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Teaching Linux
Education means several disparate things. Education re Linux could mean using Linux in the classroom to teach subject matter unrelated to computing or operating systems. It might mean using Linux to teach Linux. It might mean teaching about Linux.
For over a decade, Silicon Graphics has built the highest-quality graphics machines, running Irix (a BSD derivative) on MIPS chips. A few years ago, they began a line of Intel architecture boxes. Now you can get one of those boxes running Linux. (I know there are ports of Linux to the MIPS architecture, too; but SGI isn't supporting them at this time.)
A very large number of potential users see SGI as an Irix company. The result is SGI's Linux University, a traveling roadshow that made many stops this past autumn. Beginning in Washington, DC and ending up weeks later in Los Alamos, NM, Linux University brought information on Linux, about SGI's policy concerning Linux and on SGI's commitment to open source to several thousand users.
While I found much of the content of the talks truly interesting and valuable, the most important revelation may well have been the fact that SGI has contributed its proprietary XFS journaling file system to the community under the GPL. Giving away one of the crown jewels is a true sign of commitment. As Kurt Akeley, CTO at SGI, put it: "In a bacon and eggs breakfast, the chicken is involved, but the pig is committed." SGI is committed.
What the university tour did was two things: provide a context for SGI's commitment, and supply education about Linux itself—the values, tools and future. At five of the sites (Huntsville, AL; Dayton, OH; Denver; Albuquerque; and Los Alamos), I supplied context by talking about the origins of UNIX, Linux and Open Source.
The tutorial sessions were very impressive. While they varied from site to site, they comprised XFS and CXFS, Networking and Clustering on Linux, Interoperability in a Heterogeneous Environment (Samba), Security in Linux, Web Serving in a Linux Environment and OpenGL in Linux.
Also impressive was the number of attendees. Most sites had over 200 folks present, with over 900 in Washington, DC. Many of the attendees were knowledgeable about computing, and simply not Linux users. The queries and comments I heard during breaks were at an extremely high level. They might be Linux newbies, but not Irix or BSD newbies.
Perhaps yet more significant, in Huntsville (NASA), Dayton (Wright-Paterson AFB) and Los Alamos (LANL), a large proportion of the attendees were from the U.S. federal government. Linux infiltrating the shops of the feds is a terrific toehold.
Don't forget that Linux was first put on the Net in October 1991. As recently as January 1996, USENIX was offering a single Linux tutorial. The next year, there was a USELINUX track, concerning Linux Application Development and Deployment. Since then, there have been Freenix tracks in both 1998 and 1999. This is important, for it shows exactly why something like SGI's Linux University can have great influence. The first Linux Expo was held in North Carolina in 1996; the first Atlanta Linux Showcase in 1997; and the first Linux Business Expo at Comdex in 1999.
Readers of this magazine may know Linux. But there are many, many programmers and system administrators who know that Linux exists, but have little or no notion of what it can do.
We could sneer at companies like SGI and say they just want to latch onto the business that supporting Linux will bring them. I'm convinced that's not the full story. I've now seen Linux applications running on several different pieces of SGI hardware: a 1400L server, a 540NT workstation, an Irix02 workstation. They all demonstrated to me that high-quality, robust software was running on first-class hardware.
If the Linux University is coming to your area, register for it. I think SGI is doing a lot for the Linux community, and it's teaching thousands of people about the Linux system. Knowledge is power.
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DANVILLE — July Fourth is a time for celebration and fireworks, so long as water is kept nearby and the sparklers are pointed away from anything flammable.
What's most important is to "be aware of the surroundings and where you're using them," said Leslie Young, deputy chief of Mahoning Township's East End Fire Department.
"Every once in a while we do get a call for a brush fire caused by fireworks," said Young. "It doesn't happen often, but it has in the past."
However, due to all the recent rain, "I don't think dryness is going to be an issue this year," she added.
It's always good to have a bucket of water nearby to douse used fireworks. "Before disposing of them, I would make sure they're saturated with water," said Young.
Additional statistics come from the National Fire Protection Association:
- In 2011, 9,600 fireworks-related injuries were treated in U.S. hospital emergency rooms. Of these, 89 percent involved fireworks consumers were permitted to use. Sparklers, fountains and novelties accounted for 34 percent of emergency room firework injuries.
- The risk of fireworks injury was highest for children ages 5-19, and adults 25-44, in an atypical year of a very comparable risk across much of the population.
- On Independence Day in a typical year, far more U.S. fires are reported than on any other day, and fireworks account for two out of five of those fires, more than any other cause of fires.
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Mr Cameron met with staff at GlaxoSmithKline, in North Lonsdale Road, after the firm pledged to build a state-of-the-art biopharmaceutical manufacturing facility.
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"This is a very beautiful area of the country which I always enjoy visiting, but like most areas in Britain it needs growth and it needs jobs.
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Dental Hygiene Students Will Give Kids A Smile on Saturday
The university's School of Dental Health Science and the Washington County Dental Society will team up for their fifth annual Give Kids A Smile Day.
Pacific University's School of Dental Health Science is once again partnering with members of the Washington County Dental Society to provide low-income children with complimentary dental care.
The university's fifth annual "Give Kids A Smile" event takes place at the Hillsboro Campus on Saturday, Feb. 2.
Between 100 and 125 pre-selected children from low-income families in the greater Hillsboro area will receive preventative services such as oral hygiene instruction, routine screenings, teeth cleanings and fluoride treatments, and restorative procedures such as dental fillings and other services.
