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Springfield mentor makes difference in student's lifeBy Christian Avard
Staff Writer | January 14,2013
SPRINGFIELD Zach Cheney, a fifth-grade student at Union Street Elementary School, was eagerly awaiting his friends arrival Thursday. Floyd Buck, a well-known student mentor from Springfield, made his way down the hall, high-fiving all the students who crossed his path.
So what are we going to do today, Zach? Buck asked.
Zach, a shy but friendly 12-year-old, said with a smile, Lets play football.
Buck volunteers with Lets Do Lunch, a mentoring program that matches volunteers with students for one hour a week for the whole school year. Windsor County Partners offers the mentoring program to Windsor County children between the ages of 5 and 18, free of charge.
Buck has been Zachs mentor for six years. He has offered him guidance and support, friendship and skills for life.
When asked why he mentors Zach, Buck said its about finding a students potential in life.
Im passionate about kids and I try to get them to be passionate about their own interests and develop that. Its the small little things, Buck said.
Buck recalled a time when he and Zach went to the Black River on an outdoors field trip. They went fishing, caught crayfish, went on nature walks, and learned about the local habitat.
Zach was very active with his classmates and Buck could tell that Zach thrived in outdoor education settings.
Zach opens up more outside when he takes part in more hands-on stuff. Just seeing him do hands-on stuff and figuring things (out) on his own shows how much he is blossoming, Buck said.
Zachs fifth-grade teacher agreed.
Zach is having a great year, academically. His math skills have shot up. I think when you know someone else in your life cares about you that will have the biggest impact on someone, Vanessa Stern said.
Buck said goodbye to Zach after recess and told him hed be back next Thursday. Zach is already looking forward to it.
I enjoy having an adult to talk to and play games with, he said. We play football, he shows me how to throw it and I get better. Ive had great times with him.
The relationship we formed keeps us going, Buck said. I hope Zach gets a lot out of it. Its changed my life and its rewarding to see him grow into the man hes becoming.
Southern Vermont mentoring organizations are celebrating National Mentoring Month in January. Windsor County Partners is seeking donations and volunteers. There are 23 young people waiting for an adult volunteer to spend time with them, they said.
To learn more, visit www.windsorcountypartners.org, email email@example.com or call executive director Kathy Kinter at 674-5101.
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For a long time spraying lots of "dry" nitrous into an electronically fuel-injected engine involved complicated plumbing and fuel pressure issues, and swapping in some very big fuel injectors to add the proper amount of fuel at the proper time. Unfortunately, big injectors don't like driving at part throttle, and most cars equipped with them became temperamental on the street. NOS has changed all that with its new NOSzels EFI nitrous system. The NOSzels are a unique type of fogger nozzle that is installed between the fuel injector and the intake manifold bung. When the nitrous system is turned off, the engine's fuel injectors work just like normal. When the system is activated, the nitrous spray helps to further atomize the injector's fuel, adding more power to the engine than just the nitrous/fuel spray would alone. Since the NOSzels are a "wet" system and spray their own fuel, there's no longer a need to install huge injectors or increase your fuel pressure when you hit the button.
Back in the November '02 issue we showed you the buildup and dyno test of an engine affectionately known around the office as "The Coolest Rat." This Rat was deemed "coolest" because it had no trouble cranking out more than 615 hp and 580 lb-ft of torque, all below 6,000 rpm on pump gas, and it idled at 700 rpm! However, being the horsepower junkies that we are, all that was still not enough, and we thought a shot of NOS would be the next coolest bolt on. Luckily for us, the folks at Holley Performance Products-the makers of NOS-are just as addicted to horsepower as we are, and they had just what the our EFI'd Rat needed.
After installing and thoroughly testing the NOSzels, we are convinced that they're one of the coolest bolt-ons we've tried. The installation was simple-although it did take quite a long time because there are so many fittings to install-and tuning it was extremely easy. In fact, when comparing the NOSzels to normal-style fogger systems we've run in the past, things like jet changes are simpler with the new NOSzels, and working with the high-pressure plastic tubing was easier than working with steel lines (although some folks are not sold on the looks of the plastic lines; they like polished stainless). On a scale of 1-10 we would rate the NOSzels in the 9s. Not only did the system perform better than expected (it made as much as 50 more horsepower-350 hp at the 300hp setting-than NOS claimed it would), but it was so simple to use that we felt very confident when the time came to hit the button. Also, check out how amazingly close the extra power was to NOS's estimation. Example: the NOSzels added 103 average hp at the 100hp setting, 171 average hp at the 175hp setting, and 342 average hp at the 300hp setting!!! When NOS says you'll get an extra 100 or 200 hp with its kit, you can bet you're getting exactly that or more! While the total cost of the system is a bit on the high side for a nitrous kit (around $1,500 last time we checked Jeg's Web site for NOS PN 8008), there aren't too many people that might buy this kit who haven't already spent at least five times that on their engine. And for the money, there's still very little else on the market than can add this much bang for the buck. If you've built a serious EFI motor and are anxious to top it off with the newest in high-tech power adders, then the NOSzels could be the next best bolt on for you.

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Catch-up wrote:Dotsie, I followed your lead and looked for something ridiculous to watch. Chose The Campaign with Will Ferrel and Zach Galifanakis (have no idea if I spelled that right). It was pretty much as expected!
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Canon refreshes IXUS range for 2013: IXUS 132, 135, 140 and 255 HS models added29 January 2013
It's that time of year when, just ahead of the CP+ imaging show in Japan, lots of new cameras appear. Canon's 2013 refresh of its IXUS range has added four new models to the range. At the top of pile of this year's refresh is the Canon IXUS 255 HS, a... >>


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Where Movement is Born
Ball or chair exercises for core strength
To help improve your core strength, sit on a large exercise ball or a chair. Maintaining good posture with your "sit bones" on the middle of the ball or chair (the two bone bumps designed to bear your seated weight), line knees up with shoulders, feet flat on the floor. Then, rotate hips slowly and deliberately, first in one direction and then in the opposite direction. This routine not only helps to strengthen the core muscles but is also a great way to warm up the body for more abdominal exercises. You may also add pelvic tilts to the routine.
Leg lifts are another way to strengthen the core and to improve balance. Sitting on an exercise ball or a chair with arms held down along your sides, slightly lift one leg, keeping the knee bent and put it down again. Repeat this five to ten times before lifting the opposite leg. You may also extend the leg out in front of you, one at a time for several repetitions.
To exercise your lats, the muscles across your mid to lower back, extend your arms straight out in front of your body and lower them slowly before raising them up again, shoulder height. Remember to keep your shoulders down and relaxed and focus on maintaining correct posture. Most of these exercises, including standing leg lifts, may also be done standing in a pool using water resistance.
Jensen points out that some people have great standing posture but poor sitting posture. However, the same principal applies to both. "Pull down on your shoulders, away from your ears," reminds Jensen. "Focus on elongating your torso, feet flat on the floor, drawing naval to spine and breathe normally. Don't hold your breath."
Jensen and her colleagues teach diaphragmatic breathing, inhaling through your nose with your mouth closed, and then exhaling through pursed lips. Imagine blowing on a candle to flicker the flame but not to blow it out. Try to feel your diaphragm inflating and deflating. This will also create greater awareness of what is going on in the center of your body.
