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Some Fliers Kick The Airplane Habit To Save the World
Some travelers are deciding that saving the world is more important than seeing the world.
As concerns over global warming grow, some people think giving to a carbon-offset program or staying at a "green" hotel isn't enough to compensate for an airline flight. The most eco-conscious vacationers are forgoing long-distance trips, trading treks to Europe for walks around the neighborhood -- and sometimes angering family members in other cities. Spurring the movement on are environmentalists who implore the public to stop burning unnecessary fuel and stay closer to home. It's the next step for commuters who have already swapped cars for bikes and attend out-of-town meetings by videoconferencing.
Sev and Nina Williams are swearing off flights and long drives in 2008 -- which will mean missing Ms. Williams's sister's September wedding in Spain. (Her sister is "disappointed," says Ms. Williams, a 33-year-old public-policy analyst.) Last year, the Santa Barbara, Calif., couple took five airplane trips. This year, they plan to spend their 20-odd vacation days around town, at most driving their hybrid car the 120 miles to Disneyland with their 2-year-old son. "We just really looked at our whole life and said, what can we do to make an impact?" says Mr. Williams, 38, who owns a marketing company.
The Web site for Global Cool, a campaign to fight global warming, offers advice on how to "be cool," including, "Hey hotshot, do you really need to holiday abroad?" Web site manager Richard Kilgarriff says visitors to the site have pledged so far to cut out enough air travel to reduce carbon emissions by a combined 2,205 tons -- the equivalent of about 1,770 round-trip New York-to-Los Angeles passenger flights. A member of AlterNet, an online community and news site, recently told readers, "Stop traveling. Don't fly in a plane. Just don't."
Most Americans' daily commute makes a bigger carbon impact than their vacation air travel. Driving in a car contributes about 13,800 pounds of personal carbon emissions, or 27% of the average American's annual 26 tons, according to the Nature Conservancy; flying contributes about 2,300 pounds, or 4%. (To calculate an individual's air-travel impact, the group divides a plane's emissions by the number of passengers, assuming a load factor of 65% or 70%.)
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Overall, transportation contributed 28% of greenhouse gas emissions in 2005, according to the Environmental Protection Agency's latest data, behind only electricity generation.
Although a single long-haul flight can generate more than half the emissions of an average annual commute -- a New York-to-Singapore flight on Virgin Airlines (stopping in London) results in about 8,600 pounds of carbon emissions per passenger -- some people figure skipping flights won't help. Michal Strahilevitz, a 43-year-old business administration professor in San Francisco, sold her car and cut back on leisure flying to reduce her carbon footprint, but she still flies for work. "Chances are you are just taking a seat, not adding flights to the schedule," she says. Because of cuts she has made, she says, "I feel nowhere nearly as bad about all the long showers I take."
Peer pressure helped persuade Kim Teplitzky, a regional organizer for the Sierra Club's student coalition, to cancel a holiday trip to Guatemala and Belize that she'd been planning for months. During a visit to Venezuela a year and a half ago, a friend pointed out that the carbon footprint for each of their flights was close to some people's footprint for a whole year. "There's a stigma around flying so much when we're working so hard to get our lawmakers to reduce global-warming emissions," says Ms. Teplitzky, 23, who lives in Pittsburgh.
Sharon Astyk, a 35-year-old mother of four who owns a farm in Knox, N.Y., says she used to travel a lot, especially internationally, but hasn't flown in two years. She says she became even more determined to avoid air travel after reading a 2007 book, "Heat: How to Stop the Planet From Burning," by Guardian columnist George Monbiot.
The world must reduce carbon emissions by 90% by 2030 to avert an ecosystem collapse, the books says, and achieving the cut will mean "the end of foreign holidays -- the end of shopping trips to New York, parties in Ibiza, second homes in Tuscany." Ms. Astyk says painful as the decision may be, she won't send her father in Bellingham, Wash., plane tickets to visit his grandchildren anymore, although she might send a train ticket.
Of course, most Americans aren't willing to give up air travel. The number of passengers boarding domestic flights rose 14% in the 12 months that ended in October, according to the Bureau of Transportation Statistics. John Heimlich, chief economist at the Air Transport Association, says more foreign tourists traveling within the U.S. and more discount fliers are behind the increases.
To retain eco-minded customers, Continental, Delta, Virgin and other airlines last year launched carbon-offset programs, which help counteract emissions somewhere else in the world. The Kimpton Hotel & Restaurant Group last year started offering discounted room rates and parking for guests who arrive in hybrid cars. Amtrak's Web site has a carbon calculator for comparing annual emissions from rail travel with air travel.
The programs don't go far enough for Steve Rypka, a 55-year-old Henderson, Nev., consultant. He has stopped flying to business meetings and contributes $90 a year to carbon-offset programs to compensate for his lifestyle. Now, he wants to limit his vacations to within a one- or two-day drive in his Toyota Prius. "Buying carbon offsets isn't a license to pollute," he says. "Plus, it's not exactly punishment to cut back on air travel, with all the security issues."
Even travel writers are starting to wonder if they are part of the problem. Someone sparked a heated discussion last year on travelwriters.com, a networking site, by posting, "I'm worried that if I encourage people to travel, they may be adding to a problem that will ultimately cause misery all over the globe."
That's misguided, says Kelsey Timmerman, a 28-year-old Muncie, Ind., scuba-diving instructor and author. If he'd never been to the Great Barrier Reef, he wouldn't care as much that it is dying from rising ocean temperatures. Decisions he makes as a consumer and a voter offset emissions resulting from his travels, says Mr. Timmerman, who visited Bangladesh, Cambodia and China last year. "Travel helps us care more about our world."
Jamie Henn, 23, who graduated from college last spring, has promised himself he'll stop flying. He studied in northern India and has been to Africa and Europe several times. But after he moves to San Francisco this winter -- driving with friends in a hybrid car -- Mr. Henn says he plans to stay put. His parents in Boston are "begrudgingly" supporting his decision, although his mother says she plans to visit. "Maybe I'll find a friend to carpool out with my mom," he says.
