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You want me to share songs from the Civil War era in my senior living sessions? Hmmm…so I spoke to the residents. “That was before our time.” was their response. Talk about a challenge! Making music from the Civil War …...―
.......and quite a lot of them from Perry Miniatures and Wargames Foundry! ∙ My fixation with the dead and stricken continues.......Ray is slightly concerned! ∙ Pictures could be better but Ray took them! ∙ p―
Peace has become an elusive dream for the whole world especially now that the world powers are scampering for world supremacy. Each powerful nation seems to have a secret nuclear arsenal that is on standby in case some other super country is...―
..........a drunk on duty! ∙ Lovely set of figures from Foundry, little use to the game other than eye candy but what does that matter, the less useful the set is to the actual game the more I seem to like it!―
At the end of 1862, in the wake the Union victory at the Battle of Antietam, Abraham Lincoln took a bloody and ugly Civil War to a far higher level – he issued the Emancipation Proclamation. In bold and ringing words it was declared; ∙ ...―
The advent of the portable camera changed the face of the art world. By the American Civil War, the camera had made accurate portraits available to just about everyone. Although the large cameras with their bulky flashes, were by no means easy to...―
He was fiercely devoted to the Confederacy; ∙ She, fervently dedicated to the Union. ∙ One risked life to save a Cause-- ∙ The other, honor, to save a life. ∙ Praised by readers of romantic and historical fiction since ...―
It's that time of year again over at Curts blog ( Canadian Thor look-a-like!) and a fellow reject and he has launched his annual painting challenge (otherwise known as Ray's cheating challenge), I'll be honest that I didn't want to enter this ...―
Liberty and no UnionSecession is in the air. I’ve been keeping an eye on the rapidly evolving situation in the States. The latest information I have is that the Texaspetition now has well over 110,000 signatures, almost four times over the...―
Not one single STATE has filed anything suggesting secession. Why? First, because no state government is stupid enough to lose the benefits they get from the central government. Secession is illegal. The Civil War decided the issue and ...―
Last Thursday we had dinner at the Pancake Parlour, Andy & I. ∙ He ordered the ...
Tweet I am a member of the Collective Bias Social Fabric Community. This shop has been ...
It’s no surprise traditional black and white eReaders like the Amazon Kindle are ...
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Twin Brothers Going Blind Put to Death by Lethal Injection in Belgian Hospital
Brussels, Belgium – Twin brothers who were born deaf have been put to death in a hospital in Belgium after the two realized that they were going blind and did not want to face the reality of never seeing each other again.
The 45-year-old men, whose identities have not been revealed, were stated to have shared a cup of coffee together before walking into their hospital room to die.
“They had a cup of coffee in the hall. It went well and a rich conversation,” Dr. David Dufour of University Hospital in Brussels told reporters. “Then the separation from their parents and brother was very serene…”
Dufour ended the men’s lives by lethal injection.
“At the last there was a little wave of their hands and then they were gone,” he said.
Euthanasia is legal in Belgium, as doctors are allowed to terminate the lives of their adult patients if they are mentally sound and affirm that they wish to die. Over 1,000 people were put to death via assisted suicide in the country in 2011 — the most of whom were cancer patients.
Socialist Party leader Thierry Giet says that he would like to expand the country’s euthanasia laws to include those under the age of 18.
“The idea is to update the law to take better account of dramatic situations and extremely harrowing cases we must find a response to,” he stated.
In America, three states have legalized some form of euthanasia — Montana, Oregon and Washington. The latest Gallop poll shows a sharp societal divide over the matter, with 48% asserting that assisted suicide is “morally wrong” and 45% claiming that it is “morally acceptable.”
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All the contributors of this site are trained Strategic Interventionists. By combining our different cultural, professional and educational backgrounds with our specialized training, we promise to give you a versatile and exciting experience, along with in depth, life-changing knowledge. Our goal is to give you a new perspective on life and with such a diverse group of authors, new ideas and views are guaranteed.
Strategic Intervention (also known as SI) is a project dedicated to extracting the most practical and effective forms of strategic action and communication from a variety of disciplines: Ericksonian therapy, strategic family therapy, Human Needs Psychology, organizational psychology, neurolinguistics, psychology of influence, strategic studies, traditions of diplomacy and negotiation, and others. Our aim? To develop an eminently practical method for taking action in a strategic way to get things done so that human needs are fulfilled and elevated.
We believe numerous traditions of Strategic Intervention exist wherever human beings use extraordinary skill to bring about positive personal and cultural change. Nelson Mandela and Mahatma Ghandi are examples of masterful Strategic Interventionists that transcend the particularities of religion, culture, institution, job description, or political philosophy (as a Strategic Intervention should). What distinguishes SI from other strategic studies is the belief that certain holistic solutions “snap into place” when more people’s needs are met, expressed, and elevated. These solutions actually deliver more benefit for less effort.
Our tradition of Strategic Intervention (called Human Needs Psychology or HNP) originates with the understanding of the power of meaning to shape all aspects of a human being’s life. Both Anthony Robbins and Cloe Madanes have been powerfully influenced by the great insights and works of Victor Frankl and Milton Erickson’s creative breakthroughs in human intervention.
We are also grounded in the work of the Gregory Bateson group at the Mental Research Institute, which in the late 1950’s originated the new paradigm of interactional and systemic studies, which became a watershed in the development of disciplines such as game theory, cybernetics, neurolinguistics, organizational psychology, management psychology, and dozens of other systemic disciplines. Cloe Madanes, who has been associated with this project for four decades, is now the senior member of this tradition. Cloe has recognized Anthony Robbins as one of its most highly skilled thinkers and practitioners.
The goal of Strategic Intervention is to integrate the core insights of these traditions into a method of practical strategic action. SI encompasses strategies that span from the belief systems and emotional patterns within an individual, to individual relationships, to group dynamics, to organizational and cultural interventions. A trained SI coach navigates these different arenas with ease.
If coaches and consultants were knowledgeable in strategic intervention, they’d find their clients taking more action on their advice, side-stepping interpersonal restrictions, and enjoying breakthrough performance.
If business people were to implement SI, they would resolve individual and organizational and cultural paradoxes that otherwise lead to internal conflict and blocked initiative.
If legislators and judges understood human and family dynamics outlined by SI, they would find ways to pass judgments without disrupting essential structures of the family, and more children would be supported in their upbringing without medication or institutionalization.
By distilling the most essential, practical, and effective principles and strategies from master Strategic Interventionists – whether these relate to matters of the individual, couple, family, partnership, company, organization, or culture – our mission is to make these principles more active on a cultural level.
Tell us what you think!
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Holly Fretwell is a Research Fellow at PERC and an adjunct instructor at Montana State University where she has taught introductory economics, macroeconomics, natural resources, and environmental economics. She works with the Foundation for Teaching Economics, giving workshops for high school teachers to improve their skills in teaching and using economic tools. Fretwell has co-authored curriculum for high school teachers on economic principles and climate change issues. She is author of the book Who is Minding the Federal Estate: Political Management of America’s Public Lands and The Sky’s Not Falling: Why It’s OK to Chill About Global Warming. Fretwell holds a bachelor’s degree in political science and a master’s degree in resource economics from Montana State University.
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Genes Reunited Blog
Welcome to the new Genes Reunited blog!
- We regularly add blogs covering a variety of topics. You can add your own comments at the bottom.
- The Genes Reunited Team will be writing blogs and keeping you up to date with changes happening on the site.
- In the future we hope to have guest bloggers that will be able to give you tips and advice as to how to trace your family history.
- The blogs will have various privacy settings, so that you can choose who you share your blog with.
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J.K. Rowling, or Jo, is the multi-millionaire writer of the infamous Harry Potter books. For a long time she was a single mother working as a teacher, before she changed her life when she put pen to paper and brought Harry Potter to life.
Jo explains at the beginning of the episode that she is keen to learn more about her French heritage and starts looking into the life of her great-great grandfather, Louis Volant. Amazingly Jo shares the same birthday with Louis, the birthday she also gave to Harry Potter. From stories passed down by relative's, Jo knows that Louis fought in WW1 and thinks that he was awarded the Legion d'honneur, an award she has also received as a result of the Harry Potter books.
Jo visits her aunt who tells her a little about Louis and his failed marriage to his wife Lizzie. Louis moved to London from France in the 1890's and started work in the Prince's Restaurant as a waiter. Louis met Lizzie and they soon married and had a son. Unfortunately the marriage did not work out but we do not know whether this was because of Louis's long work hours or Lizzie's reluctance to move to France. All we know is that by the 1911 census, Lizzie is the head of her household and Louis is living alone.
In 1914, Louis leaves London and returns to France to join the French army. Jo travels to France to see if she can find out more about the rumour that Louis received the Legion d'honneur award. When she arrives she is shown a record for Louis Volent, but there are discrepancies regarding birth date and it soon becomes clear that the record Jo is looking at is not that of her great-great grandfather. Although slightly disappointed, Jo continues her search - This shows how important it is to research all areas of your family history and not rely on stories passed down through generations.
Jo soon finds out that Louis, aged 37, would have been part of the Territorial Army. His job would have been to protect railways and roads from the Germans. However, although Louis was never meant to fight on the front, and only received 15 days of training, he was soon put to the test. As the Germans tried to cross the border into France and claim Paris, Louis found himself on the receiving end of shell fire. Armed only with a rifle and under constant fire, he led his men to safety whilst holding the border. Louis was injured, but also recognised for his bravery and awarded the Croix du Guerre, a much better award to receive in Jo's eyes!
With this family mystery settled, Jo decides to go further back and research her great-great-great grandmother, Louis' mother Salomee Schuch. Look out for tomorrow's blog when we reveal how Jo seems to have followed in the footsteps of a long line of single mothers who turned their lives around.
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Seattle nature lover gives a hoot (to help you get a look at owls)
Stewart Wechsler of West Seattle is a former Seattle Parks naturalist who offers guided hikes in several parks on a pay-what-you-can basis.
Seattle Times staff reporter
Naturalist Stewart Wechsler offers guided park walks around West Seattle's Camp Long, Lincoln Park or Schmitz Preserve Park, including what he calls "Owl Prowls" and other themed walks. Cost is on a pay-what-you-can basis ($1 to $20 is suggested). More information: www.stewardshipadventures.com or 206-932-7225.
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You might not know his name — most don't — but if you frequent parks and trails in West Seattle, you've likely seen him.
There he was on Valentine's Day at Camp Long, for example, beaming a flashlight on a pond to look for salamanders.
He mimics the song of the barred owls to lure them off their perch at Schmitz Preserve Park.
Yep, that's him, too, at Lincoln Park every day, running around, netting butterflies or snatching bugs to get a closer look.
Naturalist Stewart Wechsler, 55, makes his rounds around West Seattle daily, with binoculars in hand and an illustrated bird guide in his back pocket.
When you live in Seattle, you can discover the wonders of nature without going far, said Wechsler, who lives 10 blocks from Camp Long, where he formerly worked as a naturalist guide for the Seattle Parks Department.
In January, he launched a Web page to invite the public to come along on his park walks for a donation ($1 to $20 is suggested). He tells you about the birds he sees, the scenic spots he likes. He looks at bird droppings and feathers for clues to what lurks atop those hemlocks and cedars. And once he gets rolling about the damage invasive species have done to our city parks, you just have to crack a smile. His spiel sounds like dispatches from the front line.
"The enemy is encroaching on the indigenous species," he said of the weeds along our walk at Lincoln Park.
"The Himalayan blackberry is also high on the enemy's list. They must be stopped!"
After 90 minutes of this, you would have thought a battalion of weeds were advancing up the hill, cutting off the supply line of the native Douglas firs; a phalanx of foreign ivys, closing in on the Enchanter's Nightshade plants.
Life wasn't always this much fun for Wechsler. Fifteen years ago, he was an English teacher in Japan and was miserable. He thought back to when he enjoyed life most.
"You know when that was?" he said, during our walk along the water. It was grade school. Oyster Bay, Long Island — the walks with his older brother, Doug, who now works at the Academy of Natural Science of Drexel University. They would geek it out, competing to see who could identify the birds and trees first.
He still does that, yelling out things he spots.
"That's a Steller's jay ... often mistaken for a blue jay."
Or, "That's poison hemlock. Used to kill Socrates."
It's spring now, so he likes to check out the "sexy red threads of the beaked hazelnut flowers," and "the magenta bloom of the salmonberry." He's dusting off that butterfly net, too. "I am the kid butterfly chaser who never grew up."
Tan Vinh: 206-515-5656 or firstname.lastname@example.org. On Twitter @tanvinhseattle.
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A Woolies twist to every story
While I was vaguely aware that there had been a Woolies in Newcastle’s Northumberland Street many years ago, I hadn’t realised that it occupied the soon-to-be-Peacocks former Zavvi building.
The presence of the Fenwick department store in both shots above is the giveaway – and Newcastle Libraries’ superb Flickr stream has quite a few more images that show the Woolies store in all its glory. Interestingly, one great shot shows the Woolworths store still open in 1983; presumably someone out there can shed light on when it closed, and whether the property was anything else prior to becoming the Virgin Megastore. [UPDATE, 29 October 2010: I've sourced some old newspaper articles referring to Next's takeover of the site in 1985, and which infer that Woolies shut in 1984. More of that in a future post, I hope.]
The fate of the Northumberland Street shop seems to have mirrored that of many other large, city centre Woolworths stores across the UK. Between the 1950s and 1970s, Woolworths developed many flagship shops – department stores, essentially – in major city centres, occupying several floors and a prominent location. At the same time, there was often a smaller store at the other end of town – just like the branch in Newcastle’s Clayton Street.
However, the 1980s saw Woolies downsizing or closing many of these flagship stores, at the same time as withdrawing from certain product areas (such as adult clothing and groceries) to focus upon the ranges for which it latterly became best known – toys, confectionery, homewares, entertainment and children’s clothing. Thus, cities such as Leeds and Newcastle lost their main Woolworths store at this time, but kept the smaller one.
Similarly, when I lived in Sheffield in the 1990s, I remember hearing about the Woolworths store in Haymarket that had closed down some years before, having been rebuilt in the 1950s following war damage. The unit later became Dunnes Stores (which closed down and then reopened in the same spot a few years later), and currently houses a large branch of Wilkinson.
Meanwhile, Sheffield’s second branch, on The Moor, lasted right through to Woolies’ ultimate demise at the end of 2008. In a neat twist, bringing us back to where this blog post started, that site too is reportedly going to become a Peacocks.
With thanks to Newcastle Libraries for the use of the historic photograph of Woolworths in Northumberland Street.
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But be aware that the value might have been set because it is required. Changing it might violate audit policy for the system.
It would be better to review all related system values to determine if any additional changes should be made.
If QINACTITV is the cause, then QINACTMSGQ should also be reviewed to see if a message queue is named. If one is named, then it should be tested to see if any job is monitoring the queue. And if it's being monitored, then the application that does the monitoring should be used to control the timeouts rather changing QDSCJOBITV.
If QINACTMSGQ is set to *DSCJOB, then it should be changed to point to a new message queue that you create. You can then put programming in place to receive those messages. The messages can be tested to determine which job sent them. If they were sent by a valid operator job like yours, your program can ignore the messages. But if they are sent from jobs that should be disconnected, your program can issue the DSCJOB command for those jobs. They will then timeout at the appropriate disconnection interval.
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Illinois First Lady Presents "Youth Making a Difference" Awards
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
August 10, 2000
CHICAGO -- First Lady Lura Lynn Ryan today presented the first annual "Youth Making a Difference" Awards at the Futures for Kids REACHing Youth Through Community Involvement Conference at the Sheraton Hotel.
The "Youth Making a Difference" Awards honor the outstanding efforts of Illinois youth who help improve their communities through volunteer activities.
"Illinois is blessed with so many young people who volunteer their time and dedicate themselves to helping others." said Mrs Ryan. "The seven young people we honor here today are to be specially commended. Their actions have made an outstanding difference in their communities."
The nominees were judged on how their service activities best addressed the needs and concerns of their community and how their efforts improved the given situation. Seven young people between the ages of 6 - 17 were selected by the Illinois Commission on Volunteerism and Community Service as the first award recipients.
Futures for Kids is an umbrella for the programs and policies that make a significant contribution to the health and well-being of children. The Illinois Department of Human Services administered Teen REACH program is part of this initiative. The Futures for Kids conference includes five workshops that focus on the Teen REACH themes of Responsibility, Education, Achievement, Caring and Hope.
More than 1,200 people are attending the Futures for Kids Conference which provides participants with skills that will increase their understanding of prevention services for Illinois' youth. The goal of the conference is to support young people as they develop the skills, confidence and commitment to community necessary to lead successful lives.
A list of the "Youth Making A Difference" Award winners follows:
"YOUTH MAKING A DIFFERENCE" AWARD WINNERS
Natalie Jacobowski, Orland Park
Serving as Junior Service chair of the National Honor Society and member of Math Honors Society, Natalie participates in clothing and food drives and prepares holiday gift baskets for underprivileged children. As president of the Orland Township Youth Commission, she organizes visits to nursing homes and outdoor clean-ups at nature preserves. She uses her Spanish skills at the Orland Township Health Services to help families receive proper medical services. Natalie, in her school's First Class Program, encourages students to take responsibility for their community. She promotes a substance-free lifestyle through her work with the Snowflake Program. Natalie has donated 513 hours of community service in the past 3 years. She was also selected as a representative to the Governor's Teen Summit.
Emily Dray, Wilmette
Emily began volunteering at the age of 12 when she became an active member of Youth Connection's Community Service Club. She mentored and tutored younger children through Child Serv, an after school program. She rallied her entire school to conduct a drive for school supplies for needy children. Emily later participated in the annual AIDS Walk and Walk for Hope and then took the initiative to organize a food drive to raise additional funds. Emily tutored children on Saturdays in Chicago, mentored young children in Skokie and helped with Special Olympics.
Elizabeth Feste, Byron
As projects chairperson of her local Key Club, Elizabeth raised money and clothing for the Carolina Flood Relief Project, raised several hundred dollars for the local food pantry, and also raised $1,200 for Spastics Paralysis Research and for a Kiwanis Worldwide Service Project. Another project, Lend-a-Hand, assisted senior citizens with chores such as raking leaves and mowing lawns. Additionally, Beth was elected to the board of directors of Byron Community Revitalization, Inc. She serves on the Membership Committee and actively recruits community leaders to get involved. Recently she was named co-chairman of a fundraising dinner which raised several thousand dollars.
Colleen Lange, Gibson City
Colleen has served as Youth Advocate of the Ford County American Cancer Society Board and prepared and presented anti-tobacco programs in schools and throughout the community. She has been invaluable in the planning and implementing Relay for Life for two years and is organizing children's activities for this year's relay. Colleen also provides childcare for "Parents Night Out" through the Community Resource Center. She is a member of the youth group at her church and has started Power Fun, in which she provides activities for children so their parents can enjoy their meals at family night. Colleen also assists with bible school and craft activities.
Stephie Humble, Lincoln
Stephie has been president of HYPE (Helping Youth in a Positive Environment) for the past year. Thanks to HYPE's efforts with Habitat for Humanity, a family was able to move into their home for Thanksgiving. Stephie also filled balloons with drug-free pledges for the Junior High Balloon Launch, organized the group to collect food for the Logan County Food Pantry, and made posters during Alcohol Awareness Month. She worked diligently with HYPE's Prevention Theater. Stephie was selected to attend the Governor's Teen Summit and, as a result of her commitment and dedication, was named HYPE of the YEAR by her peers.
Brandi Bertelli, Loami
Brandi has distributed food and clothing to Springfield's most needy residents as a volunteer at St. Martin DePorres Center. She has raised money for the center at her school. As a member of the Sprucing Up Springfield Campaign, she painted over graffiti, planted flowers and cleaned alleys. Brandi chaired the planning committee and co-hosted "Calling All Colors," a conference to learn how to be culturally sensitive citizens in a diverse society. She is a cast member and teen leader of the Teen Reach television show which addresses issues directly affecting Springfield's youth.
Lauren Everette, Olney
Lauren is a founding member of her high school PILOTS (Peers in Leadership Opportunities Training Students). She prepares and teaches lessons on alcohol, other drugs, stress and peer pressure to middle school students. Lauren serves on the Relay for Life planning board and works with adults to implement this major event. Lauren teaches Sunday school, works at church camps and delivers children's sermons. She serves on a community task force where she plans and hosts substance-free activities for the youth of her community. Last summer, she served on a two-week mission trip to Chicago where she worked in food pantries, summer food programs, and homeless shelters.
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Until he extends the circle of compassion to all living creatures, man himself will not find peace.
- Albert Schweitzer
If a person cannot see horror, then he can neither see beauty, nor sadness, anger, fear or love.
- Alexander Lowen
Life is full of so much, and so much of it seems riddled with contradictions.
This morning I woke up, felt a little bit tired and cranky, and positioned my cup of coffee to be the ideal projective object, dubbed the ultimate magic potion that was going to transform my state of consciousness and cure all of my ills.
If only I could get through my cup of coffee in peace, then I would be a happier, more compassionate person. ; )
As my hands cradled the warm mug of divine sustenance, I saw a very silly post on Facebook that was beyond the usual “oh, that’s cute”. This was uncontrollable-belly-laugh, tears streaming down my face, and the ultimate release of a stress-induced, overly tight diaphragm that had been limiting my ability to breathe freely and deeply. Such ridiculous silliness! There is no logic for why something strikes one as being hysterically funny, it just is.
Yet, the very next thing I read was a post about a family killed in South Kordofan.
They died because their home was bombed. In Sudan, the government continues to indiscriminately bomb civilians. Antonovs are not precise vehicles of military surgical strikes. They are rough approximators and work well when the goal is the opposite of what we typically think of in war.
Genocide is unlike war in many attributes. So-called “collateral damage” is not a secondary, regrettable consequence in genocide, it is the goal. Civilians are the targets, especially women and children.
I had only barely recovered from my fit of all-encompassing hysterical laughter… and then, Sudan.
It gripped me. For a moment, I felt guilty. How can I sit and be caught up in such silliness when people are dying? And yet, this is the nature of life.
Perhaps the art form of living is to learn how to ride the alternating, ever-changing, seemingly contradictory waves without resistance.
The laughter had actually opened me so that I felt more. My capacity to feel grateful for all I have, and feel sorrow in the exact same moment for those killed, surrounded by their family members grieving their loss while running, hiding in caves, lacking access to food, water, and medicine, just trying to survive another day, another hour, another moment… my capacity to feel both gratitude and sorrow had increased.
How do we put these things together? How do we process things that horrify us when the nature of horror is that it is the incomprehensible?
Many are still reeling from the shooting in Connecticut. We are shocked and saddened to think of so many children, so young, all being slaughtered at the same time by a random gunman. Many say the result has been that something has shifted in this country. This time is different and we must have change. We will not forget in a few days time. This time we resolve to take action.
We often neglect to think about the fact that young children are slaughtered in other countries every day. If not by Antonov bomber, by direct gunshot, or landmine. If not by overt violence, by the indirect violence of famine, and lack of medical care.
How do we put these things together? How do we process the extreme incongruity of life on this planet?
We are caring, loving, concerned citizens, right? We are basically good people and compassionate in nature, right? Yet, we live in a world of such vast contradiction. In the U.S. even in tough economic times, WE HAVE SO MUCH. And the trouble with having so much is that it can increase generosity, or it can become numbing, create distance from suffering and decrease compassion.
I have never understood why we aren’t more concerned about and helpful to others who are suffering. There seems to be a belief that we are to take care of our self here on this earth, and take care of those in our own immediate family. Too often it stops there.
Time and again I wind up back at the meaning of “Ubuntu”.
Across this globe, across all of humanity, it is my very strong belief that we need to change the paradigm. We need to live in pursuit of the common good for all of humanity, for all others who live among us, and to find our way to re-establish our love affair with Mother Earth.
We all affect each other. We make choices and they have consequences. We have incredible potential for enacting warm, loving goodness. We have incredible potential for cold, oppressive destruction.
We will become even more powerful for good by being willing to become more intimately acquainted with our limits, and ability to do harm.
We are largely the problem, and the solution all at the same time.
I believe we have yet to scratch the surface in terms of the potential for good that lies within each and everyone one of us. We have access to the ability to bring tremendous positive change to this earth. It will not be an easy path. Discouragements are plentiful. Yet we can learn to allow deep feelings to have their way with us.
We must learn how to grieve well, and often.
We can allow even more genuine goodness into our life by learning to stop insisting on allowing in only feel-good things. When we open, we open to it all, and we must have a strong sense of groundedness to know how to deal with that wisely. We need the support of one another as we pursue this process as everyone gets off track and runs out of energy at times.
I write this mindful that this is the day, 12/21/12, some have said the world was going to end. Others said it would be the beginning of a new consciousness. I don’t honestly know if there is any significance to this date on the calendar or not. What I know is that I see a different way for us to be together on the planet, recognizing the preciousness of life itself, and holding each other in heartfelt value, within the pursuit of supporting the well-being of us all.
Executive Director, Living Ubuntu
[Ubuntu] n. Every human being truly becomes a human by means of relationships with other human being.
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BOGOTA, Colombia — Some of the Medellin cartel's most notorious and ruthless cocaine bandits have fallen in battle. Its top trafficker, Pablo Escobar, is a man on the run, reportedly no longer managing his billion-dollar business.
American and Colombian officials say this country's cocaine production is down by about one-fourth from mid-1989. Drug hauls by Colombian security forces so far this year exceed the record total for 1989. And a new president is vowing to battle violent drug lords "without concession."
A grueling 12 months after assassins killed presidential candidate Luis Carlos Galan on Aug. 18, 1989, and Colombia's cocaine war exploded into a full-scale power struggle between government and gangsters, the government side clearly has the upper hand.
"I think the war in Colombia is being won at this stage," said a U.S. anti-drug specialist in Bogota. "We're a long way from victory, but at least the government has the initiative and the traffickers are on the run and trafficking is disrupted."
He added: "I feel very confident that if this momentum continues, Colombia will cease to be the cocaine capital of the world."
President Cesar Gaviria cautioned in his inauguration speech Aug. 7 that halting cocaine traffic will take more than Colombia's best efforts.
"Narcotics traffic is an international phenomenon that can be solved only through joint action by all affected countries, and no success will be possible in this area if there is not a substantial reduction of demand in the consuming countries," he said.
Nevertheless, Gaviria declared that he would personally assume leadership of efforts by Colombian security forces to fight violent drug lords and put an end to their "acts of barbarity."
Ten days before Gaviria's inauguration, the traffickers announced a truce in their terror campaign, suspending the shootings and bombings that have killed hundreds of Colombians in the last year. Some analysts interpreted the lull as proof that kingpin Escobar, The Godfather, was in deep trouble as government forces pursued him from his Medellin base through the rugged hills of the Middle Magdalena Valley.
Others concluded that the traffickers wanted to test the new president's response to a peace gesture. After Gaviria took office, however, authorities quickly made it clear that they were offering no reciprocal cease-fire.
An assault team of the National Police's anti-drug Elite Force, raiding a house in Medellin last weekend, killed Gustavo de Jesus Gaviria, Escobar's cousin and top henchman. Officials said Gaviria--no relative of the president--had been managing Escobar's cocaine-trafficking empire and directing his terrorist hit squads while the boss concentrated on eluding his pursuers.
Gustavo Gaviria's death was the latest in a series of debilitating blows to Escobar's hierarchy.
"Even though the emperor has not fallen, the empire is crumbling," Gen. Miguel Maza Marquez, director of Colombia's investigative police, told reporters in July, even before Gaviria's death.
In June, the Elite Force said its men killed cartel enforcer John Jairo Arias Tascon, nicknamed Pinina, when he resisted arrest in Medellin. Officials said Pinina ranked No. 5 in the cartel and organized its paid assassins and bombers.
In July, Elite Force officers captured Hernan Henao, H. H., Escobar's brother-in-law and also a key lieutenant. They also arrested Edgar Escobar Taborda, known as The Poet and described as The Godfather's chief of propaganda and author of cartel communiques signed by the "The Extraditables."
Since last August, police have extradited a score of middle-level figures associated with the cartel for trial on trafficking charges in the United States. More than a dozen others await extradition in prison.
Undoubtedly the most severe blow to the cartel was the death of kingpin Gonzalo Rodriguez Gacha in a fire fight with the Elite Force last December. Rodriguez Gacha, called El Mexicano because of his fondness for Mexico, was regarded as Escobar's equal in power and violence.
Little has been heard during the last year of the Medellin cartel's other main partners, brothers Jorge, Fabio and Juan Ochoa. The U.S. anti-narcotics specialist said that is because Colombian police are concentrating on the hunt for Escobar.
"I would like to see resources concentrated on the Ochoas for a few days," he said. "I think we could get them just like that."
Police and army forces began tightening the squeeze on the cartel last year with a succession of raids on major laboratories and trafficking depots. According to the American official, who asked not to be identified for security reasons, a couple of spectacular busts netted enough ether and other expensive chemicals to refine at least 200 tons of cocaine.
He said such severe losses may have been the main reason for the cartel's savage retaliation Aug. 18 with the killing of candidate Galan, then the presidential front-runner.
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A French colonel, exhausted from fighting and who wished not to be named, told CNN that foreign fighters -- including some who are Algerian -- have been pushed out of the area.
Sogoba told CNN the fight against the rebels was very hard, but he is focused on "preserving the national integrity" of Mali.
The humanitarian crisis in Mali is stark, according to the Norwegian Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre.
"They cannot stay where they are due to the grave insecurity caused by the conflict," said Sebastian Albuja, the center's head of the Africa and Americas Department. "Yet the meager resources and the diminished coping abilities of the government and humanitarian actors means that they are faced with limited options."
Because Algeria has closed its borders, people in the north are increasingly heading to the desert, where they will face harsh conditions and real struggles over food and water with limited humanitarian assistance, the group said.
Many are fleeing on foot because they can't afford boats or buses, Albuja said, and even if they do make it, they get there only to find the roads blocked.
The group is especially concerned about women, children and the injured, who they've heard are too afraid to go to hospitals, believing hospitals will be bombed. The Norwegian center is very concerned about victims of rape as a weapon of war, he said.
French involvement began the day after militants said January 10 that they had seized the city of Konna, east of Diabaly in central Mali.
Paris-Match interviews Belmoktar
On Monday, the website of the French magazine Paris-Match published an interview with the spokesman for Moktar Belmoktar, the veteran jihadist behind the Algeria attack, who said the attack was "a 90% success because we managed to reach a strategic site protected by 800 soldiers with only 40 men."
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Energy Secretary Steven Chu, who won a Nobel Prize in physics but came under questioning for his handling of a solar energy loan, is stepping down.
Chu offered his resignation to President Barack Obama in a letter Friday. He said he will stay on at least until the end of February and may stay until a successor is confirmed.
Chu's departure had been widely expected and follows announcements by Interior Secretary Ken Salazar, Environmental Protection Agency chief Lisa Jackson and Jane Lubchenco, head of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, that they are leaving.
The White House said no decisions have been made on replacements for any of the environment and energy jobs but said Obama's priorities will remain unchanged. Potential replacements for Chu include former North Dakota Sen. Byron Dorgan, former Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm and former Washington Gov. Christine Gregoire.
Obama said in a statement Friday that Chu brought a "unique understanding of both the urgent challenge presented by climate change and the tremendous opportunity that clean energy represents for our economy."
During his tenure, Chu helped move the country toward energy independence, Obama said, referring to billions of dollars in Energy Department loans to boost renewable energy such as wind and solar power.
"Thanks to Steve, we also expanded support for our brightest engineers and entrepreneurs as they pursue groundbreaking innovations that could transform our energy future," Obama said.
Chu, 64, a former director of the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab in California, had little political experience before taking the energy post in 2009.
He drew fire from congressional Republicans who criticized his handling of a $528 million federal loan to solar panel maker Solyndra, which later went bankrupt, laying off its 1,100 workers. Republicans said Chu and other Energy Department officials missed many warning signs about problems at Solyndra and compounded them by approving a restructuring of the loan even after problems were discovered.
Solyndra was the first renewable-energy company to receive a loan guarantee under the 2009 stimulus law, and the Obama administration frequently promoted the company as a model for its clean energy program. Chu attended a 2009 groundbreaking when the loan was announced, and Obama visited the company's Fremont, Calif., headquarters the next year.
The company's implosion in 2011 and revelations that the administration hurried a review of the loan in time for the groundbreaking become an embarrassment for Chu and Obama and a rallying cry for GOP critics of the administration's green energy program.
Lawmakers also criticized Chu for approving the plan to restructure Solyndra's debt so that two private investors moved ahead of taxpayers for repayment in case of default.
Chu defended the Solyndra loan during a sometimes testy hearing in late 2011. While calling the ultimate outcome "regrettable," Chu said the loan was subject to "proper, rigorous scrutiny and healthy debate" before it was approved in 2009.
"While we are disappointed in the outcome of this particular loan, we support Congress' mandate to finance the deployment of innovative technologies and believe that our portfolio of loans does so responsibly," Chu said.
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TOP STORY >>Report: Split up county district
Leader staff writer
Jacksonville should get its own school district.
Pulaski County Special School District should continue to exist in some fashion.
But nothing can happen until all three Pulaski County districts—PCSSD, along with Little Rock and North Little Rock school districts—are released from federal court supervision.
That’s the essence of a 108-page feasibility study released late Friday afternoon. The study resulted from 2005 state legislation authorizing the Arkansas Department of Education to conduct a feasibility study to evaluate and determine whether Pulaski County Special School District should continue to exist.
At the time, the beleaguered district was in fiscal distress.
The nearly yearlong study by William Gordon Associates out of Saluda, N.C., recommends that Jacksonville should have its own district, consisting of 13 schools that are currently in the PCSSD.
Jacksonville has tried at least twice since the mid-70s to form its own school district.
The consultants said a Jacksonville district would be “more likely to address the educational needs of students attending schools north of the Arkansas River.”
In looking at a Jacksonville school district, the consultants said that the district would have a student population of slightly more than 6,900 students, of which 55 percent would be white, 40 percent black and 5 percent other minorities.
Five of the 13 county schools to be moved to the new district were in “need of extensive renovation or replacement.”
The new district would have nearly 500 teachers and would need 26 building administrators and a central office of 19 to 27 administrators.
The study recommends the new Jacksonville school district in-clude Jacksonville and North Pulaski high schools, along with Jacksonville and Northwood middle schools. Elementary schools would include Homer Adkins, Arnold Drive, Bayou Meto, Cato, Warren Dupree, Jacksonville, Pinewood, Murrell Taylor and Tolleson.
But before Jacksonville can have its own district or any boundary changes made to the county district, Little Rock, North Little Rock and the county school districts need to be dismissed from court desegregation monitoring.
The study states that any reconfiguration of the county school districts, while still under federal supervision, would require an order from the federal district court.
Jacksonville tried for its own school district a few years ago, but the federal court, using some of the same legal arguments in the study, said no.
The study said that reorganization of the districts “are not legally feasible in the context of the ongoing school desegregation litigation,” and that is why the districts must pursue efforts to be released from court supervision.
Both Little Rock and North Little Rock schools districts are making efforts to be released into what is called unitary status, meaning they have met the court requirements to be released from monitoring.
The federal court recently turned down a bid by LRSD, which has been under federal scrutiny since 1965, to be released from monitoring. The court said the district hadn’t successfully evaluated its academic programs for how well they help black students.
PCSSD is making plans for only a partial release from court monitoring.
The consultants surmise that “at least one reason for this approach is a fear on the part of the school board that full unitary status and an end to the school district’s involvement in the litigation might result in the dissolution of the school district.”
The consultants state in their study that PCSSD should be given assurances that it “will continue to exist in some shape or form.”
Once all three districts have been dismissed from court monitoring, then the study recommends the creation of a Jackson-ville school district, followed by phasing out majority-to-minority transfers and retaining existing countywide magnet schools.
In order to implement these recommendations in a post-unitary status setting, consultants say state legislative action will be necessary.
The state legislature is expected to take up the issue in its 2007 session.
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LOWER GWYNEDD — After the Wissahickon School Board voted to close Mattison Avenue Elementary School, the challenge then became how to redistrict the elementary schools in order to accommodate the extra students now without a school.
