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But one is not free from fear in Liberty Square public housing, which has seen at least 11 shootings in the past two years. The Model City area of which it is a part accounts for nearly a third of all Miami murders. Residents showed Robles bullet holes in their walls. They told how they teach their children to drop at ...
Robles went to Liberty Square to find out how the cameras were doing at combating that. She found they were not working. A $270,000 closed-circuit monitoring system installed several months back by the county housing authority as a crime-fighting tool was plagued by malfunctions. One wonders what impact it would have m...
Not that cameras and other creative policing tools ought not be used to fight the lawlessness of this place. But you cannot put this right with a single dramatic gesture. It is a complex problem and will require a sustained and holistic solution.
You want to fix Liberty Square and places like it? Fine, improve the policing. But also fix the schools and give every child a quality education. Offer job training. Provide incentives that bring commerce and industry to the area. Encourage the restoration of nuclear families. End the drug war.
The model of holistic solutions already exists in pockets of hope around the country, including Purpose Built Communities in Atlanta and the Harlem Children�s Zone in New York. So there is no mystery here. We know how to fix these bad places. What we lack is the wit and the will.
Geoffrey Canada, founder of the Harlem Children�s Zone, once spoke of how people resist him investing, say, $3,500 a year to help some poor kid in some struggling uptown neighborhood. But when that kid turns 18, they think nothing of spending $60,000 a year to incarcerate him.
In other words, you can spend less and produce a citizen who pays taxes and otherwise contributes to the system � or you can spend more to feed and house someone who only takes from the system. That ought to be a no-brainer. It�s not liberal; it�s not conservative. It�s mathematical.
That something so obvious eludes us speaks to that lack of wit and will and to a tendency to regard violence and dysfunction as somehow inevitable, unremarkable, intractable, in neighborhoods where people are black, brown or poor.
We owe Maria Williams something better than that sort of moral flaccidity.
No, this is not your neighborhood. But what if it were?
Do your kids needle you to buy? How to deal with the nag factor.
I love my children dearly but have grown to dislike them as consumers. They (ages 6, 9, and 14) are all well-versed in pressure tactics, including launching all-out campaigns when they want an item badly enough. I am so tired of being harangued all the time. I already refuse to take any of them along in the grocery sto...
Your kids sound like an advertiser's dream, which should be cause for concern for any parent. The big companies have found a multitude of ways in which to market their wares to the American consumer, but none is more insidious than insinuating themselves into the minds of our children. I also hate to bring my kids to t...
Give your Netflix (NASDAQ:NFLX) subscription a workout. Network television aimed at kids is loaded with advertisements for toys, cereals, and various plastic, hard-to-assemble items. Minimize your child's list of wants by simply practicing avoidance.
Defer to the "birthday list." When my kids request specific items, I listen with interest and then say in a cheerful voice, "When we get home, you'll have to put that on your (birthday, Christmas, Veterans Day) list." Somehow, with my young kids, this seems to work much of the time.
A genuine "no" is priceless. Half-hearted nos -- nos that mean "No, unless you nag enough to make me give in," and "No, until dad comes home and reverses the decision" -- are all wimpy versions of "yes." Your kids catch on quickly to whether your "no" is negotiable.
For older kids, establishing an allowance (along with clear expectations about what the allowance will pay for) can help them learn responsibility, encourage delay of gratification, and help them become better consumers.
Teach your child to comparison-shop. Arguing with your preteen about how Brand X jeans are actually the same as Brand Y jeans is not going to get you very far. Name-brand recognition and having the same items as their friends seems of paramount importance to someone 12 years old, no matter what we know differently. Sho...
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Censors are on the lookout for political mistakes—even in print runs for foreigners.
The year is 1925, and Shanghai is in flux. Communists, Nationalists, and Triad gangsters are all fighting for control of this vice-laden city, and one “preeminent bon vivant,” Victor Sassoon, is fighting to keep evil at bay. Almost a century later, however, on China’s south coast, Sassoon is burnt to a crisp, a victim ...
The Sassoon Files is the latest casualty of the Chinese government’s ever-increasing political paranoia and determination to control the global narrative. Whether it’s demanding that Cambridge University Press censor its offerings in China, grooming foreign journalists, or expanding its infiltration of Western newspape...
As the journalist Louisa Lim and researcher Julia Bergin have argued, the Chinese Communist Party has embarked on an “aggressive drive to redraw the global information order.” Part of this drive is controlling what can and can’t be produced in what used to be the world’s workhouse, regardless of who the intended audien...