People with strong abdominals usually have very few back problems, and strengthening the abdominals may decrease lower back pain. Sit-ups are a very good way to strengthen the abdominals but form is critical. Sit-ups should be done slowly with the elbows back and enough space for a fist between chin and chest. Remember "naval to spine," keep the small of your back on the floor (mat), and raise up and down slowly, doing 20 to 30 reps. You should feel this exercise in the upper portion of you abdominal muscles. Depending on your initial strength, you may want to begin with just five reps, increasing the amount each day as you build strength.
This routine not only helps to strengthen the core muscles but is also a great way to warm up the body for more abdominal exercises.
There are many ways to strengthen core muscles. Choose what is right for you and dedicate 20 to 30 minutes a day to exercise — think of it as a 30- minute gift you are giving to yourself. "You will feel happier and more at peace," says Jensen, "because regular exercise will ultimately affect all areas of your life."
Before beginning any new exercise routine, check with your physician, especially if you have had back, neck or shoulder surgeries or problems.
For more information about Eisenhower Renker Wellness Center or to make an appointment with a Fitness Instructor, call 760-773-2030.


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This article describes a sample VoIP Internet call configuration for Nokia Symbian^3 devices, e.g. Nokia N8-00 and E7-00. The configuration is done manually by creating the following settings:
- Wireless LAN access point
- SIP profile
- VoIP service
To configure the VoIP service settings, a separate SIP VoIP Settings application needs to be installed in the device. The application can be downloaded from Forum Nokia:
Download and install "Symbian^3 SIP VoIP 3.1 Settings" application in the mobile device and continue by configuring the Wireless LAN, SIP and VoIP service settings.
1) Wireless LAN access point configuration
Go to Menu > Settings > Connectivity > Settings > Destinations menu and create a destination group or an access point through which the VoIP calls will be established. The VoIP calls are usually established through a Wireless LAN access point but a packet data connection over 3G or GPRS can also be used (note that you need to enable AWCDMA setting in VoIP service settings if wanting to use 3G or GPRS access point).
2) SIP profile configuration
The SIP profile settings need to be checked with the VoIP service provider. The following settings are used in this sample:
- SIP proxy and registrar server address = srv.voipservice.com
- SIP proxy and registrar realm = srv.voipservice.com
- User name = 1234567
- User password = 1234
- Public user name = firstname.lastname@example.com
Go to Menu >Settings > Connectivity > Admin.settings > SIP settings menu and create a new SIP profile:
- Profile name: can be freely chosen
- Service profile. IETF
- Default destination: select the destination created above (destination through which VoIP calls will be established)
- Access point in use: leave empty (or select an access point and leave the Default destination setting empty. NOTE: It is recommended to leave this setting empty and use a destination group setting above because there may be some problems with the first device software versions when using the Access point in use setting.)
- Public user name: email@example.com
- Use compression: No
- Registration: When needed
- Use security: No
- Proxy Server:
- Proxy Server Address: srv.voipservice.com
- Realm: srv.voipservice.com
- Username: 1234567
- Password: 1234
- Allow loose routing: yes
- Transport type: Automatic
- Port: 5060
- Registrar server:
- Registrar Server Address: srv.voipservice.com
- Realm: srv.voipservice.com
- Username: 1234567
- Password: 1234
- Transport type: Automatic
- Port: 5060
Note that it is possible to leave both the "Default Destination" and "Access Point in use" fields empty. The connection will then be prompted when activating the VoIP service for the first time. A separate destination group will then be automatically created for the VoIP service.
3) VoIP service configuration
Go to Menu >Settings> Connectivity > Admin.settings > Net settings > Advanced VoIP settings > VoIP services and create a VoIP service profile:
- select Options > New Service and select the SIP profile created above (or create new SIP profile).
Note that the menu for creating the VoIP service profile is not available until you install the SIP VoIP Settings application. If the Advanced VoIP settings menu cannot be found, check that the SIP VoIP Settings application has been properly installed as instructed above!
4) Activating the VoIP service
The VoIP service needs to be activated before the service can be used. The activation can be done in the Contacts menu:
- go to Menu > Contacts and scroll right to the VoIP service submenu (showing the name defined for your VoIP service).
- Tap the Sign in command or select Options > Sign in.
The VoIP service can be activated also by initiating an internet call.
The VoIP service stays active until the service is deactivated again.
5) Making an internet call
When the VoIP service is activated, the internet calls can be made in the following ways:
- In Dialler by typing in the number and selecting Options > Call > Internet call (or the name of your SIP service). Alternatively, if VoIP service is defined as the default service, the internet call is automatically established when pressing the dial button.
- In Dialler by selecting Options > Open keyboard and by typing in the internet call (SIP) address.
- In Contacts menu by opening the contact and selecting VoIP service as the call type.
The internet call can be set as default call type in the following way:
- go to Menu > Contacts and scroll right to the VoIP service submenu
- select Options > Settings
- set Default service = Yes
6) Deactivating the VoIP service
The VoIP service can be deactivated in Contacts menu:
- go to Menu > Contacts and scroll right to the VoIP service submenu
- select Options > Sign out
The device deregisters from SIP server and the connection is released.


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Recently Steve Gibson from GRC was brainstorming one day and thought of a new authentication solution called SQRL: Secure QR Login.
You can listen to him talk about it on security now
or if you just want to read about it you can do so via his documentation page. I can't really explain it much more than this. I haven't listened to the podcast yet, just glanced at the documentation page.


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Ottawa Senators (26-21-11) at Boston Bruins (36-16-4), 3 p.m.
(SportsNetwork.com) - The Ottawa Senators aim to win the season series against the rival Boston Bruins on Saturday, as the Atlantic Division foes meet in Beantown on the final day of NHL action before the league goes on hiatus for the Winter Olympics.
The Senators are 2-1-0 against the division-leading Bruins in 2013-14 and this afternoon's clash in Boston marks the final scheduled encounter of the season between the clubs. Although Ottawa has taken two of the first three matchups of the campaign, both of those victories were on home ice and the Sens lost 5-0 to the Bruins on Dec. 27 in Boston.
Ottawa, which is 13-10-6 as the road club this season, has lost three of four and seven of its last nine games at TD Garden.
The Sens will aim for a third straight win when they cap their pre-Olympic slate today. Ottawa moved to 4-1-1 over its last six games with Thursday's close regulation win over visiting Buffalo.
Milan Michalek scored twice in the third period, including the game-winner with 22.1 seconds to play, to send the Senators to a 3-2 triumph over the visiting Sabres.
The Sens went ahead 2-0 on Michalek's first goal of the game just 10 seconds into the third, but allowed Buffalo to tie the score after markers from Tyler Ennis and Drew Stafford. That cleared the way for Michalek's late heroics.
With less than 30 seconds to play, Jason Spezza stickhandled around a defender in the slot before dishing to the inner half of the left circle for Michalek, who rifled a wrister high over the short side of Jhonas Enroth for a 3-2 lead.
Ottawa's Erik Condra then went off for tripping at 19:44 to give Buffalo a late power play, but Craig Anderson came up with a huge save as the horn sounded to secure the victory.
Erik Karlsson scored Ottawa's other goal, Spezza added two assists and Anderson stopped 30 shots in the triumph.