During the Jan. 28 meeting, Assistant Superintendant Dr. Christopher Marchese gave a presentation announcing the administration’s time line as to how it will begin to establish new boundaries among the elementary schools due to the absence of Mattison Avenue. Marchese said a 14-member committee of various stakeholders will be formed to decide how to be redistrict. Members of the committee will include Marchese, Matthew Walsh, Director of Elementary Teaching and Learning; Kelle Heim-McCloskey, Director of Student Services; Elizabeth Bauer, Shady Grove Elementary School principal; Denise Fagan, Blue Bell Elementary School principal; Nicole West, Lower Gwynedd Elementary School principal; Concetta Lupo, Mattison Avenue principal and Gary Abbamont, Stony Creek Elementary School principal. The committee will also include presidents of the various Home and School Associations.
According to Marchese the task of the committee will be to identify guiding principles for new attendance given the loss of Mattison Avenue and based off of the shifts in attendance over the 10-year period since the last district realignment of its boundaries. It will also work through a process to bring recommendation to the board for implementation in September.
Marchese said while the committee has a “very aggressive time line to meet this goal” he feels confident that it will be able to achieve that goal.
With the committee members in place, the next step will be to hold a number of meetings throughout February and March including an information session for parents Feb. 5 from 6 p.m. to 6:45 p.m. at the high school.
Marchese said he recognized that the public will be watching these proceedings “with a close eye” and the committee will do its best to keep parents informed and allow them to submit comments for the committee to take into consideration. Parents will also have a chance to tour their child’s new school building.
By March the goal is to present a single plan to the board, then the committee will go to the public and gather feedback on the plan. Three separate meetings throughout the district are scheduled for the public to give input on the plan.
The goal is to have a final plan for the board to approve by April.
Mattison Avenue parent Christine Delaurentis said the time line shows no plans regarding transitional activities for students changing schools. She asked what activities were planned and why they weren’t they included in the plans. She also asked when the plans would be announced regarding the principals of the elementary schools.
“We do not want to hear that this is a personnel matter,” she said. “This is a personal matter when it comes to our children.”
She said the principals for each school should be announced with the first recommendation from the committee to the board in March.
In other business, board member Barbara Moyer asked what was the status of the possible construction of a new high school.
“I think the next step is for the administration to come up with possible scenarios and possibilities,” said board President Young Park.
He said a time line will be created and the board will review plans and decide whether to proceed with a new high school and how it will go about doing so.
Superintendent Judith Clark said the board and administration will look at the entire package of the financial impact of a new high school. She said over the next few weeks along with the redistricting of the elementary schools, the administration will be focusing on he financial impact of all of its recommendations made to the board last June regarding the future of the district.
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Story last updated at 11/2/2011 - 6:07 pm
The morning unfolds quietly while I carefully wade through frost-nipped weed beds that line the shallow edge of the lake. Masked by an angelic mist, silhouettes from across the lake struggle to take shape and form. Their faint figures, however, gradually develop into alders and spruce trees as the first bands of morning light crest the eastern horizon of Thunder Mountain now dusted with fresh November snow.
Suddenly, there's a thunderous splash off in the distance. Startled, I stop my wading and hastily begin surveying the water, my body now flushed with goose bumps. To the calming sight of a beaver, I exhale a sigh of relief then proceed with a short false cast towards the outlet of the lake.
My fingers are cold and wet, but I continue to cast. Each cast seems more laborious than the previous one. My fingers, now pink and almost numb, continue to burn as I slowly retrieve my marabou leech, crawling it through the water.
Then, without warning, there's a soft tap followed by a heavy thump at the end of my line. Instinctively, I strip and set quickly with my fly rod and suddenly there's a splash followed by a cartwheel of silver that erupts on the surface as a beautiful, speckled, fall-run cutthroat trout shatters the morning calm.
As the month of November slowly unfolds, fresh water sport fishing opportunities in Southeast Alaska become much more limiting. With the exception of a few select systems that receive late-season runs, river and stream fishing for silver salmon, once the primary quarry of sport fishers throughout Southeast Alaska for the past month and a half, is now an angling memory. Even Dolly Varden once ubiquitous in the summer seem to have vanished from their shadowed pools.
However, even during this seasonal lean period in Southeast, adventuresome sport anglers can still find and enjoy plenty of opportunities for late season angling relief in the form of still water fishing for fall-run cutthroat trout and hold over Dolly Varden in our numerous lakes and salt chucks.
Fly-fishing for still water cutthroat trout is a pleasant reprieve to river salmon fishing. The rods and general tackle are much lighter and most of the fishing takes place from canoes, prams, float tubes or gentle wading. The rods I choose when chasing fall-run cuttys or lake Dolly Varden are nine to ten foot six-weights. I prefer six-weight fly rods because they are light enough to still enjoy the tussle of a 12-inch fish, yet strong enough to push a tight loop through bitter fall winds mixed with rain and sometimes snow.
I also prefer a longer rod (9-1/2 to 10 feet) when fishing from a float tube or while sitting when fishing
from a canoe. This added length of the fly rod provides the angler a mechanical advantage when you're low in the water as it facilitates lifting large amounts of fly line off the water during extended casts.
As for fly lines, the ideal line for still water conditions is one that sinks slowly and places the fly one to three feet below the surface. I prefer a type 1, intermediate sink fly line, and I fish it slowly with deliberate two-to-three inch strips while pausing briefly in between each strip.
The flies I use are predominantly small, size 8, marabou Monroe-style leeches. The natural marabou moves freely in the soft water, undulating and pulsating, when slowly retrieved which I find crucial to enticing fall-run cuttys in cold, late-season conditions.
Sill water fishing in my opinion is the most under rated and least exploited segment of recreational sport fishing available in Southeast Alaska. Fishing lakes and salt-chucks offers an excellent alternative to early and late-season angling opportunities when local rivers and coastal streams are either void of salmon or when rivers are blown out of shape from heavy late-season rains.
In spite of these positive features, however, local fisheries management continue to ignore this vast potential and balk at community requests of reviving many of our still water systems into reliable recreational fisheries, particularly those that are readily accessible along our roadsides.
Fortunately, there are a few local organizations and chapters working cooperatively with community volunteer groups with an objective to change this. It is through their commitment and arduous work that recreational sport fishing enthusiasts in Southeast Alaska can enjoy peaceful solitude on many of our still water systems and many times encounter hot action for fall-run cutthroat trout and Dolly Varden. Good luck fishing and tight lines.
Rich Culver is a fly-fishing freelance writer and photographer. He can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.org.
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The Genesee County Economic Development Center said Tuesday the county has been approved as a foreign-trade zone.
It is the first foreign-trade zone in the Finger Lakes Region since a similar zone was created in Monroe County in 1987, the agency said.
A foreign-trade zone is a site within the United States designated by the U.S. Department of Commerce where foreign and domestic merchandise is considered to be in international commerce.
The application designates two Genesee County industrial parks—Apple Tree Acres and the Genesee Valley Agri-Business Park—as magnet sites, which allows businesses looking to develop at these sites an expedited application process. Other magnet sites can be added.
“This is a historic day for economic development in Genesee County and a critical component of our broader efforts to sustain job creation and investment in our region,” said Steven Hyde, president and CEO of GCEDC, in a statement. “The approval of this application for (this) status will help spur economic growth and foreign investment by incentivizing businesses with customs duty savings and other tax advantages, as well as increased flexibility in the handling of domestic and imported merchandise.”
There are 14 of the free-trade zones approved in New York, including four in or near New York City.
(c) 2013 Rochester Business Journal. To obtain permission to reprint this article, call 585-546-8303 or e-mail firstname.lastname@example.org.
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January 6, 1988 12:00 am
Three reports which examine the ways our historical record in films and in books and maps, is under threat from neglect, damage and mistreatment.
February 3, 1988 12:00 am
Two reports on the control and effect of mass communications in the past.
March 2, 1988 12:00 am
Report on the mystery surrounding the identity of a prisoner who died at the Bastille in Paris in November 1703. He had been imprisoned for 34 years and had be forced to wear a mask.
March 30, 1988 12:00 am
Report on events in Holland in 1944, when the Nazis cut off all food supplies in retaliation for Dutch support of the Arnhem landings.
June 1, 1988 12:00 am
Two films on the darker side of British history over the past 150 years. "The Diary of an English Spy", looks at the training of secret agents at a Spy School before WW1. "and One Law for the Poor", on the 1832 Anatomy Act which denied the poor the freedom to bury their dead, and supplied medical schools with human bodies for study.
July 27, 1988 12:00 am
Report on recent radiocarbon dating tests on the Turin Shroud, believed by millions to be the burial cloth of Jesus. Programme follows the preparation of the Shroud, and film of the tests carried out in Zurich.
September 7, 1988 12:00 am
Report on the legend of Jack the Ripper, revealing for the first time the true contents of the police and Home Office files on the case, and drawing on the expertise of historians and of those who have encountered today's killers.
October 5, 1988 12:00 am
Dramatised documentary about Annie Besant, the 19th century social reformer and campaigner for the use of contraception, who led the matchgirls strike from the Bryant and May factory.
November 9, 1988 12:00 am
Story of the Glorious Revolution of 5th November 1688, when William of Orange landed at Brixham to take the English crown.
December 7, 1988 12:00 am
Report on the case of Nikolai Bukharin, Lenin's advisor and editor of Pravda and Izvestia in the 1920s and 1930s. Bukharin was executed in 1938 after the last of Stalin's show trials. Gorbachev has openly denounced this action, and Bukharin's widow Anna has been allowed to talk about her husband for the first time in 50 years.
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There's something that's been bothering me over the last several...
There's something that's been bothering me over the last several years, but you
must not laugh. At night when I'm driving around in my '93 T-Bird, street lights
sometimes go out as I pass. This seems to happen every five minutes or so. When
I told my wife, she thought I was nuts. She came along for ride so she could
ridicule me. Well hi-dee-ho; she was all freaked out because it happened three
times over several miles. We then went to pick up the kids and went to Dairy
Queen. And as we pulled up to order, the whole building went dark (I can get
sworn statements that this happened!). Can you explain these weird events? --
RAY: Of course we can explain these events, Gary. Most street lights these days
are high-pressure sodium fixtures. And the flickering is a sign that the bulb
needs to be changed.
TOM: Most household light bulbs fail completely when they wear out. But when the
tungsten in the street light is failing and can't keep the lamp hot enough, or
the sodium gas is slowly escaping and there isn't enough pressure, the street
light shuts off, but then continually tries to restart itself. And when
conditions are "borderline," you'll see a lamp on sometimes and off sometimes.
The closer it gets to complete failure, the more frequently it cycles on and
RAY: So the cycling bulbs are a sign to the local electrical department that
it's time to change the bulb.
TOM: The old mercury vapor lamps that they used to use didn't do this. They just
got dimmer and dimmer. And the problem with that was that it happened so
gradually that nobody noticed until they couldn't see anymore. "Fred, didn't we
used to be able see on this street at night?"
RAY: As for the Dairy Queen, my guess is that they were closing. Did you notice
that all the workers went home and said goodnight after the lights went out?
That would be your hint, Gary.
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On Friday, the plan of introduction of pure hydrocodone painkiller was strongly condemned by the FDA panel. The US Food and Drug Administration questioned in return to the proposal why there is a need to introduce a new form of the drug, which is already highly abused.
The report finds that the drug is amongst those painkillers that are generally highly taken by people. San Diego-based Zogenix Inc. had developed the drug for relieving long-acting pain. The same has received 11-2 vote by the team of pain specialists.
Amongst the votes, one was a no vote against Zohydro, which is for mild to severe chronic pain. However, the FDA usually does not deny to the group's recommendation, it is this time that the regulator has rejected the proposed plan.
The panelists are acknowledging that the pill has the potential to cut pain, but the drug abuse issue in the nation may expand. The FDA would now make a decision over the drug by March 1, as per the findings.
Harvard School of Public Health's Professor James Ware said, "I think the sponsor fulfilled the expectations of FDA, however I think the entire class is problematic in terms of abuse and safety issues".
- China Promises to Restrict Greenhouse Emissions by 2016
- Deaths Due to Climate Change will Increase Manifold in Coming Decades
- Demand of Larrivée Guitar Got a Boost after Promotion through Astronaut Chris Hadfield
- Rosario Dawson flashes her crotch at Cannes Film Festival
- Angelina Jolie’s double mastectomy moved Jennifer Aniston to tears
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Michael Jackson's famous glove: where it all started
Michael Jackson, me, and a glove story: How I witnessed his epiphany of the single white glove.
Nearly 30 years ago, I was a fortunate eyewitness to a pivotal Michael Jackson epiphany: the true glove story.Skip to next paragraph
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As the resident music-head at a Hollywood film production company, I was tapped to design a music video for Michael Jackson and his brothers in 1980. Michael was already a big star – his breakout solo album "Off the Wall" was still riding high on the charts. The Jacksons had re-formed, and it was a long time since the group had garnered a hit. The designated single from their new album was "Can You Feel It," a song with an insistent, "Bolero"-like rhythm.
(Michael was very high on the song and had attempted to leave the six-minute, unedited version on my phone machine a few days before, but it cut off after 30 seconds.)
After a brainstorming session and a riveting a cappella performance of the song by Michael at the kickoff meeting (featuring some gravity-defying dance moves that, alas, predated moon-walking), I was asked to take Michael on a tour of the production facilities at the company, Robert Abel & Associates.
As we walked through the facility's maze of hallways, camera rooms, and special-effects labs, we encountered the chief film editor, Rick Ross, who was cutting and splicing a TV commercial. Rick was wearing a short white cotton glove on his left hand as he ran the film through his fingers, looking for the yellow grease-pencil marks he had made on various frames of film to be edited. To have a little green box of these disposable gloves sitting on the editing bench was standard practice for film editors in those days.
Michael, who hadn't shown any particular enthusiasm for the tour so far, seemed suddenly transfixed by the glove and politely asked a number of questions about it, concluding with, "Could you spare one?" But of course.
The rest, they say, is HIStory.
The single white glove (later covered in silver sequins) made its television debut on Michael's left hand during his stunning performance of "Billy Jean" at Motown's 25th anniversary TV special in 1983. It became the King of Pop's wardrobe icon for the rest of his career, worn by Jackson and his multimillions of adoring fans the world over.
A number of mysteries still surround Michael Jackson's strange life, and some questions may never be answered.
I'm just glad I could shed some light on one of them.
• John Kehe is the Monitor's design director.
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May 26, 2013
'Malcolm X' actor Al Freeman Jr. dies, aged 78
Actor Al Freeman Jr., perhaps best known for his portrayal of Nation of Islam leader Elijah Muhammad in Spike Lee's 1992 film "Malcolm X," has died, Howard University said yesterday.
"It is with tremendous sadness that the passing of our beloved Professor Al Freeman, Jr. is confirmed," Kim James Bey, chair of the university's theater department said in a statement. Freeman was a faculty member at the university.
She gave no details about the death of Freeman, who was 78 and taught acting at the Washington-based university, but said a statement would be issued later.
Freeman's long career in film, television and theater included an enduring role playing police Captain Ed Hall on the TV soap opera "One Life to Live" from 1972 through 1987.
He was credited with being the first African American to win a Daytime Emmy Award for outstanding lead actor for his work on the soap opera, a prize he was awarded in 1979.
Freeman's theater credits included a starring role on Broadway in James Baldwin's "Blues for Mister Charlie" in 1964.
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The nonprofit Iowa Student Loan has started servicing federal student loans from across the country through its for profit subsidiary. Iowa Student Loan president, Steve McCullough, says the 2010 student loan law allows non-profit organizations to create a for profit organization to service the loans.
“Through our taxable subsidiary Aspire Resources Inc, we’ve won a contract to do just that. And in that process, we’ve already added about 60 jobs here in the state of Iowa so that we can provide the customer service that these people from all over the country are going to need,” McCullough says.
Aspire runs the student loan servicing operation from West Des Moines. “Pretty much everything that a direct student loan borrower’s going to need to help them in repayment is what we’ll be doing. We’ll be making phone calls, we’ll be processing their payments, be processing deferments and forbearances, reaching out to try and help them get their loans repaid,” according to McCullough.
McCullough says they have the potential to increase their staff even more. “The first round of loans we’ll receive will be about 200-thousand borrowers. There’s the possibility that we’ll earn more accounts to service in the future as we do a good job on the ones that we receive,: McCullough says.
“If we receive more accounts in the future, then we’ll be adding more jobs.” McCullough says Aspire will be paid on a sliding scale depending on how well they handle the loans.
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Brownells, the largest supplier of firearm accessories, ammunition and supplies, also stands on the front lines of a national debate over gun control.
DES MOINES, Iowa -- Brownells is an economic developer's dream: a fast-growing, homegrown Iowa business that treats workers like the neighbors they are, eagerly donates to a passing community hat, and grooms leaders who sit on city boards and holler from soccer game benches.
The Montezuma-based supplier of firearm accessories, ammunition and supplies also stands on the front lines of a national debate over gun control — selling controversial high-capacity ammunition magazines and parts for semi-automatics like the AR-15. Third-generation CEO Pete Brownell, 41, is a member of the National Rifle Association board, and the company is a high-dollar donor to the powerful gun-rights organization.
Brownell's battle against efforts to restrict access to guns is about more than business, Brownell's friends and colleagues say. He's passionate about protecting the Second Amendment, which guarantees the right "to keep and bear arms."
"Government is trying to restrict this industry, restrict this economy … and probably the most dangerous thing is that it's trying to restrict our freedoms," Brownell told members of the Iowa Firearms Coalition last fall.
Gun opponents have attacked Brownells' website to slow its business. Another group claims the company and other industry leaders have given "blood money" to the NRA to pad their profits.
"Today's NRA is a virtual subsidiary of the gun industry," said Josh Sugarmann, executive director of the Violence Policy Center, two years ago when his group released a report on gun industry contributions to the NRA.
Last month, the Huffington Post reported that Brownells has given the NRA from $1 million to $4.9 million since 2005.
Pete Brownell said Friday that his family has supported the NRA for 60 years. Since 1991, its donations have exclusively supported safety training, education and programs for youth and training for law enforcement.
The gun-control debate has only intensified since the shootings in Newtown, Conn., in December, when a gunman carrying three firearms, including a semi-automatic assault rifle and high-capacity ammunition magazines, killed 20 schoolchildren and six educators.
Russ Behrens, the Grinnell city manager and a neighbor of Brownell's, said the company leader is respectful of opponents' views: "Even though his stance is pro-gun, he's also not so thick-headed that he can't understand the other side of the discussion."
"That's relatively rare in this discussion," said Behrens, himself an avid outdoorsman and a key player in persuading Brownell to bring a nearly $16 million expansion of the company to Grinnell. They reached the deal after hunting pheasants two years ago.
Construction began last fall on the 200,000-square-foot office and distribution center. It is expected to create 162 jobs initially and about 200 more over the next decade.
Legislation to ban some weapons and ammunition shouldn't hurt Brownells' growth plans, the CEO said.
"Brownells has a very diverse customer base and product base," Brownell said in written responses to questions from the Register.
Demand for high-capacity ammunition magazines and semi-automatic weapons has escalated with efforts to ban them. In December, Brownells told customers that it has received magazine orders equal to about 3 1/2 years of demand. The company, in a yellow banner across its website, asks customers to be patient as it works to fill orders.
The guns and ammunition industry has grown steadily throughout the recession, increasing 5.7 percent annually over five years to nearly $12 billion last year, said Nima Samadi, a senior analyst at IBISWorld Inc., a research company in Santa Monica, Calif.
Fear over potential changes in gun laws has "probably been the single largest driver for the industry's aggressive growth," Samadi said. But once Congress decides the issue, one way or the other, sales should return to historical levels, he said. Through 2017, growth is expected to slow to about 3.5 percent annually.
"There is the possibility certain people will opt to not purchase a gun if the one they want is not available on the market," Samadi said. More likely, "people could simply substitute" an available firearm for a banned model.
And "the vast majority of gun buyers should see little or no impact" from more thorough background checks, Samadi said.
Debi Durham, Iowa's economic development director,
said Brownells creates the kinds of jobs the state wants: advanced manufacturing, highly skilled service techs, and distribution and warehousing.
"There are other companies Brownells works with that can grow here," said Durham, who has come to know Pete Brownell through his work as a member of the Iowa Economic Development Authority Board. The board oversees her department.
In August, Brownells received $1.1 million in state tax credits for the Grinnell project and an estimated $5.8 million in property tax abatement from the city over 20 years. The community also received a $1.4 million transportation grant to help build a road to the company's 60-acre site.
Durham, Behrens and others in the community say the firearms industry is misunderstood. "There's a lot of education that needs to be done," said Durham, adding that Brownell's work with the NRA and other industry groups has helped to spread the word about recreational and sport activities.
Company helps lead growth
Local leaders said Brownells, founded in 1939 by Bob Brownell, has been key to helping Montezuma, Grinnell and other nearby communities grow. "Having owners who live in the community is a huge advantage, especially as cities rely more on philanthropic support for parks, aquatic centers and libraries," said Behrens, the Grinnell city manager.
Frank Brownell, the founder's son, has been a Montezuma City Council member since 1965. And both Frank and Pete Brownell have been active in Montezuma's long-term visioning initiative, called Monte 20-20. It surveyed 700 residents.
"We wanted to know what's important and what do we want to build on," said Dave Veerstag, the Montezuma school superintendent.
The group's work has led to efforts to add new housing, refurbish downtown buildings and develop a child-care center for working parents, said Deb Collum-Calderwood, executive director of Poweshiek Iowa Development, called POW I-80.
The community's efforts will help businesses like Brownells better attract workers, Collum-Calderwood said. One reason Brownells decided to expand in Grinnell was a desire to access a larger labor pool.
Brownell said his family has overcome extreme challenges to build its business.
Bob Brownell began the company, originally a gun-smithing business, because an illness prevented him from operating the gas station and sandwich shop he owned. The development of new medications helped him regain his strength and build his gun business. He began a column for the NRA and developed a popular catalog.
His grandson told Iowa Firearms Coalition members last fall that Brownells represents the American dream. "It started as a small business … and through hard work, dedication, entrepreneurial effort — taking a lot of risk and taking a lot of time — it grew into the largest supplier of firearm parts, tools, accessories and ammunition."
In fact, the only year Brownells failed to increase its business was during World War II, when paper was rationed, limiting Bob Brownell's ability to produce a catalog, Brownell said Friday.
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Was that revelation brought on by a case of Blunt Force Trauma? Certainly no need to feel so all alone...
it's as good a theory as any!
The true origin of 420 revealed?
Under the Gregorian Calendar, today is the twentieth day of the fourth month of the year, the popular significance of which made me think about Bob Dylan's song Rainy Day Women 12 & 35. I don't know how many times I've read that title before, it must be hundreds, at least, but then this morning, something well beyond my ability to understand made me want to do the math: 12 x 35 = 420.
Jesus was born 543 years after the Buddha lived.
The Buddha was born 543 years before Jesus.
:( Sadness for sad things.
Sometimes being honest is
the greatest expression of
I weep at the reality of it.
Like a swift river carving
out a new ridge in the banks
edge making the landscape
new and never able to be
what it was. Rivers are like that,
This is a nice expression of what it means to be an atheist (heathen)
I guess I should have mentioned that Mark Vonnegut is Kurt Vonnegut's son, and that Mark wrote a book titled The Eden Express, back in the 70s. It's the story of how the younger Vonnegut went from being a psychedelicized Swarthmore College graduate, to establishing a commune up in the backwoods of British Columbia, where he came to have a mental breakdown that was diagnosed as schizophrenia at the time. After his recovery, he went on to get an M.D. and now practices family medicine back east. And yeah: he seems to have inherited his dad's gentle wisdom, and then some. So it goes...
that's a really great quote...one that stuck out in my mind when i first read it. >
"We are here to help each other get through this thing, whatever it is."
Mark Vonnegut, quoted in Kurt Vonnegut's last novel, Timequake.
....it's good to know the sentiment resonated with somebody else
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Cuba is a tropical paradise for foreign holidaymakers where residents play the lottery to get an exit visa. A land made famous by revolution, rum and salsa. Our advice is to get their quick as things in this unique country are changing fast.
In city centres, from Havana to Santiago, ramshackle streets are lined with decaying colonial mansions and art deco towers, while rectangular Soviet apartment blocks dominate the suburbs. 1950s Cadillacs chug alongside horse-drawn carriages, arthritic rickshaws and sleek diplomats’ saloons, swiftly overtaken by bright yellow eggshells on motorbike chassis. Out in the countryside, from the tobacco fields to the Sierra Maestra, the highways are lined with billboards extolling the virtues of the Revolution.
Most visitors spend some time in Havana, and the capital city is always a good place to start and gain insight into the culture of the island. The old town, Habana Vieja, is being painstakingly renovated and many of the colonial palaces have been converted into desirable boutique hotels. Others are museums and art galleries containing unrivalled treasures or Revolutionary memorabilia.
The west end of the island is the major tobacco-growing area, where the rich soil produces crops for some of the best cigars in the world. The beautiful mountain landscape of the Sierra del Rosario, containing a Biosphere Reserve at Las Terrazas, tapers down to the fascinating and evocative limestone mogotes around Viñales.
Historians and fans of Che Guevara should head east to Santa Clara, a pleasant university city famous for being the site of the last and decisive battle of the Revolution in December 1958. It is also the last resting place of Che and his comrades who were killed in Bolivia. On the south coast, Trinidad is one of the best-preserved towns in the Americas and is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. It remains in a time warp from the Spanish colony of the 19th century, with its cobbled streets, tiled roofs, wrought-iron railings, churches, palaces and humble dwellings.
The Sierra Maestra, the eastern mountain range from where Fidel Castro and his comrades launched their attacks on the dictatorship in the 1950s, surrounds and protects the second city, Santiago de Cuba. Sheltered by the mountains, Santiago is hot and steamy, with a culture to match. More Afro-Caribbean than Havana, it also has strong French influences on music, dance and art because of past immigration from Haiti.
Explore can take you to the best bits of Cuba; both on and off the beaten track. From the atmospheric streets of old Havana to the impressive mogotes landscape of Vinales, wander through the beautiful colonial plazas of sleepy Trinidad and explore Fidel’s old revolutionary head quarters in the Sierra Maestra mountains at ‘La Plata’. Drink mojitos in Santiago, walk up Pico Turquino, Cuba’s highest peak, and cycle Cuba’s quiet back roads.
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In the Binding of Isaac, the dungeon structure is randomly generated. However, there are some rules when it comes to the generation of a new Floor.
Rooms in the Basic GameEdit
The default type of room has no special symbol on the map, and this type of room makes up the majority of the map. They can have up to four adjacent rooms, which can have any type. Most of them will contain monsters 'indigenous' to the current chapter. Upon clearing such a room, a player might be rewarded with a random pickup or chest that will spawn in the center of the room (unless there's an obstacle like a stone, in which case it will spawn at the nearest free space to the top left).
Aside from the generic monster rooms, there are also some notable types that are still somewhat different: They are mostly void of monsters, and for example present an object like a chest, or a game of chance in the center. As with every common room, it is possible for them to exist multiple times on the same level, since technically speaking they are no special kind of room.
Rooms that will always appear:
Rooms that are always present in the first 3 chapters
Rooms of that type added in Wrath of the Lamb
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High Risk Series:
GAO-07-310, Jan 31, 2007
GAO's audits and evaluations identify federal programs and operations that, in some cases, are high risk due to their greater vulnerabilities to fraud, waste, abuse, and mismanagement. In recent years, GAO also has identified high-risk areas to focus on the need for broad-based transformations to address major economy, efficiency, or effectiveness challenges. Since 1990, GAO has periodically reported on government operations it has designated as high risk. In this 2007 update for the 110th Congress, GAO presents the status of high-risk areas identified in 2005 and new high-risk areas warranting attention by Congress and the executive branch. Lasting solutions to high-risk problems offer the potential to save billions of dollars, dramatically improve service to the public, strengthen confidence and trust in the performance and accountability of the U.S. government, and ensure the ability of government to deliver on its promises.
In its January 2005 update, GAO identified 25 high-risk areas and, in March 2006, added a 26th area. Since 2005, progress has been made in all areas, although the extent varies by area. Both the executive branch and Congress have shown a continuing commitment to addressing high-risk challenges and taken steps to help correct several of their root causes. High-risk areas were also among the suggested areas for oversight for the 110th Congress that GAO recently provided to congressional leadership. Sufficient progress has been made to remove the high-risk designation from two areas: U.S. Postal Service transformation efforts and long-term outlook and HUD single-family mortgage insurance and rental housing assistance programs. Other areas made significant progress, but not enough to be removed from the list this cycle. Continued attention from the executive branch and Congress is needed to make additional progress in other high-risk areas. This year, GAO is designating three new high-risk areas. The first new area--critical to the nation's economic development--involves transportation financing and capacity. Revenues to support federal transportation trust funds are eroding at a time when investment is needed to expand capacity to address congestion caused by increasing passenger and freight travel. Given these problems, Congress and, for some issues, the Department of Transportation should reassess the federal role, revenue increase mechanisms, and funding allocations to better position the federal government to address financing and capacity challenges. The second area involves effective protection of technologies critical to U.S. national security. Technologies that underpin U.S. economic and military strength continue to be targets for theft, espionage, reverse engineering, and illegal export. Government programs established decades ago to protect critical technologies are ill-equipped to weigh competing U.S. interests as the security environment and technological innovation continue to evolve in the 21st century. Accordingly, we are designating the effective identification and protection of critical technologies as a governmentwide high-risk area that warrants a strategic re-examination of existing programs to identify needed changes and ensure the advancement of U.S. interests. The third area being designated as high risk involves federal oversight of food safety because of risks to the economy and to public health and safety. Agriculture, as the largest industry and employer in the United States, generates more than $1 trillion in economic activity annually. Any food contamination could undermine consumer confidence in the government's ability to ensure the safety of the U.S. food supply, as well as cause severe economic consequences. The current fragmented federal system has caused inconsistent oversight, ineffective coordination, and inefficient use of resources. GAO has recommended that Congress consider a fundamental re-examination of the system and other improvements to help ensure the rapid detection of and response to any accidental or deliberate contamination of food before public health and safety is compromised.
Below are the reports in this series:
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|Update: Death Toll Climbs in Russian River Boat Disaster|
(Updated, July 12, 3:00 p.m. EDT) -- The sinking of a double-decker passenger ship in Russia's Volga River has resulted in 71 confirmed fatalities, with dozens of passengers still missing. Various news agencies are reporting that the vessel was transporting more than 200 people, well in excess of the number it was licensed to carry.
The Bulgaria, operated by a local tour company and marketed to Russians, sunk Sunday in 65 feet of water about two miles from shore.
According to the Wall Street Journal, about 58 remain missing, including dozens of children. About 80 survivors were rescued by a passing ship, while others were retrieved by rescue workers or scrambled to the river's edge on makeshift rafts.
The New York Times is reporting that there were at least 59 children onboard -- most of which have not been rescued -- and that 36 of those children were listed as having the same birthday, suggesting that forms were filled out improperly. The exact number of children that were onboard remains unknown.
A spokeswoman for Russian Emergency Situations Ministry, speaking on Russian TV, said that the chances of finding more survivors was unlikely.
The ship went down at 2 p.m. local time (6 a.m. EDT) near the village of Syukeyevo in the Tatarstan region while on its way to Kazan, about 450 miles east of Moscow. The cause is unknown, though it was reportedly raining heavily at the time of the incident.
According to the Associated Press, a spokesman for the regional Emergencies Ministry told the state news agency RIA Novosti that numerous survivors have said the ship was leaning to starboard during a turn and a wave washed over the deck. And a survivor who spoke to a Russian TV station said the boat "tilted to the right and sank within minutes."
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has called for an investigation of the tragedy and for a full inspection of the country's other passenger vessels, said the AP.
The Bulgaria was built in the 1950s in what was once Czechoslovakia. Though the vessel is said to have had dozens of cabins and two restaurants, the ship was most likely on a day-long outing on the Volga, a popular summertime pasttime for Russians.
This is the peak season for tourism on the Volga, which is lined by many of Russia's largest cities.
--by John Deiner, Managing Editor, and Jamey Bergman, Web Content Producer
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Douglas’ economy looking betterBy Trisha Maldonado
The Cochise College Small Business Development Center (SBDC) held its 17th annual Douglas Economic Outlook luncheon on Sept. 21, at the Cochise College campus.
An estimated 75 people attended the event that provided an overview of the national, state, and local economy with a focus on the economy of Douglas.
Director of Cochise College SBDC, Mark Schmitt welcomed guest speakers Dr. Robert Carreira, Director of the Center for Economic Research and Douglas City Manager, Carlos De La Torre.
Carreira discussed the economic outlook for the state, county, and city of Douglas.
The key points he discussed were the unemployment rate, retail sales tax, restaurant and bar receipts, home sales and median home prices in Douglas.
Carreira said the unemployment rate in Douglas as of May 2012 was 12.4 percent, down from its peak of 13.8 percent in April of 2011.
Retail sales tax revenue in Douglas was up 6.3 percent in 2011 following declines of 3.6 percent in 2009 and 2.3 percent in 2010.
Restaurant and bar receipts in Douglas were up 11.8 percent after adjusting for inflation.
Home sales are down 6.4 percent in 2011, following a 19 percent increase in 2010.
The median home price was down in four of five years from 2007 through 2011. He said the median price in the first quarter of 2012 was down 42.5 percent from its peak in 2009.
Foreclosed homes in Douglas have accounted for 53.4 percent of all sales in 2011, up from 38.3 percent in 2010. Foreclosures dropped to 45.5 percent in the first quarter of 2012.
Carreira feels that Douglas is moving in the right direction, but slowly. Our local retail sales shows promise but hospitality continues to struggle.
Defense spending poses a threat due to countywide cuts. Douglas’ labor market shows a slow improvement. Both construction and home sales in Douglas are picking up.
De La Torre discussed the progress of the City of Douglas with the new mayor and council. The most significant project in Douglas will be moving forward on building a new commercial port of entry through Private-Public-Partnerships.
He stressed the importance of the City of Douglas building partnerships with Cochise College, the county and Douglas Unified School Districts, in making Douglas a better place to live, work and play.
“Although there are positive indications in our economy, the city remains cautious since there are many uncertainties in the national and world economies that may also affect us.” said the City Manager. “As the economy gets better, as we hope it will soon, the city expects to foster more private investments and increase public services as needed and as the city is able to do so.”
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Mardi Gras, or Fat Tuesday, is the final day of the weeks- long Carnival season. It is devoted to unfettered frivolity and partying in the final hours before Ash Wednesday, which begins the Lenten season of sacrifice in the Catholic Church.
This year's celebration comes less than two weeks after New Orleans hosted Super Bowl XLVII, which stuffed local hotels to capacity.
Spectacularly coloured, lighted floats filled with masked riders stretched as far as the eye could see, and marching bands and dancers practised their struts.
Parade members tossed strings of beads to revellers eager to gather them up and wear them some of who had camped out overnight to stake out best spots to view the festivities.
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The word " Las Ramblas" is the Arabic word for "dry flowers".
Las Ramblas - Barcelona
Las Ramblas is the most animated artery of the city.
It is divided in five sections. Rambla Canaletes, Rambla dels Estudis, also called La Rambla dels Ocells ( Avenue of the Birds) as it used to be a traditional site of a bird market. Rambla de Sant Josep it is also well-known as the Rambla de les Flors (Rambla of the Flowers).
In the 19C this was the only place in Barcelona that flowers were sold. The flower market now stands alongside great kiosks selling all manner of books, magazines and newspaper from Spain and abroad. Rambla dels Caputxins and Rambla de Santa Monica.
Plaça Catalunya Metro/Bus :
Metro: L1/L3 Plaça de Catalunya / Bus: 9, 14, 16, 17,24, 41, 42, 55, 58, 59, 67, 68, 91, 100, 101, 141, L94, L95
Plaza Catalunya - Barcelona
Plaça Catalunya the Square of Catalonia, the link of Barcelona, where all roads start. From here one can practically go anywhere, by means of taxis, the tourist bus, metro or by some of the most important public bus-routes in the city. Here is where some of the most prestigious shops can be visited, also some of the most modern ones.
Rambla, 99 Opening hours :
Tuesdays to Sundays and holidays from 12am to 8pm. Phone :
+34 93 316 10 00 Metro/Bus :
Metro: L3 Liceu / Bus: 14, 59, 91
The Palace Virreina is a palace built between 1772 and 1775 and decorated with both Baroque and Rococo elements, which hosts major temporary exhibitions .
It's now headquarters to the Town Hall's Cultural Department and its Centre de la Imatge (Image center). The exhibition centre shows works by some of Catalunya's most important contemporary artists, like Oriol Bohigas and Antoni Abad.
