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Those of us who write about foreign policy—or any topic, for that matter—yearn for the day when the president of the United States lauds our work. That is exactly what happened in January to Robert Kagan, a fellow at the Brookings Institution and an adviser to the Romney campaign. Just before delivering the State of the Union address, President Obama told a collection of news anchors that his thinking had been influenced by Kagan's recent cover essay in The New Republic, "Not Fade Away: The Myth of American Decline." It is not often that a president running for reelection praises his chief rival's counselor.
Kagan's article, which draws on his new book, The World America Made, contests the emerging consensus in foreign-policy circles that American primacy is eroding thanks to the shift in global power from the West to the "rising rest." China and other nations are steadily ascending, this view holds, while the United States and its allies are stuck in an economic rut. The long era of Western hegemony seems to be coming to an end.
Kagan begs to differ. He contends that U.S. primacy is undiminished and that Americans, as long as they set their minds to it, are poised to sit atop the global pecking order for the indefinite future. The nation's share of global economic output has been holding steady, and its military strength "remains unmatched." China, India, Brazil, Turkey, and other emerging powers are certainly on the move, Kagan acknowledges, but he maintains that only China will compromise U.S. interests. The others will either align with the United States or remain on the geopolitical sidelines. The biggest threat to U.S. hegemony is that "Americans may convince themselves that decline is indeed inevitable"—and choose to let it happen. Kagan wants to persuade them otherwise and to call forth the political energies needed to ensure that the United States remains "the world's predominant power."
Although it sounds reassuring, Kagan's argument is, broadly, wrong. It's true that economic strength and military superiority will preserve U.S. influence over global affairs for decades to come, but power is undeniably flowing away from the West to developing nations. If history is any guide, the arrival of a world in which power is more widely distributed will mean a new round of jockeying for position and primacy. While it still enjoys the top rank, the United States should do its best to ensure that this transition occurs peacefully and productively. The worst thing to do is to pretend it's not happening.
By overselling the durability of U.S. primacy, Kagan's analysis breeds an illusory strategic complacency: There is no need to debate the management of change when one denies it is taking place. Even worse, the neoconservative brain trust to which Kagan belongs chronically overestimates U.S. power and its ability to shape the world. The last time that like-minded thinkers ran the show—George W. Bush's first term as president—they did much more to undermine American strength than to bolster it. Neoconservative thinking produced an assertive unilateralism that set the rest of the world on edge; led to an unnecessary and debilitating war in Iraq, the main results of which have been sectarian violence and regional instability; and encouraged fiscal profligacy that continues to threaten American solvency. Kagan would have us fritter away the nation's resources in pursuit of a hollow hegemony.
Instead, it is time for thrift: Washington should husband its many strengths, be more sparing with military force, and rely on judicious diplomacy to tame the onset of a multipolar world.
American primacy is not as resilient as Kagan thinks. His most serious error is his argument that Americans need not worry about the ascent of new powers because only Europe and Japan are losing ground to them; the United States is keeping pace. It's true that the U.S. share of global output has held at roughly 25 percent for several decades. It's also the case that "the rise of China, India, and other Asian nations … has so far come almost entirely at the expense of Europe and Japan, which have had a declining share of the global economy." But this is not, as Kagan implies, good news for the United States.
The long run of Western hegemony has been the product of teamwork, not of America acting alone. Through the 19th century and up until World War II, Europe led the effort to spread liberal democracy and capitalism—and to guide Western nations to a position of global dominance. Not until the postwar era did the United States take over stewardship of the West. Pax Britannica set the stage for Pax Americana, and Washington inherited from its European allies a liberal international order that rested on solid commercial and strategic foundations. Moreover, America's many successes during the past 70 years would not have been possible without the power and purpose of Europe and Japan by its side. Whether defeating communism, liberalizing the global economy, combating nuclear proliferation, or delivering humanitarian assistance, Western allies formed a winning coalition that made effective action possible.
The collective strength of the West is, however, on the way down. During the Cold War, the Western allies often accounted for more than two-thirds of global output. Now they represent about half of output—and soon much less. As of 2010, four of the top five economies in the world were still from the developed world (the United States, Japan, Germany, and France). From the developing world, only China made the grade, coming in at No. 2. By 2050, according to Goldman Sachs, four of the top five economies will come from the developing world (China, India, Brazil, and Russia). Only the United States will make the cut; it will rank second, and its economy will be about half the size of China's. Moreover, the turnabout will be rapid: Goldman Sachs predicts that the collective economic output of the top four developing countries—Brazil, China, India, and Russia—will match that of the G-7 countries by 2032.
Kagan is right that the United States will hold its own amid this coming revolution. But he is certainly misguided to think that the relative decline of Europe and Japan won't matter. Their falling fortunes will compromise America's ability to maintain global sway. Indeed, Kagan seems to admit as much when he acknowledges, "Germany and Japan were and are close democratic allies, key pillars of the American world order."
Kagan is ready to gloss over the consequences of the West's diminishing clout because he thinks that most emerging nations will cast their lot with the United States rather than challenge American hegemony. "Only the growth of China's economy," he writes, "can be said to have implications for American power in the future." Kagan is confident that the rise of others—including Brazil, India, and Turkey—"is either irrelevant to America's strategic position or of benefit to it."
But Washington simply can't expect emerging powers other than China to line up on its side. History suggests that a more equal distribution of power will produce fluid alignments, not fixed alliances. During the late 19th century, for example, the onset of a multipolar Europe produced a continually shifting network of pacts. Large and small powers alike jockeyed for advantage in an uncertain environment. Only after imperial Germany's military buildup threatened to overturn the equilibrium did Europe's nations group into the competing alliances that ultimately faced off in World War I. As the 21st century unfolds, China is more likely than other emerging nations to threaten U.S. interests. But unless or until the rest of the world is forced to choose sides, most developing countries will keep their options open, not obediently follow America's lead.
Already, rising powers are showing that they'll chart their own courses. Turkey for decades oriented its statecraft westward, focusing almost exclusively on its ties to the United States and Europe. Now, Ankara looks primarily east and south, seeking to extend its sway throughout the Middle East. Its secular bent has given way to Islamist leanings; its traditionally close connection with Israel is on the rocks; and its relations with Washington, although steadier of late, have never recovered from the rift over the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003.
India is supposedly America's newest strategic partner. Relations have certainly improved since the 2005 agreement on civilian nuclear cooperation, and the two nations see eye to eye on checking China's regional intentions. But on many other fronts, Washington and New Delhi are miles apart. India frets, for instance, that the U.S. will give Pakistan too much sway in Afghanistan. On the most pressing national security issue of the day—Iran's nuclear program—India is more of a hindrance than a help, defying Washington's effort to isolate Iran through tighter economic sanctions. And the two democracies have long been at loggerheads over trade and market access.
Nations such as Turkey and India, which Kagan argues will be either geopolitically irrelevant or solid American supporters, are already pushing back against Washington. And they are doing so while the United States still wields a pronounced preponderance of power. Imagine how things will look when the playing field has truly leveled out.
Despite his faith that rising powers (save China) will be America's friends, Kagan at least recognizes that their ascent could come at America's expense. Will not the "increasing economic clout" of emerging powers, he asks, "cut into American power and influence?" He offers a few reasons not to worry, none of which satisfies.
For starters, he claims that the growing wealth of developing nations need not diminish U.S. sway because "there is no simple correlation between economic growth and international influence." He continues, "Just because a nation is an attractive investment opportunity does not mean it is a rising great power."
True enough. But one of the past's most indelible patterns is that rising nations eventually expect their influence to be commensurate with their power. The proposition that countries such as India and Brazil will sit quietly in the global shadows as they become economic titans flies in the face of history. Other than modern-day Germany and Japan—both of which have punched well below their weight due to constraints imposed on them after World War II—a country's geopolitical aspirations generally rise in step with its economic strength. During the 1890s, for instance, the United States tapped its industrial might to launch a blue-water navy, rapidly turning itself from an international lightweight into a world-class power. China is now in the midst of fashioning geopolitical aspirations that match its economic strength—as are other emerging powers. India is pouring resources into its navy; its fleet expansion includes 20 new warships and two aircraft carriers.
