing people. I apologize for that–I wanted to be very direct and explicit, in hopes of reducing situations in which clashes arise from people going against our norms and expectations without even really being aware of what they are. It seemed only fair to try to do a better job of spelling them out.)
1. A basic premise of ZD is that honest questions, no matter how difficult they may be or how uncomfortable they may make us, are always okay. We don’t assume that the church is always right. Nor do we assume that it’s always wrong. If you can’t have a conversation within this framework (whether because you see it as unfaithful, or you think the church is a giant fraud), this probably isn’t the best environment for you. We don’t really want to spend gobs of time and energy arguing about the validity of those premises. Take them or leave them–but if you want to debate them, you’re in the wrong place.
2. Following from that–unless it’s the specific topic of the post, don’t start an argument about whether the church can ever be wrong. In most cases, an assertion that the church is always right, no matter how heartfelt, doesn’t actually add anything of substance to the conversation; if anything, it has the effect of shutting it down. And it gets exhausting when people continually demand that we debate that before talking about anything else. It’s as if we were trying to discuss a specific religious question, and an atheist kept coming by and demanding that we first defend the existence of God.
3. If you’re new, it’s not a bad idea to lurk for a while and get a feel for the kinds of discussions that take place here. Every blog has its style, and taking the time to get a sense for it can be quite useful. For example–you can be silly and somewhat irreverent on ZD. But if you’re condescending, you’re likely to ruffle some feathers.
4. Assume that the poster and other commenters are familiar with the scriptures and basic LDS teachings. Comments which do no more than rehash the kinds of statements which might be found in Church manuals generally come across badly–whether intentionally or not, such comments send the message that the commenter doesn’t think the poster is aware that (for example) Latter-day Saints are encouraged to seek personal revelation through prayer and scripture study. I would propose that one good rule of thumb for commenting on ZD is that if your comment is generic enough that it could easily come from lds.org, this isn’t the best place for it. After all, we all have access to lds.org.
5. Don’t assume that discussions of difficult personal issues are invitations to point out the poster’s failings, recite platitudes, or give lectures. And unless it’s specifically requested, giving advice is dangerous territory, especially given how little you know of a person’s circumstances on the basis of a blog post.
6. Read the whole post before commenting. You look pretty silly when you raise a question which has been addressed at length in the post, or make a comment which is clearly a response to the title of the post (or perhaps the first paragraph), rather than the post as a whole.
7. Watch your tone. We don’t react well to people who give the impression that they’re here to enlighten us with their wisdom (whether about church teachings, or about feminism). Talk like a person. Talk in your own voice, drawing on your own experience. Don’t put on a missionary hat, or try to be faith-promoting, or attempt to channel a General Authority. Share ideas–don’t make pronouncements.
8. Don’t call into question people’s righteousness. (This is specifically mentioned in our comment policy.) Note that this doesn’t just apply to individuals–e.g., Lynnette, I can tell by your posts that you have the spirit of the devil–but also applies to generalizations–e.g., those who disagree with GAs should examine themselves for spiritual flaws.
9. Don’t hijack discussions with either your pet topics, or (as mentioned in point 2), by trying to bring every conversation back to some broader question (can a prophet be wrong? is feminism inherently un-Mormon? how do we account for the problem of evil?) Not that these aren’t worthwhile topics, and we do address them from time to time, but sometimes we want to focus on more specific issues. Tangents aren’t necessarily a problem–often we’ll cheerfully go along with them–but don’t pursue an argument if you’ve been asked to drop it. Which leads me to my next point:
10. When it comes to monitoring comments, our general policy is that the person who writes the post has the final say on what topics are relevant to the conversation, and if comments are in need of moderation. (Though other bloggers may jump in to try to keep things on track, especially if the original poster isn’t around at the moment.) As a guest on our blog, it is expected that you will respect the requests of the person who wrote the post. If you’re asked to drop something, drop it. If you’re asked to adopt a calmer tone or to stop fighting with another commenter, do so. Complaining instead that you’re being censored won’t get you very far. The great thing about blogging is that you can always write a counter-post somewhere else.
11. We’re a feminist blog. This means that if you come by to argue against feminism, you’re probably going to trigger a lot of disagreement. This isn’t at all meant to discourage different points of view; I’m just thinking it’s probably good to be aware of that before jumping in. And if you choose to spend a lot of energy arguing here, we probably won’t be terribly sympathetic if you then portray yourself as a victim who is worn down from defending the faith. No one is forcing you to participate.
12. In case you didn’t read the “About Us” page, we’re family. Really. Half of us are related by blood, and the others are very much spiritually adopted. I’m mentioning that because I imagine it might be worth knowing, as it undoubtedly influences the dynamics here.
Likely because we’re a smaller blog, we don’t actually moderate people very often. It usually happens because of personal attacks, comments which suggest that those who disagree are unrighteous, or failure to drop something after being asked to do so. Things do get heated at times, and we may not always live up to this, but we do generally make an effort to keep it civil.
I worry a little about posting something like this, because I know we have lurkers who might be hesitant to participate, and I certainly don’t want to scare people out of commenting. I would say in brief that we blog because a) it’s entertaining and we get to meet fun people, and b) it’s nice to have a place where you can have discussions that you probably wouldn’t be able to have in Sunday School (and without being berated by the Orthodoxy Police). So if you’re on board with contributing to that kind of environment, please jump in.
- 27 April 2011
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It took me a little while to figure out what I was going to post about today. I guess I was thinking what can I write about fast so I can get into my craft room!! hehehe...so why not tell all you wonderful readers about making cards. Making our own cards has saved us a fare chunk of change. It comes in handy to have a stack of cards on hand for someones birthday, a baby shower, wedding, anniversary or just to encourage a friend. To start making cards I had some card stock, markers, 1 pair of crazy scissors, a stamp and a glue stick. Now that I have been at it for a couple of years my collection of stuff as grown so much that I have my own little craft room! Many of my supplies are bought on sale or given to me as gifts.
This fun hobby helps save us money in the long run. A card now a days can cost any wheres from 3-7 dollars!! I can easy make any cards for WAY cheaper then that. Also the fun part of making cards is its your own expression and you can put whatever you want on and in the card.
Another fun thing that I like to do is give cards away as gifts. People always need cards so it makes a great present to give a pack of homemade cards to family and friends. I recently gave these away for a baby shower gift.
For more frugal ideas check out life as mom
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November 09, 2011
Vineland New Jersey Dedicates 6.5-Megawatt Solar Generation Project from Constellation Energy
Constellation Energy and the city of Vineland today announced the completion of an aggregate 6.5-megawatt (AC) solar generation project that will supply affordable energy to the utility’s customers.
BALTIMORE, MD and VINELAND, N.J. - Constellation Energy (NYSE: CEG) and the city of Vineland, owner and operator of the Vineland Municipal Electric Utility, today announced the completion of an aggregate 6.5-megawatt (AC) solar generation project that will supply affordable energy to the utility’s customers. Baltimore-based Constellation Energy’s retail business built, owns and maintains the solar power system. In return, the city purchases all of the electricity generated by the solar panels at a fixed rate from Constellation Energy under a 25-year power purchase agreement.
In honor of the solar project’s completion, a celebration and ribbon-cutting were held today at the installation. Representatives from Constellation Energy, Community Energy Solar and city officials were on hand for the event, including Vineland Mayor Robert Romano.
“Vineland is committed to an overall environmental strategy that will put the city in a national leadership position, and we are extremely proud of our progress to date,” Romano said.
“With the start-up of the Constellation Energy solar project that we are commemorating today, Vineland now has within the city more than 24 megawatts of solar energy production capability,” said Joseph A. Isabella, director of Vineland Municipal Utilities. “This includes retail behind-the-meter installations, power purchase agreement projects, as well as a project that supplies energy directly to the PJM grid.”
Vineland’s newest solar power system is comprised of approximately 27,896 photovoltaic panels, ground-mounted at two locations -- 4 megawatts in West Vineland and 2.5 megawatts in North Vineland. The project is expected to generate approximately 10 million kilowatt-hours of electricity per year. Generating the same amount of electricity using nonrenewable sources would result in the release of 7,584 metric tons of carbon dioxide, or the equivalent emissions from 1,487 vehicles annually, according to U.S. EPA data for the New Jersey region.
"Constellation Energy is proud to support Vineland’s continued commitment to renewable energy,” said Michael D. Smith, senior vice president of green initiatives for Constellation Energy’s retail business. “Large-scale solar generation is an attractive option for municipal utilities to manage volatile energy costs for their customers and meet renewable energy goals.”
Constellation Energy acquired Vineland’s 6.5 megawatt project pre-construction from solar power developer Community Energy Solar in early 2011.
Constellation Energy currently owns and operates approximately 100 megawatts of solar installations that have been completed or are under construction for commercial and government customers throughout the United States. By structuring its solar projects as power purchase agreements, Constellation Energy requires no upfront capital from its customers and is able to provide power at a fixed cost that is less than projected market rates.
About Constellation Energy
Constellation Energy is a leading competitive supplier of power, natural gas and energy products and services for homes and businesses across the continental United States. It owns a diversified fleet of generating units, totaling approximately 12,000 megawatts of generating capacity, and is a leading advocate for clean, environmentally sustainable energy sources, such as solar power and nuclear energy. The company delivers electricity and natural gas through the Baltimore Gas and Electric Company (BGE), its regulated utility in Central Maryland. A FORTUNE 500 company headquartered in Baltimore, Constellation Energy had revenues of $14.3 billion in 2010. Learn more online: www.constellation.com.
About Community Energy Solar
Community Energy began developing renewable energy in the eastern United States in 1999, and was the developer of the 7.5 MW Jersey-Atlantic Wind Farm in Atlantic City, NJ, which came online in 2005. Community Energy Solar currently has a pipeline of 1000 megawatts of solar projects under development. www.communityenergysolar.com.
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EURORDIS advocating to improve patient access to orphan drugs in Europe Rare disease patients do not have equitable and timely access to the approved orphan drugs they need. This is often because the national authorities in their countries take too long to decide on the pricing and reimbursement of these drugs, thus delaying their arrival on the market. EURORDIS advocates for immediate action to promote cooperation at the European level in order to facilitate national decisions on pricing and reimbursement, thus reducing these delays and improving patients’ effective access to orphan drugs. This advocacy action is taken to implement the policy framework adopted at EU level in the last 12 months and is based on a broad consultation of concerned stakeholders.
Rare Disease Day 2010: Coming up! With only three months to go, the organisation of the third edition of Rare Disease Day is well on track. This year the rare disease community will drum up around the motto “Patients & Researchers: Partners for Life”. Thousands of patient organisations will be organising activities on and around 28th February to raise awareness of rare diseases and the impact that they have on patients’ lives. Read on to find out what’s happening and how you can get involved too!
Bridging Patients and Researchers: The case of DEBRA International How can patients help advance research into their disease? One answer comes from a young woman suffering from EB (Epidermolysis Bullosa), who recently accepted to be among the first people to try a new skin-cell therapy that has the potential to greatly improve EB patients’ quality of life. Read on to find out how Melissa Smith, and the patient organisation to which she belongs, is helping to translate painstaking research into treatment.
Noonan Syndrome Angels: An Italian patient organisation is fighting for them Antonella Esposito, the President of the Italian Association of Noonan Syndrome patients, shares her experience as a multi-tasking woman: psychotherapist, militant and mother of three children, one with Noonan Syndrome.
Swine flu (influenza H1N1) and rare diseases A considerable amount of information about swine flu is currently featured in the media and on the internet and ranges from the denial of any risk to absolute alarmism. We therefore consider it useful for Eurordis to publish a message that is independent of both national policies and commercial interests.
Many rare diseases carry risk factors with regard to flu. It is therefore important that patients and the persons who frequently provide daily care can benefit from suitable protection measures and, if necessary, effective early treatment.
Patient associations have shown for years that they form an independent channel of validated scientific information consulted by a broad public.
The report gives the 2008 highlights of Eurordis’ work in the areas of networking & communications; access to information, diagnosis, treatment & care; advocacy & policy development; and therapeutic development & research, among other topics.
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I was on one of many treks through ArtPrizedom the other day and watched from afar as a young man put his hand on an oil painting.
This wasn’t an accidental touch or even a peck with a curious finger -- it was a full, palm-on, French kiss with the canvas. What gives?! Do we need fences topped with concertina wire to appreciate un-blemished art.
Even if no one can agree on aesthetic merit or technical excellence, we must all agree that ArtPrize is a feast for the eyes -- the EYES. That means we mustn’t use our grubby, little hands like so many cave-dwelling Neanderthals.
Simply put: Don’t touch! A few artists will allow viewers to use their hands to appreciate a piece, but most will not.
Unwitting art aficionados can wreak as much havoc on artwork as pea-brained vandals and unrepentant thieves. Naturally-occurring oils in the human skin, trace elements from handled objects and leftovers from that greasy bratwurst you just ate all take a toll on artwork.
Paper is especially susceptible. That is why works on paper are usually covered with glass.
Alas, some works need more glass than the Empire State Building to sufficiently cover their surfaces and therefore remain open to temptation. Forget it. Resist your desire to touch history. Put your hands behind your back like a seasoned gallery patron or jam them into your pockets next to that snotty tissue. And keep them there.
Even objects made of more durable materials should be left alone. So keep your hands -- and your children’s hands -- away from ArtPrize pieces. And while you’re at it, do us all a favor and use some soap before you leave the venue’s restroom.
Ed Riojas is an illustrator/designer with the Grand Rapids Press, and has created fine art for 30 years.
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"IT projects are succumbing to a form of political correctness, where no one can say bluntly that 'this won't work' for fear of upsetting the client, account manager, project manager or system architect," said John McManus, senior research fellow in the Faculty of Business Management at Lincoln University and professor of management at the US Rushmore Institute.
McManus has been researching this issue with development methods specialist Neville Jennings and technical architect Pero Kalurovich of IT services company Atos Origin.
"Most projects have a risks and issues register, but documenting an issue is not the same as doing something about it," McManus said.
"How many risks and issues registers include factors that collectively should lead to the conclusion that the project is not viable? The risks are softened for senior management. Phrases such as 'challenging timescales' and 'needs to be carefully monitored' creep into reports: these are euphemisms for 'this risk will cause the project to fail but we don't have the courage to say so'."
One problem could be that risk and quality assurance functions are too close to the project. McManus said, "Does too much of the review process depend on what the project itself thinks? If the project decides what risks and issues to log and how to classify them, is this not a recipe for disaster?
"A project that has not recognised the difficulties it faces will by definition not be able to raise the relevant risks and issues in the first place. Independence and objectivity are explicitly excluded.
"Perhaps a project will not accept the findings of a review. Should the burden of proof be on the reviewer to prove that the design will not work? Or should it be for the designer to prove that the design will work; and should this proof be on balance of probabilities or beyond reasonable doubt?"
"Perhaps a project deflects criticism by pointing at all the good things and asks why the reviewer focuses on negative things. Should project weaknesses not be accepted if they are outweighed by perceived strengths? Or are IT projects only as strong as their weakest element?"
McManus fears it is possible that a project could follow a prescribed design process, tick all the correct boxes and still fail.
He said, "Have some organisations lost integrity and the courage of their convictions - convictions that led to the adoption of software engineering principles, including a well-defined process for project and quality assurance reviews? If these reviews are not effective, these convictions are worth nothing.
"The assurance process must challenge the very structural viability of the solution. It is time we retrieved the courage of our convictions."
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Pitching yeast directly into wort is not a good idea - it reduces the viability by at least half for normal strength wort, and presumably even more for higher gravity or higher alcohol worts.
You have a lot of yeast in this brew, presumably dead or dying, so I would consider racking soon to avoid picking up a yeast bite in the beer. A schedule like this should help
- make a big starter - pitch some fresh yeast, ideally the same strain from the recipe into fresh wort. 2 liters would be the minimum. If the yeast is dry, be sure to rehydrate according to the packet instructions - this is key to obtaining the highest viability. If you have a stirplate, use that also.
- When the yeast are actively fermenting, typicaly after 24-36 hours, rack your partially fermented wort to a new vessel, to get it off all the existing, mostly dead yeast, and pitch the actively fermenting starter.
The actively fermenting yeast should have a high alcohol tolerance, ideally the abbey yeast from the recipe, to preserve the intended characteristics of the brew. I don't recommend champagne yeast, unless you are sure the remaining wort contains little maltose.
Something to consider is to incrementally add wort from your brew to the starter while it's fermenting to get the yeast gradually acclimatized to the alcohol.
So, in short, rack the beer off the old yeast, and pitch actively fermenting yeast. That should get it started.
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As we remember the patriotic service of so many this Veterans Day, let us take the time to thank the men and women who continue to serve today. Let us also honor the memory of the 4,480 Americans who have died in Iraq and nearly 1,700 who have died in Afghanistan, and the sacrifices of our wounded: more than 32,000 U.S. troops in Iraq and 14,600 in Afghanistan.
As a Vietnam-era veteran, I am deeply committed to ensure America keeps our promises to our nation's 22 million-plus veterans, especially the 23,940 veterans living right here in California's 43rd Congressional District.
In recent years, Congress has been active in passing significant legislative efforts to provide historic budget increase for veterans, expand access to VA health care, improve health services for all veterans, and modernize benefits earned by America's troops. From 2007 to 2010, the Democratic-controlled Congress provided a 60 percent increase in VA discretionary funding, adding nearly $23 billion for veterans' health care and services. During this same time period, Congress also passed into law a new, the post 9-11 GI Bill, one that provides the
But with our economy still facing a slow recovery from the recent recession, it is imperative leaders in Washington act now to help address the problem of veterans' unemployment. The current unemployment rate for veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars is at 13.3 percent, well above the national average of 9 percent. Unfortunately, this number is expected to increase as more servicemen and women return home with the winding down of military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Earlier this year, President Obama announced some immediate steps to help ensure veterans have the employment support and assistance they deserve. This new administrative initiatives include a Department of Labor initiative to enhance career development and job search services for transitioning veterans at their local One-Stop Career Center; the formation of a joint-task force led by the Department of Defense and the VA, to develop policies that give every member of the Armed Services receives the training, education, and credentials they need to transition to the civilian workforce or pursue higher education; and a presidential challenge to businesses to hire or train 100,000 unemployed veterans or their spouses by the end of 2013.
I applaud the president for these important administrative efforts, but additional action is needed to help returning our veterans seeking employment. This is why we must pass the American Jobs Act now. This legislation includes a Returning Heroes hiring tax credit for veterans. Under this provision, businesses that hire veterans who have been unemployed six months or longer would receive a tax credit up to $5,600, and that credit rises to $9,600 for veterans who also have service-connected disabilities. I am proud to serve as a co-sponsor of the American Jobs Act in the House of Representatives, and continue to urge the Republican leadership of the House to bring this legislation forward as soon as possible.
This Veterans Day, thank the veterans in your life. Take the time to learn more about the services and contributions they have made to the United States. And continue to urge Congress to take immediate action on legislation like the American Jobs Act, which takes definitive steps in the right direction to help put our returning heroes back to work. For more information on the American Jobs Act, and current efforts to fight veterans' unemployment, visit www.whitehouse.gov.
Rep. Joe Baca, D-San Bernardino, represents the 43rd Congressional District. He served in the U.S. Army as a paratrooper with both the 101st and the 82nd Airborne Divisions from 1966-68.
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Vigorish, or simply the vig, also known as juice, the cut or the take, is the amount charged by a bookmaker, or bookie, for his services. In the United States it also means the interest on a shark's loan. The term is Yiddish slang originating from the Russian word for winnings, выигрыш vyigrysh. Bookmakers use this practice to make money on their wagers regardless of the outcome. To minimize their risk, bookmakers do not want to have an interest in either side winning in a given sporting event. They are interested, instead, in getting equal betting on both outcomes of the event. In this way, the bookmaker minimizes his risk and always collects a small commission from the vigorish. The bookmaker will normally adjust the odds or the line, to attract equal action on each side of an event.
The concept is also sometimes referred to as the overround, although this is technically different, being the percentage the event book is above 100% whereas the vigorish is the bookmaker's percentage profit on the total stakes made on the event. For example, 20% overround is vigorish of 162⁄3%. The connecting formulae are and where o is the overround.
It is simplest to assume that vigorish is factored in proportionally to the true odds, although this need not be the case. Under proportional vigorish, a moneyline odds bet listed at −100 vs. −100 without vigorish (fair odds) could become −110 vs. −110 with vigorish factored in. Under disproportional vigorish, it could become −120 vs. +100.
A fair odds bet: Two people want to bet on opposing sides of an event with even odds. They are going to make the bet between each other without using the services of a bookmaker. Each person is willing to risk $100 to win $100. After each person pays his $100, there is a total of $200 in the pot. The person who loses receives nothing and the winner receives the full $200.
By contrast, when using a sportsbook with the odds set at −110 vs. −110 (10 to 11, 1.9090..) with vigorish factored in, each person would have to risk or lay $110 to win $100 (the sportsbook collects $220 "in the pot"). The extra $10 per person is, in effect, a bookmaker's commission for taking the action. This $10 is not in play and cannot be doubled by the winning bettor; it can only be lost. A losing bettor simply loses his $110. A winning bettor wins back his original $110, plus his $100 winnings, for a total of $210. From the $220 collected, the sportsbook keeps the remaining $10 after paying out the winner.
In the above example, the bookmaker has taken a rake, or scaled commission fee, of $10 ÷ $220 = 4.55%. Since the winning bettor got his full $110 wager back, plus $100 in winnings, many observers will assert that only the losing bettor paid the vigorish. Others would attest that the winner — who had risked $110 and only received $210 in the end, instead of doubling his money to $220 — is the only bettor who paid the vigorish. To discuss how the bettors are affected by the vigorish, we must first define what they would have bet at fair odds (without the presence of vigorish) or else there is no way to compare how much tax is placed on the winner or loser due to the vigorish. There are unlimited possibilities for how the presence of vigorish could affect the amount wagered by a bettor, since a bettor is free to bet in any arbitrary way based on the odds. There are, however, several natural options to consider which give different results on how vigorish affects a bettor.
- The gambler has a target amount he wants to win, which is independent of the presence or absence of vigorish. As an example, for an even match we would have −100 vs. +100 for fair odds and the gambler wagers 100 to win 100. Under proportional vigorish the odds would become −110 vs. +100 and so gamblers must wager 110 to win 100. In this case, losers lose 110 under the juiced odds compared to 100 under fair odds, so the loser pays 10 extra. The winner gets back his 110 plus 100 profit, compared to getting back his 100 plus 100 profit under fair odds. The winner has no net difference since he is up 100 either way. So the loser pays the full vigorish of 10 under this assumption.
- The gambler has a given amount he is willing to risk, independent of vigorish. Under fair odds the gambler risks 100 to win 100. Under vigorish, the gambler still risks 100 to win 100 × (100 ÷ 110) = 90.9. Under this behavior, the loser loses 100 in both cases, so pays no vigorish. The winner wins 100 net under fair odds and 90.9 net under vigorish, so he pays 9.1 in vigorish. The winner pays the full vigorish under this assumption.