"I thought we controlled a lot of the game," Ottawa head coach Paul MacLean said. "We stubbed our toe a little at the halfway point of the third period and gave up a couple of opportunities that ended up in the net but at the end of the game our best players stepped up and got us a win."
The Sens, who will play their first game after the Olympic break on Feb. 27 at home against Detroit, enters Saturday trailing the Red Wings by one point for the last playoff seed in the Eastern Conference.
Boston hopes to bounce back from a loss today as it attempts to head into the Olympic break on a positive note. The Bruins came up short in their bid for a third straight win on Thursday, as they lost 3-2 in overtime at St. Louis despite scoring twice in the third period to force the game past regulation.
St. Louis carried a 2-0 lead into the third period before letting Boston tie it with goals from David Krejci and Brad Marchand. However, T.J. Oshie was able to deliver the game-winner for the Blues at 3:29 of overtime when he prevented Boston's clearing attempt behind the net and jammed the puck past Bruins goaltender Tuukka Rask.
Rask turned aside 24-of-27 shots for the first-place Bruins, who fell to 6-1-1 over their last eight outings.
Boston, which holds a seven-point cushion over Tampa Bay for the top spot in the Atlantic Division, played Thursday without captain Zdeno Chara. The club's star defenseman is skipping the B's final two tilts before the Olympic break so he could carry the flag for his native Slovakia at the Opening Ceremony for the Sochi Olympics.
Although his team couldn't pick up the win, Bruins head coach Claude Julien was happy with his club's effort in St. Louis.
"I'm proud of the way we played from the first line to the fourth line," Julien said. "All of our [defensemen] were really good tonight. I thought our team played extremely well and probably deserved better. It was an unfortunate bounce to lose that game in overtime but still a great effort from our team."
Boston is 22-6-2 as the host this season and has won six of its past eight tilts at TD Garden.
The Bruins' first game after the Olympic break is set for Feb. 26 in Buffalo.
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Sydney and Nigel go to Africa.
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Sydney Fox is a professor but primarily a globe-trotting "relic hunter," looking for ancient artifacts to return to museums and/or the ancestors of the original owner. She's aided by her linguistic assistant Nigel, and occasionally by her somewhat air-headed secretary Claudia. She often ends up battling rival hunters seeking out artifacts for the money.
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The Put Back
Sydney and Nigel go to Africa.
Dagger Of Death
Sydney and Nigel head for Calcutta.
Last Of The Mohicans
Sydney and Nigel recover the Great Warrior Spirit of the Mohicas.
The Legend Of The Lost
Sidney is lured to New Guinea after the kidnapping of Nigel.
Fertile Ground
The trail leads to Madagascar, where Sydney will have to outwit a rival.
Gypsy Jigsaw
Sydney receives a mysterious package.
Three Rivers To Cross
Randal Fox, Sydney's father, beckons his daughter to China.
Roman Holiday
Sydney's colleague Professor Penrose has a lead on Caesar's breastplate.
Cross Of Voodoo
Sydney and Nigel go down on the bayou.
Lost Contact
Sydney, Nigel and Thorson parachute into the Myanmar jungle.
The Reel Thing
Sydney and Nigel discover relics of Egyptian Pharaoh Amun the Second.
Sydney knows she's putting her life on the line, when she agrees to a sting op.
Out Of The Past
Sydney and Nigel laugh it off when Claudia claims to have known Cleopatra.
Eyes Of Toklamanee
Sydney's graduate student Adam Grant unearths a lead.
Run Sydney Run
Sydney, Nigel and their Army escorts are ambushed by rebel forces.
French Connection
Sydney and Nigel are thrown into an international intrigue.
Don't Go Into The Woods
Author and conspiracy theorist Vladimir Bugos contacts Sydney and Nigel.
Midnight Flight
The hunt for a ruby-encrusted scepter.
The Executioner's Mask
Sydney and Nigel link the incident to French folklore.
The Royal Ring
Nigel's older brother uncovers a riddle by henry VIII.
Set In Stone
Nigel makes contact with a Hungarian monk.
Allan has been blackmailed by a collector.
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FORT WALTON BEACH — The Okaloosa County School Board will discuss high school start times at an upcoming meeting at the request of one its members.
At the end of Monday's meeting, board member Dewey Destin requested that the board talk about it Nov. 12.
"We should discuss it to see what the pros and cons are," Destin said. "The science is very clear."
The other board members agreed to discuss it, but emphasized no vote or decision would be made at the meeting.
Destin's request comes after a local pediatrician has spent several years petitioning the School Board and past and present superintendents to consider the changing start times.
Dr. Lynn Keefe has said that later start times will better match teenagers' natural sleep patterns and therefore improve their cognitive abilities.
The younger students have body clocks that wake up earlier and easier than teens, she has said.
The board discussion also comes on the heels of state Rep. Matt Gaetz submitting a bill for the upcoming session to make it illegal in Florida to begin high school any earlier than 8 a.m.
In Okaloosa, high schools and a few middle schools begin about 7 a.m. High schools in Santa Rosa and Walton counties start their days later.


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Leadership Annual Fund Council
In appreciation of past and continued support of Kent State students and programs, we want to show donors of $1,000 or more during each fiscal year ending June 30 how much we value their generosity. Through philanthropic vision, they are helping us create a future filled with greater academic excellence and meaningful service.
Leadership Annual Fund Council donors have their names listed along with those of other donors in the annual Honor Roll of Donors, and receive the Kent State University Foundation Annual Report. When their cumulative giving reaches $25,000, donors are welcomed into the William S. Kent Council.


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From staff and wire reports
As the state's death toll from a violent series of storms that rumbled across the South on Wednesday grew to 33, area officials sought to aid those impacted by the storm and take steps toward normalcy.
Webster County was officially declared a disaster area, following a tornado that hit the area around 2:30 a.m. Wednesday.
Gov. Haley Barbour made the declaration Thursday as work crews continue to clean trees and debris from the area.
Statewide, the Monroe County town of Smithville was hardest hit with 14 deaths. In addition to those deaths and 40 reported injuries in Monroe County, authorities reported four deaths and 30 injuries in Clarke County; three deaths each in Chickasaw and Kemper counties; two deaths in Jasper County; and one death each in Choctaw, Lafayette, Marshall, Pike, Smith, Webster and Yazoo counties. One person was killed Tuesday in Pike County.
The Mississippi Emergency Management Agency said more than 120 people were injured. Damage was reported in 52 counties across the state.
While many are claiming the Webster County tornado to be a F4 tornado, Jimmy Forrester, public information officer for Webster County Emergency Management, said the category of tornado will be determined by the National Weather Service, who are expected to be in the area within the next three to four days.
Forrester also said electric crews from 4-County Electric Association estimate an additional three to five days before all electricity will be restored to areas damaged in the Webster County area. Forrester warned this is a preliminary estimate.
New damage assessments show the 4-County Electric Association lost 193 poles due to the storms, and that number is expected to rise. Officials said most of those poles were lost in the Montpelier area of Clay county and Cumberland in Webster county.
4-County estimates between 350 and 400 homes in Webster County are affected.
Natchez Trace Electric did not release estimates at press time.
Webster County Emergency Management sent representatives door-to-door in the communities hit by Wednesday's tornado. Forrester said the teams reported no major medical problems and no missing persons in Webster County.