To support his thesis that emerging powers are not rising at the expense of U.S. influence, Kagan also argues that pushback against Washington is nothing new. He then cites numerous occasions, most of them during the Cold War, when adversaries and allies alike resisted U.S. pressure. The upshot is that other nations are no less compliant today than they used to be, and that the sporadic intransigence of emerging powers is par for the course.
But today's global landscape is new. By presuming that current circumstances are comparable with the Cold War, Kagan underestimates the centrifugal forces thwarting American influence. Bipolarity no longer constrains how far nations—even those aligned with Washington—will stray from the fold. And the United States no longer wields the economic influence that it once did. Its transition from creditor to debtor nation and from budget surpluses to massive deficits explains why it has been watching from the sidelines as its partners in Europe flirt with financial meltdown. The G-7, a grouping of like-minded democracies, used to oversee the global economy. Now that role is played by the G-20, a much more unwieldy group in which Washington has considerably less influence. And it is hardly business as usual when foreign countries lay claim to nearly 50 percent of publicly held U.S. government debt, with an emerging rival—China—holding about one-quarter of the American treasuries owned by foreigners.
Yes, U.S. leadership has always faced resistance, but the pushback grows in proportion to the diffusion of global power. China may prove to be America's most formidable competitor, but other emerging nations will also be finding their own orbits, not automatically aligning themselves with Washington. America's most reliable partners in the years ahead will remain its traditional allies, Europe and Japan. That's why it spells trouble for the United States that these allies are on the losing end of the ongoing redistribution of global power.
Finally, Kagan's timing is off. He is right that power shifts over decades, not years. But he underestimates the speed at which substantial changes can occur. He notes, for example, "The United States today is not remotely like Britain circa 1900, when that empire's relative decline began to become apparent. It is more like Britain circa 1870, when the empire was at the height of its power." After two draining wars, an economic crisis, and deepening defense cuts, this assertion seems doubtful. But let's assume that the United States is indeed "at the height of its power," comparable with Britain circa 1870.
In 1870, British hegemony rested on a combination of economic and naval supremacy that looked indefinitely durable. Two short decades later, however, that picture had completely changed. The simultaneous rise of the United States, Germany, and Japan altered the distribution of power, forcing Britain to revamp its grand strategy. Pax Britannica may have technically lasted until World War I, but London saw the writing on the wall much earlier—which is precisely why it was able to adjust its strategy by downsizing imperial commitments and countering Germany's rise.
In 1896, Britain began courting the United States and soon backed down on a number of disputes in order to advance Anglo-American amity. The British adopted a similar approach in the Pacific, fashioning a naval alliance with Japan in 1902. In both cases, London used diplomacy to clear the way for retrenchment—and it worked. Rapprochement with Washington and Tokyo freed up the fleet, enabling the Royal Navy to concentrate its battleships closer to home as the Anglo-German rivalry heated up.
It was precisely because Britain, while still enjoying preponderant strength, looked over the horizon that it was able to successfully adapt its grand strategy to a changing distribution of power. Just like Britain in 1870, the United States probably has another two decades before it finds itself in a truly multipolar world. But due to globalization and the spread of new manufacturing and information technologies, global power is shifting far more rapidly today than it did in the 19th century.
Now is the time for Washington to focus on managing the transition to a new geopolitical landscape. As the British experience makes clear, effective strategic adjustment means getting ahead of the curve. The alternative is to wait until it is too late—precisely what London did during the 1930s, with disastrous consequences for Britain and Europe. Despite the mounting threat posed by Nazi Germany, Britain clung to its overseas empire and postponed rearmament. After living in denial for the better part of a decade, it finally began to prepare for war in 1939, but by then it was way too late to stop the Nazi war machine.
Even Kagan seems to recognize that comparing the United States to Britain in 1870 may do his argument more harm than good. "Whether the United States begins to decline over the next two decades or not for another two centuries," he writes, "will matter a great deal, both to Americans and to the nature of the world they live in." The suggestion here is that the United States, as long as it marshals the willpower and makes the right choices, could still have a good 200 years of hegemony ahead of it. But two decades—more in line with the British analogy—is probably the better guess. It strains credibility to propose that, even as globalization speeds growth among developing nations, a country with less than 5 percent of the world's population will run the show for two more centuries.
Whether American primacy lasts another 20 years or another 200, Kagan's paramount worry is that Americans will commit "preemptive superpower suicide out of a misplaced fear of their own declining power." In fact, the greater danger is that the United States could head into an era of global change with its eyes tightly shut—in denial of the tectonic redistribution of power that is remaking the globe. The United States will remain one of the world's leading powers for the balance of the 21st century, but it must recognize the waning of the West's primacy and work to shepherd the transition to a world it no longer dominates. Pretending otherwise is the real "preemptive superpower suicide."
Charles A. Kupchan is a professor of international affairs at Georgetown University and the Whitney Shepardson senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. He is the author of No One's World: The West, the Rising Rest, and the Coming Global Turn (Oxford, 2012).
Robert Kagan replies:
Charles Kupchan has been predicting America's decline, and the emergence of a genuinely multipolar world, for the better part of the past two decades. In 1992, he published an article titled "Legitimacy and Power: The Waning of U.S. and Soviet Hegemony." In 1998, he published one called "After Pax Americana." In 1999, it was "Life After Pax Americana." In 2002, he called his book The End of the American Era. In 2003, he wrote of "The Rise of Europe, America's Changing Internationalism, and the End of U.S. Primacy." Now he writes again of American decline. Eventually, he will be right. But he is not right yet.
If Kupchan's prediction has remained consistent, his supporting evidence has varied wildly. Today, he contends that while the United States itself shows no measurable sign of decline—a remarkable concession given my argument that the United States shows no measurable sign of decline—the real problem is the decline of "the West," by which he means Japan and Europe. A decade ago, however, his story was quite different. Then, he wrote that the end of the American era was approaching not because of Europe's decline but because of its rise. In 2002, he argued that the "challenge to America" would come "not from the Islamic world or an ascendant China … but from an integrating Europe, whose economy already rivals America's."
Now Kupchan, undeterred, argues the opposite: America's decline will result from the failure of this erstwhile European competitor. He acknowledges it's "true that economic strength and military superiority will preserve U.S. influence over global affairs for decades to come," but he says that "global power is undeniably flowing away from the West."
There are two problems with this argument. First, although Europe's and Japan's share of global output is declining, it is absurd to argue that they are ceasing to be very influential players on the world scene—let alone that they are being surpassed in global influence by the likes of Brazil and Turkey, or even by India and China. Europe's economy remains vast, and the influence it wields on the world stage on a broad range of issues remains greater than that of China. The United States and Europe, working together, have outmaneuvered both China and Russia on issues such as Iran, Libya, and perhaps increasingly Syria, pushing both powers toward positions that they would not otherwise have taken. In East Asia, Japan remains a major player, especially now that active American diplomacy has helped link Japan with India and others in an increasingly effective regional network. No one looking at the diplomatic score sheet of the past two years, whether the issue has been the South China Sea or North Korea, would argue that China has gotten the upper hand. There is more to international power than the size of a nation's gross domestic product.
Second, what constitutes "the West"? I find it a peculiarly narrow definition of the West that excludes Brazil, whose culture is, after all, firmly rooted in "the West." From a geopolitical perspective, concepts like the West have probably ceased to serve any useful purpose. But if the question is one of values—the liberal values of democracy and free markets—it makes more sense to say that the West has actually grown stronger. The rise of India and Brazil, like the rise of Japan and West Germany during the Cold War, adds strength to the liberal world order. Can Kupchan really maintain the position that the rise of India and Brazil constitutes a setback for the West?