Last year at Pacific, approximately 80 children received care. This year, an increase in the number of volunteer hygienists and dentists and donations of supplies has allowed the event to accommodate more children.
Pacific's dental hygiene students will work alongside area dental hygienists and dentists who are members of the Washington County Dental Society.
Pacific and WCDS are among approximately 1,700 organizations nationwide that participate in the American Dental Association's national "Give Kids A Smile" program.
The ADA initiative began in 2003 as a way for its members to join with others in the community to provide dental services to underserved children. Each year, approximately 450,000 children around the country benefit because of the efforts of 40,000 or more annual volunteers.
The Pacific School of Dental Health Science's "Give Kids A Smile" day began in 2009. This year's event is made possible by the support of the Art Institute of Portland, International Culinary School, New Seasons Market, Einstein Brothers Bagels, Costco, Starbucks Coffee and Trader Joe's.
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The Wyss Scholars Program for Conservation of the American West is a joint effort between CFC's Bolle Center for People and Forests and the Environmental Studies Program. The program selected its first cohort of Wyss Scholars in 2006, and this year marks the continuation of the grant for an additional five years. For more information about the Wyss Scholars Program see the Bolle Center web page http://www.cfc.umt.edu/bolle/.


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[JURIST] The US Senate voted 71-25 [roll call] Tuesday to approve the Gulf of Mexico Energy Security Act of 2006 [S 3711 text; bill summary], which would allow oil and gas drilling in about 8.3 million acres of federal waters in the central Gulf. The bill garnered broad support in the wake of soaring gas prices, but its critics asserted that the drilling would not take place in areas other than the Gulf, nor would it begin for several years. The legislation will also need to be squared with a bill passed by the US House of Representatives in June [JURIST report], the Deep Ocean Energy Resources Act [HR 4761 text], which would end the offshore drilling moratorium on 85 percent of the coastal waters surrounding the US - a measure that has been renewed by Congress every year since 1981. The Senate and House are expected to begin reconciling the bills when they return from their summer hiatuses in September. AP has more.
[JURIST] Authorities in Burundi [CIA backgrounder] on Tuesday arrested five former government officials, including Vice President Alphonse Kadege, as well as a rebel leader and two others suspected of plotting a coup to overthrow the African nation's government, according to intelligence chief Brig. Gen. Adolphe Manirakiza. Police were also searching for former President Domitien Ndayizeye's spokesman, Pancrace Cimpaye, and have reportedly seized several other officials' residences [BBC report] in relation to the plot.Violence between the majority Hutus and minority Tutsis has racked Burundi since its 12-year civil war [Global Security backgrounder], which was sparked by the assassination of the country's first democratically elected Hutu president in 1993. AP has more.
[JURIST] Amnesty International [advocacy website] urged Haiti's government Tuesday to release political prisoners being held indefinitely pending trial. According to the human rights group, about 2,000 people are under "prolonged detention," and close to 100 of them could be political prisoners. Amnesty called on Haiti to initiate trial proceedings under legitimate criminal charges or release the political prisoners, including hundreds of supporters of former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide [BBC profile] who were been detained [JURIST report] by the transitional government of Gérard Latortue [Wikipedia profile].Amnesty identified four Aristide proponents - Annette Auguste, Yvon Antoine, Paul Raymond and Georges Honoré - as among those in prolonged detention. The four prisoners were formally charged with criminal conspiracy in April 2006 and have been detained since their arrests between March 2004 and July 2005. Last week, Haitian authorities freed former Prime Minister Yvon Neptune [JURIST report] to await charges on a provisional release after being held [JURIST report] since Aristide was ousted in 2004 [JURIST report] on accusations that he orchestrated a massacre in La Scierie that February. Amnesty International has more.
[JURIST] Federal prosecutors may review two New York Times reporters' phone records while trying to determine who leaked information about a terrorism investigation, the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit ruled Tuesday. A three-judge panel held [opinion text, PDF] that "on the present facts," neither common-law privilege nor the First Amendment protected the Times from disclosing the subpoenaed records. "We see no danger to a free press in so holding," Circuit Judge Ralph K. Winter [official profile] wrote in the majority opinion. Winter continued:
Learning of imminent law enforcement asset freezes/searches and informing targets of them is not an activity essential, or even common, journalism. Where such reporting involves the uncovering of government corruption or misconduct in the use of investigative powers, courts can easily find appropriate means of protecting the journalists involved and their sources.
[JURIST] A US magistrate in Houston agreed Tuesday to delay the trial of three former British bankers facing fraud charges related to the Enron scandal [JURIST news archive] so that two of the defendants can hire American lawyers. A trial had been scheduled for Sept. 11, but Magistrate Stephen Smith granted the defendants' request [JURIST report] and ordered the men to update the court on their progress - Giles Darby on Friday and Gary Mulgrew on next Tuesday. The third defendant, David Bermingham, has already hired Dan Cogdell [profile], a criminal defense attorney from Houston.The defendants, known as the Natwest three, were extradited to the US [JURIST report] to face seven counts of wire fraud [indictment, PDF] each for allegedly entering into a secret agreement with former Enron Chief Financial Officer Andrew Fastow to illegally receive money. While on bail awaiting trial, the defendants must remain in the Southern District of Texas and wear electronic monitoring devices. The Houston Chronicle has more.