Rambla, 85-89. Opening hours :
Everyday from 8am to 8:30pm. Closed on Sundays Phone :
00 34 93 318 25 84
Boqueria Market - Barcelona
A visit to the Market of la Boqueria in Barcelona is advisable to enjoy an incredible contrast between colours and activity, ideal to discover why Mediterranean cuisine is internationally known due to its ingredients.
The best products from Catalonia in one place: fruit, vegetables, fish and seafood, tapas bars like El Quim and others...Just Perfect!!
About the history if the Boqueria Market
The first mention of the Boqueria market of Barcelona dates from 1217, when tables were installed near the old door of the city to sell meat. From December 1470, a market selling pigs occurred at this site. At this time, the Market had the name Mercat Bornet or was (until 1794) simply known as Mercat de la Palla (Straw Market).
At the beginning, the market was not enclosed and did not have an official statute, it was regarded as a simple extension of the market of Plaça Nova which then extended to the Plaça del Pi. Later, the authorities decided to construct a separate market on La Rambla, housing mainly fishmongers and butchers. It is not until 1826 that the market is legally recognized and a convention held in 1835 decides construction of an official place.
Construction began March 19, 1840 under the direction of architect Mas Vilà. The market officially opened the same year, but the plans for the building were modified many times. The official inauguration of the structure was finally made in 1853. In 1911, the new fish market was opened and, in 1914, the metal roof that still exists today was constructed.
Get the Interactive MP3 Audio Guide of Barcelona for your visit.! Click here now!
Rambla, 51-59. Opening hours :
Monday to Thursday and Sunday until 0am. Friday until 2am. Saturday the whole day. Phone :
+34 93 485 99 00 Metro/Bus :
Metro: L3 Liceu
Liceu de Barcelona
The famous Gran Teatre del Liceu was built in 1847.Considered by many to be one of the finest opera houses in Europe, it burnt to the ground tragically in 1994, the auditorium and stage were destroyed. The new Liceu was inaugurated in the year 2000, keeping the original facade and greatly expanding the facilities. Here, the finest operas of the international repertoire have been staged, and leading operatic stars have performed, among them several Catalans including Montserrat Caballé, Josep Carreras and Jaume Aragall.
Just off the Rambla, you can find the Plaza Real, one of the places with most tradition and interest around the city. It was erected in mid of the 19th Century, it has a fine arcade, palm trees and lamps designed by Gaudi. It is an interesting square ideal to relx and enjoy a coffee in one of the many cafes. On Sunday mornings there is a stamp and coin market.
Av. de les Drassanes Opening hours :
Open every day from 10am to 8pm. Closed 25-26 December and 1st and 6 January Phone :
+34 93 342 9920 Metro/Bus :
Metro: L3 Drassanes / Bus: 120
Opposite the statue Christopher Columbus, in the bottom of Ramblas, the maritime museum is one of the most imaginative museum of the city and one of the most visited too. Installed in the royal arsenals- date from 1378 and are the biggest and most complete Medieval dockyards in the world- it exposes animated presentations and houses a big exhibition including model ships, drawings, replicas, paintings, figureheads and an interactive exhibition, "The Great Adventure of the Sea".
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My team of eleven brave Food Studies bloggers.
I’m extremely pleased to announce that I’m editing a new series called Food Studies for the online environmental magazine Grist. Thanks to the superhuman efforts of Grist’s new food editor, Twilight Greenaway, we launched today, and you can start following the series online here.
Those of you who keep up with Edible Geography will know that it is my firm belief that there is almost no limit to the subject matter that can be re-examined — and, most likely, made more interesting — through the lens of food. For Food Studies, I’ve asked eleven students from colleges and universities around the world, each of whom is thinking about food and agriculture from a very different perspective, to share their mental diet this autumn.
Cumulatively, I hope, their dispatches will make tangible the ways in which food is inherently multidisciplinary, with the capacity to shed new light on historic preservation, fiction, economics, urban design, public health, synthetic biology, geopolitics, and infinitely more besides. You can read more about my expectations for the series in my launch post over at Grist, as well as check out the roster of students for this semester.
Stay tuned to learn about the sensory dimensions of artisan cheese, the design of edible schoolyards, the history of canning, the future of hybrid wheat, and the economic importance of gastrodiplomacy alongside them over the coming months!
UPDATE: Following a successful launch, Food Studies is now firmly established and transferred to the capable editorial hands of Twilight Greenaway, the incoming Food editor at Grist. You can find and follow the series here; recent posts cover topics as diverse as zombie worms, post-Communist pork, and Catherine of Siena.
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It includes food and craft fairs, parades, storytelling, competitions and, not least, concerts by some very talented musicians. The gathering also includes a change to see Morris dancers – a very English tradition – as well as the Scottish and borders tradition of sword dancing.
Local interest events have been added to this year’s programme, and they include barn dance, theatre and street performance which includes a young people’s pageant as part of the Border Cavalcade.
The emphasis of the Gathering is on the traditions of Northumberland which have evolved over the centuries and have been influenced by many cultures and people. There will be a lot of traditional music from across the British Isles at the festival, although the focus is well and truly on local culture.
You can get programmes, tickets and information at The Chantry, Bridge Street, Morpeth, Northumberland, NE61 1PJ, 01670 535200.
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By Brian Burnsed
As a race approaches, Dalton Herendeen seems like any other college swimmer. He meticulously stretches his long limbs and 6-foot-4 frame. The focus, so readily apparent in his eyes, is obscured when he snaps on opaque goggles. He swings his arms freely from side-to-side, forcing his palms to slap his back.
Then he removes his prosthetic left leg and sets it aside.
Dalton Herendeen isn’t just another college swimmer.
Fifteen digits – five fewer than his competitors – curl around the edge of the starting platform before he relies on their grip to propel himself into the water. Herendeen, now a sophomore at the University of Indianapolis, has been swimming since he was 9 years old; the water is his great equalizer, his home, his refuge from the ache of lumbering around on something artificial.
“I definitely feel more comfortable in the water; there’s no pain,” he says. “I feel free.”
On April 23, 1993, Herendeen came into the world – with a problem. A dangerous blood clot forced doctors to amputate his left leg just inches below the knee. Only moments into his young life, Herendeen was markedly different from the other babies in the hospital. But that didn’t stop him from jumping into the pool a few years later, unafraid to compete against other children with a distinct advantage.
He admits he was “pretty bad” early in his career, but he persevered and came to excel in long-distance swimming in high school. As a senior, he finished 25th in the Indiana state finals in the 500 freestyle. His performance in high school caught the eye of UIndy men’s swimming coach Gary Kinkead, who accepted Herendeen without hesitation onto the Division II team when he came to the university to pursue a degree in physical therapy. He now competes alongside able-bodied teammates and against able-bodied collegiate swimmers. In college, like when he was born, Herendeen is different. But according to his coach, the difference isn’t a detriment.
“He’s a vocal leader and I think he has the respect of all of the swimmers on the team,” Kinkead says. “They can’t come in (to practice) and say, ‘Oh, I can’t do it’ if they see that Dalton is doing it.”
Herendeen was drawn to UIndy because of its well-regarded physical therapy program. He has spent countless hours throughout his life working with physical therapists to learn to cope with his disability and yearns to help young people with similar problems. And while his career and studies are his first priority, he’s no novelty on the swim team. As a freshman, he helped the team earn points on the way to its third-place finish in its conference meet by finishing eighth in the 1,650 freestyle.
Despite his obvious propulsion disadvantage, Herendeen must also overcome difficulties staying balanced and straight as he swims. Other swimmers maintain balance with all four limbs, but Herendeen must rely on his upper body alone to keep him moving straight. Also, he can rely on only one leg to push off the wall when he turns, a significant hindrance in long-distance collegiate swimming where shorter pools call for more turns.
UIndy isn’t the only team on which Herendeen has competed recently. This summer, he traveled to London as a member of the United States Paralympic Swim Team after he was the final men’s swimmer to qualify during the trials. At 19, he is a few years shy of his swimming prime and was shocked he made the cut.
While he didn’t return to Indianapolis with a medal, he claims the experience was the pinnacle of his young swimming career. He earned the right to compete in five events in the same pool where stars like Ryan Lochte and Michael Phelps had won gold medals only weeks before. He says he will long remember the moment when he first walked out of the tunnel in front of thousands of people in the London Aquatics Centre; his eyes still glow when he speaks of it.
“There was so much emotion and so many people,” he says. “I’ve never experienced anything like that.”
Herendeen said he was exhausted when he returned home, but had to dive into schoolwork immediately given that his trip had pre-empted the first few weeks of classes. He says professors were eager to adjust for his absence, though he’s still fighting to catch up. Despite the mental and physical fatigue, he was happy to feel the embrace of UIndy’s pool; it was his escape from the deluge of classwork.
“Probably the biggest stressor that he had coming back was catching back up on all of his assignments,” Kinkead says. “Swimming when he was trying to catch up was probably more of a relief for him than being difficult to get back in.”
And he plans to stay in. Four years from now, Herendeen will have three more collegiate swimming seasons under his belt and will be entering his prime. In the last Paralympics Herendeen was classified as an “S10,” the highest – or least disabled – classification on the Paralympic scale, because his amputation occurred below the knee, not above.
In London, he was competing against people who were missing fingers or toes or had calf disabilities, which put Herendeen at a distinct disadvantage. He hopes that the classifications will change – modifications are currently being discussed – before the 2016 Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro. If he were bumped down a level, he already would be among the top three in the world in several events. Either way, he’s determined to go to Rio, not just for the rush when he first walks out of the tunnel, but for a chance to come home with more than a memory.
“That’s why I swim every day, to get that medal,” he says. “No matter what (kind) it is, I’m going to be happy.”
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Greenpeace volunteers were hitting the streets of Toronto this past week, going door to door in Leslieville and the Annex talking to people about Greenpeace's most recent ranking of Canada’s major canned tuna brands and raising awareness about Greenpeace's campaign targeting Clover Leaf, Canada’s largest seller of canned tuna.
The people we spoke to were disturbed to hear that Clover Leaf is still filling its cans with redlisted yellowfin tuna, and has refused to abandon the use of Fish Aggregating Devices (FADs) in purse seine fishing, an indiscriminate and destructive method of fishing which results in huge amounts of bycatch and is harmful to the health of the oceans.
Clover Leaf must act now to guarantee responsibly sourced tuna. How can you help?
Call Ron Schindler, Executive Vice President and Managing Director of Clover Leaf in Canada, and ask him to urge the CEO, Chris Lischewski, to act now.
Call Ron at 1-905-474-0608 ext. 7094
• If you cannot get through, press 1 or 2 for customer service or call the toll-free number at 1 877-893-9880.
Clover Leaf must act now to:
• Stop sourcing Redlisted yellowfin tuna
• Switch to more sustainable fishing methods to catch their skipjack, such as FAD-free purse seining and pole and line
• Transition away from harmful longlines to better fishing methods for albacore tuna
• Ensure fair and equitable tuna
• Support ocean protection by committing to not source from proposed marine reserves such as the high seas area in the Western and Central Pacific Ocean known as the Pacific Commons
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Do you want to be famous? Maybe not really famous, but just a little bit famous: well-known and respected by a couple hundred (or maybe just a couple tens of) people who think you are awesome. And smart and clever and insightful. And very godly.
So, if that doesn’t work out, would you latch onto fame and glory by association?
That’s what the people in Jesus’ hometown area did. They wanted Him, but for all the wrong reasons. For many, it was a grab at fame and glory by association. They welcomed him in; asked him to make himself and his miracles known. Why? Because they didn’t believe in Him. Not as Lord and Savior, just as a miracle worker to be used for personal advancement.
Here’s an excerpt from Pastor John’s sermon where he points this out:
Another illustration of this kind of false faith, or superficial “welcoming” or “receiving” of Jesus, is his brothers in John 7:3-5,
So his brothers said to him, “Leave here and go to Judea, that your disciples also may see the works you are doing. For no one works in secret if he seeks to be known openly. If you do these things, show yourself to the world.” For not even his brothers believed in him.
So they believed he could do miracles. And they were eager for him to show these miracles to the world. But John says in verse 5, they talked like this because “even his brothers did not believe on him.” He comes to his own—his own brothers—and they do not receive him. Oh, they think they are receiving him—just like the people in Galilee think they are welcoming Jesus—but they don’t understand him. They don’t have eyes to see. And so they don’t honor him—even though they make much of him as a miracle-worker.
There is a kind of believing in Jesus that isn’t really believing in Jesus, as Pastor John says. It’s a user’s belief. Here’s some more on this kind of blinding sinfulness which includes:
A kind of vicarious sense of importance. The people could say that this great miracle-worker grew up in their town. This makes them want for him to do his miracles. So they “honor” him in that way. But why do they want him to do these miracles? Because the more he does, the more their attachment feeds their ego. They don’t see the glory of humble service. They don’t feel the need for his grace. They use him. His power and fame feeds their pride. And so they don’t honor him for who he is, even though they think they are.
This impulse is very much alive today and can infect us and keep us from knowing Christ the way he really is. We can be attached to a church, or a movement, or a music style, or a person, or a ministry in a way that starts to feed our ego. And it will seem justifiable because it’s Christian. And subtly we begin to want this Christian thing to thrive not for the glory of Christ, but because it feeds our ego. And when that happens, it becomes harder and harder to see Christ for who he really is—the one who saves by grace alone, and who calls us to lowliness and servanthood.”
And so I ask myself and you: are you (am I) riding the coat-tails to second-hand glory? Who are you (am I) proud to be associated with because it boosts your (my) self-importance? Are you (I) willing to be humbled so that God gets the glory due His name, and you (I) get the indescribable joy of knowing Him, the full Person and Diety of Jesus, rather than using God as a commodity for second-hand glory?
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And there is yet another "official" version tucked away in a classified Prime Minister's Office (PMO) file: They were secretly received in India by Prime Minister/External Affairs Minister Jawaharlal Nehru. Going by the tone of this 1954 note, those "ashes and other remains" might have ended up either in South Block or the office of All India Congress Committee (AICC).
Now it seems that we will never know how true or false the PMO version is. After a year-long RTI attempt, Mission Netaji has failed to resolve the riddle of "Netaji's remains" the PMO record says were received by Pandit Nehru. The Central Information Commission (CIC), after hearing the views of Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) and Mission Netaji's Anuj Dhar, has stated that it "can only hope that some serious researcher will look into one of the greatest mysteries of modern India and arrive at a definite conclusion".
Click for the CIC decision
What drove Information Commission Dr OP Kejariwal to make this gloomy observation was the MEA's insistence that "they had no records with them on the matter and hence could not proceed any further with the RTI-application."
Dr Kejariwal, however, underlined in his decision dated 26 July 2007 that "one look at the note emanating from the Prime Minister's Secretariat ... would seem to open up an altogether new line of inquiry with the implication that Netaji's ashes and other remains were brought back to the country by the late Prime Minister, Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru."
A top notch historian that he is, Dr Kejariwal was compelled to concede in his order that "this is one of the most interesting cases which has come before the Commission" and that "the mystery deepens".
In September last year Mission Netaji's Anuj Dhar and Chandrachur Ghose approached the MEA and the PMO with the PMO note signed by MO Mathai, Private Secretary of the late Prime Minister. The ministries were asked to state facts vis-à-vis this note, which was attached for their ready reference.
Thereafter, the PMO told Chandrachur that "this Office has no records pertaining to the receipt of ashes of Netaji in India by the then Prime Minister and Minister of External Affairs. Such records may be available with Ministry of Home Affairs, which is the nodal Ministry in respect of the subject under consideration".
The MHA responded that "as the entire incident took place in the Ministry of External Affairs, you may take up the matter with that Ministry". The MEA informed Chandrachur and Anuj that "the Indian Mission in Tokyo under instruction of New Delhi took over the possession of the alleged ashes of Netaji at the Renkoji temple" and that they "were not disturbed". That is, they were not brought to India.
Dhar took up the matter further with the Ministry and was informed by Ajai Choudhry, Additional Secretary & Apellate Authority MEA, that "as far as this Ministry is aware, the alleged ashes and remains are still at the Renkoji Temple in Tokyo". There was no explanation what the 1954 note stood for. The subsequent hearing at the CIC earlier this month failed to resolve the case.
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It had all the trappings of sabotage: an explosion at a major nuclear facility in Iran, allegedly confirmed by an Israeli official. But it all turned out to be speculation, the White House said on Monday, debunking the sensational story.
An Iranian exile who goes by the name of Reza Kahlili reported the alleged blast in Fordow four days ago on World News Daily, a far-right website known for publishing conspiracy theories about President Obama’s birthplace.
The report was initially ignored by mainstream news sites but got more traction on Monday when London’s Times cited an Israeli official confirming the explosion. Other news organizations then picked up on the story, sourcing it back to The Times.
But White House spokesman Jay Carney, responding to questions about the report at a briefing Monday, said that Washington didn’t believe it. “We have no information to confirm the allegations in that report, and we do not believe the report is credible.”
The confusion underscored one of the challenges of reporting on the shadow war Israel and the United States are apparently waging against Iran’s nuclear program. Both countries are believed to be involved in acts of sabotage inside the country—and much of Iran’s nuclear enrichment takes place at Fordow.
But experts said distinguishing between credible and noncredible sources among Iranian exiles—not just for journalists but also for intelligence agencies—can be a tricky business.
Kahlili, who published more details on WND on Tuesday, is a frequent commentator on Iran. In a book he published last year, he described having spied for the CIA in the ’80s and ’90s while serving in Iran’s Revolutionary Guards. Kahlili is a pseudonym.
In a phone interview with The Daily Beast on Monday, Kahlili said his sources for the report came from inside Iran’s security establishment. He said Iran pays lobbyists in Washington to discredit reports by Iranian exiles and tarnish their image.
“Anyone who takes up this struggle against the regime is labeled a neo-con and a war monger,” he said. “I don’t have an agenda except freedom for Iran. This regime is a danger to Iranians and the world.”
But experts said distinguishing between credible and noncredible sources among Iranian exiles—not just for journalists but for intelligence agencies as well—can be a tricky business.
Ephraim Kam, a retired colonel in Israel’s military intelligence and the deputy director of the Institute for National Security Studies in Tel Aviv, said he had doubts about the story all along.
“The fact that the Iranians deny it doesn’t mean much. They will always deny it,” Kam told The Daily Beast.
“But there was just one source and I’m not sure he’s reliable enough. And usually, you would expect something to be visible on the surface, maybe photos of a fire or evidence of rescue operations. That didn’t exist here.”
Kam also said remarks by Israeli officials, including Strategic Affairs’ Moshe Yaalon, seemed to suggest an uncertainty in the security establishment about whether the explosion actually took place.
Yaalon told Army Radio that he learned about the Fordow incident from a newspaper. He said every act of sabotage could potentially slow Iran’s progress toward nuclear weapons but had no specific comments about the report.
Meir Javedanfar, a frequently cited Israeli commentator on Iran, had a similar assessment.
“It could be true or it could be nothing more than a figment of someone’s imagination,” Javedanfar wrote on his website Sunday. “When it comes to this type of report, you need to have at least two credible sources, if not more.”
Iran has accused Israel and the United States of planting viruses in the computers of its nuclear installations and assassinating its atomic scientists. The regime claims its nuclear program is for peaceful purposes.
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On the long flight from Boston to Shanghai, I read R. Keith Sawyer‘s recent book, Group Genius. It’s definitely a worthwhile read for anyone who cares about how innovation really works as a functional matter; anyone who runs any kind of an organization; and anyone who ever struggles with trying to do something creative, whether alone or with others. Sawyer takes on the romantic myth of the solo author/inventor/genius with a persuasive argument about “the unique power of collaboration to generate innovation.” I happen to be pre-disposed to thinking he’s right, but the many examples he gives (Morse, Darwin, Picasso, companies like Whole Foods, YouTube, and Google, and so forth) helped to clarify my own thinking about innovation and creativity and how they come to pass.
A few thoughts that the book sparked in me (Sawyer talks a lot about “sparks”), for which I am grateful:
- Urs Gasser, Colin Maclay and I have a long-running series of conversations about collaboration across institutions, interdisciplinarity, and international comparative work in our field. It’s our shared (I think!) view that it would be very, very hard, if not impossible, effectively to study what we study — the implications of changes in information technologies on society, with an emphasis on law and policy — without collaborating with others. The Berkman Center, our shared professional home, works best, in my view, when it makes possible collaboration between creative people, some of whom work at Berkman/HLS and others who are just friends. In a more formal sense, we work deliberately with other institutions, like Urs’s Research Center for Information Law at the University of St. Gallen; JZ’s Oxford Internet Institute; Lawrence Lessig’s Stanford Center for Internet & Society; Jack Balkin and Eddan Katz’s Information Society Project at Yale Law School; our partner institutions in the OpenNet Initiative (the University of Toronto’s Citizen Lab; University of Cambridge; and OII); and so forth. I am not certain that we are accomplishing “group genius” through any of these collaborations, but I am quite sure that our work would be much less richly rewarding without them. As the Berkman Center morphs from an HLS-based institution to one that draws more formally on the work of others at Harvard in the next year, we hope that our work will continue in this direction of more interdisciplinary, more comparative, and more creative.
- It made me reflect, too, on Urs’s recent blog-post about his two week stay with us in Cambridge this summer. We spent a good bit of time (never enough, of course) talking about what we want to say in the book that we are co-authoring, Born Digital, and what we hope to accomplish in the related Digital Natives project. This is a field in which many, many good and smart people have been working very hard to understand how young people use new information technologies and what it means. We hope for our work on this book and this project to be complementary, not competitive, to this emerging body of work. As lawyers, but also scholars interested in interdisciplinary work, we’ve spent a lot of time recently thinking about what our “comparative advantage” is — what is it that our training and mode of analysis can enable us to offer to an increasingly rich body of literature. Our goal has to do with both understanding what others have come to know through good empirical and qualitative study; to use a global, not local, lens in assessing this emerging population (rather than generation) of digital natives; and then to offer useful thoughts on how to move forward to head off the worst problems (encroachments on privacy, intellectual property concerns, information overload/credibility issues) and take advantage of the opportunities (innovation, new modes of teaching and learning, civic activism, semiotic democracy). After conversations with Urs, Ethan Zuckerman, danah boyd, and others, I’m freshly persuaded that meaningful, lightweight collaboration is essential to doing sound work in our field (not that we’re there yet, but working on it, and the Group Genius argument helps a lot in this regard).
- Fundamentally, I’m persuaded also that our highest calling at the Berkman Center may be to create an environment in which scholars and teachers can do better work than they’d do on their own.
A few modest critiques:
- Sawyer’s last chapter talks about policy approaches to “Creating the Collaborative Economy.” Several of his proposals relate to intellectual property. Curiously, this chapter was the least persuasive to me of the book’s 11 chapters, even though I expect that I roughly agree with what he argues in his seven proposals. I think I was left unconvinced in part because it’s hard to talk about copyright terms, patent reform, mandatory licensing, non-competes, the standards-making processes, and other complex legal puzzles in a paragraph each. There’s at least one counter-argument for each of the arguments he makes that’s worth exploring, in most instances from the point of view of an economist. Also, with some of the arguments, such as “3. Legalize Modding,” I agree with the gist of the argument, but I wonder about the specifics of what Sawyer writes. First, how much of a problem there is in reality — is the DMCA Section 1201, with its current exceptions, standing in the way of much modding (other than very specific circumvention of TPMs that surround copyrighted works) in practical terms? Maybe, but there’s a serious empirical question to be answered. Sawyer claims: “There are thousands of people like the extreme bike jumper who invented a way to keep his pedals from spinning. One reason they don’t share is that those modifications are often illegal. The U.S. Digital Millennium Copyright Act — designed to prevent users from making illegal copies of software, music, and movies — has the side effect of making it impossible to modify the products consumers purchase.” (p. 223) While I’m no big fan of DMCA Section 1201, to which Sawyer refers here, it’s not the case that most consumer modifications of things they buy in general are illegal. The DMCA 1201 makes illegal just the circumvention of effective technological measures designed to protect copyrighted works — a much more narrow statement than the one that Sawyer makes here. So, the ban he refers to is the ban on the act of circumventing a certain set of technologies, not the making of modifications to something you’ve bought (copyright, separately, might disallow certain modifications under the exclusive right to make derivative works, but that’s a different argument). I realize that the act of circumventing and making the modification are related, but they’re different, to be sure. In short: while the punchlines may be right in this final chapter, the analysis perhaps warrants its own book, rather than a short chapter.
- One thing in the book puzzled me; I am not sure if others who have read it had the same question. On p. 108, he’s talking about how the most creative scientists also happen to be the most productive. The argument, building upon the work of Dean Keith Simonton, reads in relevant part: “… the sheer productivity of a person — the raw output of creative products — is correlated with the creative success of that person … it turns out that for any given creator, the most creative product tends to appear during the time of most productivity. Paradoxically, slowing down and focusing on one work makes a person less creative.” (pp. 108 – 9). In the graph on that same page, titled the Distribution of Scientific Productivity, I think it shows those scientists with the fewest articles to the far left of the graph (with the greatest number of scientists on this end of the graph) and the most articles (and fewest scientists accomplishing this feat) on the far right. (Separately, I wonder if it is a Pareto distribution?) In any event, the text seems to place Darwin at the “left in the figure” (emphasis mine), whereas I would have expected Darwin to be at the right of the figure. (p. 108) I might be misreading this section or misunderstanding the graph, or perhaps it’s just a typo. It’s not that important; I think I get the point of the argument.
Separately, on recommendation engines: As an aside, I logged into Amazon.com to link to Sawyer’s book there. I noticed that my first recommended book in Amazon is William Gibson’s Spook Country. The Amazon recommendation engine is clearly getting good: that’s the most recent book I bought, at Logan Airport before I left (sorry, Amazon; nice try, though!).
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The results of a poll published in today's Times are likely to make discouraging reading for Scottish nationalists. The central conclusion of the poll - conducted to mark the tenth anniversary of devolution - is that the proportion of Scots supporting independence has fallen from a third at the time of the SNP's 2007 election victory to a fifth today.
Of course, support for the SNP administration is still riding high or, indeed, even increasing, so why this apparent paradox? Perhaps the most obvious explanation will be self-evident from this morning's media, which juxtaposes the ongoing and increasing scandal regarding the expenses of Westminster MPs - and members of the Labour Government's cabinet in particular - with the results of the Times poll, but with the UK's current dominant political issue overwhelming the coverage of the opinion of Scots on the issue of independence.
To that extent the disillusionment with Westminster in general and with Gordon Brown's government in particular explains the SNP's buoyant support at Holyrood - there is arguably no huge enthusiasm for the Scottish Government, and it perhaps hasn't set the heather alight, but on the other hand it's not done anything particularly unpalatable either.
Thus nationalists point to the popularity of the SNP administration overturning the usual lack of mid-term popularity for incumbent governments as demonstrating a consolidation of their cause, but a more likely rationale is the unpopularity of Labour in London being reflected in Holyrood polling, together with the relatively anodyne and conservative nature - born to a large extent of minority government necessity and its limited powers - of Alex Salmond's administration.
On the other hand, the limited impact of the SNP government also helps rationalise the decline of support for independence; the public like the unadventurous nature of the current devolution settlement and the limited ability of Holyrood administrations to take risks, thus despite cynicism regarding Westminster and the Union, independence for Scotland is still seen as too much of a shot in the dark. The economic crisis is likely to have underlined this thinking, with question marks over an independent Scotland's ability to recapitalise the banks, for example, taking precedence over the UK's role in creating the mess in the first place.
Of course, this simplifies the myriad factors shaping the dynamic, but the poll results perhaps reflect the inherent caution of ordinary Scottish people - they are patriotic and see this reflected in devolution, while an SNP government demonstrates disillusionment with new Labour and keeps Westminster in its place. On the other hand, like a teenager leaving home for the first time they continue to return home for a decent meal, to get their washing done and for a hand out from the 'bank of mum and dad', and see no reason to cut the apron strings completely.
Of course, nationalists will claim that the teenager will eventually grow up and fly the nest completely, but perhaps the Scottish people are more Timothy Lumsden than teenage tearaway.
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An 8-month-old Chinese baby is under observation as it recovers from a 12 hour operation to reattach her hands.
As if that isn't enough scary news, it was reportedly her grandmother who cut them off in the first place.
The injured baby was discovered by her mother who had just come home from work.
Here's what a neighbor said:
"She dashed down holding her baby, who was covered with blood. The baby's hands were gone."
The grandmother is currently in a coma at the hospital after an apparent suicide attempt.
The mother rushed her baby to the hospital where surgeons fused together severed bones, blood vessels, nerves and skin.
The bright spot for the traumatized mother and child is that as long as the surgery is successful, the long term prognosis is good.
Here's what a doctor said:
"You essentially stitch the two ends together, but it takes a while for the nerve to regenerate And a child is absolutely perfect in terms of healing potential. Often there is some loss of fine motor function. But if it's a wrist-level injury, and a clean cut, we would expect extremely good hand function."
We have no idea what that grandmother was thinking, but we're glad the little baby should be A-OK - it's a big relief!
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Published September 1, 2010.
Apple crisp invites a devil-may-care attitude: Slice up any old fruit, sprinkle on a topping, and bake. Perhaps that’s why it’s never on anyone’s A-list.
A thrown-together apple crisp is an appealing choice when you’re tight on time and apples are in abundance. But while this dish is usually good, it’s rarely great, and results can vary from rock-hard slices to applesauce.
We wanted a more disciplined recipe that would guarantee a lush sweet-tart apple filling and crisp morsels of buttery, sugary topping.
Because of their ability to maintain their texture and shape, Golden Delicious apples won our preliminary baking tests. But while their firmness avoided any complete blowouts, the apples still cooked unevenly in the baking dish, with the slices in the middle of the pan cooking up less than al dente and the fruit around the perimeter turning to mush. The obvious solution was stirring the fruit as it cooked. But who wants to repeatedly don oven mitts, reach into a hot oven, and take a spoon to bubbling fruit? To avoid this, we decided to move the cooking to the stovetop, where the apples could easily be stirred periodically. Plus, the pan’s shallow, flared shape encouraged evaporation, and the stovetop’s heat drove away extra moisture, allowing the fruit and butter to caramelize and lend a sweet richness to the filling.
We then worked on fine-tuning our filling’s flavors. We tempered the apples’ sweetness and gave them more depth, by reducing the amount of sugar and adding some lemon juice. And for full-fledged apple flavor, we went straight for the essence itself: cider. Before sautéing the fruit, we reduced some cider, then added it to the parcooked apples for a super-potent reduction that contributed the intense fruity flavor we were after.
Next, we focused on creating a topping that did our filling justice. We combined white and brown sugars, added cinnamon, salt, and chopped pecans, and replaced some of the flour with chewy rolled oats. We then cranked up the oven’s temperature and sprinkled the topping over the filling. After a few minutes in the oven, the “crisp” was just that: crunchy and golden, an ideal contrast to the luscious, flavorful fruit that lay beneath.
We finally had a fail-safe recipe for apple crisp, and though it was by no means glamorous, it was definitely company-worthy, especially when dressed up with raspberries and almonds, or cardamom and pistachios.list of recipes
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I get this all the time. Why do I garden? Why do I labor out in the hot sun, working to grow my food when I could just as easily—okay, WAY more easily—go down to Kroger and buy all the veggies I want? That’s a valid question. Here is the answer I give. Well, sometimes I give an answer. Other times I just look at the questioner like he has two heads, which really messes with his head, ‘cause I think he can actually READ my mind and then he starts to see himself the way I see him, which is with two heads, and that REALLY messes with his mind—but I digress.
The answer I give is this: “Have you tasted the veggies that come out of Kroger?” Probably not, because they taste like, well, NOTHING. Sure, they look good and they are HUGE, but there is no taste. And taste developed to let us know when the food we are eating is actually GOOD for us. If it tastes like ^#@^&, then it is probably only good for the compost pile. So, the primary reason I grow food is because I want my veggies to taste like food is supposed to taste. The carrots are sweet, (look, don’t let my wife see this part, since I have her convinced I don’t eat carrots, which is true, since I don’t eat the carrots out of the store), the cilantro is, well, pungent. Okra is slimy—I mean even right off the plant, which is how I like it. And the tomatoes, well, let’s just say they taste like the tomatoes in Kroger only WISH they tasted. The point is that home grown veggies taste like they are supposed to taste.
The other reason I grow food is because it is COOL! For the first time in I-don’t-know-how-many centuries, growing food is COOL. Now I don’t know what word they used back in the 1800’s, because back then growing food was simply what everyone did. Growing food was the equivalent of “not HUNGRY!” But even then it wasn’t COOL, like it is now. I mean, go to a dinner party and bring along a bucket of fresh, home grown tomatoes, and you are the LIFE of the party! It is the equivalent of showing up with a case of beer when you were, oh, 18! Now, as an adult, fresh veggies are the best way to get … well, you know—noticed at a party. And you don’t even have to wear a wife-beater undershirt or spend time at a smelly ol’ gym.
No, you can show up with a farmer’s tan and a bucket—let me interject here that when you bring fresh veggies, bring a LOT! Don’t be skimpy with it. You are all about ABUNDANCE! Show it! You not only produce home grown veggies, but you produce them in copious amounts, yeah verily, VOLUMES. So, you stride in all confident, with your muscled bare arms all tanned, your hair highlighted from the sun and in your BUCKET a veritable cornucopia of garden delight. You bring tangy tomatoes, hot peppers, pungent cilantro, crisp onions and, voila! Pico de gallo! That’s like showing up with crack. Well, maybe not exactly like that, but amongst a bunch of foodies, it’s pretty close.
So this is why I garden. It is something I enjoy. It’s not fattening. It’s not addictive (okay, that one may not be true). It is something I can talk about with others who are interested in food and good health. And it makes me cool. More than that, gardening is how I relate to the world around me. I have been doing it for many years—gardening, that is—and I am still fascinated with how it works. When the soil is right and when everything works together, I can grow nutrient dense food that tastes great and did not depend on a bunch of synthetic fertilizer or chemicals. It is earth friendly, which is how EVERY gardener wants things to be, since, why would a gardener want to hurt Mother Earth? I mean, she is the one who makes it possible for us to grow what we grow and get the recognition we get. ‘Cause, let’s face it, even though we would garden even if no one noticed, the accolades are pretty sweet, just like our produce.
And that’s just my perspective, from a “man out standing in his field.” That’s me, the one with the huge, uh, cornucopia.
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Benefits for Students
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Job shews that the wicked often prosper in this world, even to the end of their life: but that their judgment is in another world.
Then Job answered, and said:
Hear, I beseech you, my words, and do penance.
Suffer me, and I will speak, and after, if you please, laugh at my words.
Is my debate against man, that I should not have just reason to be troubled?
Hearken to me and be astonished, and lay your finger on your mouth.
As for me, when I remember, I am afraid, and trembling taketh hold on my flesh.
Why then do the wicked live, are they advanced, and strengthened with riches?
Their seed continueth before them, a multitude of kinsmen, and of children' s children in their sight.
Their houses are secure and peaceable, and the rod of God is not upon them.
Their cattle have conceived, and failed not: their cow has calved, and is not deprived of her fruit.
Their little ones go out like a flock, and their children dance and play.
They take the timbrel, and the harp, and rejoice at the sound of the organ.
They spend their days in wealth, and in a moment they go down to hell.
Who have said to God: Depart from us, we desire not the knowledge of thy ways.
Who is the Almighty, that we should serve him? and what doth it profit us if we pray to him?
Yet because their good things are not in their hand, may the counsel of the wicked be far from me.
How often shall the lamp of the wicked be put out, and a deluge come upon them, and he shall distribute the sorrows of his wrath?
They shall be as chaff before the face of the wind, and as ashes which the whirlwind scattereth.
God shall lay up the sorrow of the father for his children: and when he shall repay, then shall he know.
His eyes shall see his own destruction, and he shall drink of the wrath of the Almighty.
For what is it to him what befalleth his house after him: and if the number of his months be diminished by one half?
Shall any one teach God knowledge, who judgeth those that are high?
One man dieth strong, and hale, rich and happy.
His bowels are full of fat, and his bones are moistened with marrow.
But another dieth in bitterness of soul without any riches:
And yet they shall sleep together in the dust, and worms shall cover them.
Surely I know your thoughts, and your unjust judgments against me.
For you say: Where is the house of the prince? and where are the dwelling places of the wicked?
Ask any one of them that go by the way, and you shall perceive that he knoweth these same things.
Because the wicked man is reserved to the day of destruction, and he shall be brought to the day of wrath.