As for Kupchan's argument that India and Brazil cannot be relied upon to follow American policy dictates at all times—and may even differ with the United States on key strategic issues like Iran—the only proper response is, "What else is new?" Yes, the new world is fluid, and nations will align themselves according to their particular interests. But it was ever thus. Think of how often close allies of the United States, such as France, departed from Washington's strategic script during the Cold War. I predict that on the big issues, a majority of the time, India and the United States will be more likely to see eye to eye than, say, India and China. And isn't that what matters? The question is not whether the United States is as powerful as it ever was in absolute terms (although I can make the case that it is). Rather, it is whether the United States has declined in power relative to others. If power is more diffuse in the present world, it could also make the United States more powerful relative to others who also have to face a more diffuse world. During the Cold War, power was concentrated in Washington and Moscow; was that situation preferable to the present? Kupchan thinks it was.
Kupchan seems to misunderstand the point I make about Great Britain in the last three decades of the 19th century. I cited the British example to show that decline is more than just a four-year affair, but I also wanted to show that when a nation does decline over time, there are measurable indicators. Britain went from unrivaled dominance on the high seas to one among equals. It went from No. 1 to No. 3 in overall economic output. My point was that until such measures of decline start appearing for the United States, it is premature to talk about inevitable decline. Kupchan agrees with me that no such declines have yet been visible.
We do disagree about the meaning of that British example, however, and about the history of the past century more generally. Kupchan, like many professional declinists, takes a rosy view of the past in order to make invidious comparisons with the present. He really does seem to think the world was better, and better for the United States, when a totalitarian government possessing massive conventional forces and an equally massive nuclear arsenal occupied half of Europe. He somehow finds the rise of Brazil more ominous for the United States. I personally would prefer Brazil's challenges (if they can be called that) to a half-century of Cold War standoff.
Kupchan writes that from the 19th century until World War II, "Europe advanced the fortunes of liberal democracy and capitalism." Really? I seem to recall that a few other things happened in Europe in that era, including the rise of fascism, Nazism, communism, and militarism. It really wasn't until the United States became the leading power in the world, after World War II, that democracy and capitalism spread across the globe and created the liberal world order we enjoy today.
Kupchan also looks back favorably on British foreign policy at the dawn of the 20th century, praising London's strategic adjustment to new geopolitical realities. He wishes the United States would do the same, even before, as he admits, there are any visible measures of actual American decline. But somehow he ignores Britain's failure to avert World War I, the greatest strategic and human calamity in recorded history—that is until World War II, which Britain also failed to avert. Whatever wisdom the British showed in adjusting to new realities, I hope the United States will do better.
Robert Kagan is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and the author of The World America Made.
Charles Kupchan replies:
The core issue in this debate is the nature of the global landscape in the coming decades. Robert Kagan maintains that because the United States currently shows no sign of measurable decline, its primacy is indefinitely durable. For reasons spelled out above, I believe that the world is entering a period of tectonic change in the global distribution of power. The coming redistribution of global economic output speaks for itself. For the United States to deny this inevitable reallocation of wealth and power (as Kagan recommends) would be to engage in dangerous self-delusion. To be sure, the United States will remain a power of the top rank for a long time to come. Even so, managing a world in which the West no longer enjoys material primacy will require acknowledging the task at hand—as well as ample foresight and judicious diplomacy. Now, while the United States still enjoys primacy, is the time to begin shaping that next world.
Kagan is correct that I have been pondering the subject of a multipolar world for the better part of two decades. I have done so with lament, because I believe that the erosion of Western hegemony could make the world a more dangerous place. But that is precisely why the subject deserves urgent attention. Kagan is also correct that a decade ago, well before the European Union was beset by the current debt crisis, I foresaw an integrating Europe that was poised to project its collective weight on the global stage. Indeed, the transatlantic rift over the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq risked cleaving the NATO allies. Now, however, it is Europe's weakness, not its strength, that poses problems for the United States. Over the past five years, the European project has stumbled; an E.U. preoccupied with its own troubles casts a smaller shadow across the globe. And as Europe remains America's go-to partner on most international issues, its introversion and fragility mark a setback for the United States.
In Of Paradise and Power and other previous works, Kagan has denigrated Europe as having sworn off geopolitics. It is odd that, even amid the E.U.'s ongoing economic crisis, he is suddenly touting "the influence it wields on the world stage." So, too, is it hard to buy Kagan's claim that Japan now enjoys outsized influence in its region; in fact, China has been steadily extending its sway at Japan's expense. Kagan appears to have woken up to the fact that the United States needs European and Japanese strength by its side, after all. But then he must also accept that their declining share of global product does not augur well for Western primacy.
Kagan believes that emerging democracies—such as India, Brazil, and Turkey—will usually align themselves with the United States, that common values will mean strategic solidarity. I believe that a government's interests will matter more than its disposition. Indeed, New Delhi, Brasilia, and Ankara have already made it quite clear that they will chart their own courses on foreign policy, not line up with the United States and its traditional allies. Kagan is, of course, correct that the United States is often unable to get its way, even with its allies. But during the Cold War, geopolitical imperative kept partners close at hand even as they disagreed with Washington. In a multipolar world, states will have many more options at their disposal.
As for the analogy between the United States and Great Britain, Kagan is curiously silent on the main question: the speed with which a dominant power can suddenly find itself on a level playing field. In his response, Kagan writes that I will eventually be right about the onset of multipolarity, but not yet. The key question is when I will be right. If the British experience is any indication, the answer is in about two decades, not two centuries. If so, this is the time to begin preparing for what comes after the world that America made.
My critique of his New Republic essay is not, as Kagan charges, the work of a "professional declinist." It is the analysis of a sober realist.


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Human rights go hand in hand with attaining the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). By incorporating human rights principles into national development strategies and fulfilling their human rights obligations, governments are more likely to be successful in reducing poverty, hunger and disease and in promoting gender equality, education, environmental sustainability and global partnerships.Human rights and development policies are mutually reinforcing. They use different yet complementary tools and strategies for achieving the same objective: improving human well-being. Development strategies prioritise economic growth; human rights establish universally accepted legal guarantees to protect the freedom and equality of all individuals. Human rights standards and obligations put governments at the service of the people to ensure that everyone benefits from growth and enjoys a life with dignity. Source: Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human RightsThe eight MDGs are listed below. For certain MDGs, click on the link to view an interactive graph from gapminder.org showing historical trends and the progress made by selected countries in the MDG target area.Goal 1: Eradicate extreme poverty and hungerTarget 1. Halve, between 1990 and 2015, the proportion of people whose income is less than $1 a dayTarget 2. Halve, between 1990 and 2015, the proportion of people who suffer from hungerGoal 2: Achieve universal primary educationTarget 3. Ensure that, by 2015, children everywhere, boys and girls alike, will be able to complete a full course of primary schoolingGoal 3: Promote gender equality and empower womenTarget 4. Eliminate gender disparity in primary and secondary education, preferably by 2005, and in all levels of education no later than 2015 Goal 4: Reduce child mortalityTarget 5. Reduce by two-thirds, between 1990 and 2015, the under-five mortality rateGraph: Child mortality rateGoal 5: Improve maternal health Target 6. Reduce by three-quarters, between 1990 and 2015, the maternal mortality ratioGoal 6: Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria, and other diseasesTarget 7. Have halted by 2015 and begun to reverse the spread of HIV/AIDS Target 8. Have halted by 2015 and begun to reverse the incidence of malaria and other major diseasesGraph: Persons living with HIVGoal 7: Ensure environmental sustainabilityTarget 9. Integrate the principles of sustainable development into country policies and programs and reverse the loss of environmental resources Target 10. Halve, by 2015, the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation Target 11. Have achieved by 2020 a significant improvement in the lives of at least 100 million slum dwellersGoal 8: Develop a global partnership for developmentTarget 12. Develop further an open, rule-based, predictable, non-discriminatory trading and financial system (includes a commitment to good governance, development, and poverty reduction both nationally and internationally)Target 13. Address the special needs of the Least Developed Countries (includes tariff- and quota-free access for Least Developed Countries' exports, enhanced program of debt relief for heavily indebted poor countries [HIPCs] and cancellation of official bilateral debt, and more generous official development assistance for countries committed to poverty reduction)Target 14. Address the special needs of landlocked developing countries and small island developing states (through the Program of Action for the Sustainable Development of Small Island Developing States and 22nd General Assembly provisions)Target 15. Deal comprehensively with the debt problems of developing countries through national and international measures in order to make debt sustainable in the long termTarget 16. In cooperation with developing countries, develop and implement strategies for decent and productive work for youthTarget 17. In cooperation with pharmaceutical companies, provide access to affordable essential drugs in developing countriesTarget 18. In cooperation with the private sector, make available the benefits of new technologies, especially information and communications technologies.Selected Learning MaterialsMaking MDGs Work for All: Gender-Responsive Rights-Based Approaches to the MDGsThis publication argues for a gender-responsive and rights-based approach to implementing, monitoring and reporting on the MDGs. It presents ways to develop a gender-responsive rights-based national MDG reporting framework and suggests long-term and intermediate targets and indicators. Rights-Based Approach to Development Programming: Training ManualThis training manual consists of a curriculum for a five-day training introducing rights-based programming, including an emphasis on understanding the role and added value of human rights in development strategies for realising the MDGs.Frequently Asked Questions on a Human Rights-based Approach to Development CooperationThe document introduces the human rights-based approach to development cooperation by addressing 30 frequently asked questions. These answers include an explanation of the human rights framework in the context of the MDGs.
