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Daily Journey Updates
Expedition Update
Friday, July 26, 2013
Lady Franklin Island
Daily Update from Expedition Leader Geoff Green
Frobisher Bay, Nunavut , 8:30 pm
We awoke to swollen seas in Davis Strait, rocking us out of bed to start
another day.
An enlightening Arctic Hour led by Mary Simon, Duane Smith, Patrick Borbey, and Becky Mearns then awakened our minds about the future of the Arctic.If this group of students is any indication, we can rest assured that the future is in good hands!
As we near the end of our journey, there was ample time today for reflection as individuals and in groups. The spirit of camaraderie is everywhere, and it is hard to imagine that we will soon head back to our homes to pursue our passions and share our experiences.
Today, we added walruses (and another polar bear) to the roster of Arctic
animals that we have viewed, as well as stunning views of Monumental and Lady
Franklin Islands.
These vistas, etched into our memories, will -- like the friendships forged on the trip -- not fade anytime soon.
Packing, paperwork, and workshop sessions have occupied the students for much of the afternoon, and having just enjoyed another fabulous dinner we anxiously await the final celebration that will carry us long into the Arctic night...
An Update from Expedition Leader, Geoff Green
July 27, 8:00 AM
We are just about to drop anchor in Iqaluit!
It is another beautiful morning! Flat calm seas. A little fog.
Yesterday was a wonderful final day of our expedition. We had all kinds of wrap-up presentations and activities helping to prepare the students for the "What's Next" following this powerful experience we have all shared in theArctic. I am so impressed with this group students. They have became a family, a team and taken advantage of every opportunity presented along our journey. They rose to the many challenges. They listened, learned, explored, pushed their limits in many ways, connected with each other and the natural world around them, and had fun! They give me cause for hope for the future.
Last night was an evening of celebration and pure joy. We thanked all the many people and partners that make SOI possible. We celebrated. We sang, danced, reflected and cried. This last two weeks have really exceeded what we could have hoped for. Greenland and the Canadian Arctic were our playground, classroom, laboratory and home. Whales, Polar bears, Walrus, Icebergs, People, Mountains, Ocean, Glaciers, Tundra, Birds, Waterfall, Plankton, History, Culture, Politics…and the awe and wonder of Mother Nature have flowed in and out of our expedition experiences.
As I told the students last night, today is not the ending our individual journeys. It is another beginning. They have been passed a torch of many sorts. These youth are going to continue this experience in so many ways in the weeks, months and years to come. Look out! Support them. Listen to them.
Thank you for following and sharing our SOI Arctic 2013 journey!!
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Joy learns to drive the Zodiac.
Diane carefully drives the Zodiac in Frobisher Bay.
Expedition Leader Geoff Green shows the ice charts during evening briefings.
Walruses rest on an ice pan.
A pair of walruses on ice watch Students on Ice.
The Chocolate Extravaganza!
Enjoying the chocolate!
The captain shows Timothy some brain-expanding finger dexterity exercises.
Samuel, SOI education program advisor Diz, and Maddy.
Students collected, pressed, dried and arranged these Arctic flowers into beautiful works of art.
Ottawa, Ontario
Walrus sighting today. A shout out to my late Uncle Alan who studied walrus and provided endless entertainment to his nieces and nephew imitating walrus and regaling us with his stories about his days in the Arctic as a research scientist with the Canadian Wildlife Service. Being in the Arctic makes me appreciate even more what it was like for my parents, both scientists, when they worked in Fort Churchill for the Canadian Northern Defence research lab. It is an awesome, awe inspiring and intimidating place. The power of the waves, the chill of the cold, the warmth of the sun and the independence of the wildlife... remind me how lucky I am to be on this trip, learning about this place, appreciating how different it is from my home and how important it is that I understand and respect it.
Oh... a special shout out to Whit from Mary. We arrive back in Ottawa on Saturday July 27th!
Oakville, Ontario
As expedition unfortunately seems to be coming to an end, everyone wishes it could just continue forever. The sea and the Arctic have not shown us everything they have to offer and it is hard to imagine that a lifetime of education will still never reveal all of its secrets. From Greenland to Nunavut the cold winds and the warm people have struck a chord within me, not only to continue to pursue sweeping global environmental change but to more actively pursue positive changes for the people and communities of the North.
As reality begins to set in (wait, this whole experience hasn't been a dream?), I begin to reflect about the sights and experiences I have been so fortunate to take part in. I would first like to say for myself, I had longed for this expedition and envisioned myself for so long coming on expedition to the point where now that I am finally here, it literally feels unreal. One of the most forthcoming reflections has to be about the developed communities up here, and the sad realization that not everyone's values are the same. For me, the Arctic is a cherished, sacred place, dominated by nature. However, for others it is home, and some treat their home differently than I would. This was heart wrenchingly evident in the cigarette butts lining the streets of Ilullissat or Pangnirtung and the disposed waste upon Mount Uummannaq and Itilliq Fjord.
There has been much optimism from this experience as well. Even simply gathering and networking with such an incredible group of people -- young and old -- has been a learning experience in itself. One highlight came yesterday in a workshop with Justin Dearing, whose optimism was infectious. It carried over into conversation with a friend about wanting to change the norm and change apathy in our culture and youth. "Be courageous enough to care" were some words of wisdom Justin shared with us. While writing this blog I ran outside on deck to see the walrus that the ship seems to have found for us.
There has also been a strong focus on the future of the North -- Inuit having the right to modernize and develop in their own ways. Mary Simon has made it incredibly clear the importance of education for Inuit to help establish their North and provide the long-term programming and infrastructure needed. Today in a panel a discussion I asked if the future of the North would be gender equal. The development planned is labour-oriented (not suggesting woman cannot perform labour tasks, but perhaps knowing equal employment in these sectors would be a hard reality) in fields like fishing and mining, but interestingly enough it seems Inuk boys are the ones in jeopardy as high-standing governmental and administrative positions are occupied by the educated young woman coming out of the North, and males make up the majority of the alarmingly high dropout rate. Another point I thought was interesting has been the rumor of Arctic waters as an accessible shipping route. As SOI has learned, "flexibility is the key," seeing as we are now sailing en route to Frobisher Bay and not through Lancaster Sound as originally planned. The unpredictable ice conditions here, in my opinion, seem to act as a natural defence mechanism. Even with less sea ice forming, it is how thick and in what key areas it develops that decides shipping routes and even student expedition plans.