Jo Lusby, a former CEO of Penguin Random House North Asia who now runs her own publishing consultancy in Hong Kong, stresses that rules about what printers in China can print have always been in place, and those with a license to print foreign ISBNs know that they will face extra administrative hurdles and scrutiny. “I...
Earlier this year, this list was put in writing for the first time and circulated among publishers. Its scope is farcical: As well as widely known sensitive subjects such as Tibet, Taiwan, and the Tiananmen Square massacre, any mention of any political figures whatsoever is verboten. Lusby said that even the phrase “De...
This rule is where The Sassoon Files faltered—one of the options in the game is to work as a secret agent for Zhou Enlai, Mao Zedong’s second in command. “The cultural department examined the books and found some false reports about the great men of Chinese history, so did not allow us to print [them] and ordered us to...
It is not just newcomers who have had print runs scuppered by China’s censorship laws. Last year, the Australian publishing house Hardie Grant was forced to abandon two book projects after its Chinese suppliers refused to cooperate. Both issues were cartographical: In one book, the font used for Taiwan on a hand-drawn ...
Grant believes the result of China’s demands is that self-censorship “is not just a risk in the industry—it is prominent.” As in many other sectors, such as technology, aviation, and film, publishers around the world are having to consider how far they are willing to capitulate to China’s view of the world in order to ...
Any publisher has to consider the cost of printing in order to be commercially viable. Cheap black-and-white printing is available worldwide, but China still has a market edge when it comes to color or other special features—one publisher estimates that it is 40 percent cheaper to print books in China than it is in Nor...
What is certain to make Chinese printers less competitive is book burning. China Seven Color Group said that The Sassoon Files was the first time that it had been forced to take destructive action—a technique once common in the bonfires of the Cultural Revolution Publishers might be willing to put free speech concerns ...
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Can social media redeem the church?
The short answer is of course, “no.” Maybe the long one is, too.
Indeed, experimental psychologist Richard Beck recently set the religion blogosphere—forgive me—atwitter with a post entitled, “How Facebook Killed the Church.” Beck, a professor at Abilene Christian University, argues that, rather than replacing face-to-face relationships with so many digital doppelgangers, “Facebook ...
Beck draws on unpublished research on college retention that showed that freshmen with active Facebook engagement were more likely to return for their sophomore year precisely because their Facebook activity was closely correlated to meaningful face-to-face relationality. This echoes other findings about the more narro...
It’s an engaging argument. Beck is certainly right that church is no longer a central gathering place for the majority of believers and seekers. And, it seems, too, that Facebook has taken up much of the chat about “football,… good schools,… local politics,” and other matters that Beck sees as the “main draw” of routin...
The relationships among the undergraduates in Beck’s research were not formed on Facebook, they were enriched by students’ continued digital contact. The problem with regard to churches and other religious communities (and we see this over and over again with Facebook group pages whose only visitors are the minister an...
That is, if church were, indeed, a robustly social experience, Facebook would enrich and extend that experience, enhancing week-to-week retention through ongoing conversation with valued friends—just as it appears to do with undergraduates moving from the first to the second year of college. Thin connections in face-to...
Other data suggests deeper reasons for believers and seekers’ abandonment of the institutional church, much of it linked to an understanding of the “social” that has more to do with involvement in practices of compassion, justice, and stewardship than it does with mere interpersonal entertainment. An extensive body of ...
Beyond a growing distaste for the rancor around hot-button issues like human sexuality, gender equity, and reproductive choice, people seem to be put off church because they are able to do the kind of work—tending the sick, advocating for the oppressed, caring for the earth, comforting those in trouble or need—that was...
This is why you’ll probably find more people volunteering in any given week at Martha’s Kitchen food pantry in downtown San Jose, California than at Sunday services at the church across the street. If Facebook is killing the church, that is, it’s probably more accurate to call it an assisted suicide.
Okay, that’s kind of like welcoming everyone to a party that started hours ago, but you’ve got to at least applaud the Vatican’s effort to be digitally magisterial. Along the same lines, Rome recently announced a new Facebook page that promotes the beatification of Pope John Paul II. Monsignor Paul Tighe tells USA Toda...
The page, which offers videos highlights from the life of John Paul II, has garnered an impressive amount of global traffic. Alas, the fact that more than 13,000 around the world “liked” the page in the first days it was up does not mean that it is enriching or extending relationships. It’s cool to see people offering ...