Damage assessment crews will make their final reports today, and will report their findings to the Mississippi Emergency Management Association. Forrester estimated three to four days before MEMA will release their assessment of the storm damages in Webster County.
Mathiston First Baptist Church has been set up as Webster County Emergency Management's approved temporary shelter for residents who have been displaced due to the tornado. The shelter is located at 24901 Miss. Hwy. 15 in Mathiston. The pastor is Wade Stevens and can be reached at (662) 263-5323 or (662) 263-7770.
First Baptist Church in Cumberland is working to feed workers and residents who are without power. The church is serving lunch and dinner.
Webster County Emergency Management will also set up two points of distribution next week, with locations to be determined at a later time. They are not accepting clothing. They will be distributing water and ready-to-eat meals. They will also set up an opportunity for people to donate to help tornado victims.
The storms also left wide swaths of destruction in Kemper and Clarke counties in east central Mississippi, near the Alabama line.
Thousands of structures are damaged across the state. Barbour said Thursday he's asking President Barack Obama for a federal disaster declaration all of Mississippi.
Barbour said state and local emergency agencies continue assessing damage in many counties, and National Guard troops are on duty in Smithville.
In Alabama, tornadoes ripped through Tuscaloosa and Birmingham, but Mississippi's larger population centers were not hit. At a news conference in Jackson, Barbour said he's concerned about the deaths, injuries and damage in Mississippi.
"We are blessed in the fact that it could've been a lot worse," Barbour said.
Smithville was in ruins. Pieces of tin were wrapped high around the legs of a blue water tower. The Piggly Wiggly grocery store was gutted, with wires and insulation dangling from the ceiling. In one part of town, not a structure was left standing as far as the eye could see.
The police station, the post office, city hall and an industrial park with several furniture manufacturing facilities were among the dozens of structures ripped apart. Neighborhoods resembled the Mississippi coast after Hurricane Katrina.
White said a group of residents from a nearby trailer park knocked on the Smithville Baptist Church door just before the storm hit, asking for shelter. They went to a sturdy section of the red brick church where they hung onto one another and anything they could grab "like a mass of humanity" as the building disintegrated, he said.
The red Jeep Wrangler that some of mobile home residents drove to the church was left on its side inside the church office. The second story was gone. Walls were collapsed. Entire sections of the church were flattened, but the choir robes remained in place.
"Our choir robes are OK," the pastor shouted Thursday when he saw them. "They're perfectly white."
Mississippi Highway Patrol spokesman Ray Hall said search and rescue missions could continue most Thursday in Smithville. Cars and structures were painted with orange symbols to mark the ones that had already been searched and the ones where bodies were found.
Mississippi Public Service Commissioner Brandon Presley said another potential complication is the fickle nature of power grids.
Clarke County Sheriff Todd Kemp told The Meridian Star that the tornado left destruction from the west end of the county to the Alabama state line. Four people were killed when the storm destroyed a large mobile home where 19 nearby residents sought shelter. Ten were injured.
Tony Fleming, president of the Clarke County board of supervisors, said it might take a week to assess damage.
"'We're in a rural area but we've got some towns and it went right through those," Fleming said.
In Kemper County, sisters Florrie Green and Maxine McDonald, and their sister-in-law Johnnie Green, all died in a mobile home that was destroyed by a storm. All were in their 80s.
"They were thrown into those pines over there," Mary Green, Johnnie Green's daughter-in-law, said, pointing to a wooded area. "They had to go look for their bodies."
On Thursday, 58-year-old Smithville resident Kenny Long and his brother Paul dragged the headstone of their youngest brother back to its perch in Smithville Cemetery.
The headstones of Kenny Long's daughter and granddaughter had also pulled from their resting sites not far from a massive magnolia tree that was stripped of branches and leaves. The cemetery was littered with debris and pieces of houses from a nearby neighborhood.
Tombstones dating back to the 1800s, including some of Civil War soldiers, lay broken on the ground. His relatives' tombstones remained intact.
"Think of the people that don't live in Smithville. They don't even know their families' headstones are gone," Kenny Long said.
Long said he works at the post office and was allowed to go home when forecasters predicted severe weather. He knew the storm was coming, so he hunkered down. His house was damaged, but not leveled like many of his neighbors' homes.
Smithville has no storm shelter. Long said other nearby communities have at least one community storm shelter. In an era when technology gives advance warning of approaching storms, it makes no sense that people have nowhere to go even when they know they're in danger, Long said.
"You have warnings, but where do you go?" he asked.
White, the pastor of Smithville Baptist, said the church plans to have a service in a tent Sunday with a sermon themed "Resurrection in life."
Gwen Sisson contributed to this story.


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The Wilhelm Gustloff was a German passenger ship constructed by the Blohm and Voss shipyards. She was named after Wilhelm Gustloff, the assassinated German leader of the Swiss Nazi party (NSDAP). The Wilhelm Gustloff was launched on May 5, 1937 measuring 208.50 meters (684 feet) long by 23.59 meters (77.39 feet) wide with a capacity of 25,484 gross register tons. She was requisitioned into the Kriegsmarine (German Navy) on September 1, 1939 and served as a hospital ship during 1939 and 1940. Beginning on November 20, 1940 she was stripped of her medical equipment and repainted from her hospital ship colors (white with a green stripe) to standard naval grey. The Wilhelm Gustloff was then assigned as a floating barracks for naval personnel at the Baltic port of Gotenhafen (Gdynia) – near Danzig from 1940 onwards.
The Wilhelm Gustloff's final voyage was during Operation Hannibal in January 1945, when she was sunk while participating in the evacuation of civilian refugees, German soldiers, and U-boat personnel trapped by the Red Army in East Prussia. She was hit by three torpedoes from the Soviet submarine S-13 in the Baltic Sea on the night of January 30, 1945 and sank in under 45 minutes, taking an estimated 9,400 people with her. which if accurate makes the sinking of the Wilhem Gustloff the largest known loss of life in a single sinking in maritime history.
During the summer of 1939, she was pressed into service to bring the Condor Legion back from Spain after the victory of the Nationalist forces under General Francisco Franco in the Spanish Civil War.
From September 1939 to November 1940, she served as a hospital ship with her official designation being Lazarettschiff D. On her first mission to the Baltic Sea, she treated 650 wounded Polish soldiers.
Beginning November 20, 1940, the medical equipment was removed from the ship and it was repainted from the hospital ship colours of white and green to standard naval grey. As a consequence of the British blockade of the German coastline, she was used as an accommodations ship (barracks) for approximately 1,000 U-boat trainees of the 2nd Submarine Training Division (2. Unterseeboot-Lehrdivision) in the Baltic port of Gotenhafen (Gdynia) – near Danzig (Gdańsk). The Wilhelm Gustloff sat dockside for over four years until she was put back in service to transport military personnel and civilian refugees as part of Operation Hannibal.
The ship's final voyage was to evacuate civilians, Kriegsmarine sailors, and wounded German soldiers from Gotenhafen to Kiel. The ship's complement and passenger lists totaled 6,050 people on board, but this did not include many refugees who boarded the ship without being recorded in the ship's official embarkation records. Heinz Schön, who carried out extensive research into the sinking during the 1980s and 1990s, concluded that the Wilhelm Gustloff was carrying a crew of 173 (naval armed forces auxiliaries), 918 officers, NCOs, and men of the 2nd Submarine Training Division (2. Unterseeboot-Lehrdivision), 373 female naval auxiliary helpers, 162 badly wounded soldiers, and 8,956 refugees, for a total of 10,582 passengers and crew. Although the ship was built for 1,465 passengers, she had the capacity to board many more for a short trip by utilizing her public recreation spaces to accommodate people, but she was carrying less than 50% of the rescue equipment necessary for the extra passengers.