Friends here already speak about reunion, seeing each other again, and for some even finding excuses to come back to the North. It will be a strange shift out of expedition mode when I return to the hot and crowded GTA. I have been so comfortable and at home in my wool sweaters, toques and corduroy pants that I can't imagine exchanging them for shorts, t-shirts and bathing suits. On that note, I am happy to report that yesterday in Kingnait Fjord the SOI arctic swim team initiated about 80 new members, myself included. This trip has been a roller-coaster series of physically and emotional experiences, and whether it's witnessing climate change sites, seeing breathtaking landscapes or riding the nauseous waves and swells of the ships, all have been embraced. But the sights I have seen, the conversations I have had and the experiences I have taken a part in are the incredible package this expedition has to offer. I will cherish them and take them with me into the future chapters of my life.
N. Smithfield, RI, USA
Today we had a rather long and strenuous day! I was on the group that went on the long hike to the Arctic Circle. The hike started off very fun because we were excited to get to the Arctic Circle. It was a very long hike, and we ate lunch somewhere past the Arctic Circle. The way back was much different. It seemed to go on forever and it started to get very cold. When I made it back to the zodiac I was jumping for joy! I'm now very proud to say that I completed a 27.32 kilometer hike, and even though it seemed to last for days, it was definitely very worth it to choose the long hike! The scenery was amazing and unlike anything I have ever seen before or will probably ever see again in my life (well, I hope to see it again!) Even though I am trying to savour all of my experiences on this trip, I am really excited to go home in a few days to tell everyone even more about everything and to show all of you my pictures!
Nanaimo, British Columbia
Hi everyone,
Today I will be directing a student-led discussion on what action we are planning to do upon our return from our expedition.
I've only been on this boat for, what, two weeks, and I've managed to take in a month's worth of experiences in time. The question is: how will it help me to inspire change?
It's a seemingly simple concept, yet it is so difficult. How do feelings as immense as seeing a wild polar bear or visiting the cultural heart of a community only 100 strong be translated in a way that can impact other people? How can I make a Powerpoint, a speech, a personal experience when all I have as proof are words? I feel just talking about it isn't enough. Words are easy to throw around; sometimes the power behind them becomes saturated. The experiences I've been through both to get on this journey as well as the journey itself deserve more than that.
As big as this task of saving the world may be, I believe I am ready for it.
One of the things that this trip has taught me:
many of us have already done a lot of things. Many of us have more things yet to do.
I must remember what I feel right now: hope. It is a slippery emotion for an activist, especially if all your heart is into it, yet I believe we all are up for the challenge.
Either way, we've got another day on the rocky Davis Strait to figure it out!
PS: I wish oceans didn't have so many waves.
Portugal Cove, NL, Canada
Since my last entry, we have sailed past Monumental Island. In that time, I have seen a solitary Bowhead, and walruses lying on ice floes. This short piece will be my final entry.
Protect the poles, protect the Planet.
Thetford Mines, QC
July 22, 2013
Hey! Hier, j'aurais bien voulu vous écrire mais j'ai eu le mal de mer. À vrai dire, au moins 80% du groupe a également été victime de cet affreux mal de mer, incluant les professeurs et experts. :) Heureusement, aujourd'hui, tout va mieux (pour moi en tout cas). En ce qui concerne les autres, certains d'hier étaient encore très, très malades et d'autres (le 20% restant) le sont devenus, dont Geoff qui ne semblait pas tout à fait en forme, étendu sur le piano). Hier, nous avons écrit une lettre et l'avons mis en bouteille qu'on a scellée avec l'espoir qu'un jour, quelqu'un trouve cette bouteille sur la plage et puisse nous recontacter et concacter les scientifiques pour actualiser certains détails sur les courants marins, etc. Aujourd'hui, c'était totalement INCROYABLE!!!!! On a vu une dizaine de polar bears, des phoques, des oiseaux et sans oublier les baleines. En après-midi, on est partis en Zodiac pour s'approcher des polar bears et des phoques. Encore là, c'était définitivement magnifique! Bref, toujours vivante, toujours prête à vivre des aventures et toujours pas hâte de rentrer à la maison! Ne vous inquiétez pas (pour ceux qui s'inquiètent), le retour à la maison est prévu dans le programme... O__o
July 24, 2013
Rebonjour! J'espère que tout va bien de votre côté! Du mien, c'est totalement fou ce que je vis depuis le début du voyage. Hier par exemple, on est allés dans un village dont je ne peux me rappeler du nom et même si c'était le cas, je ne saurais l'écrire. Quoiqu'il en soit, c'était vraiment génial! On a visité un peu, joué à des jeux inuits, dansé... Et en plus, pour le dîner, le capitaine avait organise un bbq sur le patio en haut, c'était non seulement délicieux, mais aussi incroyablement amusant! Il y avait de la musique, les serveurs, les élèves et même les professeurs dansaient! Il y a eu en premier lieu un gangnam style, un harlem shake et plein d'autres. On a tous eu le fou rire! Et aujourd'hui, j'ai participé à une excursion de 30 km dans les montagnes. C'était long, il faisait froid, mais je recommencerais demain encore! Je vous l'assure, je suis faite pour ce genre de vie! Et si j'ai la chance de retourner dans un endroit pareil, j'y accoure le plus tôt possible la bave aux lèvres. Bref, je vous redonne des nouvelles le plus tôt possible!
July 26, 2013
Bonjour tous! Hier, c'était vraiment bien comme journée! On a fait une randonnée et ensuite, on s'est baignés! L'eau était gelée mais c'était génial, totalement fou! Lorsqu'on est retournés aux zodiacs, on a dû marche 6 km de plus car la marée était trop basse. Peu importe, hier était une journée incroyable. Et aujourd hui... Comme c'est une grand mot. Aujourd'hui, hier, demain... Ces trois mots peuvent paraître bien banals mais en réalité, je ne pourrais exprimer le vrai sens de ceux-ci en seulement quelques mots. Quoiqu'il en soit, aujourd'hui est notre dernière journée entière en arctique. J'ai donc été un peu triste toute la journée. Mais ce soir, on fête, ça va sans doute compenser. Demain on arrive à Iqualuit et on prendra l'avion. Je suis vraiment navrée de quitter le bateau. Et la simple idée de devoir dire adieu a tous ces gens que j'ai rencontrés il y a à peine 2 semaines me désole. C'est stupéfiant comme je me suis attachée à eux, à l'équipage, au bateau et tout le reste. Bon, je suppose que ca va être tout pour aujourd'hui. Je vous souhaite de vous amuser sans trop penser à moi, je vais bien et c'est ce qui importe (enfin, je pense). Un gros salut à tous! En passant, Rosalie, j'ai lu ta lettre. Je voulais attendre à la toute fin du voyage pour la lire car je ne voulais pas trop avoir le mal du pays. C'était très beau et touchant. J'ai pleuré en tout cas. En ce qui concerne chers parents, ne vous ennuyez pas trop, de toute façon je reviens bientôt. C'est dommage, mais c'est le cas. :) Je pense à vous, à toi aussi Math!