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The Cal Poly baseball team swept the 9th ranked UC Santa Barbara Gauchos over the weekend. A key moment occurred in the 7th inning yesterday with a Gaucho on third base and the Mustangs needing an out. Lee put Spencer Howard of Templeton on the mound and he struck out the hitter. Howard is a red-shirt freshman from Templeton. The …Read More »
Water Issues Facing City of SLO
A staff presentation last night on water issues facing the City of San Luis Obispo. The workshop intended to encourage more conservation in the City of San Luis Obispo and illuminate people about the state of the water situation in the city. About 150 people turned out for the event at the Ludwig Center in San Luis, including councilman Dan …Read More »
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The 10th Annual Earth Day Food and Wine Festival is tomorrow (Saturday) at Castoro Cellars in Paso Robles. The 36th Annual Earth Day Celebration is Sunday at Rancho El Chorro across Highway One from Cuesta College.Read More »
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Another forum for candidates vying to fill Lois Capps seat in the 24th Congressional District. The district covers San Luis Obispo and Santa Barbara counties and part of Ventura County. All nine candidates debated at Cuesta College in San Luis last night. They include four Democrats, three Republicans and two independents. According to recent polls, the front runners are Democrat …Read More »
Mom and Apple Pie Contest Tomorrow in SLO
The 32nd Annual Mom and Apple Pie Contest kicks off tomorrow in San Luis Obispo. The contest is open to all mothers in San Luis Obispo and northern Santa Barbara counties. The preliminary contest tomorrow is at noon at Idler's Home Store off Tank Farm Road in San Luis Obispo. Eligible women may enter on traditional double-crust apple pie at …Read More »
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The Cal Poly baseball team opens a key home series against #11 UC Santa Barbara. The Mustangs and the Gauchos play at six tonight and tomorrow night at Cal Poly. Sunday afternoon as well. High school baseball, Santa Maria at Morro Bay at 4 Mission Prep at St Joseph at 4:30 Paso Robles at Atascadero at 4:30 Arroyo Grande at …Read More »
Power Pole Brought Down in Car Crash
A car crash brought down a power pole on Highway 41 and closed it in both directions between Morro Bay and Atascadero last night. The crash occurred around 8:45. It left a live power line draped across the road. PG&E crews responded to deactivate the line. The CHP reports a woman from Atascadero crashed into the power pole. No other …Read More »
Bret Landen Pleads No Contest to Two Felony Charges
18-year-old Bret Landen of Atascadero pleads no contest to two felonies in connection to his strange threatening messages at San Gabriel Elementary School back in September. The threats, toxic materials and riddles left at the school forced closure of the campus for two weeks. He faces one year in the county jail, plus probation. Landen will begin his jail term …Read More »
Morro Bay Man Convicted of Felony Possession of Heroin
A Morro Bay man convicted yesterday of felony possession of heroin. Prosecutors believe he intended to sell the heroin. 54-year-old Steven York was found guilty of similar charges back in 2007 and 2013. District attorney Dan Dow says. "because heroin is killing our youth, our office is committed to vigorously prosecuting any dealer who is caught selling heroin or other …Read More »


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The latest version of Twitter Tools seems to be having problems maintaining the "Notify Twitter" checkbox on new posts, especially scheduled posts.
A scheduled post goes live but does not tweet. When I check the post in the admin, the checkbox is turned off.
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Others are experiencing this problem too per the discussion on Alex's post. I'm posting here since that's what Alex says to do. :)


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Re: Who Do You Rate Higher: Jack Dempsey or Jack Johnson ??
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For the record. Is it your contention that Johnson was prime when he lost to Klondike,Choynski,Hart ,and Griffin?
Ok, I'll play along:
As a group, I would say Choynski, Hart, Klondike, and Griffin were better than most of the fighters Johnson gave title matches to, save perhaps Willard who KO'd Johnson. To answer you question, I think you have to examine wether or not Johnson's opponents were in their primes too.
1 ) I'm not sure when Klondike's prime was. His first listed match was 1898, and he Ko'd Johnson in 1899. I would say based on that, Klondike was far more of a novice than Johnson was, though in 1899. Johnson's first listed fight was 1894. You could say Johnson lacked some top level experience going into this match. Klondike beat Johnson in match for the colored title, when Johnson apparently quit like a dog without injury, and failed to come out next round.
2 ) Choynski produced a ten count. The fight took place in Johnson's home town, and by 1901, Choysnki's best days were behind him when the fight took place. For the record, Johnson first recorded match was in 1894. He had 24+ recorded matches before he was sparked in 3 rounds vs. Choynski, so calling Johnson a green novice is a bit of a stretch.
Both Klondike and Choynski had some power. Chins do not improve greatly as a career progresses. Post 1905-1915 did Johnson give a title shot to 175+ pound fighter in his prime or near prime with skills and power? I think not.
3 ) Griffin best days were most certainly behind him in 1901, yet he defeated Johnson, and drew with him.
4) The Hart match in 1905 was a high stakes, elimination match, with the winner being billed for a title shot with Jeffries. Johnson did very little in the 2nd half of the fight, and lost it. Neither guy was pre or post prime here.
Summary: Klondike was green. Choysnki past his best. Griffin way outside of his prime. Hart was in his prime.
And finally, if you think Johnson wasn't in his prime until post 1905 that is your opinion. Just admit Johnson would not likely to defeat Jeffries when Jeffries was champion from 1899-1905.
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Your planning sounds very effective but you have to consider some points before the move. This strategy includes, income from the rental property (rent=800) from the very first month, but the real scenario is, there is no guarantee that you will get a tenant on time which pays all the bills on time. Considering the points, are you ready to bear the risk of paying the mortgage or bills from your core income. Think about it!