Where does it work better? In these early days of the Digital Reformation, especially rich examples are thin on the ground. But one is the social media-infused ministry of Nadia Bolz-Weber, founding pastor of the Church of All Sinners and Saints, a Lutheran mission church in Denver. Bolz-Weber doesn’t quite have the me...
The short post reveals more than Episcopal priest and social entrepreneur Rosa Lee Harden’s riff on a quote attributed to Karl Barth—“We must hold the Bible in one hand and the newspaper in the other.” It also shares a distributed, de-centered practice of ministry that values the contributions of others. It expresses a...
Bolz-Weber’s social media ministry reveals the secret that most churches have not yet faced: institutions don’t know how to be social. People do, which is why the bump in retention Beck and his colleagues tracked among undergraduates related to their own Facebook pages and those of their friends rather than to their un...
On April 22, Good Friday, the Vatican will at least come to the digital window when Pope Benedict will respond to three questions about Jesus (the subject of the pontiff’s new book) submitted online by the faithful. The conversation won’t be live or interactive. The pope’s responses will be broadcast on Italian state t...
It’s a start. But until churches and other religious groups, their leaders, and members feel comfortable interacting with one another around real questions of meaning and value—questions having little to do with doctrine and much to do with practices of compassion and justice—their social media participation will do no...
Mobile computing and associated social media have not replaced the main draw of the traditional church: spiritual connection in social context. But they have made it more difficult to mask the modern, broadcast-era practice of social and spiritual disconnectedness that plays out as much in generic coffee hour chitchat ...
No, Facebook hasn’t killed the church. Churches are doing just fine on that front on their own.
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The U.S. Missile Defense Agency has successfully shot down a ballistic missile in space during a test. Interceptor missiles launched from an Air Force base in California shot down the ballistic missile.
The U.S. Missile Defense Agency on Monday successfully shot down a dummy Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) in space during a highly complex test of the U.S. military’s capabilities to counter incoming missiles from foreign adversaries.
Two interceptor missiles, launched from an Air Force base in California, shot down the ballistic missile – launched from the Marshall Islands in the Pacific 4,000 miles away – supposedly meant to resemble missiles used by North Korean or Iranian militaries.
The first interceptor hit and destroyed the re-entry vehicle. The second interceptor hit a secondary object.
The agency said that during the test, ground and sea-based Ballistic Missile Defense System (BMDS) sensors successfully provided data to the Command, Control, Battle Management and Communication (C2BMC) system, which then prompted the launch of two interceptor missiles.
“This was the first GBI salvo intercept of a complex, threat-representative ICBM target, and it was a critical milestone,” MDA Director Air Force Lt. Gen. Samuel A. Greaves said in a statement.
The test on Monday was the first of its kind missile defense test, which came amid the Iranian and North Korean governments' efforts to develop the ICBM technology.
Earlier this year, Iran tried to launch two satellites that the government said was for the purposes of monitoring the environment, prompting objections from the U.S. as the satellite launch vehicles were reportedly used the same technology as ICBMs.
“Iran plans to fire off Space Launch Vehicles with virtually same technology as ICBMs. The launch will advance its missile program. US, France, UK & Germany have already stated this is in defiance of UNSCR 2231. We won't stand by while the regime threatens international security,” Secretary of State Mike Pompeo wr...
North Korea, amid the breakdown of talks with the U.S., has been accused of rebuilding a missile launch site.
Satellite images show that efforts to rebuild some structures at the Tongchang-ri launch site started between Feb. 16 and March 2, citing 38 North, a website specializing in North Korea studies.
Harry Kazianis, Director of Korean Studies at the Center for the National Interest, and a Fox News contributor, said: "The facility in question, Sohae Satellite Launching Station or sometimes called Tongchang-ri, has seen activity in the last few days which suggests the North Koreans are rebuilding their capability to ...
Lucas Tomlinson contributed to this report.
The Lakers have lost 8 out of their last 10 games after losing again to the Boston Celtics during Saturday's game. It is pretty clear that the Lakers need to change things up, but could this mean that even LeBron James is going to be put on the chopping board?!
The Celtics are the four-seed in the Eastern Conference and will match up with the Indiana Pacers in the first-round of the NBA Playoffs. Kyrie Irving and Gordon Hayward discuss the matchup with Indy.
it seems like Kyrie Irving did learn a thing or two from LeBron James during his stint with the Cleveland Cavs and it wasn't winning. there have been talks of Kyrie Irving heading to the Knicks and..