To me nature is the quiet middle child. Never demands a thing, remains quiet and patient, in ways like this morning. It's 6 AM but on deck the sun is up high like it is mid day elsewhere. She doesn't glare down at me, instead I have to glare up at her in a squint! She is too strong for my eyes. This morning the only boarders around the sea are low hovering clouds: a bulky veil of grey plumes of the sky. She hovers above them, a clear shot to the ocean upon which she sparkles royally.
I want to gobble this feeling up but cannot. Memory fades, all to keep the memory of this wavy 6 AM wake up is a sentiment. The hope to relive another morning like this with a wavy boat and its creeky walls where I sit with my seasick room mate. This sentiment is something to strive towards: a goal. A new thing to conquer. One day the sea will be my conquest in that I'll have the privilege to sail upon her in a boat, my destinations boundless. Flying over waves, comparable maybe only to the rolling sands of the Sahara desert.
The Sea Adventurer copes well a top it. A faithful steed, so to speak, that wont let us drown.
The World
Taken to the Arctic, Greenland then Canada
by place, care then boat. It has taken me off guard how
the trip has rebirthed my mind: my attitude. Being at
sea has changed me. Little girls rehearse "The Sound of Music" so long, farewell, etc.
One goodbye after another. In all languages, a mirror to the people on this boat. One
day we'll all be adults, like the 'staff' but they're all spectacular,
I'll be proud. Adventurous, intellectual, possessing a humility that never ceases. You can't
buy that. In a world where everything is procured with cash
a true soul is hard to come by. Here it's how you survive. Money has lost its value on this
boat. Uummannaq has taught me much about the heart. Let things do the talking for you,
to boast you must not be the boastee. Louis taught me that. Set
sail not off to ether but towards the core of something. I'm
off to Neverland.
Where possibility is boundless and children can fly.
heart has flown, taken off with my
Oakville, ON
July 21, 2013
Dear Friends and Family,
Today we left Greenland for Nunavut. Our plans have been changed due to the fact that the ice in Resolute Bay was much too thick for us to sail through. We are now crossing the Davis Strait to Frobisher Bay where we will spend the next few days of our trip exploring up and down the coast of Baffin Island. We've got plans to visit the Auyuittuq National Park and hopefully we'll see some polar bears along the way.
The other day we had some more whale sightings -- they were finback whales, the second largest whales in the world. Today we saw some more whales -- this time they were bottlenose whales, which dive up to a depth of 1000 m.
Yesterday we had a wonderful day in Uummannaq, where we celebrated with the locals the 250th anniversary of their town. We sang them a song which our musician Ian wrote the night before. The town really appreciated the music. We took a hike and later watched a movie in the town's former blubber house. They provided sealskin parkas for us since it was very cold in the building -- it made us feel like real Inuit! The movie was beautiful and was filmed in the very town that we were in. We had the priviledge of asking questions of the director and it really was a lovely experience.
Throughout this trip our boat has become a tight-knit community of people who share a common goal -- to learn as much about the Arctic as possible. Tonight during reflection time we were discussing in a group about how much Greenland has given to us and whether we have given anything back to the people and to the country. In the end, we came to the conclusion that we gave it our curiosity and eagerness to learn. We came to this beautiful land with open hearts and open minds, we soaked in what we could while we were there and we showed the people our respect. That is what we gave to Greenland.
Thank you for reading and have a good night's sleep,
xoxo Rosie
St-Georges, QC
Hier, le 24 juillet, nous avons fait une longue marche de 27,5 km dans le magnifique parc national de Auyuittuq. Nous avons passé la journée à contourner les magnifiques cours d'eau que contient cette réserve. De plus, nous avons vu plusieurs énormes glaciers situés au sommet de montagnes qui nous entouraient. Dans les derniers jours, nous avons vu plusieurs ours polaires qui étaient proches du bateau à notre arrivée en sol canadien, ils etaient si beaux! Cette expérience est vraiment une opportunité extraordinaire que je n'oublierai jamais et je remercie infiniment le Carrefour St-Georges pour m'avoir permis d'y aller. Le voyage tire bientôt à sa fin, mais je ne suis pas prête à quitter les amis que je me suis fait ici ni de dire adieu au Nord !!!
WWF-Canada, Toronto
Today is our last full day on the ship, and while some are a touch sea-sick from the swells, all -- I think -- are a touch heart-sick facing the idea of good-bye. As I write, we're entering the mouth of Frobisher Bay. We'll spend the day and night making our way slowly toward Iqaluit, where this trip ends. Or does it? During the past couple weeks we have truly lived in every moment. When you spend your days in the midst of mind-blowing landscape, in passionate conversation, in scanning icy seas for the spouts of whales - how else can it be? But today we're all thinking about what comes next.
This afternoon's panel discussion focused on the future of the Arctic. It was perhaps our most challenging -- intellectually and emotionally -- so far. We heard voices from government, from the mining sector, from the community level. There are layers upon layers of considerations, of concerns -- that diverge and overlap in complicated ways. But everything seemed to tug back to a central conundrum. Not about whether development would come to the North (it already has and it certainly will continue in one form or another). But rather at what pace. What are the underlying conditions that would make major projects, for example the Mary River Mine, successful -- not simply from an economic standpoint, but from a human one? What needs to be done first? What can be done in concert? It is something of a chicken-and-egg dilemma. Is building community capacity and infastructure a pre-requisite to getting development right, or do we need the economic injection of big projects first, to get that capacity in place?
And what about the environmental considerations? "Conservation first" is a long-standing motto of my organization. But is it possible that it takes the pressure and the opportunity of major development projects to catalyze and speed up the important research, planning, and management conversations that so often languish in bureaucracy? How can community leaders, scientists and corporations partner to invent new models of development, with multiple bottom lines for people and for the land and species they depend on? That's the question I'm left with. But I think, I really do think, it is possible.
And that's where I'll end this thought, because as I sit here, there are walrus lolling on the ice outside these windows. Time to pull back into the present. The future can wait, but not for long.


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THE FLATS – Georgia Tech's freshmen scored four times and drove in three runs as the Yellow Jackets rallied with two in the bottom of the seventh top beat Old Dominion, 6-5, in the opening game of the Battle In Midtown Friday at Russ Chandler Stadium.
The rookies helped give Georgia Tech (1-0) an early 3-2 lead, but it was the veterans that came through late as junior CF Daniel Spingola's triple to right knotted the score at 5-5 in the seventh. In the next at-bat, junior 2B Thomas Smith's RBI single to right gave Tech the lead for good.