[JURIST] A US military court on Tuesday began Article 32 [JAG backgrounder; USMJ text] hearings, similar to civil grand jury proceedings, to determine whether four Army soldiers charged [JURIST report] with premeditated murder of Iraqi detainees will face courts-martial. The four men from the Third Brigade Combat Team of the 101st Airborne Division [GlobalSecurity backgrounder] - Sergeant Raymond Girouard, Specialist William Hunsaker, Pfc. Corey Clagett and Specialist Juston Graber - are accused of deliberately murdering three Iraqi detainees and then covering up the murders during a May 9 raid on an alleged insurgent training camp near Tikrit.Last week, the New York Times reported that another member of the squad in question, Sgt. Lemuel Lemus, gave a sworn statement depicting the events of the alleged murder [JURIST report]. The soldiers originally agreed that the captured detainees had broken free during a morning raid, and were shot while trying to escape and attack the squad. Lemus' account, however, depicts purposeful murder and even alleges that Squad Leader Girouard cut Hunsaker to enhance the legitimacy of their account. Lawyers for Clagett and Hunsaker dispute Lemus' account, and claim that Colonel Michael Steele, the well-known brigade commander that led a botched 1993 mission in Somalia depicted in the book and movie Black Hawk Down [Wikipedia backgrounder], ordered the soldiers to kill all military-age men prior to the raid. Steele has indicated that he will refuse to testify at the Article 32 hearing. Reuters has more.
[JURIST] Democratic senators criticized the acting director of the US Food and Drug Administration [official website] Tuesday for the timing of the agency's announcement that it would reconsider allowing some over-the-counter sales of emergency contraception. Monday's surprise announcement [FDA press release] came on the eve of a confirmation hearing [committee materials] for Dr. Andrew von Eschenbach [official profile], the acting FDA commissioner and President Bush's nominee to lead the agency permanently. Sen. Tom Harkin (D-IA) [official website] accused von Eschenbach of putting "ideological concerns" before science, while Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-MA) [official website] speculated that the decision was a "delaying tactic." Sens. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY) and Patty Murray (D-WA) [official websites] threatened to block von Eschenbach's nomination until the FDA makes a final decision on the so-called morning-after pill, marketed by Barr Pharmaceuticals Inc. [corporate website] under the brand name Plan B [product backgrounder]. Von Eschenbach said his decision was based on medical data, echoing remarks in his prepared statement [PDF text] that the FDA should be "guided by sound science and vigorous analysis of evidence."On Monday, the FDA released a letter [text] from von Eschenbach to a Barr subsidiary, asking the company to amend its application to market Plan B for over-the-counter sale. Among the changes von Eschenbach requested was raising the minimum age to purchase Plan B from 16 to 18. In a lawsuit seeking over-the-counter Plan B sales for all ages, a former FDA commissioner testified that the agency delayed a decision [JURIST report] while it considered how to restrict nonprescription access only to females 17 and older. AP has more.
[JURIST] A Russian arbitration court judge declared oil company Yukos [corporate website; JURIST news archive; corporate website; Wikipedia backgrounder] bankrupt Tuesday and said the company may be liquidated to pay creditors. The decision, which had been expected, confirms a vote taken by Yukos' creditors last week. A Yukos lawyer described Tuesday's decision as a "death sentence" for the company, once the primary producer of oil in Russia [JURIST news archive]. Yukos' bankruptcy supervisor, Eduard Rebgun, will be paid 1.8 million rubles ($67,000 US) a month to liquidate the company.To pay off Yukos' back taxes, the company's largest production unit was sold [JURIST report] in 2004 to a state-controlled oil group. That conglomerate, OAO Rosneft [corporate profile, English version], now ranks as one of Yukos' largest creditors, along with the Federal Tax Service. Yukos' downfall began after its founder, Mikhail Khodorkovsky [JURIST news archive], was convicted of tax evasion [JURIST report] in May 2005 - a prosecution that critics contend was politically motivated, despite denials by Russian President Vladimir Putin [official website; BBC profile]. AP has more. MosNews has local coverage.
[JURIST] The UK Court of Appeal ruled [text] Tuesday that six terror suspects cannot be detained without charge under so-called control orders [BBC backgrounder], which are used when there is not enough evidence to prosecute. UK Home Secretary John Reid [official profile] had appealed a High Court ruling [JURIST reports], arguing that it had contained "misunderstandings and errors." The High Court ruled [text] in June that the orders authorizing the electronic monitoring or house arrest of terror suspects based on insufficient evidence to try them violate the European Convention on Human Rights [text, PDF], but a government lawyer told the Court of Appeal that the High Court misapplied the language of the convention and that Parliament tailored the Prevention of Terrorism Act 2005 [text], which authorizes the orders, to pass muster under the convention. Control orders allow the government to impose house arrest and electronic surveillance on suspects and to forbid them from using mobile phones and the Internet. Reid said he would change the control orders, but will also appeal Tuesday's ruling. BBC News has more.The Court of Appeal also handed down a second judgment [text] in a related case Tuesday, ruling that a lower court judge "was in error in holding that the provisions for review by the court of the making of a non-derogating control order by the Secretary of State do not comply with the requirements of [ECHR] Article 6." The second case involves a man identified only as "MB," who the British government alleges intended to go to Iraq to fight coalition forces. Justice Sullivan, the same High Court judge who ruled in the above case, in April held that control orders, as applied to MB, violated his right to a fair trial [ruling; JURIST report] under the Human Rights Act [text], which incorporates ECHR rights into British law, and were an "affront to justice."