The ship left Gotenhafen early on 30 January 1945, accompanied by the passenger liner Hansa, also filled with refugees and soldiers, and two torpedo boats. The Hansa and one torpedo boat developed problems and could not continue, leaving the Wilhelm Gustloff with one torpedo boat escort, the Löwe. The ship had four captains on board, three civilian and one military, and they could not agree on the best course of action to guard against submarine attacks. Against the advice of the military commander, Lieutenant Commander Wilhelm Zahn (a submariner who argued for a course in shallow waters close to shore and without lights), the senior civilian captain, Friedrich Petersen, decided to head for deep water. When he was informed by radio of an oncoming German minesweeper convoy, he decided to activate his ship's red and green navigation lights so as to avoid a collision in the dark, making the Wilhelm Gustloff easy to spot in the night. As the ship's equipment included antiaircraft weapons, it had been travelling blacked-out, it was not marked as a hospital ship, and it was transporting combat troops, it did not have any protection as a hospital ship under the international accords governing this.
The ship was soon sighted by the S-13, under the command of Captain Third Class Alexander Marinesko, which fired three torpedoes at the Wilhelm Gustloff's port side about 30 km (20 miles) offshore between Großendorf and Leba soon after 21:00 (CET) hitting her with all three. The first torpedo hit near the port bow, the second torpedo hit behind it just ahead of mid-ship. The third torpedo struck the engine room in the area below the ships funnel, cutting off engine and electrical power to the ship.The ship took a list to starbord and was settling by the head.Later the Wilhelm Gustloff listed to port.
In the panic that followed, many of the refugees were trampled in the rush to the lifeboats and life jackets. Some equipment was lost as a result of the panic. The water temperature in the Baltic Sea at this time of year is usually around 4°C; however, this was a particularly cold day, with an air temperature of −10° to −18°C and ice floes covering the surface. Many deaths were either caused directly by the torpedoes or by instant drowning in the onrushing water. Others were crushed in the ensuing panic on the stairs and decks, and many jumped into the icy, dark Baltic. Reports talk about children clinging onto adults and women trying to save their babies, though constant waves dragged them away from them, most never to be seen again. Small children fitted with life jackets for adults drowned because their heads were under water while their legs were in the air.
Less than 45 minutes after being struck, the Wilhelm Gustloff went down bow first in 44 metres (150 feet) of water. German forces were able to rescue some of the survivors from the attack: torpedo boat T-36 rescued 564 people; torpedo boat Löwe, 472; Minesweeper M387, 98; Minesweeper M375, 43; Minesweeper M341, 37; the steamer Gottingen saved 28; torpedo-recovery boat (Torpedofangboot) TF19, seven; the freighter Gotland, two; and Patrol boat (Vorpostenboot) V1703 was able to save one baby. These figures are from the research of Heinz Schön, and that would make the total lost in the torpedoing and subsequent sinking to be 9,343 men, women, and children. This would make it the largest loss of life in a single sinking in maritime history.
In an article in the magazine "Sea Classics", Irwin Kappes mentions that "there were over 6,000 passengers on board". He also states that the escort ship Löwe was alongside within 15 minutes, taking off as many survivors as she could carry, and that when Captain Henigst of the cruiser Admiral Hipper, herself carrying 1,500 evacuees, received reports from her lookouts that she was under torpedo attack, he chose not to stop to pick up survivors. Kappes gives a precise total of those lost in the sinking as 5,348. The source of this information was the German book "Die Gustloff Katastrophe" written by Heinz Schön, who later revised his original numbers.
Heinz Schön's more recent research is backed up by estimates made by a different method. The Discovery Channel program Unsolved History has undertaken a computer analysis (using software called maritime EXODUS) of the sinking, which estimated 9,400 dead −85% (among over 10,600 on board); this analysis considered the load density based on witness reports and a simulation of escape routes and survivability with the timeline of the sinking.
Many ships carrying civilians were sunk during the war by both the Allies and Axis. However, based on the latest estimates of passenger numbers and those known to be saved, the Wilhelm Gustloff remains the largest loss of life resulting from the sinking of one vessel in maritime history. Günter Grass, in an interview published in The New York Times on Tuesday April 8, 2003 said, "One of the many reasons I wrote Crabwalk was to take the subject away from the extreme right... They said the tragedy of the Gustloff was a war crime. It wasn't. It was terrible, but it was a result of war, a terrible result of war.
According to the Soviet propaganda version, more than a thousand German officers, including 70–80 submarine crews died with the Gustloff. Women from the ship were described, perhaps falsely, as SS personnel from German concentration camps
In 2006, a bell recovered from the wreck, and subsequently used as decoration in a Polish fish restaurant, was loaned to the "Forced Paths" exhibition in Berlin. In 2007, the ship's bell was placed on display at the Gdańsk Museum in Krantor.


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Produced by Pete Townshend
Roger Daltrey's vocals produced by Bob Pridden and Billy Nicholls
Tracks recorded discontinuously Autumn 2002 to Summer 2006 at Pete Townshend's home studio and Eel Pie Oceanic Studios, Twickenham. [according to a diary entry by Pete May 20, 2006, he had finished recording all his parts by that date. Roger was to record his vocals for the album "this week."]
Senior Engineer: Myles Clarke.
Additional Engineering: Bob Pridden and Sean Witt
Technical Engineers: Lincoln Fong (Oceanic) and Darren Westbrook (Mobile)
Mixed by Pete Townshend between performances on The Who's 2006 European tour. [The tour officially began June 17 at Leeds University and concluded July 29 at Zaragoza, Spain.]
Rebalanced and finalised by Myles Clarke.
Mastered by Ian Cooper at Metropolis Mastering,
London [Mastering was reported completed August 24.]
Front cover by Richard Evans utilizing elements created with the Visual Harmony software designed by Dave Snowdon and Lawrence Ball. Evans also designed the covers for Who's Missing, Two's Missing, and The Blues to The Bush.
Endless Wire was released as Polydor B000J3DEI8 Oct. 30,
2006 in the U.K. It reached #9.
Co-author Lawrence Ball is a composer and musician of the "minimalist" style (he cites Terry Riley as an influence) who is also a highly sought-after mathematics and physics tutor. His website is located here. "Fragments" had its live premiere performed by The Who Sept. 12, 2006 and was the first song of new material performed during shows for the remainder of the Endless Wire tour. The background screens accompanying the song showed waves crashing on rocks. Pete opened his "Method" website, using the same computer program that generated the music in "Fragments," to the general public May 1, 2007. It is located here.