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Prison for Animal Crush Videos
Tell USDA to Stop Poisoning Animals
$45,000 for Murdered White Buffalo
Release Wildlife Damage Caused by BP Oil Spill
Preserve Caribou Habitat in Alaska
Re-establish Beaver Popultations
Stop Funding Wildlife Services
Sanctuary for Toronto Zoo Elephants
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Stop Marmoset Experiments
Vote NO on Sportsmen's Hertitage Act
Stop Abuse at Elephant Orphanage
No Tax Dollars for Idaho Ariel Wolf Hunting
Protect the Condor from Lead Ammunition
Stop Polar Bear Trophy Imports to U.S.
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Justice for Zoo Giraffes Left Dead
Ban Hound Hunting in California
Ban Force Feeding Ducks (Foie Gras) in New York
ProhibitTrade of Black Bear Organs in All States
Stop Bird Killing Bill
Stop Testing Nicotine on Animals
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Stop Killing Coyotes in Southern California
Stop Exporting Bobcat Skins
Vote NO on Sea Otter Fur Trade
Stop the Namibia Fur Seal Slaughter
Protect the Leatherback Sea Turtle
Save the Northern Spotted Owl
Stop Importing Endangered Reptiles for Skins
Halt Wolf Trapping near Denali Park
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Signed Stop Using Snow leopard in Chinese Medicine just now as I was just telling Lynn G that our bears in Canada are often killed for their body parts in Chinese Medicine. Can't spend anymore time on Care 2 today. There's just sooooo much to do on Care 2 - mind boggling. Thanks Nyack for this great group.
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Signed Ban S. African Parrot Trade
" Stop Marine Park in Taija, Japan
" Support bill to End Canadian Seal Hunt - written by yourself. I did some net research into this Senate Private Member's bill and the consensus seems to be that it won't pass, but it's the 3rd time Harb has tried to get this bill accepted for debate because finally a BC senator stepped up to second it. I read though that even he is not against the Seal hunt. The important aspect is, it seems to me, that it will finally be debated in the Senate. I cannot find a date at which this debate is to happen. I saw a lot of comments against this bill from Newfoundland and Labrador people on a CBC website, and other sites, but I also found this on a blog called Atlantic Canadian Musings: ( link to blog below)
Senator Harb's bill calls for an end to the commercial seal hunt and compensation to be given to sealers. The bill does not target or affect the Inuit subsistence hunt which is also exempt from the EU trade ban on seal products.
Reaction to this momentous event has been swift. Humane Society International/Canada issued the following statement:
Senator Harb's bill is timely and would effectively end the commercial seal slaughter in Canada. HSI/Canada further proposes that any legislation to end the seal slaughter be paired with a federal sealing industry buyout. This plan would involve the federal government ending the commercial seal slaughter, providing immediate compensation to sealers and investing in economic alternatives in the communities involved. Polling shows half of sealers holding an opinion are already in support of this plan and the overwhelming majority of Canadians are willing to fund it. Given sealers and other Canadians are willing to move beyond commercial sealing, it is time our government acted."
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International Fund for Animal Welfare issued the following statement:
Senator Harb's bill is supported by public opinion polls that repeatedly show the majority of Canadians would like to see an end to the commercial seal hunt. At the very least, the Canadian government should debate this issue on behalf of those citizens. It's time.
When asked about the chances of the bill ultimately being passed, Senator Harb replied, "I'm a realist. I do believe the government and the Senate will not allow me to get it through. But I want to get the discussion going, whether they like it or not. That's democracy." Whether or not this bill is ultimately successful, there is no doubt in anyone's mind this marks a turning point in Canada. As the Chronicle Herald pointed out: "But the bill is another hint that the days of unwavering loyalty to the seal hunt are coming to an end."
This blog can be found at:http://antisealingcoalition.ca/blog/2012/historic-day-in-ottawa-senate-to-debate-end-to-commercial-seal-hunt/
The Canadian Seal hunt is such a big topic I just thought you might be interested to see this.
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Saturday with Brian Dowling Saturday 23 November 2013
Saturday with Brian Dowling questions agendas, dissects the week gone by, and debates the likely issues of the week to come.
This afternoon Brian is joined by Ken Murphy Director of The Law Society of Ireland , Mick Clifford Irish Examiner journalist, Padraig Mac Lochlainn Sinn Fein TD Donegal North East, Charlie Flanagan Fine Gael TD Laois Offaly, Noeleen Blackwell Executive Director of FLAC and Donal Donovan from the Fiscal Advisory Council, to discuss the new legal services bill, penalty points and salary top ups.
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I'm developing a WordPress site right now with a highly customized login/registration system. Mostly, I've been successful in accomplishing this through a combination of plugins, hacks and, well, just plain moving things around. I've moved validation to the front end via jQuery, for the most part. But one thing has got me: When, say, users enter the wrong username/password combination, they get redirected to wp-login.php. That's not what I want -- I want an inline error message to appear under the form. But I haven't been able to find a plugin or any other code that will do that for me, despite much effort.
Any ideas? In a nutshell, all I'm really doing is copying the standard WordPress login and registration code and pasting it on a new page (which also includes other content; that's why I can't just skin them). There are other things at work, too -- extra fields and whatnot -- but those shouldn't be too important in this context.


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Banksy 'love Is In The Air' Limited, Signed Print With Certifice Of Authenticity
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A very rare opportunity to purchase a signed original print from 2003 of Banksy's 'Love Is In The Air'. This is probably the most famous of all Banksy's works and is the image that graced the cover of the 2005 Banksy book 'Wall And Piece'. Check here for more details - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banksy The print is 50cm x 70cm and is limited to a run of 500. Only the lowest numbers of this edition were signed. The number of this print is between 25 - 30. I cannot publicly disclose which exact number it is for fear of forgeries but will disclose to the winning buyer immediately on payment.The print comes with full, signed and stamped Certificate of Authenticity from Pictures on Walls (http://www.picturesonwalls.com) who were the original accredited outlet for Banksy's prints and where the print was originally purchased from in 2003. The certificate of authenticity (pictured) includes a torn section of Banksy's famous 'Diana' £10 notes. I am the original and only owner of this print and it has hung proudly on our wall for a decade now. Unfortunately the time has come to sell it to another good home.It is in 100% mint condition and has been framed and kept away from direct sunlight since its original purchase date in 2003. The colours are as vibrant as the day it was purchased.The print will come unframed and will be sent securely by courier in a solid art tube. Collection also possible (London).