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I think everyone comes to that point in their life where they just want to run away. It's tempting, isn't it? The idea of dropping everything — bills, debts, responsibilities, homework — is such a beautiful thought that it feels like paradise. It must be paradise. It should be paradise, doesn't it?
Natsume Ono attempts to capture this idea of fleeing with her comic, Nigeru Otoko (The Man who Ran Away). However, unlike the paradise she imagines, she places her fleeing character in a thick, dark forest. His paradise is seeping with mystery that eventually he owns a myth in the place.
Getting lost
I've actually been hesitating to pick up Nigeru Otoko because I've had my own perceptions of a Natsume Ono title. I felt that I had to be emotionally ready to read her works because it requires a pensive mind. Also, it requires a bit of concentration and attention because she has this way of taking you to places and if you don't pay attention, you'll get lost. But today, I thought, fuck it. It's been a while and I was convinced by Jocelyne's review that it's bound to be interesting.
The comic begins with a myth of a bear that appears to children in some forest. A girl finds herself on a journey towards this forest and experiences this bear and the man behind its myth. As soon as she finds herself lured by the forest's mystery, the only bridge that connects her towards this world is cut (quite literally) and she discovers that there is no myth with the bear but there must be a mysterious truth behind the forest, the bear, and the man she witnessed. From here, we discover more about this man and the reasons behind his friendly bear and his residence in the forest. It almost reads like it's the man's paradise but as you turn the pages, you realize that it has become his self-inflicted prison. More than fleeing towards paradise, this story is truly about abandonment — the very act of dropping everything and not giving a fuck anymore — and the burden of guilt that consumes you afterwards.
Reading it like that sounds like a boring read but it was surprisingly engaging as Natsume Ono draws this comic quite vividly, mixing a bit of her polished men from Gente and her BL and the wide-eyed scraggly characters from La Quinta Camera. I mean just look at these visuals.
And this.
And this.
It's just bloody beautiful and honestly, I wouldn't be arsed thinking of anything else but this man, this bear, and this forest. while reading this comic. Seriously, just look at that bear!
Perhaps Nigeru Otoko is the most visually engaging comic I've read from Ono outside of her BL. Her style in this story is a mix between her wide-eyed scraggly characters from La Quinta Camera and her more polished men in Gente or in her BL. It's an interesting style because it matches the disarray, perhaps the abandon that comes with the place.
There's also something collected and solid about this title. Everything just seems tied together and while I expected to get lost in the forest, I found myself getting deeply immersed and involved with the place, the bear, and the man in her setting. Nothing of this comic feels disjointed or hanging. It just has enough mystery to keep us glued to every page until you reach the end.
I've said before how Ono's works always takes you towards a journey, an experience. This was one experience I hesitated to join in but I was drawn by the beauty of abandonment and eventually feared the overbearing sadness that fills up every page. There's this pained lonely expression that comes with every page of her comic. It looks beautiful but it also looks very sad.
Nigeru Otoko is a beautiful expression of the other side of running away. The loneliness. The worry. The guilt that consumes you with every passing day.
Series Information
Nigeru Otoko (逃げる男) by Natsume Ono
Serialized in Manga Erotics F
Published by Ohta Shuppan
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A new year, a new strategy to calm the chaos in 2010. For the last three years, mail has entered our home, nested, and multiplied into a city of towers all around the house. When I would finally go to open/discard/recycle these towers of mail, envelopes at the bottom would actually stick to the surface below. Apparently kids' sticky fingers = excellent mail glue. Sigh.
It hasn't always been this way. Back when I was single and semi-organized, I bought a ginormous 4-drawer filing cabinet at a garage sale. It was old and rusty, but I hauled it home in the back of my roommate's Subaru. I washed the file cabinet in the front yard, sanded off all the rust, and spray painted it fire engine red. A thing of beauty. For many years Big Red housed all the keepsakes and bills and this and thats of my life quite happily.
But then I got married and went sailing, and Big Red went into storage. When we became landlubbers again, Big Red was installed in the Writer's Cottage (a glorified garden shed) where I write. Problem is, all those stacks of mail never made it out to the Writer's Cottage. They made it only to the horizontal surfaces of our house where they nested and multiplied and grew into towers. So…
Finally (finally) the dreadfully charming Mr. Right allowed me to bring this behemoth hunk of red metal into our home so that it will actually get used. Due to an unfortunate combination of old, funky house layout and sloping eaves, it's now practically the centerpiece of our living room–don't tell Martha Stewart. But at least I'm now back to filing. So I thought I'd share with you the BEST file organization system in the world. I read about it in a magazine long ago and, though it takes some effort to set up, once you've got it going, it works splendidly.
Here's the system:
1. Purchase a bunch of hanging folders. All one color is fine, though you might like to use different colors for different subjects. (E.g. all my writing files are in yellow; everything else is in army green. The yellow makes me happy.)
2. Create labels for your hanging files. I use yellow plastic tabs for files I get monthly statements for like phone bills, bank statements, etc.–easier to flip to and file each month. I use clear plastic tabs for all the rest.
3. In each hanging file, put a labeled manilla folder so that if you need the folder, you can pull the manilla folder while the hanging folder remains as a place holder. (The prongs on the hanging folders make them difficult to carry around anyway.) This is also helpful if you want to have a general hanging folder (e.g. "Purchases") with manilla subfolders (e.g. "Receipts," "Warranties," "Instruction Manuals.")
4. For items that have monthly statements, I instead (or additionally) insert two manilla folders in blue and red. The blue folder collects current items in that category (e.g. new bank statements). The red folder holds my old statements from the past two years. Each New Years, I shred the oldest statements, move the past year to the old (red) folder, and start collecting the incoming statements in the new (blue) folder. Make sense?
5. Put a recycling bin and paper shredder next to your file folder so it's easy to actually use day to day.
Added hint: Get a file cabinet that makes you as happy as Big Red makes me. If it's puke green and ugly, you'll avoid it, so buy a bunch of pretty magnets and cover the thing with family photos to make it something you want to use.
OK, so this method must sound totally anal retentive–and it is!–but it works. Happy 2010!