Roger Daltrey: Vocals
Analog Drums: Pete Townshend
From an interview with Mercury News: "TV series, and their theme tunes, do two impossible things: They defy time and ageing by allowing us to live forever vicariously in the characters we watch, but they remind us that time is passing, show by show, week by week. When I first came to the U.S. in 1967, I Love Lucy was always on TV somewhere. When I saw her pretty face, I was reminded how much older she must have become, how much younger I was (then) than she. Today the same shows remind me I have overtaken her TV persona. There is a valuable poignancy there that is not sentimental in any way, and yet reaches to the heart of human vulnerability. Mike Post's theme from Hill Street Blues reminds me that once I associated the sound with a cop who couldn't deal with his drink problem. Now I hear it and I remember a brother, for pretty soon I was facing the same problem."
From an interview with the St. Petersburg Times (Florida): "TV music lives in a different pocket to other pop music. It is ubiquitous and perennial, and we are constantly revisited by music from other eras as series are rehashed over and over. This cycle of new and old music, woven into the ordinary rhythm of our daily lives, creates a real sense of timelessness. When we hear the theme from M.A.S.H. we remember so many aching feelings – of course we are reminded of the Vietnam war, but at the same time of how old we were, and in my case how apolitical I was about it all, who we were in love with, where we lived. We grow older and hopefully wiser, but the music remains the same."
"Mike Post Theme" was first played live by The Who in their return performance at Leeds University June 17, 2006. The composer Mike Post has won an Emmy and five Grammys and had two Top Ten singles in the U.S., "Theme from 'The Rockford Files'" and "Theme from 'Hill Street Blues'." He is four months younger than Pete and is reported pleased with the salute from his fellow TV-theme composer.
Pete Townshend: Vocals
In the Observer Music Monthly (Sept. 2006) Pete said "In The Ether" was one of the first songs he wrote inspired by his novella The Boy Who Heard Music and was intended to resemble the theatrical songs of Stephen Sondheim (Sweeney Todd, Sunday in the Park with George). To Mercury News he denied that the voice he uses on this track was an imitation of Tom Waits: "That's me singing. I'm 60 years old pretending to be 80. My voice is an instrument I can't always control. I love Tom Waits, but listen to him, he sounds like gravel being hauled through an oil can. I just sound a teensy bit gruff."
One of the reasons Pete sings the song on the album is that, when he initially played the song for Roger, it got a rather cool reception. "I played it to Roger and about a month passed. In the end, I got on the phone and said, 'So, what did you think?'" Daltrey: 'It's a bit music-theatre. Maybe if you didn't have piano but just had guitar…' Townshend: 'Yeah, and maybe if it was three guitars and was rock'n'roll and sounded like "Young Man Blues" it would be OK.' And then Townshend put the phone down. 'I was really, really hurt...'
"In The Ether" was premiered by Pete with his partner Rachel Fuller Sept. 25, 2005 at the Poetry Olympics held in the Royal Albert Hall, London. On Oct. 29, 2005, Pete supplied this track as an mp3 download on his website. It featured a different mix from the album release version.
The song refers to a hostage crisis at School Number One in the town of Beslan in North Ossetia. On September 1, 2004, Islamic Chechan terrorists seized the school, holding over 1200 adults and children hostage. Russian troops stormed the school and 344 people were killed, either murdered by the terrorists or caught in the crossfire. Among the Chechan terrorists were women wearing traditional niqabs (veils) covering their faces showing only their eyes. They were wearing explosives in order to be used as suicide bombers. Such terrorists were given the name "shahidka" in Russian or "black widows" in English after a similar hostage taking in a Moscow theatre in 2002. At press time, I have been unable to find the article with the words of the survivor of the Beslan massacre Pete quotes above but there is a similar quote from a survivor of the Moscow theatre massacre: "But her eyes! You should have seen these eyes - crazed and shining, awful, as if she was doped up with some narcotic. Our guard was always with us, but I never saw her shoot up or swallow any pills. Such are the eyes of a kamikaze." (L. Stepanova, Okna, Apr. 2005).
Widow's Eyes" was released as a promotional CD single in Europe backed with
"It's Not Enough." It had its live premiere performed by The Who in
Philadelphia Sept. 12, 2006.
Marty Robbins was a well-known Country & Western artist from Arizona who won the first Grammy for a C&W song, "El Paso." He also had the first hit record featuring fuzz-tone guitar, "Don't Worry," in 1961 and became one of country music's giants long before his death in 1982. This song originally appeared as an instrumental demo called "Marty Robbins" recorded by Pete in June 1984 and included on his Scoop 3 album. The song had its live premiere performed by Pete on an In The Attic webcast at Oceanic Studios Dec. 17, 2005. In Pete's liner notes, the title contains a comma: "God Speaks, Of Marty Robbins." Although not otherwise listed as related to the piece, this song was included in the 2007 theatrical workshop version of The Boy Who Heard Music, sung by the characters of Gabriel and Ray High.
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Le Mépris (1963) is best known in the English-speaking world under
the title Contempt. It concerns a French screenwriter who loses
his wife's respect when he sells out to a crass American producer (Jack Palance).
The scene Pete refers to above is the movie's second scene, included at producer
Carlo Ponti's insistence in order to provide some Brigitte Bardot nudity.
However, the
scene does not end as Pete describes above but rather with the writer declaring
his love and Bardot's character agreeing. "It's Not
Enough" was released in the U.S. and U.K. as a promotional CD credited as "Chris Lord-Alge
Mix." CD singles pressed in the U.K. feature an extended guitar part unavailable
elsewhere and clocks at 4'08. Although not otherwise listed as related to the
piece, this song was included in the 2007 theatrical workshop version of
The Boy Who Heard Music, sung by Gabriel, Josh and Leila.
added in an interview with the Los Angeles
City Beat, "What then actually happened is Roger spotted this stuff and fed back
to me, 'Hey, I love this!' And I was taken by surprise. Really?"
Wire & Glass is based on Pete's novella The Boy Who Heard Music, a sequel to his 1993 solo work Psychoderelict. In that piece, Ray High, a rocker based on a combination of Pete's history along with other rock figures, has become a recluse after the break-up of his band, endlessly tinkering with a concept called "The Grid" he developed in the early 1970's. His manager Rastus Knight, in collusion with his lover, the rock gossip columnist Ruth Streeting (based on Julie Burchill), concoct a scheme to force Ray back into the limelight by means of a phony scandal. The Boy Who Heard Music picks up many years in the future with Ray long the inmate in an insane asylum either remembering or hallucinating a 1980's band called The Glass Household that revives his Grid idea and "makes his dream come true."
Pete reportedly began writing a film treatment called The Boy Who Heard Music while in New York Oct. 1999. He later mentioned he began writing the work Sept. 24, 2000 during The Who's U.S. tour, finally writing it out longhand during Feb.-Mar. 2001. The first mention shared with the outside world was a short synopsis in a Pete diary entry from Dec. 23, 2001 at the end of which he wrote, "Pretentious? Self-obsessed? Grandiose? Pompous? I hope so." Matt Kent announced on Pete's website Sept. 20, 2003 that the new Who album would be built around the novella with a proposed release date of March 2004 (it was ultimately delayed by Pete). Another diary entry from Pete (Oct. 10, 2003) mentioned he was then in his home studio trying to write songs for the story. Pete shared the novella with some of his long-time friends but was discouraged by their response (Tom Wright's disapproval is mentioned in his 2007 book Roadwork). On Sept. 24, 2005, the fifth anniversary of starting the writing, Pete began serializing the novella on a blog. His readers' mostly positive responses melded with a suggestion by Eel Pie manager Nick Goderson to turn the story into a "mini-opera" along the lines of "A Quick One While He's Away." Pete started writing "seven or eight short lyric poems" sketching out the story on Jan. 10, 2006 and recorded a few demos that let him know by Jan. 17 that he had "about 30 minutes of music that would create a vigorous backbone for the Who album." Recording proper for the backing tracks began Feb. 28, 2006. Rachel Fuller's drummer Peter Huntington was used on these tracks because Zak Starkey was still on tour with Oasis at the time.