Smith finished 2-for-4 with a double and two RBI. Sophomore LF Matt Gonzalez, a reigning freshman All-American, was on base three times thanks to a pair of doubles and a walk. He also stole a base.
Senior righty Dusty Isaacs pitched the final 3.1 innings of scoreless ball to register the win in relief. He fanned two with no walks and one hit.
"Dusty did exactly what we wanted him to do," said head coach Danny Hall. "He held the fort together and we were able to scratch a few runs across in the seventh and win the game for him. I was pleased with most of our at-bats up and down the order. It was a good win."
Sophomore lefty Jonathan King drew the opening-day start for the Yellow Jackets and settled in after a rocky first inning that saw the Monarchs strike for two runs on three hits. Mike Perez's two-run double allowed the visitors to draw first blood.
ODU (0-1) expanded the lead to 3-0 in the second thanks to Ben Slaton's lead-off homer to right, but that's when Tech's rookies went to work.
Gonzalez's one-out double got things rolling for the Jackets in the bottom of the second and freshman C Arden Pabst followed by hammering an RBI triple off the wall in center.
Rookie 3B Brandon Gold drove in Pabst with a grounder to second and the game was tied in the next at bat when freshman DH Elliott Barzilli launched a solo shot to left for his first college hit.
"I was very pleased with my freshmen today," said Hall. "I think all those guys are good players. There are guys that didn't play that will get in there before the weekend's over. Very pleased with the way the freshmen handled themselves today.
Tech started four rookies in the lineup and, including pinch-hitter Keenan Innis, the freshmen combined for four hits, four runs and three RBI.
Reliever Dean Ali took the loss for the Monarchs, allowing Tech's go-ahead runs in his two innings of work. P.J. Higgins had two hits for ODU.
The Battle In Mditown continues Friday night with VCU versus Radford. Saturday's schedule begins at 12 p.m. with VCU versus ODU. Georgia Tech and Radford meet in the nightcap at 4 p.m.

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What's 'in' today is out tomorrow and what was out yesterday is 'in' today! Fashion trends are totally unpredictable. For instance, fringes…..it was popular in the 60's, among hippies, and then again in the 90's. Nowadays, Prada too is intended fringe-ing their designer bags. This new Napa Fringe Tote from Prada speaks to the bohemian spirit. Fashion Queen Victoria Beckham too has been spotted with this 'wild animal under your arm' bag!
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D-Link claims to have launched the first truly wireless media player, which it will showcase at Gitex 2004 show and hopes will form the centre of digital homes across the Middle East.
Aimed at users excited by the idea of streaming multimedia content around their home over a fast wireless network, D-Link's DSM-320 Wireless Media Player is the latest addition to its 'Media Lounge' range and supports almost all audio, video, and image formats that can be stored on a PC.
"The new wireless media player gives users access to more content than ever before while eliminating the need to be seated in one fixed location," said Wilson Xavier, business manager for D-Link-ME. "This product is a great example of networking technology evolving to create a convergence of various useful everyday components and devices. Using the DSM-320 friends and family can gather together and watch thousands of easy-to-navigate digital photos, or watch their favorite movies on a big-screen with surround sound if they wish. All this from the comfort of their living room. Multimedia entertainment on a PC or laptop can't match that experience."
With support for MP3, WMA and WAV audio files, users can listen to music play lists such as M3U and PLS on the stereo system. Video format compatibility meanwhile, lets users watch stored videos in MPEG1/2/4, AVI, or Xvid format on TV, or enjoy slideshows of their favorite photos in JPEG, JPEG2000, TIFF, GIF, BMP or PNG formats. Access to these options comes via a graphical TV Interface and included remote control.
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One of the greatest adventure stories in Hollywood history gets a new interpretation in this action drama from Academy Award-winning director Peter Jackson. In the early 1930s, Carl Denham (Jack Black) is a daring filmmaker and adventurer who has gained a reputation for his pictures documenting wildlife in remote and dangerous jungle lands; despite the objections of his backers, Denham plans to film his next project aboard an ocean vessel en route to Skull Island, ...WATCH
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Betsy Byars
I went to a school once, and I took a manuscript with me. I had just gotten it back, complete with editor's notes in the margin, and I showed the kids some of the comments, one of which was `Make this funny!'. There was a lot of interest in this, and the general consensus was that the editor meant me to put in some jokes. If only it were so simple, for the truth is that there are far too many jokes in the world and far too little humour.
I have always been drawn to humour, but I am not a humorist. My books are serious, with comic episodes. The humour serves a dual purpose. It balances out the serious things. The tougher the theme, the more humour is needed - for my own relief as well as the reader's.
The gap between what adults find funny and what kids think is funny is considerable. So I'm always looking for things that are funny to kids. When one of my daughters had some friends over, one of the boys noticed there were two cobwebs hanging from the ceiling. He got up on the piano bench and pretended to be Tarzan, attempting too swing from one to the other. It was very funny.
And so, in The Eighteenth Emergency, when Mouse Fawley looks up on his ceiling and sees a cobweb, he doesn't try to swing on it, but he had previously written UNSAFE FOR PUBLIC SWINGING and drawn an arrow to it. This opened up a whole facet of Mouse's personality. When he sees a crack in the wall, he writes, TO OPEN BUILDING TEAR ALONG THIS LINE, and I would never have thought of that on my own.
My son had a friend who did whale imitations. I was never privileged to see them, because Phil never did his imitations on request, but only when moved to do so. When this happened, the word would spread and kids would appear from blocks around to watch, helpless with laughter. 'What are the imitations like?' I asked my son. 'They're like - whales,' was his explanation. I sometimes found myself looking at Phil, the comic imitator of whales, wondering, but he looked back with his face in neutral, as all my son's friends did, and I could never imagine the imitations for myself. Years later, while writing Cracker Jackson, with Jackson's friend Percy doing the whale imitations, I did see it quite clearly, and my son was right - the imitations were like whales.
The forbidden is always funny, and usually the first kind of humour kids discover is bathroom humour. At first certain words are just plain hilarious, and the appeal of reducing one's friends to helpless laughter and, at the same time, shocking adults is considerable.
The funniest word in the vocabulary of an American six/seven year-old is 'underwear'. When I speak to their classes, I always read the opening sentence of The Night Swimmers. 'When the swimming pool lights were turned out and Colonel and Mrs Roberts had gone to bed, the Anderson kids came out of the bushes in their underwear.' It is such a successful sentence that I often have to repeat it. I have even been asked if I had any other funny sentences.