[JURIST] Iran [JURIST news archive] will not abide by a UN Security Council resolution [JURIST report] ordering it to stop enriching uranium, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad [official profile, English version; BBC profile] said Tuesday in an address on state television. Ahmadinejad said "the peaceful use of nuclear fuel production technology" is Iran's "right," promising not to give in to pressure from the UN. Iran's Foreign Ministry and its UN ambassador had already rejected the resolution [Reuters report]. UN Security Council Resolution 1696 [text], adopted by a 14-1 vote Monday, gives Iran until August 31 to halt uranium enrichment and threatens sanctions if it does not comply, although it requires additional Security Council discussion before sanctions can actually be imposed. AP has more.
[JURIST] Eliza Manningham-Buller [BBC profile], the head of Britain's domestic spy agency MI5 [official website], has refused to testify before a joint parliamentary human rights committee [official website] investigating terror practices, saying she can appear before only the Intelligence and Security Committee [official website] because it safeguards sensitive information. The human rights committee released correspondence with Manningham-Buller on Tuesday in a report [text, PDF] on counterterrorism strategies and human rights. The lawmakers demanded to know from Manningham-Buller whether Britain obtains information from suspects tortured overseas and whether the US had used British airports in alleged extraordinary rendition [JURIST news archive] flights.The human rights committee suggested that Britain set up an independent watchdog to monitor MI5 and MI6 [official website], the international intelligence service, and recommended that terrorism suspects held without charge be compensated for their time. AP has more. From the UK, the Guardian has local coverage.
[JURIST] The Congolese Rally for Democracy (RCD) [party website, in French; Wikipedia backgrounder], an opposition group and former rebel group, on Tuesday alleged widespread election fraud in Sunday's election [AP report], and threatened to challenge the election in court if the results are not fixed. The RCD noted cases of ballot stuffing and biased election officials during the poll - the first democratic presidential election in 40 years - saying that Rwandan Hutu rebels [BBC backgrounder] interfered with the election to garner more votes for Democratic Republic of Congo President Joseph Kabila [BBC profile]. Azarias Ruberwa [Wikipedia profile], the RCD presidential candidate, also accused Kabila's party of bribing voters and threatened to bring his case to the Supreme Court.Though election officials have asked the candidates not to claim a preliminary victory while officials count the votes, presidential candidate Jean-Pierre Bemba [Wikipedia profile] told reporters that his party had a strong lead in six of the country's eleven provinces, while Kabila supporters in the town of Bakavu began to celebrate a Kabila victory. Official results are due by August 20 [AllAfrica.com report]. Reuters has more. BBC News has additional coverage.
[JURIST] US Army Major General Geoffrey Miller [Wikipedia profile], the former commander of Guantanamo Bay [JURIST news archive], retired [press release] from the Army Monday with honors. Miller ran Guantanamo from 2002 to 2004, and served as a consultant at the Abu Ghraib prison [JURIST news archive] in Iraq during 2003, where he has is alleged to have recommended the use of dogs as a harsh detainee interrogation tactic. Rights groups have criticized Miller's receipt of the Distinguished Service Medal, calling the honor another example of military officials failing to hold accountable those responsible for abusive conditions.Miller's retirement was postponed until after the court-martial of US Army Sergeant Santos Cardona, who was convicted of abusing detainees at Abu Ghraib when he used unmuzzled dogs during interrogations [JURIST reports]. In testimony during Cardona's court-martial, Miller denied recommending the use of dogs during interrogations [JURIST report]. Although Miller will not face disciplinary action for the allegations against him, he could be called back to active duty to face a court-martial, though military officials say the move will not likely happen. Pentagon officials last year refused to reprimand Miller [JURIST report] as recommended by two generals investigating abuse at Guantanamo Bay. Reuters has more. The Los Angeles Times has additional coverage.
[JURIST] Attorneys representing I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby [defense profile; JURIST news archive], the former chief of staff for Vice President Cheney, on Monday asked US District Judge Reggie Walton to allow expert testimony from a memory specialist at Libby's upcoming trial relating to his role in the CIA leak case [JURIST news archive]. In a court filing, Libby's attorneys said that testimony about how human memory works and why it fails will help a jury consider whether Libby lied to federal investigators about his knowledge of the CIA leak scandal, which revealed covert CIA operative Valerie Plame's identity. Libby's attorneys will argue that Libby became confused during the investigation because several government witnesses misremembered facts, Libby was more focused on issues he considered more important at the time, and he did not intentionally misrepresent his knowledge of the leak. If allowed, Dr. Robert A. Bjork, the chairman of the Department of Psychology at UCLA, will likely testify that Libby could have easily confused minor details of conversations about Plame.Libby has pleaded not guilty [JURIST report] to obstruction of justice and perjury charges [PDF indictment; JURIST report] in connection with the investigation into the leak of Plame's identity. NBC News has more.