- The gambler bets more when he has a greater edge (better payout for a given chance of winning). A Kelly gambler is one such gambler, who seeks to maximize his rate of bankroll growth in the limit of infinite bets placed over time. This type of gambler will bet more when the payout reflects a bigger advantage for him. The fact that he bets at all indicates that he thinks he has an advantage in the bet, so the presence of vigorish reduces this edge by reducing the payout for a given amount wagered. Therefore, these gamblers on either side of the wager will both bet less than they would have at fair odds (assuming proportional vigorish). The losers therefore lose less than they would have under fair odds, so counter-intuitively these losers do better with vigorish. The winners not only receive a lower payout factor on their bet, but they also risked less than they would have at fair odds, so they pay the full rake of the bookmaker, plus the amount saved by the losers, since (amount cost by winners) − (amount saved by the losers) = (full vigorish raked by the bookmaker). So for these gamblers, the losers pay negative vigorish, while the winners pay more than the full vigorish raked in by the bookie.
These are three examples of possible gambler behaviors that all give different answers to the distribution of vigorish fees amongst winners and losers. One therefore cannot say precisely whether winners or losers or both are paying the vigorish until the gamblers' behaviors with respect to the fair odds and juiced odds is defined.
Vigorish percentage
Vigorish percentage can be defined in a way independent of the outcome of the event and of bettors' behaviors by defining it as the percentage raked in a risk-free wager. This definition is the rake of the bookie as a percentage of total bets received if the bookie has balanced the wagers so that he makes equal profit regardless of the outcome of the event.
For a two outcome event, the vigorish percentage, v is
where the p and q are the decimal payouts for each outcome. This should not be confused with the percentage a bettor pays due to vigorish. No consistent definition of the percentage a bettor pays due to vigorish can be made without first defining the bettor's behavior under juiced odds and assuming a win-percentage for the bettor. These factors are discussed under the debate section.
For example, −110 side pricing of an even match is 4.55% vigorish, and −105 side pricing is 2.38% vigorish.
Vigorish percentage for three-way events may be calculated using the following formula:
where p, q and t are the decimal payouts for each outcome. For comparison, for overround calculation only the upper part of the equasion is used, leading to slightly higher percentage results than the vigorish calculation.
Other kinds of vigorish
Casino games
Vig may generically refer to the built-in house advantage on most bets on any game in a casino. The term may also refer to, and be applied in specific ways to, particular casino games.
- Baccarat, in the house-banked version of baccarat (also mini-baccarat) commonly played in North American casinos, vigorish refers to the 5% commission (called the cagnotte) charged to players who win a bet on the banker hand. The rules of the game are structured so that the banker hand wins slightly more often than the player hand; the 5% vigorish restores the house advantage to the casino for both bets. In most casinos, a winning banker bet is paid at even money, with a running count of the commission owed kept by special markers in a commission box in front of the dealer. This commission must be paid when all the cards are dealt from the shoe or when the player leaves the game. Some casinos don't keep a running commission amount, and instead withdraw the commission directly from the winnings; a few require the commission to be posted along with the bet, in a separate space on the table.
- Backgammon, the recube vig is the value of having possession of the doubling cube to the player being offered a double.
- Craps, vigorish refers to the 5% commission charged on a buy bet, where a player wishes to bet that one of the numbers — 4, 5, 6, 8, 9 or 10 — will be rolled before a 7 is rolled. The commission is charged at the rate of $1 for every $20 bet. The bet is paid off at the true mathematical odds, but the 5% commission is paid as well, restoring the house advantage. For many years, this commission was paid whether the bet won or not. In recent years, many casinos have changed to charging the commission only when the bet wins, which greatly reduces the house advantage; for instance, the house advantage on a buy bet on the 4 or 10 is reduced from 5% to 1.67%, since the bet wins one-third of the time (2:1 odds against). In this case, the vig may be deducted from the winnings (for instance, a $20 bet on the 4 would be paid $39 – $40 at 2:1 odds, less the $1 commission), or the player may simply hand the commission in and receive the full payout. This rule is commonplace in Mississippi casinos, and becoming more widely available in Nevada.
- In pai gow poker, a 5% commission charged on all winning bets is referred to as vigorish. Unlike baccarat, the commission is paid after each winning bet, either by the player handing in the amount from his stack of chips, or by having the vig deducted from the winnings.
- In table poker, the vigorish, more commonly called the rake, is a fraction of each bet placed into the pot. The dealer removes the rake from the pot after each bet (or betting round), making change if necessary. The winner of the hand gets the money that remains in the pot after the rake has been removed. Most casinos take 5-10% of the pot, typically capping the total rake at $3 or $4.
- Slot machines - the payouts and winning combinations available on most slot machines and other electronic gambling systems are often designed such that an average of between 0.1% to 10% (varying by machine and facility) of funds taken in are not used to pay out winnings, and thus becomes the house's share. Machines or facilities with a particularly low percentage are often said to be loose.
Other uses
- In investment banking, "vig" is sometimes used to describe profits from advisory and other activities.
- In sports, Pittsburgh Pirates announcer Bob Prince coined the term "hidden vigorish" to describe an underdog's ability to beat the odds in a given situation.
- The term is also used in reference to an auction house's buyers and sellers fees.
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Google profits from UK.gov's climate change quango rivalry
Bidding circle-jerk confession
The government department responsible for climate change policy has admitted bidding against one of its own quangos for advertising on Google, forcing up the cost to taxpayers.
Ed Miliband's Department of the Environment and Climate Change (DECC) said it sometimes battles the Energy Saving Trust to sponsor links on the dominant web search engine.
DECC has spent £361,700 in the last 12 months on search keywords such as "climate change" and "global warming" to target Google users with government publicity urging them to cut their carbon emissions.
The Energy Saving Trust has meanwhile spent more than £270,000 on similar advertising in the last 12 months.
The keywords are sold by Google in online auctions, so the rivalry between DECC and the quango means the cost per click is increased.
Junior DECC minister Joan Ruddock said the the amounts government departments pay Google "can be capped in order to minimise the risk of DECC and these Departments competing against each other for the same search keywords".
She did not say whether or at what level DECC or the Energy Saving Trust had been capped when bidding against each other.
Ruddock added that DECC's Google ads had been used to take people "quickly and effectively" to Act on CO2, its climate change website. It encourages the public to insulate their lofts, drive less, stop using plastic bags and grow their own vegetables.
News that DECC had bid against a taxpayer-funded quango for the same links emerged in a Parliamentary answer.
The Department is by no means Whitehall's biggest spender on Google. The Deparment of Health has spent more than £2,720,000 in the last 12 months on public sponsoring health-related searches in the last 12 months.
At Prime Minister's questions today, Gordon Brown repeated a pledge to cut government advertising spending by half. ®
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Happy New Year—and, happy hangover? Ringing in a new year tends to bring revelry, glitz, and ... a headache pulsating much like those tunes blasting well past midnight.
When it comes to hangovers, everyone has a swear-by-it remedy, from binging on cheeseburgers and fries (grease supposedly lines the stomach and slows alcohol absorption) to gulping spiked orange juice or a Bloody Mary ("hair of the dog"). Hundreds of others are for free for the taking online, so why not pick one and get moving the day after you've had a few too many?
Because "in terms of anything that's proven to 'cure a hangover,' there isn't anything," says Michael Fingerhood, an associate professor of medicine at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore.
In 2005, researchers scoured studies as far back as the 1950s that addressed preventing or treating hangovers. They unearthed just eight that were worth a closer look, none of which could convincingly demonstrate success for their hangover tricks (such as taking a supplement of prickly-pear cactus or a yeast-vitamin pill), according to the report published in the British Medical Journal.
That doesn't mean you have to be miserable all day, though. Experts suggest one of these tricks to at least take the edge off a hangover and end it a little faster:
Drink lots of water. It's hardly groundbreaking advice, but it should be a top priority. Alcohol makes you pee. That can lead to dehydration, prompting the hallmark dizziness and lightheadedness of a hangover. In addition to water, sip on some flat ginger ale, since it will help soothe your stomach. And down some juice, since vitamin C helps replenish your energy.
Stay away from the coffee (and booze). It won't wake you up. Rather, caffeine will further dehydrate you, and could aggravate your stomach, making you feel even more queasy. And put down that beer, because even though it might temporarily numb your symptoms, it'll make your headache worse in a couple hours.
Eat, but don't binge. Crackers and toast can boost blood sugar that may have dipped while drinking, contributing to your fatigue and overall weakness, according to the Mayo Clinic. Also consider pretzels and a banana to replace the salt and potassium lost through urinating so much. Forget the cheeseburger feast—most of us lack the stomach for it the day after drinking.
[See Best Diets Overall.]
Chow down on some asparagus. Recent research suggests that asparagus helps alleviate hangover symptoms, likely due to its amino acids and minerals, which lessen the toxicity of alcohol on liver cells. Plus, it's a diuretic, so it'll make you pee and get some of that alcohol out of your system. Another green veggie, the artichoke, could also help: Research suggests it tempers the bloating and nausea that come with hangovers.
Get your body working faster. When alcohol gets into the system, "it's got to be metabolized. There's no way around it," says Thomas Tallman, a Cleveland Clinic physician in emergency medicine. The fructose in sports drinks, fruit juice, and honey may help burn the alcohol more quickly. So will exercise, if you can force yourself to get moving, he says. Stick with light cardio or a yoga class, which won't dehydrate you as much as other workouts.
Retreat under the covers. You may have gotten your usual eight hours, but it was probably interrupted by a few trips to the bathroom and a lot of tossing and turning, decreasing the quality of your snooze. Think ahead and consider taking a nap before a night out, says Fingerhood.
Take a pain reliever, but sparingly. They'll likely alleviate a headache, but aspirin can upset an already irritated tummy, and acetaminophen could lead to liver damage, according to the Mayo Clinic. Don't go over the recommended dose. In fact, try half a dose and see if it works.
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The Shame of SanfordBy Diana Robinson-Bardyn | New Smyrna Beach
The world is perplexed when the police force in a
small southern town nonchalantly accepts a vigilante’s claim of being
threatened by an unarmed boy.
Today a small town in Florida is the center of a national controversy and global interest. Not since talk of chads and the U.S. presidential
race of 2000 plunged the nation into uncertainty has Florida been the
focus of so much international attention.
It is not a surprise that headlines in Der Spiegel read “Die Schande
von Sanford”, The Shame of Sanford. In the French and German press there are ample references to President Obama’s statement, “If I had a son,
he would look like Trayvon.”
“Mon fils ressemblerait à Trayvon Martin”
“Wenn ich einen Sohn hätte, er sähe aus wie Trayvon”
There are differences between children and adults, and there is a
difference between a child carrying a bag of Skittles and a man carrying a lethal weapon. The world takes note when the police force in a small
southern town can so nonchalantly ignore those differences. Together we
are learning that we have a ‘Stand Your Ground’ law that seems to
provide a legitimate “license to kill” – a kind of green light coverage – to any vigilante who is threatened by hoodies, dark skin or Skittles.
Florida’s criminal justice system is not without questionable racial
disparities. It is a criminal justice system known for sentencing
children to life without parole (JLWOP) for non-homicidal crimes, a
practice that disproportionately affected young African-Americans, and
judged them, sometimes at the age of 14, as irredeemable. The Supreme
Court ruled against this barbaric practice unique to the US and Israel
in Graham vs Florida in 2010. At the time 77 of the 129 offenders sentenced as juveniles to life
without parole were in the State of Florida. The remaining 52 were
scattered in 10 states.
A new report published by The Sentencing Project, a national organization working for a more effective criminal justice
system, found “extreme” racial disparities in the number of juveniles
sentenced to life without parole for crimes committed before their 18th
Yes, there is a difference between a child carrying a bag of Skittles and a man carrying an armed revolver. Young Trayvon Martin was killed
in cold blood. He was killed because of a dangerous mindset that judged
hoodies and dark skin as suspicious. He was killed because of Florida’s
shoot first law, a law that empowers and legitimizes racist vigilantes
by providing them with a defense they would not otherwise be entitled
Zimmerman is still free because the Sanford police determined that a
220 pound armed White man who was in pursuit of a 140 pound unarmed
Black kid could credibly claim he was threatened.
That is incredible, and that is the shame of Sanford.
Posted on bluetabletalk.com
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Thursday, October 26, 2000
Steamboat Springs At a debate on the Colorado Mountain College campus, both candidates running for the open Routt County commissioner's seat identified growth as a key challenge they will face if elected to the position.
Doug Monger wants to keep growth in growth zones, but he also would like to see it pay its way through impact fees.
Monger is a fourth-generation Routt County resident. He is an accountant and rancher. Monger's government experience comes from being a finance director for Hayden for eight years.
"The budget doesn't look good, and it will look worse a few years down the road," he said after the debate.
Impact fees that would pay for different county-financed infrastructure, such as roads, would help the county out financially, Monger said.
Candidate John Shaw wants to maintain the growth in the county but make sure it isn't hurting locals or ruining the open-land value of the community.
"We want to control it and make it work for us," Shaw said.
Shaw has lived in the county for three-and-a-half years and is a 27-year Colorado native.
He has experience with public agencies through his career of developing computer software for different government entities in the state.
Shaw expanded on his comment after the debate.
"We need to make sure that growth is where we want it, but we don't want to stop it," he said.
That means making sure population growth stays in growth zones county planners have identified. There are a variety of tools that can be used to deal with growth, including breaking land into 35-acre parcels in some places, while pursuing land preservation subdivisions in others, Shaw said.
A subdivision going in at Steamboat Lake is an example of where the 35-acre subdivide would work, Shaw said. Utilities can't be extended to the subdivision's original smaller plots of land so 35 acres would work.
Monger wants to bring the issue of 35-acre parcel subdivisions to the people. Some landowners have said that the Land Management Act makes for parcels of land that are too big for home sites and too small to have any agricultural purpose.
That leaves land going to waste, Monger said.
In the debate, both candidates were stumped on providing a solution to affordable-housing problems.
Shaw said he is worried that the lack of housing is forcing lower- and middle-income people who work in Steamboat Springs to live in the surrounding areas. Those people who must commute create traffic problems.
"We need to find a way to provide housing and employment in one community," he said.
Monger is afraid that too much emphasis in providing affordable housing is on the low-income families, not middle-income families.
Monger added that it is a "Catch-22" issue with growth in the community.
"We slow down growth, then it increases property values," he said. "It definitely needs some work."
In closing remarks, Shaw told the crowd that it takes experience to be a county commissioner.
He said he wants to bring more jobs to the community through telecommunications. Doing that will take high-tech skills, knowledge of government and the ability to work with people. "I have that experience," he said.
Monger focused his closing statements on his connection to the community.
"I've been working for you fine Routt County people for all my life," he said. "I'm qualified to do the job and I have the want to do the job."
To reach Doug Crowl Call 871-4206 or e-mail firstname.lastname@example.org
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How Financial Reform Will Impact Your Wallet
There’s good news out of Washington that will help you make the most of your money. A major overhaul of federal financial regulations is now all but a done deal. Congress hammered out a bill last week that is due for a final vote, and tobe signed into law by President Obama, perhaps as early as next week.
The bill takes on a wide range of initiatives that impact Wall Street as well as Main Street. I want to share the key new steps that will help protect consumers like you:
There’s a New Watchdog Focused on Your Best Interests
There will now be a federal Consumer Financial Protection Bureau which will have a big say in regulating mortgages, credit card practices, the private student loan industry, as well as overseeing the pay day loan industry. Unfortunately, a hard lobbying effort from the automotive industry exempts the car loan industry from oversight. That’s just one area where you must remain extra vigilant when loan shopping.
It will be Harder to Get into Mortgage Trouble
A series of provisions in the new bill make it mandatory for the mortgage business to permanently clean up its act. For example, lenders must verify your income before granting a loan. No more no-doc or NINJA loans. Sure, they’ve disappeared recently, but you better believe that without this legislation they would have likely crept back into the marketplace when things stabilize a bit more. I say good riddance. The new law will also prevent lenders from steering borrowers into adjustable rate mortgages if the borrowers would be unable to handle the payment if the rate ratchets up. There’s also a provision that makes it illegal for mortgage brokers to receive a commission based on the interest rate of the loan; during the real estate bubble some unscrupulous brokers pushed borrowers into higher rate loans to pocket a bigger commission. I’m also glad to see that lenders will no longer be able to collect a prepayment penalty on adjustable-rate mortgages.
Debit Cards: Keep on Eye on How This Plays Out
You probably aren’t aware of this, but when you use a debit card the retailer is charged a fee by the bank to process the transaction. Retailers and banks have been arguing about this fee-typically it is 1 percent of the transaction-for years. Under the new legislation the Federal Reserve must decide once and for all what is a reasonable fee. Retailers say if it is reduced you’ll see lower costs. I’m not so sure. And if the banks are forced to lower the fee, you’ll likely see any rewards programs tied to your debt card reduced or eliminated. One important caveat: the new banking regulations only apply to banks with at least $10 billion in assets.
Cash Could Be King
Retailers are now allowed to offer lower prices if you pay with cash, a check or a debit card. My advice is to now always ask if there is a better price for paying with cash.
Free Credit Score if you aren’t offered a Top Deal
From now on if your credit score is the reason you don’t get the best possible deal-say you are turned down by a landlord, or the rate you are offered on a mortgage is above the rate charged to borrowers with the best credit-you will be entitled to a free copy of your credit report.
Coming up Short on Fiduciary Duty And Equity Indexed Annuities
One area where I wish Congress had stood firmer was the issue of “fiduciary duty.” The idea here was that a financial adviser or broker would have to act in your best interests—that’s what fiduciary is all about—when making investment recommendations to you. Right now the standard is simply one of suitability, which stops far short of requiring the broker/adviser to act in your best interests. Unfortunately, the fiduciary rule got kicked down the road in the new bill. All that is going to happen is that the SEC will study the issue. That’s a lost opportunity for Washington to really do something that protects investors.
It’s also frustrating that the SEC lost its ability to oversee the world of Equity Indexed Annuities. The SEC had already issued a rule—not yet enacted—that would have tagged these investments as securities, thus making them regulated by the SEC. But the new legislation undoes all of that, and like all insurance, it falls onto each state to write and enforce its own rules.
Despite those two glaring omissions, there is plenty to cheer about the new financial overhaul. But I have to say that as positive as all these new consumer-friendly protections are, I don’t want you to let your guard down. Yes, it’s great that the government will have your back. But you better believe that if any part of the financial services industry sees its revenues decline because of any of these new rules it will kick into overdrive to come up with new fees. So stay on your toes, read your statements carefully, and don’t give your banks or lenders any reason to make extra money off of you.
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The value of Arizona exports to foreign countries set a record in 2005, surpassing the previous high in 2000, according to figures released Thursday by the Arizona Department of Commerce.
Total exports by Arizona businesses reached $14.9 billion last year, up 11.4 percent from the previous year and surpassing the previous record of $14.1 billion in 2000, the department said.
Arizona exports took a dip in 2001 and 2002 as the hightech bust and global economic recession took its toll. A recovery began in 2003, but exports did not surpass the 2000 level until last year.
“We slowed down after 9/11, and we’re just recuperating,” said Commerce Department trade specialist Fernando Jimenez.
Last year Mexico retained its usual position as the number one foreign market for Arizona exports, posting a 25 percent gain over 2004.
High-tech electronic products such as computers and semiconductors were the top exports to that country, Jimenez said.
Canada remained a distant second with an increase of 16.5 percent while Malaysia retained its No. 3 status with a 4.6 percent gain. The United Kingdom and Germany rounded out the top five.
As a region Asia continued to be important with five countries in the top 10. Exports to No. 6 Singapore jumped by 20 percent, primarily because of an increase in electronics shipments, the department said. Exports to China grew by 3 percent, which was the state’s seventh largest foreign market. Shipments to No. 9 Thailand grew by 18 percent and to No. 10 Japan by 17 percent.
Three European countries were in the top 10. In additional to the UK and Germany, the Netherlands ranked No. 8 with a whopping 284 percent increase over the previous year. Jimenez said the jump was due to an increase in shipments of mineral ores that were in high demand in Holland.
Electronics, aircraft and mining products were the top exports to Britain and Germany.
By category, exports of electronic goods jumped 11 percent last year to a total of $6.1 billion, machinery increased 9.5 percent to $2.3 billion, aircraft dropped 10 percent to $1.4 billion, optics and medical instruments increased 6 percent to $949 million and ores and metals increased 9 percent to $504 million.
Intel Corp. is one of the state’s major exporters, shipping chips from its Chandler factories to the company’s assembly and test centers in Malaysia, the Philippines and China where they are incorporated into the final microprocessor packages, said spokeswoman Dawn Jones.
Another important East Valley exporter is the Boeing Co., which ships Apache Longbow combat helicopters to foreign customers from its Mesa plant. Last year the company delivered 27 Apache Longbows to international customers, said spokesman Hal Klopper.
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Joe Boyles – Guest Columnist
Last week’s downgrade of United States Treasury bonds by Standard and Poor’s is historic. S&P has been rating our government bonds since World War I; this is the first downgrade. The other two international rating agencies, Moody’s and Fitch, have not followed suit … yet — but can similar action be that far behind?
The fundamental reason behind the downgrade is our public debt, now approaching $14.5 trillion. This level of debt is about 70 percent of our gross domestic product. That’s bad, but the future looks even bleaker as the Obama Administration projects annual deficits in excess of a trillion dollars for as far as the eye can see. This is unsustainable … which the S&P recognized when they downgraded our bonds from AAA to AA+.
The battle over the debt ceiling which concluded (temporarily) before the August 2nd deadline was a precursor to the downgrade. The president and his party wanted a balanced approach which would include raising taxes on “millionaires and billionaires.” (Jargon rhetoric like this makes my head explode.) The Republicans countered with spending cuts and no tax increases. I’m not certain who “won” the debate, but I am certain that we’ve turned the corner on the debt ceiling – no longer will Congress blindly raise our “credit card” limit as they have done dozens of times without some sort of debate on the prudence and what must give. The days of blank check spending are over.
If that message needed reinforcement, then S&P delivered the coup de grace with Friday’s action.
Meanwhile, the president appears feckless in his response. No president can control the economy, but he gets credit for times when things go well and blame when they don’t. Right now, he’s getting a lot of criticism. Will this hold true 14 months from now when the course of the next election is set. Who knows what will happen between now and then, but economies are like aircraft carriers at flank speed – it takes time and space to slow and turn them around.
Let me give you a formula for getting this economy rolling again. First, let’s decrease federal spending. That means tackling entitlements and reforming them for the 21st Century, not the New Deal and Great Society they were created for. Second, let’s reform the tax code and make it flatter. Remove a bunch of silly loopholes that accumulate through lobbying by special interests. Third, let’s pull the shackles off business in the form of health care mandates, environmental rules based on poor science and general regulation. Fourth, let’s begin domestic energy (oil and gas) exploration and production and watch tens of thousands of jobs be added to the economy. Then, let’s stand back and watch the American economy grow impressively and lead the world as it should.
Do I believe that Barack Obama can provide the leadership to make these things happen? In a word, no. He is ideologically incapable of closing the gap between the possible and the likely. His quiver is empty. The revolver is spent – no bullets, silver or otherwise.