I reached my peak as a bathroom humorist in The Two-Thousand-Pound Goldfish.The goldfish has been flushed down the toilet, into the sewer, where it comes to weigh two thousand pounds and slurps five or six people to death. The soldiers are marching into the sewer to kill Bubbles, and Warren gets the idea that if everyone in the city flushed their toilets at, say, 10 o'clock, the floodgates would open and Bubbles would be swept out to sea 'where she could live the rest of her life in peace and harmony'.
There follows a seven-page countdown in which the announcer entreats the listeners to flush their toilets. 'It's five minutes to ten. If you have more than one bathroom, get a neighbour to come flush with you.' 'It's four minutes to ten, open your windows, yell, "Flush!" to the people in the streets below.' It takes two pages to get everyone in their bathrooms, and the final countdown is 'five-four-three-two-one-FLUSH!' Sometimes I read this to classes and usually I never have to actually say the word 'flush', because the entire room will make the sound of a toilet flushing. The thought of 50 kids flushing like toilets may not thrill you, but it has never failed to move me.
Bad grammar is more amusing than good grammar. My particular weakness has always been for the double negative. I love it. Some-times I use it not to be funny, but to make the character's speech more authentic. In Trouble River, the grandmother says, 'We ain't got no chance . . .' and 'I didn't come no one thousand miles to ...'That was not meant to be funny, and it actually turned out to be unfunny because I got letters from English teachers chastising me for reinforcing the unfortunate speech patterns which they were trying to change.
Used properly, the double negative is amusing. In The Eighteenth Emergency, Mouse remembers when the boys decided, during a recess lull, to put the girls in the school trash cans. There's a long screaming charge, which ends with Mouse having Viola Angotti pinned against the garbage cans. He realises he's not going to be able to get Viola in the garbage can without a great deal of help.
'He called again, "Come on you guys, get the lid off this garbage can, will you?"
And then, when he said that, Viola Angotti had taken two steps forward. She said, "Nobody's putting me in no garbage can."
He cried, "Hey, you guys!" It was a plea. "Where are you?"
And then Viola Angotti had taken one more step, and with a faint sigh she had socked him in the stomach so hard that he had doubled over and lost his lunch.
As she walked past his crumpled body she had said again, "Nobody's putting me in no garbage can." It had sounded like one of the world's basic truths. The sun will rise. The tides will flow.
Nobody's putting Viola Angotti in no garbage can.'
When I was in school, the simile and the metaphor were things I encountered on English worksheets. 'Find two similes and one metaphor in the second chapter of Moby Dick.' A simile in a children's book must be within the child's reach. The Bingo Brown books lend themselves to the simile, because the reader accepts that these are Bingo's comparisons, rather than mine. When Bingo has a mixed-sex conversation with Melissa, it's 'like the olympics of mixed-sex conversations'. When he lies down on his Smurf sheets, he's 'as comfortable as if he were lying onreal Smurfs'. When he takes off half his eyebrow during his first shave, the remaining eyebrow has 'a suggestive snarl, like the curl of Elvis Presley's lip'.
Children need parody, just as adults do, because it is a form of humorous protest. The essential point in the use of parody, I think, is to prick a balloon, to show how ridiculous or even how painful some element of our daily life is.
My favourite target is the National Enquirer. Among the headlines Bingo Brown fears to appear in is BOY LOVES TWO GIRLS FOR INFINITY - SETS WORLD RECORD, but in The Midnight Fox, long before I was aware of the Enquirer, I parodied headlines. Petie Burkis writes of a personal humiliation at a park - BOY FALLS DOWN BANK WHILE GIRL ONLOOKERS CHEER - and then goes on to write a story that sounds like it had come from a real newspaper.
TV lends itself particularly well to parody, which is one of the reasons I enjoyed writing The TV Kid. I relished the creation of 'Give It a Spin', the game show where you pick your prizes and we see that you take them, and the commercial for 'Friend', the lifesize doll that allows you to have someone to talk to. 'With Friend, you'll never have to go to the movies alone. And remember, Friend comes with a special ID card that lets him enter all movie theaters and sports events for half price.' My favourite was a commercial that Lennie imagines for Fail-Ease, the tablet that eases failure and makes you less afraid to fail the next time. 'Yes, for the nagging relief from failure, take Fail-Ease, the failure reliever that requires no prescription. 'Don't we wish.
Actually it is not I who thinks up these parodies and similes. It is a character in the book, in the same way that while I could never write a country-western song, I can create a character who can write 'My Angel Went to Heaven in a DC-3'. I cannot write poetry, but I can create a character who, without batting an eye, can turn out such a complicated rhyme as 'I love the roof and that's the troof.
There's a whole area of what I would call negative humour - insults, sarcasm, ridicule. Children, in real life, dread ridicule so much, they guard against it. If they are afraid they won't get an invitation they say, 'I wouldn't go to the party if I was invited'. If scorned for sloppiness, they become twice as sloppy to show they don't care.
But they like insults as long as someone else is the target. When I needed insults in The Burning Questions of Bingo Brown, I got a book of insults, just as Billy Wentworth did, and I dealt them out with the same ruthlessness as he did.
"'Mamie Lou, you are a perfect ten. Your face is a two, your body is a two, your legs are a two -" Mamie Lou wisely didn't wait around to hear what her other twos were.'
'Harriet, you may not have invented ugliness, but you sure are the local distributor.'
'Miss Fanucci is so ugly that when she goes to the zoo she has to buy two tickets - one to get in and one to get out.'
Since Miss Fanucci overhears her insult, that puts a blessed end to the insults.
Understatement is a form of humour easily lost on kids. The knack of producing humour by using understatement is to finish a sentence with a word or phrase that is milder than the listener expected, anticlimactic. Kids have an innate ability for this kind of humour and do it without even trying. My favourite letter was written, not to me, but to Laura Ingalls Wilder, and I used it in The Burning Questions of Bingo Brown. 'Dear Laura Ingalls Wilder, I know that you are dead, but please write if you can and let me know where you get your ideas.'
In Max Eastman's Ten Commandmentsof the Comic Art, Commandment Three is 'Be effortless'. I especially like that, because it is almost my sole commandment, my goal in writing. I work on something until it looks as if I haven't worked on it at all. If it looks as if I've worked on it, I go back and work some more. But it's especially important in humour. Humour demands natural-ness and simplicity. To appear spontaneous may require a week's work. More than any other type of writing, humour has got to resemble play, which is really what it is.