Who shall reprove his way to his face? and who shall repay him what he hath done?
He shall be brought to the graves, and shall watch in the heap of the dead.
He hath been acceptable to the gravel of Cocytus, and he shall draw every man after him, and there are innumerable before him.
How then do ye comfort me in vain, whereas your answer is shewn to be repugnant to truth?
Acceptable to the gravel of Cocytus: The Hebrew word, which St. Jerome has here rendered by the name Cocytus, (which the poets represent as a river in hell,) signifies a valley or a torrent: and in this place, is taken for the low region of death and hell: which willingly, as it were, receives the wicked at their death: who are ushered in by innumerable others that have gone before them; and are followed by multitudes above number.
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No tales from the crypt yet
Recent rumors about bodies buried under St. Brigids Church on Avenue B havent unearthed anything so far. Advocates of saving the historic church built by Irish shipwrights were hoping the presence of buried bodies might throw a monkey wrench into development plans for the site similar to how discovery of the African Burial Ground altered construction of a federal building near the courts. Carolyn Ratcliffe of E. Ninth St. is still working on it, though, and says she may have some news to report soon. She noted she is investigating whether three commemorative plaques on the buildings rear exterior hold any clues. The Catholic Archiocese recently closed St. Brigids Parish and the fate of the old church is uncertain. At one point plans were afoot to convert it into a Cabrini rehabilitation home, but this no longer seems likely, according to Joseph Zwilling, the Archdioceses spokesperson. Current speculation in the neighborhood is that the property will be sold to a private developer who will put up high-end housing.
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ASSOCIATION FOR MEDIA AND TECHNOLOGY IN EDUCATION IN CANADA TRUST
||Name. The organization shall be known as the Association for Media and Technology in Education in Canada Trust (hereinafter referred to as the AMTEC Trust.)
||Head Office. The AMTEC Trust offices shall be located within Canada, at a location approved by AMTEC Trust Trustees. The location may be changed from time to time. Other branch offices may be established and maintained within Canada, as the Board of Trustees shall from time to time designate.
||Purposes and Objectives. The AMTEC Trust has been formed for the sole purpose of performing those functions and carrying out those purposes of CNIE, which are charitable and educational in nature. Those charitable and educational purposes are based upon the conviction that the improvement of instruction in schools, post-secondary institutions and business and industry can be accomplished, at least in part, by the continued investigation and application of new systems, strategies, techniques and technologies for learning and by the periodic assessment of current techniques for the communication of information.
Within the above framework the purpose of the AMTEC Trust will be to enlarge the body of knowledge available in the field of educational communications, media and technology and to encourage dissemination of such knowledge. The Trust shall be carried on without purpose of gain for its members, and any profits or other gains to the organization shall be used in promoting its objectives. To this end the AMTEC Trust will:
- provide research grants, professional development grants and bursaries to recognized, registered educational institutions.
- provide research grants and bursaries directly to qualified post-secondary students in instructional technology.
- provide research grants directly to qualified independent developers and designers who are focused in the area of instructional technology.
- do all such other things as are incidental and ancillary to the attainment of the foregoing purposes and exercise of the powers of the Trust.
||The Board of Trustees. The affairs and property of the AMTEC Trust shall be managed by a Board of Trustees. The members of the Board of Trustees shall be appointed by the Canadian Network for Innovation in Education.
- The AMTEC Trust shall be governed by a Board of Trustees, which shall consist of not more than seven members. It shall formulate policy; initiate or approve AMTEC Trust programs; prepare or approve the AMTEC Trust budget; adopt resolutions respecting the affairs of the AMTEC Trust; appoint the officers of the AMTEC Trust; and, in general, exercise the powers and responsibilities granted to the Trustees by these bylaws.
- The makeup of the Board of Trustees shall include members representing as many provinces as possible and three members representing each of the following sectors: K-12, Post-Secondary, Business & Industry
- The Trustees may, by resolution of a majority thereof, designate and appoint the Executive Committee of not more than three (3) members, made up of the President, Secretary, and Treasurer. This Committee shall have and exercise the authority of the Trustees in the Management of the AMTEC Trust.
- The Trustees of the AMTEC Trust shall be appointed by the Board of Directors of the AMTEC for terms of three years beginning on the date of the first meeting of the Trustees following their appointment, or until their successors shall have been appointed and qualified, except shorter terms of office may be offered to maintain staggered terms of office. A trustee may be removed from office at any time by a majority vote of the Board of Directors of CNIE on the recommendation of the Trustees. When vacancies occur, either through attrition or resignation, the Trustees shall submit to the Board of Directors of CNIE, a slate of candidates for their consideration and subsequent action.
- The Trustees shall hold a meeting not less often than once in each calendar year and so often as may be deemed necessary and shall serve without compensation. Meetings shall be at a time, place or mode designated by the Chair of the Trustees and shall be held at the call of the Chair. The Chair shall be required to call a meeting of the Trustees upon written request of a majority of the Trustees in Office. The participation at any meeting of any four members of the Trustees in office shall constitute a quorum for the conducting of business. The business of the Board may also be conducted by any electronic means deemed efficient by the Chair.
- The Trustees shall appoint a committee from their body consisting of at least three members each to be known as the Fund Committee. The Committee shall be designated as the Fund Committee.
- No Trustee of the AMTEC Trust shall serve more than two consecutive three-year terms. Trustees appointed to fill an un-expired vacancy may serve up to three terms, not including the term of the un-expired vacancy. Trustees may be re-appointed after they have been off the Board of Trustees for at least one year.
||Officers of the Trust. As outlined in 4.3, above, the Trustees will elect from their number an Executive Committee, consisting of the following officers and responsibilities.
- The officers of the AMTEC Trust shall be a President, who serves as Chair of the Trustees, the Fund Chair (see section 6, below), the Secretary and the Treasurer.
- The officers of the AMTEC Trust shall be appointed by the Trustees for terms of one year to begin immediately upon their appointment. Officers shall be selected from Trustees and may be removed from office at any time by a two-thirds vote of the Trustees at a regular or special meeting of the Trustees.
- The President shall act as Chair of the Trustees, and, except to the extent such powers and responsibilities are vested in the Trustees, or other officers, shall have general charge over the affairs of the AMTEC Trust. There will also be a Board Secretary and Board Treasurer. The Secretary shall keep minutes of the meetings of the Trustees. The Treasurer will prepared an annual budget for the AMTEC Trust, and advise the Trustees on fiscal matters.
- The President, the Secretary and Treasurer shall be responsible for the management of the AMTEC Trust in its administrative, business and financial affairs within the framework of policies established by the AMTEC Trust Trustees and shall have such powers to perform such other duties as may be elsewhere specified in these Bylaws or may from time to time be assigned to them by the Trustees.
- All financial disbursements of the Trust must have the prior approval of the President and Treasurer.
- The Trustees, or when authorized, the officers, may employ such other persons to assist the officers in the management of the Trust as may be deemed necessary.
|| As outlined in 4.6, above, the Trustees will elect from their number a Fund Committee, consisting of the following members & responsibilities:
- The program of the AMTEC Trust will be under the supervision of a Fund Committee appointed by the Trustees, who will appoint one of their number as chair. Members of this committee will be known as Fund Trustees.
- Fund Trustees shall have the responsibility of recommending to the Trustees the manner in which contributions and bequests will be held in trust including the recommendation of what portion of the funds may be reasonably allocated to any given projects, subject to the approval of the Trustees. Special instructions of the Donors will always receive high priority. They will assist the Board Treasurer in maintaining accurate records of the fund under their purview, insuring that fund activities are consistent with the purposes for which the fund was established.
||Rules for the Administration of Monies Received by the Trust. The Trustees will observe the following rules governing the administration of all money received by the Trust:
- No member of the AMTEC Trust will profit personally from any activity of the Trust.
- No less than fifty per cent (50%) of all monies received by the AMTEC Trust in any given taxation year will be disbursed by the Trust in fulfillment of its charitable purposes and objectives as stated in Section 3, above.
- The Trust will keep complete records of its financial activities.
||Amendments to the Trust Document. The AMTEC Trust “Trust Document” may be amended by written submission, approved by no less than two-thirds of the Board of Trustees and ratified by the CNIE Board.
||Terms of Organization. Upon dissolution, all of the assets of the AMTEC Trust shall be turned over to qualified recipients as per subsection 149.1 (1) of the Income Tax Act, or any successor provision thereto as the then board of trustees shall select in accordance with the bylaws. Provided, that if at the time of such dissolution the AMTEC Trust is a charitable organization within the meaning Part 1 of the Income Tax Act, the assets shall be paid over to such other organization as will not subject the AMTEC Trust to taxation.
||Dissolution by Default. In the event that the Trust defaults in any of its legal obligations under the Income Tax Act, or in any of its obligations to the AMTEC Board, as defined in the Trust's Bylaws, The AMTEC Board may, after the passage of 90 working days, move to dissolve the Trust and re-distribute its assets per section 8 above.
||No Personal Liability. Neither the officers, trustees, sponsors of the AMTEC Trust nor their property shall be subject to or chargeable with the payment of the debts or obligations of the AMTEC Trust.
Organization and Offices
||The AMTEC Trust is a non-profit, charitable organization registered as a charitable organization under Part 1 of the Income Tax Act.
||The AMTEC Trust offices shall be located within Canada, at a location approved by AMTEC Trust Trustees. The location may be changed from time to time. Other branch offices may be established and maintained within Canada, as the Board of Trustees shall from time to time designate.
Purposes and Objectives
The AMTEC Trust has been formed for the sole purpose of performing those functions and carrying out those purposes of AMTEC, which are charitable and educational in nature. Those charitable and educational purposes, which are, in turn, the purposes of the AMTEC Trust, are based upon the conviction that the improvement of instruction in schools, post-secondary institutions and business and industry can be accomplished, at least in part, by the continued investigation and application of new systems, strategies, techniques and technologies for learning and by the periodic assessment of current techniques for the communication of information. Within the above framework the purpose of the AMTEC Trust will be to enlarge the body of knowledge available in the field of educational communications, media and technology and to encourage dissemination of such knowledge.
To this end the AMTEC Trust will:
||provide research grants, professional development grants and bursaries to recognized, registered educational institutions.
||provide research grants and bursaries directly to qualified post-secondary students in instructional technology.
||provide research grants and bursaries directly to qualified members of CNIE who work in business and industry.
||do all such other things as are incidental and ancillary to the attainment of the foregoing purposes and exercise of the powers of the Trust.
Relationship with Canadian Network for Innovation in Education
||The AMTEC Trust is sponsored and controlled by CNIE, to the extent set forth in the Trust Document of the AMTEC Trust. The AMTEC Trust is organized and will, at all times, be operated for the benefit of, to perform the function of and to carry out the purposes of CNIE, to the extent that such purposes and functions of CNIE are not in conflict with the charitable, educational and exclusively public benefit purposes of the AMTEC Trust.
||Anything contained in Section 3.1 hereof to the contrary notwithstanding, none of the income or assets of the AMTEC Trust shall inure to the benefit of CNIE, either directly or indirectly, except that nothing herein contained shall prevent payment by the Trust of reasonable amounts to CNIE for services rendered or supplies furnished by CNIE to the AMTEC Trust in furtherance of the Trust's purposes when approved by the Trustees.
||The Trustees of the AMTEC Trust shall submit annually to the Board of Directors of CNIE, for comment and advice, reports of activities, income, and sources thereof, expenditures and purposes for which made. Such reports shall also include activities proposed for the future together with a proposed annual budget.
||The fiscal year of the AMTEC Trust shall be in accordance with the fiscal year of CNIE.
||A yearly review of the Trust accounts will be conducted and a report will be forwarded annually to the President and Treasurer of the AMTEC Trust and to the CNIE Board.
||A chequing account may be established by the AMTEC Trust at a bank convenient to the AMTEC Trust to provide for the timely payment of necessary expenses for the day-to-day operation of the AMTEC Trust.
These Bylaws may be amended by a two-thirds vote of the Trustees participating in a meeting called for that purpose, except Articles 5.1 and 5.2, which may only be amended by unanimous vote of the Trustees participating in the meeting. The Bylaws, as so amended, shall not conflict with the AMTEC Trust “Trust Document”, and in the event of any such conflict the provisions of the AMTEC Trust “Trust Document” shall govern.
Disposal of Funds
||If the AMTEC Trust or the Canadian Network for Innovation in Edcuation should cease to exist, the Trustees shall call a meeting in accordance with procedures of the AMTEC Trust “Trust Document.”
||Should the Trustees, by a two third majority vote determine to dissolve the Trust, they shall distribute the AMTEC Trust's resources to some other public non-profit group with like purposes and objectives to those of the AMTEC Trust, so long as such distributions are in keeping with the AMTEC Trust “Trust Document” and the concerns of the benefactors as specified in the bequests to the AMTEC Trust; and provided that the selected recipient is qualified as per subsection 149.1(1) of the Income Tax Act. Preference shall be given to supporting educational media and technology scholarship and professional development and programs directed toward leadership development, but may include general philanthropic funds and educational Trusts.
No Personal Liability
Neither the officers, directors, trustees sponsors of the AMTEC Trust or their property shall be subject to or chargeable with the payment of debts or obligations of the AMTEC Trust.
We, the trustees, do hereby give our assurance that all the money received will be expended only for the purposes outlined in this document.
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The celebrations of the Navy Day in Vladivostok
Day of the Navy is a memorable day in the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. It is celebrated annually, on the last Sunday of July. The Navy Day is celebrated with military parades, military and sporting events, holiday concerts, all kinds of themed contests and quizzes.
July 29, Vladivostok, the headquarters of the Russian Pacific Fleet, traditionally held the celebrations of the Navy Day. The main part of the celebration was held in the Amur Bay. Here are the photos of the celebrations taken during the naval parade. Photos by Smit_Smitty
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Edited by Annabelle, L B RANA, Flickety, Horses4Ever and 11 others
It was your New Year's resolution, but the clutter just keeps building up...and before you know it, you've got a great big heap of mess on your desk.
- 1If possible, put up shelves, a bulletin board, and a calendar. Buy a wastebasket, a variety of folders and filling cabinets/mini-drawers. These are all very important in keeping your desk neat, even though they aren't actually part of the desk as the things that would usually clutter up your desk can now be moved else-where.
- 2Gather all the clutter and sort into the following piles:
- Pens/Pencils/Pins, etc.
- Sort these into ones which you need on the desk and ones which have just decided to live there.
- If they don't belong there, put them away!
- Paper items
- 3Put all of the rubbish in the bin. From now on, try to keep it off and from ever accumulating. This will not only clean your desk, it will keep it clean!!
- 4Put the pencils, pens, pins, blu-tack/sticky tack and things of that kind into pots to keep the desk tidy.
- 5Put the books which you need on the desk in the drawers or in a NEAT pile on the desk if you do not have room. Put on the shelves, if you have any, this will free up work room. If you have bought things to put under the desk, put them there (this is where they come in handy).
- 6Do the same with paper- putting it away and neatening it.
- 7Although it is so much better if you can simply keep your workspace clean, you don't absolutely have to. Tidy your desk at the end of the day so it is back to its original state if mess accumulated.
- Desk tidies are very easy to make by hand with toilet roll tubes and long match boxes, cheese spread carton boxes, etc.
- Don't keep any types of liquids in your office, unless it's water with a lid, because spills of liquids, like Kool-aid or coffee can make a big mess, and worse, stain.
- Go to a discount store to look for storage facilities.
- Clean and tidy table gives you peace of mind.
- Remember 'DO IT NOW' principle to keep your table clean and tidy.
- Never ever go home without tidying your office! Clients hate spending time in a stressful environment and a cluttered office IS a sore sight.
Edit Things You'll Need
- Desk tidy
- Mini drawers
- A re-cycle bin (in which the items can be re-cycled, this will help in environment development and saves lots of your money.)
- A calender on your desk so you know when you have up coming events.
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The video showing the destruction of 46 of the 55 Chrysler Turbine Cars we posted recently generated lots of heated discussion. The key issue is, and has been for years, whether import tariffs played a material role in Chrysler’s decision. There is a wealth of sites and reprinted vintage articles dedicated to the TC, and the import duty conspiracy theory reoccurs throughout them. Interestingly, Wikipedia, which is not to be trusted in all things automotive, is the only source that throws some doubt on that story: “The story at the time that this was done to avoid an import tariff was incorrect.” Lacking that citation, it was time to do some further sleuthing, and either join the tariff theorists, or put a stake through it once and for all.
US import tariffs on cars average 2.5%, and numerous searches did not find any evidence that they were significantly higher in the 1960′s. Given the import boom during the fifties and sixties, they were presumably the same, if not less. A substantial tariff of 10% or more would have been punitive, and made imports significantly more expensive than they actually were.
The second issue is the value of the bodies that Ghia built for Chrysler. Various wild guesses have been thrown around ($250k each), but it’s not that hard to come up with a credible estimate. Ghia and the other Italian carrozzerias were almost solely in the business of designing and building small batches of custom bodies. We have an excellent comparison in the form of the Cadillac Eldorado Brougham that was coach-built by Pininfarina for the 1959 and 1960 model years. Reliable estimates place the cost at $25k for each ’57-’58 model, and less for the Italian built ’59-’60 models. These are for the complete final vehicle. They were sold for about $14k; a loss-leading halo car that Caddy could well afford back then. Pininfarina built and trimmed 200 of the ultra-luxurious Broughams for Cadillac.
Coach-built bodies built in small batches were still common in the sixties, and almost all of the Italian exotics used them. Maseratis and the like with coach built bodies were selling for $15 – $20k. It seems quite unlikely that the Ghia bodies cost Chrysler much more than about $10 to $15k each, maybe $20k tops. The Ghia contract was just for bodies, without any mechanicals, suspension, or running gear.
Assuming the high end $20k number and applying the 2.5% rate results in a tariff of $500 per car. The total for 55 cars would have been $23k. These are utterly insignificant amounts compared to the millions Chrysler was spending on the turbine program. Was it cheaper than $500 to have the cars destroyed? In 1963, undoubtedly. But it certainly wasn’t the motivating factor.
Destroying the cars was the only realistic solution, for a number of reasons. First of all, selling the cars to the public was totally out of the question. Maintenance and support infrastructure would have been nonexistent . It took a team of five specially trained mechanics dedicated full-time to keep the brand-new Turbine Cars running during the public trials. Not surprisingly, the bronze beauties were far from trouble-free. Expensive materials to contain the initial (not final) 500 degree exhaust and certain performance aspects unique to the turbine (see below) were also considerations. The Turbine Cars had to be fed kerosene or diesel, neither of which was all that convenient to buy. Leaded gas left problematic deposits on the turbine blades.
In 1963, there certainly weren’t 55 car museums willing and able to adopt and care for these cars. The nine that were saved and allocated to museum seems about right for the times. Super-rich private collectors like Jay Leno were not common in those days of high incremental tax rates. The Turbine Car program had fulfilled its purpose of gaining potential customer feedback, and it was time to wrap it up.
There were numerous functional challenges and limitations with the Turbine Cars, of which sluggish throttle response was the biggest. This is an inherent design limitation of turbines, as they need to spin up to over 40,000 rpm to develop full power. The Turbine Car had a one and a half second lag from first pressing the throttle. That could be considered dangerous; it certainly would by today’s standards. Throttle lag was noticeable at higher speeds too. Performance was reasonable, about 12 seconds 0-60, but substantially less than if a 383 V8 were under that sleek hood. One extended test produced an average fuel economy of 11.5 mpg. Not terrible, but far from good. A comparably-quick conventional car at the time would be expected to achieve about 15 mpg.
The turbine offers the potential for superb longevity, but that depends on the extent to which exotic and expensive materials are utilized. Chrysler’s own test found that its turbine had a lifespan of “up to 175k miles”. Good for the times, but not really exceptional. Chrysler’s own slant sixes would typically go that far or further.
The scope of this article is not to fully explore the pros and cons of Chrysler’s turbines and their theoretical development potential. Suffice it say, the changing climate on emissions and fuel economy played their part in finally ending the turbine program during the seventies. But the biggest single hurdle was cost. In Chrysler’s own words: “the technology did not exist to produce turbine engines at a price anywhere near competitive to conventional internal combustion engines”. One thing is certain; having spent vast sums to build them, a $500 tariff was not the reason they were destroyed.
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President Barack Obama pushed for a higher minimum wage at a re-opened manufacturing plant Wednesday because he says Americans who work full time should not be in poverty.
The president followed up his call for the increase from $7.25 to $9 an hour in Tuesday night's State of the Union address with a trip to North Carolina, attempting to reach voters outside Washington on the plan
Canadian-based Linamar Corp. opened a former Volvo plant in Asheville that had gone dark and rehired some of its workers. Obama touted it as an example of America attracting jobs from overseas.
He says the key to reviving America's economy is to bring more jobs to the United States, give Americans the skills they need to perform them and provide those workers with a decent living.
"There's no magic bullet here, it's just some common sense stuff. People still have to work hard," he said, arguing that just a few structural changes could have an outsize impact. He said he needs Congress to help pass his initiatives.
"It's not a Democratic thing or a Republican thing," Obama said. "Our job as Americans is to restore that basic bargain that says if you work hard, if you meet your responsibilities, you can get ahead."
"If you work full time, you shouldn't be in poverty," Obama said to applause.
But House Speaker John Boehner was not warm to the plan.
"When you raise the price of employment, guess what happens? You get less of it," he told reporters Wednesday morning. "At a time when the American people are still asking the question, where are the jobs? why would we want to make it harder for small employers to hire people?"
Linamar produces heavy-duty engine and driveline components. The company has hired 160 workers at the Asheville plant and will hire 40 more by the end of the year, Obama said.
The sleeves rolled up on his white dress shirt, Obama stopped to chat with workers at the plant, patting them on the back as he inspected the equipment. He signed some type of large red toolbox and later posed for photos with what appeared to be a few managers from the plant.
His remarks had all the trapping of a campaign-style rally — the barricades, the platforms and professional lights, and patriotic music drowning out the cheers of a few hundred people who gathered inside the factory to hear him speak.
Obama will make stops in Atlanta on Thursday and Chicago on Friday to continue pushing his second-term agenda outlined in the State of the Union address.
In his bid to boost manufacturing, Obama is launching three "manufacturing innovation institutes" — partnerships among the private sector, the federal government and colleges "to develop and build manufacturing technologies and capabilities that will help U.S.-based manufacturers and workers create good jobs," according to a White House fact sheet. He is asking Congress to create 15 more institutes.
The proposal is a central element of Obama's plan to spur manufacturing, which has been a bright spot in the U.S. economy. Manufacturing expanded at a much faster pace in January compared with December.
The White House outlined other steps the administration says it will take to continue improvements in manufacturing, which it says added 500,000 jobs the last three years after shedding jobs for more than 10 years.
Among the steps:
—Reforming the business tax code to end tax breaks to ship jobs overseas.
—Expanding a program to help governors and mayors bring in business investment from around the world.
—Strengthening enforcement of trade laws and taking new steps to open markets in Europe and Asia.
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The Kitty Genovese Murder
During the 1960s, when there was no shortage of drama in the nation's courtrooms, one murder case stood alone in its ability to shock the country. The crime was not as gruesome as some others, since many more were just as violent, and still more that easily surpassed it. The victim was an ordinary working girl, not at all wealthy and not a member of any elite class. Her name was Catherine Genovese, the 28-year-old daughter of Italian-American parents. But to millions of people who read her story when it first appeared in New York City's press, she would forever be remembered as "Kitty" Genovese. What happened to her, what happened to all of society on that dreadful night in the spring of 1964, would reverberate across the country and generate a national soul-searching that is reserved for only the most catastrophic of events. And nearly 40 years later, her name has become synonymous with a dark side of an urban character that, for many people, represents a harsh and disturbing reality of big city life.
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Acknowledging the effect of the presence of day laborers, the Los Angeles City Council voted Friday to draft an ordinance that would more heavily scrutinize hardware giants such as Home Depot and Lowe's.
On an 11-0 vote, the council agreed to prepare a law that would force hardware stores of more than 100,000 square feet to secure a conditional-use permit -- a hurdle typically required of liquor stores and other high- intensity businesses.
The move was initiated by Councilman Bernard C. Parks, who has complained for years about the problems caused by day laborers who gather outside a Home Depot near Slauson and Western avenues in his district -- such as alcohol consumption and public urination.
"Almost the day it came in, we had a day labor issue that has now spread from one street to three streets," he said.
The council's proposal would allow each new store to be evaluated on a case-by-case basis -- a move applauded by Home Depot representatives, who have resisted efforts by the city to impose a flat fee to pay for the effects of its business on neighborhoods.
Friday's vote comes two months after the council voted to require Home Depot to prepare an environmental impact report for a proposed store in the San Fernando Valley -- a project that drew opposition from hundreds of residents and a frenzy of advocacy by more than a dozen lobbyists.
The council could vote on the hardware superstore law in two months, just as Home Depot launches plans to build a dozen stores across the city.
Under the proposed law, Home Depot no longer would be able to get an over-the-counter building permit for any new store, as it sought to do in Sunland-Tujunga.
"It does add another layer of review on the project," said city planner Thomas Rothman.
Still undecided, however, is whether the company might pay a fee to offset the effects of its business on surrounding neighborhoods. Home Depot has submitted a counterproposal that would allow the company to pay for the construction of day labor centers but leave the city to fund their operation.
Under that arrangement, Home Depot would lease a day labor site to a nonprofit group at a cost of $1 per year; the nonprofit group would be paid, in turn, using some of the sales tax revenue that would be generated by the new store.
Still, some council members voiced doubts about using sales tax revenue that would normally go into city coffers to fund the day labor site.
Home Depot officials countered that similar arrangements have been reached with other large developers in downtown Los Angeles. "We want to be treated like other firms that have brought a tremendous amount of taxes and a tremendous amount of employment," said Home Depot spokeswoman Kathryn Gallagher.
The average Home Depot store generates roughly $1 million in taxes annually for the city, company representatives say.
Because Home Depot has the potential to deliver millions more in revenue to the city's budget, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa has been working behind the scenes to ensure that any new law is not punitive to the chain. The mayor assigned his attorney, Thomas Saenz, to make sure that the final law is something that will allow Home Depot to continue its expansion plans.
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Leak Street High School is going to move its students over to share a building with Richmond County Transitional students this school year, but the unique identities of the two programs will remain separate.
“The plan is to have two schools on the one campus,” said Leak Street Principal Daryl Mason. “The gymnasium is the dividing point on campus, and that facility will be shared.”
Mason said that letters were sent to parents during the summer, asking them to set up meetings and discuss the transition.
“I’ve been meeting with parents all summer,” he said.
Transportation for students attending both Leak Street and the Transitional School will remain the same. Students will ride their usual buses to Richmond Senior High School, where they will then board Leak Street and Transitional School buses for a ride to the other campus.
There are typically less than 100 students who attend the Transitional School, which is made up of ninth and tenth graders. Anywhere from 80 to 125 students are expected to be enrolled in Leak Street High School, which accepts students from seventh to twelfth grades.
The schools have been faced with staffing difficulties in the past, and have had to rely on borrowing teachers from Richmond Senior High to teach between both locations.
Additionally, the campus at Leak Street doesn’t offer students a cafeteria. Lunches have been prepared at the Transitional School and taken to Leak Street students.
To add to the complications of operating two campuses, the schools are facing about a million dollar federal funding drop.
“The utility bills alone at Leak Street are about $4,000 each month,” said Superintendent George Norris.
Combining the students on one campus should allow the programs to become more cost and time efficient.
“I know that for me and my students, there will be many benefits to moving Leak Street to the Transitional School campus,” said Mason. “The facilities are much better there, the Leak Street students will all be on the same floor and now our main office will be accessible to parents and grandparents without having to take the stairs. That was difficult for some people.”
Susan Brigman will remain the principal of the Transitional School.
The possibility of selling the Leak Street High School campus to the Leak Street Alumni Association has been discussed.
“Dr. Norris spoke with the Alumni about the possibility of purchasing the property, if we wanted it,” said Alumni board member and project directory JC Watkins. “We’ve orally accepted the offer, and are now waiting for the process to move forward. We don’t have plans for the property yet, but believe that it can continue to be an asset to the community in the long run.”
The name Leak Street High School will continue to be used this year, because the school received a technology grant and a name change could jeopardize eligibility. Potentially re-naming the school in the future has been discussed.
Leak Street High School is located at 1004 Leak Street in Rockingham. The Transitional School is located at 377 Mizpah Road in Rockingham, and was formerly known as Ashley Chapel School.
— Staff Writer Kelli Easterling can be reached at 910-997-3111, ext. 18, or by email at email@example.com.
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Before we left Managua for our worksite, we had a history lesson and a whirlwind tour of Managua. The old portion of the town was hurt badly by the December 1972 earthquake; modern Managua has grown up around it. At the Plaza de la Revolucion, the Catedral Vieja (Catedral Santiago de los Caballeros) is not safe to enter; the outside is still striking, though.
The clock on the tower is stuck at 12:35 a.m., the time of the earthquake.
We went up to the Parque Historica overlooking Laguna Tiscapa (a volcanic crater lagoon); from this high point you can see a lot of relatively flat Managua. There is an enormous silhouette of Nicaraguan hero Augusto Sandino up there.
During our work week, we met the vice mayor and mayor of San Lorenzo, the town we stayed in. We also visited a health clinic and a school, where we donated school supplies. These visits were interesting and informative, and gave us a better idea of life in Nicaragua.
After our work week in the village, we spent Friday night at Aguas Claras, a hot springs resort. It was a step up from our hotel in San Lorenzo: hot water! No shower heads on the shower pipes, though, and oddly stained sheets. The many swimming pools full of hot water were lovely. I have no pictures of them, just of this gecko who joined us for breakfast.
The next morning, we headed for Volcan Masaya National Park, home of a steaming, active volcano.
There is a cross up on the hill overlooking the volcano. The first cross placed at this volcano was erected in the early 1500′s, meant to drive the devil out of the smoking inferno. It’s still smoking.
That afternoon brought us to the colonial city of Granada. Our hotel was right across the street from Iglesia Guadelupe, which dates from 1626. On Sunday morning, the bells start ringing at 5:30 a.m., then at 5:45, then a long clamorous tintinnabulation at 6 to call people to church. 200 people in church at 6 a.m.!
I felt a distinct culture shock on arriving here. Hotel Granada is sprawling and beautiful. The rooms were lovely, with ceiling fans, nice beds, real pillows that didn’t feel like they were full of lumpy mashed potatoes, nice tiled bathrooms with hot and cold running water and showerheads, a piano in the high-ceilinged stone-walled restaurant, and a fabulous swimming pool. After a week in the country, I felt stunned that a hotel could be this nice. Heavenly!
We toured the Antiquo Convento San Francisco in the afternoon.
Lots of history here, including a mural of the history of Nicaragua, and an impressive gallery of pre-Columbian statuary from Zapatera Island.
And if that’s not enough in a day, we also took a boat tour of Las Isletas in Lake Nicaragua. You can see Volcan Mombacho in the background.
Sunday morning took us to Laguna de Apoyo, a volcanic crater lake, for swimming. This was a gorgeous place to decompress before heading home.
In the afternoon, we headed to the craft market in Masaya. This platter came home with me. It’s by Jose Ortiz of San Juan de Oriente, titled el Volcan. I love it. It will always remind me of my time in this beautiful country of volcanoes.
Many thanks to our guides from el Porvenir. They made the week perfect.
Driver Jairo, Tania in Managua and Granada, Marcos all week as interpreter/guide/general all around helpful guy, Catalina all week organizing, and cooking our lunches in the village.
I’ll close with a video of some of the girls singing at our worksite. They dissolved into giggles when watching the playback of this on my camera!
And now, back to my knitting…
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Why Plastic Bags Are Bad for the Environment
Plastic material food as well as buying totes began showing up within the list picture regularly within 1982. In those days, nobody experienced any kind of indisputable fact that environmentally friendly effect will be therefore terrible only thirty many years later on. These were made to become more long lasting compared to document as well as all of us had been just about all informed they had been a much better choice simply because they preserved trees and shrubs, the fundamental component accustomed to producer document bags.
Supermarkets as well as stores as well cherished the idea, price as well as small character associated with switching. You can easily printing trademarks to promote upon plastic material, they may be converted to a variety of dimensions as well as customers loved they had been stronger compared to their own document counterparts. Whenever a document tote gets moist, this instantly drops aside. The plastic material tote is actually stronger as well as regrettably this is a characteristic which additionally can make all of them much more harmful towards the atmosphere.
Quick ahead thirty many years and today there’s a lawn origins environment battle from the as soon as cherished plastic material buying tote. This stuff appear almost everywhere. They’re created for solitary make use of and when the actual bought products tend to be introduced house, the actual tote is actually thrown away and that’s as soon as the actual damage starts.
Nowadays it’s nevertheless typical to determine all of them just about everywhere. They’re transported through the blowing wind till they’re captured with a sapling arm or leg as well as remaining in order to hang like a trashy city design. These people wind up hugging in order to sewer deplete grates as well as gather presently there within reasonably good sized quantities till these people lastly block the actual deplete in order to trigger road surging since the rainfall drinking water can’t get away the top. You are able to nevertheless locate them within supermarkets as well as malls as well. These types of locations would be the supply of all of the gleaming brand new plastic material totes which are simply starting their own existence associated with solitary make use of prior to becoming let loose in order to trigger their own harm to environmental surroundings.
You’ll find these types of totes within the stomachs associated with sea creatures which unconsciously consume all of them considering the actual totes tend to be jellyfish or even an additional meals supply since it floats via the seas. Parrots as well as ocean turtles turn out to be caught within the tote deals with and when they cannot get away, these people pass away. Whales pass away associated with hunger simply because their own stomachs tend to be filled with plastic material totes which their health cannot absorb as well as there is no space for just about any actual meals.
For that tote which adopts the actual landfill, it’s a different tale. Plastic material isn’t biodegradable and it is filled with chemical substances which leech away to the grime and finally, via drinking water runoff, individuals chemical substances find themselves in the channels last but not least, the h2o. We’re actually consuming the actual toxin put in our planet through this particular terrible item.
Gradually individuals are arriving collectively to create a distinction within using this particular harmful materials. A few nations, metropolitan areas as well as says tend to be banning using these types of totes altogether while some tend to be including unique taxation’s for his or her make use of in order to prevent customers through with them. Each one of these totes that isn’t utilized is really a triumph for any sea pet, the chicken as well as humanity’s long term decades.
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The Idea in Brief
To deal with an ever more complex environment, many companies increase their complicatedness, adding new coordination procedures and structures.
This exacts a heavy price. Managers in the most complicated companies may spend 40% of their time writing reports and up to 60% of it in coordination meetings—leaving their employees struggling to figure out their priorities.
A better response is to create an environment in which individuals cooperate to develop solutions on the ground.
Managers Can Do This by Applying Six Rules
Improve understanding of what coworkers do.
Reinforce the people who are integrators.
Expand the amount of power available.
Increase the need for reciprocity.
Make employees feel the shadow of the future.
Put the blame on the uncooperative.
Artwork: Jen Stark, Tri Angular, 2010, Acrylic paint on wood, 35" x 35" x 25"
Companies face an increasingly complex world. Globalization and technology have opened up new markets and enabled new competitors. With an abundance of options to choose from, customers are harder to please—and more fickle—than ever. Each day competitive advantage seems more elusive and fleeting. Even if you can figure out the right approach to take, what works today won’t work tomorrow.
The growth of complexity is reflected in businesses’ goals. Today companies, on average, set themselves six times as many performance requirements as they did in 1955, the year the Fortune 500 list was created. Back then, CEOs committed to four to seven performance imperatives; today they commit to 25 to 40. And many of those requirements appear to be in conflict: Companies want to satisfy their customers, who demand low prices and high quality. They seek to customize their offerings for specific markets and standardize them for the greatest operating return. They want to innovate and be efficient.
In and of itself, this complexity is not a bad thing—it brings opportunities as well as challenges. The problem is the way companies attempt to respond to it. To reconcile their many conflicting goals, managers redesign the organization’s structure, performance measures, and incentives, trying to align employees’ behavior with shifting external challenges. More layers get added, more procedures imposed. Then, to smooth the implementation of those “hard” changes, companies introduce a variety of “soft” initiatives designed to infuse work with positive emotions and create a workplace where interpersonal relationships and collaboration will flourish.