The theatrical workshop production of The Boy Who Heard Music, held at Vassar University July 13-15, 2007, added a number of songs to the project. In addition to those mentioned above (and "Real Good Looking Boy" -- see Who's Left [Studio] liner notes) were "Piano Prelude" (instrumental), "I Can Fly" (written by Rachel Fuller - sung by Lelia), "There's No Doubt" (Gabriel, Josh and Ray High), "She Said He Said" (Gabriel and Leila), and "Uncertain Girl" (Josh). "I Can Fly" was performed by Rachel Fuller on the Dec. 17, 2005 webcast of In The Attic and "Uncertain Girl" by Pete on the Apr. 11, 2006 webcast.
Included in the live version of the mini-opera that had its live premiere by The Who at Leeds University June 17, 2006.
Pete from an Oct. 16, 2006 interview with Rachel: "'Pick Up The Peace' which is about, how do we find a way to relate to the possible peace in society, and our community, and also the inherent peace in the universe?"
Included in the live version of the mini-opera.
This was not
included in most live performances of the mini-opera. It was performed at shows
in Philadelphia (Sept. 12, 2006), Jones Beach (Sept. 13, 2006) and Calgary (Oct.
5, 2006).
Vocals: Pete Townshend
Chamber strings orchestrated by Pete Townshend
Orchestration supervised by Rachel Fuller
Violins: Gill Morley, Brian Wright
Viola: Ellen Blair
Cello: Vicky Matthews
Pete first mentioned this piece in a U.S. interview from Autumn 1996: "The piece I'm working on at the moment is quite a modest piece called 'Stella'; out of that grew another piece called 'Trilby's Piano,' which was a thing about something that happened to me when I was a kid with an aunt of mine--a very positive experience for me. I've started to look at the more positive experiences I've had in my life, and I find it very difficult to compose for that stuff because I've spent most of my time drawing on my negative experiences, or what I would call my growth experiences."
included in the live version of the mini-opera.
Pete: "At some point in their rehearsals for the play, the three teenagers unearth documents that turn out to have belonged to Ray High, Leila's father's old studio partner. The documents refer to a crazy scheme to use the global wire network Ray saw as a young man to spread unifying music to everyone. (This matches my own vision for the Lifehouse Method, a computer-driven website through which people can commission their unique musical portrait.) They pore over the plans and realize that his scheme might be something they can make happen."
Included in the live version of the mini-opera.
Vocals: Pete Townshend
Bass: Pino Palladino
Hammond organ: John Bundrick
Backing vocals: Simon Townshend, Billy Nicholls
Drums: Peter Huntington
included in the live version of the mini-opera.
in the live version of the mini-opera.
Vocals: Pete Townshend
Bass: Pino Palladino
Drums: Peter Huntington
Pete gave more of the background for this song in a Sept. 10, 2006 interview in The Republican (Springfield, Mass.): "In this part of the story the aging narrator who is singing refers to two tragedies. One is an incident a little like the Stones' Altamont or the Who's Cincinnati, where audience members die. The other incident is the possible death of a member of the young band, maybe murdered by one of his band mates; it isn't entirely clear. The dream he sings about is that they bring computerized tailor-made music to the Internet..."
in the live version of the mini-opera.
Pete elaborated on the meaning of this song in an Oct. 16, 2006 interview with Rachel: "'Mirror Door' which is really a poetic description of what I think happens when people go to concerts. I think if we're there to see a band, if it's a really great concert, we become caught up in the music, and hopefully if we forget ourselves for long enough, when the music stops, we'll find ourselves thinking, 'Something has happened.' And I don't mean that the band has made us better people, or that the band's music has raised us up. I mean that we, in the audience, have in a sense meditated. They will, in a sense, been able to escape from 'time' for a period. And in our knowledge, in our ability that we can do that, we learn a lot about ourselves, and so in a way, we learn about what we need, and what we enjoy. And the fact that we do it at a concert, in other words, with the company of other people, we share that, it's what makes it so special."
Included in the live version of the mini-opera.
Door" was also released as a promo single in the U.K. with no crowd noise and
less reverb than was used on the Wire & Glass EP. It was later
re-released there using the album version without the crowd noise. This version
was also issued as promos in Australia, Denmark and Israel.
"Tea & Theatre" was released in the U.S. as a promotional CD credited as "Chris Lord-Alge Mix" although it is identical with the album mix. The promo was reviewed in Billboard Magazine Oct. 14, 2006. During the 2006-2007 tour, the song was the final song of the concerts, performed by Pete and Roger alone on the stage.
Vocals: Roger Daltrey, Pete Townshend
Bass: Pino Palladino
Drums: Peter Huntington
Vocals: Pete Townshend, Roger Daltrey
Bass: Pino Palladino
Hammond organ: John Bundrick
Backing vocals: Simon Townshend, Billy Nicholls
Drums: Peter Huntington
According to Pete on In The Attic, Roger recorded his vocal for this track March 29, 2006.
Same information as CD above
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The Democrats' Original Food-Stamp Sin
"Today, 47 million Americans struggling to put food on the table will have to make do with less," began the emailed press release from House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi's office. The statement lamented the $5 billion cut to food-stamp benefits that took effect November 1, rolling back a 13.6 percent expansion to the program that was part of the 2009 stimulus package. The cuts leave "participants with just $1.40 to spend per meal," the press release continued, adding that House Republicans want to subject food stamps to more cuts in the future.
But before Democrats completely rewrite the history of this body blow to the poor, a review of the facts would be in order. The seeds of this current food-stamp cut were sown by multiple deals made when Democrats held both chambers of Congress and the White House. They used money from the food-stamp program to pay for other priorities like education, health care and the school lunch program, all the while assuring that they would eventually restore the cuts. Those promises were broken, the crocodile tears from the left side of the aisle mask the bipartisan nature of slashes to this essential program, which currently provides nutrition assistance for nearly one in six Americans. It's a disappointing example of how Washington's fascination with the deficit and inattention to the plight of the most vulnerable didn't begin with the Tea Party.
Cast your mind back to those bygone days of 2010. The stimulus was chugging along, and the 13.6 percent increase in food-stamp benefits, officially known as SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program), was one of its most effective measures. Food stamps are among the most effective ways to deliver direct assistance to people in need, and because it's a benefit that involves consumer purchases, it props up the retail sector as well. Every dollar increase to SNAP generates around $1.70 in economic activity, according to Moody's Analytics.
The increased SNAP benefit was supposed to phase out gradually, by letting inflation catch up to the higher benefit level. Because of smaller-than-expected increases in food prices, the money allocated in 2009 would have lasted until at least 2016. But Democrats, in full control of the government, decided SNAP money could serve as a funding source to funnel to other needs. For example, the stimulus was too small to reverse the carnage caused by the Great Recession, especially in the states, where thousands of teachers were being fired, and Medicaid beneficiaries were losing their coverage. In 2010, Democrats had the idea for a $26 billion supplemental state fiscal-aid bill, to fill those education and health-care gaps.