While the American economy is headed downhill in a hurry, the president is out raising obscene amounts of money to finance his billion dollar reelection bid. Seems out of touch, doesn’t it? Who’s to blame for the economic morass? According to Obama, everyone and everything but him. More signs of unreality. What solutions does he offer? More spending on unemployment insurance, investment in green technology, blah, blah, blah. You know Mr. President, if you keep digging the debt hole, sooner or later you’ll end up in China … where most of our dollars are headed anyway.
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu also commended the Bulgarian investigation, saying: "The attack in Burgas was an attack on European soil against a member country of the EU. We hope that the Europeans draw the necessary conclusions as to the true character of Hezbollah."
Canada also joined the chorus, with Foreign Minister John Baird issuing a statement saying: "We urge the European Union and all partners who have not already done so to list Hezbollah as a terrorist entity and prosecute terrorist acts committed by this inhumane organization to the fullest possible extent."
A technical analysis of the explosion, carried out by a team of consultants and provided on background to CNN, said the Israeli tourists had placed their luggage in a baggage compartment along the side of the bus and were boarding when the explosion occurred. The bomb -- concealed in a backpack -- went off in a confined space between two buses, instantly killing four of the tourists and the bus driver, as well as the bomber.
The consultants' analysis of closed-circuit video of the suspected bomber waiting in the terminal and of the remains of the device suggests that the bomb was detonated by remote radio control. Residue from two radio transceivers was recovered from the scene, along with a dual-tone multiple-frequency circuit. The explosive charge was approximately 3 kilograms (6 pounds) of TNT and ammonite, probably obtained from a Bulgarian company, according to the consultants.
Whether the bomber intended to kill himself is unclear. It is possible that he planned to load the backpack on the bus and detonate it remotely as it pulled away. The premature detonation of the device before all members of the Israeli group were on board the bus could have been caused by a malfunction or by violent movement, or it could have happened as the device was being armed.
Alternatively, an accomplice could have detonated the bomb from a nearby vantage point, in which case the bomber may have been deceived about his true role in the attack.
Bulgarian investigators last month said their evidence was that the bombing was not intended as a suicide attack.
Analysts say the attack was not that of a "lone wolf" but rather required planning and reconnaissance, suggesting a well-orchestrated plan.
Last year, Matthew Olsen, director of the U.S. National Counterterrorism Center, said in a congressional hearing that the Bulgarian attack could have been part of a growing international campaign of terror attacks by Hezbollah.
"Since May 2008, Hezbollah plots against Israeli targets in Azerbaijan, Egypt and Israel have been disrupted, and additional operational activity in Turkey has reportedly been uncovered," Olsen said.
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Intel Corp. said it would not support fully-buffered DIMMs in its desktop platforms because of high costs of FB-DIMMs amid necessity of personal computers to be very affordable. The move is likely to alter the memory market and even have an impact on Intel’s arch-rival Advanced Micro Devices.
“Currently we have no plans to support FB-DIMM technology on desktop platforms because these platforms target the volume market. Naturally, this market can’t accept too much additional cost. This is the main reason why we will continue to support standard unbuffered DIMMs,” said Sunil Kumar, Intel’s director of chipset marketing, in an interview with DigiTimes web-site.
FB-DIMMs utilizes JEDEC-standard DDR2 SDRAM chips, but the modules’ design is completely new: in the FB-DIMM, all signals – clock, address, command and data – to and from the DRAM on the module are buffered at the high-speed Advanced Memory Buffer (AMB) chip located on the DIMM. This helps to secure the DRAM timing margins during high-speed operation with a much shorter signal path between the DRAM and the AMB.
The FB-DIMM also adopts a Point-to-Point serial connection on the bus between the memory controller and the DIMM, as well as between the DIMMs themselves. This allows increased bus speed with a shorter connection path. It also greatly improves the maximum number of DIMMs that can be loaded on the bus – up to eight 2-rank DIMMs – with less concern about signal degradation. Current DDR2 platforms face issues with density scalability (only 8 – 12GB of memory can be installed per single memory controller), which is why Intel does not introduce DDR2 support for the Intel Itanium 2 platforms that are intended for high-end servers with 16GB or even more memory.
In case the usage of FB-DIMM will be limited to Intel-based servers, then the industry will have at least two different memory types and infrastructures for different applications. While this is not a problem for Intel Corp., who supplies different logic for servers and desktop, its rival Advanced Micro Devices, whose processors have integrated memory controller and support of only one memory type across the board, will have to either differentiate its servers and desktop chips, or can the support of FB-DIMM.
AMD has not yet introduced its processors with support for DDR2 memory and even has not provided any likely timeframe of the move other than saying “when DDR2 makes sense” in terms of price and performance. Since desktop platforms do not require high memory densities, the DDR2 will plug into AMD-based PCs absolutely fine, but in the server space AMD may face DDR2 density scalability problems. Currently AMD64 processors for desktops, workstations and servers with built-in memory controller support DDR memory. When the DDR2 era comes for AMD, it will have to choose whether to implement FB-DIMM support into server-oriented chips or stick to DDR2 or even DDR1.
It is unclear whether FB-DIMMs will be available widely, provided that they will only be supported by server infrastructure of Intel Corp.
The first FB-DIMM server platform is expected to emerge in 2006.
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On November 3, 1942, Alban Berg's Wozzeck, banned in Germany as degenerate art, had its Italian premiere at Teatro dell'Opera di Roma (then Teatro Reale). Rome's opera house has gracefully chosen to dedicate their recent season premiere -- another Wozzeck, this time staged by Giancarlo Del Monaco and conducted by maestro Gianluigi Gelmetti -- to the memory of the 1,024 Roman Jewish citizen who in October 1943 were kidnapped by the Nazis and sent to Auschwitz. Ticket prices for the performance had been heavily marked down to a very affordable 20-30 euros.
Corriere della Sera hailed the production's minimalist staging as a "genius" premise, Jean-Philippe Lafont's "impressive" "voice" and "charisma", Gelmetti's "natural" talent for conducting music written by very different composers; big props to Janice Baird's "musicalissima Marie", "most musical Marie".
(production photos courtesy of www.janicebaird.com)
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Texas is among 38 states and the District of Columbia to resolve a lengthy investigation into Google Inc.'s collection of personal information from unsecured wireless routers at private residences and businesses.
The personal information collected included e-mail and search histories.
"For two years, Google violated Texans' privacy rights and secretly collected personal information from their wireless routers. Today's agreement requires Google to destroy any personal data that was improperly collected and imposes important new privacy protections that govern the Street View program going forward," said Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott.
According to Abbott, Google initially denied that its Street View vehicles were retrieving private information. Then the California-based conglomerate subsequently acknowledged that it had "mistakenly" engaged in this practice.
The Street View project was to enhance Google Maps. Street View sent out a fleet of vehicles to photograph residences, businesses and neighborhoods all over the nation. According to the lawsuit, residents and business owners whose properties were photographed did not know Street View vehicles were outfitted with specialized data collection devices that also scanned and stored payload data from wireless networks that were not password protected.
The State of Texas' investigation revealed Google collected private information that was transmitted over unencrypted WiFi networks for two years. Although information transmitted on these wireless networks was collected from 2010 to 2012, Google represented that it had not intended to collect and store network users' private payload data.
Under the agreement, Google must pay $7 million.
The company must also destroy the "payload data" it collected, notify network users and obtain their consent before using its Street View vehicles to collect any additional "payload data", implement an employee training program that highlights network users' privacy and develop public service campaign to educate network users about how to better secure their personal information while they are using wireless networks.
Abbott urged Texans to protect their privacy by securing their home computer systems and activating encryption features to make sure that transmitted information is scrambled.
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My daughter was born 12 years ago today. This officially makes her father and me the proud parents of a preteen.
Whenever I say aloud that we are on the brink of teenage-dom, the common sentiment from relatives, friends and even strangers is that this is no Christmas gift to crow about. They tell us that at any moment, the real labor pains will begin. Only this time around, her father will experience just as much of a shock to his system as I did 12 years ago.
Everybody warns of the impending upheaval. They tell us that she's about to pull away in the same way she did from her very beginning. This time, the leaving is as much in mind as it is in body. Raging hormones and peer pressure will conspire to configure a person who's barely recognizable. They say she will become hard of hearing and even harder of listening.
Much of this thinking comes from experience. All of us remember our own coming of age and varying degrees of tumult. These days, when we conjure an image of a preteen, we also think of the scary media images. The children who dabble in sex, alcohol and drugs, almost as a rite of passage. The kids who run away or battle low self-esteem and depression.
It's enough to make any wise parent eat their young before the little ones can reach this stage.
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Earlier this year, I moderated a panel on raising girls for the Tribune's Printers Row book fair. That's where I met Karen Stabiner, who authored the memoir "My Girl: Adventures with a Teen in Training."
"The economy depends on girls having a hard time with adolescence, and on their parents having a hard time with them," Stabiner wrote. "If not for the hormonal tsunami known as puberty, there would be no market for parental-advice books, magazines that tell girls how to find a boyfriend and get their parents off their backs, fashions that change as quickly as a teenager's estrogen level. ... Adolescence, the choppier the better, is a retailer's dream."
Stabiner's book details how she and her daughter weathered the teen years. It wasn't a perfect time, but the experience definitely wasn't like some of the stories that we've become accustomed to hearing from the troubled girls she calls the "very noisy minority."
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A legion of girls (and boys) doesn't experience the ravages of teen-dom. The parent-child relationship doesn't have to be so strained.
I won't sugarcoat it. Certainly, my daughter and I have had rough patches, but they haven't overwhelmed us.
This summer, the then-tween and I spent a Saturday afternoon downtown. We got off the train and were walking across the Michigan Avenue bridge when she asked me if she could hold my hand.
I wasn't expecting it. I took her hand immediately. She still kisses me goodbye and hello in front of her friends. She still tells me secrets that she won't tell her father, but she also offers tidbits to her grandmother, her best girlfriend, that she won't offer me.
I know what you're thinking. Almost overnight this will soon end. It may. But I, the optimist, refuse to believe that it will entirely.
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On Monday my daughter will unwrap presents, many of them displaying the technological prowess young people have come to depend on like air.
They have nearly everything at their fingertips, available in an instant: messages, information and entertainment. As my child moves into this new phase, one of her biggest lessons will be that much of life isn't always so instant.
Life and technology provide few short cuts when it comes to pain and mourning. No fast-forwarding there. Falling in love still takes time. Relationships require nurturing and hard work, despite what TV's reality shows would have us believe. The best dishes steep. The best lessons are hard fought and even harder won.
Ours is a world that wants and expects kids to grow up so fast. The sexy clothes. The onslaught of mature themes in movies, music and some books. Wading through the muck will continue to take patience on both of our parts.
Maybe instilling this in the little person who was my best Christmas gift ever will be the gift that indeed keeps on giving.
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For Immediate Release
February 18, 2004
Making Tax Cuts Permanent Important to Economic Growth Says President
Excerpt from February 18, 2004 Remarks with Tunisian President
Q Mr. President, do you think the economy is strong enough to produce 2.6 million jobs this year, as your economic report projected?
PRESIDENT BUSH: I think the economy is growing. And I think it's going to get stronger. I do think there are some things we need to do. We need to make sure the tax cuts are permanent. I look forward to continuing to talk about this issue. Uncertainty in the tax code could affect small business planning. Uncertainty in the tax code will make it harder for our citizens to make rational decisions about spending money. We need to have an energy policy, open up markets for trade, we need less regulation. We need tort reform. There are things we can do to make sure the economy grows.
I'm pleased by the fact that since August there's been 366,000 new jobs, in one survey. There was another survey called the Household Account that's been more optimistic. But I'm mindful there are still people looking for work, and we've got to continue building on the progress we've made so far.
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Blog submitted by Rebecca Saxton-Fox
Rebecca is the Flying Eye Hospital Administrator and has been with ORBIS since 2007.
Every Monday evening during Flying Eye Hospital programs, we meet as a team to discuss the day. This past Monday was one of the first times I was really excited to get into that room – I wanted to see the surgery list for the week. When Amelia, Flying Eye Hospital program manager, informed me that Moussa, a man I had met on Saturday, was had been scheduled for surgery onboard the Flying Eye Hospital, I was thrilled.
As the Administrator onboard the Flying Eye Hospital, I rarely get to follow
a patient from screening through surgery, as I am often running around and not
directly involved in patient care. However, on Saturday, I was fortunate enough
to be able to join my colleagues during a rural screening outreach, set up by
Perry Athanason, our communications manager. About 15 of us drove out to
Libore, just outside of
I found my place as one of the “hall monitors”, walking patients from room to room, trying to navigate my way through up to 4 languages (English, French, Zarma and Housa), and ophthalmology terms I was unfamiliar with. One of my favorite moments during the day was passing out sunglasses to little old ladies who had never worn glasses before. Heather, our nursing director, was instrumental in ensuring each lady received a pair that fit her face and matched her clothes!
By the afternoon, the majority of our patients were men. At that point, I had moved from the hall into the scheduling room, making sure that all patients who needed surgery or follow-up care were scheduled to either come in for one of our follow-up hospital based programs, or were scheduled to go to the National Hospital of Niamey to be seen by the local ophthalmologists who are receiving training during our program.
One man came in with “extremely high pressure” written across his sheet. I learned from the ophthalmologists who had examined him that he had gone blind in his left eye several weeks prior due to glaucoma (a disease where improper drainage of fluid in the eye leads to increased pressure in the eye, damaging the optic nerve). His right eye was a few weeks away from blindness as well. I knew what that meant – he needed to come in to the hospital on Monday to be seen by our team. The man, Moussa, needed an emergency trabeculectomy – a surgery that helps to reduce the pressure build up in the eye – combined with a phacoemulsification surgery to remove the cataract that was blurring his vision even more.
“This is the only chance he has for this surgery. If he doesn’t come in on Monday, he will go blind soon,” said Amelia, citing the fact that with only 13 ophthalmologists in the whole country, and very limited resources, eye care in rural areas of Niger is almost non-existent.
I immediately left the room to find translators. I sat with
him for a while, walking several different translators over to him to explain
the importance of his appointment on Monday, and making sure he had a way of
getting to the hospital in
Sitting from my back office aboard the Flying Eye Hospital, I can see into the room
where Moussa is currently getting prepped for surgery. As in all of our cases,
he will be operated on by one of our volunteer doctors, along with 2 local
I’m overwhelmed and grateful for all of the hard work and
time that our whole team, as well as dozens of volunteer translators and
Photo by Rebecca Saxton-Fox
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Diana's long awaited return to Themyscira requires a battle against some of the Amazon's most ancient enemiesRated: Fiction M - English - Romance/Adventure - Chapters: 6 - Words: 18,193 - Reviews: 17 - Favs: 41 - Follows: 5 - Updated: 06-24-05 - Published: 10-19-04 - Status: Complete - id: 2101440
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There is an island paradise in the wide Saragasso Sea known as Themyscira. For thousands of years, the island has been home to the Amazons, an immortal race of female warriors. Created by Otrera, the Queen Goddess of the Amazons, she charged the Amazons with a mission to serve as an inspiration to male-dominated societies by promoting the ideals of peaceand tranquility. Originally settled in Pontus, a small city on the Aegean Sea, for centuries the Amazons successfully demonstrated the merits of these ideals, ultimately leading to the creation of democracy in the Athenian cultures. Oddly enough, while Man's World started accepting some of these ideals, the Amazons chose to remain a matriarchy, ruled by their Queen.
In 1200 B.C., the Amazon mission was compromised after Queen Hippolyta, the immortal daughter of Otrera, was seduced by the demi-god Herakles. As the bastard son of Zeus, the Gods required Herakles to perform 12 labors as penance for the death of a rival prince. The ninth labor required Herakles to steal Hippolyta's belt, it being a sacred gift from Hera to the Amazons.
Herakles reached Pontus on a ship called the Eurylus. Captained by Phylptus, a cunning prince who'd earned a fierce reputation as a leader of his Dorian pirates, the Eurylus sailed quietly into the Pontian harbor on the last whispers of an ebb-tide on a summer afternoon. Upon his arrival, Hippolyta was immediately smitten with Herakles. After hosting a feast in honor of a son of Zeus, she invited him to her bed later that night. In later years, many songs were written about the passion shared between the two lovers that night. In the morning Herakles stole away from the island with Hippolyta's belt safely tucked in his waistband, not realizing Phylptus and his Dorian pirate army had enslaved the Amazon nation while he sailed away.
The Amazonian enslavement lasted 15 years, but the experience was a humiliation from which the Amazons never recovered. The proud female warriors found themselves slaves and unwilling sexual partners of the Dorian pirates. Hippoylta herself was required to submit to Phylptus' whims on a daily basis, deepening her humiliation. Despite their agony, the Amazons worked constantly and with deep secrecy to fashion weapons. Seeing they were as well armed as their pirate captors. Hippolyta and her Amazonian Army broke free, turned and defeated the Dorian Army in an epic battle. The gods were impressed with the fortitude of the Amazons and offered Hippolyta the right to slaughter their former captors. However, in keeping with their original mission, the Amazons elected to forego their right of vengeance.
After their humiliation at the hands of the Dorians, the Amazons desired peace and rest from the weary toil of Man's World. They requested of the gods a place where they might heal in peace. The gods, mindful of the Amazons' compassion and bravery, created Themyscira. Magically transported away from Man's World, the women lived in tranquility for the next 800 years. . To protect the Amazons, the gods cloaked the island behind a magical barrier, thereby sheltering the island from prying eyes. Given their newfound distrust of men, Hippolyta decreed that any man found on the island would be immediately put to death, while any Amazon found guilty of bringing a man to the island would subsequently be banished from the society for eternity.
During the ensuing centuries, Themyscira grew to be accepted as a myth by the Western World, fueled only by occasional sightings of Amazon women, which were dismissed as delusions by the majority of the population. There was some truth to the rumors, of course, as the procreation of the tribe demanded new daughters. While Amazons were loath to leave the island, especially given their distrust, and sometimes hatred, of men, the procreation of their race demanded that women of childbearing age occasionally leave the island. Sailing vessels were maintained in order to provide safe transport to Man's World and upon arrival in that strange place, the Amazons located a suitable male demonstrating both physical and mental agility, traits highly favored by the Amazons. Seduction followed and upon conception of a child, an Amazon would immediately return to Themyscira. Female infants were kept in order to maintain the population, while male infants were transported off the isle and returned to the father.
Although men were not allowed on the island, male gods were exempt from that policy. Hades, lord of the Underworld, visited Themyscira and managed to seduce Queen Hippolyta. With the assistance of Ares, whose power increases from the strife caused by war, Hades betrayed his fellow gods by tricking Hippolyta into unlocking the earth-side portal to the Gates of Olympus. Once the Gates were open, Hades, the Dark Lords (including Circe) and an evil new generation of gods, the Titans, attacked Zeus and his family. For years the skies thundered as the gods battled for supremacy. After much bloodshed, Zeus and his family emerged from the war victorious. Zeus imprisoned Hades, Circe and the rest of the betrayers in the Pit of Tartarus, still unaware of Ares' treachery. As penance for their unwitting role in the war, the gods tasked the Amazons to guard the gateway to Tartarus for eternity. To aid this effort, the gods granted the Amazons immortality, thus obviating the need to procreate the race, as well as superhuman strength to aid them in their battles against the forces of evil.
In 500 A.D., Hippolyta begged Athena for a daughter, citing her lonely vigil over the Gates and the difficulty of shouldering that responsibility without an heir to the throne. Athena agreed to the request and instructed Hippolyta to mold the visage of a 6-year old out of clay. Once she brought the child to life, Athena granted the little girl the strength of Gaea, the speed of Mercury, the power of flight and two magical accessories, including bracelets which would deflect almost any weapon, as well as an unbreakable lasso, woven from the girdle of Gaea herself. She was named Diana.
For 1,500 years, Diana slowly matured until reaching the fullness of her womanhood. Trained to be the Amazon Champion, at the dawn of the new millennia in Man's World, Diana elected to leave Themyscira in order to help the heroes of Man's World defeat the Invaders, an alien species which laid siege to the Earth. Intrigued by the many pleasures (and horrors) of Man's World, Diana decided to form the Justice League along with Batman, Superman, Martian Manhunter, the Green Lantern, Flash and Hawkgirl. Her introduction to the foreign culture of Man's World was initially painful as her distrust of men led to a number of misunderstandings with her teammates. While friendly, her teammates generally viewed her as aloof, domineering and imbued with a superiority complex given her aristocratic upbringing.
As word of Diana's Amazonian origin spread, a sorcerer of the Dark Arts named Felix Faust subsequently penetrated the magical barrier surrounding Themyscira. He utilized an amulet to turn the Amazons to stone, then held the statues hostage until Diana retrieved the key to unlock the Gates of Tartarus in order to free Hades from the Pit.
Diana and the Justice League returned to Themyscira and ultimately defeated Faust and Hades, consigning them both to the Pit. The price of the victory was high, however, as Hippolyta decreed Diana had violated the most sacred Amazonian law by bringing men to the island. After the decorations were handed out, Hippolyta ruled Themysciran law required Diana's exile from the island for eternity.
Diana managed to leave the island with a grace befitting a Princess. She saved her tears until the Javelin-7 departed the island, then collapsed in the back seat of the plane, her anguish evident to all of her teammates. During the flight back to the Watchtower, her teammates (with the notable exception of Batman) tried to comfort her with meaningless platitudes she knew were well intended but otherwise fell on deaf ears. After filing out of the plane at the Watchtower's landing bay, Diana found it oddly comforting when Batman asked, "You going to be okay?" in his typically gruff manner, then departed without waiting for a reply. She later realized he was too embarrassed to wait for her reply, not wanting to demonstrate any emotional attachment to a teammate.
Abiding by the ruling without complaint, Diana did not attempt to contact her mother until two exceptional circumstances required her to do so. In the first instance, a rogue Amazon known as Aresia decided to take the Amazonian hatred of men to an extreme conclusion. Aresia was born in Man's World, arriving on Themyscira with the aid of a male sailor who sacrificed himself to rescue Aresia from a capsized ship. After synthesizing a viral strain specific to the male chromosome, she attempted to launch a viral attack against men on a global level, with a stated goal of decimating the species. As her male teammates succumbed to the virus, Diana, Hawkgirl and Hippolyta ultimately prevailed in battle against Aresia. Luckily, the women were able to locate Aresia's notes. They used the information to synthesize a cure, thereby saving their colleagues and the infected male population from certain death.
In the second instance, Superman was apparently killed by an energy weapon during a battle with Toyman. As the League prepared to mourn their friend's passing at a memorial service, Diana contacted her mother. Despite her exile, Diana requested she be allowed to wear her royal uniform at the funeral of a man who had been honored by the Amazons. In light of Superman's demonstrated heroism in the battle with Hades, Hippolyta granted the request, even visiting her daughter for a short period of time in order to deliver the regalia befitting a Princess of Themyscira. After the funeral, Diana briefly chatted with her Mother. The conversation was strained, however, as the women made small talk about everything except Themyscira. For Diana, it was yet another grim reminder that she would never return to the island.