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Hannah Arendt and The Phenomenon of Life
On a recent trip to the Hannah Arendt Collection housed in Bard College's Stevenson Library, we came across this copy of The Phenomenon of Life: Toward a Philosophical Biology, a work of phenomenology and existentialism in which Hans Jonas argues that all biological facts support the prefiguring of the human mind throughout all organic existence:
Hannah Arendt made a number of annotations to her copy of this classic. For example, on page 148 in the section entitled "The Nobility of the Spirit," Arendt underlined three separate passages. These read as follows:
- "thus touch is the sense in which the original encounter with reality as reality takes place."
- "touch is the true test of reality..."
- "reality is disclosed in the same act and as one with the disclosure of my own reality..."
Off of this third marginalia, she draws a curving line to the top margin of the page, in the space of which she writes:
How about touching myself? Would it [unintelligible] me of the reality of my hands?
On the opposite page, Hannah Arendt underlines three passages, as well. The first reads as follows:
"Thus essence becomes separable from existence and therewith theory possible. It is but the basic freedom of vision...which are carried further in conceptual thought...."
The second passage observes that "causality is not a visual datum," whereas the final passage underlined on these two pages states,
"Vision, however, is not the primary but the most sublime case of sense perception...."
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Amor Mundi 3/22/15
Hannah Arendt considered calling her magnum opus Amor Mundi: Love of the World. Instead, she settled upon The Human Condition. What is most difficult, Arendt writes, is to love the world as it is, with all the evil and suffering in it. And yet she came to do just that. Loving the world means neither uncritical acceptance nor contemptuous rejection. Above all it means the unwavering facing up to and comprehension of that which is.
Every Sunday, The Hannah Arendt Center Amor Mundi Weekly Newsletter will offer our favorite essays and blog posts from around the web. These essays will help you comprehend the world. And learn to love it.
Judith Shulevitz skewers the increasing prevalence of safe spaces on college campuses. She talks of a Brown student who, "alarmed" that a speaker was coming to campus to debate and criticize the term "rape culture," went to the administration and had them organize a competing lecture affirming rape culture and safe spaces "available for anyone who found the debate too upsetting." "The safe space, Ms. Byron explained, was intended to give people who might find comments 'troubling' or 'triggering,' a place to recuperate. The room was equipped with cookies, coloring books, bubbles, Play-Doh, calming music, pillows, blankets and a video of frolicking puppies, as well as students and staff members trained to deal with trauma. Emma Hall, a junior, rape survivor and 'sexual assault peer educator' who helped set up the room and worked in it during the debate, estimates that a couple of dozen people used it. At one point, she went to the lecture hall--it was packed--but after a while, she had to return to the safe space. 'I was feeling bombarded by a lot of viewpoints that really go against my dearly and closely held beliefs,' Ms. Hall said. Safe spaces are an expression of the conviction, increasingly prevalent among college students, that their schools should keep them from being 'bombarded' by discomfiting or distressing viewpoints. Think of the safe space as the live-action version of the better-known trigger warning, a notice put on top of a syllabus or an assigned reading to alert students to the presence of potentially disturbing material." Shulevitz investigates how "the quasi-medicalized terminology of trauma" is mobilized by student activists to force university administrators to censor speech and shut down debate. Colleges are not intended to be safe spaces but spaces of tumult and inspiration. It is distressing how universities have rolled over and adopted safe spaces, trigger warnings, and speech codes in an effort to palliate young people who have been misled regarding the strictures of the life of the mind. When Hannah Arendt wrote "there are no dangerous thoughts. Thinking itself is dangerous," she expressed a simple point: Thinking risks destroying and upending your common sense and your most cherished beliefs. All thinking risks negating one's identity and values. Which is why thinking harbors within itself the danger of nihilism. But the only thing more dangerous than thinking, Arendt insisted, was thoughtlessness. While thoughtlessness may appear safe, its long-term consequences are the uncritical acceptance of ideologies. Only the dangerous and difficult work of thinking, Arendt believed, might be able to prevent the rise of thoughtless horrors like totalitarianism. It is time we made our colleges and universities once again safe for dangerous thoughts.
Amichai Magen has a long and intense account of the dangers posed by the rise of Salafist Jihad to Europe. He insists that we stare the threat in the eye, which means first understanding it. "This violent utopianism inspires Salafist jihadism's vision of conflict, society, and politics. To their mind, the Ummah (or 'community of believers') is in a state of total war with the West, 'the Jews', and other non-believers, including apostate Arab regimes and Shia Muslims. This war not only justifies acts of extreme violence against those who have conspired to 'suppress the true faith'--beheadings, crucifixions, mass executions and rape--but involves the rejection of all forms of man-made law, democracy, and the Westphalian international system. Indeed, Salafist jihadism is contesting the essential values and institutions of modern liberal societies in a manner not experienced by the West since the defeat of Nazism." Salafism, writes Magen, is an ideology as was Nazism, one that has both the strengths and weaknesses of all ideologies. One weakness of ideological movements is that their members are not psychopaths: "Reducing terrorist motivation involves both short-term deployment of sticks and carrots and deeper, societal counter-radicalisation efforts. Although their values and conduct are abhorrent, terrorists are rarely psychopaths. Most terrorists calculate their action based on the dual logics of consequentialism and appropriateness. Accordingly, the motivation of would-be perpetrators can be greatly reduced where intelligence makes the likelihood of early detection high, the chances of escaping an attack low, legal sanctions against involvement in terrorist activity of any kind tough and, at the same time, the benefits of lawful citizenship and integration into society are visible and attractive. The best way to deal with a terrorist threat is to prevent its emergence or spread. Understanding processes of radicalisation and developing effective de-radicalisation policies ought therefore to be at the heart of European-Israeli dialogue about prevention of Islamist political violence. Studies of Islamic groups in Europe are somewhat encouraging in this area, finding that although young Muslim men in many European communities often feel frustration and humiliation they have to be actively radicalised by others to cross the line into terrorist activity. Contrary to popular myths about spontaneous internet-based radicalisation of lonely and unhinged individuals, the process of radicalisation is almost always a social one. Peer-pressure, systematic indoctrination, separation from general society and repetitive training--which can more readily occur in prisons, secluded religious centres, remote training camps, or in fighting abroad--are typically preconditions for getting vulnerable recruits to cross the line into terrorist activity."