Happily even after,
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We have all seen the Facebook quizzes that flood our timelines. Which Disney character are you? Who is your true BFF? What is your inner spirit animal? What is Superhero personality? Who is your soulmate? Well as 1 of many CyberSec superheros, CyberGent101 wants to help you out with something. Your longing to be a Disney character, Superhero, to release your inner spirit animal or finding out who your BFF is, maybe putting your personal data at risk. The video below gives some insight into what can occur if your data is stolen actually handed over via Facebook quizzes.
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A friend of mine @MsSharlee and I often times find ourselves shaking our heads at the growing number of quiz posts that we see on our timelines. We continually post (and re-post) about the potential dangers of taking these quizzes. At some point we hope that our concern will make others aware of what they are releasing to the internet.
As stated in the video here are a few helpful reminders to stay out of the crosshairs of hackers:
- Be cautious of apps, quizzes, etc that require you to sign in or redirect you to a site to enter your credentials. Personally if something requires me to login, I don't participate.
- Treat your email addresses like cash. Make sure you use a strong password as well.
- Don't always trust links from friends. Web address analysis services like urlquery.net allow you to check out links that you may receive from emails, texts, etc. URLquery also provides a screenshot of what the site looks like at that particular time with analysis on if the link is malicious or not.
- If you must participate in a quiz to see who your soulmate is or how many kids you will have with what celebrity, take a quiz from a company that has a good reputation of protecting data.


text: The World Human Rights Day celebration by the NILSAA The World Human Rights Day was celebrated by the Students' Activities Association of Institute of Law, Nirma University (NILSAA) in association with the Gujarat State Human Rights Commission, with the able guidance of Ms. Rejitha Nair and Mr. Pranav Saraswat, Faculty, Institute of Law, Nirma University. The function was presided over by Hon'ble Dr. Justice J.N. Bhatt, Former Chief Justice High Court of Patna and Former Acting Chief Justice, High Court of Gujarat. Dr. Manjunath Ghate, Director, Institute of Pharmacy, Nirma University and Mr. Hasmukh Patel, Chief Coordinator, Students' Welfare Activities were pleased to accompany other dignitaries in the celebration. The venue of the event was Institute of Pharmacy, Nirma University with the audience comprising students of Institute of Pharmacy, faculties from Institute of Pharmacy and Institute of Diploma Studies and Faculty Members from Institute of Law, Nirma University. The event included a skit presentation of the right of prisoners and convict and the methods of Torture being inflicted upon them by the State. The skit presentation was organized and acted upon the students of IX and V Semester, Institute of Law, under the able guidance of Aditya Kavia, Ishaan Purohit, Manu Tripurari, Sanjivani Singh and Varnali Purohit, students of Semester-IX. The event also included a brief introduction about the purpose and relevance of celebrating and studying Human Rights by Assistant Professor Ms. Rejitha Nair, Faculty, Institute of Law and Course Coordinator of Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law. The event was succeeded by two documentary presentations. One from the United Nations on Story of Human Rights and another on Right to Food, prepared by a group of students from IX Semester, Institute of Law. Prof (Dr.) Purvi Pokhariyal, Director, Institute of Law, Nirma University also gave a brief introduction on the event and highlighted the purpose of studying Human Rights and the importance of celebrating it in other Institutes of Nirma University. She also encouraged the participation of other stakeholders in upbringing the challenges of Human Rights and motivated other students to initiate the process of upholding Human Rights. Hon'ble Dr. Justice J.N. Bhatt discussed about the fundamentals of Human Rights and shared his personal experience of being a judge and the chairman of the Gujarat State Human Rights Commission and the challenges faced by them. He also guided the students on approaching the SHRC in any encounter of violation of Human Rights, seen by the students. He presented a Universal Declaration of Human Rights Memento and portray of Mahatma Gandhi with a quote in Gujarati which he explained to the students. Dr. Pranav Saraswat, Faculty, Institute of Law, Nirma University concluded the function by reciting poetry on Human Rights and a couplet from Rajasthan Patrika (vernacular newspaper daily) on the basic fundamental of the concept of right. Kaustubh Prakash, Vice-President of the Students' Activities Association of Institute of Law, Nirma University (NILSAA) was the Chairperson and Master of Ceremony of the World Human Rights Day Celebration, who concluded the function by proposing a vote of thanks with the message that human rights culture should infuse our national consciousness efforts should be made on translating our laws and constitutional provisions into a reality for the common man. December 18, 2014


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Here are all the fun projects we made at our Fall Stamp Camp. I would like to thank all the wonderful demos who share their talents with us so that we can in turn share with our customers and friends. Too many Cases to name.
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8 Awesome Ideas That Changed Graphic Design
From concepts like manifestos (#25), pictograms (#45), propaganda (#22), found typography (#38), and the Dieter-Rams-coined philosophy that "less is more" (#73) to favorite creators like Alex Steinweiss, Noma Bar, Saul Bass, Paula Scher, and Stefan Sagmeister, the sum of these carefully constructed parts amounts to an astute lens not only on what design is and does, but also on what it should be and do.
Idea # 16: Metaphoric Lettering
Trying to Look Good Limits My Life (2004), part of Stefan Sagmeister's typographic project '20 Things I Have Learned in My Life So Far.' Words are formed from natural and industrial materials and composed in situ.
Idea # 83: Psychedelia
Gebrauchsgraphik (1968). The youth style influenced by drugs and rock and roll quickly became a commercial visual vocabulary. Founded in San Francisco, this German version smoothed out some of the rough edges.
Idea # 31:Red With Black
A Season in Hell (1944), a black-and-red assemblage of stark and wobbly forms characteristic of Alvin Lustig's highly abstract visual vocabulary, is a graphic equivalent of the tormented prose of poet Arthur Rimbaud.
Heller and Vienne write in the introduction:
"[Big ideas] are notions, conceptions, inventions, and inspirations -- formal, pragmatic, and conceptual -- that have been employed by graphic designers to enhance all genres of visual communication. These ideas have become, through synthesis and continual application, the ambient language(s) of graphic design. They constitute the technological, philosophical, forma, and aesthetic constructs of graphic design."
Idea # 19: Visual Puns
Gun Crime (2010), illustrated by Noma Bar, is a commentary on the tragic toll of gun-related violence in the UK. The trigger serves as the mechanism and outcome of gun attacks.
Idea # 17: Pastiche
Chez Panisse Second Birthday Celebration (1973), a poster designed by David Lance Goines in an homage to the Jugendstil style of the Vienna Workshops and Vienna Secession movement.
Idea # 80: Teen Magazines
Teenagers Ingenue (1962) capitalized on the developing female teenage commercial market for fashion, cosmetics, and other beauty aids. Teens were now treated as young adults.
Idea # 35: Expression of Speed
Rainboeing the Skies (1971), an ad introducing the new Boeing 747 to El Al Israeli Airlines by graphic designer Dan Reisinger. This iconic image is at the center of an Internet controversy, with some claiming that it was in fact an Air Canada poster.
Idea # 25: Manifestos
First Things First (1964), published by British designer Ken Garland, who intended to radicalize the design practice that was fast becoming a subset of advertising. In 2000 an updated version was printed in cutting-edge magazines including Adbusters, Emigré, Items, and Eye.
Idea # 38: Found Typography
Alphabet with Tools (1977), by Mervyn Kurlansky, takes everyday objects found in homes and workshops and transforms them into the letters of the Western alphabet.
From how rub-on lettering democratized design by fueling the DIY movement and engaging people who knew nothing about typography to how the concept of the "teenager" was invented after World War II as a new market for advertisers, many of the ideas are mother-of-invention parables. Together, they converge into a cohesive meditation on the fundamental mechanism of graphic design -- to draw a narrative with a point of view, and then construct that narrative through the design process and experience.
Idea # 15: Entrepreneurship
A Catalog of Roycroft Books (1905?), designed at the Roycroft workshop in East Aurora, New York. Influenced by William Morris's Arts and Crafts Movement, Elbert Hubbard established a crafts colony that sold books, textiles, and other products.