For the next 18 months, Diana resigned herself to the fact that her home was now a distant, pleasant memory. Her only reminders of Themyscira came on separate occasions as Ares and Circe renewed their mischief in Man's World. To satisfy his hunger for the strife on which he fed, Ares stoked the flames of a civil war in Kasnia by supplying both sides with munitions. Diana was able to peacefully resolve the conflict, thereby denying Ares the precious strife.
A month later, Circe emerged from Tartarus. She spitefully turned Diana into a pig as a form of vengeance against Hippolyta and the rest of the Amazons for their role in imprisoning Circe after the War of the Gods. Given her royal background, Diana was mortified she'd been turned into a pig, especially in front of the man she had chosen to pursue romantically. The one positive result of the experience was her emerging certainty that Bruce, the Batman, cared for her more than he let on.
Confronted by Batman and Zatanna (a mage and League teammate), Circe demanded he sing to win Diana's freedom from pig-dom. Circle wrongly assumed that she could feed on the magic of his impending humiliation. Surprisingly, he serenaded the Amphitheatre at Mykonos in a well-tuned voice. After the confrontation, Zatanna replayed the image of Batman singing on her crystal ball for Diana, well aware that her teammates were in love. Diana capitalized on the opportunity and seduced Batman when they returned to the Watchtower the next day. While making love with a man (a mortal no less!) was contrary to her Amazonian training, Diana's new relationship with Batman further solidified her place in Man's World.
Given her newfound comfort in Man's World, Diana was floored by the irony four weeks later when J'onn received a garbled message from Hippolyta asking for the League's assistance.
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At their GPU Technology Conference in San Jose, NVIDIA revealed the roadmap for future Tegra-series processors, among other things. The roadmap highlights NVIDIA’s plans for 2013 and 2014 with two future processors, Logan and its successor, Parker, which continue NVIDIA’s tradition of naming them after the real last names of superheroes.
Logan will be the successor to Wayne, more commonly known as the Tegra 4 chipset, and will be appearing in devices in early 2014. It will feature a quad-core ARM Cortex A15 MPCore alongside a low power companion core. It will also be the first Tegra chip to include CUDA cores, NVIDIA’s solution for parallel computing on the GPU, and will be based on a Kepler architecture, similar to the desktop GPUs that NVIDIA makes.
Logan will also be introducing support for CUDA 5.0, the latest version of CUDA, as well as OpenGL 4.3, which brings new features such as tessellation, computer shaders and geometry shaders over OpenGL ES 3.0.
Next is Parker, which will use the upcoming Denver CPU with 64-bit support and the upcoming Maxwell series of GPU. All the advancements in Logan will be carried forward to Parker. Parker is expected to arrive in devices by 2015.
NVIDIA also showcased an mITX-like board called Kayla, which features a Tegra 3 SoC and a low power Kepler GPU, presumably from Logan. This board is designed primarily for developers to test their applications, specifically for the new CUDA functionality that will be introduced from Logan onwards. Not much details about Kayla are available at the moment.
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Disciplinary Officer Cases: Frequently Asked Questions
What is a Disciplinary Officer?
A Disciplinary Officer (DO) is a staff member who has been appointed and trained by the Senate Committee on Student Discipline to adjudicate alleged violations of the Student Code. If the allegations do not rise to the level of suspension or dismissal, the Disciplinary Officer may adjudicate the case based upon the direction from the Senate Committee.
Do I have to meet with the DO when I receive a letter/email from them?
Yes. At the meeting, you will have the opportunity to learn about the allegations, provide input or correction from your point of view, and participate in an educational dialogue about the incident. Without attending the meeting, the DO may make a decision in your absence based upon the preponderance of the available information, or a "more likely than not" standard.
How long will the meeting take?
Typically, most meetings with a DO will last anywhere from 15 to 30 minutes.
What is the purpose of this meeting?
The purpose of this meeting is to get clarification about the allegations, discuss the University's standards for behavior, and to determine the most appropriate response to any violation of those standards. We need all sides of the story in order to make the most educated decisions.
Can I bring an advisor/legal counsel/parent to this meeting?
Yes. The main purpose is the discussion between the student and the DO. It is an informal discussion, and the role of the advisor, legal counsel, or parent will be very limited.
Where are the meetings located?
There are a variety of DO's on our campus. The Associate Dean and Assistant Dean of the Office of Student Conflict Resolution are located on the third floor of the Turner Student Services Building. The Assistant Dean/Assistant Director of Housing is located in room 300 Clark Hall. There are four Area Coordinators within University Housing that hear cases involving University Residence Hall Students. Their offices are located in different residence halls throughout campus. Pay close attention to the location listed in your letter and be sure to confirm this location when you call to schedule the meeting.
Why is the hearing officer I am meeting with not located within the Office of Student Conflict Resolution?
There are seven primary hearing officers across campus. For those respondents who reside in University Housing or Private Certified Housing Units, typically we will assign you to a DO closer to your living environment.
Can I appeal a decision of a DO?
Yes. Please refer to the frequently asked questions regarding appeals.
What happens if I do not complete my disciplinary sanction?
A disciplinary hold will be placed on your student account. This hold will not allow you to register for or drop any classes. You also will not be able to view grades with this hold in place. If you do not complete your disciplinary sanction, you could also be assigned additional sanctions. Additional disciplinary charges could also be filed against you that might result in a disciplinary hearing before the appropriate disciplinary subcommittee.
Why is the University calling me in about something that didn't even happen on campus?
The jurisdiction of the Student Code is applied based on an individual's relationship with the university rather than the geographic location of the offense. The University has high expectations of students when they are on and off campus to be productive members of the community.
Can I have a formal hearing with witnesses if I request one?
You can suggest witnesses to be interviewed by the DO and a decision could be delayed while the DO continues the investigation. However, if the alleged violation does not rise to the level of suspension or dismissal from the University, a formal hearing will not take place.
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Here's something I can tell you. Many dieters are dissatisfied at the end of weight loss. And that makes me sad. Of course there is the occasional person who loses 100 pounds easily, never has a bad week, and ends up wearing size 4 jeans. That same person looks as if she had never been overweight, has no hanging skin and no extra pouches of flesh. She's happy alright, but she's also vanishingly rare.
Why is it so tough to get the final pounds off? And should we even try? Let's talk.
The first thing to consider is the fact that a weight loss diet is nothing more than you forcing your body to run an ancient starvation program. For more on this, you can read my earlier post on why weight loss diets stop working. Because weight loss occurs as a protective mechanism (your body burns itself in order to avoid starving in a famine), it triggers other protective responses at the same time. Most importantly, the body turns down its rate of calorie burning in order to keep you alive as long as possible. You become the equivalent of a house in winter whose owner is trying to save money on heating oil. The owner turns down the heat, closes up rooms that aren't essential and battens down for a long cold spell. So too your body. When calories are scarce, the body turns down the heat, stops doing things that aren't essential and generally settles in for a famine of uncertain length. This is an elegant and lifesaving response engineered by your brilliant genes. But it drives dieters crazy. Most of us have been conditioned to believe that, with small simple changes, we're supposed to MELT! Instead, we find that we are more like stubborn wooden sculptures whose outlines can be chipped away only through very hard work.
At the end of a weight loss run, the body is at its most efficient...trying hard to keep you from wasting away to nothing. At the same time, the dieter is likely at his least efficient. He's tired, sick of it all, and burned out. His dietary rules have gotten a bit broader and he may be doing what one my patients calls, "coloring outside the lines" ...in other words, getting creative with the diet plan. This combination leads to a plateau. The weight loss stops.
Another issue with the final twenty is that the last pounds may be relatively unimportant. As I've written in the past, it's been my experience that people who were once overweight are "denser" after they lose. By this I mean that they weigh more on the scale than they might expect at a given size. They may look like a size 8 and fit in size 8 clothes, but still have a scale reading that they consider unacceptably high. When we gain weight, our body is forced to create millions of new fat cells to accommodate the fat that fills them. These cells look just like balloons and they swell when fat stuffs them. They then get smaller when fat is released. The question is whether these fat cells disappear after weight loss. I believe that they probably don't. They may remain as emptied tissue that is left behind. Perhaps the body will eventually resorb them and then again, it may not. But that empty tissue weighs something and it's my hypothesis that this is the reason that dieters often wind up being 20 pounds heavier than they think they should be.
Here's another important question. What are you using as a reference for goal weight? I don't like BMI charts because they are not based on the weights of people who were once overweight and are now reduced. We don't know what optimal weights for that population look like, so why do we encourage POWs (previously overweight people) to get into the "normal" zone for NOWs (never overweights)? In my own case, after gaining 20 pounds and then reducing, I was never able to return to the weight I had been for most of my 30s and 40s. Yet at my current weight I am quite thin. On a recent trip to Asia, my distrust of some of the food sources combined with jet lag caused an eight-pound weight loss. I was back at my "original" weight but I looked really bad. Way, way too thin. Now I've regained to my new normal and this is most certainly the correct weight for me as a POW.
What are our expectations of a weight loss? It's been my experience that we often expect more changes than a simple loss of pounds can bring. Even the most physically blessed of us is not perfect and all the evidence points to the fact that most people are tormented by the feeling that there is always something else to correct. All we need to do is look at the gorgeous celebrities who continue to "tweak" themselves with plastic surgery, body contouring and the like. Where do we stop, get comfortable with our imperfections and let out a sigh of acceptance? Lynn Haraldson (my blogging partner) and I started our very first blogs with a discussion of this. Basically, we wanted to make the point that the body we come to inhabit after weight loss has its dings, scratches and non-working parts. Like the Velvteen Rabbit, we must come to love it simply because it has lived and bears the marks of living. As we approach the final pounds of weight loss, this is worth considering. If our body is objecting before we reach some "perfect" number, are we perhaps done?
What I've learned is that the biggest problem with weight loss is the perception that it's somehow done when the scale registers a certain number. As this blog has reiterated ad nauseum, initial weight loss is simply the price we pay for admission to the rest of a newly designed life with food. Once your body has stopped losing, it may well be time to start working on maintenance. Since you are going to vastly change the way you eat and move around, and since this is going to be a lifelong project, there is no hurry. Many people continue to lose as they learn to maintain. Perhaps that will be the better way to go. I know that this is anathema to those who want to be done...and for whom done means a particular number on the scale. To them I gently say, "What's the hurry? You've done wonderfully well and you have a lifetime to figure out your final equilibration."
If none of the above convinces you that it's ok to stop active dieting before goal, let me offer a few suggestions for getting the rest of the way:
1. Since you are so efficient at this point, you will have to force your body to give up calories. This means an increased focus on exercise toward the very end of your diet. Aerobic exercise is better for this than weights. Power walk, power swim, run, or do calorie burning activities like intensive yoga, assuming these are safe for you.
2. Take a look at your weight loss plan. Most people have loosened up on the rules by now. Go back to complete adherence. If there are still starches and sugars in your diet, remove them now. You may have been able to get by with weight loss before while eating them, but if you are producing alot of insulin now, your loss will stop. The same goes for salt. Take it out of your diet. You'll find that it's often coming from restaurant meals, so if you're truly serious, you may want to stop eating out until you're at goal. I would also suggest that you eat plenty of non-starchy vegetables but that you limit your fruit at this point. You don't need fruit and the sugars may be causing a problem.
3. Many people use a multiple-small-meal approach to dieting. It's my feeling that we don't spend enough time in the non-eating state. It's the time between meals and the hours of sleep that allow our body to switch over to the burning of stored fuels. Try to cut down on frequent snacks and get two to three hours between episodes of eating. This may help to move the scale downwards again.
4. If you are using a calorie approach, make sure you are really getting the calories you think you are. For the last part of your diet, I would suggest using more products that are calorie labeled. As unpopular as this suggestion always seems to be, using meal replacements like shakes and bars is really effective. It’s the approach I've used very successfully with hundreds of patients. Remember that you are not doing this for a lifetime, just to get where you want to be. I suggest that you use meal replacers during the day and eat a healthful, Primarian dinner.
And finally, if you are reading this post as someone who is close to goal, I want you to know that you have done an amazing job. Losing weight in the midst of the SAD is much more difficult than anyone leads us to believe. You have had the dedication to do it. You've put in the work. Bravo!! Now...the only thing I ask of you is that you please, please refuse to regain!
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> Het netwerk
> The network
> Under, through, over the Wall
> Onder, door, over de Muur
> Trails and maps
> Bussen en bewegingsvrijheid
> Buses and freedom of movement
> The permit issue revisited: toward the Easter...
> De schoolbus
> Liberation seeds
> Impressions of Gaza
> The Mad Permit Game
> Verdwijntruc: landeigenaars in Betlehem
> Vanishing Act: Land owners in Bethlehem
> The Crow Cries - Bethlehem 2006
> Sylvana Giacaman
> Odette El-Sleiby
> Sandra Nasser
During an evening, my son Tamer and I play badminton in front of our house in Bethlehem. The shuttle goes high and touches an electricity wire. That thread, I discover at that moment, brings light from the street to a lamp that lights the grotto with the sculpture of the Virgin Mary in our garden. After a while the top of the thread burns with a sizzling sound. Suddenly the light falls out around our house and in the street and even, we hear later, in a radius of one kilometer around our house. Just like that, for two days. Fragile, that network.
In the northern area of Bethlehem it happened that the Wall destroyed the network of the area around Rachel’s Tomb. When the colossus was erected some eight years ago, the inhabitants were desperate. The Sumud Story House in the neighborhood became a community initiative that tried to build peace from the grassroots up by weaving new threads between women in that area and beyond. Rania is at the moment coordinator of the House in which four groups come together. All the women and their families struggle with the many restrictions in their freedom of movement and development possibilities as a result of the building of the Wall, settlements, checkpoints and land expropriation.
The peace concept they use, sumud, literally means steadfastness or standing your ground despite all the odds. However, the women give it also another meaning: that of a light, moving, connecting energy. Their latest initiative is a “Wall museum.” The Wall – 8-9 meters high and erected out of the energy of a Caterpillar – serves as an underground for dozens of large poster-plates carrying personal stories of Palestinian women. They are brief, English stories of creativity, mutuality, solidarity, sense of duty, challenge and resistance. Stories of human energy and hope. When the poster-plates were developed, Rania emphasized that the stories should be flanked by a traditional Palestinian embroidery thread. Within the Palestinian culture, embroidery takes an important place. Some embroidery motifs evoke the now unreachable sea. The thread should not surround the story, she said, because then the story would be closed, in the same way as the people here are imprisoned. Rather, the story and the thread should create new connections.
People are fragile but strong, is the message of the stories. The power is in the connections which Rania sees: the stories inspire, should be photographed, told further. Peace is fragile but strong when all threads come together and are nourished by human energy. The Wall looks strong. However, despite all its killing and divisive power it is ultimately fragile.
Toine van Teeffelen
This is a blog written for a competition issued by IKV Pax Christi (Netherlands). “Powered by Peace” is the motto of this year’s Dutch Peace Week which addresses the issues of war, peace, scarce energy and mineral resources. The blog should answer which association the expression “powered by peace” evokes. What is the power of peace, does peace give energy, how is peace fueled, and does peace give energy, and if so, how? Do you know somebody who is much “powered by peace”?
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A variety of videos, audiocassettes, slide/cassette kits, filmstrips, and simulation games are available for loan to library users. Those acquired since 1975 are included in the online public access catalog (ISAIAH); those added prior to 1975 are listed in a notebook available at the circulation desk. These materials are shelved on the upper floor, north room.
Church School Curriculum
The Library maintains a bound set of circulating retrospective Methodist curriculum materials on the upper floor, north room. In addition, the Library has non-circulating examples of current curriculum resources from the United Methodist Church and other denominations in the same location.
Taylor Library owns approximately 60,600 microforms, including books, periodicals, and manuscript collections in microformat. Microforms acquired after 1975 are listed in the online catalog (ISAIAH); those purchased before 1975 are found in the card catalog on the upper floor, north room. Periodicals in microformat are listed in the online catalog (ISAIAH) and in the loose-leaf notebooks labeled “List of Serial Holdings” located by the photocopier on the main floor.
All microforms are housed in the microform room on the lower floor and may be checked out like other library materials. Microfilm and microfiche readers are located in this room also.
Reserve Books and Articles
Each quarter, the faculty request that certain books and articles be placed on Reserve status; Reserve is a controlled circulation that permits many users access to materials being used for a particular course. Reserve materials are shelved behind the circulation desk. Library users must ask the circulation staff in order to borrow these items. Library users should provide the professor’s name and the author and title of the material. Reserve materials circulate for two-hour periods and must be used in the Library. However, two hours before the Library closes, reserve materials that are owned by Iliff may be checked out overnight; they must be returned no later than one hour after the Library opens the following day. Reserve materials that belong to other libraries or individuals must remain in the Library at all times. Library users may check out one item at a time during library hours or overnight; those who return materials late will be fined $.50 per item per hour. Items placed on reserve may be searched via the “course reserves” tab of ISAIAH (the online library catalog).
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"Being a victim of sexual assault is one of the most horrific things a woman can experience" said Glandon.
The 75 year old dedicates three 24 hour shifts a week to answer phones for the Abilene Regional Victims Crisis Center's hotline.
For the past 36 years she's listened to thousands of victims- working to reassure them that it's not their fault.
"It is my purpose and the purpose of all of us to say there is nothing you can do that makes it okay for someone to attack you," she said.
Volunteers at the center help some 1300 victims a year. They're trained to deal with the aftermath of sexual or violent attacks.
But more than anything they're trained to offer a comforting ear.
"I know that when she talks to someone on the phone, shes just there, shes a voice that provides comfort," said Diane Dotson, executive director at the Regional Crime Victim Crisis Center.
Glandon's service doesn't stop at the center. She's received several awards for her community service and has no plans of stopping.
She says every one of the men and women she speaks to are enough motivation to keep going.
"These ladies are just so special to me," she said. "They have been through an awful, awful experience and to see them work through it, with our help, but they have to do a lot for themselves."
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Events, features and things to do for families in New Hampshire
MEAD can make a difference for NH citizens with disabilities
By Denise (Bolduc) St. Onge
MEAD, a Medicaid program that began in February 2002, allows adults with disabilities to work, save money, and still qualify for Medicaid assistance. To be eligible for MEAD, individuals must be 18 t0 64, employed or self-employed, meet the disability criteria and be within the allowed income and countable resources (savings, stocks/bonds, cash, life insurance) limits.
For NH citizens with disabilities, MEAD has made an enormous difference. Comments from those on the program include:
“MEAD enables me to go to work and not have to worry.”
“I was looking at starting my own business … and this is going to get me started.”
“I can afford to buy my medication now - no more spenddowns.”
The MEAD Program, designed in New Hampshire, gives people an opportunity to work at higher wages while on Medicaid, and also allows them to save up to $24,991 (this is the 2009 limit, the amount changes yearly with the cost of living).
Prior to MEAD, people with “spenddowns” (the preset amount an individual must pay for medical bills before Medicaid kicks in) frequently found themselves in a situation where they had to borrow money from family and friends to pay for medications or had to do without. Under the MEAD Program, an individual can have up to $8,000 in monthly gross income; enrollees with a monthly income of approximately $2,700 are required to pay a MEAD monthly insurance premium.
To understand how your employment affects your benefits it is important to speak with a qualified individual such as a benefit planner/specialist who can let you know about available options and help you determine whether you qualify for MEAD or other programs. Benefits Planners are available at Area Agencies for Developmental Services or Community Mental Health Centers. Work Incentives Coordinators at Granite State Independent Living (GSIL) also may be able to offer assistance.
For those enrolled in MEAD who turn 65 and age out of the program, the money they were able to save through MEAD will not be considered in determining their financial eligibility for Medicaid. The individual, however, must still meet disability and other criteria in order to be Medicaid eligible. The MEAD savings, which are kept in a separate bank account, will help to ensure that people are able to enjoy a better quality of life during their retirement.
You may apply for MEAD at your local Health and Human Services District Office. If you are already working and receiving Medicaid services through the Aid to the Permanently and Totally Disabled Program (APTD) or Aid to the Needy Blind Program (ANB), your Family Services Specialist at your local district office can determine if you are eligible for MEAD.
For more information concerning MEAD, a special helpline has been set up at 1-800-852-3345, ext, 0020 or 271-0020. You may also contact your Family Services Specialist at your local district office. See the Resource Guide in this publication for a listing of DHHS District Offices.
Denise (Bolduc) St. Onge is MEAD Project Manager and MIG Project Director/DHHS.
Last updated by Morgen Thiboult May 26, 2011.
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In an effort to further reduce the staggering number of motor vehicle accidents involving operators aged 16-18 the Registry of Motor Vehicles today announced that they would be mailing out brochures to the parents of teen drivers, which explain the special restrictions that apply to operators under the age of 18.
Within days of receiving their license the parent or guardian of a junior operator will receive a packet from the Registry of Motor Vehicles which includes a brochure which outlines accident rates for young drivers as well as the two most important components of the Junior Operator Law; the passenger and time restrictions.
“One of the most common complaints I have heard is that the parents did not know about the passenger or time restrictions,” said Registrar of Motor Vehicles Kimberly Hinden.
“With this brochure we hope to give parents the tools they need to help keep their young drivers safe.”
The passenger restriction, which was designed to keep young drivers from getting distracted by having friends in the car, prohibits a junior operator from operating a motor vehicle within the first 6 months after receiving their license while any passenger under the age of 18 is in the vehicle (other than siblings) unless:
- They are accompanied by a person who is at least 21 years old
- Who has at least 1 year of driving experience
- Has a valid license from Massachusetts or another state
- Is occupying the seat beside the junior operator
The time restriction was put into effect because statistics show that accident rates for teens are higher at night. In Massachusetts a Junior Operator may not operate a motor vehicle between the hours of 12:00 a.m. to 5:00 a.m. unless accompanied by a parent or legal guardian.
The packet also comes with a tip sheet to hang on the refrigerator door that includes helpful hints on how parents can help young drivers.
Both the brochure and tip sheet are available in Spanish and on the RMV website at www.massrmv.com.
JOL Parents Brochure in English
JOL Parents Brochure in Spanish
How Parents Can Help Young Drivers - English Version
How Parents Can Help Young Drivers - Spanish Version
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Can I add Orange Marmalade when making Fig Jam?
I have a jar of very yummy Frog Hollow Farm Orange Marmalade. And I'm making a ton of Fig Jam as my friend just gave me 2 huge bags of figs from her tree.
I was curious if I added 1/2 cup of Orange Marmalade to a batch instead of half a cup of sugar, would that be bad?
On a side note:
And right now I'm at 112 jars of peach, pluot, plum, apricot jam. Only about 100 more jars till I have enough jars as gifts for people at our wedding. Wheeeeee
What a lovely idea for your wedding!
I/2 a cup of marmalade and 1/2 a cup of sugar are not an even exchange. The sugar in the marmalade has been diluted by the fruit...Sugar is used not only for flavor, but for it's properties as a preservative. So unless you are making freezer jam I wouldn't tweak the sugar ratio.
The marmalade added just for flavor should be o.k., although it seems more cost effective and more easily reproducible to add oranges to your recipe.