Sue Halpern wonders after our future in the age of technological unemployment: "There are physical robots like Jibo and the machines that assemble our cars, and there are virtual robots, which are the algorithms that undergird the computers that perform countless daily tasks, from driving those cars, to Google searches, to online banking. Both are avatars of automation, and both are altering the nature of work, taking on not only repetitive physical jobs, but intellectual and heretofore exclusively human ones as well. And while both are defining features of what has been called 'the second machine age,' what really distinguishes this moment is the speed at which technology is changing and changing society with it. If the 'calamity prophets' are finally right, and this time the machines really will win out, this is why. It's not just that computers seem to be infiltrating every aspect of our lives, it's that they have infiltrated them and are infiltrating them with breathless rapidity. It's not just that life seems to have sped up, it's that it has. And that speed, and that infiltration, appear to have a life of their own." Nearly 70 years ago, Hannah Arendt wrote that the second most threatening event of the modern age was the "advent of automation." Automation, she predicted "will empty the factories and liberate man-kind from its oldest and most natural burden, the burden of laboring and the bondage to necessity." The danger of automation, she argued, was that it threatens to realize a long-held dream of humanity: to free ourselves from labor itself. The problem, in Arendt's telling, is that we are at the precipice of freeing ourselves from labor at the very moment when we value labor above all else; the old "higher and more meaningful activities"--religion, family, nobility, tradition, public service, and war--for which freedom from labor might be won have been lost. The absence of meaningful life without a job is why the prospect that automation might actually deliver us from labor is so terrifying.
Greg Beato explores the exploding market for edutainment and the "academization of leisure." "What does it mean when people who can afford to spend their time however they please hunker down in front of their flat screens to watch theoretical physicists or experts on other subjects lecture for hours? Entertainment values have come to dominate many aspects of life, but another trend has been playing out, too. Call it the academization of leisure. It can be found in the live-streaming TED Talks lectures, the Great Courses, learning vacations, podcasts, science centers, brain-training games and retirement communities like Lasell Village in Newton, Mass., whose residents must complete 'a minimum of 450 hours of learning and fitness activity each calendar year,' its website says." Edutainment has long had negative connotations, Beato writes, some of which were described by Neil Postman in his 1985 book, Amusing Ourselves to Death. "In it, [Postman] argued that culture's primary mode of discourse was shifting from print to TV, and that as a result, 'politics, religion, news, athletics, education and commerce' had all been 'transformed into congenial adjuncts of show business.'" For Beato, the new paradigm moves beyond mere amusement: "In 'Amusing Ourselves to Death,' Mr. Postman lamented that a former Hollywood actor could be president. Now, former presidents are replacing professional entertainers as the top-billed stars on cruise ship vacations. Lech Walesa, former president of Poland, will visit with Smithsonian Journeys participants in Gdansk this summer. César Gaviria, former president of Colombia, will be on hand on a National Geographic Expeditions cruise off South America this fall. While lunching with celebrity politicians on luxury cruises may seem frivolous, what has actually happened is that a purely recreational activity has acquired new intellectual ambition. 'There's an increasing demand for meaningful experiences,' says Lynn Cutter, National Geographic's executive vice president for travel and licensing. 'When people have choices on how to spend their money, they're valuing experiences more than material things.'"
Walter Russell Mead offers some plain analysis of the impact of Benjamin Netanyahu's win for the future of U.S.-Israeli relations. Netanyahu's campaign comment that he rejects the two-state solution threatens to "have a chilling effect on U.S.-Israel relations that will outlast President Obama's time in the White House. It will also deepen Israel's international isolation and put useful weapons into the eager hands of Israel's enemies in Europe and elsewhere.... The belief that every people on Planet Earth has the right of self-determination is deeply engrained in American political and moral culture. Historically, supporters of Israel benefitted from this widespread American belief. That conviction cannot be turned on and off; support for the goal of a Palestinian state is a permanent feature of American politics. Americans are, I think, prepared to show some understanding both for the difficulties of Israel's position and the problems caused by the deep structural issues within the Palestinian movement, but it would be extremely difficult to build a long term U.S.-Israeli relationship on the basis of the rejection of Palestinian national rights. There is a minority of Americans, perhaps on the order of a quarter, whose support for Israel is strong enough (or theologically grounded in certain evangelical readings of Scripture) to embrace an Israel that sets itself openly against the goal of a Palestinian state. Other Americans are so worried about terrorism and radical Islam that they are willing to support Israel no matter what stand the Jewish state takes or doesn't take on the Palestinian question. But there are enough Americans (and, additionally, enough American Jews) whose support for Jewish self-determination in Israel is linked to support for Palestinian self-determination in a Palestinian state that U.S.-Israeli relations will be significantly and progressively harmed if Israel's leaders choose to close the door on Palestinian statehood."
Frank Cottrell Boyce remembers fantasy satirist Terry Pratchett, who died last week after an illness: "We live in a society whose culture is driven by fear of death. We adore youth. We pay for science that extends life rather than enriches it. In his life and in his work, Death--'not cruel, just terribly terribly good at his job'--was the final and finest target of Pratchett's satire. In Mort--Pratchett's most popular novel--Death takes on an apprentice so he can have some time to himself. As he learns to appreciate life, so the apprentice comes to appreciate Death.... This twist is at the heart of Pratchett. In an age of fundamentalisms, he embraced doubt, the possibility that a stupid belief might have something going for it, whereas an obvious and rational truth might get you nowhere. I hope that that is the twist he is enjoying today--that having dismissed all hope of an afterlife, he is sitting on a cloud with Jonathan Swift and Swift is saying: 'By Jesus, Terry, I wish I'd written Truckers.'"