Betsy Byars lives in South Carolina and has written over 30 children's books. Details of the titles mentioned in this article are:
Eighteenth Emergency, Bodley Head, 0 370 10924 4, £6.95; Puffin, 0 14 030863 6, £2.50 pbk
Cracker Jackson, Puffin, 0 14 031881 1, £2.99 pbk
The Night Swimmers, Puffin, 0 14 031409 1, £2.99 pbk
The Two-Thousand-Pound Goldfish, Puffin, 0 14 031607 8, £2.50 pbk
The TV Kid, Puffin, 0 14 031065 7, £2.50 pbk
The Burning Questions of Bingo Brown, Bodley Head, 0 370 31186 8, £6.99; Puffin, 0 14 034319 9, £2.99 pbk
Trouble River is out of print.
Her most recent titles are both published by Bodley Head and cost £8.99 each:
Coast to Coast, 0 370 31820 X
The Moon and Me, 0 370 31827 7 - That rare offering, an autobiography of a children's writer written for her readers. Warm BfK recommendations.


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Basketball: Angolan Bruno Fernando seeks to become NBA player
Luanda - The power forward, Bruno Fernandes, is seeking to become the first Angolan to play in the American NBA basketball league, should he be drafted.
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The Angolan player is part of the 60 players expecting to be drafted by NBA teams.
Bruno Fernando, who is to turn 21 years old in August, played for Maryland University ( US) this season having been nominated one of the five players contesting for Kareen Abdul Jabbar award 2019.
The 2, 08 metres tall player, who started his career at Angola's 1º de Agosto team, has been considered physically ready to meet the demands of the NBA competition.
Bruno Fernandes could become the first Angolan to play in the NBA following failed attempts by Gerson Monteiro (San Antonio Spurs), Victor Muzadi (Dallas Mavericks), Olímpio Cipriano (Detroit Pistons), Yanick Moreira (LA Clippers) and Carlos Morais (Toronto Raptors).
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He acts haughty while fighting against Terrans, trying to test what they are capable of doing against the power of Aldnoah. Despite his arrogant nature, Yacoym appears to be very accepting of his defeat, as he, before his death, commends Inaho for his superb use of tactics.
Yacoym goes after the Deucalion's loading dock. While doing so, Harbinger Platoon engages him. The leader and two other pilots are frozen in their KG-7 Areion's, and Inko Amifumi and Rayet Areash try to hold him off. He engages Inaho Kaizuka who approaches him slowly after creating air bursts with bullets and grenades. After this, Inaho gets close enough to fire at point-blank range, killing Yacoym, who accepts his defeat. (AZ2: "This Side of Paradise")
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Microwave-assisted reduction of F-BODIPYs and dipyrrins to generate dipyrromethanes
Melanson, Jennifer A.
Smithen, Deborah A.
Cameron, T. Stanley
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The reduction of BODIPYs and dipyrrins to dipyrromethanes, via a reaction involving ethylene glycol and sodium methoxide, is reported. When benzyl alcohol is used in place of ethylene glycol, the addition of 2,4-dinitrophenylhydrazine to the reaction mixture after microwave irradiation results in the production of 1-benzylidene-2-(2,4-dinitrophenyl)hydrazone indicating concomitant production of aldehyde alongside the dipyrromethane.
Melanson, J. A., Smithen, D. A., Cameron, T. S., & Thompson, A. (2013). Microwave-assisted reduction of F-BODIPYs and dipyrrins to generate dipyrromethanes. Canadian Journal of Chemistry, 92(8), 688-694. doi: https://doi.org/10.1139/cjc-2013-0341


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RAF 315 (Polish) Squadron was one of 16 Polish squadrons in the Royal Air Force during World War Two. In Polish, they were Dywizjon Myśliwski "Dębliński". This nickname was in honour of the city of Deblin, where the Polish Air Force Academy was before the war.
On 21st January 1941, the Royal Air Force activated RAF 315 Squadron at RAF Acklington, Northumberland. The formation of this fighter squadron came through an agreement between the exiled Polish government and the United Kingdom. They first operated from RAF Speke, Liverpool under the command of Squadron leader HD Cooke.
The fighting Poles would remain active throughout the Second World War until 14th January 1947. Among the planes flown by RAF 303 Squadron were Hawker Hurricanes, Supermarine Spitfires, and North American Mustangs.
Polish Airmen at War
In July 1941, RAF 315 Squadron began flying Supermarine Spitfires from RAF Northolt, near London, claiming their first enemy planes over occupied France.
All I know is that fighting beside the Royal Air Force all through the war has been a gallant band of Polish airmen – the Polish Air Force. The crucible of war has fused those two forces – the Royal Air Force and the Polish Air Force – together. We have been comrades in arms and we shall remain comrades in peace.
Air Chief Marshal Sir Sholto Douglas. October 1945 visit to Warsaw.
RAF 315 Squadron at Ballyhalbert
On 6th July 1943, RAF 315 Squadron arrived at RAF Ballyhalbert, Co. Down under the command of Squadron Leader Jerzy Popławski. While there, they carried out operational training and flew convoy patrols.
On 14th August 1942, Polish Commander in Chief General Kazimierz Sosnkowski visited Ballyhalbert, Co. Down. On this Squadron Day, he presented medals to some of the airmen and Mass was said in one of the hangars. He met Polish pilots, watched a flying display, and presented the Cross of Virtuti Militari to Squadron Leader Sawicz, Flying Officer Blok, Squadron Leader Popawski, and Flying Officer Malczewski.
On 11th September 1943, three Supermarine Spitfires took off from the Ballyhalbert airfield in the hands of men from RAF 315 Squadron. The Polish airmen were Flight Sergeant Kolek, Flight Sergeant Zygmund, and Warrant Officer Grondowski. The three planes were on a practise formation flight.
They lost sight of each other in bad weather over Co. Antrim and all three Spitfires came down. Grondowski came down near Plantation House, Lisburn, Co. Antrim, Kolek crashed near Ballyutoag, Templepatrick, Co. Antrim, and Zygmund survived his crash at Glengormley, Co. Antrim. Warrant Officer Grondowski and Sergeant Kolek's graves are in Ballycran Beg Churchyard, near Ballyhalbert, Co. Down.
The War's End
After leaving Northern Ireland on 13th November 1943, the Polish airmen would see action on D-Day, as well as across Europe until the war's end. Despite their heroic achievements, RAF 315 Squadron was not part of the London Victory Parade in 1946. Morale decreased in all the Polish Squadrons due to the treatment of Poland by other Allied nations.
Today, the people of Northern Ireland and the United Kingdom show much more appreciation to the Polish fighter pilots. The men of RAF 315 Squadron were not the only Poles based in Northern Ireland. Throughout the war, 15 Polish men died in Ulster and their graves lie scattered across the province. In June 2018, Ards and North Down Borough Council put forward a proposal for a memorial to the Polish airmen based in Northern Ireland. Unveiled on 18th November 2018, it stands in the War Memorial Garden at Court Square, Newtownards, Co. Down.