At the Boston Consulting Group, we’ve created an “index of complicatedness,” based on surveys of more than 100 U.S. and European listed companies, which measures just how big the problem is. The survey results show that over the past 15 years, the amount of procedures, vertical layers, interface structures, coordination bodies, and decision approvals needed in each of those firms has increased by anywhere from 50% to 350%. According to our analysis over a longer time horizon, complicatedness increased by 6.7% a year, on average, over the past five decades.
This complicatedness exacts a heavy price. In the 20% of organizations that are the most complicated, managers spend 40% of their time writing reports and 30% to 60% of it in coordination meetings. That doesn’t leave much time for them to work with their teams. As a result, employees are often misdirected and expend a lot of effort in vain. It’s hardly surprising that employees of these organizations are three times as likely to be disengaged as employees of the rest of the group—or that dissatisfaction at work is so high and productivity so often disappointing.
In complicated organizations, managers spend 40% of their time writing reports and 30% to 60% of it in meetings.
Companies clearly need a better way to manage complexity. In our work with clients and in our research, we believe, we’ve found a different and far more effective approach. It does not involve attempting to impose formal guidelines and processes on frontline employees; rather, it entails creating an environment in which employees can work with one another to develop creative solutions to complex challenges. This approach leads to organizations that ably address numerous fluid and contradictory requirements without structural and procedural complicatedness.
The approach incorporates a set of simple yet powerful principles. We call them “smart rules.” These rules help managers mobilize their subordinates’ skills and intelligence.
There are six smart rules. The first three involve enabling—providing the information needed to understand where the problems are and empowering the right people to make good choices. The second three involve impelling—motivating people to apply all their abilities and to cooperate, thanks to feedback loops that expose them as directly as possible to the consequences of their actions. The idea is to make finding solutions to complex performance requirements far more attractive than disengagement, ducking cooperation, or finger-pointing. When the right feedback loops are in place, cumbersome alignment mechanisms—ranging from compliance metrics to the proliferation of committees—can be eliminated, along with their costs, and employees find solutions that create more value.
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HPI partners with the RAC to warn motorists of the wear and tear dangers of buying a ‘clocked’ car
“Clocking” – otherwise known as illegitimately adjusting a vehicle’s mileage – has been practiced by dodgy used car sellers for many years as a means to make extra money. However vehicle information expert, HPI, is warning that the risks from buying a clocked car could hurt consumers in more places than just their wallet.
Nicola Johnson, Consumer Services Manager for HPI explains, “Clocking is used by fraudsters to boost the sale price of a vehicle, but the act of clocking also hides the fact that the car is likely to have done considerably more miles than the driver realises. If vital components are excessively worn and/or not replaced as recommended by the manufacturer, that vehicle could be a real danger to the driver and other road users.”
HPI’s concerns are echoed by vehicle inspection experts at the RAC. “Vehicles displaying untrue mileages carry an increased risk of costly defects being present. With use comes wear, and therefore higher mileages are a likely indication of when maintenance costs could start to rise,” comments Michael Hill, Vehicle Inspections Manager for the RAC.
Despite some obvious tell-tale signs of general wear and tear, a higher mileage vehicle may look in reasonable condition; however, behind the bodywork there may be some less obvious wear that isn’t reflected by the reported mileage. An incorrectly reported mileage could also lead a new owner into believing that their scheduled maintenance is up-to-date, missing out on vital service work such as a timing belt change that may lead to catastrophic engine failure.”
An RAC Inspection offers used car buyers a thorough vehicle examination that will help highlight unexplained gaps or leaps in maintenance records, a potential sign of clocking or a hidden history. And whilst a vehicle examination cannot authenticate recorded vehicle mileages, the RAC Inspection does provide used car buyers with an independent condition report on vehicle performance, offering added peace of mind and protection against the threat of clocking. Prices start from £135 and details can be found at www.rac.co.uk.
This latest warning comes as the RAC backs HPI’s campaign to hit back against legitimate ‘clockers’ in the form of Mileage Correction firms with the launch of its DirectGov e-Petition. The OFT estimates there are over 70 mileage correction firms operating in Britain by exploiting a legal loophole. HPI calls upon motorists to sign its e-Petition to force a change in the law and ban these firms.
David Bizley, RAC’s Technical Director says, “This is an important campaign which will help raise awareness of this shady practice which can cost unsuspecting motorists thousands of pounds. We urge drivers to sign the e-Petition and to be on their guard when looking to purchase a second hand car. It’s always wise to get an independent vehicle inspection done and conduct a vehicle history check for added peace of mind.”
“I’m more than happy to join HPI’s campaign and sign their e-petition calling on the government to clamp down on mileage correction firms,” confirms John Leech, MP. “I find it astonishing that tampering with a car in this way is not actually illegal. The practice is said to cause Greater Manchester motorists to be swindled out of an estimated £22m per year, and nationally car clocking costs consumers up to £580m a year according to the Office of Fair Trading. I have long argued that this should be made illegal having previously raised this with Government Ministers and called on the Transport Select Committee to hold an enquiry into this immoral practice.”
Johnson concludes, “The dangers associated with a vehicle that has done considerably more miles than the owner realises are all too clear. And even if these issues are identified in time to prevent danger, the cost of servicing the car to bring it up to a maintainable standard could run into the thousands. However, a mileage and vehicle history check, as well as a full vehicle inspection can help protect consumers from buying a vehicle that’s hiding its true age behind a low mileage and a bargain price tag.”
Sign-up NOW to the HPI e-Petition which calls upon Government to put a stop to Mileage Correction Firms by simply clicking here DirectGov e-Petition
It will only take a few moments and will require you to confidentially validate their details to authenticate their support
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The Google Review, explained...
Immense wealth awaits. Email Ian Hargreaves with bank details, statute book
Now we know why what was widely called the "Google Review" into intellectual property came to the conclusions it did. And we have it from the horse's mouth: not Google, but Professor Ian Hargreaves and his team at the IPO, who "guided" him.
If you recall, a year ago the Prime Minister David Cameron revealed that the Google founders that they could never have founded Google in the UK, because of its copyright law. Even Google could never substantiate the quote, or provide a citation. Rather than getting a public inquiry, and shaming, of a foreign corporation for misleading our PM so badly – Google got the government to explore how the law could be altered... to benefit companies like Google.
So the review began with a mistake, and its guiding philosophical idea was a naive, simplified, and fantastical version of the world. This set the tone for what followed.
Hargreaves came across as wry and likeable, as he always does, but his words revealed the bien pensant view of the internet, its potential, and its commercial challenges.
"Politicians are afraid to address [copyright] because of fear of damaging the entirely legitimate and desirable wishes of musicians and other creators to have a fair level of protection, so they can make a return on their own work. I do disagree how this machinery has spread, and become an undesirable regulatory restraint on the internet [our emphasis] and the internet's effects on the economy.
"That is a very, very big risk for an advanced knowledge economy like the UK to run. In my view we can't afford to run it. It's urgent; the government has to take the action I have recommended it take".
The sky was falling, he'd felt a piece of it land on his head. And he hammered home this urgency in his conclusion, in case you missed it:
"The digital revolution is not one-third complete, based on the penetration of the internet around the world. If we don't 'Get with the Pace', we will pay a significant economic price."
There are several flaws to this approach.
The graph below illustrates the recent commercial fortunes of two technology companies. One of these has negotiated with incumbents and innovated to establish platforms that create new markets. It didn't lobby for the rules to be changed. It worked with what rules there were. It created an explosion of economic value.
Fortune favours the brave: not the lobbyists
The other company, by contrast, lobbies intensively for the rules to change (one of the recipients of its cash shared the stage with Hargreaves), so its costs can be lowered. It's why we were here. The first is Apple, and the second is Google.
Now, what this shows that there is more than one approach to dealing with incumbents and the legal and regulatory status quo. The empirical data here clearly tells us that platform creation within the rules is not only possible, but actually far more lucrative than the slightly sleazy backroom business of lobbying for the rules to be changed. It also demolishes the "pace" argument – which is an appeal to the Precautionary Principle: that if we don't do something drastic very soon, we'll face a far greater cost. (See Iraq, WMDs). By creating markets for digital content, Apple ran counter to the perceived wisdom of internet gurus that people would never pay for it. Newspapers have followed suit with paywalls, with some success. Apple killed Free.
Hargreaves' view of internet growth is based on one particular view of the world – and it happens to be one one that isn't very good at producing growth. Hargreaves is evidently a decent and intelligent man, he is just basing his judgments on a view of the world that is Utopian, and feels very dated. This leads to the other problem, which is that his argument is based on exceptionalism, and makes demands of groups that it shouldn't.
Viewed sociologically, the argument is that one group needs to become weaker, just so another can prosper. History shows that time and again, technological innovation allows many parties to prosper – no technology content market has yet done otherwise, or removed rights. If I was an internet guru, I would call this the Orlowski Principle, and Tweet it like mad. But it's actually the way good policy is conducted since the Enlightenment.
Yet for some reason, Google prefers to seek to change the rules rather than create new markets. Your speculation on why they adopt this approach might be is as good as mine.
This Google isn't working
Google isn't very good at consumer products, as the late Steve Jobs told Larry Page, but it should be able to do large scale platforms. Maybe it isn't very good at doing the negotiations – with finance and creative industries – needed to push this through. Maybe all of its best ideas are invisible. Maybe it doesn't do ideas. Maybe it's innately fearful and conservative – as large record companies were for years, clinging to the CD, and failing to create digital markets or physical replacements.
Google is still a one-club golfer, and that club, its advertising brokerage, doesn't really begin to unlock the potential value – as Apple's content store has shown. Whatever the reason(s) may be, academics such as Hargreaves seem not to have really taken these developments on board: they appear only too keen to endorse Google's view as the one true way of achieving growth.
For Hargreaves, the internet creates such a unique, singular moment of historical anxiety, we can suspend traditional ideas of fairness. It shouldn't make us deaf, though.
Next page: The rest
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[cairo] Spot colors (and CMYK)
lists at colorremedies.com
Wed Feb 24 08:15:53 PST 2010
On Feb 24, 2010, at 2:22 AM, Jon Cruz wrote:
> I don't think you've been getting the print world application I'm trying to be able to support.
> The main point is that in *practice* graphic designers do not overlap CMYK with spot color. They trap them to avoid such issues.
> So in the print world the situation you seem so worried about is one that is normally avoided. Just as is 100%C, 100%Y, 100%M 100%K is avoided as in the real world that will usually oversaturate the printing medium with ink.
> Oh, and again keep in mind that normal offset printing is incapable of reproducing many spot colors. So often "mixing normal colors" fails to reproduce the targeted value.
Yeah. The most common use for spot colors is for logos, and solid illustrated (vector) areas. Process builds (CMYK) tend to meander as a press is running, and depending on the color, this meandering may be unacceptable so a spot color, which doesn't meander, will be used. This is why you will find even marginally reproducible pastels printed as spot instead of CMYK. A light beige can appear slightly green (and hence ugly) just with a small drop in magenta ink film density on press, and then it can tend slightly pinkish with a small increase in magenta ink film density.
Interactions of "spot colors" with each other, and CMYK is probably most commonly implemented by CMYKGO which is called Hexachrome. But in this implementation, green and orange are not really considered spot colors, they're considered additional primaries. So it's a 6 primary printing process, instead of 4. You can't really arbitrarily choose additional primaries or you'll just make the job more expensive for little gain, so outside of Hexachrome, it's somewhat rare to cause spots to interact. Maybe the next most likely case of intentional interaction is where you have a spot metallic silver color, and then you're going to print one or more colors on top of it so you can create the appearance of a metallic pink, or yellow, or green, etc.
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In a lawsuit filed this week, the Surfrider Foundation, a coastal protection group, alleges that the owner of a beachfront property south of San Francisco has violated the law by closing an access road that has long been used by local surfers and fisherman to reach a spit of sand called Martin’s Beach.
“It’s the most beautiful beach in San Mateo County,” said Mark Massara, a lawyer for Surfrider. Massara says he surfs often at the beach and believes the law provides for access to everyone.
While documents list the owner of the property as Martin’s Beach LLC, a person familiar with the matter says the owner is Vinod Khosla, a co-founder of Sun Microsystems and a prominent venture capitalist known for investing in clean-energy technology.
In California, unlike in most other states, all beaches are open to the public under the constitution. But private landowners are not always required to allow access to the coastline across their property, and many disputes have arisen over the years – often involving wealthy beachfront homeowners.
In the case of the Martin’s Beach property, the previous owner had long allowed locals to access the beach for a fee. But the new owner, who bought the property in 2008 and soon after installed gates on the access road and hired guards to keep people out – infuriating locals, who staged a protest at the property on Thursday.
Lawyers for Surfrider say California’s Coastal Act calls for permits around activities that change the use or intensity of use at a beach – permits Martin’s Beach LLC failed to acquire before installing the gates.
Joan Gallo, a lawyer for Martin’s Beach LLC, did not respond to phone messages. A spokeswoman for Khosla did not respond to requests for comment.
HEIRESSES, EXECUTIVES AND MOGULS
The dispute echoes record mogul David Geffen’s long battle to prevent use of a walkway near his Malibu home. In 1983, Geffen agreed to allow a pathway to Carbon Beach when he sought permits for a pool and other additions, but he later filed suit to fight the access. In 2005, Geffen settled the suit and allowed the public walkway.
More recently, heiress Lisette Ackerberg has been fighting an easement on her Carbon Beach property, where she has built a tennis court and a generator that block the easement. She is appealing a 2011 order from a California Superior Court judge that require her to clear the right of way.
The tiff also evokes some other neighborly disputes in recent years involving wealthy technology executives including late Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, Lotus founder Mitch Kapor, Lucasfilm founder George Lucas and Oracle founder Larry Ellison.
Jobs fought a bitter battle with neighbors in Woodside, California, over a 1920s-era house he owned but wanted to tear down and replace with something more sleek. He twice won demolition permits that were contested by preservationists; the wrecking ball finally came to the house in 2011, months before his death. The property is now vacant.
Also that year, Ellison settled a case he had filed against his neighbors over trees he said blocked the bay views from his house in San Francisco’s Pacific Heights neighborhood.
Last year, special-effects pioneer Lucas, the creator of “Star Wars,” got so fed up with his development-fighting neighbors in Marin County, California, that he scrapped plans to expand his Skywalker Ranch and said he would instead sell it to a developer to build low-income housing.
And this year, the California Supreme Court is reviewing a case that pits software mogul Kapor against his neighbors in the hills of Berkeley, California, where he hopes to build a 10,000-square-foot house.
In the latest conflict, Martin’s Beach LLC lawyer Joan Gallo told the San Francisco Chronicle earlier this week that she welcomed the case. “All we’ve wanted from the very beginning was an opportunity to have a court decide the rights and obligations of the parties.”
Khosla made his name as a co-founder of Sun Microsystems and later joined the blue-chip venture firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. He started Khosla Ventures in 2004, and the firm known for investing in clean-technology companies such as renewable energy company KiOR and renewable-products company Amyris.
In 2011, Khosla committed half his fortune to charity as part of the Giving Pledge, an initiative started by Microsoft founder Bill Gates and Berkshire Hathaway chief Warren Buffett.
But he is somewhat of a maverick who has complained about environmentalists. Last year at the Berkeley-Stanford Cleantech Conference, he said clean technology has been hurt by environmentalists more than any other group, because environmentalists back idealized solutions that “don’t make any economic sense.”
The lawsuit in Superior Court of California, San Mateo County, is Surfrider Foundation v. Martins Beach 1, LLC, case number 520336.
(Reporting By Sarah McBride; Editing by Jonathan Weber and Douglas Royalty)
Image: Surfer Joao Demacedo heads to a surfing spot at Martin’s Beach, a popular surfing and fishing spot, in Half Moon Bay, California March 14, 2013. Credit: Reuters/Robert Galbraith
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What kind of things, you ask?
Well, doors, buildings or anything that might ruin the show.
There are lots of ways that Disney does this, but one of the more common ways is to paint the item in question. Disney has developed two distinct colors they use to hide things in plain sight: Go Away Green and No Seeum Gray.
One of the more famous uses of the paint is on the door of the exclusive Club 33 restaurant in New Orleans Square at Disneyland. (Thanks to Daveland for the photo.)
On a recent trip, I was explaining how Disney did this to a friend while we were sitting in the Tomorrowland Terrace charging our phones. I realized that the buildings next to us had a perfect example of the paint.
At the end of Main Street is the Plaza Restaurant. The last building before Tomorrowland is painted a dark green and holds the sunroom area of the Plaza. Do you see the building jutting out behind it?
This is a view of the side of the building that houses part of the kitchen and ancillary services for the popular eatery. The intention of the color is to make you pass by without noticing it.
Disney also takes advantage of sight lines when painting show buildings. The following photo is taken from the Germany Pavilion looking across the lagoon towards Canada. Notice the curved building that is painted sky blue? That is the Soarin' show building.
Disney Imagineers can also hide a building using its architecture. The Hollywood Tower of Terror in Disney's Hollywood Studios is 199 feet tall and can be seen from the Future World as you look across the lagoon towards the Morocco Pavilion. In order to make the building blend in, the Imagineers made the backside of the tower take on more of a Moroccan flair. It blends in with the buildings in Epcot very well!
Have you noticed any other areas where they use the different paints or camouflage the building or its surroundings?? (And, no, it is not a trick question.)
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Re: Berlinski and critiques
Arthur V. Chadwick (firstname.lastname@example.org)
Wed, 10 Dec 1997 18:07:03 -0800
Wesley: You say:
Evolution as biologists define it has been observed. That is, there exist
instances of phenomena which meet the objective and quantifiable criteria
presented. These range from reversible changes in allele frequency as seen
in peppered moths up through observed speciation events (some of which are
considered to have crossed higher taxa).
I would like to hear the instances you describe that have been observed,
which cross higher taxa. Not that i doubt this has occurred, but I would
like to know who has seen it.
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MISURATA, LIBYA // Two flags honour the dead at the Martyrs and Missing Persons Centre in this war-battered city: One the red, black and green bars of Libya; one the serrated white and plum of Qatar.
"Qatar is our great ally, the crown on our heads," said Mohammed Bou Shaala, a co-founder of the centre greeting visitors early this month. "Everyone knows that."
But increasingly, Libyans are unsure. And they are asking why Qatar has shown such interest in their country.
The tiny, oil-and-gas-rich emirate, one of the richest countries in the world, played a major financial and military role helping the revolution that overturned decades of autocratic rule by Muammar Qaddafi.
Now, some Libyans worry that support has become meddling.
For Mr Bou Shaala, on the other hand, today's sceptics "would not say such things if they had seen what Qatar did."
At the martyrs' centre, hat-tips to Qatar's efforts are everywhere - from the Qatari flags outside to the one joined with Libya's banner on Mr Bou Shaala's lapel pin.
Doha was key to mustering Arab backing for the United Nations resolution in March that approved Nato air strikes against Qaddafi's regime.
Qatari warplanes joined the strikes. Qatar helped house Libyan refugees. It armed and trained anti-Qaddafi fighters.
In October it disclosed publicly that hundreds of its own troops were active in Libya.
Doha ran training and communications for the revolutionaries, Qatar's chief of military staff, Major General Hamad bin Ali Al Atiya, told Agence France-Presse.
"We acted as the link between the rebels and Nato forces," he said.
Those efforts fall within a larger quest by Qatar to punch above its weight globally.
Hosting a US airbase while maintaining relations with Hizbollah and Hamas, Qatar has carved a niche as an interlocutor between Islamists and Western governments.
In 2008, Doha helped diffuse an 18-month political crisis in Lebanon between pro-Western factions and those led by Hizbollah.
In the impoverished villages of southern Lebanon, Qatar's distinctive flag flies over rebuilt mosques and war memorials.
While support for Libyan rebels won praise and potential ground-floor access to Libya's economy, Doha's ultimate aim may be higher.
"As Qatar's elite see it, being at the forefront of popular Arab opinion and defending fellow Arabs against an onslaught from a widely hated dictator is a priceless commodity, both at home and abroad," wrote Qatar expert David Roberts in an article published in September on the website of Foreign Affairs magazine.
"In the coming post-Qaddafi era in Libya, Qatar wants to act as a translator and guide for those seeking access," wrote Mr Roberts, who is deputy director of the Doha branch of the Royal United Services Institute, a British foreign affairs think tank.
Some Libyan leaders have said recently that Qatar's ambitions go further still.
Former prime minister Mahmoud Jibril accused Qatar in an Al Arabiya interview last month of backing unnamed factions and "trying to play a role that is bigger than its true potential".
Two weeks ago, Libya's UN envoy, Mohammed Abdel Rahman Shalgam, said Qatar sought influence via Islamist protégés.
"They give money and weapons and they try to meddle in issues that do not concern them and we reject that," Mr Shalgam told Reuters.
Libya's most prominent cleric, Ali Al Salabi, and Tripoli military council chief Abdelhakim Belhadj are believed by many Libyans and some analysts to enjoy Qatari financial support.
Mr Al Salabi was once exiled in Qatar, which reputedly has helped fund a militia run by his brother, Ismail Al Salabi, Mr Roberts wrote.
Mr Belhadj once led the now-defunct Libyan Islamic Fighting Group and is seen as close to Mr Al Salabi.
Qatar denies interfering in Libyan affairs.
Nevertheless, the question preoccupies Libyan society. Three weeks ago it was featured on Kalima Al Haq - "The word of truth" - a radio call-in show by Tripoli's Radio Shababiya.
"Of course there's foreign meddling, from Qatar for example," said a female caller identified as Marwa. "It makes me fear our opening more than I should."
Many other callers expressed similar worries. The next day, Kalima Al Haq's host, Amal Elarbesh, reflected on them at Radio Shababiya's studio.
"As students we were always taught that Libya was strategically placed and had oil, so that foreigners wanted it," she said. "Today, Libyans still have this idea."
Some leaders, however, think fears of political meddling by foreign countries are overblown.
"Qatar may support Islamists, and France might support liberals, but in the end we'll have elections and Libyans will decide for themselves," said Hisham Karekshi, deputy chairman of Tripoli's governing council.
While Qatar has had relations with Libya's National Transitional Council, it had not directly approached the Tripoli council, Mr Karekshi said.
"But if Qatari diplomats turn up offering to build, to renovate, to provide services, why not? This would benefit the country," he said.
At the Martyrs and Missing Persons Centre in Misurata, Mr Bou Shaala stresses the help Qatar has already provided to his city.
"They brought us fuel, guns, ambulances that took our wounded from the streets to the hospitals," he said.
Alongside the disused weapons and hundreds of pictures of the killed and missing are photos of aid being unloaded from Qatari planes.
"As a city, we consider them our friends," he said. "As for politics, I don't know."
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13 Dec 2010: Report
‘Perverse’ Carbon Payments
Send Flood of Money to China
To offset their own carbon emissions, European companies have been overpaying China to incinerate a powerful greenhouse gas known as hfc 23. And in a bizarre twist, those payments have spurred the manufacture of a harmful refrigerant that is being smuggled into the U.S. and used illegally.
European legislators in Brussels have discovered that the strategy they devised to combat climate change is helping subsidize the economy of their, and America’s, major global competitor — China. European companies have been overpaying Chinese companies more than 70 times the cost to eliminate a potent greenhouse gas — triflouromethane, or hfc 23, a byproduct of manufacturing a refrigerant that has been banned in developed countries and is being phased out in developing ones.
In order to offset their own greenhouse gases, companies and utilities in Europe that are subject to the emission limits of the Kyoto Protocol have been paying vastly inflated prices to Chinese companies to destroy hfc 23, and in the process have been providing the Chinese government with hundreds of millions of dollars in tax revenue to compete against Europe’s own “green” industries. European concern about this practice was a major source of contention during last week’s climate negotiations in Cancun, as the UN attempted to defend the integrity of the multi-billion dollar global carbon offset market.
And in an odd twist, the incentives offered through the UN’s Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) also appear to be stimulating production of an ozone-depleting refrigerant gas that has been landing in the U.S. black market. Investigations by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Two European Parliament members have alleged a ‘gross misuse of European consumers’ money.’
and U.S. Customs and Border Protection have led to the conviction of several smugglers who have illegally imported the ozone-depleting refrigerant, hcfc 22, into the U.S. for sale to trucking companies, supermarkets, automotive supply shops, and other large-scale users of refrigerant gases. The illegal refrigerant is significantly cheaper than non-ozone-depleting refrigerants permitted in the U.S., a price discrepancy triggered partially by the large overpayments to Chinese firms that have led to an ample supply of hcfc 22 on the international black market.
That black market completes a global circuit unique to the era of climate change: From China’s industrial zones, the credits for the greenhouse gases — bought and sold as commodities on the global carbon markets — flow to European companies that need them to continue polluting at home, while the underlying ozone-depleting gas responsible for creating those credits flows to American companies seeking discounted refrigerants.
“It’s perverse,” says Gerben-Jan Gerbrandy, a Dutch member of the European Parliament. “You have companies which make a lot of money by making more of this gas, and then getting paid to destroy it.”
Two European nonprofits, the Germany-based CDM Watch and the London-based Environmental Investigation Agency, kicked off the controversy when they asserted last summer that European companies were paying dramatically inflated prices for the emissions credits. Companies purchase the credits for about $15 a ton, while the actual cost for incinerating the gas in China or India is around 20 cents a ton. More than a billion dollars, the nonprofit groups concluded, have thus far been spent on the credits. Two members of the European Parliament have demanded an inquiry by the European Commission into the “gross misuse of European consumers’ money” in the UN-administered offset system.
“European consumers are paying a billion euros to buy something worth less than 100 million euros,” says Theodoros Skylakakis, a Greek member of the European Parliament, who, along with Gerbrandy, demanded that the commission begin tightening the rules governing the hfc 23 offsets in the European Trading System. “Some people are getting extremely rich because of a loophole in our Clean Development Mechanism,” says Gerbrandy.
Hfc 23 is, per pound, 11,000 times more potent than CO2 as a contributor to global warming. The European Union has adopted a carbon emissions
Hfc 23 is, per pound, 11,000 times more potent than CO2 as a contributor to global warming.
trading scheme, and more than half of the 474 million tons of emission credits now utilized to offset companies’ emissions are involved in paying firms in China and elsewhere to destroy hfc 23. Major utilities in Germany, the UK, the Netherlands, Italy, and Japan rely heavily on these emissions offsets, as do a number of U.S. companies operating in Europe, including Chevron and Conoco Philips. Major U.S. financial houses, such as Goldman Sachs, Citibank, and JP Morgan Chase have significant holdings in the credits linked to the gas.
The greenhouse gas is a byproduct of the manufacture of the refrigerant gas. And the offset credits paid to Chinese and Indian companies to eliminate the former, according to CDM Watch, have actually stimulated increased production of the latter — the ozone-depleting refrigerant hcfc 22, which is itself a potent greenhouse gas. CDM Watch has compiled records showing that companies in China and India have significantly increased production of hcfc 22 in order to receive funds to incinerate the byproduct gas, hfc 23. Some basic math suggests why: According to the Environmental Investigations Agency, the price for a ton of hcfc 22 fluctuates from $1,000 to $2,000, while that same ton can generate about $5,000 to $6,000 in hfc 23 Clean Development Mechanism credits.
The United Nations Environment Programme reports that from 2004 to 2009, production of the ozone-depleting hcfc 22 refrigerant gas grew from 15 million to 28 million tons, paralleling the evolution of the offset program intended to eliminate its byproduct, hfc 23. But Hcfc 22 itself is actually the replacement gas for the ozone-destroying chlorofluorocarbons that have largely been eliminated under the 1989 Montreal Protocol, a treaty signed by 196 countries to reduce depletion of atmospheric ozone. Hcfc 22 is already illegal in Europe, and is sold in the U.S. only in small quantities strictly licensed by the EPA. Developing countries have until 2030 to phase out hcfc 22 completely.
Some of the rapidly increasing production of hcfc 22 is being used in developing countries, where a growing middle class can afford for the first time to purchase products using refrigerants, such as air conditioners. But the illegal refrigerant is increasingly showing up in the U.S. black market.
Over the past year, in an effort dubbed Operation Catch-22, federal investigations have led to several convictions of people smuggling hcfc 22 into the U.S. In one instance, Alex Garrido, president of an import-export
The European offset payments are setting the Kyoto and Montreal Protocols on a collision course.
firm called Kroy Corporation, was arrested after an Operation Catch-22 team caught him on surveillance tape receiving, storing, and preparing to sell illegal shipments of hcfc 22 from China. Garrido pled guilty and was sentenced in February to two-and-a-half years in prison. In another instance, the St. Louis-based Marcone Company, a wholesale supplier for hardware stores and large construction projects, was accused of violating the Clean Air Act for attempting to sell more than 220,000 pounds of the illegal refrigerant.
Thomas Land, who works in the EPA’s Office of International Negotiations — and who is involved in coordinating diplomatic and enforcement efforts for the Montreal Protocol — says that the UN-administered subsidies to eliminate hfc 23 have led to an oversupply of hcfc 22. And the increasing supply has led to a decreasing price. “Because production is subsidized, the prices are artificially low,” Land says.
This has made the illicit gas far more financially attractive to large-scale users of refrigerants in the United States than the more expensive, non-ozone-depleting refrigerants. In this way, the European offset payments are setting the Kyoto and Montreal Protocols — the two seminal environmental treaties of our time — on a collision course.
China, the world’s largest emitter of greenhouse gases, is at the center of the brewing controversy. China is host to two-thirds of the 474 million tons of emission reductions that the UN says have resulted from the sale of offsets, according to a team of researchers at Dartmouth College’s Climate Justice Research Project
, who have been studying the global offset markets. Overall, 60 cents of every dollar spent on the global carbon markets goes to China; and 50 of that 60 cents goes to eliminating hfc’s. Of the 19 refrigerant factories receiving credits through the Clean Development Mechanism, 11 are in China, which accounts for 80 percent of the hfc credits. (Another five hfc projects are in India, and one each is in South Korea, Mexico, and Argentina.) European companies and countries have channeled more than a billion dollars into Chinese projects aimed at eliminating hfc’s.
In response to the huge windfall of profits under the scheme, the Chinese government has imposed a 65-percent tax on all corporate profits from emissions reductions schemes. Over the last five years, the tax revenues have amounted to at least $650 million. The money is channeled into an arm of the Chinese Ministry of Finance called the CDM Fund.
Though the funds are generated via the Clean Development Mechanism, the government has no obligation to report how they are being used. As of October, according to the fund’s website, it appears that none of the money had yet been spent. When, and if, those hundreds of millions of dollars are spent, a significant portion is earmarked for the further development of China’s renewable energy industries, including wind and solar power — technologies in which China is already beginning to dominate world markets.
“We are providing unacceptable subsidies to Chinese industries that are already close to dominating the global market in renewable energy technologies,” says the European Parliament’s Gerbrandy. In other words, to Europe’s — and America’s — competitors.
In the last week of November, CDM Watch and the Environmental Investigations Agency presented their critique to the executive board of the
The controversy over hfc's came to a head at the climate negotiations in Cancun last week.
UN’s Framework Convention on Climate Change. The central question, according to Eva Filzmoser, program director of CDM Watch, is whether the hfc credits, vital to the functioning of the cap-and-trade system borne of the Kyoto Protocol, actually deliver the emission reductions being paid for. “The gap between the price for the credits and the actual costs for incinerating the gas,” she says, “means we have a huge amount of money not being spent on actually reducing emissions.”
The claim puts the UN in a quandary. It has no power to rescind past credits, even those whose integrity is called seriously into question. Reassessing the validity of credits that account for at least half of the capital now churning into the offsets could set off a chain reaction, challenging the structure and integrity of the global carbon markets. The International Emissions Trading Agency, representing the world’s carbon traders, has expressed opposition to the changes, stating that the decision be based on “sound environmental and economic analyses of the consequences.”
On Nov. 25, the European Commission proposed that the European Trading System (ETS) no longer accept hfc credits starting in 2013. That proposal awaits approval by the European Parliament and the EU’s Council of Ministers. If approved, it would put the UN in another quandary: How to assess the real value of the bulk of certified emission reductions already on the market, and how to move forward when the ETS — the world’s biggest market by far for emission credits — will be refusing to accept them in three years? UN officials declared that they would study the matter, while also issuing another 20 million tons worth of credits for an hfc project, to be used by a consortium of European utilities.
The controversy over hfc’s came to a head at the climate negotiations in Cancun last week. Last Tuesday, Chen Huan, deputy director of China’s CDM Fund, the recipient of the hfc tax revenues, denounced the attempts to reduce the use of hfc credits as “irresponsible,” and attacked the calculations on which they are based as “implausible” and lacking in documentation. He threatened that Chinese industries would vent hfc gases without government controls if the subsidy program was discontinued, telling Point Carbon News — a market monitoring and news service — that efforts to stop the credits are “not acceptable for China because it deviates from the principle of common but differentiated responsibilities.”
The Environmental Investigations Agency and CDM Watch responded by accusing the Chinese of holding the climate “hostage” and saying that the funds already generated through the hfc tax revenues “would be enough to fund the actual cost of HFC-23 destruction in China for at least 50 years, well beyond the date when HCFCs will be phased out by the Montreal Protocol.”
Meanwhile, money continues to pour into the Chinese CDM Fund, and Operation Catch-22 enforcement agents continue to lay traps for the new generation of ozone gas smugglers.
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(This week’s Time comes with a mini-essay by me about Harry Potter and What It All Means. Because this Potter fellow just isn’t getting his due in the press — damn that biased, death-eating MSM! The slot for the piece in the mag is fairly short, so I’m going to post the unedited, extended-play version here.)
Joanne Rowling has three fancy houses and more money than the Queen, but she still doesn’t have a middle name: the “K” is just an empty invention, which she added for effect when she published her first book. Whatever she’s doing, it’s working. Since 1997 — the year Princess Diana died and the word “weblog” was born — Rowling has sold more than 325 million books. The fifth Harry Potter movie is eking out respectful reviews, and the final novel in the series, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, will be released at midnight on July 20th. A theme park is in the works in Orlando, Fla. By now quite enough has been said about Harry Potter. But what does Harry Potter say about us?
Rowling’s work is so familiar that we’ve forgotten how radical it really is. Look at her literary forebears. In The Lord of the Rings J.R.R. Tolkien fused his ardent Catholicism with a deep nostalgic love for the unspoiled English landscape. C.S. Lewis was a devout Anglican whose Chronicles of Narnia form an extended argument for Christian faith (or at any rate for faith in Aslan. Close enough.) Now look at Rowling’s books. What’s missing? If you want to know who dies in Harry Potter, the answer is easy: God.
Oh, Rowling has had her share of outrage from the religious right, but they’ve missed the point completely. Rowling isn’t a Satanist — if anything the Satanists should be as offended as the Christians. Harry Potter lives in a world that has been scrubbed clean of any religion or spirituality of any kind. He is surrounded by ghosts, and has even eavesdropped on the afterlife in the basement of the Ministry of Magic, but Harry has no one to pray to, even if he were so inclined, which he isn’t. Not even the lovably prissy Hermione darkens a church door. In real life Rowling is said to be a member of the Church of Scotland, but on paper she has more in common with celebrity atheists Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens than she does with Tolkien and Lewis.
What does Harry have instead of God? Rowling’s answer, at once glib and profound, is that Harry’s power comes from love. (“Big deal!” thinks Harry when Dumbledore offers him this revelation in Half-Blood Prince.) This charming notion represents a massive cultural sea change. In the new millennium magic comes not from God, or nature, or anything grander or more mystical than a mere human emotion. It’s the most anthropo-centric vision possible: even in our fantasies, where we give ourselves permission to believe in dementors and blast-ended skrewts, love is all you need, and love is all you get. By choosing Rowling as the reigning dreamer of our era, we have chosen the most hard-nosed, realistic of fantasists, a writer who dreams of a secular, bureaucratized, all too human sorcery, where psychology and technology have superseded the sacred.
And we congratulate ourselves on having tossed aside all that high-flown mystical stuff. But when the end comes — and it’s almost here — where will that leave Harry? He’ll face tougher choices than his fantasy ancestors. Frodo was last seen skipping town with the Elves, en route to the Grey Havens. Lewis sent the Pevensie kids to the paradise of Aslan’s Land. Something tells me no such comfortable retirement awaits Harry in the Deathly Hallows.
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Gisele Bundchen isn't just a supermodel -- she's also a superhero. Sort of.
In fact, the world's most sought-after supermodel and new mom has created a new animated web series called "Gisele and The Green Team," right here on AOL about a cause near and dear to her heart.
ParentDish sat down with the Brazilian beauty to find out why she developed a show about saving the environment.
ParentDish: Congrats on your new series, Gisele and The Green Team.