Idea # 48: Triangulation
The Best of Jazz (1979), a typographical masterpiece by Paula Scher, was done when she was discovering Aleksander Rodchenko and El Lissitsky. She recalls her work being acclaimed as "new wave" and "postmodern" when in fact it was a private homage to the pioneers of the Russian avant garde.
Idea # 37: Dust Jackets
Ulysses (1934), hand-lettered and designed by Ernst Reichl, was said to be influenced by the paintings of Piet Mondrian.
Idea # 66: Public Service Campaigs
Give a Hand to Wild Life (2008), by Saatchi & Saatchi Simko agency in Geneva, is a series of clever and beautiful photographs of human hands camouflaged as wild animals by bodypainter Guido Daniele.
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8 comments:
- rayengle said...
Fabulous posts. Keep 'm coming. Thanks.
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- business logo design said...
Wow, it is unbelievable very stunning work you have shared with us, i personally like "Visual Puns" it has logic and very attractive graphic design it is.
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- Jeny said...
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- Mac said...
Living in an information-seeking society, we are surrounded by words and pictures. It is the task of the graphic designer to research, analyze, organize and make artistic order out of chaos.
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- Mark Martin said...
Hi! This could help me out with my business. I'll be looking forward for your other posts as well. Keep it up! Thank you so much for sharing this information. You have such an awesome page. I'd just like to share this one: From 1891 to 1896, William Morris' Kelmscott Press published books that are some of the most significant of the graphic design products of the Arts and Crafts movement, and made a very lucrative business of creating books of great stylistic refinement and selling them to the wealthy for a premium. Morris proved that a market existed for works of graphic design in their own right and helped pioneer the separation of design from production and from fine art. The work of the Kelmscott Press is characterized by its obsession with historical styles. This historicism was, however, important as it amounted to the first significant reaction to the stale state of nineteenth-century graphic design. Morris' work, along with the rest of the Private Press movement, directly influenced Art Nouveau and is indirectly responsible for developments in early twentieth century graphic design in general. Contact us today to learn how we can use our graphic design experience to tackle your next project and give it the exact look you want.
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I'm a fan of periodic experiments for finding new ways to improve your mind and body. My latest experiment is shedding ten years of age-related damage in ten weeks based on the book, Shed 10 Years in 10 Weeks, by Dr. Julian Whitaker and Carol Colman. Given how much heart disease, cancer, ... etc there is in today's world, it won't hurt me to put more techniques under my belt. I told some friends and colleagues about my experiment and they wanted me to share my notes, so here it goes ...
Benefits of the Age-Loss Program
The book outlines the following potential benefits:
- Lose a decade's worth of fat and regain ten year's worth of muscle.
- Erase fine lines, diminish wrinkles, and restore youthful glow.
- Boost your brain power and sharpen your memory.
- Revitalize and enjoy your sex life.
- Strengthen your immune system and prevent disease.
- Recharge your spirit and regain your energy of yesteryear.
The Key to the Age-Loss Program
What I like about the book is that it's not magic. It's based on results from research and experience with more than 15,000 patients. It boils down to the following formula -- eat the right foods, take the right supplements, exercise regularly, and control the negative impact of stress in your life. Dr. Whitaker does mention that the combination of supplements is especially important.
Wellness and Reversing Diseases
I really like the fact that Dr. Whitaker is focused on wellness over illness. He specializes in modeling from the best and sharing what works. I also like the fact that he focuses on "reversing" issues. For example, he has books on reversing diabetes, reversing heart disease, and reversing health risks.
10 Steps of the Age-Loss Program
Here's a summary of the objectives of the ten steps, according to Dr. Whitaker and Colman.
|Step 1: All Systems Go
|Step 2: Lose a Decade Worth of Fat
|Step3: Renew Tired, Worn-Out Skin
|Step 4. Regain Ten Years of Muscle
|Step 5: Boost Your Brain Power
|Step 6. Revitalize Your Sex Life
|Step 7: Rejuvenate While You Sleep
|Step 8: Recharge the Spirit
|Step 9: Reinvigorate Your Immune System
|Step 10: Regain a Decade's Worth of Health By Correcting the Glitches
Supplement Routine
Here's an example of the supplement routine, based on Dr. Whitaker's and Colman:
Skin Routine
Here's an example of the skin routine, based on Dr. Whitaker and Colman:
Workout Routine
Here's an example of the workout routine based on Dr. Whitaker and Colman:
|Week 1 and 2
|Week 3 and 4
|Week 5 and 6
|Week 7 and 8
|Week 9 and 10
Dr. Julian Whitaker's Supplement Recommendations
Here's an example of the key supplements Dr. Whitaker recommends:
- Beta-Carotene (15,000 total)
- Chromium Picolinate (200 Micrograms total) (2 x 100 micrograms)
- Co-Q10 (60 MG total) (2 x 30 MG)
- Ginkgo Biloba (120 MG total) (2 x 60 MG)
- Lipoic Acid (50 MG total) (2 x 25 MG)
- Omega-3 (1000 MG total) (360 MG EPA, 240 MG DHA)
- Potassium - Magnesium apartate (1000 MG total) (2 x 500 MG)
- Selenium (200 Micgrograms total)
- Vitamin A (5000 IU total)
- Vitamin C (2500 MG total) (Multi-vitamin = 1200 MG,
- supplement = 1300 MG)
- Vitamin E (800 MG total)
Shopping List Example
Here's an example of how the supplements mapped to products I could actually get:
- Alpha Lipoic Acid (Solar Ray Alpha Lipoic Acid, 250 MG, 60 capsules)
- Bio CoQ-10 (Solar Ray Bio CoQ-10, 60 MG, 60 capsules)
- Chromium Picolinate (Trader Darwin's Chromium Picolinate -
- 200 Micrograms, 100 tablets)
- Ginkgo Biloba (Solar Ray, Ginkgo Biloba, 60 MG)
- Magnesium and Potassium Asporatates (Solar Ray Magnesium and Potassium Asporatates)
- Multi-vitamin (Super Nutrition - Iron Free, Easy Swallow Opti-Pack)
- Omega-3 Fatty Acids (Trader Darwin's Omega-3 Fatty Acids, 1200 MG, 90 softgels)
- Vitamin C (Solar Ray Bio-Plex, Buffered Vitamin C, 500 MG, 250 capsules)
- Green drink (Greens to Go)
- Odorless Garlic (Trader Darwin's Odorless Garlic)
- Olive and Oregano Oil (Trader Darwin's Olive and Oregano Oil
Results So far
I'm only three weeks in so I don't expect miracles. So far though I've dropped more than 10 pounds and I'm closer to my "fighting weight." I have a lot more power hours throughout the day. I have a spring in my step and I feel a lot more powerful. I would expect that from any combination of the right foods, the right workout, and the right sleep. I guess the part that's different is how quickly my nails and hair are growing and how fresh my skin is. I think that's where the supplements are showing.
Lessons Learned
I've learned a few lessons so far that really help me:
- Reduce friction. Rather than depend on sheer will power, I find ways to make it easier to fall into success. trade complexity for simplicity. Anything I can do to simplify or reduce friction, I do. For example, rather than run outdoors, I got a NordicTrack Elliptical so that rainy days didn't get in the way.
- Find the fun. I think anything long-term has to be fun. In general, we move towards pleasure and away from pain. For example, I originally was going to get a treadmill, but realized that I liked the idea of bounding on an Elliptical better. I also found that I need to play my favorite songs to associate fun to the pain of the workout.
- Take weekends off. I doubt Dr. Whitaker would agree, but for me, it's easier for me to push during the week, if the weekend is playtime.
- Make it a routine. I found that I really have to make it a routine so the less I have to think about it, the easier it is to just do it. For example, even just scheduling time for the workout was important. I tested in the morning and tested at night, and while the morning is easier to make a routine, I find I like it more at night.
- Find your personal success patterns. I experimented with a few different sleep patterns and found that if I wake up too early, I'm just no my most for the day. I really do measure my day in power hours. What good is having more time if you can't use it? I finally realized that just by flipping through my past experiences, I could find success patterns that worked to draw from.