Thank you to Wilhelm Ratuszynski for permission to use these photos. Please visit Polish Squadrons Remembered for more from the visit of General Sosnkowski to Ballyhalbert.


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Quinn Wilson is the CEO of North America and a Senior Vice President of CNOOC International. In this capacity, Quinn has oversight for our Oil Sands, Canada Gas, US Shale and US Gulf of Mexico operations. Appointed to this role in June 2018, Quinn's top priority is ensuring each of these assets delivers safe, reliable operations every day.
Quinn joined the company in 2010 as Senior Vice President of Human Resources and Corporate Administration. Under his leadership, the team developed strong recruitment and retention strategies, employee engagement and performance management processes and a high-performance culture to support the Company's aggressive growth plan. In 2016, his portfolio expanded to include oversight for the Information Technology and Marketing functions, as well as the company's US shale operations with solid positions in both the Eagleford and Niobrara basins.
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Democrats Concerned Because of Nominee's Christian Beliefs. Again.
As has now been widely reported, Brian Buescher has been nominated to the US District Court. In the course of confirmation, nominees provide written responses to written questions from the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Two Democrat Senators, Kamala Harris (D-CA) and Mazie Hirono (D-HI), appear to raise concerns about Buescher's religious beliefs:
Hirono asked whether his membership in the Knights of Columbus would prevent him from hearing cases "fairly and impartially" and, if confirmed, whether he would end his membership in the Roman Catholic charitable organization.
"The Knights of Columbus has taken a number of extreme positions," Hirono said in the questionnaire. "For example, it was reportedly one of the top contributors to California's Proposition 8 campaign to ban same-sex marriage."
Yes, that's a US Senator un-ironically declaring opposition to same-sex marriage an "extreme position."
Harris, in her questions to the nominee, called the Knights of Columbus "an all-male society" and asked the Nebraska lawyer if he was aware that the group was anti-abortion and anti-gay marriage when he joined. The California senator also referenced Supreme Knight Carl A. Anderson's statement that abortion amounted to "the killing of the innocent on a massive scale" and asked Buescher if he agreed with the statement.
Both Harris and Hirono are taking issues with Catholic religious beliefs. Surely they're not so ignorant as to not know that.
Representing the Knights of Columbus, Kathleen Blomquist said the questions hearkened back to the days of anti-Catholic sentiment.
"Our country's sad history of anti-Catholic bigotry contributed to the founding of the Knights of Columbus, and we are proud of the many Catholics who overcame this hurdle to contribute so greatly to our country," she told the CNA.
Blomquist added: "We were extremely disappointed to see that one's commitment to Catholic principles through membership in the Knights of Columbus—a charitable organization that adheres to and promotes Catholic teachings—would be viewed as a disqualifier from public service in this day and age."
Religious freedom is a thing, Senators, as is the "No Religious Test" clause of the US Constitution.
Unfortunately, because this apparent bigotry is aimed toward Christian beliefs, it will not be criticized or disavowed as it would have been had Buescher been Jewish or homosexual. In America, it is politically and socially acceptable to attack Christian religious beliefs.
That's the state of American society. True, it is only two Senators (in this conversation, though others have spoken up against Christian beliefs in the recent past). That this can be said in a public forum and not be roundly condemned is a sad commentary on the direction religious freedom is going in the United States.
While anti-Christian groups might be smirking that bigotry is all but sanctioned against Christians, they might remember: First, they came for the Christians…


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A retired physician who volunteers at the Venice Family Clinic and St. Joseph Center and is an advocate of single-payer healthcare, said that the nation has "reached the endgame in our dysfunctional healthcare system and to add another layer of bureaucracy within the public system makes no sense."
Jerome Helman, M.D., who retired one and a half years ago after 42 years in medical practice, said, "As a physician, I see the need to cover the growing population without health insurance becoming desperate by the day. At the Venice Family Clinic I see first-time patients from middle class homes and families, who require treatment and medication they cannot afford.
"Even just a simple mental health prescription that will prevent further depression or deterioration of a mental health condition is too expensive for most, as it requires a doctor's office visit or the inappropriate use of a hospital emergency room. The public plan will still leave tens of millions of Americans without health insurance and a legacy of debt we cannot afford."
Helman said that he has seen a 40 percent increase in the need for services at Venice-based St. Joseph Center, which provides assistance to needy families and individuals on the Westside.
He is affiliated with the California Physicians Alliance (CaPA), a chapter of Physicians for a National Health Program (PNHP).
"As a single-payer advocate representing 17,000 physicians nationally and locally (PNHP, CaPA), single-payer is neutral fiscally, so it will not require new funding or taxes," said Helman in a letter to Congresswoman Jane Harman, who represents the 36th District. "With the money now sequestered by the health insurance companies in inordinate administrative waste, in delays in authorizing care and in excess profits up to $800 billion is already available to fund a government-sponsored healthcare system that would not deny any citizen or qualified individual from coverage."
CaPA is a statewide nonprofit organization sharing a goal with PNHP of promoting a single-payer healthcare program and works on incremental reforms to promote justice in healthcare, according to its Web site. PHNP is a nonprofit research and education organization of over 17,000 physicians, medical students and healthcare professionals who support single-payer national health insurance.
"When an individual has to choose between food and medication or has reached the point where neither is possible, no amount of rhetoric will change the reality," said Helman. "When a working or middle class individual comes for their first visit to the Venice Family Clinic there may be despair and a feeling of failure, but it offers that person a chance to regain the health and dignity that we all deserve."
"The relentless increase in premiums, co-pays and deductibles by the health insurance industry, as well as the usurious rise in the cost of medications in the past 15 years has brought us to this moment of crisis," he continued. "Incremental change is the problem. Revolutionary change is the only way out. Healthcare is a human right.
"Physicians really have no serious political force. We are prevented from organizing in any way to protect us financially. Our world has been decimated by legislators and the insurance industry to the point there is nothing left to take away or change. As if punishment has been rendered to a powerless waif until there is no life or sense remaining.
"I talk about the siege physicians are under now. We need advocacy, political power and political will. PNHP has the right understanding and is gaining strength and numbers and has the political will to reach our endpoint. There indeed are many Democrats and Progressives in our midst but also some conservative thinkers and Republicans," Helman said.
The Veterans Administration has the state-of-the-art information technology that would make electronic medical records (EMR) available to every physician, not only primary care doctors, who are presently "under siege" with their economic burdens, said Helman. With the economic stimulus subsidy of $20 billion already designated for EMR, he said a gift of this technology to physicians would guarantee a transparent and seamless transition without the inefficiencies and excessive charges of those poor systems now available.