Rod Dreher worries that we've abandoned the humanities because we've lost the light: "But I think it's also true that we as a society have lost the sense that within the study of art, literature, and the humanities, there are things vital to shaping our souls, and to discovering and taking into ourselves what it means to be fully human. That Homer, Dante, Milton, Cervantes, Michelangelo, and all these great men saw more deeply into the human experience than almost any other, and came back to tell us what they learned, and to help us see what they saw. In the end, I think it comes down to a deadening of the soul among our people--that is, a sense that there is no need to learn or to experience anything beyond what we desire to learn and experience, because our desires are self-justifying, and do not need cultivation."
Film Screening, A Snake Gives Birth to a Snake and Director's Discussion by Michael Lessac
Synopsis: A diverse group of South African actors tours the war-torn regions of Northern Ireland, Rwanda, and the former Yugoslavia to share their country's experiment with reconciliation. As they ignite a dialogue among people with raw memories of atrocity, the actors find they must once again confront their homeland's violent past, and question their own capacity for healing and forgiveness.
Tuesday, March 24, 2015
Weis Cinema, Campus Center, 6:30 pm
HAC Virtual Reading Group - Session #6
HAC members at all levels are eligible to participate in a monthly reading group led online via a telecommunication website by Roger Berkowitz, Director of the Hannah Arendt Center.
For questions and to enroll in our virtual reading group, please email David Bisson, our Media Coordinator, at firstname.lastname@example.com.
Friday, April 3, 2015
Bluejeans.com, 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Property and Freedom: Is Access to Legal Title and Assets the Path to Overcoming Poverty and Promoting Freedom in South Africa?
A one-day conference sponsored by the Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities at Bard College, the Human Rights Project, and the Center for Civic Engagement, with support from the Ford Foundation, The Brenthurst Foundation, and Rift Valley Institute.
Free and open to the public!
Monday, April 6, 2015
Bard College Campus Center, Weis Cinema, 10:00 am - 7:00 pm
Thursday and Friday, October 15 and 16, 2015
The Hannah Arendt Center's eighth annual fall conference, "Privacy: Why Does It Matter?," will be held this year on Thursday and Friday, October 15-16, 2015! We'll see you there!
This week on the Blog, Lance Strate discusses how Arendt teaches us about the mutability of privacy in the Quote of the Week. American botanist Luther Burbank provides this week's Thoughts on Thinking. And we appreciate the annotations Arendt made to her copy of "The Age of the Democratic Revolution" in our Library feature.
Dworkin's Law & Justice
Ronald Dworkin died yesterday, Thursday. He was 81.
For much of my early career as someone engaged in the question of justice, Ronald Dworkin was one of my imaginary antagonists. Reading Dworkin was eternally frustrating. I was consumed with the inevitable temptation to take on Dworkin's unwavering apologies for legal power. Dworkin was the great defender of the morality of the state, an idea that I had a hard time accepting. He was an advocate for legitimacy of legal rule, which often seemed ungrounded and illegitimate. Above all, his magnum opus, Law's Empire, is a celebration of the imperial grandeur of law, when law often seemed to my youthful and often angry eye to be rather the embodiment of power, interest, and money.
For Dworkin, 'we'—lawyers, judges, and philosophers of Law's Empire—are engaged in the utopian project of purifying law. And law, in turn, purifies us. In being "subjects of law's empire, liegemen to its methods and ideals," we bridle our action and reasoning with the constraints of legal thinking. What law requires, above all, is that our actions be made consistent with the foundational moral principles embodied in and by the community. Interpreted correctly—that is, observing the integrity of the moral world—law leads to decisions that enrich a "narrative story" of who we are. It is a story that, for Dworkin, makes our practices and institutions "the best they can be."
Law in Dworkin's writing embodies a "flourishing legal system" and carries with itself the possibility of securing the utopian and political ideals of fairness, justice, and procedural due process. Lawyers, judges, and especially legal philosophers, are the people responsible for dreaming utopian dreams—dreams "already latent in the present law"—and working to bring about those dreams through law and the legal system. Law, therefore, cannot simply be conventional and self-referential; it must hold within it the promise for progressive societal change. Left, utopian politics, Dworkin states, is law. Or, in other words, law is the center of all political and ethical progress in modern civilized states.
It is not hard to point out inconsistencies and tensions in Dworkin's philo-legalism. Dworkin's many critics reveled in pointing to law's promises of equality broken and its ideal of justice contradicted. The law does not always act for good. But that means that those who would defend law's empire have a choice. They can defend the law pragmatically and politically—arguing that law is simply a tool in the larger political struggle for justice. Or they can seek to weave the entirety of the law—good and bad—into an overarching moral universe—imagining law as an ideal that can and should in its nature propel us fitfully toward a more just world. Dworkin took the latter approach. The more I saw the impossibility of his project, the greater became my respect for the nobility and grandeur of his effort.
Much of Dworkin's academic work is full of abstract theory. Perhaps his most enduring contribution, however, is a single metaphor. Law, Dworkin writes, is like a chain novel. And judges, he argues, are "authors as well as critics" who participate in the collaborative writing of the novel that is the law. The chain novel—in which "a group of novelists writes seriatim"—unfolds chapter by chapter, each written by a different author. Each author is required both to fit her interpretation to what has come before—i.e. to make an interpretive judgment about the text under the assumption that it was written by a single author—and to judge which of the possible interpretations makes the work in progress the best it can be. The judgment involves a substantive aesthetic choice; Dworkin insists that this choice is not arbitrary. It is constrained by the structure, plot, and style of the text and authors that have come before.