[JURIST] Lawyers from the US Department of Justice on Monday appealed [petition, PDF] a federal court decision [JURIST report] that allowed a challenge to the National Security Agency's domestic surveillance program [JURIST news archive] to go forward, arguing to the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit [official website] that the lawsuit could expose state secrets and jeopardize national security. US District Judge Vaughn Walker [official profile] of the Northern District of California [official website] ruled [order, PDF] on July 20 that the broad media coverage of the surveillance program had neutralized any danger of disclosing state secrets, and allowed the lawsuit to move forward. In April, the Justice Department filed a Statement of Interest [PDF] in the class action lawsuit [EFF case backgrounder; JURIST report] brought by the Electronic Frontier Foundation [advocacy website] against telecommunications giant AT&T alleging that AT&T violated citizens' rights to privacy and several federal statutes when it allowed the NSA to use its infrastructure to wiretap US citizens as part of the Bush administration's surveillance program. Walker's ruling was the first in several federal lawsuits to go against the government's attempts to invoke the state secrets privilege for the surveillance program. Government attorneys for the twenty lawsuits have asked the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation [official website] to consolidate all the cases [JURIST report] so it could invoke the state secrets privilege and seek to have the cases dismissed, while the plaintiffs asked to have Walker in San Francisco handle the cases. AP has more.
[JURIST] Former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet [JURIST news archive] was questioned Monday by Judge Alejandro Solis about the assassination of General Carlos Prats [official profile, in Spanish; Wikipedia profile] shortly after Pinochet came to power following a 1973 coup [BBC backgrounder]. Prats, the army chief before Pinochet, opposed the coup. Solis said Pinochet answered all the questions and that there were no problems during the meeting. Pinochet's lawyer added that Pinochet answered the questions to the best of his ability, even in failing health.Pinochet has denied involvement in the Prats assassination. An agent from Pinochet's security services was convicted [BBC report] in 2000 of direct participation in the assassination, and several others have been indicted. Last year, the Chile Supreme Court [official website] reinstated immunity for Pinochet in the Prats case, after he appealed a lower court ruling [JURIST reports] stripping Pinochet of immunity. Pinochet, however, currently faces other human rights and tax evasion charges [JURIST reports] despite efforts to avoid prosecution due to his failing health. AP has more. From Santiago, La Nacion has local coverage.
[JURIST] Detainees at the US detention center at Guantanamo Bay [JURIST news archive] have used items found in their cells to attack military guards hundreds of times, according to Pentagon memos [DOD materials] released through a Freedom of Information Act request by conservative legal group Landmark Legal Foundation [advocacy website]. The Defense Department documented more than 440 reports of detainee attacks on guards at an average of three incidents per week from December 2002 through July 2005. The number of attacks increased dramatically in July 2005 when dozens of detainees began a hunger strike [JURIST report], and attacks also tend to increase during the Christmas season. Detainees also reportedly pretended to commit suicide in a bid to lure guards into their cell to attack them on the same day that three detainees hung themselves in their cells [JURIST report] in June.Guantanamo executive officer Lt. Col. Michael J. Nicolucci noted that many of the detainees have been in the camp since it opened in 2002, and they have learned the prison procedures and "try to turn them against" the guards at the prison. Although the incident reports shed light on the environment inside Guantanamo, the names of all guards and detainees involved in the attacks were redacted from the documents, making it impossible to know if attacks were widespread throughout the prison, or a result of a small group of detainees. AP has more.
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The nation's doctor was well-beloved.
One of America's enduring national treasures, C. Everett Koop, M.D., passed away earlier this week. If you can bear with me for a few moments, I'd like to remember the profoundly meaningful life of a man who once taught me an immensely valuable lesson—the secret to his own, successful life.
I became Dr. Koop's friend later in his life—long after he'd challenged senior White House officials working for President Ronald Reagan over the irrefutable science at the very center of the smoking and AIDS epidemics, while serving as Surgeon General in the U.S. Public Health Service.
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For those who have forgotten Dr. Koop's profound public stances on those two issues (because they occurred more than two decades ago), he essentially told the truth about the science of smoking and AIDS, at a time when the Republican Party was beginning its long march into an anti-science alternative universe.
On smoking, Dr. Koop used his own bully pulpit (and a second Surgeon's General report) to make quite certain that big tobacco companies could no longer confuse the public about whether smoking causes lung cancer. It does—and we have Dr. Koop's courage to thank in no small part for that knowledge.
On AIDS, Dr. Koop used that same bully pulpit to say clearly, publicly, and often that latex condoms could prevent the spread of HIV, and thereby reduce the deadly toll of the AIDS epidemic. It was an evidence-based public health message that made perfect sense scientifically, but still required considerable political courage to say in public during the Reagan White House years.
Dr. Koop became quite famous as Surgeon General for his public stances on those and other public health issues during the Reagan administration. There was a time, for about a decade or so, that Dr. Koop was easily the most recognized medical figure in America. He always wore his white Public Health Service uniform during TV interviews, and his willingness to speak the truth endeared him to the public.
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I came to know Dr. Koop when we both spent a year of our lives convincing Congress of the need for the Food and Drug Administration to regulate cigarettes, ban tobacco advertising aimed at children, abolish the tainted Tobacco Institute, and approve a global tobacco legal settlement.
Dr. Koop was tireless—and willing to meet endlessly with dozens of U.S. senators to press the case. And, in nearly every instance, both Democratic and Republican senators were more than happy to hear Dr. Koop out, because he spoke with conviction and integrity on the issue. That's a rare thing in Washington.
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I adopted Dr. Koop's model (altered slightly to living your daily life as a "relentless, positive storm"). I have always been grateful to him for this life lesson. It is at the heart of public service, and a lesson that few in Washington's national government seem committed to these days. You act not because you expect anything in return—but simply because you want to be of service and do what's right.