Gisele Bundchen: Thank you so much. I am so excited because I have been working on this for the past two years and I can't believe it is finally coming to life.
PD: What message do you want this series to send to viewers?
GB: My motto is the three R's: Reduce, reuse and recycle. The less garbage we produce the better. It was shocking to me to see how much a bottle water costs. Not only do those plastic bottles equal waste but if we don't take care of our planet, we will soon have no fresh water left to drink.
PD: You have such a busy life. With all you have going on, what made you take on a project like this?
GB: I wanted to find ways to educate kids and adults about a subject very important to me and what should be to them, saving the planet. Aside from the personal environmental projects I am working on through my website giselebundchen.com, I am also an ambassador to the UN for the environment. In addition to teaching people about how we can save our earth this program will also teach girls about empowerment and self-esteem.
PD: Why is this series targeted at only girls and not boys?
GB: I know, considering I am surrounded by the three gorgeous men in my life. I love my men!
PD: That is true, so why not gear it towards them too?
GB: I grew up in a household with five sisters and having that experience I wanted to teach girls about empowerment, confidence and self-esteem. This series centers on five female characters who are best friends/supermodels and heroes. These band together because it is their mission to educate viewers about team work and how they all need one another to help fight the evil that is destroying the planet. On this show, no one is better than the next. I want to enforce equality and how everyone who plays on a team is equal.
PD: What is it like being a cartoon character?
GB: It is funny. I wanted my character's name to be GG since that is what my stepson calls me, but we wound up naming her Gisele and she kind of looks like me and encompasses the idea of me. It was funny to see myself in the form of a cartoon.
PD: Tell me about the characters on this program.
GB: They are all different and I created them that way because I wanted to represent all of the different countries and continents that make up our world. Everything that happens in one place affects the other.
PD: Why a cartoon?
GB: It is a great way to draw in kids and then eventually get them to sit down and watch it with their parents. Each episode, which is about 2-3 minutes long, will teach viewers about ways we can conserve and be more eco friendly.
PD: At what age should parents start educating their kids about the environment and going green?
GB: This series is great for children 7 and up.
PD: Now aside from the show, the site will also offer interactive games to teach kids about being eco friendly. Tell me about that.
GB: Yes, we created an area on the site where people can share their ideas on how to save the planet, interactive games that will teach people about what we can do to be more proactive and tips on what you can do to embrace your suggestions.
PD: Can you provide our readers with some tips/suggestions on what they can do to save the planet?
GB: Take shorter showers, don't leave the water running while you are brushing your teeth, only run the dishwasher when it is full, if you wash dishes like me and have a double sink fill the other side with water to rinse off the soap, buy your produce from local farms so we can cut down on fuel use, use hydrogen light bulbs in lamps and buy a filter system instead of buying bottled water.
PD: So saving the environment has been a passion of your for years?
GB: Yes. As a matter of fact I have a flip flop line in Brazil. For the past five years we have been in business a percentage of all sales go to different environmental organizations there and have allowed us to plant over 150,000 trees in one region of Brazil.
PD: What has doing this show taught you about the environment?
GB: I was aware of a lot of things because of my devotion to the cause for so long. Because of my personal experience I was able to develop and oversee the content that was used for each episode.
PD: You mentioned before you wash dishes. I find it hard to believe the world's biggest supermodel washes dishes.
GB: Are you kidding me? I love it. Cleaning the house is actually very therapeutic for me. Becoming a parent has given me a whole new perspective on life. I can't put into words how much I love it.
PD: Speaking of being green -- what are you and Tom (her husband, pro football player Tom Brady) doing to be environmentally?
GB: We are building a home in Los Angeles and for light we bought hydrogen light bulbs because they use less electricity and last longer, we have solar panels, we are using recycled wood so we are not cutting down new trees.
PD: What will you teach your son Benjamin about being eco friendly?
GB: Our house in Costa Rica is powered by solar panels and wind. We have a water collection system since it rains anywhere between 4-5 months out of the year and I gave him toys from his older brother Jack as opposed to buying all new toys and creating more waste. Hand me downs work well in this case.
PD: Is it hard to be eco friendly when you have a baby like Benjamin?
GB: I had my first munchkin, Jack (Tom Brady's son with Bridget Moynahan), before I gave birth to Benjamin. After spending so much time with Jack I saw how he wanted to play with the stuff I was using instead of the toys we bought him. In terms of clothes, I bought Jack so many clothes and am now using them for Benjamin. Look, when I was growing up my sisters and I wore hand-me-downs and am now doing the same thing. This all goes back to my motto: Reduce, recycle and reuse. The more we buy the more we encourage the manufacturers to produce more stuff.
PD: Do Jack and Benjamin get along?
GB: Yes they love each other. They have a lot of fun together.
PD: How has life changed since you had Benjamin?
GB: I have to get my time really organized right now. I don't have a lot of free time. I am on a strict schedule so I can get everything done. Since I became a mom I make a list of my priorities and making time for family is No. 1.
PD: So what's on your list?
GB: I make time for work, my husband and my kids. Those three things are on my list every day. Those are the things that my life embraces.
PD: Your job and Tom's job tends to take you on the road a lot. How do you keep your marriage intact?
GB: It is good to have a date night. I love date night and it is a great thing I promote. We always have date night at least once a week. Benjamin goes to sleep around 7:30 pm, and if Tom is home, we always have dinner together so we have time to talk. You have to make time for what I call a couple's relationship.
PD: How old is Benjamin?
GB: He is 11 months and so delicious. I try really hard to be the best mom I can be and I also try not to be too hard on myself.
PD: What about Jack. Is it hard being a stepmom?
GB: No. He is great. I love having him in my life. He is a great kid.
PD: When I met you four years ago you said your goal was to get married and have a family. Mission accomplished?
GB: Yes. I am very grateful and very happy to have them. I am so blessed.
PD: Since you come from a big family is that the next goal -- to have one of your own?
GB: Yes, we are working on that one.
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I am Taryn Simon, and we are installing A Living Man declared Dead and Other Chapters at Tate Modern. It was produced over a four year period in which I travelled around the world recording bloodlines and their related stories. And in each of the 18 chapters you see the external forces of territory, governance, power, religion, colliding with the internal forces of psychological and physical inheritance. The works are attempting to map the relationships among chance, blood and other components of fate; trying to see or struggling to find some sort of code or pattern embedded within that. The chapters are constructed through three parts, the first being a portrait panel which systematically orders the members of a specific bloodline. Then a text panel, which provides corresponding information in list form, and then there is a third panel which I call the Footnote Panel, and it includes images that represent fragments of the overall story, sometimes documents or personal effects, and the beginnings of other stories.
The portraits themselves are always photographed on this background of the non-place, this neutral cream background that eliminates any races, any environment or context. There is almost a periodic table effect in the way that they are laid out, and it’s extremely ordered. And then the Footnote Panel introduces a certain entropy. There is a more abstract and less absolute configuration, whereas the portrait panels are very specifically ordered, and something that I can’t edit or curate; it is a specific, determined line. And the work does seek to look at stories and individuals as past’s future and future’s past, and these ideas of repetitions and even that we are all sort of ghosts of another time and a time to come.
Chapter One was produced in Utah Pradesh, India. I documented a bloodline in which four members of the bloodline are actually listed as dead. Family members tried to interrupt the hereditary transfer of land by declaring other members dead so they could seize their land. So in that, I am actually photographing individuals who on paper do not exist; and photography being the greatest proof of life, there is this strange irony between that. I was interested in the metaphor established in that work as something that can refer to the entire work. We are all steadily heading towards death.
In Australia, in 1859 the rabbit was introduced and the population exploded, and the government has continually been trying to produce diseases to control the rabbit population. So here you see a government-controlled experiment in which all of these rabbits have been injected with a lethal disease, and they are waiting to see if it will be an effective population control method. So since the taking of those photographs, all those rabbits have died.
And then in the Footnote Panel you see a chocolate bilby which Hays Chocolate, in collaboration with the Foundation for Rabbit Free Australia, has been eliminating the production of Easter rabbits in chocolate and replacing that with the Easter Bilby to popularise an animal that they are comfortable with keeping alive, because they want the public to be more comfortable with killing the rabbit. It is this view of an experiment, and the idea that experiments have been something that we all participate in, perhaps with our knowledge, or without.
There is an ordering principle in all of the works, where they are scientifically ordered, where it is the eldest member of a generation followed by their descendants, and then their descendants, and it repeats and so on. And in the piece in Lebanon, when you arrive at this one man named Robarbo Dodini, he is both the youngest member of a line… but then he also becomes the eldest member of that line, because he is a member of the Druze, and he and his family believe that he is the reincarnation of his grandfather. Therefore when you arrive at him, the pattern repeats because he is both his father’s son, and his father’s father. So the pattern keeps going and going and going. It also tries to consider this idea that we keep going, people keep being produced. And does that all amount to some sort of evolution, or are we on repeat?
I don’t know that there is an answer. It’s kind of this relentless cycle that just keeps going, and people are born and people die, and the stories keep coming and coming. It’s kind of this unending machine-like churning out of stories and individuals, and to what end is completely unknown. I guess I’m trying to organise it for myself!
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The US Senate will consider a new sanctions package against Iran on Thursday, in which oil and economic embargos will be considered in order to force Iran to abandon its nuclear development program.
Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid will introduce the new legislation, to strength penalties signed into law by President Barack Obama in December. The new legislation would close loopholes enabling trading with Iranian banks and oil and tanker companies which exist in the December legislation. It will also include sanctions on companies supplying telecommunications equipment used to monitor opposition.
According to Reuters, the bill is a revised version of one passed in February by the Senate Banking Committee and has the support of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC). That bill was brought before the Senate in March, but failed to receive a “unanimous consent” voice vote because some senators sought amdnemdnets which would sanction companies that insure trade with Iran.
On May 23, Tehran is set to resume nuclear program-related talks with representatives from the UN Security Council – US, Britain, China, France, Russia – and Germany which began on April 14.
In the meantime, Iran continues to funnel illegal weapons to Syria to assist Syrian President Bashar Assad in his crackdown on opposition in his country, according to a report on Wednesday by the Associated Press.
An anonymous UN Security Council diplomat identified at least two new illegal arms shipments to Syria, with a possible third cargo containing rockets for arming the Taliban in Afghanistan.
The U.N. Security Council imposed its first sanctions on Iran in December 2006. Since then, Iran has continued to enrich uranium, despite increasing international pressure.
Iran insists its nuclear program is for peaceful purposes.
According to a panel of sanctions-monitoring experts to the Security Council’s Iran sanctions committee, Iran has circumvented sanctions by routinely changing the names, ownership, and flags of seafaring vessels, as well as using front companies, falsifying documents, and obtaining contraband through Iranian nationals around the world, as well as utilizing money transfer businesses to keep business up to speed.
Israel and the United States have made frequent allusions to the possibility of military response to Iran’s refusal to halt its nuclear program. In a closed meeting on Tuesday, US Ambassador to Israel Dan Shapiro said the United States has prepared and tested military methods to attack Iran, if it should become necessary to employ that option.
About the Author: Malkah Fleisher is a graduate of Cardozo Law School in New York City. She is an editor/staff writer at JewishPress.com and co-hosts a weekly Israeli FM radio show. Malkah lives with her husband and two children on the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem.
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[Ansteorra] Ducal Perogative
wmeriic at tx.rr.com
Sat Nov 10 02:01:33 PST 2007
Well said. I have heard people, who were frustrated by political situations
in the SCA, say that our system of promotion and governance is just unfair.
Personally, I find that unfairness part of what makes the SCA so attractive.
After all, we are here to reenact the Middle Ages; a time in which it would
be very hard to find "fair" government.
I have also heard people say they don't understand why we have to have rank
and structure, or at least it would be better if rank was given on grounds
other than martial combat or the acceptance into an order.
Again, my replies are centered on the fact that we are reenacting the Middle
Ages; specifically court life. Rank and structure was an intimate part of
court life and one would have to learn to live and work with the formalities
that come along with such a system. And in regard to the fairness of it, it
is not intended to be fair.
In our society I think I can safely say that generally rulers have the best
interest of the populace in mind. They may not be perfect but they are
trying to improve our life and our society. That is what makes them such
good rulers even though they are chosen by what we would deem in modern
sensibility the worst possible method.
Outside of our society we have to accept that human nature is to become
corrupt with power. Modern forms of government are oriented around the
assumption that the rulers will be corrupt and they try to mitigate the
damage from such corruption. It is in my humble belief that no form of
government can truly succeed in the face of such corruption. It is human
nature that needs to be changed, not the structure of government is society
is to greatly improve (c.f. Star Trek :->).
I also think, on a side, that such short reigns (six months for kings to
just a few years for barons) also help mitigate the temptation of becoming
corrupt when in power.
From: ansteorra-bounces at lists.ansteorra.org
[mailto:ansteorra-bounces at lists.ansteorra.org] On Behalf Of robert segrest
Sent: Saturday, November 10, 2007 12:23 AM
To: ansteorra at lists.ansteorra.org
Subject: [Ansteorra] Ducal Perogative
I have been intrigued by the ducal perogative ever since I came to
Ansteorra. To the best of my understanding, we are the only kingdom to have
this provision. As a student of government, I find this variation on our
autocratic traditions to be very interesting as it seems to replace rule by
the strongest, with a sort of semi-oligarchy wherein dukes have the ability
to alter the selection process without necessarily obligating themselves to
reign. Where most, if not all kingdoms have a provision that fighters must
be acceptable to the crown, we seem to forego using that tool in favor of
ducal eliminations. I suppose that this provides an undesired fighter the
opportunity to beat an array of dukes and therefore take the throne in a
sort of trial by combat. I'm not sure whether this is better or worse than
simply forbidding a fighter from entering in the first place, although I
suppose there is a small element of democracy introduced. At any rate, I
am continually amazed that a system of governance that theoretically should
be one of the worst possible methods for choosing leaders seems to usually
produce high quality administration, not only from our monarchs, but also
from the officers they appoint. So much for the benefits of democracy.
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Someone named “Jonathan” wrote in and asked: “So I’m just curious to know whether you would extend miranda rights to foreign terrorists operating on American soil? Why should an American who joins say Al Qaeda be entitled to a trial or a lawyer or any other right under our Constitution?”***(note below)
My answer to these questions [and the pathetic Senate debate excerpted here from the December 7, 2011 Daily Show with Jon Steward (
)] is that, contrary to current civil rights practice in the United States, governmentally imposed categories and mandatory categorization of people NEVER promotes equality but ALWAYS tends to support and advance both tyranny and real inequality. Nobody said it better than Rand Paul: “Detaining citizens without a trial is not American.”
By contrast, voluntary categorization, classification, and all assertions of identity originating from the people are among the surest guarantors and symptoms of freedom and genuine equality. In fact, I would submit that the voluntary and intentional creation and maintenance of identity is one of the Great Traditions of the United States of America which has defined some of the greatest and most distinctive events in the history of this Continent, from the settlement of the Pilgrim Nonconformist Separatists in New England in the 17th Century through the “Great Awakening” of the 18th Century, the Mormon emigration Westward (and many smaller “separate community, separate lifeway” experiments) in the 19th Century (including the Amish), right up until the Cultural upheaval of the 1960s, when “Hippies” and “Flower Children” sought to give a new meaning to Freedom in America. The decision to maintain cultural separateness has historically been protected by the United States Supreme Court in the greatest of its “substantive due process” decisions (e.g. Meyer v. Nebraska, 262 U.S. 390, 399, 401 (1923) and Wisconsin v. Yoder, 406 U.S. 205, 232—233 (1972)).**
I would go so far as to maintain that involuntarily classifying people or sorting them into “favored” and “disfavored” groups as a matter of law without trial always leads to violations of due process. No movies or other literature ever illustrated this inherent injustice in the prejudicial and discriminatory processes of classification and labeling people one way or another than V-for-Vendetta in 2005 and Paul Verhoeven’s Black Book in 2006.
I would also say that the only real PURPOSES people EVER have in classifying their fellow man (and woman) into involuntary groups is to deny them due process, and that this is simply intolerable under the American Constitution.
Note that the Bill of Rights contains no categories of persons, but only restrictions on the power of government: absolutely and unqualifiedly stated. Rather, Amendments I, II, IV, IX, and X refer simply to “the people.” Amendment V refers to “no person” and “any person”, since criminal prosecutions are almost always, by definition, brought on a one-by-one individual basis. Even Nazi Germany, for example, never indicted “the Jews”, nor, during the 1950s, were there ever prosecutions against “the Communists”. Due process of law simply does not allow for categorical indictments.
Finally, Amendment VI refers only to “the accused”, again an individual classification. (Despite the customary usage of the masculine gender throughout the bill of rights when referring to individuals, no one has ever suggested that the framers intended these rights only to apply to men: it was the grammatical economy of the time not to say “he and she” or “his and hers” or “him and her” as it is sometimes thought more acceptable to do now.)
So these are the major reasons why, in response to Jonathan’s question, I believe that “Miranda rights” (i.e. the full inventory of rights Fifth and Sixth Amendment rights) should be extended to all “foreign terrorists operating on American soil.” To do otherwise would be to “prejudge” both who is foreign and who is a terrorist, and would make both words “foreign” and “terrorists” into prejudicial, disfavored categories exactly analogous to “Negro” under Jim Crow in the South, “Jew” in Nazi Germany, and “Bourgeois” or “Capitalist” in Stalinist Russia.
What the 1996 AEDPA, the 2001 PATRIOT Act, and the Senate in passing S.B. 1867 have done, though, is actually MUCH worse than MERELY “discriminating against foreigners and terrorists” and in fact, much worse than “merely discriminating against, Blacks or Jews or even (to give two give two examples of a super-irrationally feared and overused but extremely vague pair of categories in modern law) “Sex Offender” and “Illegal Immigrant.” No, the Category of “Terrorist” alone is “void for vagueness” as a matter of law. See Papachrisou v. Jacksonville, 405 U.S. 156, 169-170 (1972), and Kolender v. Lawson (Kolender v Lawson, 461 U.S. 352 (1982), attached here in adobe.pdf):
. . . “As generally stated, the void-for-vagueness doctrine requires that a penal statute define the criminal offense with sufficient definiteness that ordinary people can understand what conduct is prohibited and in a manner that does not encourage arbitrary and discriminatory enforcement.” Kolender v. Lawson, 461 U.S. 352, 357, 75 L. Ed. 2d 903, 103 S. Ct. 1855 (1983).
(On the whole, the text of Papachristou v. City of Jacksonville is more amusing for its analysis of how the distinction between “idle rich” and “vagrant” under the City of Jacksonville, Florida’s “Vagrancy” ordinance blurred into meaninglessness….Papachristou v City of Jacksonville 405 US 156 92 SCt 839 02-24-1972). ”Terrorism” as a status crime under S.B. 1867 or category of criminal conduct is void for all the same reasons as was “vagrancy.”
What the Senate has done in S.B. 1867 is worse than “mere discrimination” against any of those categorical groups because in each case (Black, Jew, Sex Offender, Illegal Immigrant) there is at least a fairly narrow and objectively determinable set of traits or characteristics which define membership in the group. There may be ambiguity at the edges, people of mixed race and ethnicity, “sex offenders” convicted of “statutory rape” where the girl lied about her age in an objectively credible way, cases of “illegal immigration” where family hardship brought or kept people together for mutual support in violation of immigration laws, but on the whole, Blacks, Jews, Illegal Immigrants, and Sex Offenders all know who they are, and they can either “lie low” or decide to leave the country if they are able.
What is so totally monstrous about the category of “terrorist” in particular and “foreigner operating on American soil” is that theses terms are simultaneously vague, overbroad and subject to arbitrary and capricious application to the degree that even racial categories and categories based on convictions for violation of laws are not. And in the context of modern America, merely calling someone a terrorist MAKES them a terrorist, especially (but not only) when it is a member of the government making the accusation. To allow denial of Fifth and Sixth Amendment rights to individuals accused of terrorism is simply to allow the government to deny these rights to anyone it wants, whenever it wants, for any reason it wants. We now have a “Government of the Dictators, by the Dictators, and For the Dictators” (as Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address should honestly and probably have been written). The dictatorial decision about who is a terrorist is left open—WIDE OPEN. The Office of the Attorney General of the State of Texas (Greg Abbott and James Carlton Todd) have been calling the author of this blog a “dangerous paper terrorist” since 2005. (Yes, I admit it, I have occasionally thrown paper airplanes at government buildings in protest against policies with which I disagree, OK? So I guess that means I’m off to Guantanamo Bay? or the Domestic Equivalent? In fact, when arrested by Live Oak at the edge of the Suwannee River on the order of Houston Federal Judge Lynn N. Hughes in August 2006, they raised the prospect of Guantanamo Bay for me in Jacksonville, only half joking…at most half….or maybe not at all I’m still not sure, but here I am in West L.A./Santa Monica). It is not trivial at all. They have been throwing around these terms like “paper terrorist” ever since 9/11, and the purpose is, frankly, to create an atmosphere of terror and prejudice against the people so labelled. After that experience, I just “went with it”. But even in 2005, there was another disbarred attorney (Zena D. Crenshaw NJCDLP “National Judicial Conduct & Disability Project) who came in from Indiana to help Francis Wayne Williams-Montenegro with my family law case in 2005. She tried to show that the Attorney General was trying to prejudice the Court against me (it was difficult to make the Williamson County 395th Judicial District any more prejudiced against me than it was) by calling me “the most dangerous paper terrorist” in Texas, but it didn’t go anywhere. Zena rightly predicted that they were trying to sweep all Judicial Reform activists into the category of “terrorists.” In fact, Judicial Reform, Anti-Income Tax/IRS Reform, Prison Reform, Anti-Big Oil Activists, we’re ALL terrorists now. The FBI has guidelines and we “fit” even before S.B. 1867 became law. I said to Zena in 2004-5 and I say now that to be accused of anything so preposterous is a “red badge of courage” and I wore it proudly (still do in fact), despite the fact that my saying so on videotape resulted in my getting arrested AGAIN in December 2007 in Mexico City and brought to Los Angeles (this time on the order of Judge Janis Graham Jack of Corpus Christi, in the same Southern District of Texas in which Judge Lynn N. Hughes sits, and which George H. W. Bush [Bush 41st] calls “home”).
The way “Jonathan’s” questions above are written actually illustrated just how bad S.B. 1867 is: After asking whether I would “extend Miranda Rights to foreign terrorists operation on American soil” (I submit that such rights have existed ever since the adoption of the Bill of Rights and the problem is not “extending” such rights under the Fifth and Sixth Amendments, but in taking them away), “Jonathan” then asks: “Why should an American who joins say “Al Qaeda” be entitled to a trial or lawyer or any other right under our Constitution?”
This question is probably the scariest of all, if serious and not merely rhetorical. My answer is simple: BECAUSE AN AMERICAN WHO JOINS AL QAEDA IS STILL AN AMERICAN, THAT’S WHY. But Again, to Repeat, and this is SO IMPORTANT: the Bill of Rights do not discriminate between Citizens and Non-Citizens, Americans and Non-Americans, just “people” and “persons” (so the only categorical distinctions made implicitly, if any, would be those between “people” or “persons” and animals [sorry, PETA][or plants I guess---wheat plants have any Constitutional rights before being eaten...even for arbitrary and capricious purposes as being ground into flour and made into extremely unhealthy and fattening cakes or cookies....]) .
But then that does wrap up this little exercise about why S.B. 1867 is such a very bad law: Americans can be characterized as “terrorists” and reduced to ashes by such categorization. And it could be that “Jonathan” has more confidence in the meaning of these terms than I do. I happen to believe that “Al Qaeda” was basically created and established, fostered, aided, and abetted, by the Bush-Reagan administration and set loose to create “domestic terrorism” to justify the very repression of civil liberties which have taken place since the Fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989-90 and the consequent evaporation of the Cold War as a reason for suppressing freedom and the Bill of Rights. So I think “Al Qaeda” is a government made fraud, that 9/11 was a U.S. government-sponsored “false flag” attack, and that Oklahoma City MAY have been a government-sponsored incident of false terrorism. (Please view this brilliant 5 minute summary, text also copied below at Note*:
In support of these hypotheses of mine, I can only point to patterns of history: from 1963-1972, from John F. Kennedy through George Corley Wallace, a series of public assassinations by public shootings of “troublesome” non-conformist politicians took place in a waive of “lone gunmen” with no precedent in American History, and no tradition that survived. The failed attacks on Ford and Reagan were just that, failures, and were easily traceable either to Squeaky Fromm/ Manson or John Hinkley personal and family psychological problems.
It is hard to believe that the generation that came of age during the decade 1963-1972 simply bred a series of “lone gunmen” who acted without obvious motive (but all happened to oppose, directly or indirectly, the policies and power of Lyndon Baines Johnson, even though John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Jr., and George C. Wallace were all at least nominally allies or at least in the same [Democratic] Party at one time or another, though Wallace ran Third-Party [American Independent] in 1968 and Malcolm X, though he hated all Democrats “categorically” as “Dixiecrats” was partially allied with Johnson on the question of Civil Rights).
It is equally hard to believe that another Decade long episode, namely the series of incidents of Domestic “Terrorism” or at least confrontation between Federal and Private parties that the Government sought to characterize somehow as “terroristic” from Ruby Ridge in 1992-9/11/2001, was merely a historical accident and not planned. ALL the major terrorist acts since 9/11 have occurred in Europe….THAT is the legacy of 2001-2011. Every decade has a different set of problems, with no overlap at all between the “Assassination” decade and the “Terrorism” Decade (unless you count the early 70s epidemic of hijacking which led to early restrictions on air-travel as partly overlapping with the decade of assassination). No, it seems that the Government picks its crisis formula based on what it wants to achieve and then “stages” criminal acts and history accordingly. So, Jonathan, whoever you are, does this answer your question? Do you really want to live in a country where they can decide, tomorrow, that YOU are a terrorist and lock you up forever?
****I know only a few Jonathans… I hope that “Jonathan” who is the author of these questions is posing them only for rhetorical purposes to test my commitment to moral consistency and philosophical coherence. Because, if the author of these questions is serious, and if he reflects widespread opinion in America, then…. I’m even more depressed about the passage of Senate Bill 1867 than I was before. I can only hope this Jonathan is Dr. Jonathan Harris Levy (Brimstone & Co.)(
), formerly attorney for noted Orange County Dentist Orly Taitz and (the one and only) other William Howard Taft Law School graduate I’ve ever encountered, because that would just confirm my suspicion that Orly supports the 93 bad guys who voted for this bill…. If it’s anyone of any higher level of academic achievement in law than the William Howard Taft Law School involved in presenting these questions, well that’s just demoralizing….
**If we desire homogeneity in this Country, we are well on the way to a “shake and bake” society of people no more different than one box of hamburger helper is from another. I do not personally desire such homogeneity, but I think it is best left to the people to make voluntary associations and define local color and establish meaningful cultural diversity by devolving power downward rather than concentrating it upward.
Everything you ever wanted to know about the 9/11 conspiracy theory in under 5 minutes.
TRANSCRIPT: On the morning of September 11, 2001, 19 men armed with boxcutters directed by a man on dialysis in a cave fortress halfway around the world using a satellite phone and a laptop directed the most sophisticated penetration of the most heavily-defended airspace in the world, overpowering the passengers and the military combat-trained pilots on 4 commercial aircraft before flying those planes wildly off course for over an hour without being molested by a single fighter interceptor.
These 19 hijackers, devout religious fundamentalists who liked to drink alcohol, snort cocaine, and live with pink-haired strippers, managed to knock down 3 buildings with 2 planes in New York, while in Washington a pilot who couldn’t handle a single engine Cessna was able to fly a 757 in an 8,000 foot descending 270 degree corskscrew turn to come exactly level with the ground, hitting the Pentagon in the budget analyst office where DoD staffers were working on the mystery of the 2.3 trillion dollars that Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld had announced “missing” from the Pentagon’s coffers in a press conference the day before, on September 10, 2001.
Luckily, the news anchors knew who did it within minutes, the pundits knew within hours, the Administration knew within the day, and the evidenceliterally fell into the FBI’s lap. But for some reason a bunch of crazy conspiracy theorists demanded an investigation into the greatest attack on American soil in history.
The investigation was delayed, underfunded, set up to fail, a conflict of interest and a cover up from start to finish. It was based on testimonyextracted through torture, the records of which were destroyed. It failed to mention the existence of WTC7, Able Danger, Ptech, Sibel Edmonds, OBL and the CIA, and the drills of hijacked aircraft being flown into buildings that were being simulated at the precise same time that those events were actually happening. It was lied to by the Pentagon, the CIA, the Bush Administration and as for Bush and Cheney…well, no one knows what they told it because they testified in secret, off the record, not under oath and behind closed doors. It didn’t bother to look at who funded the attacks because that question is of “little practical significance“. Still, the 9/11 Commission did brilliantly, answering all of the questions the public had (except most of the victims’ family members’ questions) and pinned blame on all the people responsible (although no one so much as lost their job), determining the attacks were “a failure of imagination” because “I don’t think anyone could envision flying airplanes into buildings ” except the Pentagon and FEMA and NORAD and the NRO.
The DIA destroyed 2.5 TB of data on Able Danger, but that’s OK because it probably wasn’t important.
The SEC destroyed their records on the investigation into the insider trading before the attacks, but that’s OK because destroying the records of the largest investigation in SEC history is just part of routine record keeping.
This man never existed, nor is anything he had to say worthy of your attention, and if you say otherwise you are a paranoid conspiracy theorist and deserve to be shunned by all of humanity. Likewise him, him, him, and her. (and her and her and him).
Osama Bin Laden lived in a cave fortress in the hills of Afghanistan, but somehow got away. Then he was hiding out in Tora Bora but somehow got away. Then he lived in Abottabad for years, taunting the most comprehensive intelligence dragnet employing the most sophisticated technology in the history of the world for 10 years, releasing video after video with complete impunity (and getting younger and younger as he did so), before finally being found in a daring SEAL team raid which wasn’t recorded on video, in which he didn’t resist or use his wife as a human shield, and in which these crack special forces operatives panicked and killed this unarmed man, supposedly the best source of intelligence about those dastardly terrorists on the planet. Then they dumped his body in the ocean before telling anyone about it. Then a couple dozen of that team’s members died in a helicopter crash in Afghanistan.
If you have any questions about this story…you are a batshit, paranoid, tinfoil, dog-abusing baby-hater and will be reviled by everyone. If you love your country and/or freedom, happiness, rainbows, rock and roll, puppy dogs, apple pie and your grandma, you will never ever express doubts about any part of this story to anyone. Ever.
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Bruce McCullough and Ross McKitrick today published an interesting article under the auspices of the Fraser Institute entitled Check the Numbers: The Case for Due Diligence in Policy Formation.
Their abstract states:
Empirical research in academic journals is often cited as the basis for public policy decisions, in part because people think that the journals have checked the accuracy of the research. Yet such work is rarely subjected to independent checks for accuracy during the peer review process, and the data and computational methods are so seldom disclosed that post-publication verification is equally rare. This study argues that researchers and journals have allowed habits of secrecy to persist that severely inhibit independent replication. Non-disclosure of essential research materials may have deleterious scientific consequences, but our concern herein is something different: the possible negative effects on public policy formation. When a piece of academic research takes on a public role, such as becoming the basis for public policy decisions, practices that obstruct independent replication, such as refusal to disclose data, or the concealment of details about computational methods, prevent the proper functioning of the scientific process and can lead to poor public decision making. This study shows that such practices are surprisingly common, and that researchers, users of research, and the public need to consider ways to address the situation. We offer suggestions that journals, funding agencies, and policy makers can implement to improve the transparency of the publication process and enhance the replicability of the research that is published.
They canvass an interesting selection of cases from different fields (and I alert readers that I don’t have the faintest interest in debating the pros or cons of the issues in these other studies at this blog and do not wish readers to debate these issues here.) They report quantitative results from McCullough’s replication work in economics, but most readers will probably take the most interest from their accounts of several high profile studies – the Boston Fed study, the Bellesiles affair and the Hockey Stick.
The “Boston Fed” study was apparently related to policy changes on subprime mortgages. (I don’t want people to debate the rights or wrong of the policy) only the replicability issue. It appears that data requests were refused and, reminiscent of our dealings with Santer, Jones, etc, authors interested in testing the results finally resorted to FOI requests. (Climate scientists resent this, but there are precedents.) MM report the denouement as follows:
Day and Liebowitz (1998) filed a Freedom of Information Act request to obtain identifiers for these observations so they could re-run the analysis without them. They also noted that the Boston Fed authors (Munnell et al., 1992) did not use the applicant’s credit score as generated by the bank, but had replaced it with three alternate indicators they themselves constructed, which Day and Liebowitz found had omitted many standard indicators of creditworthiness. Day and Liebowitz showed that simply reverting to the bank’s own credit score and correcting the 26 misclassified observations caused the discrimination coefficient to drop to zero.
Harrison (1998) noted that the Boston Fed data set included many more variables than the authors had actually used. These included measures such as marital status, age, and whether the application contained information the bank was unable to verify. These variables were significant when added back in, and their inclusion caused the discrimination effects to drop to zero even without correcting the data errors noted by Day and Liebowitz.
Thus, the original Boston Fed conclusions were eventually shown to be wholly insupportable. But due to various delays these studies were not published until 1998 in Economic Inquiry, six years after the original study’s release …
The Bellesiles story is also very interesting for blog readers. Clayton Cramer, Bellesiles’ nemesis was a software engineer – he profiles very much like a typical Climate Audit reader. Cramer eventually published in the journal, Shotgun News, which, according to recent statistics, has an impact factor lower than either Science or Nature.
Despite the political importance of the topic, professional historians did not actively scrutinize Bellesiles’ thesis. Instead it was non-historians who began the process of due diligence. Stephen Halbrook, a lawyer, checked the probate records for Thomas Jefferson’s three estates (Halbrook, 2000). He found no record of any firearm, despite the fact that Jefferson is known to have been a lifelong owner of firearms, putting into question the usefulness of probate records for the purpose. Soon after, a software engineer named Clayton Cramer began checking Bellesiles’ sources. Cramer, who has a master’s degree in history, found dates changed and quotations substantively altered. However, Cramer was unable to get academic journals to publish his findings. Instead he began sending articles to magazines such as the National Review Online and Shotgun News. He compiled an extensive list of errors, numbering in the hundreds, and went so far as to scan original documents and post them on his website so historians would check the original documents against the text of Bellesiles’ book (Cramer, 2006)
Bellesiles claimed to have examined hundreds of San Francisco probate records from the 1850s. When confronted with the fact that all the San Francisco probate records had been destroyed in the 1906 earthquake, Bellesiles claimed that he obtained them from the Contra Costa County Historical Society. But the Society stated that it did not possess the requisite records. Bellesiles soon resorted to ad hominem, claiming that the amateur critics could not be trusted because they lack credentials. Referring to Clayton Cramer, Bellesiles said, “It is not my intention to give an introductory history lesson, but as a non-historian, Mr. Cramer may not appreciate that historians do not just chronicle the past, but attempt to analyze events and ideas while providing contexts for documents” (Bellesiles, 2001). Note that Bellesiles could have, at any time, ended the controversy by simply supplying his data to his critics, something he refused to do.
Ultimately Bellesiles appears to have been brought down by the black and white fact that it was impossible for him to have consulted the records, said to have been consulted, because they didn’t exist. Anyone remember the claims in Jones et al 1990 to have consulted Chinese station histories that don’t exist, and the absurd claims of the coauthors to have lost the records that supposedly had been faithfully preserved through World War II, the Cultural Revolution… but it’s climate and Doug Keenan’s effort to pursue the matter got nowhere.
I raised one beef today with coauthor McK. The term “due diligence” is used to frame the discussion – as it usefully puts “(journal) peer review” in a more general context. However, Mc and Mc do not identify the first academic article to use this term in this context (tho the article was cited in passing on another matter.) The first such usage, to my knowledge, was, of course, McIntyre and McKitrick (2005 EE), which ended as follows:
We are also struck by the extremely limited extent of due diligence involved in peer review as carried out by paleoclimate journals, as compared with the level of due diligence involved in auditing financial statements or carrying out a feasibility study in mineral development. For example, “peer review” in even the most eminent paleoclimate publications, as presently practiced, does not typically involve any examination of data, replication of calculations or ensuring that data and computational procedures are archived. We are not suggesting peer reviewers should be auditors. Referees are not compensated for their efforts and journals would not be able to get unpaid peer reviewers to carry out thorough audits. We ourselves do not have explicit recommendations on resolving this problem, although ensuring the archiving of code and data as used is an obvious and inexpensive way of mitigating the problem.