Dworkin's claim is that in interpreting and authoring the chain novel, each successive author is not limited to the dichotomous choice between finding the meaning in the text and inventing the meaning of the text. Instead, "each novelist aims to make a single novel." To do so is not simple and will involve a multifaceted engagement with the text and the principles of what has come before. The author must "find layers and currents of meaning rather than a single, exhaustive theme." And yet, he "cannot adopt any interpretation, however complex." Each new interpretation and creation must make the entirety of the chain novel fit together in the best way possible.
Similarly, each judge who decides a case must judge with what Dworkin calls integrity. This means that every judge must find in what has come before the "principle" that "is instinct in law." When a judge does this, "he reports not a simple-minded claim about the motives of past statesmen, a claim a wise cynic can easily refute, but an interpretive proposal: that the principle both fits and justifies some complex part of legal practice, that it provides an attractive way to see, in the structure of that practice, the consistency of principle integrity requires." Interpretive practice requires an author to distinguish between continuing the novel and beginning it anew. Only judgments that continue the law's story are judgments with integrity.
Dworkin's analogy of law to a chain novel can be read, sympathetically, as saying: look, we have this community with these values and within it neutral judgments based on laws are impossible. If we want law, we better figure out a way to make those judgments possible or we are back to justifying law as the rule of those with power. Law as integrity is such a way. You external skeptics can go around saying our community is contingent and constructed but sooner or later you are going to have to choose between nihilsim and ethical engagement.
What Dworkin yearned for was a theory of interpretation that could assimilate the entirety of the past into a common and clear narrative of the present. His model judge, Hercules, was the judge whose power of interpretation was so fecund as to master the mass of judgments, facts, and decisions into a single, best, and just narrative.
That such a herculean task is not possible—and that defending such a stance could serve as a smoke screen for the interests and power behind the law—was something Dworkin refused to concede.
In the last decade Dworkin turned from abstract legal philosophy to popular writing, which often appeared in the New York Review of Books. His writing about current issues and cases was clear, moral, and passionate—if also quite predictable. Somehow, Dworkin always found that judging with integrity required decisions in accord with a fundamentally mainstream-left-of-center point of view.
Whatever his limits, Dworkin stood for the undying idea that law—whatever its shortcomings—should aspire to do justice. For this reason alone, if nothing else, we should celebrate him.
The best obituaries so far are found in The Guardian and The New York Times. But better yet, open up your old volume of Law's Empire. And if you don't have it handy, here is a version you can navigate on the web.


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On my site http://www.missshoe.dk I have the problem that for some reason it forces visitors to create an account or login to proceed to checkout. I've turned this OFF in WooCommerce settings and it worked before.
I am able to avoid this by turning off "Allow registration on the checkout page" for now, but really need this to work.
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Included in the restructuring plan Chrysler announced in February were plans for new vehicles, many of which would be joint ventures with Fiat. Unlike GM, Chrysler has made no mention of what current products it will shed. The models Chrysler has announced future plans for include a 2011 Jeep Grand Cherokee, 2011 Chrysler 300, Dodge Charger and, yes, a new Dodge Durango full-size SUV.
That's all we know. But what might a Chrysler-Fiat lineup look like? All we can do is speculate, and that we have. What follows are our best guesses, using the restructuring plan's timetable and our knowledge of products that are underperforming now.
The Chrysler brand has the most issues and the fewest new products. It would likely get rid of the PT Cruiser in favor of a compact car or hatchback borrowed from Fiat, like the Bravo we mentioned earlier this week. The 300 will get redesigned as a 2011 model, but the underperforming Sebring could be shelved until the two companies figure out a substitute. Fiat doesn't have a product that fits American midsize tastes to compete with the Toyota Camry and Honda Accord. However, Fiat could provide efficient powertrains for a Chrysler-designed sedan; the company already had a new midsize sedan slated for 2012 as part of its restructuring plan.
Dodge still sells a lot of cars and trucks, especially the Ram, which was redesigned last year. Expect any compact sedan from Fiat to also be picked up by Dodge to replace the poorly performing Caliber. An electric sports car has also been announced as a future Dodge product for 2010, though we're unsure how that makes sense in a time of economic distress. We fully expect the Dodge Nitro to be officially shelved.
Jeep is probably best able to shed a few lackluster products and revamp a few that need it, with or without Fiat's help. Look to see the current Liberty disappear like the Nitro, leaving a slimmer Jeep.


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There's a new gameplay trailer doing the rounds for Sonic the Hedgehog 4: Episode II, showing the iconic blue streak blazing a trailer through some pretty diverse stages with his long-time buddy, Miles 'Tails' Prower in tow, and you can watch it right here.
It all looks decidedly more varied than Sonic the Hedgehog 4: Episode I, with snowy levels recalling the Ice Cap Zone from Sonic the Hedgehog 3, a fairground-style carnival level with a battle against Metal Sonic and what looks to be a return to the Aquatic Ruin of Sonic 2.
You'll also seemingly be able to curl up with Tails for a double spin attack, as shown at the end of the new gameplay video, which comes courtesy of Gamespot's YouTube channel. Check out the Sonic the Hedgehog 4: Episode II action below, then look out for the Sonic sequel on XBLA this spring.


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the first two albums are the best by far, and the third, Conquerors of Armageddon is good as well. unfortunatel y , pandora doesn't have any of them... lol
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Hey everyone this game is only 5 dollars brand new at target!:) I'm not sure if this is for every target, but I went to 3 different ones and they all have the same price. I live in Georgia btw. Also Target is only in America I think so sorry other people around the world.:(
Yeh, I doubt my local Target would have this game for $5. Targets here in Australia pretty much suck for games :p
How'd I miss that deal...for $5, I might be willing to grab this one. ;)
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Pac-12 preview: Can the Ducks fly past Stanford in the North?
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Editor's note: This is the seventh and final segment in a series previewing the Pac-12 football season.
HOLLYWOOD, Calif. — Oregon coach Mark Helfrich doesn't mind that his school is tabbed as the team to beat. The Ducks not only topped the preseason media poll as the choice to win the Pac-12 North Division, they're also considered the favorites to prevail in the conference championship game.