- Turn your routines into checklists. I find that having a simple, scannable checklists go a long way (for example, the supplement routine, skin routine, and workout routine above helped me quickly visualize what I need to do.)
- Find what works for you. I found the diet part of the routine a little tough to follow. I think the principles were sound, but it's easier for me to just follow The Zone. (see A Zone Primer.)
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Staff Member: Rev. James Archambault
Rev. James Archambault
Assisting Priest
Fr. Jim was born in Waterbury, Connecticut to Reynold and Margaret and has a brother, Reynold. He attended Sacred Heart Grammer and High School in Waterbury, St. Thomas Seminary in Bloomfield, CT and St. Mary Seminary in Baltimore, MD. Fr. Jim was ordained on May 4, 1967. He received his undergraduate degree at St. Mary and his Masters in Counseling at St. Joseph College in West Hartford, CT.
Fr. Jim served the Church and the people of Connecticut as a parochial vicar at St. Gregory Parish in Bristol and St. Mary Parish in Windsor Lochs, co-pastor at St. James Parish in Manchester and pastor of St. Jerome Parish in New Britain. He was chaplain of St. Mary Hospital and an instructor in the School of Nursing. Fr. Jim was also on the faculty of Sacred Heart High School and was the chairman of the Department of Religious Studies at St. Paul High School.
Fr. Jim retired on September 1, 1996 for reasons of poor health, and happily for us, came to Bradenton. He now lives among his beloved antiques collected over the years, has become an avid gardener, enjoys music and plays the piano, has become a beach and swimming aficionado and is making up for lost reading time by reading everything he has and can get his hands on!
Here at St. Joseph Parish, in addition to his many and varied liturgical duties, Fr. Jim plays a key role in RCIA and 'We Miss You' ministries and serves as chaplain to our St. Vincent de Paul Society.
Fr. Jim beams a welcoming smile on the congregation as he approaches the altar for Mass, and in the many ministries in which he is involved, and it is warmly reciprocated.


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Useful WWII Army Sites
Kurland-Kessel 1944/45
Informationen über die 6 Kurlandschlachten im Kurland-Kessel im Jahr 1944/45, sowie über die dort eingesetzten Divisionen. Bild und Kartenmaterial und Links zur Suche nach dort vermissten Angehörigen.
WW2 German Armoured Car - Sd.kfz.222 - light armoured 4WD Vehicle
Brian's Military Jeeps of WWII
"Dedicated to restoring WWII MB/GPW/GP 1941-1945 Willys/Ford/Bantam Jeeps and Trailers. Linked to WWII Squadron Patch Picture Gallery ~ A visual collection of WWII Squadron Patches from Disney, Warner Brothers, RKO and more!"
Discount jeep parts for Willys MB CJ2A CJ3 CJ5
Northwest Military Vehicles quality discount parts for Willys MB cj2a CJ3 CJ5 Jeeps
This website is dedicated to restorers of Ford GPW and Willys MB Jeeps. We have extensive sections Jeep technical drawing & drawings, WWII Military photos.
World War Two Ration Technologies
Welcome to World War Two Ration Technologies' Index Page. WW2 Ration Technologies sells instruction kits with pre-printed labels for making WWII edible K-Rations, C-Rations and D-Rations from commercial components (no contents come with the kits). Other products made include reproduction World War Two USMC/US Navy Dog Tags. We also offer services to films, TV and museums including 20th Century U.S. military historical consulting.
"Using thousands of declassified official U.S. Government documents, private journals, letters and many interviews with "The Troubleshooters" themselves, Terry D. Janes discovered the truth about these valiant men who earned with blood, the nickname of "Patton's Troubleshooters". Feared, hated and branded as criminals by Adolf Hitler's Nazi Government, these heroic American soldiers were a vital key to the Allied victory of World War II in Europe. Formed as an independent tank battalion, designated 702nd Tank Battalion, it's members quickly gained the name "Red Devils" for their exploits in the famed "Tennessee Maneuvers". This unit was later combined with the 80th Infantry Division "Blue Ridgers". This armor/infantry combination was to get the dirtiest combat missions, in order to consolidate the gains of General George S. Patton's history making drive across the continent of Europe. From closing the Argentan-Falaise Gap, to Chalons sur Marne, to the "Bloody Moselle River", to the "Battle Of The Bulge", through Hitler's much vaunted Siegfried Line, across Germany to Chemnitz, then south to the Nazi Redoubt in Austria, liberating two Nazi Concentration Camps, capturing countless Nazi criminals and discovering Hitler's stolen treasure pilfered from the nations he'd plundered, and finally firing the last official shot in combat, of the war in Europe. By a tragic twist of fate, the history of "The Troubleshooters" went unwritten for forty-three years. Now, the untold story of "Patton's Troubleshooters" is available to the general public! This is history as seen through the eyes of the men who lived it. This book changed history as we knew it. This book came about because it's author began a search for one man, and discovered that this unit's heroics and sacrifice had been tragically forgotten by history. Those who served never forgot! And neither should we! The Patton's Troubleshooters book is online for the public to read free of charge, and the site currently contains nearly 5,000 pages of military history devoted to those from all nations who served their country, and dedicated to educating the public at large."
World War II Vehicles, Tanks, Airplanes, and Guns
World War II, a time in history of great upheaval the world over. Found here in are some of the machines used in that time by the men and women who fought the battles, delivered the supplies, and transported the wounded. Look around and enjoy the historical information, the specifications, pictures and videos of the machines of war that were used in World War II.


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The thing is, if you have a Macbook Air, you could have either the faster solid state drive (SSD) made by Samsung or a slower one manufactured by Toshiba. How do you tell which one you have? Continue reading
The thing is, if you have a Macbook Air, you could have either the faster solid state drive (SSD) made by Samsung or a slower one manufactured by Toshiba. How do you tell which one you have? Continue reading
A 15-inch Macbook Air? It could happen. Retina display on Apple notebooks? Quite possibly. Ivy Bridge processors on the Macbook Pro and the Macbook Air? Most probably.
The following are the top news stories on Mac Mojo.
It's not just updates for the iPhone and the iPad that are getting attention lately. Technology sites have been abuzz with the possible launch of a Macbook Air with a whopping 15-inch screen. New processors with Ivy Bridge processors are also to make an appearance on the next-generation Macbook Air.
Right now, Macbook Air line includes an 11-inch and a 13-inch models; 15-inch screens are only available on Macbook Pros.
As for CPUs, the current Macbook Air's Sandy Bridge processor from Intel provides great performance while being a great energy saver. But Intel's Ivy Bridge processor promises to be both faster and smaller than Sandy Bridge. Intel is also touting Ivy Bridge's graphics and multimedia performance.
So what other features and components can we expect to find on the coming Macbook Air? Read more after the jump.
Rumor has it that Macbooks equipped with Intel's upcoming Ivy Bridge processors could be out by April 8. Reports from various sources point to Digitimes as the source for a possible release date for Intel's next generation CPUs using the Ivy Bridge architecture.
More after the jump.
The solid state drives (SSDs) on the Macbook Air is about to become twice as fast, thanks to a new component manufactured by Samsung. Speed tests conducted on the new Samsung SSD 830 showed significant improvements in performance in the previous generation Samsung SSD 470.
The Macbook Air is not equipped with this superfast SSD yet. So when will a Macbook Air come out with the Samsung SSD 830? Read more after the jump.
It's a done deal. Apple will be buying Anobit, an Israel-based semiconductor company specializing in flash storage, for USD 500 million according to reports.
The prime minister of Israel even tweeted about the sale:
"Welcome to Israel, Apple Inc. on your 1st acquisition here. I'm certain that you'll benefit from the fruit of Israeli knowledge."