But it seems self-evident to us that, recognizing the limited due diligence of paleoclimate journal peer review, it would have been prudent for someone to have actually checked MBH98 data and methods against original data before adopting MBH98 results in the main IPCC promotional graphics.
The issues raised in McCullough and McKitrick are important ones and presented in an engaging fashion (though I’m obviously a fellow traveller on these matters.) Ross was on one radio show already and, like any member of the public (as I once was ), the host was dumbfounded at the lack of due diligence in the chain.
A simple and virtually zero-cost improvement in the system would be one that we’ve long supported: require the archiving of data and code. The purpose of this requirement has been totally misrepresented by Gavin Schmidt – it’s not to parse for code errors, but to put yourself in a position where you can quickly analyse sensitivities or the impact of new data, without having to run the gauntlet of doing everything from scratch.
As I’ve said on numerous occasions, I do not think that the issue is primarily inadequate peer review, though, in my opinion, journal peer review all too easily lapses into POV gatekeeping of the style of Burger and Cubasch Referee #2 and academicians are far too quick to shrug that off. Journal peer review is what it is – a cursory form of due diligence. The issue is that “buyers” assume that it’s something that it isn’t and fail to exercise caveat emptor .
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Greater Portland & Casco Bay
Portland, Maine’s largest city, with a population of about 65,000, is considered the commercial and cultural center for Southern Maine. With its many fine restaurants, galleries, entertainment and harbor cruises, there are few dull moments in the city that was first developed as a seaport in the 1700s.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow wouldn’t recognize his hometown these days, although high-rise office buildings blend nicely with historic landmarks and Victorian era architecture. The poet spent his childhood in Portland’s first brick structure that has been maintained as a museum by the Center for Maine History.
The Portland Museum of Art features many American artists such as Winslow Homer, Edward Hopper, Andrew and N.C. Wyeth, Rockwell Kent, as well as popular European artists like Degas, Renoir, Picasso, Matisse and Prendergast.
In 1776, after the Revolutionary War, Portland was established as a commercial port and began rapid growth as a shipping center. In 1820, Portland became the first capital of Maine, but that distinction was transferred to Augusta in 1832. A huge fire that started at a Fourth of July celebration in 1866, destroyed most of the public buildings, half of the churches and hundreds of houses in Portland. The city was then rebuilt primarily with brick and in the Victorian style.
The Old Port section of downtown Portland is filled with boutiques, galleries and wonderful restaurants. Just across town is the Portland Public Market with, an indoor, airy marketplace offering the freshest of local foods and other specialty items. A few minutes away, in South Portland, the Maine Mall has more than 140 stores.
In Portland Harbor is a retired car ferry that has been turned into a floating restaurant. DiMillo’s welcomes groups in their restaurant where all seats have a water view.
Portland is the second-busiest oil port on the East Coast and a growing port-of-call for cruise ships.
Amtrak now runs four trains per day between Boston’s North Station and Portland, Maine. Consider taking The Downeaster as part of your next tour.
If you’re interested in gaming, a visit to Scarborough Downs may be just the ticket. It is the largest harness race track in the state and one of the largest in New England. Visitors can play the ponies or relax in the Downs Club Restaurant and watch the races right from their tables.
You’ve heard of chocolate mousse, but have you ever seen a chocolate moose? Len Libby’s Handmade Candies in Scarborough and a 1,700-pound life-size chocolate moose named Lenny. Come watch a video about how Lenny was made and pick up some delicious chocolates to take home.
And speaking of large objects, the DeLorme Map Store in Yarmouth has Eartha the largest rotating globe in the world. Housed in a three-story glass atrium, it took two years to build.
A bit farther north is the shopping mecca of Freeport, home to L.L. Bean. L.L. Bean’s flagship store on Main Street is open 24 hours a day, seven days a week, including holidays. In addition to L.L. Bean, the village of Freeport has more than 100 retail stores and outlets.
A few miles south of Portland, in Cape Elizabeth, visit the Portland Head Light. Get an up-close-and-personal look at this lighthouse that was originally commissioned by George Washington in 1791. There is an exceptional lighthouse museum and remains of old Fort Williams that you can explore.
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Parliament calls for stricter sanctions on employers to close the gender pay gap
On May 24 the Parliament called on the Commission to "improve existing EU legislation to close the gender pay gap, including stricter sanctions on employers"
In the text, adopted by a qualified majority, MEPs called on the Commission to propose new measures to reduce inequality in pay between the sexes through all relevant EU policies and national programmes. They also asked national governments to step up cooperation and develop new ideas to tackle the gender pay gap.
On average, women across the EU earn 16.4% less than men. Progress in closing the gender pay gap is extremely slow, and in some member states it has even widened, notes the text. The causes are complex and often interrelated. They include discrimination, highly segregated labour markets, an undervaluing of "women's" work, tradition and stereotyping, not least in the choice of educational paths, says the text.
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Got your Christmas tree yet? This is the weekend when most homeowners go shopping for a real tree.
Size will mostly determine price. The bigger and taller the tree, the more expensive it will be.
But the kind of tree you pick also affects the price you pay.
Noble, Nordmann and Fraser firs are all popular because of their stiff, upright branching structure, making them suitable for holding heavy ornaments.
These trees tend to cost more, usually $60 to $80 for a six-or seven-foot tree.
Grand fir is loved for its fragrance. Crush the long needles and they release a beautiful citrus scent. However, the branches are floppier.
The most affordable tree?
The uncultured Douglas fir costs less than the rest. But "uncultured" is what you get, meaning it has not been clipped to perfection.
You can, however, buy a cultured Doug fir that has been clipped and preened into the perfect triangular Christmas tree shape. Douglas firs are also considered the hardest trees to decorate because of their floppy branches.
Needle drop is a big issue with all real trees. Most consumers like trees that hold on to their needles for longer. It helps to get the trunk of the tree cut properly before you bring it home - at least half an inch off the base. Making sure the tree is adequately watered once you get it home is another key factor for good needle retention.
Fraser, Noble and Nordmann all hold their needles longer than Grand and Douglas firs.
Prices range from $20 for a small uncultured Douglas fir to $70 up to $120 for a giant cultured Douglas fir or large
Fraser fir or Nordmann.
Most people will pay between $25 and $55 for a six-or seven-foot tree.
You have no need to feel guilty for choosing a real tree. All of the trees on sale at garden centres and charity lots have been have grown specifically at tree farms in B.C. as a crop for the Christmas market, just the same as thousands of greenhouse-grown poinsettias are grown for the festive season. Real trees can also be chipped and recycled as mulch and soil amender. Buying a real tree also helps scores of family-owned tree farms stay in business and can help charities and community organizations raise funds.
The key to caring for your real tree is to locate it in the right spot in your home, away from drafts and heat sources (heating vents, fireplaces, radiators and TVs) and to keep it adequately watered.
A seal of dried sap can form over the cut stump in four to six hours if the water drops below the base of the tree, preventing the tree from absorbing water.
If you buy a live Christmas tree, perhaps a burlapped blue spruce, Scotch pine, Serbian spruce or Norway spruce, it is important not to keep the tree indoors for longer than 10 days. This can accidentally wake the tree from its dormant or semi-dormant state. The tree can die if, after a warming spell indoors, it is then pushed outdoors where it will go into shock. Always allow your live Christmas tree to gradually re-acclimatize to the outdoors by first moving it to a cool room, then into a cooler garage or greenhouse before finally moving it fully outdoors.
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When it comes to cooking on Shabbos, most people hold that things that are not allowed to be put in a Kli Sheni (a vessel once removed from the vessel that was on the fire) because it is considered cooking are able to be put in a Kli Shlishi (a vessel once removed from the Kli Sheni).
(See here for a short summary of these laws).
The Mishna Berurah (318:47) quotes the Pri Megadim who differentiates between a Kli Shlishi over a Kli Sheni.
The Pri Megadim (Ashel Avraham 318:35) quotes the BaCH who says that there is no difference between a Kli Sheni and a Kli Shlishi, and even a Kli Revi'i is considered like a Kli Sheni. He then says that with regards to tea, When one pours from "ממים טמונים" (which I'm interpreting to mean A Kli Rishon that was removed from the fire and kept warm through Hatmana, not if it was still directly on the fire - please correct me if I'm wrong) into a Kli Sheni, and from there into smaller containers, one can be lenient.
However, the Chazon Ish ( Orach Chaim, end of Chapter 52) says that he did not find a source to differentiate between a Kli Sheni and a Kli Shlishi and as long as the contents of the Kli Sheni are hot, pouring it into a Kli Shlishi doesn't change anything.
What is the source for a Kli Shlishi? If the Chazon Ish couldn't find a source for the difference, where do the Poskim that do differentiate get it from?
Somebody once told me that a Kli Shlishi is not mentioned in the Gemara or Shulchan Aruch. Is this true? If so, when was the concept introduced?
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The most successful of the second-generation reggae bands, Black Uhuru maintained their high quality despite numerous personnel changes in their 16-year history. The first reggae band to win a Grammy award, for their 1983 album Anthem, Black Uhuru was, according to Reggae: The Rough Guide, "The most dynamic and progressive reggae act of the 1970s and early '80s." Black Uhuru, whose name comes from the Swahili word meaning "freedom," was formed in the Waterhouse district of Kingston by Ervin "Don Carlos" Spencer, Rudolph "Garth" Dennis, and Derrick "Duckie" Simpson. When the group experienced difficulties securing a record contract, Spencer left to pursue a solo career and Dennis joined the Wailing Souls. Simpson, who remained the thread throughout Black Uhuru's evolution, reorganized the band with Errol "Jay" Wilson and quivery-voiced lead vocalist Michael Rose, compared by Trouser Press to "a Rasta cantor." Accompanied by the rhythm section of Sly Dunbar on drums and Robbie Shakespear on bass, Black Uhuru created a sound that made them a match for any reggae ensemble. Their debut album, Love Crisis, released in 1977, included the anthemic hit "I Love King Selassie." Three years later, the album was remixed and released as Black Sounds of Freedom. With the addition of harmony singer Sandra "Puma" Jones, an Afro-American woman who held a master's degree from Columbia University and was a former member of the female group Mama Africa in 1981, Black Uhuru entered their most commercially successful period. In addition to recording a memorable studio album, Red, and an exciting live album, Tear It Up, the group reached its peak with the release of Anthem in 1983. Remixed and revised for release in the United States, the redone version was re-released in Europe shortly afterwards. Although the album received a Grammy, internal problems caused the band to splinter the following year. Rose was replaced by sound-alike Junior Reid. Jones and Reid remained with the band until 1989. Although Reid left when visa problems prevented him from touring, Jones, who was replaced by Olefunke, was forced to step down after being diagnosed with cancer. She died on January 28, 1990, and was buried in her home state of South Carolina. The original three members -- Simpson, Spencer and Dennis -- reunited to record a trio album, Now, in 1990. They've continued to tour and perform in this configuration. ~ Craig Harris
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MCLA's "Green Team" Gathers Electronic Waste for Recycling
NORTH ADAMS, MA - Faculty, staff and students on the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts (MCLA) Sustainability Committee - also known as the "Green Team" - partnered with the campus's facilities department and computer support services to organize an electronics recycling pick up for the campus community.
Over the past several weeks, the Committee collected a number of electronic items no longer in use at the College due to age. They also gathered additional items from campus community members who had electronics at home that they no longer were using.
The waste will be picked up on Friday, Dec. 16, by Good Point Recycling of Middlebury, Vt.
According to Caroline Scully, coordinator of the Berkshire Environmental Resource Center and the chair of the Green Team, this is the second such recycling effort this year at MCLA. In April, Good Point Recycling picked up electronic waste that included more than 50 old-style monitors, 15 televisions, printers, printer cartridges, DVD players and microwaves ovens from the College and campus community members.
Scully said MCLA selected Good Point because the company is one of the two vendors certified by the State of Vermont, and the toxic material in the collected electronics will be removed or reused safely. The disposal of computers, printers, monitors, and other electronics is a campus sustainability issue because these items are frequently disposed of irresponsibly overseas, causing environmental degradation and health problems.
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May is Stroke Awareness Month, and Advocate Condell Medical Center is offering several community education programs to make sure make sure everyone knows the signs and symptoms of stroke, and what steps to take if you suspect someone is having a stroke.
Libertyville, IL (PRWEB) May 06, 2012
Wenda Hunt, Advocate Condell’s Stroke Coordinator, will present “Stop Stroke – Act FAST – Spread Hope” on May 8 at the GLMV Chamber Women’s Networking Group lunch, which runs from 11:30 a.m. – 1 p.m. at White Deer Run Golf Club, 250 W. Greggs Parkway in Vernon Hills.
Hunt will dispel myths about strokes, and talk about the physical changes that take place in the brain. She will review the risk factors, and the signs and symptoms of stroke. She’ll also talk about what steps to take if you suspect someone is having a stroke, and stroke treatment.
Cost is $15 in advance, or $20 at the lunch. Lunch is included. Register online at glmvchamber.org/events or by calling 847.680.0750.
John Piotrowski, MD, Board Certified in Emergency Medicine and the Physician Champion for the Advocate Condell Stroke Center of Excellence, will present “Always an Emergency -- Stroke is No Joke,” on Monday, May 21, at 7 p.m. in Advocate Condell Medical Center’s Conference Center, 700 Garfield Avenue.
Piotrowski will talk about the importance of recognizing stroke symptoms, and acting quickly when you suspect someone is having a stroke.
“Time is of the essence when you suspect someone is having a stroke. Getting to an emergency room within an hour has been found to significantly improve chances of recovery,” Piotrowski said. “Every minute counts. The longer blood flow is cut off to the brain, the greater the damage. Immediate treatment can save people's lives and enhance their chances for successful recovery,” he said.
Ischemic strokes, the most common type of strokes, can be treated with a drug that dissolves blood clots obstructing blood flow to the brain. The window of opportunity to start treating stroke patients is three hours, but to be evaluated and receive treatment, patients need to get to the hospital within 60 minutes, according to the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke.
A five-year study by the NINDS found that stroke patients who received the drug within three hours of the onset of symptoms were at least 30 percent more likely to little or no disability.
Audience members will be able to participate in a Q&A following Piotrowski’s lecture, which is free. Registration is required by calling 800-323-6822. The registration code is 5C42.
After undergoing an on-site evaluation and demonstrating compliance with nationally developed standards for stroke care, Advocate Condell Medical Center recently earned The Joint Commission’s Gold Seal of Approval™ for certification as a Primary Stroke Center.
“In stroke care time is brain,” says Jean E. Range, M.S., R.N., C.P.H.Q., executive director, Disease-Specific Care Certification, The Joint Commission. “By achieving certification as a Primary Stroke Center, Advocate Condell has proven that it has the ability to provide effective, timely care to stroke victims and can significantly improve outcomes for stroke patients.”
Each year about 795,000 people experience a new or recurrent stroke, which is the nation’s third leading cause of death. On average, someone suffers a stroke every 40 seconds and someone dies of a stroke every 3.1 minutes. Stroke is a leading cause of serious, long-term disability in the United States, with about 4.7 million stroke survivors alive today.
“We’re proud to achieve this distinction from The Joint Commission,” says Ann Errichetti, MD, MBA, President of Advocate Condell Medical Center. “This was a team effort, and we are pleased that The Joint Commission recognized Advocate Condell’s commitment to providing the best possible care to our patients and our community.”
The designation of Primary Stroke Center adds to a comprehensive array of heart and vascular services offered at Advocate Condell Medical Center, from routine heart screenings to open heart surgery. Advocate Condell was also the first hospital in Lake County to receive accreditation as a Chest Pain Center from the Society of Chest Pain Centers for a higher level of expertise in treating patients who arrive with symptoms of a heart attack.
You can learn more about Advocate Condell’s Primary Stroke Center by visiting http://www.AdvocateHealth.com/Condell/Stroke. This page contains information about the certification, as well as important information about symptoms and risk factors associated with stroke.
About Advocate Condell Medical Center
Advocate Condell Medical Center is the leading provider of comprehensive medical and surgical services in Lake County, with state-of-the-art heart, neurosurgical, maternity and emergency services. Condell's emergency department is the only Level 1 Trauma Center in Lake County, Illinois. It also features the only dedicated pediatric emergency department in the county. Condell holds accreditation from the Society of Chest Pain Centers for cardiac patients, and is accredited by the Joint Commission as a Primary Stroke Center. Advocate Condell is recognized by U.S. News & World Report as one of the best hospitals in the Chicago metro area for superior results in patient safety and health outcomes.
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Today’s oral argument was a good day for the anti-mandate plaintiffs and a troubling one for the law’s defenders. I have long argued that the weakest point in the federal government’s case is the failure to provide a coherent explanation of why the rationale for the health insurance mandate doesn’t also justify virtually any other mandate Congress might impose (e.g. here and here). All of the conservative justices raised this exact issue during the course of today’s oral argument, with the exception of the usually silent Clarence Thomas, whom few doubt will vote to strike down. And none of them seemed satisfied with Solicitor General Donald Verrilli’s answers. This does not bode well for the mandate.
I was also very happy to see this exchange between Verrilli and Justice Scalia regarding the Necessary and Proper Clause:
JUSTICE SCALIA: Wait. That’s — it’s both “Necessary and Proper.” What you just said addresses what’s necessary. Yes, has to be reasonably adapted. Necessary does not mean essential, just reasonably adapted. But in addition to being necessary, it has to be proper. And we’ve held in two cases that something that was reasonably adapted was not proper, because it violated the sovereignty of the States, which was implicit in the constitutional structure.
The argument here is that this also is — may be necessary, but it’s not proper, because it violates an equally evident principle in the Constitution, which is that the Federal Government is not supposed to be a a government that has all powers; that it’s supposed to be a government of limited powers. And that’s what all
this questioning has been about. What — what is left? If the government can do this, what — what else can it
GENERAL VERRILLI: This does not violate the norm of proper as this Court articulated it in Printz or in New York because it does not interfere with the States as sovereigns. This is a regulation that — this is a regulation -
JUSTICE SCALIA: No, that wasn’t my point. That is not the only constitutional principle that exists.
GENERAL VERRILLI: But it -
JUSTICE SCALIA: An equally evident constitutional principle is the principle that the Federal Government is a government of enumerated powers and that the vast majority of powers remain in the States and do not belong to the Federal Government.
Scalia makes the key points that 1) a federal law must be both “necessary” and “proper” to be authorized by the Necessary and Proper Clause, and (2) a statute cannot be proper if the legal rationale for it would justify nearly unlimited federal power. These are exactly the arguments that we advanced in the amicus brief on this very issue that I wrote on behalf of the Washington Legal Foundation and a group of constitutional law scholars.
I’m not saying that Scalia necessarily got the argument from us, or even that he read the brief. But whatever led him to take up this point, I’m very happy that he raised it. It is the key weakness in the federal government’s Necessary and Proper Clause argument, which is otherwise fairly strong – a weakness that the federal government almost completely ignored in their Petitioner’s brief for the Supreme Court. The federal government has tried to turn the Necessary and Proper Clause into a mere “necessary clause.” But, if Scalia’s views are any indication, the Supreme Court majority doesn’t seem to be buying.
As I explain in the amicus brief (pp. 28-29), this point also enables Scalia to distinguish his concurring opinion in Gonzales v. Raich, which many defenders of the mandate have been relying on. Raich did not address the issue of propriety. And in his concurring opinion in that case, Scalia emphasized (as he had in previous opinions) that “proper” is an independent limit on congressional power under the Clause, separate from necessity.
Before the oral argument, I thought that the plaintiffs had about a 30-40% chance of winning. I believed it was likely that the federal government would manage to persuade at least one conservative justice to buy one of their many “health care is special” rationales for the mandate. Now, I think the chances of the mandate being invalidated is at least 50%. The conservative justices just don’t seem to be biting on the “health care is special” hook.
On the other hand, it is still too early for mandate opponents to celebrate. The federal government has a whole raft of different “health care is special” arguments (I go through them and their weaknesses in Part I of this article). If the feds can persuade just one of the conservative justices to accept just one of these theories, they can still win. We certainly cannot rule out such a scenario. It could still easily happen. But unlike in high school debate, quantity of arguments in a major Supreme Court case is rarely a good substitute for quality. And the quality of the government’s “health care is special arguments” is at the very least highly suspect.
UPDATE: I have changed the original reference to “all five of the conservative justices” to exclude Clarence Thomas, who – as usual – did not ask any questions.
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December 14, 2012
Led by music professor Durward Entrekin, the Mount Saint Mary
College and St. Philips Church choirs recently performed a
Christmas Vespers music program in the Aquinas Hall Theatre. They
were accompanied by the Hudson Valley Chamber Players.
Lights twinkle, stores shelves are stocked, and almost 50 years
after the original airing of “A Charlie Brown Christmas,” Linus is
still ready to tell us about the birth of Jesus.
Christmas time is here, and members of the Mount Saint Mary
College community, which includes students from more than 20
countries, have many ways of celebrating the holiday.
Mount soccer sensation Shanice Robe, a freshman psychology major
from Jamaica, West Indies resides in Valley Stream, NY. In Jamaica,
Christmas has the same religious significance as in America, she
However, “We don’t normally get presents,” Robe explained. “We
just go out to a park and have a party.”
The celebrations include organized performance art, dancing, and
singing. Robe says reggae music is often the soundtrack of
December 26 is called Boxing Day. Most Jamaicans treat it as a
sort of second Christmas by meeting with their extended
Since moving to the United States about three years ago, Robe’s
family keeps their cherished Christmas traditions alive. They have
also adopted some American Christmas customs. The upside, Robe
said, is that she now receives Christmas gifts.
The downside: “It’s cold here, so we can’t really go outside and
For Catholics in Venezuela, Christmas is a time of family and
faith, says Mount professor Victor Azuaje, who moved to the United
States in 1998.
The main Christmas meal, served at midnight on December 24, is
“the most important thing,” he explained.
The meal centers around hallacas, a calzone-like “pocket” of
cornmeal filled with chicken, pork or other meats, onions, bell
peppers, green olives, and seasonings. Hallacas are large, so one
or two could make up an entire dinner, said Azuaje.
Families exchange presents after the late meal, explained
Azuaje. But instead of writing a letter to Santa Claus, children in
Venezuela ask Baby Jesus for their gifts. The Nativity holds a
prominent place in the home during the holiday season, but it isn’t
until midnight on Christmas Eve that Baby Jesus is placed in the
For about a week before December 24, early morning masses are
held. At Christmas mass, attendees wear new clothes.
“It’s a very special night. You’re going to wear something
Maria Modena of Stormville, NY, a business major from Brazil,
said that Christmas celebrations in her home country are similar to
those in America. Houses are adorned with lights and Christmas
trees, though they are artificial to repel insects. Children also
write letters to Santa Claus.
Things differ at the dinner table.
“We have a turkey, but we also have a lot of cold dishes because
it’s summer this time of year,” Modena said.
Christmas Eve in Brazil means fruit salad, watermelon, grapes,
and rice dishes with raisins and carrots. Modena added that “in
Brazil we’re big consumers of beef, so we probably would have a
dish of beef stew as well.”
Like in Venezuela, gifts are exchanged between family members
around midnight. However, the gifts that “Santa” brings are opened
in the morning.
Opeyemi Ifafore, a history-political science major from
Middletown NY, spent the first eight years of her life in Lagos,
Nigeria’s main city of nearly eight million people. Citizens
decorate for Christmas in almost the same way as the Big Apple,
with colorful lights adorning businesses and homes.
According to Ifafore, Nigerians don’t leave milk and cookies for
Saint Nick, because their version of Santa – called Father
Christmas – is more of an expression of good will towards men than
a physical entity.
“Christmas is big on family and togetherness,” she said. “My
family would go to my grandpa’s house and there would be a lot of
food; not necessarily gifts.”
Ifafore comes from a Christian household, but she
pointed out that the many Muslims in Nigeria, including her
grandparents, also use the holiday to spend time with their
Nursing major Ronald Lawyer of Garnerville, NY (right) comes
from the town of Eremon in Ghana, Africa, where the Christian
population celebrates Christmas with a church service. The holiday
is very spiritual, he said.
The gift-giving and merriment Americans experience on Christmas
is saved for New Year’s.
“New Year’s is the biggest,” Lawyer said, describing the holiday
as a time of sharing, “whether it be money, food or drink.”
Kseniya Chunarova, a business major from Saugerties, NY, comes
to the Mount from the Republic of Belarus in Eastern Europe. In
Belarus, Christmas is celebrated by Catholics on December 25 and by
Russian Orthodox Christians on January 7.
New Year’s garners the largest festivities for the people of
Belarus. “It’s very similar to U.S. Christmas but on 31st of
December,” Chunarova said. “The New Year celebration is huge.
Fireworks, concerts and entertainment don't stop until sun
For New Year’s in Belarus, families gather together and exchange
presents. The Russian incarnation of Santa Claus, called Ded Moroz
(Grandfather Frost), gives presents to young children. Though
American Santa does his best to remain unseen, Grandfather Frost
delivers his goodies in person.
Charles Zola, professor of religion, is of Polish and Slovak
heritage. Zola said that the heart of the Christmas celebration in
Poland is the Christmas Eve meal, called “Wigilia,” derived from
the Latin word “vigil.”
The meal doesn’t begin until after the appearance of the first
star on Christmas Eve, and the youngest member of the family is
usually charged with looking for it. The table is spread with a
white table cloth, under which is placed small pieces of straw,
representing the manger.
The meal begins with the breaking of Oplatki, a flat,
rectangular wafer similar to those used in church for
The typical Christmas dinner in Poland consists of red borscht
or mushroom soup, various types of fish such as haddock, pike, and
herring, pierogis with various fillings, sauerkraut and peas, and
boiled potatoes sautéed in dill butter. Dessert is an array of
pastries like poppy-seed rolls, nut rolls, fruit compote, and
“Traditionally, there are 12 courses, but this can be altered
according to circumstance,” said Zola.
After the meal, most families will attend midnight Mass, called
the Mass of the Shepherds.
Associate professor of biology Suparna Bhalla, from India, said
the Hindu tradition of Diwali (the Festival of Lights) is in some
ways similar to Christmas and New Year’s. Falling between
mid-October and mid-November each year, the Festival of Lights
lives up to its name – fireworks fill the sky and Hindu homes are
decorated with lights.
Gifts are given between families, including dried apricots,
almonds, cashews, figs, and walnuts.
“It is the celebration of the triumph of good over evil,” she
explained. “In Indian mythology, it is welcoming the gods back to
Lighting the Christmas tree has been a Mount tradition for
years. College president Kevin E. Mackin, OFM, (center) celebrated
this season’s event with the Mount’s students.
The Mount has cherished holiday traditions of its own.
Since 1974, a choir of Mount Saint Mary College students and
staff has presented the Christmas Vespers music program. This year,
music professor Durward Entrekin once again directed the choir as
he had done for more than two decades, and Broadway Tailors in
Newburgh provided tuxedos for the 37th year in a row.
The Chapel of the Most Holy Rosary, which normally hosts the
Vespers, was closed temporarily for the Dominican Center’s ongoing
transformation into a 21st century library/learning commons with
state-of-the-art resources and modernized residential spaces for
students. Meanwhile, the Aquinas Hall Theatre stage featured a
colorful backdrop for the choir this year.
In addition to an annual Christmas tree lighting ceremony which
includes a blessing by campus ministry chaplain Fr. Francis Amodio,
O.Carm, a large Nativity is displayed at the campus’s main
entrance. The Mount also helps families in need with a Giving Tree,
a collaboration between campus ministry and Arts and Letters. Tags
hang like ornaments from the tree, and written on the back of each
is a gift request from an underprivileged child. Mount personnel
donate the requested items, creating happy holiday memories.
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Governor Reubin Askew Collection
Reubin O'Donovan Askew was born in Muskogee, Oklahoma on September 11, 1928, one of six children of Leon and Alberta Askew. He moved to Pensacola in 1937. In 1946, he enlisted in the United States Army paratroopers as a private and was discharged as a sergeant in 1948, and served in the U.S. Air Force as a second lieutenant from 1951 to 1953.
Askew received a B.S. in Public Administration from Florida State University in 1951, where he served as student body president and president of the University Government Association, FSU's student government agency. While attending FSU, he was also president of the University Government Association and an active member of the Omicron Delta Kappa, Gold Key, Delta Tau Delta, and Alpha Phi Omega fraternities. He did graduate work in public administration at Denver University. In addition, Askew attended the University of Florida Law School, where he was class president, chairman of the Board of Masters of the Honor Court, executive director of the Law Review, and justice of the Phi Alpha Delta law fraternity. He received an LL.B. from that institution in 1956.
Askew's public career began as Assistant County Solicitor for Escambia County from 1956-1958. In 1958, he was elected to the Florida House of Representatives and to the Florida Senate in 1962. He served as president pro tempore in 1969-1970. In 1970, he was elected Governor and was reelected in 1974, the first governor to be elected for a second, successive 4-year term.
The top priority of his first administration was tax reform. His accomplishments included winning legislative approval of a corporate profits tax, a repeal of consumer taxes on household utilities and apartment rentals, and the sharing of additional state revenues with schools and other units of local government to ease the burden of local property taxes on homeowners. In addition, at his urging, the Legislature increased the homestead exemption from $5,000 to $10,000 for persons 65 years of age and older and for the disabled. He also supported the rolling back of local school taxes by two mills and the exemption of the first $20,000 in intangibles from State taxes.
Also during his administration, reforms were achieved in consumer protection, education financing, criminal justice, the environment, and standards of conduct in public office. Florida's election laws were strengthened, and an Ethics Commission was created. Askew realized a long term goal in early 1972 when voters gave overwhelming approval to a new judicial article of the State Constitution streamlining Florida's court system and providing for the nonpartisan election of judges.
In 1974, Askew became the first Florida Governor in history to be elected for a second, consecutive four-year term. His re-election was considered a mandate for another priority of his administration: full and public financial disclosure by candidates and public officials. For example, he promoted a 1976 constitutional amendment requiring financial disclosure for public officials. When the Legislature failed to act in passing the "Sunshine Amendment," the Governor took the issue to the people, obtaining some 220,000 signatures to place it on the ballot with ratification by 80% of the voters. Askew also represented a large part of the successful opposition to the ratification of the constitutional amendment that would have legalized casino gambling in an oceanfront area of Dade and Broward counties. Because of his personal ntegrity, he was often called "Reubin the Good."
Racial justice and fairness were other noted features of Askew's second administration. This commitment was demonstrated by his support of busing to end school segregation, and his appointments of Joseph W. Hatchett, the first black Justice of the Florida Supreme Court, and Athalie Range, Secretary of the Department of Community Affairs, the first Black woman in a hundred years to serve as a member of his cabinet. He also appointed Dorothy W. Glisson as Secretary of State, the first woman to serve as a member of his cabinet. Glisson served from June 1974 to January 1975 to complete the term of Secretary of State Richard Stone, who had resigned to run for the U.S. Senate.
As his programs gained national recognition, Governor Askew was selected to deliver the Keynote Address at the 1972 Democratic National Convention in Miami Beach. In 1974, he was elected Chairman of the Southern Governors' Conference, and was elected Chairman of the Democratic Governors' Conference in 1976. He also served as Chairman of the Education Commission of the States and the Southern Growth Policies Board.
Upon retiring as Governor in 1979, Askew joined the Miami law firm of Greenberg, Traurig, Askew, Hoffman, Lipoff, Rosen and Quentel. In addition, he served as chairman of President Carter's Advisory Committee on Ambassadorial appointments. On October 1, 1979, he was given a cabinet-level appointment by President Carter as the United States Trade Representative, with the rank of Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary.
At the end of the Carter administration, Askew returned to his Miami law firm. Beginning in March 1981, he explored the possibility of seeking the Democratic nomination for President of the United States, and in 1984, became the first Floridian to make a bid for the presidency. However, his campaign ended, since he finished last in the New Hampshire primary in February 1984. On December 21, 1987 he announced his candidacy for the United States Senate, but withdrew on May 7, 1988, citing the rigors of fundraising.
Following his political campaign activities, Askew became interested in teaching Florida Government and Florida Public Administration and Public Policy at several universities. His teaching career began at Florida International University in 1989, and at Florida Atlantic University, where, in 1991, he became a tenured professor. In 1994, the University of Florida created the Askew Institute of Politics and Society, and Florida State University, where he began teaching in September 1995, renamed its school of Public Administration and Policy in his honor. He is currently an Eminent Scholar at FSU, a Senior Fellow at its Florida Institute of Government, and Chair of the Board of Trustees of the LeRoy Collins Center for Public Policy.
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The Island Buenavista enjoys tropical weather--a mild, pleasant climate all year round. There is no pronounced wet or dry season.
The coolest months are from November to February with an average temperature of 25˚C (77˚F). During the peak summer months from March to May, temperatures average 28˚C (82.4˚F) but may rise as high as 32˚C (89.6˚F).
Check the weather forecast below:
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Mitt Romney arrives at a campaign rally in Sarasota, Fla., on September 20, 2012. (Jim Young/Reuters)Mitt Romney pounded President Barack Obama for saying, "You can't change Washington from the inside" at a rally in the sweltering Sarasota heat on Thursday. And he proudly promised Florida voters that he would "get the job done" where the Democrat did not.
"We face a Washington that's broken, that can't get the job done," the former Massachusetts governor told some 4,600 supporters. "The president today threw in the white flag of surrender again. He said he can't change Washington from the inside. He can only change it from outside.
"Well, we're going to give him that chance in November! He's going outside!" Romney said to cheers from the crowd. "I can change Washington, I will change Washington! We'll get the job done from the inside! Republicans and Democrats will come together!"
Romney was riffing on a comment Obama made Thursday at one of two town hall-style events hosted by Spanish-language network Univision at the University of Miami in Coral Gables, Fla. (Romney was at the network's first one, held on Wednesday.)
At the forum, Obama had said, "I think that I've learned some lessons over the last four years. And the most important lesson I've learned is that you can't change Washington from the inside—you can only change it from the outside. That's how I got elected, and that's how the big accomplishments, like health care, got done. ... We mobilized the American people to speak out. That's how we were able to cut taxes for middle-class families.
"So something that I'd really like to concentrate on in my second term," the president continued, "is being in a much more constant conversation with the American people so that they can put pressure on Congress to help move some of these issues forward."
Romney painted the comment not as a testament to grass-roots activism, but as a betrayal of the "Hope and Change" vision and "Yes We Can" slogan from Obama's history-making 2008 run for the White House.
"His slogan was 'Yes We Can,'" said Romney. "His slogan now is 'No I Can't.' He went from the president of change to the president who can't get change.
"The president of the United States says he can't change Washington from the inside," continued Romney, who repeated that line more than once during the rally. "Isn't that amazing? No wonder he's had such a hard time over these last four years."
Lis Smith, an Obama campaign spokeswoman, said in a release that Romney is "once again" taking the president's words out of context. "What the president said today is no different than what he has been saying for many years—that change comes from outside Washington, not inside," said Smith. "Mitt Romney apparently doesn't believe that change comes from the American people. Maybe that's because he has written off half the country in this election."
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The Wasatch Behind: Spud talks to Smokey Bear
Uncle Spud: Thank you for taking a few minutes to talk with me,
Smokey Bear. With all of the forest fires burning in the area, I know you are very busy.
Smokey: No problem. As a spokesman for the National Forest Service and the AD Council, I'm happy to be here.
Spud: So tell me, how did a nice bear like you get a job as spokesman for the forest service? Bears are very unpopular right now. Most happy campers are carrying guns and bear spray.
Smokey: You can judge a bear by its tracks. My rap sheet is clean. There are no camper confrontation charges against me. And besides, affirmative action is a wonderful program. As a member of an oppressed and misunderstood animal minority, they couldn't turn me down when I filed an application. I beat out 13 deer, a buzzard, and 23 pot-guts for the job as spokesman.
Spud: I'll bet the animal rights people were happy when you got the job.
Smokey: They sure were. I fit right in with the PETA crowd. At their protest marches, they have a tendency to "bear" it all. It gets them a lot of attention.
Spud: But why did you want to be a spokesman for the forest service?
Smokey: Bears had no representation in the business of managing forests. The Sierra Club and the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance (SUWA) have been doing it all. I decided it was time for our growls to be heard.
Spud: But I thought the forest service managed the forest, not wilderness advocacy groups?