The main focus of the Boston Celtics' rocky, up-and-down season has been the goings-on of Kyrie Irving. The Celtics appear to have hit a new low, losing five of their last six games and seven of..
Celtics guard Kyrie Irving was a man of few words after the team lost to the Rockets in Boston, their fifth loss in their last six games.
Who Said It: Kyrie or LeBron?
In this edition of Crossover TV's "Who Said It?", Rohan Nadkarni and guest co-host Clay Skipper guess who said the trash-talking quote about their own team.: Kyrie or LeBron?
Groton — Ashley Shaw Giordano had no trouble finding people to honor at this coming Saturday's third installment of the Christopher Johns Memorial Sober Softball Tournament.
Ten teams will take to the baseball diamond at Washington Park wearing shirts that display the names and ages of people who lost their lives to opioid overdoses.
Among the players in the tournament hosted by the nonprofit group Community Speaks Out will be those who continue to grieve the loss of family members and friends, people in recovery and those who want to help stem the epidemic that is projected by the state Office of the Chief Medical Examiner to take 1,030 lives in C...
Giordano, who will celebrate 2 1/2 years of recovery next month, took over organization of the tournament last year following the death of her friend Joey Gingerella, whom she had met in recovery. Gingerella, whose struggle with pain pill addiction had inspired his parents to start Community Speaks Out, was fatally sho...
Giordano, who is 24, had two friends who were honored at last year's tournament and this year has two more, David Whelan and Kaitlyn Knapp. Another honoree, Damien Perretta, was the father of her best friend. So much loss is overwhelming, but Giordano said her friends would have wanted her to be well. She said she is p...
"This tournament helps," she said. "For me, it's a way of honoring Joey, who started it. It also helps because it's something positive to come from such a negative thing. It also really helps for me, because I talk to parents on a daily basis who have lost their children, and it makes me realize where my dad would be i...
"Being clean and sober has definitely changed my life for the better," Giordano said. "There's a lot of hard days, but my hardest day clean and sober is better than my best day using. Every sacrifice has been worth it."
The tournament begins at 9 a.m. and will run through 9 p.m., with more than 15 games taking place on the field. There will be two food trucks, raffles and yard games, including corn hole, can jam and volleyball. A candle light vigil for all those who are suffering and have died is planned for the end of the day.
"The whole point is for it to be a community event," Giordano said. "For everyone to come together and shine a light on such a dark time, to have fun and to erase the stigma (surrounding addiction). The stigma is what holds so many back from getting help."
Proceeds from the event will be used by Community Speaks Out to help get people into treatment. The rain date is Oct. 6.
Lisa Cote Johns, for whose son the tournament is named, said the tournament could eventually become a two-day affair because of the number of people who are suffering. Her son, Christopher Johns, died on Oct. 2, 2014, overdosing on mixture of drugs in a New London sober house. She is being treated for complicated grief...
"When the families come and show support of their loved one, you know what they're feeling," she said. "You know they're early in their recovery. Just knowing the pain they are going through takes your breath away because you know the road they have to walk down."
When: Saturday, Sept. 29, 9 a.m. to 9 p.m.
NEW YORK -- Victims of Bernard Madoff's epic fraud scheme have been approved for $534.25 million of payments, the trustee trying to recover the imprisoned swindler's assets said.
The sum is roughly one-eighth of the $4.44 billion of allowed claims that the court-appointed trustee Irving Picard has identified, Picard told reporters on a conference call. The trustee said he has determined 2,861 direct customer claims.
Picard, a partner at Baker & Hostetler LLP, is supervising the liquidation of Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC, home to Madoff's estimated $65 billion Ponzi scheme, and filed many lawsuits to recover what he calls "fictitious profits."
Picard said "there definitely will be further lawsuits," especially within the next nine months, to recover more money.
The trustee estimated he has recovered $1.4 billion of assets to cover claims, and that this amount should be around $1.5 billion by year end.
Holders of about 2,335 accounts at Madoff's firm suffered roughly $21.2 billion of losses, Picard said.
The Securities Investor Protection Corp, a federally chartered agency that supervises the liquidation of brokerages, has made the $534.25 million of distributions on about 1,558 claims, relating to 1,368 customer accounts.

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