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At my weekly book-club with former students the third graders began expressing their worries about their first round of SOL testing. (For those of you not in VA I'm actually not cursing... that is what our tests are called. The Standards of Learning. For your added amusement my county's standards are referred to as the POS ~ Program of Studies)
I was asking the girls if they were excited about spring break and the upcoming intersession. One shook her head vigorously. No way! I'm too nervous about SOLs.
But the tests are not 'til May! I exclaimed. You have lots of time to get ready once you come back. You need to relax and enjoy spring break!
What if I forget everything I've learned? I HAVE to pass the SOLs! she argued.
This is not a child with high anxiety. This is a child who required frequent reminders about 'our jobs in school' and 'who is the teacher?' when she was in first grade with me. A smart but relaxed little girl, she was the last person I expected to express stress over the tests coming up in over a month. The child sitting next to her, one who has high testing anxiety, couldn't even speak. She just nodded her head in agreement, her wide eyes saying it all.
It was the Friday before spring break. The teachers were counting down the hours. We were planning our vacations, chatting about outdoor activities we could soon partake in, and excitedly preparing for intersession. And the third grade students, who have been taught the importance of bubbling with the perfect pressure inside one circle, only bubbling one circle per letter, how to read test questions, how to track their answers on their answer sheet, and how to properly go-back and re-read the test passages when answering the questions, are filled with anxiety they will forget all of these skills while having 3 weeks away from the practice.
I'm glad I'm not a third grader.
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Crisp bills make you spend less
Washington: People tend to spend worn bills faster to get rid of them but are more likely to hold on to crisp new currency, according to a new study.
But when they think they’re being watched, pride kicks in and they pull out crisp
bills to show off.
“The physical appearance of money can alter spending behaviour. Consumers tend to infer that worn bills are used and contaminated, whereas crisp bills give them a sense of pride in owning bills that can be spent around others,” write authors Fabrizio Di Muro (University of Winnipeg) and Theodore J. Noseworthy (University of Guelph). ANI
Mail becoming obsolete
London: The number of people who write letters has fallen by 30% in just two years, a new survey has revealed.
About 17% of those surveyed said that they use email and text messages more than they did in 2010, while 30% reported writing fewer letters and posting fewer parcels.
Among those communications regulator Ofcom categorised as the most technology savvy, letter writing fell by up to 38%. ani
Fat tax on nutella sparks off row
London: France’s Socialist government plans to quadruple taxes on products containing palm oil, arguing that its production is detrimental to the environment and its consumption is fuelling obesity.
Around 20% of Nutella, the sweet and sickly staple of many a French schoolchild’s breakfast, is palm oil. Little wonder then that government threats to impose a fat tax, known as the ‘Nutella amendment’, have sparked an international row.
On Monday, the Malaysian Palm Oil Council criticised French claims that palm oil was detrimental to the environment and fuelling obesity.
Nutella makers Ferrero (of Ferrero Rocher chocolates fame) have also moved to reassure its customers in France, insisting that there would be no change in the recipe.
“Even if the tax is passed, we’re not planning to change our recipe,” Frederic Thil, French director of the Italian company, said. GNS
Oxytocin makes men faithful
Washington: Men in committed relationships who are given the hormone oxytocin choose to keep distance from an attractive women they have just met, according to new research.
The findings suggest oxytocin may help promote fidelity within monogamous relationships.
The hormone, which is produced in a region of the brain called the hypothalamus, is also involved in the formation of social bonds.
In humans and other animals, this brain chemical is known to promote bonds between parents and children, and between couples. ANI
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The recent kerfluffle over Israeli government video ads and billboard posters, designed to entice wayward yordim to return home, instead exposed the troubled psyche of American Jews.
One might say – if verbal treif is permitted – that a ham-handed attempt by the Ministry of Immigrant Absorption to guilt-trip wandering Israelis into leaving their American promised land backfired. The ministry had good reason for concern lest American society continue to corrode the loyalty of Israelis to their homeland and culture. The benefits of assimilation, as American Jewish history (and the current intermarriage rate) reveals, exact high costs.
In the ministry videos a young Israeli woman solemnly contemplates Yom HaZikaron, the day of remembrance for fallen Israeli soldiers, while her American boyfriend is clueless. A sleeping Israeli father does not awaken while his youngster calls “daddy,” but not “abba.” The child of Israelis, Skyping with grandparents back home, is oblivious to the meaning of their Chanukah candles and imagines that it is Christmas.
For months these ads elicited no discernible response, either from wayward Israelis or American Jews. But once the video clips appeared on the Jewish Channel, prompting a tirade from Atlantic blogger Jeffrey Goldberg, gevalts resounded throughout the land.
Goldberg was appalled: “I don’t think I have ever seen a demonstration of Israeli contempt for American Jews as obvious as these ads.” Their message was clear: “it is impossible for Jews to remain Jewish in America.” He added, gratuitously, that Israel has its own problems: many rabbis “act like Iranian mullahs.” And intermarriage can be “understood as an opportunity” – although for what he did not specify.
The Board of Trustees of the Jewish Federations of North America was furious. Rejecting any notion that “American Jews do not understand Israel” (which hardly was the primary thrust of the ads), they warned that “this outrageous and insulting message could harm the Israel-Diaspora relationship.” Anti-Defamation League National Director Abe Foxman found the videos “demeaning.”
There may also have been a political subtext to the belated outrage. The New York Times noted gratuitously that the Israeli ministry responsible for the ad campaign is headed by a Russian immigrant named Sofa Landver. She belongs to “the ultra-nationalist Yisrael Beiteinu party [that]…takes a hard line on the peace process with the Palestinians and advocates exchanging parts of Israel heavily populated by Arab citizens for Jewish settlement blocs in the West Bank.” Therefore, presumably, the ad campaign must be a bad idea.
With some 500,000 Israelis estimated to be living in the United States, it is no small problem that the Immigrant Absorption Ministry tried to address – if too bluntly for American Jewish insecurities. The Ministry, expressing its respect and appreciation to the American Jewish community, reiterated the obvious: the ad campaign targeted Israelis who had succumbed to the allure of American enticements, not American Jews.
But Prime Minister Netanyahu, responding to the squall of outrage from American Jewish precincts, quickly aborted the ad campaign. Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren, engaging in damage control, appeared on CNN for an interview with John King – on Shabbat, no less – to apologize for the failure of the Immigration Ministry to “take into account American Jewish sensibilities.”
As Jerusalem-based journalist David Hazony perceptively observed about the video ad fracas, “in the hysteria of the response, the insecurity of American Jewish life is laid bare.” That is the real story of the video ad contretemps, which the fury of American Jews inadvertently confirmed.
Israel has long been an integral part of that story. Two years after Israel’s founding, American Jewish Committee President Jacob Blaustein wrested his famous agreement from Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion that Israel would neither presume to speak for American Jews nor attempt to entice them to make aliyah.
More recently, whenever Israel has incurred the wrath of an American president for permitting another settlement in its biblical homeland American Jews have writhed with embarrassment and hastened to distance themselves from Israeli “zealots.”
Assimilated American Jews remain ever anxious lest they be held guilty by association with Israel’s perceived misdeeds. Their loyalty to the United States must never be impugned. Any implication that American Jews are without a sustainable Jewish identity is infuriating. They seemed shocked that exposure to Jewish life in their promised American homeland can corrode the Jewish identity of Israelis.
Israeli yordim are the proverbial canary in the mineshaft, warning of imminent danger ahead. Yet the ads were intended as a warning to Israelis, not to the American Jews who quickly jumped to the conclusion that it is “about us” – a clear indication, as Hazony wrote, that Israelis “stepped on a live wire in the American Jewish psyche.”
For American Jews of a certain persuasion, Israel once again was the big bad Jewish bully whose reckless actions jeopardized their deep yearning for recognition as good Jews and acceptance as loyal Americans. But when an Israeli and an American Jew are paired, the ads suggested, the Jewish deficiencies of American Jewish life become glaringly apparent. That stung – precisely because there is truth to it.
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Algeria hostage crisis uncertain after deadly raid
Updated at 2:54 p.m. ET
ALGIERS, Algeria Algerian forces launched a military assault Thursday at a natural gas plant in the Sahara Desert, trying to free dozens of foreign hostages held by militants who have ties to Mali's rebel Islamists, diplomats and an Algerian security official said.
Yet information on the Algerian operation varied wildly and the conflicting reports that emerged from the remote area were impossible to verify independently. What did leak out prompted governments around the world to express deep concerns about the way Algeria tried to rescue the hostages, who were from at least nine different countries.
News of the bloody Algerian operation caused oil prices to rise $1.08 to $95.32 on the New York Mercantile Exchange and prompted energy companies like BP PLC and Spain's Compania Espanola de Petroleos SA to try to relocate energy workers at other Algerian plants.
A diplomatic source confirmed to CBS News that the Algerian military had a plan to retake the facility and that there had been casualties among both the terrorists and hostages, including multiple deaths.
A British security source, citing a contact close to the scene, told CBS News "that the Algerians were firing from helicopters at anything that moved," but could not confirm any deaths.
Meanwhile, an unarmed American Predator drone arrived over the gas plant late Thursday afternoon, giving the U.S. its first independent look at the situation, CBS News national security correspondent David Martin reports.
Martin also reports that the Algerians said they didn't want any U.S. military assistance.
An administration official said it's unclear where the remaining hostages or the hostage-takers were and that the situation is still unfolding, CBS Radio News correspondent Cami McCormick reports.
The Algerian government said it was forced to intervene due to the militants' stubbornness and their desire to escape with the hostages. The communications minister said there were casualties in the military operation Thursday, but gave no details.
"An important number of hostages were freed and an important number of terrorists were neutralized and we regret the few dead and wounded, but we don't have numbers," minister Mohand Said Oubelaid said on national radio. "The operation to free the rest of the hostages still inside (the plant) is ongoing."
A State Department source told CBS News the kidnappers were armed with AK-47 assault rifles and rocket-propelled grenades, and that some had suicide vests.
Islamists from the Masked Brigade, who have been speaking through a Mauritanian news outlet, said Algerian helicopters opened fire as the militants tried to leave the vast Ain Amenas energy complex with their hostages. They claimed that 35 hostages and 15 militants died in the strafing and only seven hostages survived.
Algeria's official news service, meanwhile, earlier claimed that 600 local workers were freed in the raid and half of the foreigners being held were rescued. Many of those locals were reportedly released on Wednesday, however, by the militants themselves.
One Irish hostage was confirmed safe: supervising electrician Stephen McFaul, whose mother said he would not be returning to Algeria.
"He phoned me at 9 o'clock to say al Qaeda were holding him, kidnapped, and to contact the Irish government, for they wanted publicity. Nightmare, so it was. Never want to do it again. He'll not be back! He'll take a job here in Belfast like the rest of us," said his mother, Marie.
Dylan, McFaul's 13-year-old son, started crying as he talked to Ulster Television. "I feel over the moon, just really excited. I just can't wait for him to get home," he said.
In Washington, White House press secretary Jay Carney said the Obama administration was "concerned about reports of loss of life and are seeking clarity from the government of Algeria."
Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe protested the military raid as an act that "threatened the lives of the hostages," according to a spokesman.
Jean-Christophe Gray, a spokesman for British Prime Minister David Cameron, said Britain was not informed in advance of the raid but described the situation as "very grave and serious." French President Francois Hollande called it a "dramatic" situation involving dozens of hostages.
Algerian forces who had ringed the Ain Amenas complex in a tense standoff had vowed not to negotiate with the kidnappers, who reportedly were seeking safe passage. Security experts said the end of the two-day standoff was in keeping with the North African country's tough approach to terrorism.
The kidnapping is one of the largest ever attempted by a militant group in North Africa. The militants phoned a Mauritanian news outlet to demand that France end its intervention in neighboring Mali to ensure the safety of the hostages in the isolated plant, located 800 miles south of the capital of Algiers.
Phone contacts with the militants were severed as government forces closed in, according to the Mauritanian agency, which often carries reports from al Qaeda-linked extremist groups in North Africa.
A 58-year-old Norwegian engineer who made it to the safety of a nearby Algerian military camp told his wife how militants attacked a bus Wednesday before being fended off by a military escort.
"Bullets were flying over their heads as they hid on the floor of the bus," Vigdis Sletten told The Associated Press in a phone interview from her home in Bokn, on Norway's west coast.
Her husband and the other bus passengers climbed out of a window and were transported to a nearby military camp, she said.
"He is among the lucky ones, and he has confirmed he is not injured," she said, declining to give his name for security reasons.
It was then that the militants went after the living quarters of the plant instead of disappearing back into the desert.
Information about the 41 foreign hostages the militants claimed to have which allegedly included seven Americans was scarce and conflicting. All were reportedly workers at the plant.
A spokesman for the Masked Brigade said 35 of the hostages died in the Algerian strafing, and told the Nouakchott Information Agency in Mauritania that the seven surviving hostages included three Belgians, two Americans, a Briton and a Japanese citizen.
Algeria's national news service, however, said only four hostages were freed during the military operation Thursday, citing a local law enforcement source.
Earlier in the day before the raid, an Algerian security official said that 20 foreign hostages had escaped. He did not return phone calls after the raid.
The Norwegian energy company Statoil had said three Algerian employees who had been held hostage were safe but the fate of nine Norwegian workers was unclear. Japanese media reported at least 3 Japanese citizens among the hostages and Malaysia confirmed two.
Algerian Interior Minister Daho Ould dismissed theories that the militants had come from Libya, 60 miles away, or from Mali, more than 600 miles away. He said the roughly 20 well-armed gunmen were from Algeria itself, operating under orders from Moktar Belmoktar, al Qaeda's strongman in the Sahara.
Yves Bonnet, the former head of France's spy service, also dismissed the idea that the operation was specifically linked to the French action in Mali due to the amount of organization it involved.
"It was an operation conceived well in advance spectacular and needing a lot of preparation ... It was not at all an improvised operation," he told the Europe 1 radio. "Simply getting all those people into the desert would take several days."
It is certainly the largest haul of hostages since 2003, when the radical group that later evolved into al Qaeda in North Africa snatched 32 Western tourists in southern Algeria. This is also the first time Americans have been involved.
BP, the Norwegian company Statoil and the Algerian state oil company Sonatrach, operate the gas field and a Japanese company, JGC Corp, provides services for the facility.
Mali and al Qaeda specialist Mathieu Guidere said Algeria's decisive response was in keeping with its usual response to terrorism.
"The message is 'We will terrorize the terrorists,'" he said, adding that the Algerian government had prioritized protecting its gas fields throughout the worst of a violent Islamist insurgency in the 1990s.
Guidere said Algeria's refusal to accept help was also normal.
"They never accept any military help," he said. "They want to do it their way."
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The wonderful thing about Durga puja is that it proves once and for all that god doesn’t exist. Well, for those who simply won’t believe me, Durga puja at least proves that god doesn’t need to exist. You don’t have to be a Bengali (ex-Marxist) to realise that for five days, as the tribe, friends
of the tribe and even Desmond Morris-type observers of the tribe throng the pandals, hopping from one site of idol worship to another as if people were alcoholics hopping bars (the new clothes and the podgy kids give the game away), the religious bit is just an excuse. If there was no festival of Durga, Bengalis would have had to invent both the festival and the goddess. Which, come to think of it, they have.
There’s a negative correlation between the distance from the Bengali’s Mecca, Kolkata, and his or her clinginess to ‘Bengaliness’ during the pujas. Bengali households whether in Doncaster or in Utah underline their cultural identity with much more force during these five days than those, say, living in Delhi or Mumbai and certainly in Kolkata.
The BNRI (Bengali non-resident Indian) goes into a tizzy about whether the inflection in the Sanskrit sloka, ‘Ya devi sarva bhoot esho...’, has been done in the correct manner on Mahalaya (the day that the goddess sets off from her home in 221B Mount Kailash) to whether the right number of batashas (a hard sweet concoction that no Indian writer in English will dare to mention in a novel as it’s untranslatable even to fellow non-Bengali Indians) are part of the prasad. The BRI (Bengali Resident Indian) is more concerned about the food.
Which, frankly, is what the Durga Pujas boil down to. Food. Palates and taste buds go on a pilgrimage to taste gene pool meals such as (and I won’t even deign to describe them considering Marcel Proust never bothered to tell me what ‘madeleine’ was) fish orley, mutton kabiraji, moghlai paratha, aloo kabli, ghugni, egg devil (devilled egg, for the rest of the world). Even non-foodies are sucked in to this gastronomic universe — with dire consequences the day after.
So the pujas — as opposed to the ‘pujo’, which describes the actual religious bits and bobs — have as much to do with Durga as the IPL has to do with cricket, or Twitter to do with information. And you guys still complain of the Bengali mafia? Tut tut.
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A deer at the Erie Zoo is dead after a vicious attack from a dog.
Zoo workers found a husky in the zoo's Safari Land area around 8:30 this morning.
Zoo officials say the dog attacked and killed an older deer.
There were other deer in the pen at the time, but zoo workers were able to safely contain the others.
Erie city police and animal control arrived on the scene and killed the dog. The dog was wearing tags.
Zoo officials have no idea how the dog got into the zoo.
Mitchell says this is the first time something like this has happened at the Erie Zoo.
And they'll be working to make sure it doesn't ever happen again.
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Follow Daisy's progress on our Facebook page.
Daisy was found by good samaritans wandering the streets of Compton in mid January with no identification. At that time, they noticed a few skin lesions on her body. The 5 month old pitbull mix puppy was taken to a veterinarian who started Daisy on a course of antibiotics for the lesions. Even with antibiotics, the lesions quickly started to spread over Daisy's body. A referral was made and Daisy was taken to the Animal Dermatology Clinic in Tustin. Biopsies were collected and came back as third-degree burns with secondary infection. The owners have tried to do what they can but have used up all their available money resources on the exams, biopsies and necessary medications.
The local surgeons at Veterinary Surgical Specialists have been consulted regarding the case and suggest daily bandage changes and potential surgical debridement and skin grafting. Both the clinic and the surgery clinic are willing to give discounts to assist with this case through the efforts of Dr Ashley Stich and her colleagues. The degree of contraction caused by healing tissue and risks of serious infection make more aggressive therapy necessary to give her the best prognosis.
Dr Stich writes: Estimate depends on complications with infection and response to therapy. Both our facility and the surgeons are willing to help discount as much as we can. However, the initial estimate would be around $4,000-5,000.
Daisy was the victim of a horrible person who brutally abused her by burning her and then threw her out onto the streets to die. Please find it in your hearts to help this puppy. Her rescuers want her to be able to know what it feels like to be healthy so she can spend the rest of her life in their loving and safe home. Thank you!
Please consider sending a tax deductible donation to help Daisy. No amount is too small, and donations can be by check, credit card, or PayPal. Please note on memo that donation is for Daisy.
Checks can be sent to:
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If you would like more information about the home tutoring program, or are interested in becoming a volunteer tutor, please fill out an application. For more information on what the tutoring experience is like, please take a look at some of the testimonials written by our volunteers.
Refugee students learning English as a Second Language (ESL) face many challenges acquiring proficiency in written and spoken English. Upon arrival in the United States students who have had limited academic instruction in their native country are often placed in school systems without the necessary support. Unrealistic academic expectations are compounded by a gap in family support due to language, cultural, and educational barriers. Magnifying these challenges are the cultural and social hurdles students come across adjusting to life in the United States.
In the spring of 2010, in response to a needs assessment of refugee students and their families, TRR initiated its Home Tutoring Program. The goal of this program is to connect refugee students with volunteer tutors who provide academic support aimed at increasing student performance to grade level standards. TRR believes these connections are vital for student development. The relationships between students and tutors not only result in increased confidence in English language skills but also increased comfort in new communities.
The TRR Home Tutoring Program provides one-on-one home tutoring to over thirty refugee students in Cleveland, Ohio. All students accepted into the program are performing below grade level academically. TRR matches each refugee student with a volunteer tutor who must apply and be approved before attending mandatory trainings held by TRR staff. Volunteer tutors meet with their student once a week for two hours. During this time, tutors assist with homework, complete worksheets and activities from the TRR curriculum, and spend time developing a relationship with the student and his or her family. Each home is monitored by the Education Director who schedules tutors and provides curriculum materials and resources. The director also provides bimonthly student assessments, conducts tutor trainings, and maintains contact with the students’ teachers throughout the year.
The benefits to participating in the Home Tutoring program are innumerable. Refugee students gain confidence academically and socially. Volunteer tutors form relationships with refugee students and their families. Cleveland’s communities become interconnected through cross-cultural understanding and a sense of social responsibility. The ultimate benefit of this program is that it provides refugee students with the much needed additional instruction time and the direct one-on-one assistance that is so critical to personal and academic development.
Collaboration with NDCL
Since 2010 Notre Dame-Cathedral Latin School has been a special partner with TRR, providing assistance with the home tutoring program with the children from Burma. Each week, ten to twelve students and faculty members make an hour commute from Munson Township to Lakewood, individually tutor the children for two hours and then add on another hour as they return home. In addition to the time commitment, each student demonstrates the core values of Notre Dame-Cathedral Latin School by creating a very positive environment and setting an example for the children. With the aforementioned contributions from NDCL students, it is not surprising we have seen significant growth in the children’s development.
We are excited to announce this summer NDCL is graciously hosting a camp for the children on NDCL’s campus. What a great opportunity and a unique experience for both, refugees and students!
We are extremely grateful to NDCL for providing this unbelievable opportunity and look forward to future opportunities and hopefully creating successful partnerships with other local academic institutions.
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Scotty Cameron on the new Detour putter
The new Detour is truly a departure from conventional putter design. With the most prominent feature being its arched—or curved—body, some may ask why? Great question. Until now, most putters have been designed to swing straight back and straight through the target line. This would be ideal if the rules of the game allowed players to putt straddling the target line using a pendulum stroke. We know this is not allowed, so we must compensate.
It is a fact, proven by years of working with the world’s best players at my Putter Studio, that the proper putting swing path naturally follows a curve. It is the lie angle of the shaft that creates an arc. As the putter head travels slightly inside on the back-swing, back to square at impact, and slightly inside on the follow-through, the body tries to manipulate the face to square. I’ve simply designed a putter that keeps the face square to the path line through the entire stroke by showing the player the way.
The arched body combined with design features like the high toe and triangulated balance points make the Detour one of the most technologically and mechanically advanced putters of its time. In simpler terms, it allows the player and putter to work effortlessly together to achieve ideal ball performance by putting along the proper path. The Detour is the path to better putting.
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Grad student John Boldt had his laptop (which held his thesis) stolen. But he backed everything up, so no big deal, right? Well: His backup hard drive was stolen too, and now he may have to drop out.
Poor John Boldt! Not only is he a grad school student—which we wouldn't wish on anyone—he may soon be a grad school dropout. Boldt left his laptop in his car while going for a run last week. The computer was filled with research and notes, and a thesis only three chapters away from being done. Can you see where this is going? The laptop was gone when he got back from his run, and now Boldt says he'll have to drop out of school if he doesn't get the computer back. He's offering a cash reward for its return. (This is all assuming he hasn't concocted some elaborate scheme to buy himself time on his thesis or get out of school, which isn't out of the question—you never emailed it to your advisor, dude?)