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World War II shooters are about as rare as sunny days in Arizona. So to really succeed in the genre, a game must either be innovative, particularly engrossing, or a little of both. City Interactive's Battlestrike: Force of Resistance is none of the above. It doesn't compel you to run back to the computer to play it, it doesn't offer anything that makes you say, "Hey, I haven't seen that before," and in fact it's so short that veteran players will finish it in a single afternoon. Nevertheless, there's something about it that isn't entirely unlikeable.
Perhaps it's the variety. Unlike many budget-priced wartime shooters, Battlestrike doesn't feel repetitive. It doesn't plunk you down into the same situation over and over again, and it certainly isn't one big, never-ending firefight on a nameless battlefield somewhere. Instead, it asks you to take on the role of one John Forsyth, a British-trained commando operating behind enemy lines and leading the resistance movement as it tries, ever so slightly, to derail the Nazi war machine.
In Battlestrike, you may find yourself hijacking a train or robbing a bank. You'll blow up a bridge, do the same to a munitions factory, try to thwart the launch of a dreaded V2 rocket, and occasionally join forces with other resistance fighters for those jobs that you can't handle on your own. You'll climb ladders, hurdle obstacles, explore any number of indoor and outdoor environments, and even use anti-aircraft guns to take down a Messerschmitt or two. Placing explosives and watching them do their thing is a big part of the game, as is manually reloading and ensuring you have the correct weapon at the ready for the task at hand.
Unfortunately, this is all a lot easier than it sounds. For example, other than cutscenes, you'll never have a chance to interact with other characters (other than to kill them, of course). You'll rarely need to use reason to get out of a given situation, and you'll never be able to step too far outside the linear "plot" City Interactive has set up. Placing explosives is not especially difficult given that you're shown, via overlaid graphics, exactly where they should go. Taking command of a fixed machine gun or anti-aircraft gun is as easy as walking toward it and hitting the "F" key. Still, we appreciate the diversity – in both the game's environments and its tasks.
Shooter veterans will notice right away that Battlestrike's AI is erratic. Sometimes, enemy soldiers will react to you even before they've had any chance to hear or see you. Other times, you can fire off round after round just a few feet from a whole pack of bad guys and attract no attention whatsoever. The best course of action is to assume you're being watched virtually all the time, remain vigilant toward incoming grenades and distant snipers, and be ready to adopt crouch or prone positions where you become a much smaller target.
This bit of advice is even more valuable should you opt for the "Veteran" difficulty level rather than the newbie-friendly "Recruit." Here, enemy accuracy is almost uncanny, while yours is remarkably faulty. Needless to say, you'll need to lie low in the weeds or take cover behind whatever you can find if you want to survive beyond the first few minutes.
The Veteran level would be far more interesting if Battlestrike's NPCs took the initiative to come over and flush you out, thus giving you a chance to potentially get a better bead on them, but, alas, they do not. So, chances are that every time you get up from your crouch to take a look around, that enemy solider is precisely where he was before – just out of range of your own gun but somehow within that of his own. Pop, pop, pop, game over. Thank goodness the game permits instant quick saves at any point and generously distributes medical kit power-ups.
Battlestrike looks decent, though its "Chrome" graphics engine is certainly outdated, and its environments are anything but cutting edge. Clipping is evident throughout, particularly when a soldier dies and disappears halfway into a wall or floor. There's a certain lack of sophistication to most everything, and antialiasing is not Battlestrike's strong suit, as evidenced by the jagged edges around most objects. Object texturing is rudimentary enough that certain items tend to blend together.


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On the last day, dress up the student's lunch bag with colorful stickers and personalized labels. Be sure to include a note to tell them how proud you are, or us the note to reveal a summer vacation you've been planning.
When I was in elementary school, a pool party was always in order for the last day of school. Don't have a pool? Set up sprinklers in the backyard and provide beach balls, hoses and water balloons for kids to cool off.
Treat the student to an ice cream cone right after his last class! Dress the treat up with fun dessert picks.
Send calling cards to school with your little student, including their name, address, phone number and email address if they are old enough. Kids can pass them out to classmates in order to stay in touch easier.
Do you have any last day of school traditions? Be sure to share them!


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This first week of July is bringing some excitement into my life. About a month ago the local library teamed up with a local author, Julie Rowe, to start a writer's group. After the first meeting, Sunday Prose was born and it consists of a diverse group of men and women from Fort McMurray who are interested in many forms of writing, but they are all passionate about one thing, the written word. I had been spoiled back home, in Nova Scotia, as I had a strong group of women who loved sharing their work, their passion, and their friendship in a group that met upstairs in a grocery store. Even though we came from small rural communities, we came together in a central location and shared our ideas, did writing exercises and went to workshops together. Even though our ages ranged from 24 to 76 we were all connected by our love of writing. So when I moved to Fort McMurray five years ago, I knew that I would miss my group, and the friendships that I had formed back in Nova Scotia. I immediately signed up for a workshop with Julie Rowe, and inquired about a local group. Unfortunately over the years, it seemed that there was lots of interest, but it just never came together until just a month ago.
I was nervous the first day walking into the library. Would there be enough people there to form a group that would endure over time? Would I fit in, or would my writing fall way short of the expectations of the group? Would I have something in common with anyone there, or would I be the "outsider" who just never fit? But most of all, would I feel confident enough to eventually share my writing? Even though I have now been a paid writer for about eight years, I still have trouble sharing my work. People always laugh at me and think that I am joking when I say that, but it's true. Even though I have shared some of the more intimate details of my life in my column, somehow sharing my fictional work seems more revealing. And it is something that I continue to work on.
My fears were unfounded, and I felt an immediate connection with a few of the women in the group. I went home from the first meeting energized, and excited to be part of a group again that had this strange urge to put words on paper, or on page. I felt immediately like I once again was understood, I had the support of people who got why I sometimes get up in the middle of the night to scribble my thoughts furiously on paper. This week will see us challenging each other to write, polish and submit something to a publication. We will meet a few times and write, share and polish a piece that we have to submit or put out to the world in one shape or another. It will be exciting to see what everyone will come up with, whether it is a work of fiction, poetry or just a short story about their life.
And then the municipality added to my excitement when they announced that there were be a series of writing workshops over the summer entitled Writers Block. The program will run on Wednesday evenings, at the Haxton Centre, and will feature writers giving talks about everything from an introduction to the craft of writing, to a talk about blogging. For me, it feels like I am a kid in the proverbial candy store, and I can't wait to see what all this encouragement, critiquing and support will produce in the coming weeks. There are so many wonderful writers in Fort McMurray, and lately it feels like it is their time to emerge in the cultural landscape of this wondeful northern city.
For information on either of the programs you can contact the library regarding Sunday Prose, and for information about Writers Block, you can email the municipality at: firstname.lastname@example.com.
Happy writing!


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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- The Jacksonville Jaguars won their first game on Sunday but they have lost their best player for a while, too.
Head coach Gus Bradley said middle linebacker Paul Posluszny suffered a concussion in the fourth quarter of the Jaguars' 29-27 victory over Tennessee. Bradley says he's uncertain whether Posluszny will be able to play in the Jaguars' home game against Arizona on Sunday.
"I don't know [if Posluszny will miss a game]," Bradley said. "I've seen it around the league where it hasn't been that way. Everybody's different. We'll wait and see what they say."
Not having Posluszny on the field would be a huge blow for a Jaguars defense that is coming off its best game of the season. He's the team's leading tackler (88) and has also forced one fumble and intercepted two passes, including one which he returned 59 yards for a touchdown. If Posluszny cannot play, Bradley said Russell Allen would take his spot.
In addition to Posluszny, guard Will Rackley and receiver Stephen Burton also are in the concussion program. Rackley suffered his concussion against San Francisco and did not play against Tennessee. Mike Brewster started in Rackley's place against the Titans.
Burton was hurt early in the fourth quarter against the Titans on a play in which he caught an 11-yard pass. It is his second concussion of the season. He missed the previous five games while recovering from his first concussion.
Bradley said he will hopefully know more about the three players' chance of playing on Wednesday.