The concept of single-payer healthcare is not a new one. California State Senator Mark Leno introduced the California Universal Health Care Act (SB 810) early this year. It carries forward the work of the California Health Insurance Reliability Act (SB 840) a Medicare-like, single-payer program authored by then state Senator Sheila Kuehl in 2005. Kuehl's bill was passed by both houses of the state legislature in 2006 and again in 2008, and was vetoed both times by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger.
"A single payer system for California, as developed in my bills and now, in SB 810, establishes a universal health insurance system that provides every California resident with comprehensive benefits for life; puts your premiums, based on a small percentage of your income, and, for employers, a percentage of payroll, with no co-pays or deductibles, directly into healthcare spending;
It allows you to choose your own doctors, hospitals, dentists, eye care providers, and other medical services, without limiting you to a network; ensures the best use of your money by cutting the current 25 percent private companies now spend for overhead to just five percent; and, through rewarding excellence and sharing efficiencies and best practices, ensures patient-centered, good quality healthcare for all Californians," Kuehl states on her Web site.
The former senator said, "You can't lose the insurance if you lose or change your job. You won't be turned down. The plan is fully funded with the money we already spend on healthcare, which, last year, combining state, federal, local and all premiums, co-pays, deductibles and out-of-pocket expenses, totaled more than $200 billion.
"The bill eliminates wasteful insurance overhead, invests in electronic infrastructure that improves quality while reducing cost, emphasizes prevention and primary healthcare, and utilizes California's purchasing power to realize savings on prescriptions and durable medical equipment."
Kuehl, now a member of the California Integrated Waste Management Board, told The Argonaut that the claim of socialized medicine by opponents of single-payer healthcare is "completely false."
"People don't understand the difference. Socialized medicine is where the government employs the doctors, all hospitals are public, and the healthcare system is state-run. That would potentially be socialized medicine. In the same way as you might say a socialized police force, with all our public safety employees being employed by the city, county or state. That is not the model for single payer.
"Single payer is more like a Medicare model where everyone pays a premium into a central fund, and out of that fund all of your healthcare services are covered, so that you don't pay a co-pay or a deductible. You would have a full comprehensive policy based on the premium you pay into a central system like Medicare."
Asked if SB 840/SB 810 is the same as the United States National Healthcare Act (HR 676), introduced by Congressman John Conyers, Jr. of Michigan, Kuehl said, "I think so, but that bill is not as fully developed as the bill we have in California. We have over a 100-page bill that gets out all of the governance structure, all of the coverage, so that it's embedded in statute.
"In a sense, we can't get a bill here with funding in it because it would require a two-thirds vote since it would be considered a tax, even though it would take the place of all the premiums. So it would be less than what you pay now. You would have the ability to choose your own doctors, hospitals, dentists, ophthalmologists and other healthcare providers, and not be limited to a network by insurance companies."
Asked if the state budget crisis would have an effect on getting Leno's bill passed, Kuehl answered, "The California budget has nothing to do with it because this is not budget money. If it [Kuehl's original bill] could have been funded in 2006, a study by The Lewin Group [a national healthcare and human services consulting firm] identified that it would have been about three-and-a-half percent of your income as a yearly premium and about seven percent payroll tax, with all employers having to participate, but that's about half of what employers pay now to provide health insurance."
Kuehl said that schools, cities, counties, the state, law enforcement, public employees, unions and retirees who pay for healthcare now would all be participatory in the system. There would be "enormous" savings, a reason why school districts are in favor of single payer healthcare.
"Insurance companies are very, very, very concerned," she said, "since they make billions of dollars a year just in California, and they would no longer be allowed to operate as health insurance companies except to sell policies for elective surgeries, such as cosmetic surgery."
"President Barack Obama said that if you like your plan you can keep it. If you don't, a public option with rules could be created to have an opportunity to buy insurance you can afford," said Kuehl.
"The reason he said that is because people are very reluctant to let go until they understand the new plan is not going away. It took 35 years for Medicare to be added to social security. It takes a long time to build a movement that will be primarily focused on public education, so that one person at a time comes to realize that this program will be better for them," she said.
Marcy Winograd, who is opposing Harman in the 2010 election, is a strong proponent of single-payer healthcare. She wrote in an article for LA Progressive, "Single-payers crashing the gates," saying that she contacted the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) to find out why there are no federal government cost projections for single payer.
She said the communications director replied that the CBO takes its orders from Congress, specifically the leadership (House Speaker and Senate Majority Leader) as well as the chairs of various committees, and that the priorities for the CBO are set by Congress.
In her article, Winograd commented about the charge that the public option is an attempt to "socialize" healthcare. "Please. Last time I checked we had publicly funded the fire department, police department, national parks, libraries, universities and the highways of America.
"Though the government pays the bills for these services, fire departments are still free to purchase equipment made by private vendors and libraries are free to purchase books from for-profit publishing houses. The same would be true under a single-payer system, which though funded by taxpayers, would allow for individual choice; choose any doctor, hospital, lab, or clinic you wish. Ironically, a free-market approach in the delivery of healthcare," said Winograd.
The new president of the American Medical Association (AMA), J.J. Rohack, M.D., said in his inauguration speech that if the use of federal taxes to significantly pay for healthcare defines a public plan, one already exists, the Federal Employee Health Benefits Plan. He said that individuals whose employer doesn't provide health insurance coverage could buy into that federal plan with advanceable credits inversely related to their income.
Rohack also said that the AMA wants to build on the good aspects of the healthcare system, not create a brand new system. He called for universal access, freedom of choice, physicians able to practice in an environment of their choice and for the public/private sector to work together.
The Physicians For A National Health Program organization said this federal insurance plan wouldn't work as a model or template for the nation because the plan is actually a mix of private health insurance plans that carries the same problems of private plans generally; administrative waste, restrictions on healthcare providers, inequities and inadequate cost controls.
(Senator Mark Leno's site) http://dist03.casen.govoffice.com/


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It's summer time and you will be sweating horribly under your arms, boobs and where not.
Its summer time so usually we avoid wearing black clothes and we mostly wear white clothes which quickly turn into your innocent outfit X-rated.
Even the strongest Deo won't protect you from stinking.
There is no point in putting makeup, no matter what brand you are using, sweat will ruin up everything.
Kajal Smudging
The moment you will sit on your bike, You will feel as if your bum is roasted.
Wearing jeans is torture so your outfit options become less.
under boob sweat is just horrible
Showering is useless as you will drench into your own sweat.
That feeling when your thighs stuck to rickshaw seat pleather.
And when you wear short clothes during summer.
No matter which sun cream you are using, You are going to tan any way.