So what's the lesson here? Well, for one thing, make sure you back up your important data. But more importantly, keep your original and your back ups in different places. (Like, say on the internet.) You never know what might happen! A hard drive and a laptop right next to each other are easy targets for thieves—not to mention susceptible to fires and, like, hammers.
The other lesson, obviously, is that you should never "go for a run," because only bad things can happen when you exercise.
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All Articles Tagged "african american recruitment"
(Amsterdam News) — In certain realms, Vulcans hold a curious fascination for those of the Comic-Con faith. But in New York City, they are known to be a band of brothers and sisters in the fire department who not only protect and rescue city residents and property but also take on the legal fight when needed in order to ensure that a decent number of Black folks can get hired. The Vulcans scored a victory recently when they won their lawsuit determining that the FDNY must get more Blacks and Latinos on the job. ”It is our victory,” said Fire Captain Paul Washington, former president of the Vulcan Society. “We want as many Black men and women to take advantage of this as possible. This was a battle royale for the better part of a decade,” said Washington. “The city would not acknowledge the blatant discrimination.”
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Some of the News Fit to Print
ABOUT HIGHER ED
OPEN-DOOR POLICIES AT TWO-YEAR COLLEGES FACE THREAT, REPORT SAYS
The nation’s college-completion agenda may be threatening open-door admissions policies at two-year institutions, says a report released by the American Association of Community Colleges. The organization is concerned that colleges may become more selective in admissions in an attempt to meet graduation goals, and will therefore limit college access for disadvantaged students. Community colleges are known for their open-door policies, which allow all types of students to enroll. The article is in The Chronicle of Higher Education.
OBAMA CALLS FOR MORE ‘TINKERERS AND DREAMERS’
President Obama for a second time converted the White House public rooms into a science fair on Tuesday, and announced new federal and private-sector initiatives to encourage “a nation of tinkerers and dreamers” in so-called STEM education in science, technology, engineering and math. According to a White House summary, in his annual federal budget request next week, Mr. Obama will seek to dedicate $80 million for the Education Department to a $100 million competition – more than $20 million will come from corporations and foundations led by Carnegie Corporation – to support programs to prepare teachers in science, technology, engineering and math, including programs allowing students to simultaneously earn a degree in their subject and a teaching certificate. The post was in The New York Times Caucus blog.
UC STUDENTS PROPOSE ALTERNATIVE TO TUITION INCREASES
Chris LoCascio, a junior at UC Riverside, feared that there was no end in sight for tuition increases at the University of California. The state kept cutting subsidies, students kept protesting, but no one had any answers. So he and other students decided to turn the discussion on its head. What if, he says, "instead of charging students upfront for their education, students would attend the UC with no upfront costs whatsoever"? Under the Fix UC proposal, the bill would not come due until students graduate and start making money. "Under our proposal, students would pay 5 percent of their income for 20 years" following graduation, Locacio says. Fix UC recently presented the idea to the university regents. The idea is that students would have a dependable bill to pay, rather than wrestling with unpredictable tuition increases and rising debt. The piece was on NPR’s Morning Edition.
A NONTRADITIONAL UNIVERSITY FOR NONTRADITIONAL STUDENTS
Alan Walker, president of Upper Iowa University writes for The Washington Post: Most of our higher educational institutions today are nicely set up for education in the 20th century (and perhaps the early 20th century). They are predominantly bricks and mortar, and if they offer online education, it is often separate from the degree programs offered for attendance on campus. At the same time that federal grants and other funding to help students afford a college education are declining, colleges and universities keep pushing the bar of affordability higher and higher. This is not “just the way it is.” This is a fundamental structural failure of higher education.
TENNESSEE TEACHER EVALUATION SYSTEMS HAVE A ROUGH ROAD AHEAD
States and districts, aided by hundreds of millions of federal and philanthropic dollars, are developing intensive evaluation systems meant to identify teachers who need help, and pinpoint which skills they need help with. Under a state law in Tennessee passed last spring, teachers must be formally observed at least four times a year, or six if they're new to the profession. A teacher's observation scores are supplemented by a so-called "value-added" rating, which is calculated by determining whether a teacher's students made greater gains on standardized tests than statistical models would have predicted. But because value-added ratings don't come out until after the school year is over—and because the majority of teachers don't teach subjects with annual standardized testing—the revamped observations have become a major piece of the reform effort. The article is in the Huffington Post.
EDUCATORS, PARENTS HOLD MIXED VIEWS ON TESTING
Parents, teachers, and district administrators consider formative and interim tests far more valuable than summative assessments, according to a survey released Wednesday. And if state test results arrive more than a month after they were given, parents don’t find them very valuable, the survey found. The article is in Education Week.
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Wed March 14, 2012
City Council Breaks Paper Products Stalemate
Originally published on Wed March 14, 2012 7:17 am
STEVE INSKEEP, HOST:
Good morning. I'm Steve Inskeep. Now we know what it takes to get a government to act. Trenton, New Jersey has been locked in a stalemate since September. The city council rejected a contract to supply paper products. Council members didn't like the high price of hot drink cups. But without that contract the city is also not buying toilet paper. Finally, the city had to approve an emergency purchase. Senior centers, police headquarters and other city offices were running out. You're listening to MORNING EDITION. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.
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From Joseph Farah's February 5 WorldNetDaily column:
Here's a sneak peak at what I will be talking about in my keynote address to the first National Tea Party Convention in Nashville tonight. I wish you could all be there, but it's a sellout:
I have a dream.
My dream is that IF Barack Obama even seeks re-election as president in 2012, he won't be able to go to any city, any town, any hamlet in America without seeing signs that ask, "Where's the birth certificate?"
It's a simple question.
The rest of the media think it's ridiculous, which makes me certain it's one of the most important questions we can be asking. It really hits the target. Polls now show 33 percent of Californians either believe Obama was born outside the country or have doubts about his alleged Hawaiian birth. Nationwide it's closer to 50 percent. Even significant numbers of Democrats have doubts.
But the media and the politicians keep pretending it's all been settled.
I say if it's been settled, show us the birth certificate.
It's an old trick really. It was actually codified by a Marxist Columbia University professor and his research assistant in an article in The Nation May 2, 1966 -- when Barack Obama was only 4 years old. (Or at least we think he was about 4 years old. Without that birth certificate, we just don't really know.) The professor of social work was Richard A. Cloward, and his research assistant was Frances Fox Piven. What they authored became known as "the Cloward-Piven Strategy of Orchestrated Crisis."
Today, Obama is still employing the Cloward-Piven strategy, but not as a community organizer. Today he is the Community Organizer in Chief.
He's still creating crises as a means of empowerment.
Think about it: With Obama, everything is a crisis -- carbon dioxide levels, the banking industry, the automobile industry, the health-care system and especially the economy.
He's going to fix them all, he promises.
By turning make-believe crises into real crises.
The goal remains the same as when it was first outlined in 1966. It is, as the Marxists of the 1960s and early 1970s explained, to "heighten the contradictions of capitalism," bring the system to its knees and, ultimately, collapse.
Do I exaggerate?
I don't think so.
It's the only paradigm that makes sense given the policies of the Obama administration and the Democratic Congress. They are following a deliberate course to destroy the American free-enterprise system, your freedom and the American way of life.
After all, the God of the Christians and Jews says: "Thou shalt have no other gods before me."
That's His first commandment. And His second doesn't make Him any easier to swallow: Don't worship idols.
That's pretty much what the U.S. government has become for many Americans.
And God says: "Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me."
You see, it's kind of a mutual aversion situation.
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I disagreed with former President George W. Bush on many things. But on one issue, I admired him greatly: He was wise enough to marry a teacher and a librarian. I’m unabashedly biased about this, since my late mom was also a teacher and a librarian.
I have been thinking a good deal about her because she would have turned 100 on Friday. She died in 1995, and my sister and I have spoken often about the extraordinary social changes she came to terms with and was part of.
In talking about history, we break the story up into discrete chunks: the Depression, World War II, the 1960s and the like. But lives aren’t broken up; we live them continuously. Thinking now as a parent myself, I cannot imagine how I would have dealt with children of my own had I been a father in the 1960s. How strange those years must have seemed to adults like my mom. How spoiled did my generation look to those who had lived through depression and war? It was not illogical to ask, as many did: “What are these kids complaining about?”
In retrospect, I have been struck by how sensible my mom was through the social chaos, even though those were especially jarring times in our household. My dad, her husband of 29 years, passed away suddenly in the totemic year of 1968. Yet his death almost certainly made my sister and me less likely to rebel, and my mom cut us a bit of slack. The three of us were determined not to let the cultural hurricanes of the 1960s pull us apart.
My mother — her name, from her Quebec forebears, was Lucienne — was the sort of faithful Catholic who believed history was destined to leave us in a good place. So she was not the sort to close herself off to what she could learn from what was going on around her.
She was totally dedicated to being a parent because she fought so hard to become one. She lost four kids in childbirth or shortly thereafter. It took courage for her to keep trying so she could bring my sister and me into this world. (We never had the problem of feeling unwanted.) Family values defined her.
But as the first member of her family to go to college — and at a time when few women got the chance — she had an instinctive understanding of what feminism was about. She did not like the Vietnam War, so she sympathized with protests against it, though the movement’s most radical elements didn’t speak to her. She still honored my dad’s Army service in World War II. As I have written before, she was an early supporter of the gay rights cause, partly because her dear godson was gay and she could not abide bigotry against him, one of the most openhearted people she knew.
And she was squarely against government cutbacks when it came to schools or libraries. When federal funds were slashed in the early 1980s, she helped save the storefront branch library she presided over in my hometown of Fall River, Mass. She didn’t really need the job — she worked full time until she was 75 for very little, considering what she gave up in Social Security benefits. But she knew the literary haven she ran on Pleasant Street was the place where many low-income children first came in contact with books. One of the joys of her life was to foster love affairs between kids and reading.
My mom was no reflexive liberal. She started out a conservative and still held to most of her old-fashioned values even as her political views moved leftward. She was a public-employee union member but got impatient when the union blocked reforms she thought would improve services. (She complained to the union business agent about this.)
And she was very old school on matters of personal responsibility — in education, marriage, parenting, friendship and civic duty. When she died at age 82, she was serving on the board of our local community college. She loved the place for the opportunities it gave students from modest backgrounds who were willing to work hard.
Because of her and my dad, I always bridle when people declare themselves “self-made.” Such people may exist (socially if not biologically), but I’m skeptical, and would never make that claim for myself. We can never pretend that we were wise enough to have chosen great parents.
E.J. Dionne is a columnist for The Washington Post. His email address is firstname.lastname@example.org.
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Travel tips in China
Tip: In general, when we travel to China, we always book a tour in a Chinese city. There are huge numbers of travel agencies in major cities, and you would have a much better deal there. Most of the tour guides nowadays can speak English. There are two advantages of doing that, firstly your tour will cost you a lot less, secondly you can choose to travel with local Chinese tourists. They are generally very friendly towards foreigners.
Tip: If you are sick, or don't feel like visiting some of the attractions in the tour schedule, you can play sick (or really get sick!), most of the agency would give you partial refund on admission fees if you ask for it.
Tip: In general, in any tours, Chinese tour guides will take you to some shopping place (or restaurants, if your tour does not include meals). This is common practise, as their salary is partially commission based. They get huge kickbacks, in rare cases they get up to 80% of what you just paid. For example, in Sanya, Hainan, taxi drivers gets kickbacks from admission fees to lunch bills. Those are "tourist-only" shopping malls and restaurants and are very likely to be very expensive. Some tourist restaurants also carry two menus, one for locals and one for visitors. Buy as little stuff as you can, and you can do shopping in local stores later for much better deals.
Obtaining Chinese Tourists Visa
Foreign tourists must apply for tourist visas at China's foreign affairs offices, consulates or other organizations authorized by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. A group of five tourists or more can apply for a group tourist visa. This is usually handled by a travel agency organizing groups. However, you can apply for tourist visas on your own if you prefer so. The normal procedure involves filling a few forms, providing passport sized photos and paying visa application fees. The processing fee differs depending on your nationality. Generally it is around USD50 for normal tourist visa application, which takes around a week to get through. There is also a speed visa application, that allows you to get your visa in 2 days, and the fee is around USD $100. People coming to China from countries which have visa agreements with China (such as agreements which exempt tourist groups from visas) are treated in accordance with these agreements. For more information on visa, please ring your local Chinese consulate.
Visiting tibetan autonomous region
Those who carry such special articles as microorganisms, human body tissues, biological products, and blood and its products, should declare to a quarantine department, and subject these articles to quarantine inspections. Passengers from yellow fever-infested areas should, when entering China, display to the quarantine department effective certificates showing that they have been inoculated against yellow fever. He who does not have such a valid certificate shall be retained for observation for six days beginning from the day he left the infested area, or he shall be inoculated and retained until the certificate comes into effect. It is the task of the Chinese quarantine authorities to prevent foreigners suffering AIDS, venereal diseases, leprosy, mental diseases and open tuberculosis from entering China.Tip: Due to the recent bird flue and SARs, Chinese health departments have installed infra red temperature sensors, and travellers with fever will face a high possibility of being forced to spend a few days to be monitored. Try not to travel while having fever!
Getting Around China
All major cities have international airports (Shanghai, Beijing, Hongkong, etc). All sizable cities will have at least a domestic airport. There are 9 domestic airline carriers and traveling between cities via air is convenient. Ctrip is a large hotel and airline booking company in China. However, you would not get the most out of your trip if you fly. As China have an extensive rail system, a recommended alternative is to try travelling by train. Most trains have "soft bed" - comfortable and private 4-person cabins where you can enjoy the scenery while talking to local Chinese passengers. On some routes there are double storey trains for improved sightseeing. Trains are cheaper, comfortable and fast. A direct train from Shanghai to Beijing cost about 500 RMB, and only takes about 12 hours. You can do a live search for trains here. There are also frequent coach services running between cities, they are generally comfortable and affordable, providing another alternative for short distance travel.
Tip: Use train service if you want to enjoy the scenery.
Currency & Foreign Exchange
The Chinese currency is called Renminbi, and is issued by the People's Bank of China. The unit of Renminbi is the "yuan" and the smaller units are the jiao and fen. The abbreviation for Chinese currency is RMB. Many hotels and stores accept major credit cards. Holders of these cards can draw cash from the Bank of China, buy goods and pay for purchases at exchange centers of the Bank of China, appointed shops, hotels and restaurants. For the convenience of tourists, the Bank of China can cash travelers' checks sold by international commercial banks and travelers' check companies. Foreign currency cannot be circulated within the People's Republic of China or used to determine the price and settle accounts. At present, China will accept and convert into Chinese Renminbi such foreign currencies as the US dollar, British pound, French franc, German mark, Japanese yen, Australian dollar, Austrian schilling, Belgian franc, Canadian dollar, HK dollar, Swiss franc, Danish Krone, Singapore dollar, Malaysian Ringgit, Italian lira, Macao dollar, Finnish markka, and Taiwan dollar. Exchange rates are issued every day by the State Administration of Exchange Control. Before leaving China, unused Chinese Renminbi can be converted back into foreign currency with a "foreign exchange certificate" which is valid for six months.
Tip: Do not bring back excessive RMB as there are very few forex company that wants to deal with them.
You don't have to feel bad about not tipping people. Tipping is generally not practised in China, however most would accept tips, with the exception of few organizations that implements the "no tip" policy.
Climate and Clothing
China has a continental and seasonal climate. Most parts are in the temperate zone but southern areas are in the tropical or subtropical zone while northern areas are in the frigid zone. Climates in different areas are vastly different. For instance, northern Heilongjiang Province has a winter climate the year round without summer, while Hainan Island has a summer climate the year round without winter. The following is a reference table for tourists to prepare clothing on their trips.
Spring: 10-22°C, Western suits, jackets, sports coats, woolen jackets, long sleeve shirts and travel shoes
Emergency Medical Service
There are many hospitals in Chinese cities. The clinics in large hotels and restaurants also offer medical and first aid services to travelers. If you feel uncomfortable while on a tour, you may call the outpatient department of a local hotel, or ask your guide to take you to see the doctor.
The electricity used in China is 220 volt AC. Many middle and high-class hotel wash rooms have transformer plugs for electric shavers and hair dryers, but it is better to be prepared with an adapter plug.
Apart from post offices in cities, mailing service is also available in some hotels. When mailing a letter, you should make sure to use a standard envelope, fill in the postal code, and attach an enough amount of stamps. Express mail service is available in most post offices and express mailing companies.
Telephones and Some Useful Numbers
Tip: Most convenient stores sell phone cards at competitive rates. The IDD in China is really expensive.
Tip: You can bargin for anything that's on sale, even if the goods are sold in large shopping malls. A good starting point for stuff sold on the street would be around 20%-50%, depending on your agressiveness and luck.
Arts and Crafts
Silk: Chinese silk is famous in the world for its magnificent quality, color and variety. Representative samples are brocade from Hangzhou, Sichuan brocade from Chengdu, the fine, tough silk and pure silk crepe from Suzhou and tussah silk from Dandong.
Tea: China is the home of tea. Tea is divided into green, black, perfumed, white and Wulong tea. Longjing (green tea) and Biluochun (green tea), are famous throughout the world.
Liquors and Wines: Since ancient times, China's spirits and wines have developed in their unique way and have won many international awards. Famous liquors include Maotai from Guizhou, Fen and Zhuyeqing from Shanxi, Wuliangye, Jiannanchun and Luzhou Laojiao from Sichuan, Gujing tribute liquor from Anhui, Yanghe Daqu from Jiangsu and Dong Liquor from Guizhou. Fruit wines include gold medal brandy, red grape wine and Weimeisi from Yantai, China red grape wine from Beijing, Shacheng white grape wine form Hebei, Minquan white grape wine from Henan. Yellow rice wines include rice wine from Shaoxing, sinking-in-jar wine from Longyan and sealed jar wine from Danyang. Yanjing and Qingdao are two famous brands of the many varieties of fine beers available in China.
Traditional Chinese medicine: The body of knowledge that makes up traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) has been accumulated over thousands of years. It is a school of its own. Numerous herbal and other drugs are being used for their high curative efficacy, and those with a high tonic value are favorites with the Chinese.
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HOLYOKE – Municipal employees of this city with a large Hispanic population can take free conversational Spanish classes in partnership with Holyoke Community College, Mayor Alex B. Morse said Wednesday.
“This is an important step in my administration’s goal to serve all residents of the City of Holyoke and to make City Hall more welcoming and accessible to all constituents, no matter their language,” said Morse, who is fluent in Spanish.
The 14-class course will run on Wednesdays from June 20 to Oct. 17, from 6 to 8:30 p.m. Classes will be at the Pickenelly Adult & Family Education Center, 206 Maple St., he said.
No classes will be held on July 4, July 25, Aug. 1 and Aug. 22, he said.
Holyoke Community College is teaching the classes for free, though employees who sign up must pay $49 for a textbook and cd, he said.
Employees are asked to reserve class space by June 5 by contacting mayoral aide Theresa Vincent at firstname.lastname@example.org , he said.
The population of about 40,000 is 48 percent Hispanic, according to the 2010 U.S. Census.
The class is voluntary, he said.
“Those who have concerns don’t have to take the class, as it’s not required. This is for those employees who want to take the initiative and challenge themselves. Employees are very lucky to have this opportunity, as the class would typically cost upwards of $500,” Morse said.
Regarding concerns employees might have about taking the class at night instead of as part of their work shifts, Morse said, “I can’t afford to have my employees out of City Hall during the day, as residents rely on their hard work and customer service throughout the work day. This is a win for the City, our employees, and most importantly, our residents.”
Teresa M. Shepard, director of Parks and Recreation Department, said an employee in her office plans to take the course.
“I think it’s a nice thing for the city to offer. Any time you can get training to improve how you do your job is a good thing,” Shepard said.
The course will be organized around basic departmental topics like taxes, licenses, payments, safety and park recreation, zoning codes, inspections and compliance, trash, street repairs and voter registration, Morse said.
The focus is on learning basic terms and useful phrases to help government employees provide services to Hispanic residents. The course will include practice conversations and role-playing, and weekly out-of-class speaking and writing homework will be required, he said.
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Another Egyptian has been arrested for anti-Islam activity on Facebook.
Authorities held Bishoy Kamel, 32, for four days for managing a Facebook page where people shared cartoons thought to defame the Prophet Muhammed and the religion of Islam.
Pictorial depictions of the Prophet are considered a form of idolatry, and is thus taboo to most Muslims.
Kamel said that while he did indeed manage the Facebook page where the cartoons were found, he didn’t control what others posted there. He added that the page was “hacked” on Saturday.
Mohamed Safwat, the man who reported Kamel, claimed that Kamel also “insulted members of his own family” on Facebook.
Earlier this year, Egyptian police arrested a 17-year-old boy for a similar offense. Gamal Abdou Massou was convicted after posting cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad to Facebook, where his friends then shared them out. In April, a judge sentenced Massou to three years in prison.
Like Massou, Kamel is reportedly Christian. Kamel faces up to five years in prison if convicted of blasphemy charges.
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Powering and empowering the virtual worker in 2012
After the passing of the Telework Enhancement Act the year before, 2011 was a time of transition for federal agencies, which moved to integrate telework into their workplace programs and plans. But as 2012 picks up speed, agencies’ focuses are shifting to augmenting the technologies used to link the virtual and physical work environments, and improve the ability for all of their employees to collaborate, regardless of their location, writes Federal Computer Week’s Camille Tuutti.
While laptops and smart phones have become the norm, agencies are looking forward to what the virtual worker will need to do his or her job remotely and do it well, the article said.
Want a paperless office? Let people work remotely.
“One of the things we have to work on is technology,” said Pat Tamburrino, deputy assistant secretary for civilian personnel policy at the Defense Department. “Laptops are good, but I’m personally wondering what’s beyond laptops. What other things should I be thinking about for the DOD employee to make telework and telepresence much simpler? I’d love the CIOs and the [chief technology officers] to say, ‘What’s the next breakthrough thing we would have to do?’”
Most likely, the next big “breakthrough” will be the advancement of mobile applications, which could even result in a virtual mobile apps store for feds in 2012, Tuutti writes.
Access to meetings and events onsite could also be easier with virtual conferences and conference calls.
Overall, the ability to telework is transforming the productivity of the federal workforce.
Connect with the GCN staff on Twitter @GCNtech.
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Type of Document Master's Thesis Author Austin, C. Wayne URN etd-06112009-063415 Title A study of the effectiveness of advisory committees in Virginia community colleges Degree Master of Science Department Vocational and Technical Education Advisory Committee
Advisor Name Title Dugger, William E. Jr. Committee Chair Eschenmann, Konrad Kurt Committee Member Hillison, John H. Committee Member Keywords
- Citizens' advisory committees in education
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The purpose of A STUDY OF THE EFFECTIVENESS OF ADVISORY COMMITTEES IN VIRGINIA COMMUNITY COLLEGES was to determine the effectiveness of advisory committees within the Virginia Community College system. How effective or ineffective these committees are being used has an effect on the programs within each college division.