"Obviously we've been asked a lot about the media poll that took place and that is a good thing," Helfrich said. "It's a good thing for the media and our fans and for everybody to talk about."
Oregon was in a similar situation a year ago and things didn't work out. The Ducks wound up dropping games at Stanford (26-20) and Arizona (42-16), finishing second to the eventual Pac-12 champion Cardinal in the division.
"Looking back to last year, it's a great thing for our players to kind of slap ourselves in the face and go back to process, go back to culture," Helfrich said.
Stanford coach David Shaw, meanwhile, isn't worrying about the preseason predictions.
"All that stuff will bear itself out," he said.
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OREGON DUCKS: The Ducks are loaded once again. Junior Marcus Mariota is a candidate for every national quarterback award and runs the show for an explosive offense. On defense, senior linebacker Derrick Malone is back after leading the team with 105 tackles last season.
Question is, does Oregon have what it takes to make it to the new college football playoff system?
2013 record: 11-2, 7-2 (T-1st, North)
2014 Pac-12 media poll: 1st, North
Returning starters: 15 (9 offense, 5 defense, 1 kicker/punter)
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Aug. 30 — SOUTH DAKOTA
Sept. 6 — MICHIGAN STATE
Sept. 13 — WYOMING
Sept. 20 — at Washington State
Oct. 2 — ARIZONA
Oct. 11 — at UCLA
Oct. 18 — WASHINGTON
Oct. 24 — at California
Nov. 1 — STANFORD
Nov. 8 — at Utah
Nov. 22 — COLORADO
Nov. 29 — at Oregon State
STANFORD CARDINAL: The defending Pac-12 champions still have a lot going for them.
"We're talking about a veteran group that's learned to play at a high level," said Shaw, who is 34-6 at the helm.
Senior quarterback Kevin Hogan, senior receiver/return specialist Ty Montgomery and senior safety Jordan Richards are among the standouts.
2013 record: 11-3, 7-2 (T-1st, North)
2014 Pac-12 media poll: 2nd, North
Returning starters: 14 (5 offense, 7 defense, 2 kicker/punter)
Head coach (record): David Shaw (34-6)
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Anna is so happy to be finally graduating. It seems like it's been a long time coming and she's looking forward to her summer vacation. Of course, it won't be a vacation for her as she has to prepare for moving into college all the way across the country from where she lives. She wanted the best school in her field and it was far away. While Anna and her parents weren't really happy that she'd be this far from home they want her to have the best education possible - so they agreed. So, Anna has a lot to do before she goes on to college.
Anna has been waiting a long time for her Graduation Day and is a free-standing cloth doll with a square bottom denim base. She has a long tunic shirt with fringed 3/4 gathered sleeves and square-bottomed denim pants. Her face is embroidered and she has round black button eyes. She is wearing a white satin graduation gown with 3/4 sleeves and is holding a bouquet of silk ribbon flowers with streamers and diploma in her right hand and her commencement exercise booklet in her left hand. She has long flowing red hair framing her face and has a white graduation cap on her head. A string of pearls and ribbon bow decorate her outfit.
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Journal of Material Cycles and Waste Management
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Sunflower stalk, an agricultural waste, as an adsorbent for the removal of lead and cadmium from aqueous solutions
- Mohsen JalaliAffiliated withDepartment of Soil Science, College of Agriculture, Bu-Ali Sina University Email author
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Sunflower residue, an agricultural waste material for the removal of lead (Pb) and cadmium (Cd) from aqueous solutions were investigated using a batch method. Adsorbent was prepared by washing sunflower residue with deionized water until the effluent was colorless. Batch mode experiments were carried out as a function of solution pH, adsorbent dosage, initial concentration and contact time. The results indicated that the adsorbent showed good sorption potential and maximum metal removal was observed at pH 5. Within 150 min of operation about 97 and 87 % of Pb and Cd ions were removed from the solutions, respectively. Lead and Cd sorption curves were well fitted to the modified two-site Langmuir model. The adsorption capacities for Pb and Cd at optimum conditions were 182 and 70 mg g−1, respectively. The kinetics of Pb and Cd adsorption from aqueous solutions were analyzed by fitting the experimental data to a pseudo-second-order kinetic model and the rate constant was found to be 8.42 × 10−2 and 8.95 × 10−2 g mg−1 min−1 for Cd and Pb, respectively. The results revealed that sunflower can adsorb considerable amount of Pb and Cd ions and thus could be an economical method for the removal of Pb and Cd from aqueous systems.
KeywordsSunflower Adsorbent Lead Cadmium Isotherm
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- Sunflower stalk, an agricultural waste, as an adsorbent for the removal of lead and cadmium from aqueous solutions
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Journal of Material Cycles and Waste Management
Volume 15, Issue 4 , pp 548-555
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- 2013-10
- 10.1007/s10163-012-0096-3
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H.R.1038: Public Power Risk Management Act of 2013
|Doug LaMalfa, R-CA
|42 (22 Democrats, 20 Republicans)
|March 11, 2013
|House Agriculture; Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry
Bill Progress
- Bill introduced in the House
- Bill passed in the House
- Bill passed in the Senate
- Bill signed into law
Bill Actions
Last Action
|June 12, 2013
|Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
|June 12, 2013
|On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: (2/3 required): 423 - 0 (Roll no. 219). (View this vote)
|June 12, 2013
|Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
|June 12, 2013
|Considered as unfinished business.
|June 12, 2013
|At the conclusion of debate, the Yeas and Nays were demanded and ordered. Pursuant to the provisions of clause 8, rule XX, the Chair announced that further proceedings on the motion would be postponed.
|June 12, 2013
|Mr. LaMalfa moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill.
|June 12, 2013
|Considered under suspension of the rules.
|June 12, 2013
|DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 1038.
|June 12, 2013
|Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 76.
|June 12, 2013
|Reported by the Committee on Agriculture. H. Rept. 113-107.
|March 19, 2013
|Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
|March 19, 2013
|Ordered to be Reported by Voice Vote.
|March 13, 2013
|Committee Hearings Held.
|March 10, 2013
|Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.