Smokey: Actually, no one manages forests anymore. We just fight over them. Everything is tied up in the courts. Every move the forest service makes toward harvesting lumber, building access roads, or clearing dead timber, is blocked by a court injunction initiated by one of the wilderness groups. It is no wonder that the whole West is infested with bark beetles and ready to burn.
Spud: But now they say that fire is good for the forest. Fire is a normal and natural way for Mother Nature to clean the forest. Isn't that just the opposite of what you've been telling us since the 1930s?
Smokey: Forest fires are still bad. Wouldn't it be better to use all of that wood rather than have it burn? It seems hypocritical to me, that the same people who allow these massive fires by not letting us manage the forests, are telling us to recycle old newspapers to save a tree. And what about air pollution from these fires?
Spud: That's right. I've never seen so much smoke in our valleys.
Smokey: Everyone is wringing their hands about greenhouse gasses and global warming, and look at all the smoke these fires have put in the air. Had we been allowed to properly manage the forest on places like Ferron Mountain, a whole lot of this fire and smoke could have been prevented.
Spud: I know what you mean. I have a hard time taking air quality initiatives seriously when I see stuff like this. All of the old pickup trucks in the world couldn't make this much smoke. Driving a golf cart-type car will never make a difference when forest fires keep happening.
Smokey: And there is a great deal of expense in fighting fires, too. Instead of the government making a few bucks by selling timber, they are spending millions of tax dollars fighting fires as all of that good, useable lumber burns. What a waste. And then too, a lot of jobs are lost for nothing when we shut down the lumber industry to "save the trees," and then stand by and watch them burn.
Spud: So how do we fix this problem?
Smokey: We've got to get back to the "bear essentials" of forest management. Trees are a renewable resource. They grow back. We can harvest them like corn and beans. We can have beautiful, healthy forests that don't burn, cheap 2x4s, and more jobs. All we need is common sense management, an end to the lawsuits, and everyone working together to ensure the responsible development and use of the resource. Only you, SUWA, and the forest service can prevent forest fires by working together.
Spud: Can I buy you lunch?
Smokey: No thanks. I'm going to check out a dumpster near the campground on my way home.
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Concord residents should be proud they have a port, and that it contains the good name of Concord. This port used to be one of Concord's major employers, with paychecks rippling throughout our economy. It still is to a point.
It was and still is an important part of our national defense, supplying our fighting forces during World War II, the Korean War and Vietnam. While most of our Middle East armament is currently sent from the East Coast, though not announced and quietly, our Military Ocean Terminal Concord is still needed, with ships coming and going.
Because the West Coast is our nation's flank and we are, as FDR said, "the Arsenal of Democracy," there is the potential for future wars on the Pacific Rim with a nuclear North Korea and our ally Nationalist China under threat from Red China. We must protect Hawaii, the Aleutians, our western states and the coasts of Canada, Mexico, Central and South America, so it would be wise to maintain Concord's important military location.
With the base closures that have already occurred throughout California, the ones that remain have an even higher importance that, in times of war, cannot be easily replaced.
For example, to transport ammunition and explosives from the West Coast of the United States, ships are the safest and best manner to do so (just like bringing in cars and goods from China), and there are now only three West Coast ports able to do that.
With today's large
This compares to Concord having three large piers and cranes already built to completely load three such ships concurrently. There is also the acreage to store, stage and prepare munitions and troops, as well as a 2.5 mile blast buffer, compared to virtually no buffer at Long Beach or Indian Island.
With more than 6,700 acres in unincorporated Contra Costa County, Concord is by far the largest and able to ramp up or down as national defense needs occur.
At Concord's facility, the rail lines, docks, cranes, switching tracks, storage, roads, security measures and land are worth billions, and are already built and operational. Its Coast Guard port covers five miles of coastline and the Delta, and it can be supported by air from Travis Air Force Base. There are big hills between its docks and Concord, and it is already very well guarded against terrorists or saboteurs.
Unlike Seal Beach and Indian Island, ships in this deep water port can be loaded easily and safely, ready to cross the Pacific to support our troops and allies whenever needed.
And it is a good neighbor, leasing the Diablo Creek Golf Course and Willow Pass ball fields land to Concord for a pittance, providing some needed housing for underpaid military families in the Bay Area, and is open space for the roaming tule elk, and preserves the wetlands and untouched hills and creeks.
The Oakland Army Terminal is now closed and being developed, and Hamilton Field, Camp Stoneman, Moffit Field and Camp Parks are also closed.
Given the Martinez Veterans Affairs hospital is nearby, our reserves need meeting and training facilities, and the nearest veterans cemetery is in Dixon, we need this Bay Area facility to stay open, and if anything, to be even more utilized.
With today's environmental requirements and rocky Pacific shoreline, to replace this facility with another one could probably not be accomplished, and would itself cost new billions we don't have.
So with all these factors, it makes good sense that the BRAC process stopped its reduction of this important base at the Highway 4 dividing line.
Concord, the people of California and the nation should be aware of and proud of the important role this facility plays in our national defense. It is an asset to our region and to our nation that our troops, ships and planes have the munitions and support they need to protect us and prevail when needed.
Concord is a wonderful city with great features and benefits, with this important base being one of them. Rather than trying to close the remaining portion of the base, we should be celebrating it as the asset it is.
In these troubled times we need a strong national defense more than we need more condominiums or cars on the roads.
Laurence is a resident of Clayton, a former Clayton mayor and City Council member, and Vietnam veteran.
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Both sides of the Interstate 98 debate heard pieces of what they wanted from Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo on Tuesday in Potsdam.
Gov. Cuomo said the government does not have enough money to pay for an interstate linking Watertown to Plattsburgh and told supporters to get an economic reality check. But he also allowed that the proposed limited-access highway might be a good idea that should be studied.
I think its positive, said Wade A. Davis, chairman of the Northern Corridor Transportation Group, which favors construction of I-98. It says exactly whats out there. The state doesnt have a lot of money. He left the door open. Were pleased the governor thinks the highway may be a good idea. Theres more than adequate justification for a highway in Northern New York.
John W. Danis, a spokesman for YESeleven, a grass-roots organization that prefers improvements to Route 11 before determining whether an interstate is needed, took Gov. Cuomos comments differently.
Im glad to hear the governor shut it down, Mr. Danis said.
Mr. Danis said he thought Gov. Cuomo walked a fine line, using a lack of money to construct an interstate as a way of avoiding full support or opposition. It was a well-reasoned calculation on Cuomos part, Mr. Danis said.
The comments were a victory of sorts for I-98 supporters, Mr. Danis said.
They have finally got the governors attention, he said.
I-98 supporter Mark J. Bellardini agreed with Mr. Danis on that point.
Its obviously on the governors mind, he said. Thats what I got out of it. He said were constrained but its a good idea.
The project sometimes called the rooftop highway has been kicked around for years but has taken on a recent resurgence because it would bring construction jobs to a bad economy and help attract industry for the long term, Mr. Davis said.
We need highway infrastructure to do its part, he said.
Meanwhile, the $6.3 million in federal money I-98 supporters thought was earmarked for the interstate is instead being used to plan improvements to Route 11, but there is no date for construction.
We dont have the money for things we need to do, state Department of Transportation spokesman Michael R. Flick said.
A lack of money for I-98 will not put an end to the discussion of the need for an interstate, Mr. Danis predicted.
Its always risen and fallen, he said. Itll probably quiet things down for a little while.
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What cable should I run for a surround sound setup?
A powered subwoofer, by definition, has the amplifier built in. The signal sent from the home theater receiver/processor is therefore a "non-powered" signal that needs to be shielded from its surroundings. Shielding prevents unwanted interference, specifically a 60 Hz "hum" from nearby electrical wires, from being picked up and amplified. We offer a shielded powered subwoofer cable in lengths of 12 feet and 30 feet.
The other speakers in a surround sound setup (front left, center and right plus all of the surround speakers) do not have amplifiers built-in. Instead, they are powered by amplifiers in the home theater receiver. It is difficult for an amplified signal to pick up interference, so regular, unshielded speaker cable will do. We recommend 14 gauge cable because, in our experience, it is difficult to notice an improvement with even thicker cable. When running cable behind a wall or in the ceiling, most building codes will require that you use UL rated CL-3 cable which has a higher fire retardancy than clear jacket cable.
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EDITORIAL: Sexual assault victims should come forward with no pressure
OU sexual assault victim advocates are not required to report assaults to police, but state Sen. Tom Ivester, D-Elk City, is looking to change that with House Bill 312. The bill would require university employees to tell police about any report of sexual assault involving a student, whether the student wants to pursue a police investigation or not.
While we applaud Ivester’s effort, we believe forcing university advocates to report crimes would dissuade victims from coming forward at all.
Sexual assaults are underreported and rarely punished at OU, The Daily reported in a three-part series in October.
Only 61 reports of sexual assault filed with the OU police department from 2000 to then, we reported. Of those cases, not one resulted in jail time for any offender.
National surveys suggest one in four female college students have been victims of sexual assault at one time in their lives. If these numbers are even remotely accurate, OU has a serious problem with sexual assault underreporting, we must not create policies that would discourage reporting.
The primary concern of any university policy or department tasked with victim assistance must be the health and welfare of victims seeking help from the university. Confidentiality concerns are among the top barriers to reporting sexual assaults on campus, according to a study published in the Journal of American College Health in 2006.
When a victim reports sexual assaults to any authority, the victim is more likely to receive medical and psychological treatment, the study reported.
After first aid — psychological and physical — is administered, victims can be encouraged to report the assault to the police by university counselors and victims’ advocates.
University advocates must maintain confidentiality. Victims of sexual assault should not be required to report the crime to the police, but student services should adopt policies and procedures to encourage victims to make the report themselves.
University advocacy organizations can act as an intermediary between students and the police to facilitate the process of reporting a crime to the police.
It is not enough for a counselor or advocate to tell the victim to go to the police — advocates must work with both victims and police to make the reporting process as accessible as possible.
This strategy combines the protection of confidentiality with the benefits of reporting a crime to the police. If a victim does not feel safe enough to report a crime to anyone, no care can be given. Some victims cannot or should not go to the police, and they should not be coerced to do so. But once a victim expresses willingness to go to police, it is the university’s responsibility to make the reporting process as easy and painless as possible.
The bill Ivester introduced is well intentioned, but threatens efforts to give needed first aid to assault victims.
Ask Ivester to amend his bill to encourage universities to adopt policies that do not threaten victim confidentiality.
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Series: Reviewing "Why Evolution is True"
In this three part series, Robert C. Bishop provides a helpful review for Evangelicals of the book Why Evolution is True by Jerry Coyne. He first debunks many outdated ideas and myths about the theory of evolution and its implications. He then goes on to critique Coyne’s conclusions about God as a “bad designer.” He further addresses how Christianity and science overlap as well as how to have a meaningful discussion between two individuals with radically different views.
Perusing the writings of atheistic scientists and philosophers like Daniel Dennett, one could easily get the impression that arriving at a simpler explanation for something equates to a revelation that things are “lower, cruder, and more trivial.”
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The following statement scared me more than the thought of a Rick Perry presidency. From American Banker:
“If sloppy record keeping and problems with false affidavits is a problem with mortgages, it’s 100 times bigger in credit card accounts,” says Michelle Weinberg of the Legal Assistance Foundation of Metropolitan Chicago.
Worse than mortgages, even? Let’s just review the mortgage situation:
- Robosigning consists of blatantly illegal practices in which banks and mortgage companies had their employees sign affidavits and other documents without verifying the information therein; forge signatures on documents; backdate documents; falsely notarize documents; create new documents to replace missing ones; or some combination of all the above. Did I mention that all of this is illegal?
- Contrary to what the banks would have you believe, robosigning was not a one-off — it happened on a systematic level. So much so that some of the nation’s largest banks (including Bank of America Corp. and JPMorgan Chase & Co., ) were forced to halt foreclosures to “review” these practices in late 2010.
- The companies that did this claimed that they had to cut corners because they couldn’t keep up with all of the paperwork created by the housing boom last decade. But we now know that this is not true — there’s evidence that robo-signing goes back all the way to at least 1998.
- This all means that thousands of Americans were foreclosed upon erroneously and that even homebuyers and sellers in good standing may be unable to prove their rightful ownership.
- The problem is so big that Sheila Bair, the former head of the FDIC, acknowledged that they don’t even know how big it is. It’s so big that the banks are willing to pay around $25 billion to settle the whole thing and be released of all liability.
- This also creates major headaches for institutional investors who bought bonds and structured products supposedly backed by these mortgages. If the mortgage banks don’t have correct legal documents showing that they owned the loans then there’s no way that they could have legally and correctly transferred them to the standalone trusts that are the essential component of these investments. According to the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association, there are over $7 trillion in U.S. mortgage-related securities outstanding. The Federal Reserve, itself, owns over $840 billion worth of mortgage-backed securities.
So in short the widespread and systematic robosigning of mortgage documents have created a real unresolved nightmare. And now there are indications that similar issues may exist within the credit card industry. Consider the very curious behavior of JP Morgan Chase, as reported in that little-noticed American Banker article from last week:
JPMorgan Chase & Co. has quietly ceased filing lawsuits to collect consumer debts around the nation, dismissing in-house attorneys and virtually shutting down a collections machine that as recently as nine months ago was racking up hundreds of millions of dollars in monthly judgments.
When a bank leaves money on the table for no obvious reason, you know that something’s not quite right.
American Banker says that JPM’s retreat on these lawsuits was first reported by the Wall Street Journal last year and that “document irregularities” were cited for the move. JP Morgan Chase’s decision to fire the lawyers working on these cases was massive (several regional teams were fired) and urgent (the orders came down from on high, i.e. NYC headquarters.) Some of those fired claim that the OCC has been investigating.
To substantiate this, consider the case of one Linda Almonte, a former JP Morgan Chase employee. In 2010 Almonte filed a lawsuit against JPM alleging that she was fired for blowing the whistle on their robosigning credit card processes. As the San Antonio Express News reported, Almonte alleged that
Chase knew that about 5,000 accounts had incorrect balance information, and that more than 11,000 accounts on which it claimed it had court judgments lacked adequate documentation showing judgments actually were obtained.
In some cases, she said, the judgments were against Chase rather than customers.
Almonte brought her concerns to her superiors, warning them the bank was violating federal law by intentionally misrepresenting the accounts, her lawsuit states. Nonetheless, she said she was told to proceed with the sale [of the portfolio of 23,000 delinquent credit card accounts to an external buyer].
Who’s willing to bet that this a one-off case?
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Jim Sutton's weekly St. Johns County fishing report
The St. Johns River
and area lakes
Record low water temperatures in the river, lakes and ponds are rebounding quickly. The St. Johns River is around 10 degrees warmer than it was a week ago. But it remains about 15 degrees cooler than it ought to be right now. The bass fishing has suffered because of that. Tournaments over the weekend saw top weights of between 2 and 3 pounds at the top of the leader boards. The only large fish that have been caught came out of the spring runs at on Lake George where water temperatures were much warmer than the surrounding lake. But the normal 72 degree outflow was still in the low 60s in the spring runs -- too cold for a spawn that was precluded by the freeze.
The good news is that bass are beginning to hit on the shallower points in Lake George and other freshwater bodies. These are the first areas of lakes to warm up. This is concentrating fish -- and they are hungry.
The speckled perch fishing remains spotty, but better. Most of the old timers believe that we'll see a huge upturn; if not this weekend, then by mid-week next week. The water is still cold. But the first big spawn of specks should begin happening within the week. Right now, Lake Lochloosa and Lake Santa Fe are the hot places to be. Anglers are catching limits, but the fish are generally smaller than those fish caught in the river. There's a pretty good catfish bite going on as well.
If you're stuck without a boat, you might ride down to the Rodman Dam. Speckled perch are being caught off the abutments on the Ocklawaha side in numbers good enough to warrant the trip down there.
The Intracoastal Waterway
Redfish are coming together in big schools right now in creeks and, especially, in the flats. The trick is in getting them to bite. The water in the ICW is still in the low-to-mid- 50s. The reds' metabolism is still generally idling. The best bites have been in the flats -- in the afternoons -- when the shallow water warms up. It will probably still be useless throwing lures to these fish this weekend. Most everyone enticing the redfish to bite right now are doing so with live mud minnows.
The sheepshead and black drum bites are the hottest thing going. Most any oyster bar with some deep water near it, channel or hole would be the place to start looking. The weather has warmed up enough for fiddler crabs to be caught again, so there is sheepshead bait around. These small crabs go deep and bury up when really cold weather comes around.
Those boats that got out to the ledge this week did well on blackfin tuna. A few wahoo were caught in the process, though it looks like the better wahoo bite was inside the ledge as shallow as 130 feet. The tuna were deeper and running in big schools with bonito. The word is that you'll have to go through five bonito to boat one blackfin. Bait is not lasting long.
A few dolphin were, surprisingly, caught this week too. Sailfish, it seems, have moved south, driven down by the cold weather.
Bottom fishing these days is all about black seabass, with grouper and snapper shut down tight. Bottom fishermen found good numbers of these in 75-90 feet of water. Smaller fish seem to be east of the St. Augustine Inlet, with larger specimens -- called greenheads -- up off of Mayport.
The weatherman is calling for southeast winds this weekend at 15 knots Saturday with seas 3-5 feet. Sunday it will be uglier.
Jan. 23: There will be a fishing clinic for kids from 9 a.m. to noon Genung's Fish Camp, 291 Cubbedge Rd. in Crescent Beach. Learn how to choose lures, bait, line and rigging to catch more fish. The event is free and open to youth of all ages accompanied by a parent. Jeff McGovern will conduct the clinic. Registration is required. For information, call 471-4144
Jan. 30: The Cattle Baron's Cast Off fishing tournament and oyster roast is at the Conch House Marina. Eligible species are trout, reds, flounder, whiting, black drum and sheepshead. It costs a minimum of a $25 donation per person to fish and enjoy the oysters and fish. The proceeds benefit the American Cancer Society. Lines in the water at sunrise and you can fish from boats, beaches or piers. There are no cash prizes, but there is a Calcutta. All fish will be donated to the fish fry. Call the Conch House at 829-8646 for registration information.
We appreciate the fishing photos and reports some of you have begun sending in. Don't stop. You can email them to email@example.com. We also have a Fishing Line at 819-3461. You can call that number 24 hours a day and leave fishing reports, questions or upcoming events we can help you with.
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The New Jersey Business & Industry Association "has been championing manufacturing for the last decade with our manufacturing renewal program," said Philip Kirschner, its president. "It's a very good sign that the president recognizes (the importance of the sector) and has programs designed to encourage manufacturing."
Obama cited the manufacturing innovation institute in Youngstown, Ohio, and proposed creating a network of 15 such manufacturing hubs nationwide "to guarantee that the next revolution in manufacturing is made in America."
Andrew Campbell, president of Eastern Millwork, a high-tech architectural wood company in Jersey City, said manufacturers need federal tax policies that encourage them to reinvest profits in their businesses. He also advocated expanding H1B visas, which he said helped his company hire more Americans.
"We have recruited European engineers that have a specific and unique training and understanding of what we do, and that has helped us automate our processes so that we could compete globally and create jobs in New Jersey," Campbell said.
Bob Loderstedt, president of the nonprofit New Jersey Manufacturing Extension Program, said "this is about the third year that (Obama) has publicly acknowledged the importance of manufacturing, and it will translate into a big commitment to manufacturing. I'm excited about it because Obama will in part be a cheerleader — and we need a cheerleader."
Loderstedt said larger companies have started bringing manufacturing jobs back to the United States from overseas, and now "some of the medium-sized companies will do that also."
John Sarno, president of the Employers Association of New Jersey, called Obama's manufacturing plan "one of the most innovative proposals in the speech. The goal would be to establish collaboration between industry, education and government." Sarno said New Jersey "has special concerns as to where the jobs are located and where unemployed people are concentrated. We also have environmental issues. So it will require intense collaboration."
Meredith Aronson, director of the manufacturing talent network in the state Department of Labor, is working on ways to recruit young people for emerging jobs in advanced manufacturing, which relies on technology and high-skilled workers.
She was encouraged by Obama's speech: "I think for him to reinforce it so early in his comments was a good indicator that he is looking at manufacturing being a primary economic and jobs driver for the country."
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No More Ma Bell for the Cell Phone Generation
AT&T finally withdrew its bid to merge with T Mobile, ending what everybody knows would have ended up as a gigantic antitrust suit. AT&T’s last bid was for $36 billion dollars.
Both companies are not in the best position: AT&T is once again at the bottom of nearly every customer service poll in the nation, and lost another market share of iPhones when Sprint began carrying them this past year. T-Mobile, the number four carrier in the United States, is a mess. The merger, if successful, would’ve ensured two things: continued success for AT&T in spite of its low reputation for quality, and a monopoly. However, a number of executives would have become very rich.
Many critics, however, have noted that the merger may have been a survival move. The massive consumer move from cell phones to smart phones has caused a demand for high-capacity wireless service that is growing exponentially. The government recently passed legislation to open up more air waves for cellular use. Super Wi-Fi is already in the works, but said government legislation may be a monkey wrench down the line.
AT&T will have trouble buying the airwave space it needs to service its customers sufficiently. What does that mean for consumers? AT&T will likely become a less attractive cell phone provider option in the coming years, while Verizon will continue to grow. Customers who flocked to AT&T just to get an iPhone can now get one with another provider.
The thing is the government has only kicked the can down the road in its desire to prevent a monopoly. It is likely that both AT&T and T Mobile are in for a very rough 2012 and beyond. Could Verizon emerge to become the next Microsoft, the next Google, the next Ma Bell—a company facing antitrust lawsuits to guarantee competition in the cellular provider industry?
One thing is for certain: cellular phones are a hot industry. Competition is fierce. Technology and consumer demand are evolving so quickly it’s impossible to keep up. With the whole technology sector of the economy in ridiculous flux, the future is hazy. However, consumers will continue to want good products and they want to receive good service. If AT&T doesn’t have a long term plan for providing good service to its customers, then bumpy waters are ahead for America’s first telephone company.
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- Three Money-Saving Ways to Upgrade your Cell Phone (with or without Contract Extensions)
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- Cell Phone Definitions: What is AMPS (Advanced Mobile Phone Service)?
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1. Oil and the Global Economy
A week that began with the markets’ attention focused on the Greek bailout, concerns about the global economy and the US’s fiscal cliff, ended with a major upswing in Middle Eastern violence which some fear could result in constraints on oil exports. For much of the week fears for the economy kept prices edging down, but on Friday as the exchanges of rocket fire and air strikes between Gaza and Israel increased, the markets moved higher with NY oil closing at $86.67 and London at $108.96. Oil prices that have trended down since September are now about $14 a barrel lower as demand for oil slackened and crude supplies remained adequate despite the sanctions on Iran.
US natural gas futures surged to a one-year high on Friday as forecasters are now predicting colder weather across much of the US. The EIA reported an 18 billion cubic foot drawdown of natural gas from storage caverns last week, the first withdrawal of the year. At this time last year, the inventory was still increasing, suggesting that this winter will not be a repeat of the mild 2011-12 heating season.
The European fiscal crisis is on hold for a while. The Greeks managed to borrow €4 billion on the open market to tide themselves over after the EU and IMF delayed the bailout payment that was due last week and continue to bicker over the parameters of the loans. For its part, the Greek government seems to be passing whatever austerity measures it takes to secure the EU loans despite a steady stream of demonstrations outside the parliament building. Last week, the ever-present Greek protestors were joined by a wave of anti-austerity strikes across much of Europe. The euro-zone economy contracted in the third quarter as increasing unemployment and fiscal austerity cut into the demand for oil.
Last week the IEA released its monthly Oil Market Report for November. The report cuts the IEA’s estimate for global oil demand for the fourth quarter by 290,000 b/d due to the US hurricane and persistently weaker demand in Europe. The forecast for global growth in oil consumption has been lowered to 670,000 b/d for 2012 and 830,000 b/d for 2013. Hurricane Sandy is thought to have cut US demand by 230,000 b/d during October.
Non-OPEC oil production in October rebounded by 840,000 b/d as the maintenance season came to a close and weather disruptions ended. OPEC production in October was down by 30,000 b/d to the lowest level in nine months, largely due to disruptions in Nigeria. The Iranians managed to increase production during the month by 70,000 b/d to 2.7 million and to increase exports by 300,000 b/d to 1.3 million. China, South Korea, and Singapore took the increased Iranian shipments.
2. The Middle East
Violence and turmoil in the Middle East increased markedly last week raising concerns about the stability of oil supplies over the longer term. In addition to the on-going Syrian uprising, the week saw a series of riots in Jordan calling for the end of the regime, and a heavy exchange of rockets and air strikes between Israel and Gaza. The new factor this time is better organization and longer range rockets on the part of Hamas in Gaza, and the Arab Spring which has changed the political landscape in the region most notably in the case of Egypt and its attitude towards Gaza.
Whenever Israel in directly involved in hostilities emotion in the area increases several fold. Given Tel Aviv’s overwhelming military superiority in the region, including a large nuclear arsenal, the usually reliable backing of Washington and the major European powers; precarious domestic security situations in Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, and Iraq; and an Iran weakened by sanctions and the imminent demise of the Assad government; it is little wonder that Palestinian frustrations reached the point of futilely firing unguided rockets into Israel. Israel’s assassination of Hamas’ military chief lifted the violence to unusual heights. The Palestinians’ best hope is that the Israeli retaliation will be seen as being so one-sided that Hamas will gain enough sympathy in the outside to bring pressure to force a settlement.
The threat of an oil embargo is one of the few weapons the Arab states have to bring pressure on the Israelis; however, the situation is far more complicated than 40 years ago when the Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries were able to mount a reasonably successful embargo against Israel and its allies. The political landscape in the region has changed so much in recent years that it is doubtful the Saudis and their Gulf State allies would be able to embargo exports at a time when they need the major importing countries to support them in regional conflicts.
Another possibility is an Egyptian ban on oil shipments through the Suez Canal and the Sumed pipeline. While this currently seems unlikely, prolonged fighting in Gaza could eventually force Cairo to consider stronger measures; however, the peace treaty with Israel is still more important to Cairo than support of Hamas.
The major development in the Syrian uprising last week was the formation of a new anti-Assad coalition that the western powers hope will form the nucleus of a post-Assad government. The coalition has already been recognized by France and other countries are considering offering it various kinds of support. In the meantime the situation inside Syria grows more desperate as winter approaches. Very little economic activity is taking place, and the food and fuel situation is becoming critical for the survival of thousands. The refugee population continues to grow rapidly. Fears that the governments stocks of chemical weapons could fall into jihadist hands are increasing the likelihood that foreign military intervention will eventually become necessary, further complicating the regional situation.
3. The IEA’S Forecast
The International Energy Agency in Paris dropped a bombshell last week when its 2012 World Energy Outlook forecast that US tight (shale) oil production would continue to grow more rapidly than expected for the rest of the decade. This would lead to the US becoming the world’s largest oil producer by 2012 and largely energy independent (though not for oil) by 2035. Given the reduction in demand because of all those fuel efficient cars and natural gas trucks that will be running around 20 years from now, North America (includes Canada) may even be net exporting oil in the 2030s.
The world’s press immediately jumped on this “good news,” with nearly every major publication trumpeting the story that the energy crisis was now way off in the future and that all would be well for the next 20 years. Those few writers that did consult people in the peak oil community buried their skeptical comments at the bottom of their stories. The issue, of course, is just how much longer tight oil production will continue to grow at the spectacular rates we have seen in recent years before it too peaks and starts an inevitable decline. Oil production from the Bakken Shale in North Dakota is currently about 660,000 b/d and production from Eagle Ford fields in Texas is about 600,000 and growing.
There is talk that the two fields will produce 2 million b/d in the next year or so. The IEA seems to be saying that tight oil production in the US will continue to grow and peak at about 5 million b/d circa 2020.
Most people in the peak oil community who have looked into the issue have major problems with these forecasts, believing that a peak in tight oil production somewhere around 3 million b/d is more realistic. Remember that demand is currently increasing at about 750,000 b/d each year so that eight years from now an additional 6 million b/d of new production will be required worldwide plus the 3 or 4 million b/d that will be needed each year to replace the depletion from existing fields.
The first problem with the IEA’s estimate is the rapid depletion of fracked oil wells. Despite limited experience with this relatively new technology, some are calculating that production from many of these wells is dropping by over 40 percent or more a year. We do know that the average daily production from North Dakota’s 4630 producing wells is currently 143 b/d. If we assume that the Bakken oil fields are to produce 2.5 million b/d by the end of the decade then it will need some 18,000 wells each producing the average of 140 b/d. While this is a not an inconceivable number, when one takes into account that most if not all of these wells will have be redrilled twice in the next 8 years the number becomes improbable. We shall have to drill more and more wells just to maintain the same level of production.
Another caveat to the optimism over tight oil is the very high cost of the horizontal drilling and fracking of these wells which may run three or four times that of a conventional well. Some people put the cost of producing a barrel of oil from the Bakken at $80-90, which is just about where oil is currently selling in the region. Should the global economy continue to contract, the selling price of fracked oil could well fall below the cost of production, bringing a marked slowdown to further drilling.
There are so many variables in all this, such as the course of the Middle East, that making estimates of production levels 10 or 15 years from now is fraught with so much uncertainty as to not be of much value.
Quote of the week
"We'd all like to believe in the promise of energy abundance, but the global patterns of consumption and production are a reminder that the Hummers need to stay on history's junk heap.” - Loren Steffy, Houston Chronicle Business Columnist
The Briefs (clips from recent Peak Oil News dailies are indicated by date and item #)
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With the National Counter Terrorism Centre (NCTC) stuck following opposition from the Trinamool Congress and NDA-ruled states, the government will go full steam on setting up the National Intelligence Grid (Natgrid).
In his budget proposals tabled in Parliament on Friday, finance
minister Pranab Mukherjee proposed to give Natgrid its first big dose of resources—R364 crore—to meet its deadline.
Government sources said a larger part of this allocation would be spent for installing the basic infrastructure for the information grid.
The allocation was part of the Rs. 31,414 crore—a meagre rise of 8% over last year’s revised estimates – earmarked for 18 organisations and projects of the internal security establishment such as the Intelligence Bureau (IB) where the controversial NCTC would be anchored.
Mukherjee did not earmark any separate funds for the NCTC or significantly raise funding for IB. As against the Rs. 956 crore spent by IB this fiscal, Mukherjee proposed Rs. 1073 crore for the bureau.
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A Lesson In Advance Of Dying
To bemoan illness following a good life seemed ungrateful.
B. Stephens; Wall Street Journal; 12/13/2011
Does the fashion of our dying count in the final reckoning of how we have lived our lives? Nearly my first job at the University of Chicago was to go through the Platonic dialogues on the trial and death of Socrates. "Then, holding the cup to his lips, quite readily and cheerfully he drank off the poison. " It is the supreme moment in the Western philosophical tradition, when wisdom and courage, resignation and defiance, combine to overcome injustice and, in a sense, death itself.
Would that we could all die as Socrates did. Typically we don't. "The good death has increasingly become a misconception," wrote the Yale physician and bioethicist Sherwin Nuland in his 1993 prize-winning publication "How We Die." Dying, in Dr. Nuland's eloquent telling, amounts to "a sequence of harmful occurrences that involve by their very nature the disintegration of the dying individual's humanity." Who can—who would dare—judge a man's value when his mind and body are being picked bare by disease?
I've been thinking about all this for over a year now as I watched a brain tumor, along with the related medical interventions, pick away at my father bit by bit. First, an operation to eliminate the cancerous growth, which wiped out his right field of vision and took away his ability to read and drive. Next came debilitating rounds of chemo and radiation, along with an agonizing case of shingles. Then avascular necrosis set in, making him unable to walk. Subsequently, as the tumor returned, his memory began to slip. Near the end he was almost totally blind, couldn't utter a sentence, couldn't take a pill, couldn't hold his meals down. Cancer is a heist culminating in murder.
I assume Dr. Nuland's book should have prepared me for this. I suppose, too, that I should have recognised what was approaching after visiting my aunt as she was dying of brain cancer. My father had been with me on that journey to wish his sister a last happy birthday. His own tumor was recognized 3 weeks afterwards.
But I wasn't ready. My father, generally in excellent shape, had a way of projecting an air of indestructibility. When he called to tell me about the prognosis, it was in a tone suggesting it was only slightly more serious than a fender-bender. The 5-year survival rate for his kind of cancer is 4%. I looked that up on the Web, then persuaded myself that he was surely in the 4%.
"The body has 1, 000 lines of innovative defense," I recall my father telling me as a youngster, in what must have been one of our very first talks about dying. And I had believed him, because to me he was the living proof.
To grow up is to realize that the self-belief a parent radiates around his children is hardly ever the assurance the parent senses. I knew my father well enough to know his various anxieties and various insecurities. I knew he had seen his own father die of brain cancer and was intimately familiar with the course of the sickness. I knew that, born optimist though he was, he had no faith in an afterlife. My father treasured the life he had, lived it fully and well, had no desire to abandon it.
All this meant that the verdict should have been devastating to him. Still he never betrayed the slightest sign of concern. Apart from when his shingles were at their most excruciating, he continued to be his content, involved, stimulating self. For a while I put this down to his belief that he would in some way beat the cancer, a belief I was keen to share.
Yet my father retained his usual sangfroid even when it grew to be obvious that there would be no getting well. There were no 5 phases of grief, no rounds of denial, anger, bargaining and melancholy. About six weeks before the end, when we had brought him to a hospice, I asked if he wouldn't rather be at home. "Given where I am," he responded with a cocked eyebrow, "I am where I am." I was stunned he could even speak. We brought him home regardless.
How did my father retain his composure in the face of his progressive deterioration? We never spoke about it. I sometimes chalked it up to being born in the 1930s, before the baby boom and the cult of self. He was not a complainer. To bemoan his illness after a lifetime in which the good breaks outnumbered the negative ones would have appeared to him ungrateful. The worst he ever mentioned to me about his cancer was that it was "a bummer."
Yet there was something different at work. The sicker my father got, the more dependent he started to be on his family, the less he had to give back. What could he offer, other than not to sink us into the horror he surely must have felt? So he retained his usual energetic and joyful interest in our lives and the lives of his close friends and in politics and the films we watched with each other. Sticking to the routine and the lighthearted was his way of being protective with the folks he adored. For as long as he could muster his wits, death was not permitted to enter the room.
Throughout his existence my father taught me many lessons: about language, history and beliefs; about integrity, loyalty and love. In the end, he taught me that death cannot destroy the dignity of a dignified man.
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Lee Fang wrote this Think Progress cross-post.
Paul Nyden, writing in the Charleston Gazette this Sunday, revealed that Koch Industries “” the massive conglomerate of oil, chemical, manufacturing, timber, hedge fund, coal, and shipping interests run by the right-wing ideologues David and Charles Koch “” has seeded West Virginia with several conservative front groups. Koch foundations provide the cash for anti-government efforts in the Mountain State, including a right-wing “think tank” called the Public Policy Foundation of West Virginia and for free-market faculty members at West Virginia University.
Nyden notes that Russell Sobel, a local economist whose research and writing has been underwritten by Koch fronts, argues against the minimum wage and against mine safety laws:
Sobel also works closely with the Public Policy Foundation of West Virginia, the Morgantown think tank which published his book, “Unleashing Capitalism: Why Prosperity Stops at the West Virginia Border and How to Fix It,” in 2007. The Sobel book is a collection of 12 essays, arguing that government regulations hurt West Virginia’s economy. One essay questions the value of “mandated” mine safety laws, stating government regulations may increase accident rates.
The Koch-funded think tank recently started a phony news service in West Virginia, called the “West Virginia Watchdog.” Americans for Prosperity, the fake grassroots group founded and financed by David Koch, has been running television ads in West Virginia attacking progressive reforms. David and Charles Koch, each worth $21.5 billion, have postured as great philanthropists, slapping their names on New York opera houses and the private prep school David attended, Deerfield Academy. But much of Koch’s wealth has been quietly spent lobbying against consumer protections, environmental regulations, and other efforts to erode the ability for Americans to provide accountability to powerful corporations. As the New Yorker’s Jane Mayer reported, Koch lobbied aggressively to prevent the EPA from “classifying formaldehyde, which the company produces in great quantities, as a ‘known carcinogen‘ in humans.”
– Lee Fang
- New Yorker exposes Koch brothers along with their greenwashing and whitewashing Smithsonian exhibit
- Rand Paul: “I believe business should be left alone from government.”
- Rand Paul: Mine safety regulations aren’t needed since “no one will apply” for jobs at dangerous mines
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