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Santino, Jack. "Feasts, Festivals, and Fasts." Encyclopedia of Food and Culture. Ed. Solomon H. Katz. Vol. 1. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 2003. 626-630. Gale Virtual Reference Library. Web. 26 Aug. 2010.
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Additional Food-related Films
Ratatouille Bird. (65-DVD5105)
Mostly Martha Nettelbeck. (65-DVD2201)
My Dinner with Andre (65-DVD11142)
Food. Jan Švankmajer.
Sweet Movie. Dusan Makavejev. (65-V9724)
Le Charme Discret de la Bourgeoisie. Luis Buñuel. (65-DVD8149)
El Angel Exterminador. Luis Buñuel. (65-V548)
The Supra: Dining at a Georgian feast
The Tale of Desperaux Fell and Stevenhagen. (65-DVD7929)
Age of Innocence Scorsese. (65-DVD3595)
Tom Jones Richardson. (65-DVD2957)
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This guide links you to resources for Comparative Literature 255 H: The Feast in Philosophy, Film, and Fiction for Spring 2013.
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While its individual form and content may differ greatly, the feast or banquet functions as a strong symbol in most global communities. Food and feasting often defines community by establishing a connection between those who eat, what they eat and how they eat: as such it shapes national and cultural identities. As it is portrayed in Western philosophy from the seminal banquet in the pages of Plato's Symposium, the feast is simultaneously erotic and philosophical. It has the potential to descend into gluttony or to rise to the level of the sublime. The feast can be an expression of decadence, or it can be a means of sharing bounty or giving thanks. Feasting can represent communion or transgression, just as eating "the flesh" may symbolize one of Christianity's most central rites or one of Western society's central taboos. In Asia, the influence of Buddhist reincarnation has instilled additional meanings and taboos upon the consumption of food. The multiple purposes and nuances of food make it a rich theme in literature, film, and the visual arts. The food and banquet film has recently become a genre unto itself, and the outpouring of films are helpful in understanding cross-cultural differences in the social and philosophical understandings of what it is to be human.
An interdisciplinary approach is critical to this course. In addition to readings in philosophy, theology, and literature, we will study food films, invite guest speakers, attend a Japanese tea and a Southern tea, and work on analyzing images from the Ackland Museum to create our own virtual gallery.
Paying attention to philosophical contexts helps us become better readers of the role of food in contemporary film and fiction across time and across cultures, and perhaps it also helps us become more reflective citizens and consumers in our own everyday lives, as we consider one of our most basic human needs, along with what our own feasting can tell us about our contemporary assumptions about humanity. To this end, we will juxtapose readings and film from different cultures according to thematic dualisms such as necessity and luxury, love and wisdom, gluttony and sublimity, community and individualism, asceticism and consumerism, tradition and experimentation.
These pairings will help us explore the multiple purposes of the feast, and the potential conflicts among its purposes.
In order to help us draw connections with everyday life, we will engage in a feast of our own by the end of the course, and we will also receive brief instruction in the tea ceremony. Films will be viewed in their entirety outside of class sessions, and clips will be used in class for the purposes of generating and focusing class discussion.
Students will complete two major projects in this class: a virtual Gallery of the Feast, and a research paper with an original approach to the feast.
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The Blount Memorial Hospital board of directors held its annual election of officers on Tuesday, June 22 and unanimously approved new terms for the board's president and vice president and appointed a new secretary/treasurer.
Robert Redwine was again chosen president of the board of directors, a position he has held since 1993. Redwine was appointed to the board by the Blount County Commission and has served on the board since January 1987. He is a senior electrical engineer for Spectra Tech Inc. in Oak Ridge and is retired from ALCOA Inc. Tennessee Operations.
Dr. Ted Flickinger was selected as vice president of the board. He is named to the board by Maryville College and has served since January 1998. Flickinger is a retired urologist and a member of the hospital's honorary medical staff.
Incoming chief executive officer Don Heinemann was elected as the board's secretary and treasurer. Heineman assumes the CEO post on July 1 and has been a member of the Blount Memorial Hospital executive staff since 1985.
The board is comprised of nine members who serve three-year renewable terms. Four are appointed by the Blount County Commission, two each by the cities of Maryville and Alcoa, and one by the Board of Trustees for Maryville College.


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For more than six decades, the Greenville Kiwanis Club has conducted a yearly auction to raise funds which benefit local children.
The tradition continues Saturday, with the 62nd Annual Kiwanis Children's Charity Auction.
The event is moving to the Fletcher Warren Civic Center, 5501 U.S. Highway 69 South in Greenville. A lunch and silent auction begins at 1 p.m., with the live auction starting at 2 p.m. and continuing until the bidding is completed. Shoppers are invited to participate in the auction by watching on GEUS Channel 34 and calling in their bids to 903-457-2886, from inside the civic center, or through the live broadcast of the event on KGVL 1400 AM.
Dozens of items will be up for sale to the highest bidder during the auction, all donated by local individuals and businesses.
Lists of the items up for bid will be included in today's and Saturday's editions of the Herald-Banner.
There will also be several "Big Board" items available for purchase, including the priceless and commemorative Kiwanis Maltese Falcon.
With a motto of "Young Children Are Priority One", all of the funds raised by the Kiwanis auction go toward providing assistance to an assortment of local agencies and programs which help the youth of the community, including scholarships for local high school students.