Data were gathered by means of a survey instrument which was developed and mailed to each community college dean in the state of Virginia. The results of the study revealed that advisory committees were widely used in community colleges in the state of Virginia, however, these committees were not used as effectively as they could be. Advisory committees used in Virginia's community colleges were used most effectively in helping with the identification of occupational skills needed by program graduates and in identifying area labor market needs.
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In this photo from Thursday, workers assemble 30-round capacity ammunition magazines for high-velocity rifles, inside the Magpul Industries plant in Erie, Colo. / Brennan Linsley, AP
ERIE, Colo. (AP) - Unnoticed amid dozens of tract homes in the Denver suburbs, a nondescript industrial building is suddenly in the middle of the gun-control debate in Colorado.
Magpul, started in an ex-Marine's basement in 1999, is in a standoff with Colorado Democrats who want to restrict the size of ammunition magazines after mass shootings in a suburban Denver movie theater and a Connecticut elementary school. The company has issued lawmakers an ultimatum potentially worth millions: Pass the bill, and the business will move.
It's a bold threat from a company that, by its founder's admission, has distanced itself from politics.
"The people who wrote the bill didn't even know we existed in the state," said Richard Fitzpatrick, the founder and president of the company that produces magazines and other firearm accessories for gun enthusiasts, law enforcement and the military.
The warning from Erie-based Magpul underscores the political pressures Democrats are weighing as they advance the strictest gun-control measures lawmakers have ever considered in a state that still prides its frontier spirit. Other gun-control proposals include universal background checks, a ban on concealed firearms on campuses, and holding assault-weapon sellers and owners liable for shootings.
Opponents need only three Democrats in the Senate to vote no against the magazine proposal to defeat it, and two have already said they won't support the bill. But most Democrats are not budging.
"When you have the means available to you at every single corner to commit a horrendous act, we will continue to see what we've seen, which is the status quo, where unfortunately gun violence and violence in general is prevalent in our communities," said Democratic Sen. Jessie Ulibarri, who will be considering the magazine bill on Monday in the Judiciary Committee. The bill has already passed the House, and Democratic Gov. John Hickenlooper has promised to sign it.
The bill would make it a crime to have magazines that can carry more than 15 rounds, with a stricter limit of eight for shotguns. People who own larger magazines now would be allowed to keep them.
As the debate unfolds, states have made overtures to Magpul, including offering to pay their moving costs. The company won't name the states, but Wyoming and Texas have expressed interest in netting the $85 million the company projects it will spend in Colorado next year in payments to suppliers, subcontractors and service providers. Magpul said the move would also impact its 200 employees, plus an additional 400 who work for suppliers and subcontractors.
"It's not so much, 'Oh, these people are making something that's going to cost Colorado lives.' We truly believe this bill will do nothing. It's a feel-good measure," Fitzpatrick said. "But these (workers) will be directly affected."
Fitzpatrick said the bill's requirement that all magazines have serial numbers adds enough production costs to make it worth leaving. He also said smaller magazines can be easily connected to each other - magazines can be hooked up to make a 60-round magazine, for example - and the company fears it would legally liable if people were to do that.
Democrats have tried to ease Magpul's fears, amending the bill to make clear that the company can still manufacture magazines of any size, as long as they're sold only out-of-state, to the military or law enforcement.
Republicans who oppose the restrictions argue Democrats are sending mixed messages about gun control to keep a company in Colorado.
"It's being hypocritical. These things are either bad or they're not," said Republican Rep. Brian DelGrosso.
Magpul argues that limiting magazine sizes will not reduce gun violence, and that criminals will find ways around laws, including going to other states to buy larger magazines. Magpul officials note that some of their products sometimes end up in California, which limits magazine sizes to 10 rounds.
"The solutions that people want to bring up are hardware solutions," said Magpul Director Duane Liptak. "And they want to talk about this physical piece of equipment that's not inherently evil. It's not inherently good. It's a tool like anything else. It can be used for good, and it can be used improperly by people who have evil in their hearts."
Supporters of the proposals say Magpul is bluffing and that a move would prove too costly.
"I don't think Magpul is about to pull out," said Bill Hoover, 83, whose grandson AJ Boik was among the 12 killed in the theater shooting. "It's going to cost them a bundle of money."
Fitzpatrick said his company is serious.
"It's not really a threat. It's a promise," he said.
Sens. Lois Tochtrop and Cheri Jahn are the two Democrats voting against the bill. Both say they don't believe it addresses the main problem - mental health - and Tochtrop also cited Magpul's potential departure.
"I think we really need to address that problem. Look at the cause, not the tool," Tochtrop said.
Copyright 2013 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
Read the original story: Gun company may move if Colo. gun-control bill passes
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State’s outbound move rate even higher than in 2005; Michigan tied for highest rate with North Dakota; problem is “issue of opportunity,” say Mackinac Center analysts
For Immediate Release
MIDLAND — Michigan residents continue to leave the state at alarming rates that have accelerated since 2005, according to Mackinac Center for Public Policy analysis of data released this morning from United Van Lines, America’s largest household mover. In 2006, 66 percent of United Van Lines’ Michigan-related moves took households out of Michigan, rather than into the state, tying Michigan with North Dakota for the highest rate of outbound moves in the continental United States. Michigan’s UVL outbound rate was second highest in the nation in 2005, and the continued exodus in 2006 prompted Mackinac Center scholars to caution policymakers against raising the price of living, working and investing in Michigan.
Mackinac Center Adjunct Scholar Michael Hicks, a professional econometrician, has found United Van Lines and U.S. Census data to be highly correlated, making UVL data a helpful leading indicator of migration patterns. Using Internal Revenue Service data, Hicks and Mackinac Center Fiscal Policy Director Michael D. LaFaive also found that Florida may have become the number one destination state of Michigan expatriates, with 14 percent of all 2004 moves going to the Sunshine State. "Indeed," Hicks noted, "14 percent is such a significant percentage that there is more than retirement going on here. This is an issue of opportunity."
"Michigan residents continue to flee the Great Lake State for opportunity elsewhere," said LaFaive. "Policymakers in Lansing would be ill-advised to give job providers or people any other reason to leave by raising taxes or imposing other costs on the economy." LaFaive noted that according to the UVL data, Michigan’s outbound rate is 2.1 percentage points higher than in 2005 and less than one percentage point lower than Michigan’s all-time outbound record, set in 1981.
LaFaive and Hicks have published a commentary about the new data and its implications for Michigan on the Mackinac Center’s Web site. LaFaive and Hicks present empirical and anecdotal evidence in their essay suggesting that policy decisions can influence state-to-state migration. They also caution against one of the more popular solutions to Michigan’s economic woes frequently discussed in Lansing: higher spending on higher education.
"Research shows that spending more on higher education may slow the real rate of a state’s economic growth," LaFaive observed.
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|8/25/2008: Vietnam Policy Focus: New USCIRF Report Details Ongoing Arrests, Harassment, and Repression of Religious Freedom|
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
August 25, 2008
Contact: Judith Ingram,
(202) 523-3240, ext. 127
WASHINGTON - The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom issued its Vietnam Policy Focus today. The report, which includes findings from the Commission's 2007 trip to Vietnam, highlights government-sponsored harassment, detention, and imprisonment faced by individuals and leaders of diverse religious communities. In light of these severe and widespread violations of religious freedom, the Commission calls on the U.S. State Department to re-designate Vietnam a "country of particular concern" (CPC), under the terms of the 1998 International Religious Freedom Act. The CPC designation is reserved, under law, for nations that engage in severe violations of religious freedom.
"The U.S. government still needs to press Vietnam's leaders to make immediate improvements to end religious freedom abuses, ease restrictions, and release prisoners," said Commission Chair Felice D. Gaer.
The Commission has found that religious freedom conditions in Vietnam continue to be mixed, with improvements for some religious communities but not for others; progress in some provinces but not in others; reforms of laws at the national level that are not fully implemented or are ignored at the local level; and still too many abuses of and restrictions on religious freedom affecting most of Vietnam's diverse religious communities. Some important changes were implemented and prisoners were released after the U.S. government designated Vietnam a CPC. However, in view of the uneven pace of reforms and the continued detention of religious prisoners of concern, The Commission again recommends that Vietnam be designated a CPC.
The Commission has identified numerous prisoners of concern and restrictive, abusive practices of the Vietnamese government. During its 2007 trip to Vietnam, the Commission met with religious freedom activists Nguyen Van Dai and Li Thi Cong Nhan at Cau Dien Prison in Hanoi. In March 2007, Dai and Nhan were among the first arrested and sentenced to long-term detention as part of a larger crackdown on democracy, free speech, and human rights advocates. Their cases are among those highlighted in the Vietnam Policy Focus.
Activities of ethnic minority religious groups, such as the Montagnard and Hmong Protestants, are often vigorously restricted by the Vietnamese government. Long-term administrative detainees from the Catholic Church and the United Buddhist Church of Vietnam, including Thich Quang Do and Fr. Phan Van Loi, and numerous religious "prisoners of concern" from the Hoa Hao, Cao Dai, and Khmer Buddhist communities remain in custody in retaliation for their advocacy of religious freedom. The Commission has consistently called for the release of all prisoners of conscience in Vietnam.
"Improved conditions for some only emphasize the inexcusability of ongoing abuses endured by others," notes Gaer. "The State Department should not diminish its categorization of Vietnam as a severe violator until the Vietnamese government demonstrates a countrywide, non-discriminatory commitment to religious freedom and human rights for all."
The Vietnam Policy Focus is available at: http://www.uscirf.gov/images/PolicyFocusPublications/vietnam%20policy%20focus%20-%20summer%202008.pdf
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Omaha Public Radio News
Wed December 21, 2011
Creighton political scientist: Kim Jong-Il death an opportunity for U.S.-North Korea relations to improve
By Katie Schubert
Omaha, NE – A Creighton University political scientist believes the death of Kim Jong-Il is an opportunity for the U.S. to build positive relations with North Korea.
The former North Korean leader died Saturday. His son, Kim Jong-Un, is believed to be the successor.
Maorong Jiang, Director of Creighton's Asian World Center, says Kim Jong-Un will bring a new, younger perspective to North Korea. He says that could help open the nation up to the rest of the world.
Jiang believes if Kim Jong-Un is able to open up North Korea, human rights will dramatically improve. Jiang believes a more open North Korea could also soften the country's stance on nuclear weapons.
Kim Jong-Il took over as leader of North Korea in 1994 following the death of his father, Kim Il-Sung.
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Our Projects in the UK
Over the last few years we have been developing projects aimed at a holistic and
sustainable implementation of social pedagogy into organisations. For this purpose we
have worked in partnership with the following organisations:
'Head, Heart, Hands Programme', The Fostering Network
As part of a Social Pedagogy Consortium with Jacaranda Development and Prof. Pat Petrie from the Institute of Education, we are involved in The Fostering Network's demonstration programme around social pedagogy called 'Head, Heart, and Hands'. Click here to read more
The programme, which will take place across four demonstration sites in England and two in Scotland, will be independently evaluated. ThemPra will support the fostering services at Aberlour Fostering and Orkney Islands Council ( which are a joint demonstration site), Edinburgh City Council, Staffordshire County Council, as well as Capstone Foster Care (South West) Ltd. The programme is currently well under way and is already inspiring many foster carers and social workers in the sites. You can find out more about the programme on the official Head, Heart, Hands website and also read The Fostering Network's summary paper.
Aberlour Sycamore Services, Kirkcaldy
As the first Scottish organisation to show an interest in social pedagogy, we have been working together with Sycamore since autumn 2008. Click here to read more
This has included 9-day social pedagogy courses for professionals across the entire organisation, regular recall days for course participants, 3-day social pedagogical leadership courses for existing and potential leaders at Sycamore and Aberlour, a joint EU Youth in Action project, and involvement in ThemPra's EU Leonardo Mobility project. Aberlour's Fostering Service, 'Sycamore Families', is also working closely together with us as part of the Fostering Network's 'Head, Heart, and Hands Project'. For a new early intervention project in Dundee, run collaboratively by Aberlour in partnership with three other Scottish charities, we facilitated a 9-day social pedagogy course for the entire team.
That social pedagogy has had a profound effect on the culture at Sycamore is undeniable. Stevie Rogers, one of our course participants, summed up what social pedagogy means to him: 'Eureka, I think I have got it. Is Social Pedagogy going to your place of work, or indeed, approaching everyday-life with a passion, a sense of adventure and, despite the difficulties, HAVE FUN doing it. That's my latest guess but I will continue to explore and spread the word'. Another course participant and now a social pedagogy champion in the service, Malcolm Christie, recently submitted 'Social Pedagogy - recapture the joy of what we do' as an idea at the SSSC/IRISS Workforce of the Future Challenge - it made its way into the top 12 ideas! The impact of the initial course was independently evaluated by Ian Milligan from SIRCC, and his insightful report can be found here ...
Kibble Education and Care Centre, Paisley
In partnership with the University of the West of Scotland, Kibble are currently developing university-accredited modules in social pedagogy, and we're part of this project. Click here to read more
Our contribution so far has been to facilitate the introductory module on social pedagogy, a 6-day experiential learning course. We are in the process of supporting internal trainers towards delivering this module on their own. This is also complemented by further modules currently under development, which will lead towards a BA qualification. For further details please read Kibble's workshop presentation at the CELCIS conference 2012.
Staffordshire County Council
In spring 2010 we started to work with Staffordshire County Council on a social pedagogy implementation strategy for their Residential Service. Click here to read more
The project aimed to create a hybrid between the whole-systems approach we developed for Essex and the DfE pilot projects managed by TCRU, in which Staffordshire was involved as a pilot site. Since then we've been providing 9-day courses for staff, team development days, a leadership course and strategic development work. You can find out more about the project's success in an article by The Guardian.
Essex County Council
From September 2008 to October 2011 we were co-operating with Essex's Residential Service to make social pedagogy part of every element of how children in Essex are being looked after. Click here to read more and download our Essex report.
Edinburgh City Council
In early 2012 we began work with Edinburgh City Council's residential services by facilitating a 9-day course on social pedagogy. Click here to read more
With several of its residential managers having participated in our previous courses for SIRCC and senior managers keen interest in developing social pedagogy within a Scottish context, we're really excited about this project and hope to continue the partnership with residential services. Michael Greig, one of the course participants, has recently published a great example of how he used social pedagogy in practice. You can access it here. Together with a few other colleagues, Michael has set up Edinburgh Momentum as an initiative to keep promoting social pedagogy within and outwith Edinburgh.
Scottish Institute for Residential Child Care/CELCIS
We have also undertaken a course programme for CELCIS (formerly SIRCC) to introduce organisations in Scotland to social pedagogy through awareness-raising seminars and 9-day courses. Click here to read more
So far we have facilitated two awareness-raising seminars and two 9-day courses with participants from a range of organisations. CELCIS also part-funded and evaluated our 9-day course with Orkney Islands Council. The interest in Scotland has been overwhelming, and we're hoping to contribute to developing a Scottish social pedagogy that builds on similar existing traditions.
In mid-February 2011 we were far north supporting the development of social pedagogy with an 11-day implementation programme involving professionals from residential child care, field work, and schools. Click here to read more
The course was independently evaluated by Evelyn Vrouwenfelder from CELCIS. The report, available here, shows a great insight into how participants have developed social pedagogy within their practice. One participant stated: 'I am working with a boy who has attention difficulties in the classroom and he talked to me for a good half an hour and showing me web pages of boats and saying he’s a skipper and
what you have to wear, how you have to move etc... And I said to him, ‘You’ve got other people’s lives in your hands and its very important.’ And I use that in talking to other people, teachers - who tend to talk very negatively about him - and explain a bit more about who he is and what he does. And they are really surprised but it changes their perspective on him.' (p.2)
The report also highlighted the quality of the social pedagogy course: 'We can conclude that the training has had a significant and substantial impact on every participant. Each person interviewed or observed during the evaluation process was able to indicate how the training had influenced their practice and their inter-agency working - albeit in different ways and at different levels - and was able to give evidence for this.' (p.39).
In partnership with the Thomas Coram Research Unit we were involved in a pilot programme for three of Walsall's residential homes. The project intended to bring together the strengths and experiences of all partners in an innovative way. Click here to read more
Independent long-term research by Kate Skinner and Mark Smith is due to be published later in 2012. In the meantime we've been continuing to support Walsall through ongoing reflective development session for the teams. Walsall will also take part in our 2013 Leonardo Mobility project.
Belfast Health & Social Care Trust
In summer 2009 we started a 7-day course with 2 residential teams in Belfast, which was very well received and brought social pedagogy to Northern Ireland. Click here to read more
In the winter 2010/2011 we ran another course for Belfast with 2 new homes, and their short-term residential homes undertook two 6-day courses the following year. We are also continuing to be in dialogue to support the systemic development of social pedagogy within the organisation, for instance through regular team development sessions.
EU Leonardo Mobility project
As part of our work to help organisations explore the potential of social pedagogy, we've secured funding to enable practitioners to undertake a 2-week practice placement in two different Danish organisations. The 2012 project included Care Visions and Lancashire County Council as our partner organisations, with our Danish co-ordination partner Common View facilitating the two 4-day placements. Click here to read more and download our participants' reports.
EU Youth in Action project
Whilst there is increasing evidence of why professionals find social pedagogy beneficial for their practice, we've been wanting for a long time to start a project enabling children in care in the UK to experience what it's like to be in care in Denmark and be cared for by social pedagogues. Click here to read more
In early 2012 we facilitated a feasibility visit between a Danish, Scottish, and English children's home, with 2 young people from each home participating to flesh out ideas for a Youth in Action project. During a sunny weekend in late January, the participants came together in Oxfordshire to get to know each other and develop ideas for future intercultural dialogue. To get to know each other we undertook outdoor group challenges (for example an obstacle course, experiential learning activities, a night walk and a bonfire) as well as some indoor acticities that had a stronger focus on teasing out the children's ideas about getting in contact with each other and what a potential youth exchange and its creative evaluation could look like. The style of all activities was largely underpinned by an informal character, which was very much appreciated by the participants. Apart from presenting the idea of the project, proposing the programme of the meeting and leading the activities, the group was constantly involved in shaping the process of the visit and thoroughly enjoyed the get-together. We are hoping to build on this by securing further funding for a youth exchange.
NCERCC Social Pedagogy pilot
As our first major project, the NCERCC social pedagogy pilots in 2007 put social pedagogy in the limelight. As part of the pilots we developed a 6-day course, in which practitioners from 6 children's homes from the Together Trust and Lancashire County Council participated. Click here to read our report on the course content.
Portsmouth City Council
With Portsmouth we piloted a short course of 3 days focussing on creativity and well-being as core elements of a social pedagogic approach. We ran two courses: one with residential care workers and foster carers, and one with a group of youth workers and social work students. Both courses were independently evaluated by the University of Portsmouth.
In addition to social pedagogy courses, we are also active in co-ordinating the Social Pedagogy Development Network. The network has been set up in partnership with other key organisations, notably the Thomas Coram Research Unit and Jacaranda Development, in order to connect the various minor and major activities around the country with regards to social pedagogy. As increasingly more organisations are exploring the relevance of social pedagogy for their practice, we want to provide a democratic platform for exchange and the cohesive construction of a UK tradition of social pedagogy. The start-off event for the Social Pedagogy Development Network was in Colchester on November 27, 2009, and the next event took place in Staffordshire on June 18, 2010. Future meetings were held in Derbyshire on November 5, 2010, at Camphill Community Glencraig on April 1, 2011, in Paisley on October 7, 2011, at IT Sligo on May 25, 2012, and at Camphill Community Aberdeen on October 19, 2012. More information about the network and how to participate can be found here ...
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Winter means chili with lots of veggies
Much of the time, the seasons plan my weekend dinner nights.
Summer means hamburgers, potatoes and vegetables on the grill. Spring is the time for corned beef and boiled potatoes. Autumn is time for meatloaf.
Yeah, I have to start eating more salads. I’m taking the culinary pledge for 2013.
Winter is reserved for chili con carne. Give me a snowy Saturday, logs in the fireplace, a bunch of movie rentals and a Crock-Pot full of homemade chili. There’s something homey and wintery about the whole set-up.
Bachelor chili is easy to make. I start with about six or eight fresh tomatoes, and put them through a medium dice. Canned diced tomatoes — two 14-ounce cans —are an option and I’ll occasionally make that move. Good tomatoes in January can be hard to find. Fresh or canned go into the pot, sometimes with a large can of tomato sauce for company.
Chopped onions, celery and green and red peppers are the next additions. I’ll chop one green pepper, one red pepper, two onions and five or six ribs of celery. A bottle of pearl onions often makes the team.
For fiber, dark red kidney beans have always been chili stars. So far this season — thanks to a sale on Progresso beans in December — I’ve been adding cans of red, black and white beans (either 14- or 19-ounce cans) to the mix. Two of my secrets are chickpeas and black olives. They are a natural for summer salads, but I’ve found they add extra taste to chili con carnes.
The beans, peas and olives go into a colander first. I douse them all under the faucet spray. They’ve been marinating in canned water, after all.
And speaking about con “carne,” I can brown ground beef and drain excess fat like any other home chef. But instead I’ve been trying my chili “con pollo,” that’s “with chicken” for you folks who have forgotten your Spanish.
It’s actually easier than using ground beef. Oscar Mayer’s “Cutting Board” line offers rotisserie-cooked chicken breast chunks and other chicken and turkey products. Perdue also has the goods, in the company’s “Short Cuts” brand of chicken breast strips.
I can usually find them on sale. I cut about a pound of the chunks and strips into bite-sized pieces and toss them into my Crock-Pot. It saves me a cooking step, and it’s a healthier way to put protein on the table.
Keeping things mild
Spices come near the end, with a liberal helping of roasted garlic and herb seasonings, ground pepper, a couple pinches of sea salt and any other bottle of spice in the house.
I’m not an advocate of spicy hot chili. While I do have a lifetime supply of Tabasco sauce in the house, I rarely use it in my winter kettles. Splashes of Worcestershire sauce and barbecue sauce are OK. My mild chili is an equal-opportunity employer when it comes to cleaning out the refrigerator.
I prepare these winter dinners during the late morning, and turn on the slow heat for six to eight hours. Half the fun of cooking with a Crock-Pot is enjoying the aroma that fills the house during the day. With plenty of stewed vegetables and chicken along for the ride, along with three kinds of beans, chick peas and black olives, this has become a pretty healthy diversion.
“In & Out of the Kitchen,” a wide-ranging column about cooking, eating and buying food, is written by Gazette staffers. You can reach us at firstname.lastname@example.org.
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Growing up today in the world is much harder than it was even twenty years ago. There is more peer pressure, oppressive influence, and ungodliness than ever before. Here at Anchored Youth, we have structured classes and events that allow teens to be themselves without having to worry what others think or presume to know. Our teens are encouraged to love God and walk with Him. They are the future of our church and nation. Click here for pictures and to connect with us.
The Bible class is key to helping our teenagers grow and learn about what God has in store for them. There are two mens classes and two ladies classes. The teachers stay very involved in the teenagers life by conducting activities and mentoring them throughout the week.