Earlier that year, Democrats proudly wrote and passed a statutory "pay as you go" bill, on a party-line vote, forcing all new federal spending to be offset by reductions elsewhere in the budget. The state fiscal-aid bill would have to be paid for, and the Obama Administration immediately looked to SNAP as a cookie jar they could raid. According to then-House Appropriations Committee chair David Obey, "Their line of argument was, well, the cost of food relative to what we thought it would be has come down, so people on food stamps are getting a pretty good deal in comparison to what we thought they were going to get. Well isn't that nice? Some poor bastard is going to get a break for a change."
Liberal politicians and advocates reckoned that the state fiscal-aid package filled an immediate need, while the SNAP rollback wouldn't take effect until years later, presumably when fewer people would need the assistance. In the end, Democrats used $11.9 billion originally intended for SNAP to fund the state fiscal-aid bill, accelerating the phase-out of the increased stimulus benefit to 2014. But everyone on the left insisted that they would push to restore those cuts before they took effect. Progressive allies like Chuck Lovelace, legislative director for AFSCME, the public-employees union, told me back then, "we intend to go back and work to restore that benefit at the appropriate time." Liberal senators like Ron Wyden, the Oregon Democrat, agreed, telling the Huffington Post, "we're going to be able to find a way to ensure that there's help for needy folks in terms of assistance with hunger."
But instead of immediately working on restoring the funds, Democrats would raid SNAP again. First Lady Michelle Obama has made a priority of the child obesity epidemic, and she heavily promoted the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010. The bill, which reauthorized the child-nutrition program that delivers free school lunches to needy children, allocated $4.5 billion to implement new standards for healthier foods and to increase access to free school lunches. Because of the pay-as-you-go rule, this also required offsets. And SNAP proved an inviting target once again. In August 2010, the Senate partially financed their version of the bill with a $2.2 billion cut to SNAP, leaving the increased benefits to phase out by October 2013. This was the equivalent of paying for more school lunches for poor children by taking away their future breakfasts and dinners.
Hunger advocates and many House Democrats initially balked. Over 100 liberal members wrote a letter to Nancy Pelosi demanding no SNAP cuts in the child nutrition bill. Citing "concerns about the deficit," then-Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, White House officials and the First Lady herself lobbied House progressives aggressively. And in the lame-duck session after the 2010 elections, the bill finally passed. Democrats waived their objections to the SNAP cuts after losing the House in the 2010 midterms. Time essentially ran out on the Democratic majority, and the choices were either the Senate bill—and its $2.2 billion cut to SNAP—or no overhaul of child nutrition standards. Democrats opted for the former, with all but four voting for final passage. Again, Democrats, right on up to President Obama, vowed to restore the SNAP cuts before they hit. But with Republicans taking over the House, these promises rang hollow.
The Democratic failure on food stamps had multiple culprits. Congress locked itself into a pay-as-you-go formula it could have waived by citing emergency measures, but never did. Fiscally conservative "Blue Dog" Democrats like Ben Nelson would never have voted for extra spending, and Harry Reid needed every Senate Democrat to pass most bills. Moreover, this fiscal conservatism in a time of crisis matched the President's "pivot" to deficit reduction in 2010, which has done major damage to the economy; since that time, federal spending has become a fiscal drag, taking away from GDP instead of adding to it.
Using food stamps as a pay-for, instead of tax breaks for millionaires and oil companies, reveals much about the priorities of the Democratic Party. For example, the assumption made by the White House that the baseline SNAP benefit is adequate, and that recipients were getting too good a deal with the expansion, is borderline insulting and shows the lack of familiarity with the realities of poverty in America. The cuts that took effect November 1 equal the reduction of a week's meals for a 9 year-old child. Food banks around the country are now bracing for increased demand.
Democrats also assumed that the economy would be back on its feet by the end of 2013, and that fewer people would be affected by the SNAP rollback. But they've consistently made this mistake of optimism throughout the recovery. Failing to have an emergency mindset around returning the nation to full employment, and expecting the economy to turn around by itself, drove decisions that have wounded the most vulnerable.
Liberals have introduced bills to reverse the cuts, but with the current leadership in the House, they're a nonstarter. In fact, the choices on SNAP today range from Republican demands to cut the program by $40 billion over the next decade to a Democratic counter-offer to only cut it by $4.5 billion. While these are small in relative terms—SNAP paid out $76 billion just in 2012—so many Americans rely on food stamps, and its benefits are so meager that any cuts will have an outsized effect.
We shouldn't forget that the same Democrats sponsoring bills to reverse SNAP cuts voted for them in the first place. They made a series of choices while in total control of Washington, and those choices have had consequences. If the party had more respect for the struggles of the poor, rather than a deep attention to political positioning and the scourge of the deficit, this would have never happened.
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Thank you! There has been virtually no voice of the "left" in media for years. On socioeconomic issues, those who call themselves "Bold Progressives" in media/politics have, incredibly, been to the right of such staunch historic conservatives as Eisenhower and Nixon! Clearly, they believe that our hyper-capitalist system is entirely adequate; in spite of a massive loss of manufacturing jobs since the 1980s, and the shredding of our poverty relief system, there has been no call for restoring basic humanitarian aid to the desperately poor. There has been no reporting on those left behind, no discussion of hunger and homelessness, no answer beyond simply calling for job creation (as we've been doing for over 30 years). I do understand that media must appeal to their consumers to stay in business, but wish they had the integrity to drop such designations as "left" and "progressive."
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There is NO "left" ideology that would condone cutting ANYTHING that could be perceived as part of a "safety-net". The Democratic Party of today is Reaganism. There may be a "Progressive" caucus and all the other groups saying they give a big poop about "The People", and I am sure they do, but the way politics is run is not Democracy or Republic Democracy or Representative Democracy; it's how to try and pass bills with dozens of things added to it that would make people vote for or against if it suits the big picture. This should not be allowed, and I can bet me left foot that Congress folk spend more time chatting aka kissing butt or getting their butt kissed, and not really debating about anything. I voted for local mayor just recently, NOT because I was going to vote, cause I don't (and there is no truth to telling people who don't vote don't have the right to complain... That will be believable when my vote actually counts, and it doesn't in most cases) but one of the candidates was a T-Bag Democrat (Blue-Dog/DINO) and was being by all sorts of fools that thought he was a "liberal". I was able to show at least two people the light of day, so I don't know if our three votes to the person that is the next mayor made a difference, but he will be better than the other one. So chances are, I won't vote until a situation like this arises again, that's if I care enough to delve into the pasts of candidates. The problem is, the more the Democrats move "right", the less likely any will be worthy of the time to even look into their political history. Politics can be broken into to groups; Us as in "left" ideology and Them, which is "right" ideology, or "conservative" . The Them group voted to cut a vital program....they are NOT left, they are right, conservative, no matter what political party they affiliate themselves with, and are a disgrace!
I can't even look at pictures of them when there is an article about them on line, they are vile human beings, and have lost so many supporters. Sure they will get the young wealthy selfish voter, who believes people should take care of themselves and stop complaining their full time job doesn't pay the bill, that's not their problem. That is the would the current Democratic!!! Party is helping create..... again, a utter disgrace
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