Clothe a Child, Special Olympics, Hunt County Shared Ministries (FISH), Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA), Women In Need and Tools for School are among the organizations which benefit from funds raised during each year's auctions.


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---- — On March 21, Central College will be hosting the Oxfam Hunger Banquet. A collaboration among the Center for Community-Based Learning, the biology department, the Central College United Nations Association, the Pella School District, Central student organization AWARE and Character Counts Pella, the banquet will draw attention to global hunger.
The Oxfam Hunger Banquet is a community meal that inspires thought and discussion on the issues of hunger and clean water throughout the world. Participants attending the banquet will receive a random seating assignment. Three different meals will be served: a small percentage of diners will receive a generous meal including meat, vegetables and dessert. A slightly larger portion will be served a sufficient, yet modest meal, while the largest percentage will receive rice and beans. The meals represent the world's access to food, and the percentages are based on the actual global distribution of food.
Oxfam, an international organization, provides education and humanitarian support worldwide. They collaborate with numerous organizations, including the World Food Prize and the United Nations.
"In some ways, it seems easy to isolate ourselves from world hunger living here in central Iowa," said Cheri Doane, director of community-based learning. "The Oxfam Hunger Banquet is just one way of fostering awareness about issues of which we should be mindful."
Professor of biology Ellie Du Pre has recruited her students to join the event, as well. Her Epidemiology class is doing service-learning projects related to global health issues, and the students will carry a three-gallon jug of water for a week to use for drinking and bathing, raising awareness and promoting the Oxfam Hunger Banquet. Other biology students are researching hunger and water issues and creating posters to be displayed for the public.
Tapping into the Pella community, classes have also solicited the participation of area restaurants to help with the water campaign. For every glass of water ordered, the patron will receive a card with facts about access to drinking water around the world and will be asked to donate one dollar to the Tap Project, a United Nations global clean water initiative.
The banquet is $5 for adults and free for students who register with a Central ID. The event will take place in the Graham Banquet Hall at 6 p.m.


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Steven King knows the difference between necessities and luxuries.
King has lived on minimum wage for four years. Minimum wage is $7.25 per hour. At half time, that's $7,540 per year. At full time, it comes to $15,080 per year, minus payroll taxes. Last year, King said, he earned $8,400 working in a program at the Salvation Army.
King lives an almost ascetic life. He rents a tiny apartment over a garage off East Lincoln, pays his utilities, and walks or takes a bus. He has little money for much beyond that. The government stretches his wages by giving him $200 a month for food and a phone with four hours per month. He's not complaining. It beats the two years he spent sleeping in the bushes near the Hyatt Regency Wichita.
"It's literally paycheck to paycheck," he said. "I pay bills with one paycheck and rent with the other. It's just really, really tight."
In 2011, 27,000 people, or 3.4 percent of Kansas hourly workers, earned minimum wage, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Another 29,000, or 3.6 percent of hourly workers, received tips and could be paid the minimum of $2.13 per hour. If they don't generate enough tip income to reach $7.25 an hour, the business is required to make up the difference.
In his State of the Union address, President Obama proposed raising the minimum wage to $9 per hour in stages by 2015 – and then indexing it to inflation.
The arguments for and against that idea will sound similar to the last time Congress raised the minimum wage, when the increases were phased in between 2007 and 2009.
The White House maintains that modestly increasing the wage helps workers, boosts the economy by getting more money into the hands of those who will spend it immediately, and helps employers by cutting down on worker turnover. Several polls show that the majority of people support the idea.
The National Federation of Independent Business, which represents 350,000 small businesses, forcefully rebuts the Obama argument. It maintains that raising the wage will kill jobs by increasing costs for small-business owners without really helping the workers.
They argue that minimum-wage jobs tend to be second or third jobs in a family, are often for teenagers and are part time, meaning the increase, so painful to the business owner, doesn't do much to increase family income.
Economists come down on both sides of the argument, acknowledges Malcolm Harris, an economist and professor of finance at Friends University, who tends to dislike the minimum wage.
"The national impact is fairly clear," he said. "It drives up youth unemployment, particularly minority unemployment."
Teen unemployment is 22.1 percent, nearly three times the unemployment rate, while the black teen unemployment rate is 40.3 percent.
"Those numbers won't get any better if you raise the minimum wage," he said.
The minimum-wage workforce does tend to be young: Half are younger than 25. And two-thirds of minimum-wage jobs are less than 35 hours a week, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
But that still means that half of minium-wage jobs are held by adults older than 25, and a third of those earning minimum wage are working at those jobs full time.
The leisure and hospitality industry – typically restaurants and hotels – has the highest proportion of workers with hourly wages at or below the minimum wage.
Adam Mills, CEO of the Kansas Restaurant and Hospitality Association, said that restaurants as a whole already have a small profit margin, less than 4 percent.
"If the minimum wage goes up, then something else has to give," he said. "It's a combination of higher prices and fewer people working. We are not a high-profit industry. … A restaurant owner has to rub two nickels together and figure out how to get 11 cents out of it."
And, he noted, wait staff who depend on tip income often earn far more than $7.25 an hour. He estimated it at closer to $11 to $15. The Kansas Department of Labor shows a median annual salary for waiters and waitresses at $18,280 per year.