Every Sunday evening at 5:15, our teenagers meet together to learn Bible principles and truths that “Young Fundamentalists” should know. They will soon be young adults taking a personal stand for their Saviour. Activities include: fellowship, singing, and the teaching of fundamental principles. This group is lead by Bro. Chris Allison.
Starting in January our youth group will be holding various teen activities. There will be an activity every month. The activities range from playing sports to going to Mad River Mountain for tubing. No matter what the activity, one is sure to have a good time of fellowship.
The teens of Anchored Youth practice every Thursday night at 6:45 pm. While we are singing for God’s glory, we teach the teens how to read and sing music properly.
Every year, our youth group treks down to Gallipolis, Ohio for our annual teen camp. Thirty-five teens went to southern Ohio for a week long time of preaching, fun, and fellowship. No one came back the same.
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The buildings of New York City have been immortalized in song without doing much in return. From his small shop in Greenwich Village, guitar craftsman Rick Kelly is doing his part to change that.
Wooden debris harvested from demolished or renovated structures is transformed into custom-made instruments at Mr. Kelly's Carmine Street Guitars. He calls his unusual materials "the bones of Old New York."
He has sold about 60 such guitars so far, some to famous clients whose photographs cover Mr. Kelly's shop. Many have come to him for personal reclamation projects.
Lou Reed asked Mr. Kelly to turn his one-time home, the Chelsea Hotel, into a guitar. Filmmaker Jim Jarmusch asked for a guitar wrought from his Bowery studio.
Strumming a Piece of History
Rick Kelly harvests wood from demolished or renovated structures in New York City to make one-of-a-kind guitars for luminaries like Bob Dylan.
Bob Dylan has commissioned several guitars made from the collapsed speakeasy Chumley's, a place where generations of literary legends bent their elbows (including Mr. Dylan himself). On receiving his first guitar made from the historic pub, the craftsman said Mr. Dylan half-jokingly checked for beer stains on the instrument.
"Anything I can do to keep the city alive," Mr. Kelly said recently behind the register of his shop, "I'll do it."
With manual and mechanical saws, chisels and sandpaper, he refashions old wood into new instruments. The process is painstaking and long, like any woodworking project; Mr. Kelly finishes just four guitars a month. And demand is high: The waitlist is about a year long.
Typically, he hears about spare wood from demolished or renovated buildings through word of mouth, though occasionally customers bring in their own sentimental scraps.
But not every hunk of wood works for every piece of the guitar, mainly due to the wood's grain. Is it a neat, linear piece without knots? That's better for the neck. For the body, knots aren't a problem.
One of his most recent clients sought out Mr. Kelly for a project that was less about New York's fading haunts and more about salvaging his youth.
Singh Birdsong recently picked up a guitar that Mr. Kelly built out of the roof beams of his childhood home on Eldridge Street, a project that took more than a year to complete. Mr. Birdsong still lives in the same building today, albeit in a different apartment.
"It has an authenticity to it," Mr. Birdsong said of the guitar. "It sounds broken-in already. It sounds like the recordings you're used to hearing on old vinyls."
Mr. Kelly attributes the sound to what he contends is crystallized resin in the 200-year-old wood, allowing for better resonance. But for Mr. Birdsong, who suffered through childhood violin lessons before switching to guitar and joining the band Luscious Jackson, the resonance is clearly personal as well. He said the guitar is connected to his memories of playing with Smurf figurines with his younger sister on the rooftop gutter, which would run like a river through their Smurf village.
"What I like about the Lower East Side," said Mr. Birdsong, cradling his new guitar, "is it's the immigrants' district. It's a neighborhood of people bettering themselves. [Ira] Gershwin was born three blocks down on Eldridge, so to have something that was there for all of it…I get to take a bit of it with me wherever I perform."
The guitars sell for between $1,800 and $2,000. Mr. Birdsong picked up his guitar last month, and the instrument is scheduled to make its New York debut at a July 15 performance at Spike Hill, in Brooklyn's Williamsburg neighborhood.
Sharon Isbin, the founding director of the Julliard School's guitar program, thinks Mr. Kelly's idea is both romantic and brilliant.
"When I want a guitar, I want one that has a beautiful sound, a warm treble, a clarity as well for distinction of notes and an easiness from string to string and fret to fret," she said. "But ultimately it also has to have a soul. That's the hardest thing to find."
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5th International Summer School
FINAL REPORT on contract No. ERBFMMACT960165Title of Contract: Summer Schools on Social Representations and Communication
Title of 3rd EVENT (Rome, Italy - 5th-11st June 1999): "Developing European Doctoral Training"
Name of the scientific co-ordinator: prof. Annamaria Silvana de Rosa
Address: Dipartimento di Psicologia dei processi di sviluppo e socializzazione
Date of the Report: July 1999
The annual International Summer School on "Social Representations and Communication" is the most intensive didactic stage for participants in the European PhD on Social Representations and Communication. Its new advanced curriculum has been approved by DGXXII SOCRATES and formally recognised by the University of Rome "La Sapienza", Helsinki University and I.S.C.T.E. in Lisbon. It is supported by Erasmus-Socrates, the Maison des Sciences de l'Homme in Paris and the EuroPACE network, which deals with telematic applications for open distance learning.
In accordance with the main purposes of both the T.M.R. and SOCRATES programmes co-ordinated by the University of Rome "La Sapienza" - approved by the DGXII (contract no. ERBFMMACT 960165) and by DGXXII (IC 29415-IC-1-98-IT-ERASMUS-1) - the International Summer Schools were aimed to promote the European dimension of higher education by offering academic research training in an international setting. They have been characterised by intensive formal and informal exchanges between teachers from different European scientific laboratories and a small number of PhD students and young researchers from different countries, some from outside Europe.
The general aims of the summer schools on "Social Representations and Communication", which took place over a period of several years, were as follows:
a) to give participants the chance to deepen their knowledge of the theory, methodology and application of the Social Representations paradigm, working with people from other Universities in a multinational setting and availing themselves of the experiences of an international team of experts in their particular field of study
b) to involve participants in different learning sessions so that they are not merely "onlookers" but drawn in to the learning method, sharing what they have learned from training in their native land
c) to monitor the advanced training of the EU PhD students - principally by training through research and trans-national mobility and co-operation - and develop joint criteria of evaluation which can gradually set "European standards" for and beyond research
d) to take advantage of the meeting of invited experts to enrich teaching methods in the international arena; as teachers of a sort of "extended European Faculty" the teaching team will be encouraged to meet for a "joint didactic exchange" with a new generation of researchers from different nations
The 5th International Summer School on "Social Representations and Communication" has developed the successful intensive programmes of the 1995 summer school on "Everyday thinking, Social Representations and Communication" held in Finland (Lahti), the 1996 summer school on "Multiple strategies in the investigation of Social Representations" held in France (Aix-en-Provence), the 1997 summer school on "Social Representation Theory: historical roots, articulation and development" held in Portugal (Lisbon) and the 1998 summer school on "The theory towards applications" held in the Spain-Basque country (San Sebastian).
In line with the long term planning for these scientific events, the 5th International Summer School, entitled "Developing European Doctoral Training", has been dedicated to the presentation of research reports by Eu PhD students enrolled in the European doctoral programme on Social Representations and Communication, like an intermediate step in view of the final evaluation.
The opening plenary session entitled "Building European Post-graduate Curricula: scientific, administrative and institutional implications", was aimed to address the above issue in a practical way from several points of view (scientific, administrative and institutional) and with regard to several institutional scenarios (University, Ministry, European Union). The session, introduced by the Rector and representatives of the University of Rome "La Sapienza", included contributions by the Rectors of other European Universities participating in the European PhD on Social Representations and Communication, the Head of the Maison des Sciences de l'Homme de Paris and the President of EuroPACE 2000. The session has been concluded by representative members of the Italian Ministry for the University and Scientific Research and of the European Commission DGXII (T.M.R.) and DGXXII (Socrates).
Monday 7th June 1999 was a very special day. It began with the ceremony for the laurea ad honorem to be conferred on Serge Moscovici, programme director of the European PhD on Social Representations and Communication, by the University of Rome "La Sapienza".
In the afternoon after the above mentioned opening plenary session - an interesting meeting reserved to all the teaching staff of the EUPh.D network - with the participation of the Rectors of the partner Universities and the representative members of the European Commission DGXII (T.M.R.) and DGXXII (Socrates) was the occasion for discussing some of the Key points in the agenda: future institutional developments, co-funding policy, new co-operative actions within the 5th EU framework programmes.
The scientific structure of the 5th International Summer School was maintained as announced and as follows:
Taking advantage by the extended publicity of the scientific event pursued by means of several strategies and addressed to several lists of potential audience, the process of selection of the candidates was very competitive.
Finally - among the accepted 38 young social psychologists - in total 31 doctoral young researchers or confirmed researchers coming from 16 countries not only in Europe - both from EU member States (Austria, Finland, France, Greece, Italy, Portugal, Spain, U.K.) and not-EU member States (Hungary, Poland, Ukraine, Russia) - but also out of Europe (Brazil, Colombia, Mexico, Guatemala) confirmed their participation. 9 of them were participants regularly enrolled into the European PhD on S.R; & C. and 20 of them (65%) were in the condition to be supported by T.M.R. on the basis of their age and nationality. Most of them were younger that 35, but it was also significant to accept contribution by older training researcher in a longer life span and continuous education perspective. The majority of the participants (71%) were female, reversing the dominance of the male among the teaching staff, where only 27% were female.
Twenty teachers - coming from several Universities and research-centres spread over eight European countries (Austria, Finland, France, Italy, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland, U.K.) and out of Europe (Israel) - all of them very famous experts in the area, including the founder of the theory of Social Representation, Serge Moscovici and his leading scholars member of the EU PhD network, besides the invited experts out of the EU PhD network - represented an exclusive teaching staff and an exceptional didactic resource.
As testified by the very enthusiastic comments filled in the evaluation forms by the participants at the end of the event, the 5th International Summer School on Social Representations and Communication was very successful - as the previous ones - thanks to:
By looking at the last as the previous events the impact was extraordinary not only on the participants (both in the role of the young researchers and the teaching staff), but also on the institutions directly or indirectly involved . The very positive evaluation of the events by the participants played a role of exponential diffusion of interest for the European PhD on S.R. & C; and it worked as a parabola effect for other disciplinary areas and fields.
This outcome encouraged our network to plan future developments and further concerted actions within the 5th framework programme. In particular:
Multi-media didactic materials based on video courses produced for the Summer School will soon be available on CD-rom and distributed to all the participants into the three scientific events.
A book, entitled "Social Representations in the social arena: the theory towards applications" will be published by Servicio Editorial University of Basque Country, San Sebastian, Spain.
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Admission as an International Student
International students attend the University of California, Davis, from many countries around the world. There were over 100 different countries represented on the UC Davis campus in the 2011-2012 academic year, by an international student population of approximately 1,800 students, as well as approximately 2,500 international faculty and researchers.
Non-immigrants studying in the United States must meet the same requirements as domestic California and non-California residents. Students studying outside the United States must complete secondary school, earn superior marks in academic subjects, sit for the UC required exam and may be required to demonstrate English proficiency. For more information, see http://admissions.ucdavis.edu/international.
International students applying to transfer to UC Davis from California or U.S. colleges or universities are considered for admission using the same transfer admission criteria as domestic students. Applicants who have attended foreign only and/or a combination of foreign and domestic colleges and universities will be evaluated using courses and grades from both institutions.
Priority admission consideration is given to prospective California community college transfer students, including international students, who are prepared to begin their junior or third year of study. Coursework from other colleges and universities is considered UC-transferable if the applicant completed the course at an institution that is recognized by the University of California and when the coursework is comparable to courses offered within the University of California. For more information, see http://admissions.ucdavis.edu/international.
International students are responsible for providing UC Davis with official academic transcripts and/or certificates beginning with secondary school records. College and university records should indicate subjects taken; grades or marks earned; rank in class; number of academic terms per year; number of weeks in each academic term; and number of hours per week devoted to lecture and laboratory. Certifications must be provided for any university or government examinations the student has undertaken. Note: It is not possible to disregard any college or university coursework undertaken within the United States or abroad.
Applicants must demonstrate English proficiency if they have been studying in the United States for less than two years, English is not their native language, and/or the language of instruction prior to study in the United States was not English. Applicants may demonstrate proficiency in one of the following ways:
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Women in the U.S. military will be integrated into front-line combat units by 2016, the Pentagon says. Here, female Marine recruits stand in formation during pugil stick training in boot camp earlier this year at Parris Island, S.C.
Women in America's armed services will have new options for what units they can join in coming years, the Pentagon says. The military said in January that it will end its combat exclusion that set a minimum size for units in which women could be deployed; the limit kept many women away from front-line combat units. The shift means women could join elite forces such as the Army Rangers and Navy SEALs.
In the past decade, Mexico's tech industry has flourished, growing three times faster than the global average. Most of that growth has been fueled by demand from the United States. But as Mexico's startups strive to make it in foreign markets, they say they need more engineers and ways to finance their growth.
The G-8 leaders speaking at this news conference in Northern Ireland all lost their ties, but British Prime Minister David Cameron (right) went a step further by ditching his jacket and rolling up his sleeves.
... and none of the flair of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit. President George W. Bush and Chinese President Jiang Zemin appeared together in traditional-style silk jackets at the APEC meeting in Shanghai, in 2001.
In 2009, Obama stands with Sarkozy (from left), Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi at the G-8 summit in L'Aquila, Italy. Earlier summits had a more formal sartorial tone ...
It wasn't always so informal. In 2011, European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso, French President Nicolas Sarkozy, President Obama and Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan walk together, in suits and ties, no less, after a meeting at the G-8 summit in Deauville, France.
The G-8 leaders speaking at this news conference in Northern Ireland all lost their ties, but British Prime Minister David Cameron went a step further by ditching his jacket and rolling up his sleeves.
Kansas City’s airport advisory panel met in Union Station Tuesday morning. Kansas City is looking at moving from its current three terminal layout to a new, single terminal. Supporters of the new design say it’s a needed update to the 40-year-old structure because of security concerns. Opponents of the single terminal say the current system works well for travelers.
The panel's co-chair, Bob Berkebile, says he learned a couple of things from what the group was calling airport school, and he notes getting informed is an important first step.
Protesters demonstrate in Berlin on Tuesday on the eve of President Obama's visit to the German capital. Obama is expected to encounter a more skeptical Germany in talks on trade and secret surveillance practices.
The United States and Europe stepped up cooperation on security issues after Sept. 11, 2001. But that doesn't mean they agree on everything. The latest point of friction: What are the rules when it comes to privacy rights?
The revelations about the National Security Agency's surveillance programs not only touched off a ferocious debate in the U.S. but also struck a nerve in Europe.
For the better part of 40 years, the disappearance of former Teamsters President James Hoffa has been a source of fascination on par with Bigfoot, the Loch Ness Monster and the aliens in Roswell, N.M.
If the FBI finds and identifies his body, as agents are currently trying to do just outside Detroit, it will end the mystery and ruin the suspense, says Bob Thompson, a pop culture professor at Syracuse University.
Twelve years after the war began, Afghanistan's president announced Tuesday that Afghan forces officially assumed control of security for the country. U.S. and NATO troops will remain until the 2014 deadline, but the Afghan military is now expected to fight without NATO support.
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Yes, it can. Anyone seeking recovery can learn about ways to stop drinking and using drug in an inpatient substance abuse treatment center. If someone is abusing any substance, he or she more than likely needs help.
How to stop drinking and using drugs with inpatient drug rehab
Usually it is not possible to treat substance abusers outside a treatment center. The patient faces too much temptation in the normal world and that will lead them to relapse if they try to quit drinking at home. The best possible option is some kind of treatment center. If you are abusing drugs or alcohol and want to get help curing yourself, you may be asking yourself: “Will inpatient treatment help me to stop using drugs and alcohol?”
* Drug treatment can help a person if there is a serious effort on the patient’s part and this may require massive action.
* Inpatient detox is imperative for those who need to safely withdraw from drugs or alcohol.
Most of the time the cause of substance abuse is usually mental or emotional and an important part of getting help is solving or somehow learning to deal with the mental or emotional problem or issue. That is why the treatment is so important because the patient is not exposed to any of those issues or problems—at least not exposed as much.
Recovery from any addiction is not easy and you must be one hundred percent sure that they are willing to sacrifice the addiction for a life without it. Many addicts do not want or require this kind of help and that is why they might choose outpatient treatment as opposed to an inpatient center.
If you answered yes to all of these questions I would say that you are ready to quit drinking and using drugs. The next step is actually finding a rehab and going.
If you need addiction help then I suggest you go to some kind of alcohol or drug treatment facility
If you think that you have had enough of finding ways and means to get more drugs and not caring who got hurt in the process then maybe you’re ready to get some drug addiction help. The next question is to determine what type of drug rehab you will need.
Question you should ask yourself before going to substance addiction treatment
· Are you entirely ready to give up a new old way of dying to find a new way of living?
· Will you be needing a medical detox?
· Do your employers need to know that you are in rehab?
· Are you committed to residential treatment after your detox?
Medical opiate detox treatment is for those of who happen to have an addiction to opiate drugs like oxycontin or heroin. The good news about this type of detox is that most people who used this method say they did not suffer from withdrawal at all once the medication they were given help their withdrawal symptoms took effect.
Keep in mind that you may have to take sometime off of work for your detox because it can take up to five days to get through and withdrawal. I would plan on taking two weeks off so I could attend residential treatment when the detox is finished. Most employers these days know a little something about drug addiction so it should not be a big problem getting the time off.
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It’s not often we hear of attempts like these.
Three inmates at the Mount Olive Correctional Complex attempted to escape last week, but were quickly detained by correctional officers.
They didn’t get far.
Jim Rubenstein, commissioner of the West Virginia Department of Corrections, said the incident happened around 11:30 p.m. Tuesday when staff noticed that three inmates were not in their assigned housing area.
Those three, all convicted murderers, were attempting to escape the state’s only maximum security facility. But within 20 minutes, the individuals were located on the grounds at Mount Olive and taken into custody.
During the attempted escape, other inmates were not in danger nor were surrounding areas because of the design of the complex, Rubenstein assured, adding, for the individuals to breach the security fences would have been “very highly unlikely because of the nature of the facility.”
It’s easy to be critical of a correctional system that has issues with over-crowding and such. But when it comes to security and the impact that a lack of it could have on our community, this instance proves that this large Fayette County facility and its staff are more than capable of housing over 1,000 of the state’s worst criminal element in a safe manner.
Mount Olive opened in 1995, replacing West Virginia’s former maximum security prison in Moundsville.
The latest technology and equipment also aid the staff in maintaining security at Mount Olive. The facility is encompassed by a secure perimeter fence about one-mile long. Of the nearly 120-acre site, approximately 80 acres are inside the secure perimeter. Extensive use is made of both electronic and manual security controls.
Moundsville, an older structure that opened in 1876, had its share of security issues, escape attempts and even successful escapes, including one involving 15 prisoners in November 1979.
But Mount Olive, a $61.8 million-dollar facility, has never had a successful escape from inside its wall in its 17-year history.
Not that it could never happen. There are no guarantees.
Mount Olive has been everything it was originally cracked up to be when it comes to maximum security. The public has not been put at risk for nearly two decades.
That should allow some, especially the residents of Fayette County, to sleep better at night.
Security at Mount Olive lives up to expectations
It’s not often we hear of attempts like these.
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Wood graduates from military training courses
Army National Guard Pfc. David A. Wood Jr. has graduated from One Station Unit Training (OSUT) at Fort Leonard Wood, Waynesville, Mo., which included basic military training and advanced individual training (AIT).
Class of 2013 honored at WVU Tech
West Virginia University Institute of Technology honored the Class of 2013 during the 114th commencement on campus this past Saturday.
Commission works on getting facility up and running
Now that the new downtown amphitheater is up, the City of Oak Hill is taking steps to get it running.
At a council meeting on Monday night, members considered and eventually passed a rental contract for those who want to make use of the facility.
Former Mount Hope man invites city government to engage in sports tourism
A former Mount Hope resident says the town and the region are ripe to develop a sports tourism industry, given the potential of a unique stadium and gymnasiums at the YMCA building and the former Mount Hope High School.
Judge rejects settlement, dismisses negligence claims in alleged school rape
A federal judge has rejected a $65,000 settlement offer in a case involving the alleged rape of a young girl at the former Mount Hope High School, while at the same time throwing out negligence claims against one of the teachers originally listed in the suit.
Nearly 300 graduate at New River CTC
New River Community and Technical College as well as its nearly 300 graduates proved Samuel Johnson’s assertion that “Great works are performed not by strength, but by perseverance” during the college’s 10th commencement exercises Saturday at the Chuck Mathena Center in Princeton.
Garden club holds tree planting ceremony
Woodland Oaks Garden Club met on May Day along the White Oak Rail Trail at the Depot for a tree planting ceremony honoring Brenda Moore, West Virginia State Garden Club President.
Farmers Market open
The Fayette County Farmers Market is open each Saturday in Fayetteville from 7:30 to 11:30 a.m. The market is located in the parking lot of the Convention and Visitor’s Bureau at the entrance to Fayetteville. The market will be held every Saturday at that location through November.
SALS to sponsor summer food program
The Southern Appalachian Labor School announces the sponsorship of the Summer Food Service Program at the SALS Community Center in Beards Fork, Montgomery City Pool and the Historic Oak Hill School. In accordance with federal law and U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) policy, this institution is prohibited from discriminating on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, age or disability.
Page-Kincaid recognizes Grant’s 30 years of service
Mary Grant, the bookkeeper/cashier at the Page-Kincaid PSD for 30 years, retired in early April. Mary started with the PSD in 1983 as the cashier, working with the PSD’s former bookkeeper Dorothy Jeffers. Upon the retirement of Dorothy Jeffers, Mary assumed the duties of bookkeeper and office manager in 2008. Mary also possessed a Class I water operator license and served in a back-up capacity to Bart Jackson.
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April 17 (Bloomberg) -- Christine Lagarde, managing director of the International Monetary Fund, urged policy makers to consider “bold” changes to financial regulations that she said are necessary to ensure world stability and growth.
The global recovery remains fragile after improving in recent months, with public and private debt levels in Europe too high and the U.S. held back by household debt, Lagarde said. She said regulatory changes that focus on raising capital levels, rather than cutting back lending, as well as those that reduce legacy assets, will help economic expansion, she said.
“To help achieve the objectives of growth and stability, we need a stronger and safer financial sector that puts societal interest ahead of its own financial gain,” Lagarde said at an IMF event before this week’s meetings in Washington. “We need a more stable financial system, one that serves businesses and households rather than destabilizes the functioning of the real economy.”
The IMF today raised its global growth forecast for the first time in more than a year, with the U.S. boosting the outlook while recent improvements remain “very fragile.”
“It’s fair to say that things are looking a bit better than they did even a few months ago,” Lagarde said. “We can see some signs of thaw -- welcome signs after the longest, hardest, winter in a generation.”
--Editors: Chris Wellisz, Carlos Torres
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