Melad Stephen, who owns several upscale restaurants, said that raising the minimum wage could have a big impact on his business. He starts his inexperienced employees at minimum wage and raises it as they grow more experienced. He estimated that his entire staff, other than the wait staff, earns an average of between $9 and $10 an hour. Setting $9 as the minimum would push his whole wage scale up.
"What's going to happen is that if the labor is high, we'll have to cut somebody's hours," he said. "When things slow a bit, we'll send people home and have somebody do more."
Local businessman Johnny Stevens also runs a low-margin business, the Pavilions at the former Kansas Coliseum, but he decided to pay his workers at least $10 an hour.
For Stevens, it's all about getting and keeping good people.
"Truthfully I'm losing money in those pavilions, but I feel like that I have to pay them more," he said. "I'm better off in the long run because they're more productive."
He said it only makes business sense to pay workers enough to keep them interested in working. If he paid minium wage, he'd get workers who would quit after a while and file for unemployment.
That pragmatic argument is one made by the liberal National Employment Law Project.
"Raising the minimum wage is closely related to a sharp reduction in turnover and a boost in productivity," said policy analyst Jack Temple.
But he also argues that most minimum-wage workers are employed not by local businessmen, but by national chains that have gotten quite profitable in recent decades.
This would simply take a little of that profit from the chains and give it to the workers – a tiny step toward reversing a 30-year slide in low-income wages – who would then spend it in the local economy, he said.
Since the recession, the minimum-wage workforce skews older. Rachel Hinel, a case worker for the Salvation Army, estimates that 70 percent of her clients work.
"We get a lot of people who work in fast food or motels or do seasonal construction work," she said.
It's possible to make it on minimum wage, she said, but everything has to go right. Sometimes, she said, people don't budget well or don't make good personal decisions, but often it's something beyond their control.
"They'll get a medical bill, or their car breaks down," she said. "They fall behind and can't seem to get caught up."
For them it's a matter of doing without.
One woman, who asked not to be named, lives with a nephew, but even so, she said, her minimum-wage pay is pretty limiting.
"It doesn't leave much," she said with a sigh. "There isn't much besides groceries and gas, and clothes, sometimes. We might go out every couple of weeks to Taco Rio, that's under $10 or $15, for a kind of reward."


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GALVESTON — A police officer was relieved of duty while authorities investigate a woman's claims that the man verbally and physically assaulted her.
Carolyn Wade, 59, told The Daily News she called police about 5:30 p.m. Halloween night, hoping an officer could simply talk to her 14-year-old granddaughter, who was contemplating running away.
"I thought if I called police, perhaps they could talk to her, diffuse the situation," Wade said.
What transpired led Wade, who is black, to believe the white officer's actions might have been racially motivated.
Galveston police Chief Henry Porretto didn't release the name of the officer, saying he had not been charged. The officer was relieved of duty with pay until the department completes its internal investigation.
"I take all the allegations of ... improper conduct seriously," Porretto said. "The field supervisors and commanders all did the right thing."
No charges were filed in the case, and police had not received a written complaint, Porretto said.
Wade accused the officer of using profanity toward her granddaughter. Wade declined to name her relatives.
"He throws her on the couch," Wade said. "I guess he didn't think she was moving fast enough. She wasn't saying anything. She's doing what she does when she's scared. She smiled."
Wade accused the officer of calling her a coward for not whipping her granddaughter, Wade said.
The officer handcuffed the teen, Wade said. Wade followed them to the patrol car.
"He was yelling at me," Wade said. "The whole neighborhood heard it."
Police interviewed neighbors. Wade believed 10 people witnessed the incident outside her home in the 3500 block of Sealy.
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Bangladesh cyclone survivors urgently need food and shelter, Oxfam says
Tens of thousands of people in Bangladesh urgently need food and shelter after a cyclone it the country on Thursday night, international aid agency Oxfam said today.
The massive loss and damage to crops – estimated at between 50 - 95% in coastal zones – will have immediate and long-term devastating effects on the country.
Bangladesh had already lost crops in northern and central areas after severe floods in July. Oxfam fears the combined impact of these two disasters on one of the world's poorest countries could be massive.
The cyclone damaged power and communications networks, killed livestock and caused tidal surges which swept away scores of people.
Oxfam assessment teams have found people are returning to their homes from the evacuation shelters, only to find their houses are devastated. They have been assembling make-shift housing from the debris or sleeping in the open-air.
Oxfam through our Bangladeshi partner organizations have started delivering aid in some of the worst affected districts in southern Bangladesh. Our assessments show immediate needs are dry foods, shelter, clothes and water and sanitation facilities.
Heather Blackwell, head of Oxfam in Bangladesh, said: "There are many villages in remote areas, including on sandbank islands, that are yet to be reached. We don't know the losses sustained in those regions. It could take weeks before we know exactly how bad this cyclone was.
"Access to the areas hit by the cyclone is very difficult – a car journey that normally takes five hours took an Oxfam team a day and a half to do because of debris and road damage.
"The last time a cyclone this strong hit Bangladesh, in 1991, over 138,000 people were killed. Since then the government, aid agencies and local organizations have worked hard to help people prepare for disasters and this is reflected in the much lower death toll.
"Scientists have predicted that extreme weather events like this cyclone are going to become more common due to global warming. The world's poorest people – such as those living in Bangladesh – will be hit the hardest. It's vital that the rich world takes steps to reduce its carbon emissions and provides money to help poor countries deal with the effects of climate change."
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